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  • 1990-1994  (24)
  • Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    Weber : political writings (1994)
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    ISBN: 9780511841095
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 390 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
    Uniform Title: Works.
    DDC: 306/.2
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    Abstract: Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic Policy, Suffrage and Democracy in Germany, Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order, Socialism, The Profession and Vocation of Politics, and an excerpt from his essay The Situation of Constitutional Democracy in Russia, as well as other shorter writings. Together they illustrate the development of his thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern western state in an age of cultural 'disenchantment'. The introduction discusses the central themes of Weber's political thought, and a chronology, notes and an annotated bibliography place him in his political and intellectual context.
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    Darwinism, war, and history : the debate over the biology of war from the "Origin of species" to the First World War (1994)
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    ISBN: 9780511521348
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 306 pages)
    DDC: 303.6/6
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    WH 2200
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    CV 7500
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    NB 4300
    Abstract: While much has been written upon Social Darwinism, the historical impact of Darwinism upon theories of war and human aggression has been sadly neglected. This book is the first to study this discourse in depth. It challenges the received view that Darwinism generated essentially aggressive and warlike social values and pugnacious images of humankind. Paul Crook reconstructs the influential discourse of 'peace biology', whose liberal vision was of a basically free humanity, not fettered by iron laws of biological necessity or governed by violent genes. By exploring a gamut of Darwinian readings of history and war, mainly in the English-speaking world to 1919, this study throws new light upon militarism, peace movements, the origins of World War I and British social thought.
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    Marx : early political writings (1994)
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    ISBN: 9781139168007
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxiv, 194 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
    Uniform Title: Works
    DDC: 306.2
    Abstract: The political doctrine of Karl Marx is to be found in a broad range of both published and unpublished writings. This volume, the first of two which together span his entire output, presents his early texts of 1843–7, which predate the Communist Manifesto. excerpts from the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right and from the Paris Notebooks, Points on the State and Bourgeois Society and other writings are newly translated and arranged in a sequence that illuminates the development of Marx's thought, while the introduction discusses the intellectual context of the theories he constructed. A chronology of Marx's life and career and an annotated bibliography complete a volume which will be an invaluable guide to the formation of one of the most influential doctrines in the history of political thought.
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    Medicine, rationality, and experience : an anthropological perspective (1994)
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    ISBN: 9780511811029
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 242 pages)
    Series Statement: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
    DDC: 306.4/61
    Abstract: Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one that neglects many facets of Western medical practice and obscures its kinship with healing in other traditions. Drawing on his research in several American and Middle Eastern medical settings, in this 1993 book Professor Good develops a critical, anthropological account of medical knowledge and practice. He shows how physicians and healers enter and inhabit distinctive worlds of meaning and experience. He explores how stories or illness narratives are joined with bodily experience in shaping and responding to human suffering and argues that moral and aesthetic considerations are present in routine medical practice as in other forms of healing.
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    Anthropometry : the individual and the population (1994)
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    ISBN: 9780511600500
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 14
    DDC: 573/.6
    RVK:
    WU 3200
    Keywords: Methode ; Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: Anthropometry is the measurement of human morphology, and is used in a wide range of applied and research contexts. In this volume, distinguished contributors including anthropologists, human biologists, physiologists, nutritionists and clinical scientists describe many of the ways in which anthropometry is used, and discuss problems associated with different methods of assessment. Topics include the measurement of growth asymmetry and variability in adult body size, measurement error and statistical issues in anthropometry and the construction and use of growth charts in growth monitoring. The use of anthropometry in assessments of body composition, physical performance and fitness is also discussed. The book will be of interest to graduates and researchers in human biology, anthropology and nutrition. It will also be useful to workers in sports medicine, ergonomics, orthopaedics and paediatrics.
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    Aboriginal autonomy : issues and strategies (1994)
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    ISBN: 9780511552212
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 251 pages)
    DDC: 994/.0049915
    Keywords: Aborigines ; Minderheitenrecht ; Australien
    Abstract: After more than two hundred years, one of the most important moral issues facing Australian society in the 1990s remains the need for reconciliation with its indigenous people. In this selection of essays, H. C. Coombs reflects on the nature of Aboriginal identity and the importance of autonomy for Australia's Aboriginal people. He also suggests strategies by which self-determination might be achieved in practice. Many of the chapters have been written especially for this volume - including one in which Dr Coombs makes a thoughtful and provocative contribution to the Mabo debate, linking the High Court's historic 1992 decision on native title to prospects for Aboriginal autonomy. Dr Coombs writes with the conviction that 'mainstream' Australia stands to gain as much, if not more, than Aboriginal people from the fulfilment of Aboriginal aspirations. It is a personal and passionate plea for a just society, from one of white Australia's most influential and eloquent advocates of self-determination for its indigenous people.
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    The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950; Volume 1: Regions and communities (1993)
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    ISBN: 9781139055581
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 588 Seiten
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Edition: Online-Ausgabe Cambridge Cambridge University Press March 2008 1 Online-Ressource
    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950. Volume 1, Regions and communities
    DDC: 306/.0941
    Abstract: Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that the advance has occurred through such an outpouring of research and writing that it is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of recent monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three complementary perspectives: those of regional communities, of the working and living environment, and of social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 541-574 , Online-Ausgabe:
    DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521257886
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    The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950; Volume 3: Social agencies and institutions (1993)
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    ISBN: 9781139055604
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 492 Seiten
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950. Volume 3, Social agencies and institutions
    DDC: 306/.0941
    Abstract: Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 445-475 , Online-Ausgabe:
    DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521257909
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    The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950; Volume 2: People and their environment (1993)
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    ISBN: 9781139055598
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 373 Seiten
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    Parallel Title: Elektronische Reproduktion von The Cambridge social history of Britain, 1750-1950. Volume 2, People and their environment
    DDC: 306/.0941
    Abstract: Whilst in certain quarters it may be fashionable to suppose that there is no such thing as society historians, they have had no difficulty in finding their subject. The difficulty, rather, is that an outpouring of research and writing is hard for anyone but the specialist to keep up with the literature or grasp the overall picture. In these three volumes, as is the tradition in Cambridge Histories, a team of specialists has assembled the jigsaw of topical monographic research and presented an interpretation of the development of modern British society since 1750, from three perspectives: those of regional communities, the working and living environment, and social institutions. Each volume is self-contained, and each contribution, thematically defined, contains its own chronology of the period under review. Taken as a whole they offer an authoritative and comprehensive view of the manner and method of the shaping of society in the two centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic change.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 341-362 , Online-Ausgabe:
    DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521257893
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    The rise of classes and nation states, 1760-1914 (1993)
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    ISBN: 9780511570902
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (823 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalise, it also stresses social and historical complexity. The author sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War.
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    The computer as medium (1993)
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    ISBN: 9780511720369
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 495 pages)
    Series Statement: Learning in doing : social, cognitive and computational perspectives
    DDC: 302.23
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    CV 3500
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    ES 900
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    AP 15926
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    AP 15944
    Keywords: Computer ; Massenmedien ; Mensch-Maschine-Kommunikation ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Computers are developing into a powerful medium integrating film, pictures, text and sound, and the use of computers for communication and information is rapidly expanding. The Computer as Medium brings insights from art, literature and theatre to bear on computers and discusses the communicative and organizational nature of computer networks within a historical perspective. The book consists of three parts. The first part characterizes the semiotic nature of computers and discusses semiotic approaches to programming and interface design. The second part discusses narrative and aesthetic issues of interactive fiction, information systems and hypertext. The final part contains papers on the cultural, organizational and historical impact of computers.The broad and rich coverage of this book will appeal to scholars in cognitive science, computer science, linguistics, semiotics, media studies and mass communications, cultural studies and education.
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    Children in time and place : developmental and historical insights (1993)
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    ISBN: 9780511558269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 289 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and emotional development
    DDC: 305.23/0973
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    CQ 6000
    Abstract: Each generation of American children across the tumultuous twentieth century has come of age in the different world. How do major historical events - such as war or the depression - influence children's development? Children in Time and Place brings together social historians and developmental psychologists to explore the implications of a changing society for children's growth and life chances. transitions provide a central theme, for historical transitions to the social transitions of children and their developmental experiences.
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    New directions in psychological anthropology (1992)
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    ISBN: 9780511621857
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 352 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 3
    DDC: 155.8
    Abstract: The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.
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  • 14
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    The Kanyok of Zaire : an institutional and ideological history to 1895 (1992)
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    ISBN: 9780511529177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 74
    DDC: 967.51/0049639
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    NK 4505
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    LB 48534
    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1895 ; Soziales System ; Kanyoka
    Abstract: In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region.
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    From slavery to feudalism in south-western Europe (1991)
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    ISBN: 9780511753343
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 352 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
    DDC: 806.3/65/094
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    NM 9250
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    NW 8295
    Keywords: Geschichte 500-1500 ; Sklaverei ; Iberische Halbinsel
    Abstract: This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200. Drawing upon a very wide range of primary and archival sources, Professor Bonnassie places fresh findings about subjection, servitude and lordship in relation to the prevailing understanding of social history which has developed since the work of Marc Bloch. The author explains how slavery long persisted in southern France and Spain, as part of a public order that also sheltered free peasants, giving way in the tenth and eleventh centuries to a new regime of harsh lordships that mark the beginnings of feudalism. He shows that feudalism in south-western Europe was no less significant than in northern European lands.
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    Explanations, accounts, and illusions : a critical analysis (1991)
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    ISBN: 9780511521249
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 188 pages)
    Series Statement: European monographs in social psychology
    DDC: 302/.12
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    CV 1000
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    CV 3000
    Abstract: This book provides a lucid survey of the major viewpoints in social psychology concerning people's self-awareness (or lack of it), their explanations of their own actions, and their cognitive illusions and self-misunderstandings. In this readable but scholarly review, John McClure examines the major approaches to social cognition developed in America and Europe, including the more orthodox models which draw on information-processing and behavioural concepts; and the innovative approaches which draw on hermeneutic models, discourse analysis and, in particular, critical theory. The book provides a clear picture of what social psychology shows about people's awareness of the causes of their own actions. It also describes the nature of the misperceptions and cognitive distortions that underlie psychological disorders, and that contribute to people's failure to achieve their aims.
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    Sacred void : spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (1991)
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    ISBN: 9780511521133
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 259 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 80
    DDC: 299/.68395
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Giryama ; Religion ; Brauch
    Abstract: In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as labourers or fishermen on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. Their different perspectives sometimes conflict, but together provide a shifting idea of the sacred place. As the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies, moreover, the settlement becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defence against total domination and assimilation.
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    Applications of biological anthropology to human affairs (1991)
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    ISBN: 9780511629129
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 252 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in biological and evolutionary anthropology 8
    DDC: 573
    Keywords: Humanbiologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The unique contribution made by biological anthropology to human welfare lies in the fundamental understanding it can provide of the dynamic interrelationships between physical and social factors. By understanding these patterns, we can interpret the significance of variation in such measures of human well-being in terms of the incidence of disease and mortality rates. Topics covered include reproductive ecology and fertility, nutritional status in relation to health, and the effects of pollution on growth. In the later chapters, the concepts of physiological adaptation, and Darwinian fitness and its relation to individual physical fitness are explored.
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    Models and interpretations : selected essays (1990)
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    ISBN: 9780511521003
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 273 pages)
    DDC: 301/.01
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    MR 2000
    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: John Barnes's collection of essays covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: he is primarily interested in 'what really happens'. Rather than revamp articles written with a distinctive set of assumptions to bring them into line with current intellectual fashion, Professor Barnes has chosen to let them stand as they are, products of identifiable theoretical stance and modes of exposition. But introductory notes to each chapter set out the context in which the piece was originally written and draw attention to later publications and events that bear on it. An introduction discusses in detail the author's view of social science as the construction of models rather than a search for social laws, while the final chapter presents a model of the modelling process itself.
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    Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology (1990)
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    ISBN: 9780511521096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 221 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 71
    DDC: 995.3
    Keywords: Kosmologie ; Politische Organisation ; Sepik
    Abstract: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.
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    Sociolinguistics and contemporary French (1990)
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    ISBN: 9780511620768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 263 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/4/0944
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    ID 2402
    Abstract: This book deals with the ways in which French is used in different circumstances and settings in France and abroad, with the language attitudes of French speakers and with language policy. It is concerned to examine not only the linguistic data, but also the social, political and economic environment in which contemporary French is used. At the same time it offers an introduction to contemporary sociolinguistic theory, methods and results. After a brief historical introduction and a review of approaches to regionalism, Professor Ager looks at such questions as the conflicts between standard French and regional languages such as Breton, the changing role of French in the world; the distinctiveness of social and professional varieties such as the language of the working class, scientists or immigrants and language variation correlating with interactional factors such as formality or medium. A final chapter deals with language attitude, language policy and language planning. This volume sets language information in its social context and shows how to investigate and evaluate both language variation and the social and political reaction to it.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511620768
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    Domestic strategies : work and family in France and Italy, 1600-1800 (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511523564
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 207 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in modern capitalism
    DDC: 306.3/6
    RVK:
    NW 2200
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    NW 8150
    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1800 ; Arbeit ; Familie ; Frankreich ; Italien
    Abstract: Research on historical processes such as commercialisation traditionally concentrated on the motors of change and measurement of their impact, and considered the labouring classes as the passive objects of such changes. Developments in the social sciences in recent years have stimulated a new reading of the historical sources in terms of the social relations and strategies of families in interpreting and adapting to their own use institutional settings and economic resources. The essays presented in this 1991 book explore the relationship between the historical experiences of social relations and the demands and opportunities offered by the economy in early modern Europe through a focus on the strategies of labouring families. Critical discussion of the historian's use of sources characterises the essays, which provide case-studies of social groups in north-central Italy and the French Alps. They relate to three specific themes: the exploitation of non-agricultural resources in the countryside, urban guilds and charitable provision.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511523564
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    Worldwide variation in human growth (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9780511629105
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 pages)
    DDC: 573/.6
    RVK:
    WX 6004
    RVK:
    WX 6900
    RVK:
    WB 5100
    Keywords: Anthropometrie ; Wachstum ; Mensch
    Abstract: The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of what is by far the largest compilation of growth data ever assembled. The first edition, published in 1976, included all known reliable recent results on height, weight, skinfolds and other body measurements from all parts of the globe. In this edition, the very numerous measurements taken between 1976 and 1988 have been included as well as the results of the large number of new studies made on rate of maturation as evinced by bone age and pubertal development stages. Many sections of the book dwell on disentangling the effects of the environment and heredity on growth, and thus answer the question of whether one universal standard suffices for all peoples of the world, or whether different populations (such as races or nations) should each have their own optimal growth standards. Written by practical people with experience of the problems in developing countries, this book explains in simple terms the different sorts of growth surveys, how to set about making them, and which sort to choose. All who are professionally concerned with child health should read it.
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    Aboriginal youth and the criminal justice system : the injustice of justice? (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139084949
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (156 pages)
    DDC: 364.3/6/0899915
    RVK:
    PH 7205
    Keywords: Strafjustiz ; Aborigines ; Jugendgerichtsbarkeit
    Abstract: This book is a 1990 account of the ways in which young Aborigines were at a disadvantage before laws and legislation had been introduced, intended to improve their position. Aboriginal Youth and the Criminal Justice System focuses on South Australia, where detailed statistics are available, in a sophisticated analysis of the exact nature of the discrimination experienced by young Aborigines. Fay Gale, Rebecca Bailey-Harris and Joy Wundersitz examine the criminal justice system in operation; from the initial intervention by a police officer, through the process of screening and assessment to the final outcome - which all too often is a criminal record. The research clearly shows that at every point where discretion was exercised within this system, Aboriginal youths received the harsher option. Thus disadvantage is heaped on disadvantage until young Aboriginals were imprisoned at 23 times the rate of other young Australians. Even for those who escaped detention, participation in the criminal justice system was often such an ordeal that it became a form of punishment in itself. Discretion, though preferable to inflexible rules could operate against a group whose lifestyle and values differed from mainstream society.
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    URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139084949
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