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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108947039 , 9781108837958
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 279 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barnard, Alan, 1949 - History and theory in anthropology
    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Anthropology Philosophy ; Anthropology History ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Visions of anthropology -- Precursors -- Changing perspectives on evolution -- Diffusionist and culture area theories -- Functionalism and structural-functionalism -- Action and process -- Marxist perspectives -- From relativism to cognitive science -- Structuralism, from linguistics to anthropology -- Poststructuralists and feminists -- Mavericks -- Interpretive approaches -- Postmodernism and Its aftermath -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: dates of birth and death -- Appendix 2: glossary.
    Abstract: "In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about globalization, post-colonialism, and notions of 'race' and of being 'indigenous'. There are several new chapters, along with an extensive glossary, index, dates of birth and death, and award-winning diagrams. Although anthropology is often dominated by trends in Europe and North America, this edition makes plain the contributions of trendsetters in the rest of the world too. With its comprehensive yet clear coverage of concepts, this is essential reading for a new generation of anthropology students"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781316511237
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 513 Seiten
    Series Statement: African identities : past and present
    DDC: 305.8996333
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    Keywords: Erkenntnistheorie ; Kultur ; Entkolonialisierung ; Erzählung ; Sachkultur ; Geschichte ; Nation ; Wissen ; Afrika
    Note: Print on demand edition. , Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108936620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 279 Seiten)
    Edition: Second edition
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Anthropology / Philosophy ; Anthropology / History ; Sozialanthropologie ; Fach ; Theorie ; Ethnologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Sozialanthropologie ; Theorie ; Fach ; Geschichte
    Abstract: In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook on the history and theory of anthropology has been revised and expanded to include up-to-date coverage on all the most important topics in the field. Its coverage ranges from traditional topics like the beginnings of the subject, evolutionism, functionalism, structuralism, and Marxism, to ideas about globalization, post-colonialism, and notions of 'race' and of being 'indigenous'. There are several new chapters, along with an extensive glossary, index, dates of birth and death, and award-winning diagrams. Although anthropology is often dominated by trends in Europe and North America, this edition makes plain the contributions of trendsetters in the rest of the world too. With its comprehensive yet clear coverage of concepts, this is essential reading for a new generation of anthropology students
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Dec 2021) , List of figures -- List of tables -- Preface -- Visions of anthropology -- Precursors -- Changing perspectives on evolution -- Diffusionist and culture area theories -- Functionalism and structural-functionalism -- Action and process -- Marxist perspectives -- From relativism to cognitive science -- Structuralism, from linguistics to anthropology -- Poststructuralists and feminists -- Mavericks -- Interpretive approaches -- Postmodernism and Its aftermath -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1: dates of birth and death -- Appendix 2: glossary
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108599566
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 375 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1960-2020 ; Decolonization / Africa ; Politik ; Entkolonialisierung ; Africa / History / 1960- ; Africa / Politics and government / 1960- ; Africa / Foreign relations / 1960- ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Entkolonialisierung ; Politik ; Geschichte 1960-2020
    Abstract: Home to more than 1.2 billion people, living in 54 recognized states, speaking around 3,000 languages, Africa is a diverse and complex continent made up of states which differ in regard to their colonial history, political system, socio-economic development, economic polices and their experience with crises and conflicts. This introduction and overview of African history and politics since decolonization emphasises throughout, the diversity of the continent. Organised thematically to include chapters on decolonization and its legacies, external influences, economics, political systems, inter-African relations, crises, conflicts and conflict management, and Africa's external relations, Martin Welz strikes a fine balance between the use of contextual information, analysis, case studies and examples with theoretical debates in development, politics and global policy. Accessible to students at all levels, it counters histories which offer reductive explanations of complex issues, and offers new insights into the role African actors have played in influencing international affairs beyond the continent
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Jan 2021) , Prologue -- From the Golden Age to Conquest and Colonization -- Liberation and Decolonization -- Decolonization's Legacies -- External Influences -- Africa's Economy, 1960 - -- Economy, socio-economic development, and development cooperation -- States, Political Systems, and Actors -- Intra-African Cooperation and Integration -- Political Crises -- Large-Scale Conflicts -- International Conflict Management -- African Actors Role in International Politics -- Epilogue
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108766388
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 225 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.80072
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    Keywords: Ethnology / Comparative method ; Cross-cultural studies ; Ethnologie ; Kulturvergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Kulturvergleich ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: A new and important contribution to the re-emergent field of comparative anthropology, this book argues that comparative ethnographic methods are essential for more contextually sophisticated accounts of a number of pressing human concerns today. The book includes expert accounts from an international team of scholars, showing how these methods can be used to illuminate important theoretical and practical projects. Illustrated with examples of successful inter-disciplinary projects, it highlights the challenges, benefits, and innovative strategies involved in working collaboratively across disciplines. Through its focus on practical methodological and logistical accounts, it will be of value to both seasoned researchers who seek practical models for conducting their own cutting-edge comparative research, and to teachers and students who are looking for first-person accounts of comparative ethnographic research
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Comparative ethnography : its promise, process, and successful implementations / Edward D. Lowe and Michael Schnegg -- Thinking with comparison in the anthropology/ historical anthropology of migration / Caroline B. Brettell -- Comparing tangerines : Dorothy Lee and the search for an authentic individualism / Richard Handler -- A comparative ethnographic study of suicide epidemics in two Pacific island societies / Edward D. Lowe -- The comparison of structures and the comparison of systems : Lévi-Strauss, Dumont, Luhmann / Guido Sprenger -- Regional comparison in historical anthropology : three case examples from South Arabia / Andre Gingrich -- Scaling ethnography up / Michael Schnegg -- Best, worst, and good enough : lessons learned from multi-sited comparative ethnography / Jennifer S. Hirsch, Holly Wardlow, Daniel Jordan Smith, Harriet Phinney, Shanti Parikh, and Constance A. Nathanson -- Research across cultures and disciplines : methodological challenges in an interdisciplinary and comparative research project on emotion socialization / Birgitt Röttger-Rössler -- Global sport industries, comparison, and economics of scales / Niko Besnier and Daniel Guinness
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139108096
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 305 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Beatty, Andrew Emotional worlds
    DDC: 152.4
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    Keywords: Emotions Anthropological aspects ; Emotions ; Anthropological aspects. ; Emotions ; Anthropological aspects ; Gefühl ; Ethnologie ; Kulturvergleich ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: Are emotions human universals? Is the concept of emotion an invention of Western tradition? If people in other cultures live radically different emotional lives how can we ever understand them? Using vivid, often dramatic, examples from around the world, and in dialogue with current work in psychology and philosophy, Andrew Beatty develops an anthropological perspective on the affective life, showing how emotions colour experience and transform situations; how, in turn, they are shaped by culture and history. In stark contrast with accounts that depend on lab simulations, interviews, and documentary reconstruction, he takes the reader into unfamiliar cultural worlds through a 'narrative' approach to emotions in naturalistic settings, showing how emotions tell a story and belong to larger stories. Combining richly detailed reporting with a careful critique of alternative approaches, he argues for an intimate grasp of local realities that restores the heartbeat to ethnography
    Abstract: Contents -- Preface and acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Groundings -- Emotions in the field: recognition and location -- Nias: emotions dramatized -- Java: emotions analysed -- Narrative -- The case for narrative -- Persons and particulars -- The narrative understanding of emotion -- Writing emotion -- Perspectives -- Affect: a wrong turn? -- Concepts, words, feelings -- The uses of empathy -- Conclusion -- References -- Index
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107041189
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 740 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge handbooks in anthropology
    DDC: 306.83
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Verwandtschaft ; Familie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Note: Literaturangaben
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108672214
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 319 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Decolonization History 20th century ; Decolonization History 21st century ; Afrika ; Africa Politics and government 1945-1960 ; Africa Politics and government 1960- ; Africa Colonial influence ; Africa History 20th century ; Africa History 21st century
    Abstract: Africa since 1940 is the flagship textbook in Cambridge University Press' New Approaches to African History series. Now revised to include the history and scholarship of Africa since the turn of the millennium, this important book continues to help students understand the process out of which Africa's position in the world has emerged. A history of decolonisation and independence, it allows readers to see just what political independence did and did not signify, and how men and women, peasants and workers, religious and local leaders sought to refashion the way they lived, worked and interacted with each other. Covering the transformation of Africa from a continent marked by colonisation to one of independent states, Frederick Cooper follows the 'development question' across time, seeing how first colonial regimes and then African elites sought to transform African society in their own ways. He shows how people in cities and villages tried to make their way in an unequal world, through times of hope, despair, renewed possibilities, and continued uncertainties. Looking beyond the debate over what or who may be to blame, Cooper explores alternatives for the future.
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108480680 , 9781108727891
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 320 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Second edition
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 13
    DDC: 960.32
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1940-2018 ; Kolonialismus ; Entkolonialisierung ; Postkolonialismus ; Afrika
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108424967
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 198 Seiten
    DDC: 126
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Poststrukturalismus ; Subjekt ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107624474 , 9781107016897
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New approaches to African history 11
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barber, Karin 1949- A history of African popular cultured
    DDC: 306.096
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Alltagskultur ; Geschichtswissenschaft ; Afrika
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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316218907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 339 Seiten)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Anthropology / Philosophy ; Sociology ; Philosophical anthropology ; Ontology ; Philosophische Anthropologie ; Theorie ; Ethnologie ; Ontologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ontologie ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Ontologie ; Philosophische Anthropologie
    Abstract: A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ontological turn in the history of anthropology and elucidates its emergence as a distinct theoretical orientation over the past few decades, showing how it has emerged in the work of Roy Wagner, Marilyn Strathern and Viveiros de Castro, as well a number of younger scholars. Distinguishing this trajectory of thinking from related attempts to put questions of ontology at the heart of anthropological research, the book articulates critically the key methodological and theoretical tenets of the ontological turn, its prime epistemological and political implications, and locates it in the broader intellectual landscape of contemporary social theory
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  • 13
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 359 pages)
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Empirische Linguistik ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: James M. Wilce's new textbook introduces students to the study of language as a tool in anthropology. Solidly positioned in linguistic anthropology, it is the first textbook to combine clear explanations of language and linguistic structure with current anthropological theory. It features a range of study aids, including chapter summaries, learning objectives, figures, exercises, key terms and suggestions for further reading, to guide student understanding. The complete glossary includes both anthropological and linguist terminology. An Appendix features material on phonetics and phonetic representation. Accompanying online resources include a test bank with answers, useful links, an instructor's manual, and a sign language case study. Covering an extensive range of topics not found in existing textbooks, including semiotics and the evolution of animal and human communication, this book is an essential resource for introductory courses on language and culture, communication and culture, and linguistic anthropology.
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  • 14
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107175013 , 9781316626801
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 233 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als McCauley, John F The logic of ethnic and religious conflict in Africa
    DDC: 303.6096
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    Keywords: Ethnizität ; Politische Mobilisierung ; Religiöse Identität ; Religiöser Konflikt ; Afrika ; Elfenbeinküste ; Ghana ; Biafra ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book explains why conflicts in Africa are sometimes ethnic and sometimes religious, and why a conflict might change from ethnic to religious even as the opponents remain fixed. Conflicts in the region are often viewed as either 'tribal' or 'Muslim-Christian', seemingly rooted in deep-seated ethnic or religious hatreds. Yet, as this book explains, those labels emerge as a function of political mobilization. It argues that ethnicity and religion inspire distinct passions among individuals, and that political leaders exploit those passions to achieve their own strategic goals when the institutions of the state break down. To support this argument, the book relies on a novel experiment conducted in Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana to demonstrate that individual preferences change in ethnic and religious contexts. It then uses case illustrations from Côte d'Ivoire, Nigeria, and Sudan to highlight the strategic choices of leaders that ultimately shape the frames of conflict
    Note: Enthält: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 205-224, Register
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139939720
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 299 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in sustainability and society
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    DDC: 304.2
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Sustainability / Social aspects / Case studies ; Sustainable development / Social aspects / Case studies ; Applied anthropology / Case studies ; Environmental archaeology / Case studies ; Angewandte Wissenschaften ; Umweltarchäologie ; Ethnologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Umweltarchäologie ; Nachhaltigkeit ; Angewandte Wissenschaften ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Sustainability strives to meet the needs of the present without compromising the future, but increasingly recognizes the tradeoffs among these many needs. Who benefits? Who bears the burden? How are these difficult decisions made? Are people aware of these hard choices? This timely volume brings the perspectives of ethnography and archaeology to bear on these questions by examining case studies from around the world. Written especially for this volume, the essays by an international team of scholars offer archaeological and ethnographic examples from the southwestern United States, the Maya region of Mexico, Africa, India, and the North Atlantic, among other regions. Collectively, they explore the benefits and consequences of growth and development, the social costs of ecological sustainability, and tensions between food and military security
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction. Multiple perspectives on tradeoffs Michelle Hegmon; 2. Diversity, reciprocity, and the emergence of equity-inequity tradeoffs Jacob Freeman, Andrea Torvinen, Ben A. Nelson and John M. Anderies; 3. Modeling tradeoffs in a rural Alaska mixed economy: hunting, working, and sharing in the face of economic and ecological change Shauna B. BurnSilver, Randall B. Boone, Gary P. Kofinas and Todd J. Brinkman; 4. Trading off food and military security in contact-era New Guinea Paul Roscoe; 5. Will agricultural technofixes feed the world? Short- and long-term tradeoffs of adopting high-yielding crops Amanda L. Logan; 6. Tradeoffs in precolumbian Maya water management systems: complexity, sustainability, and cost Christian Isendahl and Scott Heckbert; 7. Growth and inter-generational tradeoffs: archaeological perspectives from the Mimbres region of the US Southwest; 8. Vulnerability to food insecurity: tradeoffs and their consequences Margaret C. Nelson, Ann P. Kinzig, Jette Arneborg, Richard Streeter and Scott E. Ingram; 9. Tradeoffs in coast Salish social action: balancing autonomy, inequality, and sustainability Colin Grier and Bill Angelbeck; 10. Tradeoffs and human well-being: achieving sustainability in the Faroe Islands Seth D. Brewington; 11. Household- vs national-scale food storage: perspectives on food security from archaeology and contemporary India Katherine A. Spielmann and Rimjhim M. Aggarwal; 12. Some analytical tradeoffs of talking about tradeoffs: on perspectives lost in estimating the costs and benefits of inequality Alf Hornborg
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316412190
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 329 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in law and society
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    DDC: 341.2
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    Keywords: Law and anthropology ; International organizations ; Organisationsforschung ; Ethnologie ; Organisation ; Weltpolitik ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Organisationsforschung ; Weltpolitik ; Organisation ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to a new approach to the United Nations, and to global organizations and international law more generally. Anthropology has in recent years taken on global organizations as a legitimate source of its subject matter. The research that is being done in this field gives a human face to these world-reforming institutions. Palaces of Hope demonstrates that these institutions are not monolithic or uniform, even though loosely connected by a common organizational network. They vary above all in their powers and forms of public engagement. Yet there are common threads that run through the studies included here: the actions of global institutions in practice, everyday forms of hope and their frustration, and the will to improve confronted with the realities of nationalism, neoliberalism, and the structures of international power
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Ronald Niezen and Maria Sapignoli; 2. Heart of darkness: an exploration of the WTO Marc Abeles; 3. Horseshoe and catwalk: power, complexity and consensus-making in the United Nations Security Council Niels Nagelhus Schia; 4. A kaleidoscopic institutional form: expertise and transformation in the permanent forum on indigenous issues Maria Sapignoli; 5. The 'public' character of the Universal Periodic Review: contested concept and methodological challenge Jane K. Cowan and Julie Billaud; 6. Meeting 'the world' at the Palais Wilson: embodied universalism at the UN Human Rights Committee Miia Halme-Tuomisaari; 7. Expertise and quantification in global institutions Sally Engle Merry; 8. From boardrooms to field programs: humanitarianism and international development in Southern Africa Robert K. Hitchcock; 9. Global village courts: international organizations and the bureaucratization of rural justice systems in the Global South Tobias Berger; 10. Contrasting values of forests and ice in the making of a global climate agreement Noor Johnson and David Rojas; 11. The best of the best: positing, measuring and sensing value in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena Christoph Brumann; 12. Propaganda on trial: structural fragility and the epistemology of international legal institutions Richard Ashby Wilson; 13. The anthropology by organizations: legal knowledge and the UN's ethnological imagination Ronald Niezen; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107031302 , 9781107628816
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 359 Seiten , Illustrationen , 25 cm
    DDC: 302.2
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Empirische Linguistik ; Kommunikation
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    ISBN: 9781107103887 , 9781107503946
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 339 Seiten , Diagramme , 23 cm
    DDC: 301.01
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    Keywords: Ontologie ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Rezension
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1107085845 , 9781107085848
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 222 Seiten
    DDC: 599.9
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    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Soziobiologie ; Biowissenschaften ; Ethnologie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 195-214
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316151051
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 372 pages)
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    DDC: 305.899/2
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    Keywords: Beatty, Andrew / Travel / Indonesia / Nias Island ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Niasese (Indonesian people) / Indonesia / Nias Island / Social life and customs ; Niasese (Indonesian people) / Indonesia / Nias Island / Social conditions ; Entwicklung ; Feldforschung ; Krise ; Ethnologie ; Modernisierung ; Kulturelle Identität ; Nias Island (Indonesia) / Social life and customs ; Nias Island (Indonesia) / Social conditions ; Indonesien ; Indonesien ; Feldforschung ; Ethnologie ; Krise ; Entwicklung ; Modernisierung ; Kulturelle Identität
    Abstract: Set on an isolated Indonesian island, this is the gripping true story of a fieldworker's experience of living in a tribal society during a period of crisis. Featuring a cast of unforgettable characters, After the Ancestors follows a bitter feud between rivals as it escalates into murder, intrigue and revenge. A vivid account of life within a radically different world, it also portrays a unique culture undergoing the transition from tribalism to modernity. A century of alien rule has left the island, once famous for its warrior ethos, with a hybrid culture. As the possibilities for heroic action recede, men raised to be orators and over-reachers rather than church elders and peasants find themselves occupying a stage too small for their personalities. 'Where can we turn', asks one tribesman, 'we who come after the ancestors?' A revenge tragedy for modern times, After the Ancestors will be enjoyed by anthropologists and general readers alike
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: List of illustrations; Preface; People; Prologue; 1. The statue; 2. House key; 3. Among women; 4. Blood brothers; 5. Daggers and debutants; 6. Stormy Sunday; 7. Three things that matter; 8. The making of great men; 9. A game of chess; 10. Cholera song; 11. Progress; 12. Strangers and brothers; 13. Exile and return; 14. Field work; 15. The chicken's neck; 16. Good deaths and bad deaths; 17. First family; 18. Blessing; 19. Half an egg; 20. Waiting; 21. Death of a chief; 22. Ama Jonah at bay; 23. Unravelling; 24. The ethnographer and his double; Epilogue
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    ISBN: 9781107447714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 276 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1963 ; Geschichte 1800-2010 ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Politik ; Kamba (African people) / History ; Ethnicity / Political aspects / Kenya ; Allegiance / Kenya ; Ethnizität ; Loyalität ; Kamba ; Kolonie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Kenya / Politics and government / To 1963 ; Great Britain / Colonies / Africa / Administration ; Kenia ; Großbritannien ; Kenia ; Großbritannien ; Kolonie ; Kamba ; Loyalität ; Geschichte 1800-1963 ; Kenia ; Ethnizität ; Kamba ; Geschichte 1800-2010
    Abstract: This book is about the creation and development of ethnic identity among the Kamba. Comprising approximately one-eighth of Kenya's population, the British considered the Kamba East Africa's premier 'martial race' by the mid-twentieth century: a people with an apparent aptitude for soldiering. The reputation, indeed, was one that Kamba leaders used to leverage financial rewards from the colonial state. However, beneath this simplistic exterior was a maelstrom of argument and debate. Men and women, young and old, Christians and non-Christians, and the elite and poor fought over the virtues they considered worthy of honor in their communities, and which of their visions should constitute 'Kamba' identity. Based on extensive archival research and more than 150 interviews, Ethnicity and Empire is one of the first books to analyze the complex process of building and shaping 'tribe' over more than two centuries. It reveals new ways to think about themes crucial to the history of colonialism: soldiering, 'loyalty', martial race, and indeed the nature of empire itself
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Traders, warriors, and hunters , Red dirt, red strangers , Of volunteers and conscripts , The destocking episode , War and demobilization , Controlling development , Mau Mau , Independence and beyond
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511996443
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 399 pages)
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    Keywords: Boas, Franz ; Century of Progress International Exposition / (1933-1934 / Chicago, Ill.) / Exhibitions ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Physical anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Race / Social aspects / United States / History / 20th century ; Somatotypes / United States / History / 20th century ; Race awareness / United States / History / 20th century ; Racism in anthropology / United States / History / 20th century ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; USA ; USA ; Ausstellungskatalog ; Ausstellungskatalog ; USA ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Boas, Franz 1858-1942 ; Rasse ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field
    Description / Table of Contents: Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Race, anthropology, and the American public : an introductory essay -- 2. Franz Boas and race : history, environment, heredity -- 3. Order for a disordered world : The Races of Mankind at the Field Museum of Natural History -- 4. Mounting The Races of Mankind: anthropology and art, race and culture -- 5. Harry Shapiro's Boasian racial science -- 6. Rejecting race, embracing man? : Ruth Benedict's race and culture -- 7. Alternatives to race? : ethnicity, genetics, biology -- 8. Conclusion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | [Cambridge] : [Cambridge University Press]
    ISBN: 9781139198394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (Seiten)
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Biologie
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107281172
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Polar exploration
    Uniform Title: Eskimoiske eventyr og sagn
    DDC: 398.2/089971
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    Keywords: Rink, Hinrich Johannes ; Geschichte 1800-1899 ; Eskimo ; Alltag ; Ethnologie ; Grönland
    Abstract: The Danish geologist and geographer Hinrich Rink (1819–93) amassed decades of experience in exploring Greenland, becoming well versed in the language and customs of the Inuit. The present work is a condensed version of his investigations into indigenous culture, first published in two volumes in 1866 and 1871. Rink revised and translated the work from Danish into English for this 1875 publication, and the text was emended by the Scottish scientist and explorer Robert Brown (1842–95). In the book's first part, Rink describes succinctly the Inuit mode of life in Greenland. The second part, which is significantly longer, recounts the legends and folk tales that Rink had recorded on his travels. The book also includes a number of illustrations drawn and engraved by the Inuit people themselves. This work will appeal to those interested in the history of Inuit culture and nineteenth-century ethnography.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139176132
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages)
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    Keywords: Hunting and gathering societies ; Nomade ; Ethnologie ; Nomade ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Hunter-gatherers and anthropology; 2. Environment, evolution, and anthropological theory; 3. Foraging and subsistence; 4. Mobility; 5. Technology; 6. Sharing, exchange, and land tenure; 7. Group size and demography; 8. Men, women, and foraging; 9. Nonegalitarian hunter-gatherers; 10. Hunter-gatherers and prehistory
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139198707
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 194 pages)
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    Keywords: Sprache ; Symbolic anthropology ; Language and languages / Origin ; Human evolution ; Thought and thinking ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Ethnologie ; Kognitive Entwicklung ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Genesis of Symbolic Thought applies ideas from social anthropology, old and new, to understand some of the areas also being explored in fields as diverse as archaeology, linguistics, genetics and neuroscience. Barnard aims to answer questions including: when and why did language come into being? What was the earliest religion? And what form did social organization take before humanity dispersed from the African continent? Rejecting the notion of hunter-gatherers as 'primitive', Barnard hails the great sophistication of the complex means of their linguistic and symbolic expression and places the possible origin of symbolic thought at as early as 130,000 years ago
    Description / Table of Contents: Stones, bones, ochre and beads -- Kinship, sociality and the symbolic order -- Ritual and religion -- The flowering of language -- Conquering the globe -- After symbolic thought: the Neolithic
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139022699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 264 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    Keywords: Anthropology / Statistical methods ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Statistik ; Anthropologie ; Statistik ; Ethnologie ; Statistik
    Abstract: Anthropology as a discipline is rapidly becoming more quantitative, and anthropology students are now required to develop sophisticated statistical skills. This book provides students of anthropology with a clear, step-by-step guide to univariate statistical methods, demystifying the aspects that are often seen as difficult or impenetrable. Explaining the central role of statistical methods in anthropology and using only anthropological examples, the book provides a solid footing in statistical techniques. Beginning with basic descriptive statistics, this new edition also covers more advanced methods such as analyses of frequencies and variance, simple and multiple regression analysis with dummy and continuous variables. It addresses commonly encountered problems such as small samples and non-normality. Each statistical technique is accompanied by clearly worked examples and the chapters end with practice problem sets. Many of the datasets are available for download at www.cambridge.org/9780521147088
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: Preface; List of partial statistical tables; 1. Introduction to statistics and simple descriptive statistics; 2. The first step in data analysis: summarizing and displaying data. Computing descriptive statistics; 3. Probability and statistics; 4. Hypothesis testing and estimation; 5. The difference between two means; 6. The analysis of variance (ANOVA); 7. Non-parametric tests for the comparison of samples; 8. The analysis of frequencies; 9. Correlation analysis; 10. Simple linear regression; 11. Advanced topics in regression analysis; References; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
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    Keywords: Indigenes Volk ; Feldforschung ; Ethnologie ; Sierra Madre Occidental
    Note: Originally published: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1903
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    Language: English
    Series Statement: Cambridge library collection. Anthropology
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    Keywords: Maori ; Ethnologie ; Ethnohistorie ; Mündliche Literatur
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    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: 9780511486661
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 217 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 22
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Literacy / Social aspects ; Sociolinguistics ; Schriftlichkeit ; Anthropologie ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Anthropologie ; Geschichte ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Literacy and Literacies is an engaging account of literacy and its relation to power. The book develops a synthesis of literacy studies, moving beyond received categories, and exploring the domain of power through questions of colonialism, modern state formation, educational systems and official versus popular literacies. Collins and Blot offer in-depth critical discussion of particular cases and discuss the role of literacies in the formation of class, gender, and ethnic identity. Through their analysis of two domains - those of literacies and power, and of literacies and subjectivity - they challenge received assumptions about literacy, intellectual development and social progress and argue that neither 'universalist' nor 'particularist' accounts offer satisfactory approaches to the phenomenon. This is a sustained exploration of the domain of power in relation to literacy. It will be welcomed by students and researchers in anthropology, linguistics, literacy studies and history
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , texts, power and identity , The literary thesis: vexed questions of rationality, development, and self , Situated approaches to the literacy debate , Literacies and power in modern nation states: EuroAmerican lessons , Literacies and identity formation: American cases , Literacy, power and identity: colonial legacies and indigenous transformations , Conclusion: Literacy lessons: beginnings, ends, and implications
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139164924
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 156 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Anthropology / Philosophy ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Anthropology is a complex, wide-ranging, and ever-changing field. This clear, coherent, and well-crafted book is a revised version of a very successful text first published in 1986, designed to supplement standard textbooks and monographs. It covers the central concepts, distinctive methodologies, and philosophical as well as practical issues of cultural anthropology, and it is accessible to the anthropological novice, and of value to the professional. The updated version covers current issues in cultural anthropology, and includes topics such as globalization, gender, post-modernism and public issues, and reflects changes in perspective and language
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139171113
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 238 pages)
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    Keywords: Anthropology / Statistical methods ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Statistik ; Anthropologie ; Statistik ; Ethnologie ; Statistik
    Abstract: Anthropology students increasingly need a quantitative background, but statistics are often seen as difficult and impenetrable. Statistics for Anthropology offers students of anthropology and other social sciences an easy, step-by-step route through the statistical maze. In clear, simple language, using relevant examples and practice problems, it provides a solid footing in basic statistical techniques, and is designed to give students a thorough grounding in methodology, and also insight into how and when to apply the various processes. The book assumes a minimal background in mathematics, and is suitable for the computer-literate and illiterate. Although only a hand calculator is needed, computer statistical software can be used to accompany the text. This book will be a 'must-have' for all anthropology and social science students needing an introduction to basic statistics
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802782
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    DDC: 306.4
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Human body / Social aspects / Africa ; Human body / Social aspects / Melanesia ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Africa ; Human body / Symbolic aspects / Melanesia ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Afrika ; Melanesien ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Leib-Seele-Problem ; Kulturvergleich ; Melanesien
    Abstract: Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to questions ranging from the meanings of spirit possession, to the logics of witchcraft and kinship relations, the use of rituals to heal the sick, 'electric vampires', and even the impact of capitalism. There are detailed ethnographic analyses, and suggestive comparisons of classic African and Melanesian ethnographic cases, such as the Nuer and the Melpa. The contributors debate alternative strategies for cross-cultural comparison, and demonstrate that there is a surprising range of continuities, putting in question common assumptions about the huge differences between these two parts of the world
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. 1. Transcending dichotomies: "It's a boy," "it's a girl!": reflections on sex and gender in Madagascar and beyond / Rita Astuti -- Modernity and forms of personhood in Melanesia / Edward Lipuma -- Refiguring the person: the dynamics of affects and symbols in an African spirit possession cult / Ellen Corin -- Body and mind in mind, body and mind in body: some anthropological interventions in a long conversation / Michael Lambek -- pt. 2. Transitions, containments, decontainments: Treating the affect by remodelling the body in a Yaka healing cult / René Devisch -- To eat for another: taboo and the elicitation of bodily form among the Kamea of Papua New Guinea / Sandra Bamford -- Electric vampires: Haya rumors of the commodified body / Brad Weiss -- pt. 3. From exchange to history: Creative possessions: spirit mediumship and millennial economy among Gebusi of Papua New Guinea / Bruce M. Knauft -- Dis-embodiment and concealment among the Atbalmin of Papua New Guinea / Eytan Bercovitch -- Melpa and Nuer ideas of life and death: the rebirth of a comparison / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Afterword: embodying ethnography / Janice Boddy
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    ISBN: 9780511557927
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    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 235 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1970 ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Geschichte ; Ethnology / Great Britain / History ; Ethnology / Africa / History ; Sozialanthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Afrika ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Afrika ; Ethnosoziologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Kulturanthropologie ; Geschichte Anfänge-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Ethnosoziologie ; Geschichte 1918-1970 ; Großbritannien ; Sozialanthropologie ; Geschichte Anfänge-1970
    Abstract: Jack Goody's book explores the development of the discipline of social anthropology through its key practitioners and how far its concerns interacted with the political and ideological debate of the interwar years. It is a study of the different ideological and intellectual approaches adopted by the emerging subject of social anthropology and how far these views were incorporated into and defined by the structures and institutions in which they developed. However it is also an analysis of how far the subject was created by its own response to key issues of the time: colonialism - specifically Africa, anti-Semitism and communism. Goody's approach is characteristically personal: Malinowski dominates the discussion, as well as Fortes, Radcliffe-Brown and Evans-Pritchard, and his own experience, gathered over a wide-ranging life of fieldwork informs the conclusion of the book
    Description / Table of Contents: The economic and organisational basis of British social anthropology in its formative period, 1930-1939: social reform in the colonies -- Training for the field: the sorcerer's apprentices -- Making it to the field as a Jew and a Red -- Personal and intellectual friendships: Fortes and Evans-Pritchard -- Personal and intellectual animosities: Evans-Pritchard, Malinowski and others -- The Oxford Group -- Some achievements of anthropology in Africa -- Personal contributions -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix I: Changing research schemes -- Appendix 2: Towards the study of the history of social anthropology
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521041
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 188 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 95
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Vezo (Malagasy people) ; Vezo (Malagasy people) / Ethnic identity ; Identität ; Ethnische Identität ; Ethnologie ; Vezo ; Betania (Madagascar) / Social life and customs ; Madagaskar ; Madagaskar ; Vezo ; Ethnologie ; Ethnische Identität ; Vezo ; Identität
    Abstract: The Vezo, a fishing people of western Madagascar, are known as 'the people who struggle with the sea'. Dr Astuti explores their identity showing that it is established through what people do rather than being determined by descent. Vezo identity is a 'way of doing' rather than a 'state of being', performative rather than ethnic. However, her innovative analysis of Vezo kinship also uncovers an opposite form of identity based on descent, which she argues is the identity of the dead. By looking at key mortuary rituals that engage the relationship between the living and the dead, Dr Astuti develops a dual model of the Vezo person: the one defined contextually in the present, the other determined by the past
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    ISBN: 9780511607653
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 300 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Indianer ; Dwellings / Social aspects ; Dwellings / Southeast Asia ; Dwellings / South America ; Kinship / Southeast Asia ; Indians of South America / Kinship ; Hausbau ; Verwandtschaft ; Wohnen ; Haus ; Ethnologie ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Südostasien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wohnen ; Verwandtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Wohnen ; Hausbau ; Ethnologie ; Haus ; Ethnosoziologie ; Südostasien ; Wohnen ; Ethnosoziologie
    Abstract: The domestic unit is inseparable from its homestead, and the 'house', at once a physical place and a social unit, is often also a unit of production and consumption, a cult group, and even a political faction. Inspired by Lévi-Strauss's suggestion that the multi-functional noble houses of medieval Europe were simply the best-known examples of a widespread social institution, the contributors to this collection analyse 'house' systems in Southeast Asia and South America, exploring the interrelationships between buildings, people, and ideas. They reveal some of the ways in which houses can stand for social groups and serve as images of process and order
    Description / Table of Contents: Houses and hierarchies in island Southeast Asia / Roxana Waterson -- The resurrection of the house amongst the Zafimaniry of Madagascar / Maurice Bloch -- The hearth-group, the conjugal couple and the symbolism of the rice meal among the Kelabit of Sarawak / Monica Janowski -- Houses in Langkawi : stable structures or mobile homes? / Janet Carsten -- Having your house and eating it : houses and siblings in Ara, South Sualwesi / Thomas Gibson -- The Lio House : building, category, idea, value / Signe Howell -- Houses and hierarchy : the view from a South Moluccan society / Susan McKinnon -- Houses, places and people : community and continuity in Guiana / Peter Rivière -- The houses of the Mẽbengokre (Kayapó) of Central Brazil : a new door to their social organization / Vanessa Lea -- Inside-out and back-to-front : the androgynous house in Northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones
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    ISBN: 9780511720321
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 346 pages)
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    Keywords: Children, Gusii / Kenya / Kisii District ; Women, Gusii / Family relationships / Kenya / Kisii District ; Child rearing / Kenya / Kisii District / Cross-cultural studies ; Socialization / Kenya / Kisii District / Cross-cultural studies ; Child rearing / Massachusetts / Boston / Cross-cultural studies ; Socialization / Massachusetts / Boston / Cross-cultural studies ; Erziehung ; Kultur ; Kinderpflege ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Kinderpflege ; Kultur ; Afrika ; Erziehung ; Kultur
    Abstract: Child Care and Culture examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an African community, revealing patterns unanticipated by current theories of child development and raising provocative questions about 'normal' child care in the human species. Comparing the Gusii people of Kenya, whose practices were intensively observed from the combined perspectives of social anthropology, pediatrics, and developmental psychology, with the American white middle class, the authors show how divergent cultural priorities create differing conditions for early childhood development
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword / Urie Bronfenbrenner -- pt. I. African infancy: Frameworks for understanding. 1. The comparative study of child care. 2. Infant care in sub-Saharan Africa -- pt. II. Parenthood among the Gusii of Kenya. 3. Gusii culture: A person-centered perspective. 4. Gusii fertility, marriage, and family. 5. Pregnancy and birth -- pt. III. Infant care and development in a Gusii community. 6. Infant care: Cultural norms and interpersonal environment. 7. Survival and health: Priorities for early development. 8. Communication and social learning during infancy. 9. Variations in infant interaction: Illustrative cases -- pt. IV. Interpretations. 10. Early child development in an African context: Comparative lessons -- Appendix A Fieldwork procedures: Initial phases and planning -- Appendix B Coding categories for spot observations -- Appendix C Blankhart Nutrition Questionnaire -- Appendix D Temperament Assessment Method -- Appendix E Coding categories for narrative observations
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    ISBN: 9780511552175
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 303 pages)
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    Keywords: Aborigines ; Aboriginal Australians ; Philosophy, Aboriginal Australian ; Aboriginal Australians / Foreign influences ; Aboriginal Australians / Religion ; Ethnologie ; Weltbild ; Aborigines ; Religion ; Aborigines ; Ethnologie ; Aborigines ; Religion ; Aborigines ; Weltbild
    Abstract: Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples - Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative 1993 book is a detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian Aboriginal world-views. The author separates out a common core of religious beliefs which reflect the precontact spirituality of Australian Aborigines. This book investigates Aboriginal myth, ritual, cosmology and philosophy, and also examines social organisation, subsistence patterns and cultural change. It will be of great interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, comparative philosophy and Aboriginal studies
    Description / Table of Contents: Worlds to endure -- Songs of a wayfarer -- A new sky hero from a conquered land -- Our mother from northern shores -- From the mother to the millennium
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    ISBN: 9780511621741
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 298 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 89
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Ethnology / New Guinea ; Melanesians / Sexual behavior ; Melanesians / Social life and customs ; Küstengebiet ; Ethnologie ; Sexualverhalten ; New Guinea / Social life and customs ; Neuguinea ; Neuguinea Süd ; Küstengebiet ; Ethnologie ; Neuguinea Süd ; Küstengebiet ; Sexualverhalten
    Abstract: The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development
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    ISBN: 9780511607677
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    Pages: 1 online resource (203 pages)
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    Keywords: Barter ; Ceremonial exchange ; Tauschhandel ; Tausch ; Tauschwirtschaft ; Ethnologie ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tausch ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Tauschhandel ; Ethnologie ; Tauschwirtschaft
    Abstract: This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in the social and moral complexities of the 'gift', and treat barter dismissively as mere haggling. The authors of this collection do not accept that barter occupies a residual space between monetary and gift economies. Using accounts from different parts of the world, they aim to demonstrate that it is more than a simple and self-evident economic institution. Barter may constitute a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics occupying a specific moral space. This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology
    Description / Table of Contents: Politicised values : the cultural dynamics of peripheral exchange / Nicholas Thomas -- Yesterday's luxuries, tomorrow's necessities : business and barter in northwest Amazonia / Stephen Hugh-Jones -- Some notes on the economics of barter, money and credit / Luca Anderlini and Hamid Sabourian -- Fair dealing, just rewards : the ethics of barter in North-East Nepal / Caroline Humphrey -- Inter-tribal commodity barter and reproductive gift-exchange in old Melanesia / Alfred Gell -- Qualified value : the perspective of gift exchange / Marilyn Strathern
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    ISBN: 9780511666759
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 205 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    Keywords: Language planning / Africa ; Language policy / Africa ; Sprache ; Gründung ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Afrika ; Sprachpolitik ; Staat ; Gründung ; Afrika ; Sprache ; Staat ; Gründung
    Abstract: Most African countries have a population composed of a multitude of language groups and most African citizens have a varied repertoire allowing them to rely on different languages for use in the home, at school, in the market, at work and in communicating with political authorities. Language Repertoires and State Construction in Africa analyses the complex language scene in Africa today and asks whether this distinctive web of language use is symptomatic of the early stage of state construction. If so, one would expect that as each of these states develops there will be a rationalisation of language use and agreement on a common language within the country's borders. Alternately, Africa's language scene may be the result of a particular historical context of state construction, with the implication that political development will not lead to the one-state, one-language outcome typical of the idealised nation-state
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    ISBN: 0521392691 , 9780521794848
    Language: English
    Pages: 249 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Grundeigentum ; Soziale Situation ; Yarralin ; Bodenordnung ; Aborigines
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    ISBN: 9780511611827
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnomethodology ; Ethnomethodologie ; Methode ; Ethnologie ; Geisteswissenschaften ; Einführung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Einführung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Ethnologie ; Methode ; Ethnomethodologie ; Geisteswissenschaften
    Abstract: Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates how, through its empirical enquiries into the ordered properties of social action, ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood. The chapters, by leading scholars, take up the specification of action and order in theorising, logic, epistemology, measurement, evidence, the social actor, cognition, language and culture, and moral judgement, and underscore the ramifications for the human sciences of the ethnomethodologist's approach. This is a systematic and coherent collection which explicitly addresses fundamental conceptual issues. The clear exposition of the central tenets of ethnomethodology is especially welcome
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : ethnomethodology and the foundational respecification of the human sciences / Graham Button -- Respecification : evidence for locally produced, naturally accountable phenomena of order, logic, reason, meaning, method, etc. in and as of the essential haecceity of immortal ordinary society (I), an announcement of studies / Harold Garfinkel -- Logic : enthnomethodology and the logic of language / Jeff Coulter -- Epistemology : professional scepticism / Wes Sharrock and Bob Anderson -- Method : measurement, ordinary and scientific measurement as ethnomethodological phenomena / Mike Lynch -- Method : evidence and inference, evidence and inference for ethnomethodology / Douglas Benson and John Hughes
    Description / Table of Contents: The social actor : social action in real time / Wes Sharrock and Graham Button -- Cognition : cognition in an ethnomethodological mode / Jeff Coulter -- Language and culture : the linguistic analysis of culture / John Lee -- Values and moral judgement : communicative praxis as moral order / Lena Jayyusi
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    ISBN: 9780511521058
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    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 143 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 68
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    Keywords: Interkulturelle Kommunikation ; Intercultural communication ; Cognition and culture ; Language and culture ; Tradition ; Kulturkontakt ; Ethnologie ; Theorie ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Tradition ; Theorie ; Ethnologie ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Theorie ; Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which results in the repetition of certain communicative events', and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology
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    ISBN: 9780511607769
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Philosophie ; Anthropology / Philosophy ; Ethnology / Europe ; Ethnology / Greece ; Sozialanthropologie ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Peripherie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Europa ; Griechenland ; Greece / Social life and customs ; Europa ; Griechenland ; Europa ; Peripherie ; Anthropologie ; Europa ; Peripherie ; Ethnologie ; Griechenland ; Ethnologie ; Griechenland ; Sozialanthropologie ; Griechenland ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: Despite having emerged in the heyday of a dominant Europe, of which Ancient Greece is the hallowed spiritual and intellectual ancestor, anthropology has paradoxically shown relatively little interest in contemporary Greek culture. In this innovative and ambitious book, Michael Herzfeld moves Greek Ethnography from the margins to the centre of anthropological theory, revealing the theoretical insights that can be gained by so doing. He shows that the ideology that originally led to the creation of anthropology also played a large part in the growth of the modern Greek nation-state, and that Greek ethnography can therefore serve as a mirror for an ethnography of anthropology itself. He further demonstrates the role that scholarly fields, including anthropology, have played in the construction of contemporary Greek culture and Greek identity
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    ISBN: 9780511557989
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xxix, 458 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian studies 39
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ethnology / India / Pudukkottai (Princely State) ; Ethnologie ; Geschichte ; Indien ; Pudukkottai (Princely State) / History ; Pudukkottai ; Pudukkottai ; Geschichte ; Pudukkottai ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: A pioneering piece of ethnohistory, The Hollow Crown uses a variety of interdisciplinary means to reconstruct the sociocultural history of a warrior polity in south India between the fourteenth and the twentieth centuries. Central to the book is the belief that comparative sociology has systematically denied the importance of the Indian state and obscured the political basis of Indian society by representing caste as fundamentally a religious system. In reconstructing the history of the polity that eventually became the colonial princely state of Pudukkottai, Dr Dirks therefore raises a whole series of issues concerning the methodologies of history and anthropology, the character of Tamil kingship and social organization, the relationship between politics and ritual, the impact of colonialism and 'modernization', and the dynamics of the whole last millennium of south Indian history
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    ISBN: 9781139084994
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 313 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Ethnology / Papua New Guinea ; Soziale Situation ; Anthropologie ; Hochland ; Ethnologie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Papua New Guinea / Social life and customs ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Hochland ; Sozialer Wandel ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Hochland ; Ethnologie ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Anthropologie ; Papua-Neuguinea ; Soziale Situation
    Abstract: This book is an explicitly comparative, anthropological analysis of the societies of the eastern and western highlands of Papua New Guinea. Particular societies have been documented by anthropologists since the 1950s yet until this book's publication in 1987, there had been relatively few attempts at rigourous comparison of the findings. This book argues that the highlands cannot be treated as a homogeneous region, socially, culturally, historically or environmentally. Rather, societies of the eastern highlands have followed markedly different paths of development in the past to those of the western highlands, and it is upon this divergence that a comparative treatment of the twentieth century should be mounted
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    ISBN: 9780511557828
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 350 pages)
    Series Statement: Comparative ethnic and race relations
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    Keywords: Race relations / Congresses ; Ethnic relations / Congresses ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift ; Ethnologie ; Ethnische Beziehungen ; Rassenfrage
    Abstract: This book brings together internationally known scholars from a wide range of disciplines and theoretical traditions, all of whom have made significant contributions to the field of race and ethnic relations. As well as identifying important and persistent points of controversy, the collection reveals a complementary and multifaceted approach to theorisation. The theories represented include contributions from the perspective of sociology. These range from the established perspectives of Marx and Weber through to the more recent interventions of rational choice theory, symbolic interactionism and identity structure analysis
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    ISBN: 9780511621598
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Writing / History ; Writing / Social aspects ; Social evolution ; Civilization, Ancient ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialgeschichte ; Schrift ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Geschichte ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Sozialer Wandel ; Africa, West / Civilization ; Afrika ; Alter Orient ; Westafrika ; Westafrika ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte 1930-1980 ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Alter Orient ; Gesellschaftsordnung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Geschichte ; Afrika ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Alter Orient ; Schrift ; Sozialer Wandel ; Gesellschaft ; Analphabetismus ; Gesellschaft ; Schriftlichkeit ; Schriftlichkeit ; Sozialer Wandel ; Schrift ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: This book assesses the impact of writing on human societies, both in the Ancient Near East and in twentieth-century Africa, and highlights some general features of social systems that have been influenced by this major change in the mode of communication. Such features are central to any attempt at the theoretical definition of human society and such constituent phenomena as religious and legal systems, and in this study Professor Goody explores the role of a specific mechanism, the introduction of writing and the development of a written tradition, in the explanation of some important social differences and similarities. Goody argues that a shift of emphasis from productive to certain communicative processes is essential to account adequately for major changes in human societies. Whilst there have been previous descussions of the effect of literacy upon social organisation, no study has hitherto presented the general synthesis developed here
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    ISBN: 9780511753022
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 291 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Mendi (Papua New Guinean people) / Social life and customs ; Ceremonial exchange / Papua New Guinea ; Politik ; Ethnologie ; Papua New Guinea / Social life and customs ; Mendi ; Mendi ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Mendi ; Ethnologie ; Mendi Region ; Politik ; Mendi Region ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: Gift exchange plays a crucial role in the social and political organization of Mendi in Papua New Guinea. This book reveals how considerable light can be shed on Mendi society, particularly on its political economy, by examining both the well-known ceremonial exchange festivals and the hitherto relatively little-studied everyday gift-giving practices. The author shows that the latter are crucial for understanding inter-group politics, the process of leadership, male-female relationships and the status of women, and the production, distribution and circulation of wealth. Currently the only book available on this society, the work offers an unusual combination of a social structural analysis with a study of local history and change. It is also of interest for its integration of the study of gift exchange and politics with the study of gender roles and relationships
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    ISBN: 9780511753091
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    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 383 pages)
    Uniform Title: Anthropologie historique des sociétés andines
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1532 ; Indianer ; Incas / Social conditions ; Indians of South America / Andes Region / Social conditions ; Indianer ; Ethnologie ; Andes Region / Social conditions ; Inkareich ; Andenstaaten ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Andenstaaten ; Ethnologie ; Indianer ; Geschichte Anfänge-1532 ; Inkareich ; Ethnologie
    Abstract: This collection of essays by scholars from the Andes, Europe and the United States was originally published in the French journal Annales as a special double issue entitled The Historical Anthropology of Andean Societies. It combines the perspectives of archaeology, anthropology and history to present a complex view of Andean societies over various millenia. The unique features of the Andean landscape, the impact of the Inka state on different regions and ethnic groups, the transformations wrought through the colonial presence and the creation of nineteenth-century republics are all analysed, as are the profound continuities in some aspects of Andean culture and social organisation to the present day. The book reflects some of the most innovative research that occurred in the 1970s and 80s. Apart from its substantive interest for students of the Andes and American civilisations in general, it shows the possibility of closer collaboration between history and anthropology
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , The tropical Andes , a changing mosaic , The evolution of a valley , population and resources of Tarapacá over a millennium , 'Horizons' in Andean archaeology , The expansion of the Inka state , armies, war and rebellions , Storage, supply and redistribution in the economy of the Inka state , The extraction of precious metals at the time of the Inka , Vertical politics on the Inka frontier , Some aspects of the Inka kinship system , The classification and naming of South American camelids , The semiology of Andean textiles , the talegas of Isluga , Inka dynasty and irrigation , another look at Andean concepts of history , Urco and uma , Aymara concepts of space , the concept of yanantin among the Macha of Bolivia , From asymmetry to triangle , symbolic transformations in northern Potosí , Men of the water , the Uru problem (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) , The ethnic groups in the valleys of Larecaja , from descent to residence , The Andean community today
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    ISBN: 9780511753084
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 298 pages)
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    Keywords: Mekeo (Papua New Guinean people) ; Mekeo ; Ethnologie ; Ethnologie ; Mekeo
    Abstract: Despite almost a century of contact with Europeans, the Bush Mekeo people of Papua New Guinea are still essentially unknown to the anthropological world. This book was the first detailed, comprehensive study of Bush Mekeo culture and society. Using a rigourous structuralist approach to interpret in a consistent and systematic way the principal meanings and social practices of this South Seas way of life, Mark Mosko provides a convincing portrayal of Bush Mekeo culture and society as a unified, coherent and logical 'whole'. The main force of the book is to explore empirically the logic by which Bush Mekeo symbols are connected. Beginning with native symbolic constructions of space and time, Professor Mosko carefully unfolds the associated beliefs and practices pertaining to the body, to the relations between genders, to the system of social organisation and to the dramatic and resplendent Bush Mekeo mortuary ceremonial
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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: 9780511607776
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 333 pages)
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    Keywords: Ethnology / Methodology ; Anthropology / Research ; Methode ; Anthropologie ; Ethnologie ; Anthropologie ; Methode ; Ethnologie ; Methode
    Abstract: This text is a comprehensive introduction to research methods in social and cultural anthropology. The Peltos focus their discussion on the essential elements of preparing and analyzing the supporting evidence from which generalizations about human nature are derived. The specific elements of anthropological research - such as interviewing informants, observing ceremonial behaviour, and designing surveys - are all covered, but the primary aim is to show how basic observations can be systematically translated into socio-cultural generalizations. The authors place strong emphasis not only on quantification and statistics, but also on the more qualitative aspects of anthropological working styles that are essential to effective research. The two main themes of the book can be stated as follows: (1) anthropological generalizations and more complex theoretical structures can be built up only through careful implementation of basic concepts, the building blocks of all theory, and (2) successful description and hypothesis testing depend on the judicious mixing of quantitative and quantitative research materials. The second edition, in which Professor Gretel Pelto has collaborated with her husband, expands the discussion of tools of research and offers a more comprehensive analysis of current ideas concerning the 'theory-building' process. An entirely new chapter has been added on the research methods and relevance of applied anthropology. Throughout the text, many new and updated examples are cited to illustrate statistical and methodological approaches to anthropological research
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. The domain of methodology -- 2. Science and anthropology -- 3. Operationalism in anthropological research -- 4. Units of observation: emic and etic approaches -- 5. Tools of research -- I -- 6. Tools of research -- II: nonverbal techniques -- 7. Counting and sampling -- 8. Measurement, scales, and statistics -- 9. Art and science in field work -- 10. Research methods, relevance, and applied anthropology -- 11. Building anthropological theory: methods and models -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index
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