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Slavery and Essentialism in Highland Madagascar
Ethnography, History, Cognition
Häftad, 2022
889 kr
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This book explores the prejudice against slave descendants in highland Madagascar and its persistence more than a century after the official abolition of slavery. ‘Unclean people’ is a widespread expression in the southern highlands of Madagascar, and refers to people of alleged slave descent who …
Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans
Volume 19
Inbunden, 1965
1832 kr
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A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes.
Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans
Volume 19
Häftad, 1965
547 kr
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A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes.
Affective Encounters
Everyday Life among Chinese Migrants in Zambia
Av Di Wu
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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Against the background of China's rapidly growing, and sometimes highly controversial, activities in Africa, this book is among the first of its kind to systematically document Sino-African interactions at the everyday level. Based on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork at two contrasting …
Politics of Recuperation
Repair and Recovery in Post-Crisis Portugal
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair. Located in the cracks and gaps between the state and society, recuperation appears as a social and …
Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
Second Edition
Av Alan Elliott
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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Chinese Spirit-Medium Cults in Singapore
Communication, Social Structure and Development in Rural Malaysia
A Study of Kampung Kuala Bera
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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This is an important innovative analysis of communication and society in Pahang, West Malaysia, based on fieldwork carried out in Kampung Kuala Bera. Dr Wilder is concerned with communication networks of all kinds as found in a long-established Malay village, including the uses of language, …
Forest Traders
A Socio-Economic Study of the Hill Pandaram
Av Brian Morris
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm.
Knowledge of Illness in a Sepik Society
A Study of the Gnau, New Guinea Volume 52
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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Illness is a matter of concern in every society. Social responses to it depend both on the nature of the illness and on cultural interpretation of its significance. This study of the occurrence, recognition and explanation of illness amongst the Gnau makes use of its author's dual training in …
Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific
Av R. Feinberg, K. A. Watson-Gegeo
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.
Ma' Betisek Concepts of Living Things
Volume 54
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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The Ma' Betisek are a group of aborigines who live on the mangrove coastal area of Selangor in peninsular Malaysia. Dr Karim's study is mainly focused on the Ma' Betisek communities on Carey Island, off the west coast of Selangor and in particular threevillages - Sungei Sialang, Sungei Mata and …
Making Sense of Hierarchy: Cognition as Social Process in Fiji
Fijian Hierarchy and Its Constitution in Everyday Ritual Behavior
Häftad, 2021
684 kr
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Analyses Fijian hierarchy and its constitution in everyday ritual behaviour.
Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries
Umeda Society, Language and Ritual Volume 51
Av Alfred Gell
Häftad, 2022
704 kr
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Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries
Society and Politics in India
Essays in a Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2021, 6-9 år
704 kr
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Society and Politics in India
Take Out Hunger
Two Case Studies of Rural Development in Basutoland Volume 39
Av S. Wallman
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are only too often not adequately studied. In this monograph two schemes started in Basutoland - now Lesotho - are intensively analysed and compared: the first, which was abandoned in 1961, …
Earth Shakers of Madagascar
An Anthropological Study of Authority, Fertility and Creation
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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An analysis of how the complex rituals of Sahafatra culture are used to transform a once barren landscape into agricultural land.
Political Structure of the Chinese Community in Cambodia
Volume 42
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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This field study of organized Chinese life in Cambodia, past and present, takes its place in the growing sociological literature on the overseas Chinese and, in a sense, transcends it. For it relates its conclusions on the evolution the structure of the Cambodian Chinese community to the evidence …
Social Practice of Symbolisation
An Anthropological Analysis
Av Ivo Strecker
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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The Social Practice of Symbolisation
Work of the Gods in Tikopia
Second Edition
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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First published in 1939 and long out of print, this book remains unique as the only full and detailed account by a social anthropologist of a complete pagan Polynesian ritual cycle. This new single-volume edition omits some of the Tikopia vernacular texts, but includes a new theoretical …
Time and Social Structure and Other Essays
Häftad, 2021
704 kr
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Time and Social Structure and Other Essays
Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya)
Av A. M. Ammar
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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Initially published in 1943. In A Demographic Study of an Egyptian Province (Sharquiya) Dr Ammar, an Egyptian anthropologist, raises a number of questions around the relevance of and need for accurate population statistics in field economic studies. His tables and sociological analysis will be of …
New Maori Migration
Rural and Urban Relations in Northern New Zealand
Av Joan Metge
Häftad, 2022
725 kr
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Until 1939 the Maori people remained an almost wholly rural community, but during and after the second world war increasing numbers of them migrated in search of work to the cities, and urban groups of Maori were established. This development has significantly affected relationships, both between …
Akokoaso
A Survey of a Gold Coast Village
Häftad, 2021
650 kr
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Initially published in 1943. Akokoaso is a small village in the central province of the Gold Coast Colony, in the heart of the cocoa country. In this study the author presents his survey directed at the Gold Coast 'Middletown' during the period of 1932 to 5. The report covers the village and its …
Beyond the Village
Local Politics in Madang, Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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A study of how a district of Papua New Guinea dealt with the new political institutions established in the last years of colonial rule.
Changing Lapps
A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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Changing Lapps A Study in Culture Relations in Northernmost Norway is a study of culture contact between the Saami and the Scandinavians, chiefly Norwegians, in an historical perspective. This study is based primarily on literary sources and official records supplemented by field work. In order to …
Choice and Change
Essays in Honour of Lucy Mair
Av John Davis
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology, for it reports on research in Africa, Asia and the Mediterranean, on the tensions between tradition and modernity, between the …
Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation
Häftad, 2021
650 kr
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Conflict and Solidarity in a Guianese Plantation
Gods on Earth
The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage Centre
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values CAN reflect political and economic processes.
Hierarchy and Egalitarianism
Caste, Class and Power in Sinhalese Peasant Society
Häftad, 2025
573 kr
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A comprehensive analysis of stratification in rural Sri Lanka, taking into account the hierarchies of class, status and power.
Housekeeping among Malay Peasants
Häftad, 2021
631 kr
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Initially published in 1966. A study of the social and economic conditions of a small fishing village in Kelantan, on the north-east coast of Malay. The study, from August 1939 to July 1940 is based on collaborations with the author's husband's investigations explores how the Kelantan people use …
