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  • MPI Ethno. Forsch.
  • GRASSI Mus. Leipzig
  • 1995-1999  (11)
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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558238
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
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    DDC: 306.2/096
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    Keywords: Funde ; Politik ; Political anthropology / Africa ; Social archaeology / Africa ; Archaeology and state / Africa ; Sozialarchäologie ; Archäologie ; Politische Anthropologie ; Altertümer ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Antiquities ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Altertümer ; Afrika ; Archäologie ; Afrika ; Politische Anthropologie ; Sozialarchäologie
    Abstract: Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book considers how case material from the region can enhance our understanding of the nature, origins and development of complexity. The archaeological, historical and anthropological case materials are relevant to a number of recent concerns, revealing how complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. Contributors engage important theoretical issues, including the continuing influence of deeply embedded evolutionary notions in archaeological concepts of complexity, the importance of alternative modes of complex organization such as flexible hierarchies, multiple overlapping hierarchies, and horizontal differentiation, and the significance of different forms of power. The distinguished list of contributors include historians, archaeologists and anthropologists
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139171120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 36
    DDC: 306.3/62/0975
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1860 ; Gesellschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; USA Südstaaten
    Abstract: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9780511612213
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 289 pages)
    Series Statement: Contemporary South Asia 4
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    DDC: 305.5/68
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    Keywords: Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Dalits / India / Politics and government ; Dalits / India / Economic conditions ; Dalits / India / Social conditions ; Armut ; Dalit ; Kaste ; Politik ; Indien ; India / Politics and government / 1947- ; Indien ; Indien ; Politik ; Kaste ; Dalit ; Indien ; Dalit ; Armut
    Abstract: In a sensitive and compelling account of the lives of those at the very bottom of Indian society, Oliver Mendelsohn and Marika Vicziany explore the construction of the Untouchables as a social and political category, the historical background which led to such a definition, and their position in India today. The authors argue that, despite efforts to ameliorate their condition on the part of the state, a considerable edifice of discrimination persists on the basis of a tradition of ritual subordination. Even now, therefore, it still makes sense to categorise these people as 'Untouchables'. The book promises to make a major contribution to the social and economic debates on poverty, while its wide-ranging perspectives will ensure an interdisciplinary readership from historians of South Asia, to students of politics, economics, religion and sociology
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802782
    Language: English
    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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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511563850
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (176 pages)
    Series Statement: International review of social history. Supplement 4
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Entwicklungsländer ; Geschichte ; Working class / Developing countries / History ; Marginality, Social / Developing countries / History ; Proletariat / History ; Liberty / History ; Arbeiterklasse ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Lohnarbeit ; Proletarisierung ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie ; Entwicklungsländer ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Entwicklungsländer ; Lohnarbeit ; Arbeiterklasse ; Sozialgeschichte ; Kolonie ; Wirtschaft ; Arbeiterklasse ; Sozialgeschichte ; Entwicklungsländer ; Proletarisierung ; Geschichte ; Kolonialismus ; Proletarisierung
    Abstract: This volume takes an alternative look at the notion of 'wage-workers'. The contributors suggest that the idea of a 'pure' working class should be reconsidered and examine specific South Asian and Latin American case studies. A large part of the working class in the so-called third world and also in the main capitalist countries is either free (but coerced through non-economic means) or does hidden work labor e.g. as formally self-employed producers. By rethinking the fundamental assumptions of 'classical' labor and working-class history, the volume contributes to the development of a non-Eurocentric historiography
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Colonialism, capitalism and the discourse of freedom , The barriers to proletarianization : Bolivian mine labour, 1826-1918 , Labour, ecology and history in a Puerto Rican plantation region : "classic" rural proletarians revisited , Coal and colonialism : production relations in an Indian coalfield, c. 1895-1947 , "Capital spectacles in British frames" : capital, empire and Indian indentured migration to the British Caribbean , Unsettling the household : Act VI (of 1901) [2] 505 00 and the regulation of women migrants in colonial Bengal , Sordid class, dangerous class? Observations on Parisian ragpickers and their Cités during the nineteenth century
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511523342
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 258 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in early modern history
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    DDC: 338/.064/094409031
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Geschichte 1500 ; Geschichte 1500-1620 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Technological innovations / Economic aspects / France / History / 16th century ; Technology and state / France / History / 16th century ; Industrialization / France / History / 16th century ; Labor supply / France / History / 16th century ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Technologie ; Wirtschaft ; Wissenschaft ; Lohnarbeit ; Arbeit ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Industrialisierung ; Staat ; Frankreich ; France / Economic policy ; France / History / 16th century ; Frankreich ; Frankreich ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Lohnarbeit ; Geschichte 1500-1620 ; Frankreich ; Wirtschaft ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Geschichte 1500-1620 ; Staat ; Industrialisierung ; Wissenschaft ; Technologie ; Arbeit ; Geschichte 1500 ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: For a generation, the history of the ancien régime has been written from the perspective of the Annales school, with its emphasis on the role of long-term economic and cultural factors in shaping the development of early modern France. In this detailed 1995 study, Henry Heller challenges such a paradigm and assembles a huge range of information about technical innovation and ideas of improvement in sixteenth-century France. Emphasising the role of state intervention in the economy, the development of science and technology, and recent research into early modern proto-industrialisation, Heller counters notions of a France mired in an archaic, determinist mentalité. Despite the tides of religious fanaticism and seigneurial reaction, the period of the religious wars saw a surprising degree of economic, technological and scientific innovation, making possible the consolidation of capitalism in French society during the reign of Henri IV.
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9780511599576
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 190 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1918-1945 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Working class / Austria / History / 20th century ; National socialism / Austria ; Austrofaschismus ; Arbeiterklasse ; Arbeiterbewegung ; Nationalsozialismus ; Österreich ; Austria / Economic conditions / 1918-1945 ; Austria / History / 20th century ; Österreich ; Österreich ; Nationalsozialismus ; Arbeiterklasse ; Geschichte 1918-1945 ; Österreich ; Nationalsozialismus ; Arbeiterbewegung ; Arbeiterklasse ; Austrofaschismus
    Abstract: The image of Hitler as a demagogic 'pied piper' leading astray the 'little people' of Austria is as misleading as it is powerful. Nazism and the Working Class in Austria is a case study of the ambiguous relationship between state and society in Austria under the Nazis. It places the experience of Austrian industrial workers in the Third Reich in a broader historical context, from the origins of the earliest 'national socialist' movements in the backwaters of the Habsburg empire to the end of the Second World War. Workers did not seriously attempt or even expect to overthrow the Nazi regime in the face of unprecedented surveillance and terror; but neither were they converted, and their oppositional strategies and disgruntled political opinions reveal a truculent workforce, rather than one that was contented and converted
    Description / Table of Contents: Map: 'Alpine and Danubian Reichsgaue', 1939 -- Map: Greater Vienna, 1939 -- 1. Austrian fascisms, 'Austrofascism' and the working class -- 2. Economic integration and political opposition between the Anschluss and the war -- 3. The war economy and the changing workforce 1939-1945 -- 4. Work discipline in the war economy -- 5. Popular opinion and political protest in working-class communities
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780511528828
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 350 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1850 ; Politik ; Wirtschaft ; Middle class / Spain / Madrid / Economic conditions ; Middle class / Spain / Madrid ; Oberschicht ; Mittelstand ; Politischer Wandel ; Spanien ; Spain / Politics and government / 18th century ; Spain / Politics and government / 19th century ; Spanien ; Spanien ; Politischer Wandel ; Sozialgeschichte 1750-1850 ; Spanien ; Mittelstand ; Geschichte 1750-1850 ; Spanien ; Oberschicht ; Geschichte 1750-1850
    Abstract: The traditional interpretation of the crisis of the Spanish Old Regime is to see it as a revolution carried out by an ascendant bourgeoisie. Professor Cruz challenges this viewpoint by arguing that in Spain, as in the rest of continental Europe, a national bourgeoisie did not exist before the second half of the nineteenth century. Consequently, the model of bourgeois revolution proves inadequate to explain any movement toward modernisation before 1850. Historiography based on the bourgeois revolution theory portrays Spain as an exceptional model whose main feature is the 'failure' produced by the immobility of its ruling class. This work re-examines that understanding, and relocates Spain in the mainstream for industrialisation, urbanisation and democratisation that characterise the history of modern Europe
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Merchants -- 3. Bankers -- 4. Bureaucrats and professionals -- 5. Politicians -- 6. Habitus, solidarity, and authority -- 7. Kinship, friendship, and patronage -- 8. Conclusion: Rethinking the Spanish revolution -- Appendix A: The sample -- Appendix B: Analysis of assets -- Appendix C: Archival sources
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 80 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 7
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    DDC: 941.508
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Hungersnot ; Irland ; Ireland / History / Famine, 1845-1852 ; Ireland / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Irland ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900
    Abstract: The Irish Famine of 1846–50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Population and potatoes : the pre-famine context -- 2. The Great Hunger 1845-1850 -- 3. Aftermath : Ireland after 1850 -- 4. Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Bibliographical update and commentary -- Glossary -- Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557927
    Language: English
    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: 9780511521164
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 285 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Politik ; Oral tradition / Africa ; Folklore / Africa ; Narrative poetry, African ; Power (Social sciences) / Africa ; Social structure / Africa ; Marginality, Social / Africa ; Literatur ; Sozialstruktur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Volksliteratur ; Mündliche Literatur ; Macht ; Randgruppe ; Afrika ; Africa / Politics and government ; Africa / Social life and customs ; Afrika ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Konferenzschrift 1991 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Literatur ; Mündliche Überlieferung ; Afrika ; Sozialstruktur ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Volksliteratur ; Afrika ; Randgruppe ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Mündliche Literatur ; Afrika ; Macht
    Abstract: African oral literature, like other forms of popular culture, is not merely folksy, domestic entertainment but a domain in which individuals in a variety of social roles are free to comment on power relations in society. It can also be a significant agent of change capable of directing, provoking, preventing, overturning and recasting social reality. This collection examines the way in which oral texts both reflect and affect contemporary social and political life in Africa. It addresses questions of power, gender, the dynamics of language use, the representation of social structures and the relation between culture and the state. The contributors are linguists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnomusicologists and historians, who present fresh material and ideas to paint a lively picture of current real-life situations. The book is an important contribution to the study of African culture and literature, and to the anthropological study of oral literature in particular
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: power, marginality and oral literature / Graham Furniss and Liz Gunner -- 2. Oral art and contemporary cultural nationalism / Penina Mlama -- 3. The letter and the law: the politics of orality and literacy in the chiefdoms of the northern Transvaal / Isabel Hofmeyr -- 4. A king is not above insult: the politics of good governance in Nzema avudwene festival songs / Kofi Agovi -- 5. Igbo enwe eze: monarchical power versus democratic values in Igbo oral narratives / Chukwuma Azuonye -- 6. Tales and ideology: the revolt of sons in Bambara-Malinke tales / Veronika Gorog-Karady -- 7. Images of the powerful in Lyela folktales / Sabine Steinbrich -- 8. Power, marginality and Somali oral poetry: case studies in the dynamics of tradition / John William Johnson -- 9. The function of oral art in the regulation of social power in Dyula society / Jean Derive -- 10. The power of words and the relation between Hausa genres / Graham Furniss
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