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Amazonian Caboclo Society
An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little …
Brothers
The Politics of Violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia
Av Guy Lanoue
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This caused considerable social distress …
Children of the Blood
Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their …
Constituting the Minangkabau
Av Joel Kahn
Häftad, 2021
652 kr
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This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia. The author argues that the impact of …
Domesticating Resistance
The Dhan-Gadi Aborigines and the Australian State
Av Barry Morris
Häftad, 2021
652 kr
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In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia, the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist. In so doing he brings alive the contours of crude racism, as well as the more subtle expressions …
Hahalis and the Labour of Love
A Social Movement on Buka Island
Av Max Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly …
What's in a Relative
Household and Family in Formentera
Häftad, 2021
633 kr
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In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of …
Celebration of Demons
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)
Vol II: Property, Power and Ideology
Av Tim Ingold, David Riches m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider …
Redefining Nature
Ecology, Culture and Domestication
Av Roy Ellen, Katsuyoshi Fukui
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million …
Anthropology of Time
Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images
Av Alfred Gell
Inbunden, 2021
2512 kr
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Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is …
Intimations of Infinity
The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems
Inbunden, 1988
2512 kr
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This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful …
Domesticating Resistance
The Dhan-Gadi Aborigines and the Australian State
Av Barry Morris
Inbunden, 1989
2586 kr
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In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia, the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist. In so doing he brings alive the contours of crude racism, as well as the more subtle expressions …
Constituting the Minangkabau
Av Joel Kahn
Inbunden, 1993
2197 kr
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This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia. The author argues that the impact of …
Urban Context
Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis
Av Alisdair Rogers, Stephen Vertovec
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? The essays in this volume argue that a powerful and related set of methodologies - …
Inca Empire
The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State
Häftad, 1992
531 kr
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The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and conflicts these processes engendered and explores the involvement of Europeans in Andean life after the …
Landscape
Politics and Perspectives
Häftad, 1993
648 kr
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This book is about the complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.
Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research
Av Linda J. Ellanna, Ernest S. Burch
Inbunden, 1994
2512 kr
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Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book …
Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research
Av Linda J. Ellanna, Ernest S. Burch
Häftad, 1996
648 kr
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Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book …
Word, Sound, Image
The Life of the Tamil Text
Inbunden, 1995
2586 kr
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This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This …
What's in a Relative
Household and Family in Formentera
Inbunden, 1991
2133 kr
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In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of …
Celebration of Demons
Häftad, 1991
648 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Hahalis and the Labour of Love
A Social Movement on Buka Island
Av Max Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi
Inbunden, 1992
2133 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly …
Inca Empire
The Formation and Disintegration of a Pre-Capitalist State
Inbunden, 1992
2044 kr
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The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and conflicts these processes engendered and explores the involvement of Europeans in Andean life after the …
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I)
Vol I: History, Evolution and Social Change
Av Tim Ingold, David Riches m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
648 kr
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All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider …
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II)
Vol II: Property, Power and Ideology
Av Tim Ingold, David Riches m. fl.
Häftad, 1988
648 kr
Lägg i varukorg
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider …
Developing Areas
A Book of Readings and Research
Av Vijayan Pillai, Lyle Shannon
Inbunden, 1995
2512 kr
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With subjects ranging from the global challenge of the AIDS epidemic to the role of family planning in developing nations, and the link between Central America's forests and North America's hamburgers, this interdisciplinary introduction by some of the world's foremost experts in development …
Brothers
The Politics of Violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia
Av Guy Lanoue
Inbunden, 1992
2133 kr
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A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This caused considerable social distress …
Amazonian Caboclo Society
An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
Inbunden, 1993
2512 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little …
Beyond Boundaries
Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
Inbunden, 1994
2512 kr
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Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' …
