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Kinship and the Social Order
The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan
Av Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2005
764 kr
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One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the …
Kinship and the Social Order.
The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan
Av Meyer Fortes
Inbunden, 2004
3066 kr
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Originally published in the UK in 1970.The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining …
Kinship and the Social Order.
The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan
Av Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2013
750 kr
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Originally published in the UK in 1970.The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining …
Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi
The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
Av Meyer Fortes
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic life and thus moulds individual development among the Tallensi. The analysis of the inter-connexion of Legal, econoic and personal relationships …
Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi
The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
Av Meyer Fortes
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic life and thus moulds individual development among the Tallensi. The analysis of the inter-connexion of Legal, econoic and personal relationships …
Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
Av Meyer Fortes
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices of …
Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe
Av Meyer Fortes
E-bok, 2018
658 kr
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Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices 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 …
Strategies and Norms in a Changing Matrilineal Society
Descent, Succession and Inheritance among the Toka of Zambia
Av Ladislav Holy, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn ploughing. Dr Holy uses the rich, detailed ethnography that he provides about these …
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 …
Bartered Brides
Politics, Gender and Marriage in an Afghan Tribal Society
Häftad, 2006
764 kr
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Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a …
People of the Sea
Identity and Descent among the Vezo of Madagascar
Häftad, 2006
732 kr
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The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', …
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society
The Berti of Sudan
Av Ladislav Holy, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2006
797 kr
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Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary rituals are performed mainly by women. It is usual to dismiss such local, popular practices as pre-Islamic survivals, …
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 …
A Place of their Own
Family Farming in Eastern Finland
Häftad, 2006
569 kr
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Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Subjects treated include marriage and the family, …
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 …
Power and Religiosity in a Post-Colonial Setting
Sinhala Catholics in Contemporary Sri Lanka
Av R. L. Stirrat, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2006
796 kr
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Over the past few decades a series of Catholic shrines have sprung up in Sri Lanka which draw hundreds of pilgrims. Although best known as centres for the exorcism of the demonically possessed, their miraculous efficacy also extends to helping people find jobs and preferment, and to alleviating …
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 …
The Rope of Moka
Big-men and Ceremonial Exchange in Mount Hagen New Guinea
Av Andrew Strathern, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 1975
569 kr
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In the Mount Hagen area of central New Guinea, warfare has been replaced since the arrival of the Europeans by a vigorous development of moka, a competitive ceremonial exchange of wealth objects. The exchanges of pigs, shells and other valuables are interpreted as acting as a bond between groups, …
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand
Av S. J. Tambiah, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 1975
487 kr
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Dr Tambiah describes the religious practices and beliefs of the people of a remote village in north-east Thailand, relating them to the wider context of the civilization in which they are embedded, and examining the relationship of the religious practices of the villagers to the classical Buddhist …
Marriage in Tribal Societies
Av Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2009
553 kr
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Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series deals with aspects of marriage in tribal societies. Three papers by Esther Goody, Grace Harris and Jean La Fontaine give accounts of observations in African tribal societies; the fourth, by Marguerite …
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 …
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 …
The Political Economy of West African Agriculture
Häftad, 1982
748 kr
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West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa. Commerce has grown impressively, but …
World Conqueror and World Renouncer
A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background
Av S. J. Tambiah, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 1977
576 kr
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World Conqueror and World Renouncer is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity (political organization) in Thailand. The book conveys the historical background necessary for full comprehension of the contemporary structural relationship …
