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Irish America
Av Byron
Häftad, 1999
2328 kr
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Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of …
The Pastoral Continuum
The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa
Av Paul Spencer
Inbunden, 1998
3819 kr
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Paul Spencer presents the definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research. This region has offered a prime example of a traditional culture resisting the inevitability of change; it provides the best-known and most extensive …
Dancing through Time
A Sepik Cosmology
Av Borut Telban
Inbunden, 1998
2352 kr
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Dancing through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the examination of everyday practices, language, social institutions, kinship, myths, spirit-things, …
Steel to Stone
A Chronicle of Colonialism in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea
Av Jeffrey Clark, Chris Ballard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2000
4735 kr
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In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the cultural construction of encounters and exchanges between New Guineans and …
A Place Apart
An Anthropological Study of the Icelandic World
Inbunden, 1998
3196 kr
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A Place Apart offers a rich and reflective representation of Iceland and Icelanders today. Kirsten Hastrup draws upon extensive first-hand research, but also upon her original theory of what anthropology is and should be, which this book exemplifies. In two previous books she studied the processes …
Living on Mangetti
`Bushman' Autonomy and Namibian Independence
Inbunden, 2000
4139 kr
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The Hai||om 'Bushmen' of northern Namibia are still a gathering people, living not only on mangetti [nuts] and other wild foods but also on the by-products of the cattle industry on the mangetti farms. Namibian independence in 1990 with its new options has created a dilemma which may result in a …
Born and Bred
Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England
Inbunden, 2000
4272 kr
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Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth century, this Lancashire town has undergone deep social and economic change during the twentieth, yet it remains a hive of social activity. The book dwells on the way in …
A Failure of Treatment
Av Lewis
Häftad, 2000
724 kr
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A serious illness may bring other events into focus. This book is about the circumstances surrounding an illness which struck a man in middle life, its impact on him and on the people of his West Sepik village. It records both failure and continuing belief the failure of local treatments, Western …
Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa
Inbunden, 2000
1507 kr
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This book combines the interdisciplinary insights of history, anthropology, and computing to examine the interrelationships between politics, kinship, and marriage in a late-medieval city-state. At the heart of the study is a reconsideration of `office' and the ways in which ties of kinship and …
Changing Inner Mongolia
Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State
Av David Sneath
Inbunden, 2000
3633 kr
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Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about the region. This book is an attempt to redress the balance. It is a study of the effect of decades of social engineering on a Minority Nationality in China. David Sneath charts the recent history of the …
From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis
The Spilt Seed
Inbunden, 2001
3296 kr
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In 1925 the influential Dutch anthropologist W. H. Rassers posed the question of the relationship of myth to ritual, taking as his case study the Javanese myth of the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. The light shed by this myth, and its re-enactment, on the social morphology of Java was …
Dualism and Hierarchy C
Processes of Binary Combination in Keo Society
Inbunden, 2001
2483 kr
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Society in the Keo region of the eastern Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. Apart from introducing a hitherto undescribed population, this study, deriving from fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of 15 years, analyses a form of …
Of Mixed Blood
Kinship and History in Peruvian Amazonia
Av Peter Gow
Inbunden, 1991
3512 kr
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Of Mixed Blood is an ethnography of the native people of the Bajo Urubamba river in Peruvian Amazonia.The people of this region appear very acculturated when compared to better-known indigenous Amazonian peoples. Peter Gow's analysis focuses on features of social organization which would seem to …
The Arabesk Debate
Music and Musicians in Modern Turkey
Inbunden, 1992
404 kr
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The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meaning to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on the …
Organizing Jainism in India and England
Av Marcus Banks
Inbunden, 1992
985 kr
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Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and -a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among Jains in the Indian state of Gujarat and a migrant Gujarati Jain group in Leicester, England, Marcus Banks aims to …
Exchange in Oceania
A Graph Theoretic Analysis
Av Per Hage, Frank Harary
Inbunden, 1991
2581 kr
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In their previous book, Structural Models in Anthropology, anthropologist Per Hage and mathematician Frank Harary used graph theory, a branch of pure mathematics, to develop a family of models for the study of social, symbolic, and cognitive relations.In this book the authors extend these models …
Global Migrants, Local Lives
Travel and Transformation in Rural Bangladesh
Av Katy Gardner
Inbunden, 1995
3269 kr
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Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. Immigrant communities are usually studied in the context of the country people have migrated to; Katy Gardner, however, looks at the neglected `sending' side of the equation. In the …
The Archetypal Actions of Ritual
A Theory of Ritual Illustrated by the Jain Rite of Worship
Häftad, 1994
1718 kr
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Religious rituals can provoke a deeply ambigious reaction in those who practise them. What happens in religious traditions when the nature of the ritual is questioned, but the practice of performing rituals is not itself abandoned? This book draws on the authors' observations of such reactions …
Contested Hierarchies
A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal
Av David N. Gellner, Declan Quigley
Inbunden, 1995
1148 kr
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The urban civilization of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley provides a paradigm for the study of caste and Hindu kingship. In this book, six anthropologists, in a genuinely collaborative international endeavour, pool their knowledge of the three ancient Newar cities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, and …
Inside the Cult
Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
Inbunden, 1995
3388 kr
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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated …
The Anthropology of Landscape
Perspectives on Place and Space
Häftad, 1995
1840 kr
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Landscape has long had a submerged presence within anthropology, both as a framing device which informs the way the anthropologist brings his or her study into "view", and as the meaning imputed by local people to their cultural and physical surroundings. A principal aim of this volume follows from …
Riches and Renunciation
Religion, Economy, and Society among the Jains
Av Laidlaw
Häftad, 1995
1718 kr
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How can one live by impossible ideals and values? The Jains of India are a flourishing and prosperous community, but their religion is focused on the teaching and example of ascetic renouncers, whose austere regime is actually dedicated to ending worldly life and often culminates in a fast to …
The Heat of the Hearth
The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community
Av Carsten
Häftad, 1997
1718 kr
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Janet Carsten offers a vivid and original investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience of life as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. Kinship relations are crucial to personal and social identity, and in Malay culture identity is mutable and …
Inside the Cult
Religious Innovation and Transmission in Papua New Guinea
Häftad, 1995
406 kr
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For the past thirty years, adherents of a millenarian cult in Papua New Guinea, known as the Pomio Kivung, have been awaiting the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of their ancestors bearing `cargo'. The author, Harvey Whitehouse, was taken for a reincarnated …
Shamans and Elders
Experience, Knowledge, and Power among the Daur Mongols
Häftad, 1996
1404 kr
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Shamans and Elders is a major study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. It presents a wealth of new information, and offers a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism.This unique and detailed analysis of a fascinating subject combines a discussion of Urgunge …
Sea Hunters of Indonesia
Fishers and Weavers of Lamalera
Av R. H. Barnes
Inbunden, 1996
3470 kr
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Sea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the coastal community of Lamalera, whose traditional ways of life make it unique. One is an unusual kind of sea-fishing: the hunting of whales, porpoises, and giant manta rays. The other is the production, by the women of the community, of …
Anthropology and History in Franche-Comté
A Critique of Social Theory
Inbunden, 2000
3083 kr
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This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years. Producer co-operatives have existed in Franche-Comté since the thirteenth century. Communities there, unlike modern English …
Identity and Ecology in Arctic Siberia
The Number One Reindeer Brigade
Av Anderson
Häftad, 2002
749 kr
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This is a first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia. The author gives an intimate description of the day-to-day lives of a little-known group of Evenkis as they face both economic and ecological challenges. His book therefore fills a gap in our …
Personal States
Making Connections between People and Bureaucracy in Turkey
Inbunden, 2002
3681 kr
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Catherine Alexander charts how Turkish people, both within and outside the state bureaucracy, attempt to personalise the impersonality of the state. Based on a detailed study of the nationalized Turkish Sugar Corporation, she considers how people from the highest levels of the state bureaucracy to …
History, Memory, and Identity in Post-Soviet Estonia
The End of a Collective Farm
Inbunden, 2004
3272 kr
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Sigrid Rausing describes the changing world of the Estonian Swedes, and the way in which this minority identity was constructed in the various ideologies that have dominated the region since the early twentieth century. In particular she is concerned with the latest of these changes: the …
