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The Traveller-Gypsies
Av Judith Okely
Häftad, 1983
710 kr
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In this book Judith Okely challenges popular accounts of Gypsies which suggest that they were once isolated communities, enjoying an autonomous culture and economy now largely eroded by the processes of industrialisation and western capitalism. Dr Okely draws on her own extensive fieldwork and on …
The Skolt Lapps Today
Av Tim Ingold
Häftad, 1976
569 kr
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On the conclusion of the Second World War, Finland was obliged to cede its northeasternmost territory of Petsamo to the Soviet Union. Amongst those who lost their homes were around four hundred representatives of the original native population of the territory, the Skolt Lapps. The Skolts were …
The Nayars Today
Av C. J. Fuller
Häftad, 1976
527 kr
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The Nayars of Kerala, south-west India, unusually trace descent through the female line and, in the past, had a marriage system in which women were allowed several husbands simultaneously. This system has brought the Nayars continuing fame in anthropological circles. In this 1976 study, Dr Fuller …
Tázlár: A Village in Hungary
Av C. M. Hann
Häftad, 1980
468 kr
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Tázlár is a rural community on the Great Hungarian Plain. In the context of modern Hungary it is not a typical community, for its socio-economic organisation has been based in past years on a form of agricultural cooperative unusual in socialist societies. In this book, C. M. Hann traces the …
The Western Isles Today
Av Judith Ennew
Häftad, 1980
569 kr
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The Western Isles of Scotland appear to the popular imagination as romantic and remote islands where the inhabitants cling to an archaic culture which is barely integrated into modern industrial society. In this book Judith Ennew dispels such myths, and confronts the social problems of an …
The Nyamwezi Today
A Tanzanian People in the 1970s
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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The Nyamwezi of west-central Tanzania have had a long history of involvement in the wider world as farmers, traders, migrant labourers, and subjects of first German and then British colonial regimes. Dr Abrahams first lived and worked among the Nyamwezi in the last years of British rule (1957-60), …
Ambiguous Ethnicity
Interracial Families in London
Av Susan Benson
Häftad, 1982
373 kr
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In a society where race is a significant component of social identity and exerts an important influence on social relationships, the problems faced by couples who enter into 'mixed' marriages are especially difficult. The book is a study of the personal histories and everyday lives of a small …
