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Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds
Av Edmund Leach
Häftad, 2021
636 kr
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Social and Economic Organization of the Rowanduz Kurds
Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Av Edmund Leach
Inbunden, 2004
4253 kr
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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of …
Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Av Edmund Leach
Häftad, 2010
754 kr
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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of …
Contexts of Kinship
An Essay in the Family Sociology of the Gonja of Northern Ghana
Av Esther N. Goody, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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In her study of domestic organization in Gonja, a formerly important West African state, now part of Ghana, Esther Goody has concentrated on tracing the interrelationships between political and domestic institutions in a bilateral kinship system, untypical of the area. After outlining the problems …
The New Racism in Europe
A Sicilian Ethnography
Av Jeffrey Cole, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
557 kr
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In the last twenty years, immigration has become one of the most contested issues in Western Europe. The arrival of Africans, Asians, Eastern Europeans and others in Italy has reversed earlier trends of emigration. Debate, political activity and violence have raised questions of rejection and …
Tradition as Truth and Communication
A Cognitive Description of Traditional Discourse
Av Pascal Boyer, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
634 kr
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Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which …
The Sacred Void
Spatial Images of Work and Ritual among the Giriama of Kenya
Av David Parkin, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
699 kr
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In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya …
The Cultural Relations of Classification
An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram
Av Roy Ellen, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
716 kr
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Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than twenty years, argues here that ethnobiology is a key theoretical area of anthropological enquiry, because it relies on …
Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg
Av Susan J. Rasmussen, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
634 kr
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Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual …
Pathology and Identity
The Work of Mother Earth in Trinidad
Av Roland Littlewood, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
797 kr
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The first new religion in the Caribbean since Rastafari, the Earth People draw on West African sources, assert a renascent African identity, and celebrate female creativity. They argue that Black people are the guardians of a natural environment, which is constantly under threat from European …
Stealing People's Names
History and Politics in a Sepik River Cosmology
Av Simon J. Harrison, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and …
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
Learning and Identification in Angang
Av Charles Stafford, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
764 kr
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Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with …
Elites in South Asia
Av Edmund Leach, S. N. Mukherjee m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
569 kr
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A study of elitism particularly concerned with Indian elites in the context of British influence and its aftermath. The problems delineated are by no means peculiar to the Indian subcontinent. Nearly all the developing countries of contemporary Asia, Africa and Latin America are entangled with …
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Av Roy A. Rappaport, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1620 kr
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Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, …
Individual and Society in Guiana
A Comparative Study of Amerindian Social Organisation
Av Peter Riviere, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
527 kr
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The Amerindian peoples of Guiana, the geographical region of north-east South America, have long been recognized as forming a distinct variety of the tropical forest culture. In this book, Peter Rivière employs a comparative perspective to reveal that Guianan societies, generally characterized as …
Structuralist Interpretations of Biblical Myth
Av Edmund Leach, D. Alan Aycock
Häftad, 1983
667 kr
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Through the application of anthropological techniques for analysing myth the essays in this 1983 volume offer interesting and thought-provoking structuralist insights for a variety of particular cases in the Scriptures. They also give some account of past interactions between anthropologists and …
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets
Av Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1984
846 kr
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The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men …
Culture and Communication
The Logic by which Symbols Are Connected. An Introduction to the Use of Structuralist Analysis in Social Anthropology
Av Edmund Leach, Jack Goody m. fl.
Häftad, 1976
373 kr
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Edmund Leach's book investigates the writings of 'structuralists,' and their different theories: the general incest theory and of animal sacrifice. This book is designed for the use of teaching undergraduates in anthropology, linguistics, literary studies, philosophy and related disciplines faced …
Age Class Systems
Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age
Av Bernardo Bernardi, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1985
667 kr
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All societies are differentiated by age. But in some, this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized, formally graded age classes, the members of which share an assigned 'structural' age, if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age group systems has become one …
Hunters, Pastoralists and Ranchers
Reindeer Economies and their Transformations
Av Tim Ingold, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
569 kr
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Throughout the northern circumpolar tundras and forests, and over many millennia, human populations have based their livelihood wholly or in part upon the exploitation of a single animal species-the reindeer. Yet some are hunters, others pastoralists, while today traditional pastoral economies are …
Day of Shining Red
Av Gilbert Lewis, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
495 kr
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Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond …
Kinship and Class in the West Indies
A Genealogical Study of Jamaica and Guyana
Av Raymond T. Smith, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1990
569 kr
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Is a family system that permits freedom to enter, dissolve, and re-enter sexual unions, that tolerates high illegitimacy rates, and allows a large proportion of households to be headed by women, viable, natural and healthy? This is an appropriate question to ask of many modern industrial societies …
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
Learning and Identification in Angang
Av Charles Stafford, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
1628 kr
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Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in schooling, family life and popular religion. They read texts about 'virtuous mothers', share 'meaningful foods' with …
Identity through History
Living Stories in a Solomon Islands Society
Av Geoffrey M. White, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
732 kr
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For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? …
Contesting Culture
Discourses of Identity in Multi-ethnic London
Av Gerd Baumann, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
667 kr
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This innovative 1996 study presents an account of the interaction of people from different ethnic backgrounds who live in Southall, the most densely populated, multi-ethnic ghetto in the London area. Breaking with the tradition of studying a single ethnic community, Gerhard Baumann treats Southall …
The Trading Crowd
An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market
Av Ellen Hertz, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Inbunden, 1998
1710 kr
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In 1992, there was an explosion of 'stock fever' in Shanghai. 'From the moment I set foot in Shanghai until my last day there, people from all walks of life wanted to talk to me about the market', Ellen Hertz writes. Her 1998 study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai …
Mangrove Man
Dialogics of Culture in the Sepik Estuary
Av David Lipset, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
634 kr
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This book is the first modern ethnography of the Murik, a relatively large and important community settled on the Sepik River estuary in Papua New Guinea, and the only book of a non-Western culture drawing on the conceptual framework of the Russian literary theorist, Mikhail Bakhtin. Murik men, who …
Overlooking Nazareth
The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee
Av Dan Rabinowitz, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1997
553 kr
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A sophisticated and engaging ethnographic account of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the first since the 1970s, Overlooking Nazareth examines specific situations of friction, conflict and co-operation in Natzerat Illit. This Israeli new town is built on formerly Palestinian land, just …
The Trading Crowd
An Ethnography of the Shanghai Stock Market
Av Ellen Hertz, Meyer Fortes m. fl.
Häftad, 1998
764 kr
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In 1992, there was an explosion of 'stock fever' in Shanghai. 'From the moment I set foot in Shanghai until my last day there, people from all walks of life wanted to talk to me about the market', Ellen Hertz writes. Her 1998 study sets the stock market and its players in the context of Shanghai …
