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  • HeBIS  (4)
  • Dirks, Nicholas B.  (2)
  • Alexander, Anna Rose  (1)
  • Barnard, Alan  (1)
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  • History  (4)
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    City on Fire : Technology, Social Change, and the Hazards of Progress in Mexico City, 1860-1910 (2016)
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    ISBN: 9780822964186 , 9780822981466 (Sekundärausgabe) , 9780822964186 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 237 pages
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780822981466
    Edition: ISBN 9780822964186
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environ
    DDC: 306.097253
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    NP 6250
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    NR 9120
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    NW 2671
    RVK:
    NR 1830
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  • 2
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    Autobiography of an Archive : A Scholar's Passage to India (2015)
    New York : Columbia University Press
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    ISBN: 9780231169677 , 9780231538510 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 401 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9780231538510
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    Series Statement: Cultures of History
    DDC: 301.0954
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    NK 3600
    Keywords: Online-Publikation
    Abstract: The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite actors, became the focus of their inquiry, and anthropological insights into agriculture, kinship, ritual, and folk customs enabled historians to develop richer and more representative narratives. The intersection of these two disciplines also helped scholars reframe the legacies of empire and the ...
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  • 3
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    Social Anthropology and Human Origins. (2011)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781139079693
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (198 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 301
    RVK:
    LB 30000
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    NF 1205
    RVK:
    LB 31970
    Keywords: Human beings Origin ; Human evolution ; Human beings ; Origin ; Human evolution ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: In this powerful study the distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard addresses the fundamental questions surrounding the evolution of human society.
    Abstract: Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction -- A short history of human origins -- The seventeenth century -- The eighteenth century -- The nineteenth century -- The twentieth century -- The twenty-first century -- Social and cultural anthropology -- 2 If chimps could talk -- Reflections on shared ancestors and cousins -- Cultural attributes of orangs, gorillas and chimps -- Orang-utans -- Gorillas -- Common chimpanzees and bonobos -- Sharing and reciprocity among chimpanzees -- Chimpanzee culture and cultural diversity -- Reflections on a short visit to Budongo -- 3 Fossils and what they tell us -- Three different kinds of evolution -- Earliest hominins and australopithecines -- Early hominins -- Australopithecines -- Earliest Homo -- Homo sapiens and later global migrations -- Biological, technological and cultural developments -- Science, myth and theory -- Biological bases of human sociality -- Hominin sociality? -- All humanity is one race, and one culture -- Genetics, demography and social anthropology -- 4 Group size and settlement -- The correlation between brain size and group size -- Implications for social behaviour and migration -- Population size and migration -- Why live in a town? -- Julian Steward and cultural ecology -- Settlement patterns -- Further models from hunter-gatherer studies -- The tragedy of the commons -- 5 Teaching, sharing and exchange -- Problems in 'society' and 'culture' -- Social systems -- Sharing -- Exchange -- Formalism and substantivism -- Paris, 1978: universal kinship and hxaro -- Paris, 1968: original affluence -- Political order and anthropological models -- Pedagogical lessons -- 6 Origins of language and symbolism -- Thoughts and theories of the origin and purpose of language -- Full language?.
    Description / Table of Contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. If chimps could talk; 3. Fossils and what they tell us; 4. The brain and group size; 5. Teaching, sharing and exchange; 6. Origins of language and symbolism; 7. Elementary structures of kinship; 8. A new synthesis; 9. Conclusions.
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  • 4
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    Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (2011)
    Princeton : Princeton University Press
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    ISBN: 9780691088952
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (386 p)
    Parallel Title: Print version Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India
    DDC: 305.5
    RVK:
    MS 9700
    RVK:
    MK 2600
    RVK:
    MS 1300
    RVK:
    NK 3600
    RVK:
    NQ 9410
    Keywords: Caste ; India ; India ; History ; British occupation, 1765-1947 ; Social classes ; India ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Electronic books ; Online-Publikation ; Online-Publikation
    Abstract: When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common parlance alike, caste has become a central symbol for India, marking it as fundamentally different from other places while expressing its essence. Nicholas Dirks argues that caste is, in fact, neither an unchanged survival of ancient India nor a single system that reflects a core cultural value. Rather than a basic expression of Indian tradition, caste is a modern phenomenon--the product of a concrete historical encounter between India and British colonial rule. Dirks does not contend that caste was invented by
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; PART ONE: THE "INVENTION" OF CASTE; One: Introduction: The Modernity of Caste; Two: Homo Hierarchicus: The Origins of an Idea; Three: The Ethnographic State; PART TWO: COLONIZATION OF THE ARCHIVE; Four: The Original Caste: Social Identity in the Old Regime; Five: The Textualization of Tradition: Biography of an Archive; Six: The Imperial Archive: Colonial Knowledge and Colonial Rule; PART THREE: THE ETHNOGRAPHIC STATE; Seven: The Conversion of Caste; Eight: The Policing of Tradition: Colonial Anthropology and the Invention of Custom
    Description / Table of Contents: Nine: The Body of Caste: Anthropology and the Criminalization of CasteTen: The Enumeration of Caste: Anthropology as Colonial Rule; PART FOUR: RECASTING INDIA: CASTE, COMMUNITY, AND POLITICS; Eleven: Toward a Nationalist Sociology of India: Nationalism and Brahmanism; Twelve: The Reformation of Caste: Periyar, Ambedkar, and Gandhi; Thirteen: Caste Politics and the Politics of Caste; Fourteen: Conclusion: Caste and the Postcolonial Predicament; Coda: The Burden of the Past: On Colonialism and the Writing of History; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V
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