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Elephants and Kings
An Environmental History
Häftad, 2015
324 kr
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Because of their enormous size, elephants have long been irresistible for kings as symbols of their eminence. In early civilizations - such as Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus Civilization, and China - kings used elephants for royal sacrifice, spectacular hunts, public display of live captives, or the …
Aryans and British India
Inbunden, 1997
546 kr
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'Aryan,' a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the …
Languages and Nations
The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras
Inbunden, 2006
1058 kr
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British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones …
Aryans and British India
E-bok, 1997
915 kr
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"Aryan," a word that today evokes images of racial hatred and atrocity, was first used by Europeans to suggest bonds of kinship, as Thomas Trautmann shows in his far-reaching history of British Orientalism and the ethnology of India. When the historical relationship uniting Sanskrit with the …
Languages and Nations
The Dravidian Proof in Colonial Madras
E-bok, 2006
1266 kr
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British rule of India brought together two very different traditions of scholarship about language, whose conjuncture led to several intellectual breakthroughs of lasting value. Two of these were especially important: the conceptualization of the Indo-European language family by Sir William Jones …
Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship
Häftad, 2008
275 kr
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Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape, Morgan's massive and technical Systems of …
Crow-Omaha
New Light on a Classic Problem of Kinship Analysis
Av Thomas R. Trautmann, Peter M. Whiteley
Häftad, 2026
440 kr
Kommande
The “Crow-Omaha problem” has perplexed anthropologists since it was first described by Lewis Henry Morgan in 1871. During his worldwide survey of kinship systems, Morgan learned with astonishment that some Native American societies call some relatives of different generations by the same terms. …
Library of Lewis Henry Morgan and Mary Elizabeth Morgan
Transactions, American Philosophical Society (vols. 84. Part 6 and 84, Part 7)
Av Karl Sanford Kabelac, Thomas R. Trautmann
Inbunden, 1994
673 kr
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Kinship and History in South Asia
Four Lectures
Häftad, 1974
202 kr
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Kinship and History in South Asia presents four papers given at a small conference of kinship studies scholars, “Kinship and History in South Asia,” at the University of Toronto in 1973. They draw upon one another and show several common concerns, particularly the theoretical importance of …
