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  • 1
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74550-3 , 978-0-295-74551-0 /Hb. , 978-0-295-74552-7 /E-Book
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 255 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global South Asia
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Geschichte ; Geschlechterrolle ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Religionsethnologie ; Kastenwesen ; Macht ; Frau und Religion ; Devotionalie ; Religionssoziologie ; Literatur ; Musik ; Kunst ; Caitanya (1486-1534) ; Chaitanya 〉 Caitanya
    Abstract: Bhakti, a term ubiquitous in the religious life of South Asia, has meanings that shift dramatically according to context and sentiment. Sometimes translated as "personal devotion," bhakti nonetheless implies and fosters public interaction. It is often associated with the marginalized voices of women and lower castes, yet it has also played a role in perpetuating injustice. Barriers have been torn down in the name of bhakti, while others have been built simultaneously.Bhakti and Power provides an accessible entry into key debates around issues such as these, presenting voices and vignettes from the sixth century to the present and from many parts of India`s cultural landscape. Written by a wide range of engaged scholars, this volume showcases one of the most influential concepts in Indian historystill a major force in the present day. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction: The Power of Bhakti -- Situations -- Mediations -- Solidarities -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 225-244Enthält 17 Beiträge
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74628-9 , 978-0-295-74627-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 256 Seiten , Karten, Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Global South Asia
    Keywords: Indien Kolonialismus ; Kapitalismus ; Elendsviertel ; Urbanisation ; Landwirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Migration ; Arbeit ; Arbeiterklasse ; Krise ; Armut ; Behausung ; Geschichte ; Mumbai 〈Indien〉
    Abstract: "The modern slum, a global phenomenon once considered an unfortunate but natural side effect of economic progress, now exemplifies failed development. How did Bombay (now called Mumbai) become the quintessential example of such failure? By 1880 Bombay was the most dense and second largest town in the British Empire, just behind London. Yet as laborers and migrants became excluded from what counted as the city, Bombay was beset by agricultural crises that caused recurring waves of famine and plague, justifying interventions that further stigmatized the poor. Grounded in an exploration of the changing political economy through the nineteenth and early twentieth century in land, labor, and housing, this book explores the agrarian origins of Bombay city, the mobility of migrants as they brought Bombay into their orbits, the emergence of housing as a commodity that both reflected and produced social life, and the way housing types were encoded as legitimate or illegitimate to make them legible for administration. It foregrounds the perspective of the laboring and urban poor and challenges assumptions about colonial cities and cities of the global south"--
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Genealogies of the urban modern -- Calculative rationales -- Containing agrarian crises -- Rendering housing technical -- Conduits of control -- A self-governing city -- Conclusion: Afterlives of city-making -- Epilogue: Movements and countermovements.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-227Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Columbia University, 2012, titled Making the modern slum : housing, mobility, and poverty in Bombay and its peripheries
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74650-0 , 9780295746517 , 9780295746524 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 232 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Culture, Place, and Nature
    DDC: 306.0967627
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    Keywords: Kenia Flora ; Handel ; Industrie ; Arbeit ; Umwelt ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Place, Power, and Possibility in a Kenyan Nerve Center -- Situating Naivasha -- Low-Wage Laborers: Sacrifice in a Slippery Context -- Black Kenyan Professionals: Seeking Exposure -- Floriculture and the State: Building and Branding Kenya -- White Kenyans and Expatriates: Belonging and Control
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74357-8 , 978-0-295-74357-8 / (falsche ISBN) , 978-0-295-74359-2 / (e-book)
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Emil and Kathleen Sick Book Series in Western History and Biography
    Keywords: Nordamerika USA ; Oregon ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Grundeigentum ; Regierung ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Indianerpolitik ; Umsiedlung ; Frau ; Biographie ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Geschichte ; McKeown, Martha Ferguson ; Thompson, Flora Cushinway ; Columbia River 〈USA〉 ; Celilo Falls Indian Relocation Project
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- A Note on Terminology and Sources -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Homelands in Transition -- TWO Maintaining/Making Home -- THREE Growing Up -- FOUR Converging Paths of Leadership -- FIVE Protecting Home -- SIX New Narratives in an Ancient Land -- SEVEN Aftermath -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-03438-0 , 978-0-253-03260-7 , 978-0-253-03262-1 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 334 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Afrika Algerien ; Benin ; Äthiopien ; Ghana ; Kenia ; Republik Niger ; Nigeria ; Sahara ; Sahel ; Südafrika ; Tansania ; Turkana ; Uganda ; Diula ; Yoruba ; Geschichte ; Unternehmenskultur ; Heiler ; Sport ; Handel ; Frau und wirtschaftliche Rolle ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Kolonialgeschichte ; Dekolonisation ; Lagos 〈Nigeria〉
    Abstract: A tapestry of innovation, ideas, and commerce, Africa and its entrepreneurial hubs are deeply connected to those of the past. Moses E. Ochonu and an international group of contributors explore the lived experiences of African innovators who have created value for themselves and their communities. Profiles of vendors, farmers, craftspeople, healers, spiritual consultants, warriors, musicians, technological innovators, political mobilizers, and laborers featured in this volume show African models of entrepreneurship in action. As a whole, the essays consider the history of entrepreneurship in Africa, illustrating its multiple origins and showing how it differs from the Western capitalist experience. As they establish historical patterns of business creativity, these explorations open new avenues for understanding indigenous enterprise and homegrown commerce and their relationship to social, economic, and political debates in Africa today.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Mercantile and artisanal networks -- Part II. Female entrepreneurs and gendered innovation -- Part III. Entrepreneurship as political initiative -- Part IV. Unconventional entrepreneurs -- Part V. African enterprise in the shadow of colonization -- Epilogue : African entrepreneurship, past and present, Moses E. Ochonu -- Index
    Note: Enthält eine Introduction und 13 Beiträge
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74343-1 , 978-0-295-74344-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 193 Seiten
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    DDC: 305.897/20794
    Keywords: USA Kalifornien ; Hupa ; Frau ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ritual ; Tanz ; Feminismus ; Initiation ; Menstruation ; Soziale Bedingungen
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  • 7
    ISBN: 978-0-253-03836-4 , 978-0-253-03837-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 207 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Framing the Global
    DDC: 339.46096782
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    Keywords: Tansania Ländliches Gebiet ; Hungersnot ; Hunger ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Ernährung ; Sicherheit ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Politik ; Soziale Beziehung ; Armut
    Abstract: In An Ethnography of Hunger Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images of spectacular famine in Africa, she examines how people live with-rather than die from-hunger. Through tracing the seasonal cycles of drought, plenty, and suffering and the political cycles of elections, development, and state extraction, Phillips studies hunger as a pattern of relationships and practices that organizes access to food and profoundly shapes agrarian lives and livelihoods. Amid extreme inequality and unpredictability, rural people pursue subsistence by alternating between-and sometimes combining-rights and reciprocity, a political form that she calls "subsistence citizenship." Phillips argues that studying subsistence is essential to understanding the persistence of global poverty, how people vote, and why development projects succeed or fail.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Subsistence Citizenship. PART I: The Frames of Subsistence in Singida: Cosmology, Ethnography, History. Chapter 1 Hunger in Relief: Village Life and Livelihood. Chapter 2 The Unpredictable Grace of the Sun: Cosmology, Conquest, and the Politics of Subsistence. PART II: The Power of the Poor on the Threshold of Subsistence. Chapter 3 We Shall Meet at the Pot of Ugali: Sociality, Differentiation, and Diversion in the Distribution of Food. Chapter 4 Crying, Denying, and Surviving Rural Hunger. PART III: Subsistence Citizenship. Chapter 5 Subsistence versus Development. Chapter 6 Patronage, Rights, and the Idioms of Rural Citizenship. Conclusion: The Seasons of Subsistence and Citizenship. Notes. Bibliography. Index
    Note: Litreaturverzeichnis Seite 183-200
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  • 8
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74225-0 , 978-0-295-74227-4 / (e-book) , 978-0-295-74225-0 / (falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 233 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    Keywords: Nordamerika Nordwest-Küste ; Chinook ; Grundeigentum ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Regierung ; Kajak ; Geschichte ; Columbia River
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-0-295-74612-8 , 978-0-295-74166-6 , 0-295-74166-X , 9780295741659 / (falsche ISBN)
    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 182 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: USA Indianer, Nordamerika ; Shahaptin ; Indianer-Sprache ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Soziales Leben ; Frau ; Geschichte ; Biographie
    Abstract: "The Gift of Knowledge / Ttnuwit Atawish Nch'inch'imamí is a treasure trove of material for those interested in Native American culture. Author Virginia Beavert grew up in a traditional, Indian-speaking household. Both her parents and her maternal grandmother were shamans, and her childhood was populated by people who spoke tribal dialects and languages: Nez Perce, Umatilla, Klikatat, and Yakima Ichishkíin. Her work on Native languages began at age twelve, when she met linguist Melville Jacobs while working for his student, Margaret Kendell. When Jacobs realized that Beavert was a fluent speaker of the Klikatat language, he taught her to read and write the orthography he had developed to record Klikatat myths. After a stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Beavert went on to earn graduate degrees in education and linguistics, and she has contributed to numerous projects for the preservation of Native language and teachings. Beavert narrates highlights from her own life and presents cultural teachings, oral history, and stories (many in bilingual Ishishkíin-English format) about family life, religion, ceremonies, food gathering, and other aspects of traditional culture."--Provided by publisher
    Description / Table of Contents: The culture that made me who I am now / Inmí Tiinwít Wapítat -- My story / Inmí Ttáwaxt -- Life circles / Wyá'uyt Wak_'íshwit -- Experiences and reflections / Pina'ititámat Wak_'íshwit -- Conclusion / Wának_'i -- Appendix: Guidance for academic researchers -- Icshishkíin / English glossary.
    Note: Ichishkíin-English glossary S. 171-174
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-02597-5 , 978-0-253-02599-9 , 978-0-253-02602-6/(eBook)
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 126 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 306.3/62096609034
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    Keywords: Westafrika Ghana ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Eigentum ; Biographie ; Entscheidungsfindung ; Abolition ; Geschichte ; Afeku, Amegashie ; Tamakloe, Nyaho ; Yawo, Noah ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie ; Biografie
    Description / Table of Contents: Amegashie Afeku of Keta: priest, political advisor, businessman, slave owner -- Nyaho Tamakloe of Anlo: of chieftaincy and slavery, of politics and the personal -- Noah Yawo of Ho-Kpenoe: the faith journey of a slave owner -- Concluding thoughts
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 107-119
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-03000-9 , 978-0-253-02973-7
    Language: English
    Pages: vii, 205 Seiten
    DDC: 305.242
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    Keywords: Erwachsener Jugendlicher ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht ; Kulturvergleich ; Botswana ; Sri Lanka ; Uganda ; China ; Neuguinea ; Sudan ; Russland ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 11.2013 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2013 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 2013 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 11.2013 ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift 11.2013
    Note: "This book started with a double session at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in November 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. Although not all participants in that session could join in the edited publication, their papers at that session and our discussions of all our papers over meals and emails enriched our understanding of how anthropologists can approach the study of adulthood."--Page vii
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-02144-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 371 Seiten
    DDC: 909/.0496333003
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    Keywords: Yoruba Ethnie, Afrika ; Afrika ; Geschichte ; Soziales Leben ; Folklore ; Nachschlagewerk ; Wörterbuch ; Wörterbuch ; Enzyklopädie ; Wörterbuch ; Enzyklopädie
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-02124-3 , 0253021243 , 978-0-253-02136-6 , 0253021367 , 978-0-253-02147-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 234 Seiten , Illustrationen
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    Keywords: England Prostitution ; Kirche ; Bestattung ; Tod ; Heilbehandlung ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Christentum ; Geschichte ; Feldforschung ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; London
    Abstract: Every month, a ragtag group of Londoners gather in the site known as Crossbones Graveyard to commemorate the souls of medieval prostitutes believed to be buried therethe "Winchester Geese," women who were under the protection of the Church but denied Christian burial. In the Borough of Southwark, not far from Shakespeare's Globe, is a pilgrimage site for self-identified misfits, nonconformists, and contemporary sex workers who leave memorials to the outcast dead. Ceremonies combining raucous humor and eclectic spirituality are led by a local playwright, John Constable, also known as John Crow. His interpretation of the history of the site has struck a chord with many who feel alienated in present-day London. Sondra L. Hausner offers a nuanced ethnography of Crossbones that tacks between past and present to look at the historical practices of sex work, the relation of the Church to these professions, and their representation in the present. She draws on anthropological approaches to ritual and time to understand the forms of spiritual healing conveyed by the Crossbones rites. She shows that ritual is a way of creating the present by mobilizing the stories of the past for contemporary purposes.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover -- The Spirits of Crossbones Graveyard -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Set and Setting -- ONE The Myth of the Winchester Goose -- TWO Medieval Bankside -- THREE Shamanism and the Ritual Oscillation of Time -- FOUR The Virgin Queen and the English Nation -- FIVE Southwark, Then and Now -- CONCLUSION Making the Present -- EPILOGUE Crossbones Garden -- PERMISSIONS FOR TEXT AND PHOTOGRAPHS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 213-221
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 978-0-295-99835-0
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 165 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Indigenous Confluences
    DDC: 979.400497
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    Keywords: Kalifornien Indianer, Nordamerika ; Geschichte ; Orale Geschichte ; Mythologie ; Krieg ; Indigenität
    Abstract: Most California histories begin with the arrival of the Spanish missionaries in the late eighteenth century and conveniently skip to the Gold Rush of 1849. Noticeably absent from these stories are the perspectives and experiences of the people who lived on the land long before European settlers arrived. Historian William Bauer seeks to correct that oversight through an innovative approach that tells California history strictly through Native perspectives. Using oral histories of Concow, Pomo, and Paiute workers, taken as part of a New Deal federal works project, Bauer reveals how Native peoples have experienced and interpreted the history of the land we now call California. Combining these oral histories with creation myths and other oral traditions, he demonstrates the importance of sacred landscapes and animals and other nonhuman actors to the formation of place and identity. He also examines tribal stories of ancestors who prophesied the coming of white settlers and uses their recollections of the California Indian Wars to push back against popular narratives that seek to downplay Native resistance. The result both challenges the "California story" and enriches it with new voices and important points of view, serving as a model for understanding Native historical perspectives in other regions.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-01752-9 , 978-0-253-01760-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 264 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    DDC: 305.891/593055
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    Keywords: Iran Afghanistan ; Migration ; Lyrik ; Intellektuelle ; Soziale Bedingungen
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-81-7596-892-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 247 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First South Asian edition
    Keywords: Indien Nepal ; Himalaya ; Askese ; Spiritualität ; Hinduismus ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Wallfahrt ; Gemeinschaft
    Abstract: In this moving ethnographic portrait of Hindu renouncers - sadhus or ascetics - in northern India and Nepal, Sondra L. Hausner considers a paradox that shapes their lives: while ostensibly defined by their solitary spiritual practice, the stripping away of social commitments, and their break with family and community, renouncers in fact regularly interact with "householder" society. They form a distinctive, alternative community with its own internal structure, but one that is not located in any single place. Highly mobile and dispersed across the subcontinent, its members are regularly brought together through pilgrimage circuits on festival cycles. Drawing on many years of fieldwork, Hausner presents intimate portraits of individual sadhus as she examines the shared views of space, time, and the body that create the ground for everyday experience. Written with an extraordinary blend of empathy, compassion, and anthropological insight, this study will appeal to scholars, students, and general readers alike.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration. Introduction: Wandering with Renouncers 1. The Body and Sadhu Society 2. The Social Structures of Sadhu Life 3. Hardwar: The Ground of Space 4. Allahabad: The Community in Time 5. Kathmandu: The Body in Place Conclusion: The Culture of Hindu Renunciation. Appendix: Literatures on Renunciation and Embodiment Notes Bibliography Index
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-35698-7 , 978-0-253-22355-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 275 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Anthropologies of Europe
    DDC: 211/.8094746
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    Keywords: Sowjet-Union Ural ; Atheismus ; Propaganda ; Säkularisierung ; Religion ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Religion und Politik ; Erziehung ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Kulturwandel ; Geschichte ; Mari El 〈Republik, russische Föderation〉
    Abstract: Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous Republic of Marij El in Russia's Volga region, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies of atheist propaganda is a widespread didactic orientation among the population and a faith in standardized programs of personal transformation as solutions to wider social problems. This didactic trend has parallels in globalized forms of Protestantism and Islam but differs from older uses of religious knowledge in rural Russia. At a time when the secularist modernization projects of the 20th century are widely perceived to have failed, Secularism Soviet Style emphasizes the affinities and shared histories of religious and atheist mobilizations.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-35385-6 , 0-253-35385-8 , 978-0-253-22140-7 , 0-253-22140-4
    Language: English
    Pages: Karten
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Islam ; Türke ; Mongolen ; Timor ; Kultureinfluss ; Geschichte ; Quelle
    Abstract: Islamic Central Asia is the first English-language anthology of primary documents for the study of Central Asian history. Scott C. Levi and Ron Sela draw from a vast array of historical sources to illustrate important aspects of the social, cultural, political, and economic history of Islamic Central Asia. These documents-many newly translated and most not readily available for study-cover the period from the 7th-century Arab conquests to the 19th-century Russian colonial era and provide new insights into the history and significance of the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Central Asia in the Early Islamic Period, Seventh to Tenth Centuries -- Part 2: Encounter with the Turks -- Part 3: The Mongol Empire -- Part 4: Timur and the Timurids -- Part 5: Central Asia in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Part 6: Central Asia in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-22200-8 , 978-0-253-35480-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 225 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa
    DDC: 305.8933061
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    Keywords: Nordafrika Maghreb ; Marokko ; Berber ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politik ; Ethnizität ; Indigenität ; Aktivismus ; Museum ; Geschichte ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: "Berbers and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social, and cultural attention in North Africa, Europe, and the United States. Berber groups have peacefully yet persistently laid claim to ownership over broad areas of creativity in the arts, politics, literature, education, and national memory. The contributors to this volume present some of the best new thinking in the emerging field of Berber studies, offering insight into historical antecedents, language usage, land rights, household economies, artistic production, and human rights. The scope, depth, and multidisciplinary approach will engage specialists on the Maghrib as well as students of ethnicity, social and political change, and cultural innovation."--Book cover
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Katherine E. Hoffman and Susan Gilson Miller --- Part 1. Sources and Methods. 1. Histories of Heresy and Salvation: Arabs, Berbers, Community, and the State / James McDougall -- 2. Internal Fractures in the Berber-Arab Distinction: From Colonial Practice to Post-national Preoccupations / Katherine E. Hoffman -- 3. The Makhzan's Berber: Paths to Integration in Pre-Colonial Morocco / Mohamed El Mansour --- Part 2. Practices: Local, National, and International. 4. The Local Dimensions of Transnational Berberism: Racial Politics, Land Rights, and Cultural Activism in Southeastern Morocco / Paul A. Silverstein -- 5. Imazighen on Trial: Human Rights and Berber Identity in Algeria, 1985 / Jane E. Goodman -- 6. Globalization Begins at Home: Children's Wage Labor and the High Atlas Household / David Crawford --- Part 3. Varieties of Representation. 7. The "Numidian" Origins of North Africa / Mokhtar Ghambou -- 8. "First Arts" of the Maghrib: Exhibiting Berber Culture at the Musée du quai Branly / Lisa Bernasek -- 9. Deconstructing the History of Berber Arts: Tribalism, Matriarchy, and a Primitive Neolithic Past / Cynthia Becker.
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    Bloomington : Indiana University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-253-21972-5 , 9780253351180
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 169 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Contemporary Indian Studies
    DDC: 306.85095482
    Keywords: Indien Tamil Nadu ; Kolonie, britisch ; Frau ; Ehe ; Familie ; Haushalt ; Recht ; Heirat ; Liebe ; Unberührbarer ; Kaste ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Nationalität ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The family was at the center of intense debates about identity, community, and nation in colonial Tamil Nadu, India. Emerging ideas about love, marriage, and desire were linked to caste politics, the colonial economy, and nationalist agitation. In the first detailed historical study of Tamil families in colonial India, Wives, Widows, and Concubines maps changes in the late colonial family in relation to the region's culture, politics, and economy. Among professional and mercantile elites, the conjugal relationship displaced the extended family as the focal point of household dynamics. Conjugality provided a language with which women laid claim to new rights, even as the structures of the conjugal family reinscribed women's oppression inside and outside marriage.Published in association with the American Institute of Indian Studies.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Situating families -- Colonizing the family : kinship, household, and state -- Conjugality and capital : defining women's rights to family property -- Nationalizing marriage : Indian and Dravidian politics of conjugality -- Marrying for love : emotion and desire in women's print culture -- Conclusion: Families and history.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 153-161
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    Seattle : University of Washington Press
    ISBN: 0-295-95327-6 , 978-0-295-95327-4
    ISSN: 0065-8197
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 267 Seiten, 4 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 56
    Keywords: Nordamerika Nordwest-Küste ; Indianer, Nordamerika ; Skagit ; Ethnographie ; Geschichte ; Subsistenzwirtschaft ; Materielle Kultur ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Familie ; Verwandtschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Potlatch ; Religion, traditionelle ; Schamanismus ; Mythologie ; Weltanschauung ; Lebenszyklus
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: the people, their villages, and their neighbors -- 2- Historical background -- 3. Subsistence and technology -- 4. Economic life -- 5. Kinship and family -- 6. Government, warfare, and crime -- 7. Social class and slavery -- 8. The Potlach -- 9. The spirit world -- 10. The shaman -- 11. Magic, world view, and mythology -- 12. Life cycle -- 13. The Upper Skagit in recent times -- Appendix: methods of study -- Bibliography -- Index
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    Language: English
    Pages: XVII, 336 Seiten, 2 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln, 1 Faltblatt , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 52
    Keywords: Nigeria Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Dorfgemeinschaft ; Igbo ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Führer, politischer ; Selbstverwaltung ; Politisches System ; Recht, traditionelles
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part 1. The Village 1. The setting. 2. Form and history. 3. Age mates. 4. Elders and youths. 5. The sercret society. 6. The wards. 7. Interpretation -- Part 2. The village-grpup. 8. Common identities. 9. The age-grade organization. 10. Judges and courts. 11. The authority of the elders. 12. Conclusions -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 323 - 328
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    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 124 Seiten , Karte
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 34
    Keywords: Karibik Beziehungen, interethnische ; Rasse ; Beziehungen Mensch-Umwelt ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozialwissenschaft ; Schwarze
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. E. Franklin Frazier -- Preface to the second edition. Vera Rubin -- Preface. Vera Rubin -- Plantation America: a culture sphere. Charles Wagley -- Man-land relations in the Caribbean area. Preston E. James. Discussion. Jean Gottmann -- Contemporary social-rural types in the Caribbean region. Elena Padilla. Discussion: The plantation cycle and problems of typology. Edgar T. Thompson -- The African heritage in the Caribbean. M. G. Smith. Discussion. George E. Simpson & Peter B. Hammond -- Race relations in Caribbean society. Eric Williams. Discussion. Frank Tannenbaum -- The family in the Caribbean. Raymond T. Smith. Discussion. John V. Murra -- Methods of community-analysis in the Caribbean. Robert A. Manners. Discussion. Conrad M. Arensberg -- The present status of the social sciences in the British Caribbean. Lloyd Braithwaite -- Cultural perspectives in Caribbean research. Vera Rubin -- Notes on contributors
    Note: "[Papers presented] at the annual meetings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in December, 1956." (Seite 1); Enthält 9 Beiträge und Diskussionen
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    ISSN: 0065-8197
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 251 Seiten , Tabellen, Karten
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 31
    Keywords: Peru Ländliches Gebiet ; Ethnographie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Status ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Landbevölkerung ; Politisches System
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part One: Exploring Muquiyauyo History. 1. The Setting Today. 2. Land and Population. 3. Political and Administrative Development. 4. Developments in the Religious Organization. 5. The Change in Social Class Structure. 6. Influences from the Outside -- Part Two: Contemporary Life in Muquiyauyo. 7. The Farmer and His Land. 8. Cultivation and Livestock. 9. Crafts and Commerce. 10. The Home and Women's Activities. 11. Clothing and Costume. 12. The Cycle of Life. 13. Activities of the Community. 14. Recreation, Indulgence, and Celebrations -- Part Three: Culture Change in Muquiyauyo. 15. The Process. 16. The Particular -- Appendix: Methods and Materials Used in the Study -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 243 - 245
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    Language: English
    Pages: VI, 307 Seiten , Tabellen, Karten
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 32
    Keywords: Tibet Bhutan ; Landeskunde ; Geschichte ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Politisches System ; Soziale Organisation ; Landnutzung ; Nomade
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction. The basic economy of Tibet. Political units. Historical review -- 2. The peasantry. Western Tibet: Spiti, Ladak, and Lahil. Central Tibet. Sikkim. Bhutan. Eastern Tibet: Khams. Property relations among herders: the nomads of A-mdo -- 3. The realm of the Dalai Lama. Political organization. The land system. Appendix 1. Estates of the noble families of Lhasa. Appendix 2. Holding of some religious entities. Appendix 3. Treasury estates in 1792. The ruling class -- 4. The lesser states. The petty states of Khams and A-mdo. The old kindom of Ladak. The chieftains of Lahul. The kindom of Sikkim. The church state of Bhutan -- 5. Conclusion. The land system. Trade and industry. The ruling class. The role of the church. Regional differences. The historical development of Tibetan society -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 283 - 295
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    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 306 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Monograph. American Ethnological Society 29
    Keywords: Polynesien Hawaii ; Samoa ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziale Schichtung ; Sozialer Status ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Verwandtschaftssystem ; Kulturvergleich
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1. Social stratification in kinship societies -- 2. The degree of stratification in Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, and the Society Islands -- 3. The degree of stratification in Mangareva, Easter Island, Mangaia, and Uvea -- 4. The degree of stratification in Marquesas, Tikopia, and Futuna -- 5. The degree of stratification in Pukapuka, Ontong Java, and Tokelau -- 6. Stratification and productivity -- 7. Stratification and history -- 8. Ramage systems of social organization and stratification -- 9. Descent-line systems of social organization and stratification -- 10. Ramified and descent-line systems: interpretation -- 11. Social organization and stratification on Polynesian Atolls -- 12. Social stratification and adaptive variation in Polynesia -- Appendix: technology and environment: Hawaiian Islands. Society Islands. Samoa. Mangareva. Easter Island. Uvea. Mangaia. Marquesas. Futuna. Tikopia. Ontong Java. Pukapuka. Tokelau -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 289 - 298
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