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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607813
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 301 pages)
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Nationalismus ; Boundaries / Case studies ; Ethnicity / Case studies ; Nationalism / Case studies ; Ethnizität ; Staatsgrenze ; Nationalismus ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Staatsgrenze ; Ethnizität ; Nationalismus
    Abstract: This book offers fresh insights into the complex and various ways in which international frontiers influence cultural identities. The ten anthropological case studies collected here describe specific international borders in Europe, Asia, Africa and North America, and bring out the importance of boundary politics, and the diverse forms that it may take. The frontier itself may be of great symbolic importance; in other cases the symbolism lies rather in the disappearance of the traditional border. A frontier may be above all a barrier against immigration, or the front line between hostile armies. It may reinforce distinctive identities on each side of it, or the frontier may be disputed because it cuts across national identities. Drawing on anthropological perspectives, the book explores how cultural landscapes intersect with political boundaries, and ways in which state power informs cultural identity
    Description / Table of Contents: Nation, state and identity at international borders / Thomas M. Wilson and Hastings Donnan --- State formation and national identity in the Catalan borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries / Peter Sahlins --- A western perspective on an eastern interpretation of where north meets south: Pyrenean borderland cultures / William A. Douglass --- The 'new immigration' and the transformation of the European-African frontier / Henk Driessen --- Transnationalism in California and Mexico at the end of Empire / Michael Kearney --- National identity on the frontier: Palestinians in the Israeli education system / Dan Rabinowitz -- Grenzregime (border regimes): the Wall and its aftermath / John Borneman --- Transcending the state?: gender and borderline constructions of citizenship in Zimbabwe / A.P. Cheater --- Borders, boundaries, tradition and state on the Malaysian periphery / Janet Carsten --- Markets, morality and modernity in north-east Turkey / Chris Hann and Ildikó Bellér-Hann --- Imagining 'the south': hybridity, heterotopias and Arabesk on the Turkish-Syrian border / Martin Stokes
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511626999
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 323 pages)
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    DDC: 153.1/2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Memory / Social aspects ; Collective memory ; Recollection (Psychology) ; Cognition and culture ; Oral tradition ; Soziokultureller Faktor ; Gedächtnis ; Gedächtnis ; Soziokultureller Faktor
    Abstract: This text introduces students, scholars, and interested educated readers to the issues of human memory broadly considered, encompassing both individual memory, collective remembering by societies, and the construction of history. The book is organised around several major questions: How do memories construct our past? How do we build shared collective memories? How does memory shape history? This volume presents a special perspective, emphasising the role of memory processes in the construction of self-identity, of shared cultural norms and concepts, and of historical awareness. Although the results are fairly new and the techniques suitably modern, the vision itself is of course related to the work of such precursors as Frederic Bartlett and Aleksandr Luria, who in very different ways represent the starting point of a serious psychology of human culture
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511512001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online_Ressource (xiv, 380 Seiten) , Diagramme
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    DDC: 152.4
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1700-1850 ; Geschichte ; Emotions ; Sentimentalism / France / History / 18th century ; Psychologie ; Gefühl ; Empfindsamkeit ; Frankreich ; Frankreich ; Frankreich ; Empfindsamkeit ; Geschichte 1700-1850 ; Gefühl ; Psychologie
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511750717
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 224 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Nationalismus ; Psychologie ; National characteristics, American ; National characteristics, American / Psychological aspects ; Nationalism / Social aspects / United States ; Nationalism / United States / Psychological aspects ; Group identity / United States ; Loyalty / Social aspects / United States ; Social psychology / United States ; Nationalbewusstsein ; USA ; United States / Social conditions / 1980- ; USA ; USA ; Nationalbewusstsein
    Abstract: Why is national identity such a potent force in people's lives? And is the force positive or negative? In this thoughtful and provocative book, Elizabeth Theiss-Morse develops a social theory of national identity and uses a national survey, focus groups, and experiments to answer these important questions in the American context. Her results show that the combination of group commitment and the setting of exclusive boundaries on the national group affects how people behave toward their fellow Americans. Strong identifiers care a great deal about their national group. They want to help and to be loyal to their fellow Americans. By limiting who counts as an American, though, these strong identifiers place serious limits on who benefits from their pro-group behavior. Help and loyalty are offered only to 'true Americans,' not Americans who do not count and who are pushed to the periphery of the national group
    Description / Table of Contents: The need for a social theory of national identity -- Commitment to the national group -- The setting of national group boundaries -- The desire to help the national group -- Loyalty in the face of criticism -- Is national identity good or bad?
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  • 5
    ISBN: 0511650825 , 9780511650826
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 231 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: [Place of publication not identified] HathiTrust Digital Library 2011 Electronic reproduction
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Shalhūb-Kīfūrkiyān, Nādirah Militarization and violence against women in conflict zones in the Middle East
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    Keywords: Women and war ; Women and war ; Women Violence against ; Women Violence against ; Women Social conditions ; Women Social conditions ; Women, Palestinian Arab Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Violence in Society ; Women and war ; Women, Palestinian Arab ; Social conditions ; Women ; Social conditions ; Women ; Violence against ; Militarismus ; Palästinenserin ; Gewalttätigkeit ; Besetzte Gebiete ; Middle East ; Middle East ; Palestine ; Israel ; Israel ; Electronic books
    Abstract: An examination of the violence perpetrated against women in politically conflicted or militarized areas
    Abstract: Introduction -- Violent translations : women, war, and narrative in conflict zones -- Veiled powers : conceptualizing woman and/as the 'nation' -- Women frontliners in conflict zones : a genealogy of weaponization -- Speaking truth to power : voices of Palestinian women facing the wall -- Ruminations and final thoughts : women in-between.
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139002752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XII, 337 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Cambridge collections online
    Series Statement: The companions to philosophy, religion and culture
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    Keywords: Lévi-Strauss, Claude Philosophy ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude Criticism and interpretation ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude ; Philosophie ; Structural anthropology ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lévi-Strauss, Claude 1908-2009
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780511575839
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVII, 308 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als North, Douglass Cecil Violence and social orders
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Violence / Economic aspects / History ; State, The / History ; Social control / History
    Abstract: All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural states, limit violence by political manipulation of the economy to create privileged interests. These privileges limit the use of violence by powerful individuals, but doing so hinders both economic and political development. In contrast, modern societies create open access to economic and political organizations, fostering political and economic competition. The book provides a framework for understanding the two types of social orders, why open access societies are both politically and economically more developed, and how some 25 countries have made the transition between the two types
    Description / Table of Contents: The conceptual framework -- The natural state -- The natural state applied : English land law -- Open access orders -- The transition from limited to open access orders : the doorstep conditions -- The transition proper -- A new research agenda for the social sciences
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511804670
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XIX, 490 Seiten) , Diagramme
    Series Statement: Culture and psychology
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Socialization ; Ethnopsychology ; Cognition and culture ; Learning / Social aspects ; Learning, Psychology of ; Kultur ; Kognition ; Kulturelle Identität ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Lernpsychologie ; Ethnopsychologie ; Sozialisation ; Kulturübertragung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Intergenerationentransfer ; Ethnopsychologie ; Kulturübertragung ; Sozialisation ; Ethnopsychologie ; Kultur ; Kognition ; Lernpsychologie
    Abstract: Cultural Transmission covers psychological, developmental, social, and methodological research on how cultural information is socially transmitted from one generation to the next within families. Studying processes of cultural transmission may help analyze the continuity or change of cultures, including those that have to cope with migration or the collapse of a political system. An evolutionary perspective is elaborated in the first part of the book; the second takes a cross-cultural perspective by presenting international research on development and intergenerational relations in the family; the third provides intra-cultural analyses of mechanisms and methodological aspects of cultural transmission. Made up of contributions by experts in the field, this source book is intended for anyone with interests in cultural issues – especially researchers and teachers in disciplines such as psychology, social and behavioral sciences, and education – and for applied professionals in culture management and family counseling, as well as professionals dealing with migrants
    Description / Table of Contents: General introduction to cultural transmission : developmental, psychological, social and methodological aspects / Ute Schönpflug -- Cultural transmission : a short history of research and theory / Ute Schönpflug -- Evolutionary perspective -- Cultural transmission : a view from chimpanzees and human infants / Michael Tomasello -- Transmission, self-organization, and the emergence of language : a dynamic systems point of view / Paul van Geert -- Relationship-specific intergenerational family ties : an evolutionary approach to the structure of cultural transmission / Harald A. Euler, Sabine Hoier, and Percy A. Rohde -- Cross-cultural perspective -- An ecocultural perspective on cultural transmission : the family across cultures / John W. Berry and James Georgas -- Intergenerational relations and cultural transmission / Gisela Trommsdorff -- Intergenerational transmission, social capital, and interethnic contact in immigrant families / Bernhard Nauck --
    Description / Table of Contents: Developmental processes related to intergenerational transmission of culture : growing up with two cultures in the USA / Amado M. Padilla -- The transmission process : mechanisms and contexts / Ute Schönpflug and Ludwig Bilz -- Accounting for parent-child value congruence : theoretical considerations and empirical evidence / Ariel Knafo and Shalom H. Schwartz -- Culture, migration, and family value socialization : a theoretical model and empirical investigation with Russian immigrant youth in Israel / Ariel Knafo, Avi Assor, Shalom H. Schwartz, and Limor David -- Immigrant parents' age expectations for the development of their adolescent offspring transmission effects and changes after immigration / Eva Schmitt-Rodermnd and Rainer K. Silberseisen -- Intracultural variations -- Intergenerational transmission of moral capital across the family life course / Merril Silverstein and Stephen J. Conroy --
    Description / Table of Contents: Similarity of life goals in the family : a three-generations study / Alexander Grob and Wibke Weisheit -- The intergenerational transmission of xenophobia and rightism in East Germany / Bernd Six, Kristina Geppert and Ute Schönpflug -- Intergenerational ransmission of violence / Haci-Halil Uslucan & Urs Fuhrer -- "Don't trust anyone over 25" : youth centrism, intergenerational transmission of political orientations and cultural change / Tom ter Bogt, Wim Meeus,Quinten Raaijmakers, Frits van Wel, and Wilma Vollebergh -- Value transmission and zeitgeist revisited / Klaus Boehnke, Andreas Hadjar and Dirk Baier -- Epilogue: Towards a model of cultural transmission / Ute Schönpflug
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511807596
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 222 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare 27
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Vietnamkrieg ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 / Social aspects ; Collective memory / Vietnam ; Ghosts ; Vietnamkrieg ; Geister ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Vietnamkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Geister
    Abstract: This book is a fascinating study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls of the war dead. These ghosts of war play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination, and Heonik Kwon explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate these hidden but vital historical presences from their uprooted social existence. Taking a unique approach to the cultural history of war, he introduces gripping stories about spirits claiming social justice and about his own efforts to wrestle with the physical and spiritual presence of ghosts. Although these actions are fantastical, this book shows how examining their stories can illuminate critical issues of war and collective memory in Vietnam and the modern world more generally
    Description / Table of Contents: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511388217 , 0511387229 , 0511807597 , 9780511387227 , 9780511807596 , 9780511388217
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 222 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural history of modern warfare
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    Keywords: Geister ; The Vietnam War ; Ghosts ; Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Social aspects ; Collective memory ; HISTORY ; Military ; Vietnam War ; Collective memory ; Ghosts ; Social aspects ; Vietnamkrieg ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Gefallener ; Geisterglaube ; Vietnamkrieg ; Volkskultur ; Vietnam war ; Ghosts ; Imagination ; War victims ; Electronic books ; Vietnam ; Vietnam ; Vietnam
    Abstract: Ghosts of war -- Mass excavation -- Missing in action -- The phantom leg -- Death in the street -- Transforming ghosts -- Money for ghosts.
    Abstract: The wandering souls of the war dead play an important part in postwar Vietnamese historical narrative and imagination. This volume explores the intimate ritual ties with these unsettled identities which still survive in Vietnam today, as well as the actions of those who hope to liberate them
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511790690
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Radikalismus ; Radicalism / South Asia ; Radikalismus ; Terrorismus ; Südasien ; South Asia / Politics and government ; Südasien ; Südasien ; Terrorismus ; Südasien ; Radikalismus
    Abstract: South Asia is home to a range of extremist groups from the jihadists of Pakistan to the Tamil Tigers of Sri Lanka. In the popular mind, extremism and terrorism are invariably linked to ethnic and religious factors. Yet the dominant history of South Asia is notable for tolerance and co-existence, despite highly plural societies. Deepa Ollapally examines extremist groups in Kashmir, Afghanistan, Northeast India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka to offer a fresh perspective on the causes of extremism. What accounts for its rise in societies not historically predisposed to extremism? What determines the winners and losers in the identity struggles in South Asia? What tips the balance between more moderate versus extremist outcomes? The book argues that politics, inter-state and international relations often play a more important role in the rise of extremism in South Asia than religious identity, poverty, and state repression
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: beyond and before the 9/11 framework -- Situating violent conflict in South Asia -- Afghanistan's changing fortunes -- Pakistan at the crossroads -- Conflict and contradiction in Kashmir -- Sri Lanka's violent spiral -- Bangladesh: divided politics and geopolitics
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511485282
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 221 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Philosophie ; Modernism (Literature) ; Time in literature ; Time / Philosophy ; Life in literature ; Manners and customs in literature ; Domestic fiction / History / 20th century ; Literature, Modern / 20th century / History and criticism ; Circadian rhythms ; Moderne ; Zeit ; Englisch ; Alltag ; Literatur ; Englisch ; Literatur ; Moderne ; Alltag ; Zeit
    Abstract: Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday life through the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on the psychologists William James and Henri Bergson. It goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Virginia Woolf. These experimental writers, she argues, reveal everyday life and daily time as rich and strange, not simply a banal backdrop to more important events. Moreover, Randall argues that paying attention to the everyday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive. The specific social and cultural context of the early twentieth century is one in which the concept of daily time is particularly strongly challenged. By examining Modernism's engagement with or manifestation of this notion of daily time, she reveals a highly original perspective on their concerns and complexities
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: dailiness -- The contemporary context: Henri Bergson and William James -- Dailiness in Dorothy Richardson's pilgrimage -- Re-creation, work and the everyday in Gertrude Stein -- War-days: H.D., time and the first world war -- Reading, writing and thinking: a Woolfian daily life
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9780511619656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    Keywords: Oral tradition ; Folklore ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Schriftlichkeit ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Schriftlichkeit ; Afrika ; Mündliche Überlieferung
    Abstract: What can texts - both written and oral - tell us about the societies that produce them? How are texts constituted in different cultures, and how do they shape societies and individuals? How can we understand the people who compose them? Drawing on examples from Africa and other countries, this original study sets out to answer these questions, by exploring textuality from a variety of angles. Topics covered include the importance of genre, the ways in which oral genres transcend the here-and-now, and the complex relationship between texts and the material world. Barber considers the ways in which personhood is evoked, both in oral poetry and in written diaries and letters, discusses the audience's role in creating the meaning of texts, and shows textual creativity to be a universal human capacity expressed in myriad forms. Engaging and thought-provoking, this book will be welcomed by anyone interested in anthropology, literature and cultural studies
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Anthropology and text -- 2. Genre, society and history -- 3. The constitution of oral texts -- 4. Text and personhood -- 5. Audiences and publics -- 6. The private -- 7. Textual fields and popular creativity
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511488795
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages)
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    Keywords: Gellner, Ernest ; Gellner, Ernest ; Philosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Social sciences / Philosophy ; Politische Philosophie ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Gellner, Ernest 1925-1995 ; Politische Philosophie
    Abstract: Ernest Gellner was a unique scholar whose work covered areas as diverse as social anthropology, analytical philosophy, the sociology of the Islamic world, nationalism, psychoanalysis, East European transformations and kinship structures. Despite this diversity, there is an exceptional degree of unity and coherence in Gellner's work with his distinctly modernist, rationalist and liberal world-view evident in everything he wrote. His central problematic remains constant: understanding how the modern world came into being and to what extent it is unique relative to all other social forms. Ten years after his death, this book brings together leading social theorists to evaluate the significance of Gellner's legacy and to re-examine his central concerns. It corrects many misunderstandings and critically engages with Gellner's legacy to provide a cutting edge contribution to understanding our contemporary post-9/11, global, late modern, social condition
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: an intellectual rebel with a cause / Mark Haugaard, Sinis̆a Males̆ević -- Ernest Gellener on liberty and modernity / Alan Macfarlane -- Predation and production in European imperialism / Michael Mann -- Power, modernity and liberal democracy / Mark Haugaard -- Gellner versus Marxism: a major concern or a fleeting affair? / Peter Skalník -- Nationalism: restructuring Gellner's theory / Nicos Mooouzelis -- Between the book and the new sword: Gellner, violence and ideology / Sinis̆a Males̆ević -- Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess / Thomas Hylland Erksen -- Islam, modernity and science / Michael Lessnoff -- Truth, reason and the spectre of contingency / Kevin Ryan -- Gellner's metaphysic / John A. Hall
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511499715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 484 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in archaeology
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1550-1850 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Mapuche Indians / History ; Mapuche Indians / Wars ; Mapuche Indians / Social life and customs ; Mounds / Chile / Araucanía ; Kolonisation ; Spanier ; Araukaner ; Kulturelle Identität ; Schamanismus ; Mapuche ; Kulturkontakt ; Siedlung ; Widerstand ; Amerika ; Spanien ; Spain / Colonies / America ; Araucanía (Chile) / History ; Araucanía (Chile) / Social life and customs ; Chile / History / 1565-1810 ; Spanien ; Chile ; Araukaner ; Chile ; Siedlung ; Schamanismus ; Spanier ; Kolonisation ; Widerstand ; Mapuche ; Kulturkontakt ; Spanien ; Kulturelle Identität ; Sozialgeschichte 1550-1850
    Abstract: From AD 1550 to 1850, the Araucanian polity in southern Chile was a center of political resistance to the intruding Spanish empire. In this 2007 book, Tom D. Dillehay examines the resistance strategies of the Araucanians and how they used mound building and other sacred monuments to reorganize their political and culture life in order to unite against the Spanish. Drawing on anthropological research conducted over three decades, Dillehay focuses on the development of leadership, shamanism, ritual, and power relations. His study combines developments in social theory with the archaeological, ethnographic, and historical records. Both theoretically and empirically informed, this book is a fascinating account of the only indigenous ethnic group to successfully resist outsiders for more than three centuries and to flourish under these conditions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521694299 , 9780521694292
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 297 p) , 23 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Parallel Title: Print version A Social History of Dying
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    Keywords: Death ; Death Social aspects ; History
    Abstract: A Social History of Dying examines the major challenges we will face for our eventual deaths
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; WHAT IS DYING?; THE AIM OF THIS BOOK; OVERVIEW; PART I The Stone Age; CHAPTER ONE The Dawn of Mortal Awareness; CHAPTER TWO Otherworld Journeys: Death as Dying; CHAPTER THREE The First Challenge: Anticipating Death; PART II The Pastoral Age; CHAPTER FOUR The Emergence of Sedentism; CHAPTER FIVE The Birth of the Good Death; CHAPTER SIX The Second Challenge: Preparing for Death; PART III The Age of the City; CHAPTER SEVEN The Rise and Spread of Cities; CHAPTER EIGHT The Birth of the Well-Managed Death
    Description / Table of Contents: CHAPTER NINE The Third Challenge: Taming DeathPART IV The Cosmopolitan Age; CHAPTER TEN The Exponential Rise of Modernity; CHAPTER ELEVEN The Birth of the Shameful Death; CHAPTER TWELVE The Final Challenge: Timing Death; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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    ISBN: 9780511607578
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 184 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    Keywords: Geschichte 639-2006 ; Geschichte 639-1985 ; Geschichte ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Egypt / History / 640-1882 ; Egypt / History / 1798- ; Egypt / Civilization ; Egypt / Politics and government ; Ägypten ; Ägypten ; Geschichte 639-2006 ; Ägypten ; Geschichte 639-1985 ; Ägypten ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Egypt occupies a central position in the Arab world. Its borders between sand and sea have existed for millennia and yet, until 1952, the country was ruled by foreigners. Afaf al-Sayyid Marsot explores the paradoxes of Egypt's history in an updated edition of her successful A Short History of Modern Egypt. Charting the years from the Arab conquest, through the age of the Mamluks, Egypt's incorporation into the Ottoman Empire, the liberal experiment in constitutional government in the early twentieth century, followed by the Nasser and Sadat years, the new edition takes the story up to the present day. During the Mubarak era, Egyptians have seen major changes with the rise of globalization and its effects on their economy, the advent of new political parties, the entrenchment of Islamic fundamentalism and the consequent changing attitudes to women. This short history is ideal for students and travelers
    Description / Table of Contents: The Arab conquest of Egypt to the end of the Ayyubi dynasty, 639-1250 -- The age of the mamluks, 1250-1516 -- The Ottoman age, 1516-1805 -- The beginning of the state system, 1805-1922 -- The liberal experiment, 1922-52 -- The Nasser years, 1952-70 -- From Sadat to Mubarak, 1970 to the present day
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    ISBN: 9780511488870
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge cultural social studies
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Politik ; Soccer / Social aspects / Israel ; Soccer / Political aspects / Israel ; Minorities in sports / Israel ; Palestinian Arabs / Israel / Ethnic identity ; Palästinenser ; Diskriminierung ; Fußball ; Minderheitenfrage ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Israel ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Fußball ; Sozialer Konflikt ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Fußball ; Minderheitenfrage ; Israel ; Palästinenser ; Diskriminierung ; Fußball
    Abstract: Over the last two decades soccer has become a major institution within the popular culture of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel. They have attained disproportionate success in this field. Given their marginalisation from many areas of Israeli society as well as the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, such a prominent Arab presence highlights the tension between their Israeli citizenship and their belonging to the Palestinian people. Bringing together sociological, anthropological and historical approaches, Sorek examines how soccer can potentially be utilised by ethnic and national minorities as a field of social protest, a stage for demonstrating distinctive identity, or as a channel for social and political integration. Relying on a rich combination of quantitative and qualitative methods, he argues that equality in the soccer sphere legitimises contemporary inequality between Jews and Arabs in Israel and pursues wider arguments about the role of sport in ethno-national conflicts. Ideal for researchers and graduate students
    Description / Table of Contents: Sports, modernity and struggle in Palestine -- The emergence of the integrative enclave -- Soccer and municipal "labor quiet" -- "These points are Arab" : nationalist rhetoric in the sports press -- "Maccabi Haifa is my flag": Arab fans of Jewish teams -- The Islamic Soccer League -- Sakhnin -- between soccer and martyrdom
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511617898
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 230 pages)
    Series Statement: New perspectives on anthropological and social demography
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    Keywords: Sozialwissenschaften ; Population research ; Demography / Methodology ; Mixed methods research ; Social sciences / Research / Methodology ; Methodologie ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; Demographie ; Demographie ; Empirische Sozialforschung ; Methodologie
    Abstract: Social scientists have long relied on a wide range of tools to collect information about the social world, but as individual fields have become more specialised, researchers are trained to use a narrow range of the possible data collection methods. This book, first published in 2006, draws on a broad range of available social data collection methods to formulate a set of data collection approaches. The approaches described here are ideal for social science researchers who plan to collect new data about people, organisations, or social processes. Axinn and Pearce present methods designed to create a comprehensive empirical description of the subject being studied, with an emphasis on accumulating the information needed to understand what causes what with a minimum of error. In addition to providing methodological motivation and underlying principles, the book is filled with detailed instructions and concrete examples for those who wish to apply the methods to their research
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521842077 , 9780521842075
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xiii, 521 p) , ill
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and emotional development
    Parallel Title: Print version Peer Relationships in Cultural Context
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    Keywords: Interpersonal relations in children ; Culture Psychological aspects ; Social interaction in children ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book is devoted specifically to culture and children's peer relationships. The chapters explore different issues in peer relationships using multiple methodologies and diverse populations. Authors have focused on how social and cultural context may influence the processes of peer interactions and the development of peer relationships
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Introduction; Part i Culture and Peer Relationships: Theoretical and Methodological Issues; Part ii Temperamental and Emotional Influences on Peer Relationships; Commentary I; Part iii Peers and Parents; Part iv Peer Interactions and Social Behaviors; Commentary II; Part v Friendships; Commentary III; Conclusion; Author Index; Subject Index
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    ISBN: 9780511660924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages)
    Uniform Title: Industrialisierung und Volksleben
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    Dissertation note: Dissertation Universität Zürich 1960
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Cottage industries / Switzerland / Zurich Region / History ; Textile industry / Switzerland / Zurich Region / History ; Volkskultur ; Auswirkung ; Heimarbeit ; Lebensform ; Industrialisierung ; Schweiz ; Zurich Region (Switzerland) / Social life and customs ; Zürcher Oberland ; Kanton Zürich ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Zürcher Oberland ; Heimarbeit ; Auswirkung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Kanton Zürich ; Industrialisierung ; Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Volkskultur ; Zürcher Oberland ; Industrialisierung ; Lebensform ; Geschichte 1600-1800
    Abstract: Industrialising und Volksleben by Rudolf Braun is widely regarded as a classic of modern social history, inspiring a whole series of profound debates about the transition from pre-industrial society to the modern world. Utilising evidence from an upland Swiss canton, Industrialisation and Everyday Life provides a comprehensive survey of the impact upon popular life styles of the development of widespread cottage industry, as land-hungry labourers added textile manufacture to their existing agricultural concerns. Professor Braun analyses the structure of such 'proto-industry', looking at the changes wrought upon family life, domestic housing and popular culture in general. A great variety of literary and artistic sources are drawn together in a vivid portrayal of the ways in which early industrial development and social modernisation became fused together
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511999062
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 363 Seiten, [19] Blätter) , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions to culture
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Künste ; Literatur ; Kultur ; Irland ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Irland ; Kultur ; Geschichte ; Irland ; Literatur ; Geschichte ; Irland ; Künste ; Geschichte ; Irland ; Politik ; Geschichte
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    ISBN: 9780511806537
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxiv, 303 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in North American Indian history
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1600-1871 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Wampanoag Indians / Religion ; Wampanoag Indians / Government relations ; Wampanoag Indians / History ; Christianity and culture / Massachusetts / Martha's Vineyard ; Wampanoag ; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) / History ; Martha's Vineyard (Mass.) / Social life and customs ; Martha's Vineyard ; Martha's Vineyard ; Wampanoag ; Sozialgeschichte 1600-1871
    Abstract: It was indeed possible for Indians and Europeans to live peacefully in early America and for Indians to survive as distinct communities. Faith and Boundaries uses the story of Martha's Vineyard Wampanoags to examine how. On an island marked by centralized English authority, missionary commitment, and an Indian majority, the Wampanoags' adaptation to English culture, especially Christianity, checked violence while safeguarding their land, community, and ironically, even customs. Yet the colonists' exploitation of Indian land and labor exposed the limits of Christian fellowship and thus hardened racial division. The Wampanoags learned about race through this rising bar of civilization - every time they met demands to reform, colonists moved the bar higher until it rested on biological difference. Under the right circumstances, like those on Martha's Vineyard, religion could bridge wide difference between the peoples of early America, but its transcendent power was limited by the divisiveness of race
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface: do good walls make good neighbors? -- Introduction: Epenow's lessons -- "Here comes the Englishman" -- To become all things to all men -- The Lord tests the righteous -- Deposing the sachem to defend the sachemship -- Leading values -- The costs of debt -- "Newcomers and strangers" -- Conclusion: Fencing in, fencing out
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    ISBN: 9780511614514
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 229 pages)
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    Keywords: Kinship ; Kinship (Law) ; Domestic relations ; Verwandtschaft ; Verwandtschaft
    Abstract: How can we hold in the same view both cultural or historical constructs and generalities about social existence? Kinship, Law and the Unexpected takes up an issue at the heart of studies of society - the way we use relationships to uncover relationships. Relationality is a phenomenon at once contingent (on certain ways of knowing) and ubiquitous (to social life). The role of relations in western (Euro-American) knowledge practices, from the scientific revolution onwards, raises a question about the extent to which Euro-American kinship is the kinship of a knowledge-based society. The argument takes the reader through current issues in biotechnology, new family formations and legal interventions, and intellectual property debates, to matters of personhood and ownership afforded by material from Melanesia and elsewhere. If we are often surprised by what our relatives do, we may also be surprised by what relations tells us about the world we live in
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511082185 , 9780511082184
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 176 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Miller, Tina, 1957- Making sense of motherhood
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    Keywords: Motherhood ; Mothers ; FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS ; Parenting ; Motherhood ; Motherhood ; Mothers ; Mutterschaft ; Moederschap ; Verteltheorie ; Maternité ; Mères ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The storied human life: a narrative approach; 2 Making sense of motherhood: cultural scripts; 3 Setting the Western context: mothering in late-modern society; 4 Anticipating motherhood: the antenatal period; 5 Making sense of early mothering experiences; 6 A return to normal: becoming the expert; 7 Conclusions and reflections: making sense of motherhood; References; Index.
    Abstract: This book explores how women try to make sense of, and narrate their experiences of first-time motherhood in the Western world. It charts the social, cultural and moral contours of contemporary motherhood and engages with sociological and feminist debates on how selves are constituted, maintained and narrated
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    ISBN: 9780511897535
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 606 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 800-1970 ; Geschichte ; Families / Europe / History ; Households / Europe / History ; Sozialgeschichte ; Familiensoziologie ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Familie ; Sozialgeschichte ; Europa ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Geschichte 800-1970 ; Familiensoziologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The family forms of historic Europe have been fascinating in their variety. Their importance for the historical development of our continent would be difficult to exaggerate; for our relationship with the peoples of the other continents of the world as well. This book is an attempt to recover the different familial systems and compare them with one another. The studies range from Russia, Poland, Hungary and Austria to Scandinavia, Flanders and Britain. All the influences which have affected the character and composition of European households are taken into account. The analysis covers their function as productive work groups, in the procreation and bringing up of children, and in the support of the elderly, and their relationship with the wider society and its norms along with its political organization, central and local. Claims that inheritance customs and inheritance practice and the occupation of the household head exerted a powerful influence on the size and composition of households are subjected to rigorous and systematic investigation
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    ISBN: 9780511897528
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 136 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in English legal history
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    DDC: 346.4204/373
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1601-1740 ; Geschichte 1600 ; Geschichte ; Marriage settlements / England / History ; Recht ; Ehevertrag ; Fideikommiss ; Eheschließung ; Großbritannien ; England ; Hochschulschrift ; Großbritannien ; Eheschließung ; Recht ; Geschichte 1601-1740 ; Großbritannien ; Ehevertrag ; Geschichte 1601-1740 ; England ; Fideikommiss ; Geschichte 1600
    Abstract: The history of the family has become an area of great interest, yet the property arrangements entered into upon marriage, a crucial aspect of the process of familial wealth transmission and distribution in the landed classes in early modern England, have never been systematically studied. In the light of evidence provided by hitherto unused family muniments, Dr Bonfield analyses the legal, social and economic aspects of these settlements, and discusses the development and impact of the strict settlement
    Description / Table of Contents: The medieval inheritance and the Statute of Uses -- Law in transition: the conflict over restraints upon alienation -- Patterns of marriage settlement 1601-1659: the development of the 'life estate-entail' mode -- The emergence of the strict settlement -- The adoption of the strict settlement 1660-1740: Kent and Northamptonshire -- Marriage settlements in perspective: the social and economic aspects
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    ISBN: 9780511572425
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 181 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1700-1900 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte ; Aging / United States / History / 19th century ; Older people / Services for / United States / History / 19th century ; Alter ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Alter ; Geschichte 1700-1900 ; USA ; Alter ; Geschichte 1800-1900
    Abstract: This book investigates the changing roles and perceptions of old age in nineteenth-century America. It shows how the economic and social transformation of the nation affected the condition of the aged, as it altered beliefs about their abilities and needs. Focusing on the ideas of doctors, charity workers, and social planners, it traces the process by which their view of senescence was incorporated into geriatric medicine, the development of the nation's first old-age homes and mandatory retirement plans. With the adoption of these programmes, old age came to be seen as a widespread social problem. By the early twentieth century, it had become characterized as a time of dependence and disease - an attitude which continues to influence the way that modern Americans perceive and treat the elderly
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    ISBN: 9780511621789
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 254 pages)
    Series Statement: Changing cultures
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    DDC: 306/.08991497
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Romanies / Great Britain ; Romanies / Great Britain / Social life and customs ; Romanies / Great Britain / Folklore ; Sozialanthropologie ; Zigeuner ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Sozialanthropologie ; Zigeuner
    Abstract: 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 contemporary documents. The Traveller-Gypsies is the first monograph to be published on Gypsies in Britain using the perspective of social anthropology. It examines the historical origins of the Gypsies, their economy, travelling patterns, self-ascription, kinship and political groupings, and their marriage choices, upbringing and gender divisions. A detailed analysis of pollution beliefs reveals an underlying system which expresses and reinforces the separation of Gypsies from non-Gypsies. Explanations for beliefs are sought in their contemporary meaning as opposed to their alleged Indian origin. None of these aspects are analysed independently of the wider society, its policies, beliefs, and practices. This book will be invaluable for teaching purposes, both as a study of a Gypsy community per se, and for its discussion of the problems involved in carrying out fieldwork within the anthropologist's own society. It will also interest the general reader and the academic specialist; social anthropologists, sociologists, historians, geographers, planners and all those concerned with minority groups
    Description / Table of Contents: Historical categories and representations -- Modern misrepresentations -- Methods of approach -- Economic niche -- Self-ascription -- Symbolic boundaries -- Gorgio planning -- Travelling -- Trailer unit, spouses and children -- Group relations and personal relatives -- Gypsy women -- Ghosts and Gorgios
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    ISBN: 9780511622151
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    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages)
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    Keywords: Labour Party (Great Britain) ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1832-1982 ; Geschichte ; Working class / England / History / 19th century ; Working class / England / History / 20th century ; Working class / Political activity / England ; Social conflict / England / History / 19th century ; Social conflict / England / History / 20th century ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeiter ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1832-1982 ; Großbritannien ; Arbeiter ; Geschichte 1832-1982
    Abstract: This collection of essays by Gareth Stedman Jones proposes a different way of seeing both historians' analytical conceptions of 'class', and the actual manifestation of class in the history of English politics and English culture since the 1830s. As the progenitor of the first generally acknowledged working-class movement, the English working class provided the initial empirical basis for not only the original Marxist theory of modern industry and proletarian revolution, but also subsequent historians' reactions against, or adaptations of, the Marxist theory of class. In Languages of Class Gareth Stedman Jones draws a distinction between two conceptions of class: the everyday and commonplace perception of its pervasiveness in England, and the Marxist idea of its revolutionary significance. He proceeds to challenge the predominant conceptions of the meaning and development of 'class consciousness' by stressing the political and discursive conditions in which particular languages appeared and receded. Among the themes of individual essays in the book are a rethinking of 'the making of the English working class' and the phenomenon of Chartism, a novel exploration of the formation and components of 'working-class culture', and, in the light of these, a new approach to understanding the history of the Labour Party
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    ISBN: 9780511735431
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 125 pages)
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    Keywords: Doyayo (African people) ; Doayo ; Doayo
    Abstract: Many opposing theories have been elaborated by different anthropologists in an attempt to explain the nature of symbolism. In this work Nigel Barley uses a particular ethnographic case to examine the relevance and limitations of these existing theories and to develop a new alternative approach which draws on areas of linguistics and folkloristics at one time neglected by symbolic theorists. The book is a detailed study of the symbolic universe of the Dowayos of north Cameroon, as displayed in their ritual and beliefs. Considering matters as diverse as their oral literature, their material culture and their festivals, Dr Barley's analysis develops by unfolding sequentially a map of the symbolic structures that underlie Dowayo culture and shape their apperception of the world about them. This book will be particularly useful for students. It will also interest all anthropologists concerned with the study of symbolism and with the application to anthropology of models derived from linguistics and folklore
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    ISBN: 9780511607752
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 308 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
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    Keywords: Kinship History ; Marriage History ; Families History ; Families ; Europe ; History ; Marriage ; Europe ; History ; Kinship ; Europe ; History ; Europe ; Social life and customs ; Europe Social life and customs ; Einführung ; Einführung
    Abstract: Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices. With these changes Christian Europe broke radically from its own past and established practices which diverged markedly from those of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In this highly original and far-reaching work Jack Goody argues that from the fourth century there developed in the northern Mediterranean a distinctive but not undifferentiated kinship system, whose growth can be attributed to the role of the Church in acquiring property formerly held by domestic groups. He suggests that the early Church, faced with the need to provide for people who had left their kin to devote themselves to the life of the Church, regulated the rules of marriage so that wealth could be channelled away from the family and into the Church. Thus the Church became an 'interitor', acquiring vast tracts of property through the alienation of familial rights. At the same time, the structure of domestic life was changed dramatically, the Church placing more emphasis on individual wishes, on conjugality, and on spiritual rather than natural kinship. Tracing the consequences of this change through to the present day, Jack Goody challenges some fundamental assumptions about the making of western society, and provides an alternative focus for future study of the European family, kinship structures and marriage patterns. The questions he raises will provoke much interest and discussion amongst anthropologists, sociologists and historians
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    ISBN: 9780511898150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 287 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative ethnic and race relations
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    Keywords: Politik ; Racism / Great Britain ; Politische Sprache ; Rassenfrage ; Rassenkonflikt ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Race relations ; Great Britain / Politics and government / 1979-1997 ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Rassenfrage ; Politische Sprache ; Großbritannien ; Rassenkonflikt
    Abstract: This book, first published in 1983, examines why people prefer to talk about immigrants or ethnic minorities when they are referring to differences marked not by the migratory process of ethnicity, but by skin colour. How, without mentioning racial criteria, have politicians managed to introduce immigration controls deliberately aimed at reducing the number of black migrants? This book identifies a central feature of British political life: the ability to justify racially discriminatory behaviour without recourse to explicit racist language. It gives an account of British racial ideology as it is practically experienced in the form of political discourse and helps to provide a theoretical understanding of its relationship to the social structure as a whole and in particular its relationship to inter- and intra-class divisions. The author argues that traditional class-based ideologies are perfectly capable of supporting racially oppressive institutions and have far better 'protective' properties than expressions of overt racism. As a result, the objective structures of British race relations are obscured by a facade of 'deracialised ideology'
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621901
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 287 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 39
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Indianer ; Tucano Indians / Social life and customs ; Barasana Indians / Social life and customs ; Indians of South America / Colombia / Social life and customs ; Tucano ; Sozialanthropologie ; Departement Vaupés ; Departement Vaupés ; Tucano ; Sozialanthropologie
    Abstract: The Bará, or Fish People, of the Northwest Amazon form part of an unusual network of intermarrying local communities scattered along the rivers of this region. Each community belongs to one of sixteen different groups that speak sixteen different languages, and marriages must take place between people not only from different communities but with different primary languages. In a network of this sort, which defies the usual label of 'tribe', social identity assumes a distinct and unusual configuration. In this book, Jean Jackson's incisive discussions of Bará marriage, kinship, spatial organization, and other features of the social and geographic landscape show how Tukanoans (as participants in the network are collectively known) conceptualize and tie together their universe of widely scattered communities, and how an individual's identity emerges in terms of relations with others. As theoretically challenging as it is unique, the Tukanoan system bears on a wide range of issues of current anthropological concern, such as how to analyze open-ended regional systems in small-scale societies, ideal versus actual patterns of behaviour, identity as both structure and action, and indigenous use of multiple, even conflicting, models of social structure. Professor Jackson's thoughtful discussions also extend to broader social scientific issues concerning the relation of language to culture, the presence or absence of individualism in pre-state societies, the nature of ethnic boundaries, the interplay between observation of behaviour and its interpretation (on the part of both native and anthropologist), and the achievement of flexibility and self-interested goals while applying seemingly rigid social structural principles
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511753039
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 255 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge papers in social anthropology 9
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1947- ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Caste ; Kaste ; Indien ; India / Social life and customs ; Sri Lanka / Social life and customs ; Indien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Indien ; Kaste ; Geschichte 1947-
    Abstract: Following the publication of the book by E. R. Leach, ed., Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan (1960), much additional information was gathered on caste hierarchies in South Asia, and two major attempts were made to identify the underlying unity of this material - a structuralist one by Louis Dumont and a ethnosocialogical one by McKim Marriott et al. This quest for unity seemed attractive, yet at the same time, as the contributions to the present volume indicate, premature. The four papers collected here and published in 1982 are all concerned with caste ideology and caste interaction in different locales of South Asia
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558054
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 188 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 42
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    Keywords: Dyula (African people) ; Acculturation / Côte d'Ivoire ; Dyula ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Dyula ; Kulturwandel ; Dyula ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: The word dyula means 'trader' in the Manding language. It is also the name of certain Manding-speaking ethnic minorities in parts of northern Ivory Coast, who, for centuries before the advent of colonial rule, enjoyed a virtual trading monopoly over the local region. In the first part of this book Robert Launay describes two Dyula communities prior to the twentieth-century colonial period: he discusses the regional symbiosis between Dyula traders and Senufo farmers; the organization of Dyula activity; and the division of the communities into relatively small clan wards with high rates of in-marriage. The second part examines the ways in which both communities have adapted to the recent loss of their trading monopoly, and the strategies they have employed, such as emigration, the assimilation of Western education and the adoption of new occupations, to carve out a new economic niche for themselves. As an account of the incorporation of 'traditional' community into a modern town, the book will be of interest to anthropologists and others concerned with development and modernisation in Africa and the Third World
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    ISBN: 9780511607646
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 236 pages)
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Religion ; Fertility cults ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Wiedergeburt ; Tod ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tod ; Ethnologie ; Tod ; Anthropologie ; Wiedergeburt
    Abstract: It is a classical anthropological paradox that symbols of rebirth and fertility are frequently found in funerary rituals throughout the world. The original essays collected here re-examine this phenomenon through insights from China, India, New Guinea, Latin America, and Africa. The contributors, each a specialist in one of these areas, have worked in close collaboration to produce a genuinely innovative theoretical approach to the study of the symbolism surrounding death, an outline of which is provided in an important introduction by the editors. The major concern of the volume is the way in which funerary rituals dramatically transform the image of life as a dialectic flux involving exchange and transaction, marriage and procreation, into an image of a still, transcendental order in which oppositions such as those between self and other, wife-giver and wife-taker, Brahmin and untouchable, birth and therefore death have been abolished. This transformation often involves a general devaluation of biology, and, particularly, of sexuality, which is contrasted with a more spiritual and controlled source of life. The role of women, who are frequently associated with biological processes, mourning and death pollution, is often predominant in funerary rituals, and in examining this book makes a further contribution to the understanding of the symbolism of gender. The death rituals and the symbolism of rebirth are also analysed in the context of the political processes of the different societies considered, and it is argued that social order and political organisation may be legitimated through an exploitation of the emotions and biology
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Maurice Bloch and Jonathan Parry -- The dead and the devils among the Bolivian Laymi / Olivia Harris -- Sacrificial death and the necrophagous ascetic / Jonathan Parry -- Witchcraft, greed, cannibalism and death / Andrew Strathern -- Lugbara death / John Middleton -- Of flesh and bones / James L. Watson -- Social dimensions of death in four African hunting and gathering societies / James Woodburn -- Death, women, and power / Maurice Bloch
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    ISBN: 9780511607745
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Cooking / Social aspects ; Food habits / Social aspects ; Sozialgeschichte ; Kochen ; Ernährung ; Ernährungsgewohnheit ; Soziologie ; Essgewohnheit ; Essgewohnheit ; Sozialgeschichte ; Ernährung ; Sozialgeschichte ; Kochen ; Sozialgeschichte ; Ernährung ; Soziologie ; Ernährungsgewohnheit
    Abstract: The preparation, serving and eating of food are common features of all human societies, and have been the focus of study for numerous anthropologists - from Sir James Frazer onwards - from a variety of theoretical and empirical perspectives. It is in the context of this previous anthropological work that Jack Goody sets his own observations on cooking in West Africa. He criticises those approaches which overlook the comparative historical dimension of culinary, and other, cultural differences that emerge in class societies, both of which elements he particularly emphasises in this book. The central question that Professor Goody addresses here is why a differentiated 'haute cuisine' has not emerged in Africa, as it has in other parts of the world. His account of cooking in West Africa is followed by a survey of the culinary practices of the major Eurasian societies throughout history - ranging from Ancient Egypt, Imperial Rome and medieval China to early modern Europe - in which he relates the differences in food preparation and consumption emerging in these societies to differences in their socio-economic structures, specifically in modes of production and communication. He concludes with an examination of the world-wide rise of 'industrial food' and its impact on Third World societies, showing that the ability of the latter to resist cultural domination in food, as in other things, is related to the nature of their pre-existing socio-economic structures. The arguments presented here will interest all social scientists and historians concerned with cultural history and social theory
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511572715
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American studies 41
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Geschichte 1520-1620 ; Geschichte ; Indianer ; Indians of South America / Peru / Population ; Bevölkerung ; Peru / Population / History / 16th century ; Peru ; Peru ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte 1520-1620
    Abstract: While many scholars have been interested in the size of the Indian population of the Americas at the time of first contact with Europeans, this book, first published in 1982, was the first to make a thorough examination of the question. Focusing on Peru, Professor Cook estimates population size on the basis of archaeology, carrying capacity of the agricultural systems, disease mortality, depopulation ratios, and census projection. He also analyses the catastrophic population decline that resulted from contact with Europeans, and compares this experience with that of the coastal region and the Andean highlands
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511659775
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 144 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 34
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Religion and politics / China ; Rites and ceremonies / China ; Politik ; Ritual ; China / Politics and government ; China ; China ; Politik ; Ritual ; Geschichte
    Abstract: As a result of the strength and dominance of the centralized state, ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this. She argues that forms of control attempted ritually on non-human persons (gods and other spirits) in China parallel those forms of control which people regard as effective in ordinary life, namely political control, and draws important conclusions from this. She shows that in China it is possible to discard terms such as 'magic', which imply that acts directed to spirits operate on a different basis from acts in ordinary life. She also challenges claims in anthropology that, since they seem arbitrary and the actions of participants in them highly predictable, rituals support established authority. Her book will be of interest not only to specialists in Chinese studies, but to social anthropologists and others interested in the link between ritual and political processes
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I. Interpersonal communication -- 1. Interpersonal versus non-interpersonal transaction -- 2. Written bureaucratic communication -- 3. Etiquette and control -- PART II. Codes -- 4. Divination -- 5. Open and closed practices -- PART III. Politics -- 6. Ritual and political authorities -- 7. Ritual as a learning game -- Conclusions and further questions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Character list -- Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621833
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 286 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in cultural systems
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Ilongot (Philippine people) / Psychology ; Ilongot (Philippine people) / Social life and customs ; Brauch ; Hiligaynon ; Hiligaynon ; Brauch
    Abstract: Michelle Rosaldo presents an ethnographic interpretation of the life of the Ilongots, a group of some 3,500 hunters and horticulturists in Northern Luzon, Philippines. Her study focuces on headhunting, a practice that remained active among the Ilongots until at least 1972. Indigenous notions of 'knowledge' and 'passion' are crucial to the Ilongots' perceptions of their own social practices of headhunting, oratory, marriage, and the organization of subsistence labour. In explaining the significance of these key ideas, Professor Rosaldo examines what she considers to be the most important dimensions of Ilongot social relationships: the contrasts between men and women and between accomplished married men and bachelor youths. By defining 'knowledge' and 'passion' in the context of their social and affective significance, the author demonstrates the place of headhunting in historical and political processes, and shows the relation between headhunting and indigenous concepts of curing, reproduction, and health. Theoretically oriented toward interpretive of symbolic ethnography, this book clarifies some of the ways in which the study of a language - both vocabulary and patterns of usage - is a study of a culture; the process of translation is presented as a method of cultural interpretation. Professor Rosaldo argues that an appreciation of the Ilongots' specific notions of 'the self' and the emotional concepts associated with headhunting can illuminate central aspects of the group's social life
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 233 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 27
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Gnau (Papua New Guinean people) / Rites and ceremonies ; Puberty rites / Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) ; Rites and ceremonies ; Symbolism ; Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea) / Social life and customs
    Abstract: Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by the people themselves runs through this book. The book focuses on the various interpretations that have been offered by anthropologists of ritual and symbolism. It offers a critical discussion of theories in this field in general, identifying their strengths and weaknesses when applied to the particular case of puberty rituals in a West Sepik village in Papua New Guinea. It then goes on to suggest an alternative approach, which draws on aesthetic as well as anthropological theory, and pays particular attention to the emotional and aesthetic experiences of people as they perform the rites
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