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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511599637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 10
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    DDC: 363.8/0942
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    Keywords: Appleby, Andrew B. ; Appleby, Andrew B. ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Geschichte 1500-1789 ; Geschichte 1453-1789 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Famines / England / History ; Famines / France / History ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Sozialgeschichte ; Krankheit ; Epidemie ; Hunger ; Hungersnot ; Bibliografie ; Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Frankreich ; England / Economic conditions ; England / Population / History ; France / Economic conditions ; France / Population / History ; Frankreich ; Westeuropa ; Großbritannien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Großbritannien ; Hungersnot ; Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Frankreich ; Geschichte 1453-1789 ; Westeuropa ; Hungersnot ; Epidemie ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Geschichte 1500-1789 ; Frankreich ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Westeuropa ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Appleby, Andrew B. ; Bibliografie ; Großbritannien ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Hunger ; Krankheit ; Sozialgeschichte
    Abstract: Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic, social and demographic historians analyses why. Focusing on England (whose experience is contrasted with France), the contributions combine detailed local studies of individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger and disease, and methodological discussion to explore the effects of crisis mortality on early modern societies
    Description / Table of Contents: Famine, disease and crisis mortality in early modern society / John Walter and Roger Schofield -- The social economy of dearth in early modern England / John Walter -- Death in Whickham / Keith Wrightson and David Levine -- The response to plague in early modern England: public policies and their consequences / Paul Slack -- Demographic crises and subsistence crises in France, 1650-1725 / Jaques Dup aquier -- Markets and mortality in France, 1600-1789 / David R. Weir -- Some reflections on corn yields and prices in pre-industrial economies / E.A. Wrigley -- Family structure, demographic behaviour, and economic growth / Roger Schofield
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557958
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 69
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    Keywords: Rivers, W. H. R. / (William Halse Rivers) / 1864-1922 ; Tanna (Ni-Vanuatu people) / Drug use ; Kava (Beverage) / Vanuatu ; Kava ceremony / Vanuatu ; Tanna (Ni-Vanuatu people) / Social conditions ; Kulturwandel ; Piper methysticum ; Melanesien ; Tanna, Vanuatu ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Tanna, Vanuatu ; Piper methysticum ; Kulturwandel ; Melanesien ; Piper methysticum
    Abstract: Ron Brunton revives a problem posed by the great anthropologist W. H. R. Rivers in History of Melanesian Society (1914): how to explain the strange geographical distribution of kava, a narcotic drink once widely consumed by south-west Pacific islanders. Rivers believed that it was abandoned by many people even before European contact in favour of another drug, betel, drawing his speculations from the ideas of the diffusionist school of anthropology. However, Dr Brunton disagrees. Taking the varying fortunes of kava on the island of Tanna, Vanauta, as his starting point, he suggests that kava's abandonment can best be explained in terms of its association with unstable religious cults, and not because of the adoption of betel. The problem of kava is therefore part of a broader problem of why many traditional Melanesian societies were characteristically highly unstable, and Dr Brunton sees this instability as both an outcome and a cause of weak institutions of authority and social coordination
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages)
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Exchange / Cross-cultural studies ; Money / Social aspects / Cross-cultural studies ; Economic anthropology ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Geld ; Kulturanthropologie
    Abstract: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) , Introduction: Money and the morality of exchange , Misconceiving the grain heap: a critique of the concept of the Indian jajmani system , On the moral perils of exchange , Money, men and women , Cooking money: gender and the symbolic transformation of means of exchange in a Malay fishing community , Drinking cash: the purification of money through ceremonial exchange in Fiji , The symbolism of money in Imerina , Resistance to the present by the past: mediums and money in Zimbabwe , Precious metals in the Andean moral economy , The earth and the state: the sources and meanings of money in Northern Potosi, Bolivia
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 145 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Economic anthropology ; Food supply / Cross-cultural studies ; Lebensmittelversorgung ; Vorratswirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Nahrungsangebot ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftskrise ; Nahrungsangebot ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Geschichte ; Vorratswirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Lebensmittelversorgung ; Ökonomische Anthropologie
    Abstract: Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : cultural responses to risk and uncertainity / P. Halstead and J. O'Shea -- The spirit of survival : cultural responses to resource variability in North Alaska / L. Minc and K. Smith -- Saving it for later : storage by prehistoric hunter-gatherers in Europe / P. Rowley-Conwy and M. Zvelebil -- The role of wild resources in small-scale agricultural systems : tales from the lakes and the plains / J. O'Shea -- The economy has a normal surplus : economic stability and social change among early farming communities of Thessaly, Greece / P. Halstead -- Changing responses to drought among the Wodaabe of Niger / K. Legge -- Of grandfathers and grand theories : the hierarchised ordering of responses to hazard in a Greek rural community / H. Forbes
    Description / Table of Contents: Risk and the polis : the evolution of institutionalised responses to food supply problems in the ancient Greek state / P. Garnsey and I. Morris -- Monitoring interannual variability : an example from the period of early state development in southwestern Iran / H. Wright, R. Redding and S. Pollock -- Public intervention in the food supply in pre-industrial Europe / W. Jongman and R. Dekker -- Conclusion : bad year economics / J. O'Shea and P. Halstead
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139084864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 296 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Frau ; Families / Oceania ; Women / Oceania ; Missions / Oceania ; Acculturation / Oceania ; Familiensoziologie ; Akkulturation ; Familie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Frau ; Oceania / Social life and customs ; Pazifischer Raum ; Ozeanien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Pazifischer Raum ; Frau ; Sozialer Wandel ; Akkulturation ; Frau ; Ozeanien ; Pazifischer Raum ; Familie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ozeanien ; Familiensoziologie ; Ozeanien ; Familie
    Abstract: The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geographical range, extending from Hawaii to Australia. The authors examine changes in medicine and health, religious beliefs, architecture and settlement, and the restructuring of the domestic realm. The book raises issues of concern to a wide range of interests: the peoples and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family
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  • 6
    ISBN: 0521306396 , 0521314046
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 214 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Edition: Reprint.
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 61
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    Keywords: Beschneidung ; Merina ; Ritual
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  • 7
    ISBN: 0521358892
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 302 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Kt
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 26
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9780511753060
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 157 pages)
    Series Statement: Atelier d'anthropologie sociale
    Uniform Title: Roi nyamwezi, la droite et la gauche
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    Keywords: Nyamwezi (African people) ; Left and right (Symbolism) ; Folk classification ; Duality (Logic) ; Nyamwezi ; König ; Nyamwezi ; König
    Abstract: The deep structure of symbolism in religious and ritual activities has hitherto mostly been studied from perspectives deriving from classical and contemporary Western thought, which values symmetry, non-contradiction, equality of terms and the rationality of linear discourse and classification systems have therefore come to be defined in binary terms (right/left, male/female, black/white). In this book, Serge Tcherkezoff presents a new perspective on the study of ritual classification. On the basis of a detailed ethnography of the rituals of the Nyamwezi of Tanzania, Tcherkezoff argues for an analysis which recognised contradictions and asymmetry within ritual systems. Following Dumont, he shows that societies are characterised by a hierarchal structure of values, in which each individual element has a meaning only through its position within the whole, thereby replacing the rigid classical structuralist dichotomy with a rich multidimensional approach
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  • 9
    ISBN: 9780511607769
    Language: English
    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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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511560590
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 412 pages)
    Series Statement: Past and present publications
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1570-1640 ; Geschichte ; Ecclesiastical courts / Great Britain / History ; Marriage law / Great Britain / History ; Sex crimes / Great Britain / History ; Sexualität ; Ehe ; Strafrecht ; Kirchenrecht ; Kirchliche Gerichtsbarkeit ; Großbritannien ; England ; Ehe ; Kirchenrecht ; Strafrecht ; England ; Geschichte 1570-1640 ; England ; Ehe ; Kirchliche Gerichtsbarkeit ; Geschichte 1570-1640 ; England ; Sexualität ; Kirchenrecht ; Geschichte 1570-1640
    Abstract: Adultery, fornication, breach of marriage contract, sexual slander - these, along with religious offences of various kinds, were typical of the cases dealt with by the ecclesiastical courts in Elizabethan and early Stuart England. What was it like to live in a society in which personal morality was regulated by law in this fashion? How far-reaching was such surveillance in actual practice? How did ordinary people view the courts - as useful institutions upholding accepted standards, or as an alien system purveying unwanted values? How effective were the church courts in influencing attitudes and behaviour? Previous assessments of ecclesiastical justice, coloured by contemporary puritan and common law criticisms, have mostly been unfavourable. This in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business dealt with under church law, based on the records of the courts in Wiltshire, Cambridgeshire, Leicestershire and West Sussex in the period 1570–1640, presents a more balanced and more positive view
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. The legal and social background -- The structure of ecclesiastical justice -- Economic and social structures -- Religion and the people -- Sex and marriage: laws, ideals and popular practice -- pt. II. Sex and marriage: the pattern of prosecutions -- Matrimonial causes: (i) the breakdown of marriage -- Matrimonial causes: (ii) marriage formation -- Prenuptial fornication and bridal pregnancy -- Incest, adultery and fornication -- Aiding and abetting sexual offences -- Sexual slander -- pt. III. church courts and society: 1the effectiveness of ecclesiastical justice -- Church courts and society in 1640: retrospect and prospect
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  • 11
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557989
    Language: English
    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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  • 12
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511629488
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    Pages: 1 online resource (260 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Alltag, Brauchtum ; Geschichte ; Sex customs / Europe / History / 18th century ; Sexualität ; Prostitution ; Homosexualität ; Sexualverhalten ; Europa ; Europe / Social life and customs / 18th century ; Europe / Moral conditions ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Sexualverhalten ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Prostitution ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Homosexualität ; Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Sexualität ; Geschichte 1700-1800
    Abstract: The essays in this 1988 volume address sexual phenomena in eighteenth-century Europe that were for one reason or another outside the legal or sanctified systems of acceptability: most notably, unwed heterosexual domesticity, masturbation, prostitution, libertinism, homosexuality, and pornography. The contributors, drawn from England, France, Italy, Holland, and the United States, illustrate the range of unauthorized sexual expression during the Enlightenment. The essays take an important first step toward integrating sexuality into our general understanding of eighteenth-century culture
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    ISBN: 9780511584107
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in environment and history
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nunu (African people) ; Human ecology / Congo (Democratic Republic) ; Nunu ; Humanökologie ; Nunu ; Humanökologie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Africa's equatorial rain forests cover an area roughly the size of continental Western Europe, and yet the history of this area remains largely unexplored. Robert Harms makes an important advance in this book toward recovering that history by telling the story of the Nunu, who live in and around the swampy floodplains of the middle Zaire River. A key element in Nunu history has been the small-scale, short-distance migrations that continually led individuals and groups into new micro-environments. When an increasing population impinged upon the limits of available resources in the late eighteenth century, a crisis characterized by drastic change and incessant conflict ensued. The Nunu abandoned their ancestral estates to take up new forms of competition in river towns, causing a conflict of identity which culminated in civil war in the 1960s
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    ISBN: 9780511557613
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 431 pages)
    Edition: English edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 63
    Uniform Title: Proprietários, lavradores e jornaleiras
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1870-1970 ; Wirtschaft ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Sozialstruktur ; Ländlicher Raum ; Fontelas (Vila Real, Portugal) / Rural conditions ; Fontelas (Vila Real, Portugal) / Economic conditions ; Portugal ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Portugal ; Ländlicher Raum ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Geschichte 1870-1970
    Abstract: The traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements is that they are largely egalitarian, homogeneous, and survivals of archaic forms of 'agrarian collectivism'. In this book, based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, Brian Juan O'Neill offers a different perspective, questioning prevailing views on both empirical as well as theoretical and methodological grounds. Through a detailed examination of three major areas of social life - land tenure, cooperative labour exchanges, and marriage and inheritance practices - in one particular hamlet, the author demonstrates the predominance of forms of institutionalized economic inequality and social differentiation within the peasantry. Situating the local study within a wider European and Mediterranean ethnographic and geographical framework, O'Neill offers a refreshing and challenging way of combining the research methods of anthropology with those of social and economic history. His book will appeal to anthropologists, historians, sociologists, geographers and demographers interested in the present and past social structure of European village communities, as well as to those concerned with the growing links between anthropology and history
    Note: Originally published in Portuguese as Proprietdrios, Lavradores e Jornaleiras: Desigualdade Social numa Aldeia Transmontana, 1870-1978 by Publicacoes Dom Quixote, Lisbon, 1984 and Brian Juan O'Neill, 1984. - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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    ISBN: 9781139084994
    Language: English
    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: 9780511621864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 328 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
    Uniform Title: Sociologie de la famille
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Geschichte ; Families ; Families / History ; Kinship ; Marriage ; Familiensoziologie ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Sozialgeschichte ; Familiensoziologie
    Abstract: This historical anthropology of the family represents a new departure in family studies. Over the past ten years or so, the social scientific sociological analysis of the family has undergone a change, and has been obliged to reconsider its traditional view that industrialisation triggered a shift within society from the 'large family', which fulfilled all social functions from socialising the children to caring for the sick and the old, to the modern nuclear family, which was regarded solely as being the locus for emotional relationships. Historians have shown that in the past there was in fact a great variety of different family structures within a wide range of varying demographic, economic and cultural frameworks, distinctive for each society. At the same time, the interaction between sociology and social anthropology has led to a clearer conceptual analysis of that vague, polysemic term 'family'; and notions of dwelling-place, descent, marriage, the relative roles of husband and wife and parent-child relations, as well as the more general relations between generations, have in a variety of past and present social contexts been taken apart and analysed. In this book, Martine Segalen reviews and synthesises a rich wealth of often little-known European and North American historical and social anthropological material on the family. This results in a reversal of the frequently held view of the family as an institution in decline, showing it instead to be both dynamic and resistant
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    ISBN: 9780511621673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 61
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Merina (Malagasy people) / Rites and ceremonies ; Circumcision / Madagascar ; Merina (Malagasy people) / History ; Beschneidung ; Ritual ; Merina ; Hova ; Merina ; Ritual ; Beschneidung ; Merina ; Hova ; Beschneidung ; Hova ; Ritual
    Abstract: The circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar is seen by them primarily as a blessing, involving the transfer of the love and concern of the ancestors of their descendants. Yet the ritual ends in an act of ciolent wounding of the child. Similarily, while the ritual involves a symbolic assault on women, it is nonetheless welcomed by them as a mark of receiving the blessing of the ancestors. In this book, Maurice Bloch provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offers an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general. Pursuing the theme of the combination of religious joy and illumination with violence, Professor Bloch explains how, at various times, the circumcision ceremony can be a familial ritual as well as glorification of a militarist and expansionist state, or associated with anti-colonial nationalism. Describing changes that have occurred in the form of the ritual over two centuries, Professor Bloch argues that in order to understand the properties of ritual in general, it is necessary to view it over a longer time scale than anthropologists have tended to do previously. Adopting such an historical perspective enables him to identify the stability of the Merina ritual's symbolic content, despite changes in its organisation, and dramatically changing politico-economic contexts. As well as presenting an original historical approach to the anthropological study of ritua;, Professor Bloch discusses a range of general theoretical issues, including the nature of ideology, and the relationship between images created in ritual and other types of knowledge. The book will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, history, African studies, and comparative religion
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557828
    Language: English
    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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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511753091
    Language: English
    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
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621598
    Language: English
    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: 9780511521119
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (viii, 237 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 58
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Tonga (Zambezi people) / Social life and customs ; Kinship / Zambia ; Inheritance and succession (Tonga (Zambezi) law) ; Tsonga ; Sozialordnung ; Familiensoziologie ; Sambia ; Sambia ; Familiensoziologie ; Tsonga ; Sambia ; Sozialordnung ; Tsonga
    Abstract: The theme of this book is the analysis of the changes that have occurred in the kinship patterns of the Toka of South Zambia as a result of a shift in their form of production from hoe agriculture to ox-drawn ploughing. Dr Holy uses the rich, detailed ethnography that he provides about these changes to confront several theoretical issues of current anthropological interest, as well as to examine the basic methodological problems of anthropological enquiry. Emphasizing the distinction between the conceptual and cognitive world of the actors, and the transactions and events in which they engage, he argues that anthropological explanation has to account not only for structure, but also for the purposeful interaction between actors that generates that structure
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607790
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages)
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    Keywords: Cannibalism / Cross-cultural studies ; Kannibalismus ; Kulturvergleich ; Kannibalismus ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: The practice of cannibalism is in certain cultures rejected as evil, while in others it plays a central part in the ritual order. Anthropologists have offered various explanations for the existence of cannibalism, none of which, Peggy Sanday claims, is adequate. In this book she presents a new approach to understanding the phenomenon. Through a detailed examination of ritual cannibalism in selected tribal societies, and a comparison of those cases with others in which the practice is absent, she shows that cannibalism is closely linked to people's orientation to the world, and that it serves as a concrete device for distinguishing the 'cultural self' from the 'natural other'. Combining perspectives drawn from the work of Ricoeur, Freud, Hegel, and Jung and from symbolic anthropology, Sanday argues that ritual cannibalism is intimately connected both with the constructs by which the origin and continuity of life are understood and assured from one generation to the next and with the way in which that understanding is used to control the vital forces considered necessary for the cannibalism in a culture derives from basic human attitudes toward life and death, combined with the realities of the material world. As well as making an original contribution to the understanding of the significant human practice, Sanday also develops a theoretical argument of wider relevance to anthropologists, sociologists, and other readers interested in the function and meaning of cannibalism
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511753022
    Language: English
    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: 9780511560323
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 3
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1840 ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Migration, Internal / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Binnenwanderung ; Auswanderung ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Großbritannien ; England / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century ; Wales / Emigration and immigration / History / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Wales ; England ; Binnenwanderung ; England ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Wales ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; England ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Binnenwanderung ; England ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Wales ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; England ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Geschichte 1861-1900 ; Geschichte 1840
    Abstract: In this study Mr Baines has devised a method of estimating the county of birth of all permanent emigrants from England and Wales in the last four decades of the nineteenth century - some 2.3 million people. He has related the rate and timing of migration to the social and economic characteristics of the counties, which has provided answers to many of the outstanding questions in the history of English emigration, including, for example, the idea of an 'Atlantic Economy' and the extent to which Welsh migration was distinct from or integrated into the English pattern. Briefly, the book concludes that the emigrants did not, in the main, come from 'peripheral' parts of the country. Probably one half of the emigrants had known no environment other than a large town. It is likely that English and Welsh emigrants were more likely to return than emigrants from any European country. Most of the emigrants seem to have been well-informed about the costs and benefits of moving - most probably from the experience of previous emigrants. English emigration could not therefore have been a simple flight from poverty, but was rather based on a well considered decision to leave home, although not necessarily for ever
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511628283
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 390 pages)
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    DDC: 361.6/1
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    Keywords: Policy sciences ; State, The ; Staatslehre ; Politischer Prozess ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Staat ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Politischer Prozess ; Staat ; Politische Wissenschaft ; Staatslehre
    Abstract: Until recently, dominant theoretical paradigms in the comparative social sciences did not highlight states as organizational structures or as potentially autonomous actors. Indeed, the term 'state' was rarely used. Current work, however, increasingly views the state as an agent which, although influenced by the society that surrounds it, also shapes social and political processes. The contributors to this volume, which includes some of the best recent interdisciplinary scholarship on states in relation to social structures, make use of theoretically engaged comparative and historical investigations to provide improved conceptualizations of states and how they operate. Each of the book's major parts presents a related set of analytical issues about modern states, which are explored in the context of a wide range of times and places, both contemporary and historical, and in developing and advanced-industrial nations. The first part examines state strategies in newly developing countries. The second part analyzes war making and state making in early modern Europe, and discusses states in relation to the post-World War II international economy. The third part pursues new insights into how states influence political cleavages and collective action. In the final chapter, the editors bring together the questions raised by the contributors and suggest tentative conclusions that emerge from an overview of all the articles. As a programmatic work that proposes new directions for the analysis of modern states, the volume will appeal to a wide range of teachers and students of political science, political economy, sociology, history, and anthropology
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557811
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 135 pages)
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    DDC: 305.8/00941
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    Keywords: Minderheit ; Politik ; Minorities / Government policy / Great Britain ; Rassenpolitik ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Race relations ; Great Britain / Ethnic relations ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Rassenpolitik
    Abstract: The years 1965–8 were the 'liberal hour' for race relations policy in Britain. Laws were then enacted, enforcement agencies created, and community relations councils established. These bodies, and their personnel, have been called 'the race relations industry'. To many people, the output of this 'industry' appears disappointing relative to the input into it. This book examines a variety of optimistic assumptions about the speed with which immigrants adjust to a new environment; inadequate minority bargaining power; insufficiently speedy and decisive action by the central government; unwillingness on the part of the white majority to accept the desirability of such action; and the difficulty of fitting a race relations policy into an administrative system created to serve an ethnically homogeneous population. The policies initiated in 1965 reflected the ascendancy of liberal over conservative assumptions about race relations. Now these are under sharp attack from a radical standpoint. Promoting Racial Harmony shows how the debate has changed, drawing upon recent economic theory to formulate the issues in an original but non-technical manner
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521314518
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 196 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 55
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    Uniform Title: Le cercle des feux
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    Keywords: Yanomami ; Erzählung
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557941
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 191 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 57
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    Keywords: Age groups ; Ethnology / Africa, Sub-Saharan ; Social structure ; Altersgruppe ; Sozialstruktur ; Sozialordnung ; Altersklasse ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Ostafrika ; Ostafrika ; Sozialordnung ; Altersklasse ; Subsaharisches Afrika ; Altersgruppe ; Sozialstruktur
    Abstract: All societies are differentiated by age. But in some, this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized, formally graded age classes, the members of which share an assigned 'structural' age, if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age group systems has become one of the classic issues in modern social anthropology, although until now there has been no comprehensive explication of these complex forms of social organization. In this book, Bernardo Bernardi, one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems, provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511753084
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    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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