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Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Häftad, 1999
481 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, …
Muslim Society
Häftad, 1983
331 kr
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Of all the great world religions, Islam appears to have the most powerful political appeal in the twentieth century. It sustains some severely traditional and conservative regimes, but it is also capable of generating intense revolutionary ardour and of blending with extreme social radicalism. As …
Structural Models in Anthropology
Av Per Hage, Frank Harary
Häftad, 1984
549 kr
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Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology. Using a wide range of empirical examples, the authors illustrate how graph theory can provide a language for expressing in a more exact fashion concepts and notions that can only be …
Resources and Population
A Study of the Gurungs of Nepal
Häftad, 2012
667 kr
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In many areas of the world destruction of natural resources and the rapid growth of populaton are among the most important problems facing individuals and governments. This book, first published in 1976, utilises the tools of social anthropology and population studies in an attempt to see some of …
Outline of a Theory of Practice
Häftad, 1977
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369 kr
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Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a …
In the Society of Nature
A Native Ecology in Amazonia
Inbunden, 1994
1905 kr
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The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical …
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
748 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
621 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 Making of the Modern Greek Family
Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens
Häftad, 2006
684 kr
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This 1991 study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth …
The Abandoned Narcotic
Kava and Cultural Instability in Melanesia
Av Ron Brunton
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many …
Cinema and the Urban Poor in South India
Av Sara Dickey
Häftad, 2007
794 kr
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This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an …
Servants of the Goddess
The Priests of a South Indian Temple
Av C. J. Fuller
Häftad, 2007
748 kr
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The Minaksi Temple is one of the largest, most celebrated and most popular Hindu temples in India. Situated in the ancient south Indian city of Madurai, it is dedicated to the goddess Minaksi and her husband the god Sundaresvara, a form of the great god Śiva. Minaksi's principal servants in the …
Parenthood and Social Reproduction
Fostering and Occupational Roles in West Africa
Häftad, 2007
732 kr
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Over the last twenty years, Esther Goody has made extensive studies of traditional and contemporary patterns of education and child-rearing in West Africa. In this book she provides an account of the rich variety of institutions, such as fostering, apprenticeship and wardship, which have developed …
Rural Society in Southeast India
Häftad, 2008
976 kr
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This book is a comparative study of caste and class in two small villages in the Thanjāvūr district of southeast India based on fieldwork done by the author in 1951-3. Differing from the usual village study, Gough's work traces the history of the villages over the past century and examines the …
Priests, Witches and Power
Popular Christianity after Mission in Southern Tanzania
Av Maia Green
Häftad, 2007
601 kr
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In the aftermath of colonial mission, Christianity has come to have widespread acceptance in Southern Tanzania. In this book, Maia Green explores contemporary Catholic practice in a rural community of Southern Tanzania. Setting the adoption of Christianity and the suppression of witchcraft in a …
The Making of the Basque Nation
Häftad, 2007
813 kr
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Set against the historical background of Spain's unification as a modern state, this book is a study of a complex, frequently violent, political phenomenon - Basque nationalism - which after ninety years continues to constitute a major challenge to Spain's established political order. It examines …
Minangkabau Social Formations
Indonesian Peasants and the World-Economy
Av Joel S. Kahn
Häftad, 2007
569 kr
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In this anthropological investigation of the nature of an underdeveloped peasant economy, Joel S. Kahn attempts to develop the insights generated by Marxist theorists, by means of a concrete case study of a peasant village in the Indonesian province of West Sumatra. He accounts for the specific …
