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  • 1
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    Book
    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-008907-5 , 978-0-19-008907-8
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 201, 4 ungezählte Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Afrika Westafrika ; Film ; Kolonialismus ; Geschichte
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  • 2
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-879760-9 , 0-19-879760-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 380 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Medieval European History
    Keywords: Europa Mittelalter ; Verwandtschaft ; Familie ; Verwandtschaftsstruktur ; Verwandtschaftssystem ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziale Beziehung ; Genealogie ; Geschichte
    Abstract: A new and wide-ranging examination of kinship in medieval Europe, which explores the origins of kinship studies in the 19th century, the ancient philosophical traditions that influenced the social thought of pre-modern Europe, and how kinship was perceived and experienced in early Europe between the late Roman Empire and the 12th century.
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Visions of Kinship in Medieval Europe; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; PART I: UNWINDING; 1: The Modernity of Kinship; 2: Germanist Scholarship and the Kinship Enterprise; 3: Disambiguation in the Twentieth Century; THE GLORY AND THE DREAM OF THE ANNALISTES; THE EARLY MEDIEVAL ARISTOCRACY APPEARS; THE IDOL OF MECHANISMS; PART II: REWINDING; 4: The Made and the Given, the Carnal and the Spiritual; 5: Kinship in the City; MACHINA EX DEO; ARISTOTLE'S FRACTAL HOUSEHOLD; "THE MOST RIGHTEOUS PRINCIPLE OF LOVE"; CONFESSING KINSHIP. - PART III: REVEALING6: The Sanctity of Kinship; FROM ROMAN DIGNITY TO CHRISTIAN SANCTITY; THE BROTHERHOOD OF RURICIUS OF LIMOGES; A FAMILY'S TWO BODIES; LIFE OF THE FATHERS; 7: "More Noble by Sanctity"; MONASTICISM AND THE FRANKISH ARISTOCRACY; NATAL FAMILY, HOLY FAMILY; FAMILIA CHRISTI; NOBILIOR SANCTITATE; 8: The Nature of Things; DHUODA'S PATRES AND GENITORES; NITHARD'S FAMILIA; 9: Families in Trust; MONASTIC CARTULARIES; THE HUOSI OF BAVARIA: THE DITMARSCHEN OF PROSOPOGRAPHY; AN EARLY MEDIEVAL DESCENT GROUP IN ALSACE; HRABANUS MAURUS'S X FILES; 10: "The Genealogical Unity of Mankind". - "WITHOUT FATHER, WITHOUT MOTHER, WITHOUT GENEALOGY"BIBLICAL GENEALOGY; THE GENEALOGY OF HISTORY; THE GENEALOGIAE; POST-CAROLINGIAN GENEALOGIES IN FLANDERS; LAMBERT OF ST. OMER'S GENEALOGICAL ALMANAC; Conclusion: The Magic of Kinship; Bibliography; 1. MANUSCRIPTS; 2. ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SOURCES; 3. MODERN WORKS; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 331-355
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  • 3
    ISBN: 978-0-19-063028-7 , 978-0-19-063027-0
    Language: English
    Pages: IX, 200 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Ländliches Gebiet ; Dorf ; Telekommunikation ; Handy ; Sozialer Wandel ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Entwicklung
    Abstract: In A Village Goes Mobile, Sirpa Tenhunen examines how the mobile telephone has contributed to social change in rural India. Tenhunen's long-term ethnographic fieldwork in West Bengal began before the village had a phone system in place and continued through the introduction and proliferation of the smartphone. She here analyzes how mobile telephones emerged as multidimensional objects which, in addition to enabling telephone conversations, facilitated status aspirations, internet access, and entertainment practices. She explores how this multifaceted use of mobile phones has affected agency and power dynamics in economic, political, and social relationships, and how these new social constellations relate to culture and development. In eight chapters, Tenhunen asks such questions as: Who benefits from mobile telephony and how? Can people use mobile phones to change their lives, or does phone use merely amplify existing social patterns and power relationships? Can mobile telephony induce development? Going beyond the case of West Bengal, Tenhunen develops a framework to understand how new media mediates social processes within interrelated social spheres and local hierarchies by relating, media-saturated forms of interaction to pre-existing contexts.
    Description / Table of Contents: Theorizing phone use contexts and mediation -- Why mobile phones became ubiquitous : remediation and socialities -- Mobile telephony, economy and social logistics -- Mediating gender : mobile phones and women's agency -- Mediating conflict : mobile telephony and politics -- Smartphones, caste and intersectionalities.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179-196
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-947605-3 , 10-0-19-947605-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 233 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Indien Telekommunikation ; Mittelklasse ; Massenkommunikation ; Technologie ; Arbeit ; Arbeitsethik ; Handel ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
    Abstract: 1-800-Worlds chronicles the labour practices, life-worlds, and media atmospheres of Indian call centre workers, and locates them within the socio-political context of the new Indian middle classes.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [207]-223
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  • 5
    ISBN: 0-19-948570-4 , 978-0-19-9485703
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 329 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Indien Nagaland ; Naga ; Indigenität ; Konfliktmanagement ; Geschichte ; Unabhängigkeitskampf ; Konflikt, sozialer ; Entwicklung ; Korruption ; Demokratie ; Unruhen ; Gewalt ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: In the Shadows of Naga Insurgency is a fine-grained critique of the Naga struggle for political redemption, the state's response to it, and the social corollaries and carry-overs of protracted political conflict on everyday life. Offering an ethnographic underview, Jelle Wouters illustrates an 'insurgency complex' that reveals how embodied experiences of resistance and state aggression, violence and volatility, and struggle and suffering link together to shape social norms, animate local agitations, and complicate inter-personal and inter-tribal relations in expected and unexpected ways. The book locates the historical experiences and agency of the Naga people and relates these to ordinary villagers' perceptions, actions, and moral reasoning vis-a-vis both the Naga Movement and the state and its lucrative resources. It thus presses us to rethink our views on tribalism, conflict and ceasefire, development, corruption, and democratic politics.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: The Shadows of Naga Insurgency 2. Clan, Village, Tribe, and Naga Nation 3. Ceasefire as Politics: Factions, Taxes, and National Workers 4. Seeing the State: Violence, 'Seduction', and Neo-Tribal Developmentalism 5. Corruption and the Moral Economy of State Resources 6. The State as a Resource: The Quest for Frontier Nagaland 7. Performing Democracy in Nagaland 8. Epilogue: Life Beyond the Shadows of Naga Insurgency
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 290-314
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  • 6
    ISBN: 978-0-19-881249-4
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 229 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Keywords: Großbritannien Literatur ; Religion ; Kultur ; Kulturanthropologie ; Eliot, George ; Pater, Walter ; Matthew, Arnold
    Abstract: This book explores how a group of Victorian literary writers - including George Eliot, Walter Pater, and Matthew Arnold - became interested in the emerging anthropology of religion, which sought to explain religion not in terms of doctrines or beliefs but as a function of race or ethnicity.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [201]-222
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  • 7
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-948711-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 304 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Islam Muslime ; Gesellschaft, westliche ; Amerika ; Europa ; Australien ; Multikulturalität ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wahrnehmung ; Fremdwahrnehmung ; Islamophobie ; Beziehungen Christentum-Islam ; Migration
    Abstract: This book focuses on the way Muslims and mainstream societies in the West, especially in America, Australia, and Europe, perceive each other. It focuses on the meaning of being a Muslim in a multicultural, multi-religious, and technologically developed world. The essays in the volume explore the socio-political, cultural, and historical differences between the two groups, Muslims and Western societies, while attempting to reconcile some of these differences in creative ways by initiating constructive dialogues between them. It also takes into account the tensions, challenges, and complexities between these communities across various contexts, including, schools, universities, media, government, private, and public institutions. This volume thus explores this interplay between perceptions and misperceptions by delving into the societal structures of Western host and immigrant communities.
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  • 8
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-882905-8
    Language: English
    Pages: 336 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Indien Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Demographie ; Geschichte
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 281-302
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  • 9
    ISBN: 978-0199469864
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 343 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Andamanen ; Migration ; Politik ; Sozialer Status ; Diskriminierung ; Indigenität ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Bevölkerungspolitik ; Anthropologie, politische ; Postkolonialismus ; Subalternität ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Note: Literaturangaben Seite 305-327
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  • 10
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-065210-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 409 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Religion and Global Politics
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Usbekistan ; Tadschikistan ; Kirgisien ; Sowjet-Union ; Islam ; Islamophobie ; Sufismus ; Religion und Politik ; Ferghanatal 〈Zentral-Asien〉
    Abstract: Central Asia was the sole Muslim region of the former Russian Empire lacking a centralized Islamic organization, or muftiate. When the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin created such a body for the region as part of his religious reforms during World War II, he acknowledged that the Muslim faith could enjoy some legal protection under Communist rule. From a skeletal and disorganized body run by one family of Islamic scholars out of a modest house in Tashkent's old city, this muftiate acquired great political importance in the eyes of Soviet policymakers and equally significant symbolic significance for many Muslims. Relying on recently declassified Central Asian archival sources, most of them never seen before by historians, Eren Tasar argues that Islam did not merely "survive" the decades from World War II until the Soviet collapse in 1991, but actively shaped the political and social context of Soviet Central Asia. Muslim figures, institutions, and practices evolved in response to the social and political reality of Communist rule. Through an analysis that spans all aspects of Islam under Soviet rule-from debates about religion inside the Communist Party, to the muftiate's efforts to acquire control over mosques across Central Asia, changes in Islamic practices and dogma, and overseas propaganda targeting the Islamic World-Soviet and Muslim offers a radical new reading of Islam's resilience and evolution under atheist rule.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 379 - 395
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-061804-9 , 978-0-19-061805-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 212 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    Keywords: Wissen Wissenssoziologie ; Erzählung ; Rhetorik ; Sprachwissenschaft ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Sozialer Wandel
    Abstract: Storytelling has proliferated today, from TED Talks and Humans of New York to a plethora of story-coaching agencies and consultants. These narratives are typically heartbreaking accounts of poverty, mistreatment, and struggle that often move us deeply. But what do they move us to? And what are the stakes in the crafting and use of storytelling?In Curated Stories, Sujatha Fernandes considers the rise of storytelling alongside the broader shift to neoliberal, free-market economies to argue that stories have been reconfigured to promote entrepreneurial self-making and restructured as easily digestible soundbites mobilized toward utilitarian ends. Fernandes roams the globe and returns with stories from the Afghan Women's Writing Project, the domestic workers movement and the undocumented student Dreamer movement in the United States, and the Misi n Cultura project in Venezuela to show how the conditions under which the stories are told, the tropes through which they are narrated, and the ways in which they are responded to may actually disguise the deeper contexts of global inequality. Curated stories shift the focus away from structural problems and defuse the confrontational politics of social movements. Not just a critical examination of contemporary use of narrative and its wider impact on our collective understanding of pressing social issues, Curated Stories also explores how storytelling might be reclaimed to allow for the complexity of experience to be expressed in pursuit of transformative social change.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [193]-205
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  • 12
    ISBN: 978-0-19-879424-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 215 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition
    Series Statement: Critical Frontiers of Theory, Research, and Policy in International Development Studies
    DDC: 388.09678
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    Keywords: Afrika Tansania ; Mega-City ; Stadt ; Privatisierung ; Mobilität ; Dar es Salaam 〈Stadt, Tansania〉
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  • 13
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-968741-2 , 978-0-19-968741-1
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 239 Seiten
    Edition: First edition
    DDC: 330
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    Keywords: Ost-Europa Sowjet-Union, ehemalige ; Mongolei ; China ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaft, informelle ; Tausch ; Handel ; Finanzwesen ; Sozialismus ; Postkommunismus ; Neoliberalismus ; Ethik ; Politische Ökonomie ; Soziologie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Schattenwirtschaft ; Korruption ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Wirtschaftliche Bedingungen ; Tagungsbericht ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012 ; Fallstudie ; Konferenzschrift 2012
    Abstract: Since the onset of the global economic crisis, activists, policy makers, and social scientists have been searching for alternative paradigms through which to re-imagine contemporary modes of thinking and writing about economic orders. These attempts have led to their re-engagement with fundamental anthropological categories of economic analysis, such as barter, debt, and the gift. Focusing on favours, and the paradoxes of action, meaning, and significance they engender, this volume advocates for their addition to this list of economic universals. It presents a critical re-interrogation of the conceptual relationships between gratuitous and instrumental behaviour, and raises novel questions about the intersection of economic actions with the ethical and expressive aspects of human life. Scholars of post-socialist politics and society have often used 'favour' as a by-word for corruption and clientelism. The contributors to this volume treat favours, and the doing of favours, as a distinct mode of acting, rather than as a form of 'masked' economic exchange or simply an expression of goodwill. Casting their comparative net from post-socialist Central, Eastern, and South Eastern Europe; to the former Soviet Union, Mongolia, and post-Maoist China, the contributors to this volume show how gratuitous behaviour shapes a plethora of different actions, practices, and judgements across religious and political life, imaginative practices, and local moral economies. They show that favours do not operate 'outside' or 'beyond' the economic sphere. Rather, they constitute a distinct mode of action which has economic consequences, without being fully explicable in terms of transactional cost-benefit analyses.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction, re-imagining economies (after socialism): ethics, favours and moral sentiments / Nicolette Makovicky and David Henig -- 2 The ambivalence of favour: paradoxes of Russia's economy of favours / Alena Ledeneva -- 3 A new look at favours: the case of post-socialist higher education / Caroline Humphrey -- 4 Giving, taking and getting by: help and indifference in Moscow's temorary housing market / Madeleine Reeves -- 5 The anti-favour: ideasthesia, aesthtics and obligation in Southwest China / Katherine Swancutt -- 6 The human economy of Pa´linka in Hungary: a case study in Longue Dure´e lubrication / Chris Hann -- 7 Making history, making politics: socialist and post-socialist elite economies of favour in Bulgaria and Ukraine / Deema Kaneff -- 8 Interior spectacles: the art of the informal among the bootleg miners in Walbrzych, Poland / Tomasz Rakowski -- 9 A good deal is not a crime: moral cosmologies of favours in Muslim Bosnia / David Henig -- 10 The 'shadows' of informality in rural Poland / Nicolette Makovicky -- 11 Afterword: the social warmth of paradox / Martin Holbraad.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-046620-6/Online , 978-0-19-046617-6
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 526 Seiten
    Edition: Second edition
    Keywords: Religiöse Bewegung Religion ; Kult ; New Age ; Esoterik ; Sekte ; Handbuch
    Abstract: The first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements appeared in early 2004. At the time, it was a much-needed overview of a rapidly-expanding area of study; it received recognition in the form of a Choice book award. The second edition brings this task up to date. In addition to updating most of the original topics, the new edition takes in more topics by expanding the volume from 22 to 32 chapters, and enlarges the scope of the book by doubling the number of contributors from outside of North America. Following an introductory section devoted to social-scientific approaches to New Religious Movements (NRMs), the second section focuses on what has been uppermost in the minds of the general public, namely the controversies that have surrounded these groups. The third section examines certain themes in the study of NRMs, such as the status of children and women in such movements. The fourth section presents religious studies approaches by looking at NRM mythologies, rituals and the like. The final section covers the subfields that have grown out of NRM studies and become specializations in their own right, from the study of modern Paganism to the study of the New Age Movement. Finally, the present volume has a thematic focus; readers interested in specific NRMs are advised to consult the second edition of James R. Lewis and Jesper Aa. Petersen`s edited volume, Controversial New Religions (Oxford University Press 2014).
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  • 15
    ISBN: 978-0-19-875931-7 , 0-19-875931-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 232 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten, 8 ungezählte Seiten Bildtafeln
    Keywords: Ost-Afrika Sachkultur ; Materielle Kultur ; Geschichte ; Archäologie ; Swahili-Cluster ; Folklore ; Soziales Leben
    Abstract: A Material Culture focuses on objects in Swahili society through the elaboration of an approach that sees people and things as caught up in webs of mutual interaction. It therefore provides both a new theoretical intervention in some of the key themes in material culture studies, including the agency of objects and the ways they were linked to social identities, through the development of the notion of a biography of practice. These theoretical discussions are explored through the archaeology of the Swahili, on the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa. This coast was home to a series of settlements from the seventh century onwards; some grew to become coral-built 'stonetowns'. These precolonial towns, such as Kilwa Kisiwani, Mombasa, and Gede, represent a unique urban tradition. They were deeply involved in maritime trade, carried out by a diverse Islamic population. This book suggests that the Swahili are a highly-significant case study for exploration of the relationship between objects and people in the past, as the society was constituted and defined through a particular material setting. Further, it is suggested that this relationship was subtly different than in other areas, and particularly from western models that dominate prevailing analysis. The case is made for an alternative form of materiality, perhaps common to the wider Indian Ocean world, with an emphasis on redistribution and circulation rather than on the accumulation of wealth. The reader will therefore gain familiarity with a little-known and fascinating culture, as well as appreciating the ways that non-western examples can add to our theoretical models.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-027550-2 , 978-0-19-027550-1
    Language: English
    Pages: 230 Seiten
    Keywords: Ehe Elternschaft ; Polygamie ; Soziale Organisation ; Verhalten, sexuelles ; Gewalt, sexuelle ; Erwachsener ; Homosexualität ; Gottheit
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-726588-8 , 0-19-726588-X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxviii, 320 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: 1. edition
    Series Statement: Fontes Historiae Africanae. New Series 13
    DDC: 960
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    Keywords: Nuer Afrika ; Sudan ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Geschichte ; Soziales Leben ; Folklore ; Imperialismus ; Quelle ; Quelle
    Abstract: The Nuer people of South Sudan hold a special if unwanted place in imperial history as the object of Britain's last 'pacification' campaign in Africa. Territorial conquest was completed with the annexation of the independent sultanate of Darfur in 1916, but military pacification continued throughout the first thirty years of the twentieth century, culminating in 'the Nuer Settlement'. These campaigns are important for another reason: they were the cause of the Sudan government redirecting the anthropologist, E.E. Evans-Pritchard (against his will) to study of the Nuer, which he did in a succession of field visits between 1930 and 1936. The trilogy of monographs that he published were formative in the development of British social anthropology and are one of the main reasons why the Nuer are so well-known internationally today. This volume consists of twenty-five administrative reports, supplemented by transcripts of five interviews with Nuer and Dinka participants. Together these cover the significant events in the contact, conquest, and pacification of the Nuer from 1898 to 1930. The documents contain some of the earliest twentieth-century ethnographic descriptions of the Nuer and their Dinka and Mabaan neighbours. Together these sources provide an historical context for further understanding Evans-Pritchard's ethnography, as well as a more detailed understanding of the events that led to incorporation of the Nuer into the colonial state. The final document is an abstract of a talk given by Evans-Pritchard to the Oxford Summer School on Colonial Administration in 1938. This contained observations, based in part on his fieldwork among the Nuer, which are relevant today to understanding the post-independence history of South Sudan. This book is a significant contribution to the source materials on the history of South Sudan and for the study of the relationship between colonial states and the development of the discipline of social anthropology.
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    ISBN: 978-0-415-75494-1 , 978-0-19-713600-3 /Hb.
    Language: English
    Pages: XVIII, 364 Seiten
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    Series Statement: London Oriental Series 36
    Keywords: Islamische Staaten Islam ; Staat ; Recht, islamisches ; Rechtsethnologie ; Jihad ; Mittelalter ; Politik ; Theorie, politische ; Staat und Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Religion and politics: the law -- The community and the state -- Kharijis and Zaydis: Murjiis, Qadaris and Mutazila -- The use and abuse of sovereignty: Abu Yusuf, Ibn al-Muqaffa, al-Jai and Ibn al-Qutayba -- Al-Baqillani and al-Baghdadi -- Al-Mawardi: Wizara and Imara -- Al-Juwayni and al-Ghazali: the sultanate -- Fakhr al-Din Razi: the dissociation of religious and temporal power -- The extinction of the Caliphate: Ibn Jamaa and Ibn Taymiyya -- The historical theory: Ibn Khaldun -- The Imam/Sultan: Fal Allah B. Ruzbihan Khunji -- The relations of Muslims and non-Muslims: Jihad: taxation and the conquered lands -- The Shia: the Imamiyya -- The Fuqaha' and the holders of power -- The Safawid dilemma -- The Ismailiyya -- The individual and the state -- Appendix: Al-Farabi: the good city -- Glossary.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [338]-354
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-946047-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxxviii, 355 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first edition
    Keywords: Indien Film ; Bollywood ; Globalisierung, kulturelle ; Kult ; Wahrnehmung ; Held ; Digitale Medien ; Tagungsbericht ; Khan, Shahrukh
    Description / Table of Contents: Stardom And Globalized India -- Unthinking SRK and Global Bollywood -- SRK, Cinema, and the Citizen: Perils of a Digital Superhero -- Innocent Abroad: SRK, Karan Johar, and the Indian Diasporic Romance -- The Don's World: Designing the Milieu of Shah Rukh Khan -- Beyond Diasporic Boundaries: New Masculinities in Global Bollywood -- My Name Is Khan: Reinventing the Muslim Hero on the Global Stage -- Intermedia, Assemblage, SRK -- Fandom: Local Receptions And Digital Culture -- A Shah Rukh Khan Remix: Contemporary Negotiations of Indo-Trinidadian Masculinity -- Fandom beyond Borders and Boundaries: Peru in Love with SRK -- Shah Rukh Khan, Participatory Audiences, and the Internet -- Dollywood: The Pleasures of Playing with Mini Khan -- Harlequining Shah Rukh Khan through Media 'Patches': Composing the Global Image of an Indian Star in the Italian Mediascape -- King of Bollywood? The Construction of a Global Image in Shah Rukh Khans Dance Choreography -- 'I Dont Need To Do This, But Youve Got To Have Passion': Shah Rukh Khans Manifold Economic Activities.
    Note: "This book is based on the conference 'Shah Rukh Khan and Global Bollywood' that took place in Vienna in 2010. This three day event brought together scholars from various subject disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences to confer about a wide range of topics concerning the global cultural phenomenon of Shah Rukh Khan and Bollywood cinema"--Acknowledgements
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 203 Seiten
    Series Statement: Understanding Qualitative Research
    Keywords: Ethnologie Schriftsteller ; Autoethnographie ; Theorie, ethnologische ; Identität ; Persönlichkeit
    Abstract: Autoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the research process. Autoethnography acknowledges and accomodates subjectivity, emotionality, and the researcher's influence on research. In this book, the authors provide a historical and conceptual overview of autoethnography. They share their stories of coming to autoethnography and identify key concerns and considerations that led to the development of the method. Next, they outline the purposes and practices-the core ideals-of autoethnography, how autoethnographers can accomplish these ideals, and why researchers might choose to do autoethnography. They describe the processes of doing autoethnography, conducting fieldwork, discussing ethics in research, and interpreting and analyzing personal experience, and they explore the various modes and techniques used and involved in writing autoethnography. They conclude with goals for creating and assessing autoethnography and describe the future of autoethnographic inquiry. Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples of their work and share key resources. This book will serve as both a guide to the practices of doing autoethnography and an exemplar of autoethnographic research processes and representations.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Introduction to Autoethnography ; Chapter 2: Autoethnographic Research Design and Philosophy ; Chapter 3: Doing Autoethnography ; Chapter 4: Representing Autoethnography ; Chapter 5: Evaluating Autoethnography ; Chapter 6: Resources for Doing and Writing Autoethnography ; References
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-979669-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 543 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Oxford Library of Psychology
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    Keywords: Identität Ethnizität ; Ethnopsychologie ; Multikulturalität ; Beziehungen, transnationale ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Multiculturalism is a prevalent worldwide societal phenomenon. Aspects of our modern life, such as migration, economic globalization, multicultural policies, and cross-border travel and communication have made intercultural contacts inevitable. High numbers of multicultural individuals (23-43% of the population by some estimates) can be found in many nations where migration has been strong (e.g., Australia, U.S., Western Europe, Singapore) or where there is a history of colonization (e.g., Hong Kong). Many multicultural individuals are also ethnic and cultural minorities who are descendants of immigrants, majority individuals with extensive multicultural experiences, or people with culturally mixed families; all people for whom identification and/or involvement with multiple cultures is the norm. Despite the prevalence of multicultural identity and experiences, until the publication of this volume, there has not yet been a comprehensive review of scholarly research on the psychological underpinning of multiculturalism. The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity fills this void. It reviews cutting-edge empirical and theoretical work on the psychology of multicultural identities and experiences. As a whole, the volume addresses some important basic issues, such as measurement of multicultural identity, links between multilingualism and multiculturalism, the social psychology of multiculturalism and globalization, as well as applied issues such as multiculturalism in counseling, education, policy, marketing and organizational science, to mention a few. This handbook will be useful for students, researchers, and teachers in cultural, social, personality, developmental, acculturation, and ethnic psychology. It can also be used as a source book in advanced undergraduate and graduate courses on identity and multiculturalism, and a reference for applied psychologists and researchers in the domains of education, management, and marketing. Review: This excellent book, written by an international collection of experts, addresses an important topic in a comprehensive manner. The book has definitely fulfilled the purpose for which it is written, and the reader will not be disappointed. Doody's Notes The Oxford Handbook of Multicultural Identity is an important and necessary collection providing both wide-ranging and deep access to key issues, perspectives, theory, and research on multicultural identities and experiences in their societal and social psychological contexts. Bernardo M. Ferdman, PsycCRITIQUES,
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: the psychology of multicultural identity and experiences / Vero´nica Benet-Marti´nez and Ying-yi Hong -- Dynamic multiculturalism: the interplay of socio-cognitive, neural, and genetic mechanisms / Ying-yi Hong and Mark Khey -- The bilingual brain: language, culture, and identity / Naira´n Ramirez-Esparza and Adria´n Garci´a-Sierra -- The identity dynamics of acculturation and multiculturalism: situating acculturation in context / Seth J. Schwartz, Vivian L. Vignoles, Rupert Brown, and Hanna Zagefka -- Multicultural societies / John W. Berry and David L. Sam -- The social psychology of multiculturalism: identity and intergroup relations / Kay Deaux and Maykel Verkuyten -- Exploring the identity autonomy perspective (IAP): an integrative theoretical approach to multicultural and multiracial identity / Diana T. Sanchez, Margaret J. Shih, and Leigh S. Wilton -- Multiple groups, multiple identities and intersectionality / Isis H. Settles and Nicole T. Buchanan -- Psychological science of globalization / Angela K.-Y. Leung, Lin Qiu, and Chi-Yue Chiu -- Assessment of psychological acculturation and multiculturalism: an overview of measures in the public domain / Ozgur Celenk and Fons J. R. van de Vijver -- Implicit multicultural identities / Thierry Devos and ThuyLoan Vu -- Personality and multicultural effectiveness / Karen I. van der See and Jan Pieter van Oudenhoven -- Variations in multicultural experience: influence of bicultural identity integration on socio-cognitive processes and outcomes / Chi-Ying Cheng, Fiona Lee, Vero´nica Benet-Marti´nez and Que-Lam Huynh -- Multiculturalism and adjustment / Joseph G. Ponterotto and Alexander W. Fietzer -- Identity formation in bicultural youth: a development perspective / Paul Vedder and Jean S. Phinney -- Childhood socialization and academic performance of bicultural youth / Jayanthi Mistry, Mariah M. Contreras, and Elizabeth Pufall-Jones -- Multicultural education and global citizens / James A. Banks -- Multicultural counseling and therapy counseling for social justice / Leyla M. Pe´rez-Gualdro´n and Christine J. Yeh -- Bridging cultural divides: traversing organizational and psychological perspectives on multiculturalism / Mary Yoko Brannen and Fiona Lee -- Cultural diversity and marketing: the multicultural customer / Laura A. Perrachio, Melissa G. Bublitz, and David Luna -- Policies for managing cultural diversity / Cristina Novoa and Fathali M. Moghaddam -- Managing identity issues in intercultural conflict communication: developing a multicultural identity attunement lens / Stella Ting-Toomey.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-933343-1 , 978-1-85065-979-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIX, 463 Seiten
    Keywords: Salafismus Islam ; Islam und Politik ; Fundamentalismus, islamischer ; Religiöse Bewegung ; Jihad ; Identität ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: ""Salafism" and "jihadi-Salafism" have become significant doctrinal trends in contemporary Islamic thought, yet the West has largely failed to offer a sophisticated and discerning definition of these movements. The contributors to Global Salafism carefully outline not only the differences in the Salafi schools but the broader currents of Islamic thought that constitute this trend as well. They examine both the regional manifestations of the phenomenon and its shared, essential doctrines. Their analyses highlight Salafism's inherent ambivalence and complexitites--the 'out-antiquing the antique' that has brought Islamic thought into the modern age while maintaining its relationship to an older, purer authenticity. Emphasising the subtle tensions between local and glocal aspirations within the "Salafi method", Global Salafism investigates the movement like no other study currently available"-- from publishers
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part 1 -- SALAFIST DOCTRINE -- 1. On the Nature of Salafi Thought and Action -- Appendix al-Qaeda's Creed and Path -- 2. Between Revolution and Apoliticism: Nasir al-Din al-Albani and his Impact on the Shaping of Contemporary Salafism -- 3. The Transformation of a Radical Concept: al-wala' wa-l-bara' in the Ideology of Abu Muhammad al-Maqdisi -- 4. Jihadi-Salafism and the Shi'is: Remarks about the Intellectual Roots of anti-Shi'ism -- 5. Salafism in Pakistan: The Ahl-e Hadith Movement -- Part 2 -- SALAFISM AND POLITICS -- 6. The Salafi Critique of Islamism: Doctrine, Difference and the Problem of Islamic Political Action in Contemporary Sudan -- 7. Ambivalent Doctrines and Conflicts in the Salafi Movement in Indonesia -- 8. Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong as a Principle of Social Action: The Case of the Egyptian al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya -- 9. Salafi Formations in Palestine: The Limits of a de-Palestinised Milieu -- Part 3 -- JIHADI-SALAFISM -- 10. Jihadi-Salafis or Revolutionaries? On Religion and Politics in the Study of Militant Islamism -- 11. Debates within the Family: Jihadi-Salafi Debates on Strategy, Takfir, Extremism, Suicide Bombings and the Sense of the Apocalypse -- 12. "Destructive Doctrinairians": Abu Mus'ab al-Suri's Critique of the Salafis in the Jihadi Current -- Part 4 -- THE LOCAL AND THE GLOBAL IN SALAFISM -- 13. The Local and the Global in Saudi Salafi Discourse -- 14. How Transnational is Salafism in Yemen? -- 15. Growth and Fragmentation: The Salafi Movement in Bale, Ethiopia -- Part 5 -- SALAFISM AND IDENTITY -- 16. Salafism in France: Ideology, Practices and Contradictions -- 17. The Attraction of "Authentic Islam": Salafism and British Muslim Youth /- Sadek Hamid -- 18. Changing Worldviews and Friendship: An Exploration of the Life Stories of Two Female Salafis in the Netherlands
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-999759-6 , 978-0-19-999758-9 , 978-0-19-999760-2/electronic text
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 199 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Andhra Pradesh ; Islam ; Muslime ; Heiliger ; Kult ; Altar ; Ritual ; Askese ; Wallfahrt ; Hinduismus ; Beziehungen Hinduismus-Islam ; Kullayappa ; Gugudu 〈Stadt, Indien〉
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-966405-4 , 978-0-19-966406-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 365 S. , Illustrationen
    Edition: First edition, reprinted
    Keywords: Technologie Technologie, moderne ; Kommunikationstechnologie ; Sozialer Aspekt ; Computer ; Soziale Medien ; Digitale Medien ; Materielle Kultur ; Kommunikation
    Abstract: Ask a person on the street whether new technologies bring about important social change and you are likely to hear a resounding "yes." But the answer is less definitive amongst academics who study technology and social practice. Scholarly writing has been heavily influenced by the ideology of technological determinism - the belief that some types or technologically driven social changes are inevitable and cannot be stopped. Rather than argue for or against notions of determinism, the authors in this book ask how the materiality (the arrangement of physical, digital, or rhetorical materials into particular forms that endure across differences in place and time) of technologies, ranging from computer-simulation tools and social media, to ranking devices and rumours, is actually implicated in the process of formal and informal organizing. The book builds a new theoretical framework to consider the important socio-technical changes confronting people's everyday experiences in and outside of work. Leading scholars in the field contribute original chapters examining the complex interactions between technology and the social, between artefact and humans. The discussion spans multiple disciplines, including management, information systems, informatics, communication, sociology, and the history of technology, and opens up a new area of research regarding the relationship between materiality and organizing. Review: Materiality and Organizing marks a long overdue turning point in the scholarly study of the human-technology relationship that now engulfs our lives. For too long, researchers have tended to treat technology as a dream conjured by agents and imbued with their projects. This brilliant sequence of essays restores and deepens the entire field of perception. It finally returns us to the facticity of technology as it persistently redefines the horizon of the possible. These tightly argued masterpieces reestablish technology as embodied and significant. Most importantly, they return us to materiality just in time. With each passing day, technology becomes both more abstracted from its physical manifestations and more ubiquitous, producing a dematerialized materiality. Only a relentless focus on this paradox will yield the intellectual tools that are required to participate in our own destinies. Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor, Harvard Business School This volume is a much-needed exploration of the material aspects of the technologies that have reshaped our world. For two decades, a narrative framing technologies as social constructions has led to important advances in our understanding of their nature and impacts. Materiality and Organizing provides an important counterbalance to this approach in its exploration of the dimensions of materiality that constrain but also enable technologies to connect with and affect people, organizations, and society. This volume is required reading for scholars interested in technology, its development, and its impacts. Its insights into information technology are particularly significant. Professor Marshall Scott Poole, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign For too long the materiality of social life has been ignored by sociologists and organization studies scholars. The role of materiality in social life is turning out to be one of the most interesting and difficult issues in the field. This multidisciplinary collection does not offer a single solution but offers the latest thoughts of scholars who try and take materiality seriously in their own research. The resulting volume is a deep and fascinating collection of essays. Professor Trevor Pinch, Cornell University
    Description / Table of Contents: The challenge of materiality: origins, scope, and prospects / Jannis Kallinikos, Paul M. Leonardi, and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Materiality, sociomateriality, and socio-technical systems: what do these terms mean? How are they different? Do we need them? / Paul M. Leonardi -- On sociomateriality / Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde -- Form, function, and matter: crossing the border of materiality / Jannis Kallinikos -- Ranking devices: the socio-materiality of ratings / Neil Pollock -- Great expectations: the materiality of commensurability in social media / Susan V. Scott and Wanda J. Orlikowski -- Digital materiality and the emergence of an evolutionary science of the artificial / Youngjin Yoo -- Inverse instrumentality: how technologies objectify patients and players / Hamid Ekbia and Bonnie A. Nardi -- Space matters, but how? Physical space, virtual space, and place / Anne-Laure Fayard -- Socio-material practices of design coordination: objects as plastic and partisan / Jennifer Whyte and Chris Harty -- Theorizing information technology as a material artifact in information systems research / Daniel Roby, Benoit Raymond, and Chad Anderson -- The materiality of technology: an affordance perspective / Samer Jaraj and Bijan Azad -- Pencils, Legos, and guns: a study of artifacts used in architecture / Carole Groleau and Christiane Demers -- Materiality: what are the consequences? / Brian T. Pentland and Harminder Singh -- Why matter always matters in (organizational) communication / Francois Cooren, Gail T. Fairhurst, and Romain Huet -- The materiality of rumor / Jenna Burrell -- Matter matters: materiality in philosophy, physics, and technology / Albert Borgmann.
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-992784-5 , 978-0-19-992772-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XV, 234 Seiten
    Series Statement: Oxford Ritual Studies
    Keywords: Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika ; Navaho ; Peyote-Kult ; Peyote ; Ethnomedizin ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Religion ; Postkolonialismus ; Native American Church
    Abstract: Drawing on two years of ethnographic field research among the Navajos, this book explores a controversial Native American ritual and healthcare practice: ceremonial consumption of the psychedelic Peyote cactus in the context of an indigenous postcolonial healing movement called the Native American Church (NAC), which arose in the 19th century in response to the creation of the reservations system and increasing societal ills, including alcoholism. The movement is the locus of cultural conflict with a long history in North America, and stirs very strong and often opposed emotions and moral interpretations. Joseph Calabrese describes the Peyote Ceremony as it is used in family contexts and federally funded clinical programs for Native American patients. He uses an interdisciplinary methodology that he calls clinical ethnography: an approach to research that involves clinically informed and self-reflective immersion in local worlds of suffering, healing, and normality. Calabrese combined immersive fieldwork among NAC members in their communities with a year of clinical work at a Navajo-run treatment program for adolescents with severe substance abuse and associated mental health problems. There he had the unique opportunity to provide conventional therapeutic intervention alongside Native American therapists who were treating the very problems that the NAC often addresses through ritual. Calabrese argues that if people respond better to clinical interventions that are relevant to their society's unique cultural adaptations and ideologies (as seems to be the case with the NAC), then preventing ethnic minorities from accessing traditional ritual forms of healing may actually constitute a human rights violation. Review: Biography
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments ; Preface: Hard to Swallow: The Challenge of Radical Cultural Differences ; PART 1. Anthropological and Clinical Orientations ; I Introduction: Peyote, Cultural Paradigm Clash, and the Multiplicity of the Normal ; II Expanding Our Conceptualization of the Therapeutic: Toward a Suitable Theoretical Framework for the Study of Cultural Psychiatries ; III Clinical Ethnography: Clinically-Informed Self-Reflective Immersion in Local Worlds of Suffering, Healing and Wellbeing ; PART 2. Cultural and Personal Healing in the Native American Church ; IV The Unfolding Cultural Paradigm Clash: Ritual Peyote Use and the Struggle for Postcolonial Healing in North America ; V Medicine and Spirit: The Dual Nature of Peyote ; VI The Peyote Ceremony: Psychopharmacology, Ritual Process, and Experiences of Healing ; VII Kinship, Socialization, and Ritual in Navajo Peyotist Families ; VIII Postcolonial Hybridity and Ritual Bureaucracy in New Mexico: Participant Observation in a Navajo Peyotist Healer's Clinical Program ; IX Decolonizing Our Understandings of the Normal and the Therapeutic ; References
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    ISBN: 0-19-807942-7 , 978-0-19-807942-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 318 Seiten
    Keywords: Indien Sikkim ; Himalaya ; Bhot ; Gesellschaft ; Kosmologie ; Ökologie ; Feldarbeit ; Das Heilige ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Ethnographie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 283-309
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-966426-9 , 978-0-19-966426-9
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 353 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: First edition
    Keywords: Anthropologie, philosophische Anthropologie ; Recht ; England ; Indien ; Jemen ; Algerien ; Burma ; Frankreich ; Recht, westliches ; Recht, hinduistisches ; Recht, islamisches ; Rechtsgeschichte ; Recht, traditionelles ; Kulturanthropologie ; Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat de [Leben und Werk]
    Abstract: Law and law-like institutions are visible in human societies very distant from each other in time and space. When it comes to observing and analysing such social constructs historians, anthropologists, and lawyers run into notorious difficulties in how to conceptualize them. Do they conform to a single category of 'law'? How are divergent understandings of the nature and purpose of law to be described and explained? Such questions reach to the heart of philosophical attempts to understand the nature of law, but arise whenever we are confronted by law-like practices and concepts in societies not our own. In this volume leading historians and anthropologists with an interest in law gather to analyse the nature and meaning of law in diverse societies. They start from the concept of legalism, taken from the anthropologist Lloyd Fallers, whose 1960s work on Africa engaged, unusually, with jurisprudence. The concept highlights appeal to categories and rules. The degree to which legalism in this sense informs people's lives varies within and between societies, and over time, but it can colour equally both 'simple' and 'complex' law. Breaking with recent emphases on 'practice', nine specialist contributors explore, in a wide-ranging set of cases, the place of legalism in the workings of social life. The essays make obvious the need to question our parochial common sense where ideals of moral order at other times and places differ from those of modern North Atlantic governance. State-centred law, for instance, is far from a 'central case'. Legalism may be 'aspirational', connecting people to wider visions of morality; duty may be as prominent a theme as rights; and rulers from thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century Burma appropriate, as much they impose, a vision of justice as consistency. The use of explicit categories and rules does not reduce to simple questions of power. The cases explored range from ancient Asia Minor to classical India, and from medieval England and France to Saharan oases and southern Arabia. In each case they assume no knowledge of the society or legal system discussed. The volume will appeal not only to historians and anthropologists with an interest in law, but to students of law engaged in legal theory, for the light it sheds on the strengths and limitations of abstract legal philosophy.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 307 - 348; Enthält zwei Einführungen und 9 Beiträge
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-923729-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: UNU-WIDER Studies in Development Economics
    Keywords: Entwicklungsländer Schattenwirtschaft ; Wirtschaft ; Entwicklungszusammenarbeit ; Entwicklung, politische
    Abstract: The concepts of formal and informal remain central to the theory and practice of development more than half a century after they were introduced into the debate. They help structure the way that statistical services collect data on the economies of developing countries, the development of theoretical and empirical analysis, and, most important, the formulation and implementation of policy. This volume brings together a significant new collection of studies on formality and informality in developing countries. The volume is multidisciplinary in nature, with contributions from anthropologists, economists, sociologists, and political scientists. It contains contributions from among the very best analysts in development studies. Between them the chapters argue for moving beyond the formal-informal dichotomy. Useful as it has proven to be, a more nuanced approach is needed in light of conceptual and empirical advances, and in light of the policy failures brought about by a characterization of the 'informal' as 'disorganized'. The wealth of empirical information in these studies, and in the literature more widely, can be used to develop guiding principles for intervention that are based on ground level reality.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Beyond Formality and Informality ; CONCEPTS AND MEASUREMENT ; 2. Bureaucratic Form and the Informal Economy ; 3. The Global Path: Soft Law and Non-sovereigns Formalizing the Potency of the Informal Sector ; 4. The Relevance of the Concepts of Formality and Informality: A Theoretical Appraisal ; 5. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment ; 6. Formal and Informal Enterprises: Concept, Definition, and Measurement Issues in India ; EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF POLICIES AND INTERLINKING ; 7. The Impact of Regulation on Growth and Informality: Cross-Country Evidence ; 8. Financial Liberalization in Vietnam: Impact on Loans from Informal, Formal, and Semi-formal Providers ; 9. Blocking Human Potential: How Formal Policies Block the Informal Economy in the Maputo Corridor ; 10. Microinsurance for the Informal Economy Workers in India ; 11. Turning to Forestry for a Way Out of Poverty: Is Formalizing Property Rights Enough? ; 12. Voluntary Contributions to Informal Activities Producing Public Goods: Can These be Induced by Government and other Formal Sector Agents? Some Evidence from Indonesian Posyandus ; 13. Social Capital, Survival Strategies, and their Potential for Post-Conflict Governance in Liberia ; 14. Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal Traders ; 15. Formalizing the Informal: Is There a Way to Safely Unlock Human Potential Through Land Entitlement? A Review of Changing Land Administration in Africa
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-920875-3 , 978-0-19-925815-4 , 0-19-920875-1
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 205 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: Reprinted
    Keywords: Europa Südost-Europa ; Balkan ; Serbien ; Kroatien ; Bosnien und Herzegowina ; Sprachwandel ; Sprachpolitik ; Sprache
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-806548-5 , 978-0-19-806548-7
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 263 Seiten
    Edition: 4. impression
    Series Statement: Oxford India Paperbacks
    DDC: 305.56880954
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    Keywords: Indien Unberührbarer ; Paria ; Soziale Bewegung ; Politische Bewegung ; Aktivismus ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Buddhismus ; Christentum ; Konversion ; Feminismus ; Neoliberalismus
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-533819-5 , 978-0-19-515947-9
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 178 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: The _New Oxford World History
    DDC: 958
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    Keywords: Eurasien Zentral-Asien ; Iran ; China ; Nomade ; Geschichte ; Geschichte der Prähistorie ; Krieg ; Krieger ; Steppe ; Seidenstraße ; Mongolen ; Xinjiang ; Xiongnu ; Buddhismus ; Islam ; Beziehungen Asien-Europa ; Beziehungen, interethnische ; Beziehungen, interkulturelle
    Abstract: A vast region stretching roughly from the Volga River to Manchuria and the northern Chinese borderlands, Central Asia has been called the "pivot of history," a land where nomadic invaders and Silk Road traders changed the destinies of states that ringed its borders, including pre-modern Europe, the Middle East, and China. In Central Asia in World History, Peter B. Golden provides an engaging account of this important region, ranging from prehistory to the present, and focusing largely on the unique melting pot of cultures that this region has produced. Golden describes the traders who braved the heat and cold along caravan routes to link East Asia and Europe; the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan and his successors, the largest contiguous land empire in history; the invention of gunpowder, which allowed the great sedentary empires to overcome the horse-based nomads; the power struggles of Russia and China, and later Russia and Britain, for control of the area. Finally, he discusses the region today, a key area that neighbors such geopolitical hot spots as Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: a layering of peoples -- The rise of nomadism and oasis city-states -- The early nomads: "sarfare is their business" -- Heavenly Qaghans: the Tu¨rks and their successors -- The cities of the Silk Road and the coming of Islam. -- Crescent over the Steppe: Islam and the Turkic peoples -- The Mongol whirlwind -- The later Chinggisids, Temu¨r and the Timurid renaissance -- The age of tunpowder and the crush of empires -- The problems of modernity.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-806769-6 , 0-19-806769-0
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 399 Seiten , Illustrationen, Tabellen
    Series Statement: Oxford in India Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology
    Series Statement: Oxford India Paperbacks
    Keywords: Indien Gesellschaftsform ; Gewerkschaft ; Soziale Organisation ; Soziologie ; Politisches System ; Kooperative ; Administration
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [357] - 382
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-958709-4 , 978-0-19-958709-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 276 Seiten
    Edition: first edition
    DDC: 321.1
    Keywords: Indigenität Stammesgesellschaft ; Tribalismus ; Ethnizität ; Gemeinschaft ; Recht, traditionelles ; Gesetzgebung ; Selbstverwaltung ; Selbstbestimmung ; Beziehungen Indigenes Volk-Regierung
    Abstract: Recognised tribes are increasingly prominent players in settler state governance, but in the wide-ranging debates about tribal self-governance, little has been said about tribal self-constitution. Who are the members of tribes, and how are they chosen? Tribes in Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the United States are now obliged to adopt written constitutions as a condition of recognition, and to specify the criteria used to select members. This book presents findings from a comparative study of nearly eight hundred current and historic tribal constitutions, most of which are not in the public domain. Kirsty Gover examines the strategies adopted by tribes and states to deal with the new legal distinction between indigenous people (defined by settler governments) and tribal members (defined by tribal governments). She highlights the important fact that the two categories are imperfectly aligned. Many indigenous persons are not tribal members, and some tribal members are not legally indigenous. Should legal indigenous status be limited to persons enrolled in recognized tribes? What is to be done about the large and growing proportion of indigenous peoples who are not enrolled in a tribe, and do not live near their tribal territories? This book approaches these complex questions head-on. Using tribal membership criteria as a starting point, this book provides a critical analysis of current political and sociolegal theories of tribalism and indigeneity, and draws on legal doctrine, policy, demographic data and tribal practice to provide a comparative evaluation of tribal membership governance in the western settler states.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction ; 1. Tribal Membership Governance and the Cultural Production of Indigeneity: Reflecting Inter-indigenous Recognition in Public Policy ; 2. Tribalism Constitutionalized: The Tribal Practice of Membership Governance in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States ; 3. Genealogy as Continuity : Explaining The Growing Tribal Preference for Descent Rules In Membership Governance in the United States ; 4. Reparations and Tribal Constitutionalism: The Impact of Claims-Settlement on Tribal Membership Governance in Australia and New Zealand ; Conclusion ; Appendix: Table of Tribal Constitutions
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 245-264
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    ISBN: 978-0-19-979821-6 , 978-0-19-536774-4 , 0-19-536774-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 225 Seiten , Illustrationen, Notenbeispiel
    Edition: First issued as paperback, 2011
    Keywords: Zentral-Asien Tadschikistan ; Musik ; Gebet ; Musikethnologie ; Heilbehandlung ; Medizin, traditionelle ; Spiritualität ; Musikinstrument ; Poesie ; Afrika ; Sufismus ; Pamir 〈Gebirge, Zentralasien〉
    Abstract: Western medicine has conventionally separated music, science, and religion into distinct entities, yet traditional cultures throughout the world have always viewed music as a bridge that connects and balances the physical with the spiritual to promote health and healing. As people in even the most technologically advanced nations across the globe struggle with obtaining affordable and reliable healthcare, more and more people are now turning to these ancient cultural practices of holistic and ICAM healing (integrative, complementary, and alternative medicine). Beyond the Roof of the World convincingly demonstrates the relevance of medical ethnomusicology in light of the globally spreading ICAM approaches to health and healing. Revealing the Western separation of healing from spiritual and musical practices as a culturally determined phenomenon, Dr. Benjamin D. Koen confirms their underlying unity. In a place poetically known as the Roof of the World, the culture found within the towering Pamir Mountains of Badakhshan Tajikistan serves as the paradigm of ICAM healing practices. Koen's extensive research and immersion into the Badakhshani culture provides a well-balanced "insider" perspective while maintaining an "observer's" view, as he effectively bridges the widespread gaps between ethnomusicology, health science, and music therapy. Moving beyond the paradigm of the Pamir Mountains to reach out to cultures across the globe, Koen infuses scholarship with lived experience and applied practice as he shows spirituality and musicality to be intimately intertwined with one's physical life, health and healing.
    Description / Table of Contents: Language, Pronunciation, and Transliteration -- 1. Medical Ethnomusicology and the Ontology of Oneness -- 2. The Five Factors of Music, Prayer, Health, and Healing -- 3. Music-Prayer Dynamics and Cognitive Flexibility -- 4. Soundscape and Musical-Spiritual Entrainment -- 5. Healthscape, Mystical Poetry, and Multimodal Healing -- 6. Transformative Meaning in Sound, Empowered Sound in Culture --7. Human Certainty Principle, of Science, Spirituality, and Experience -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [213]-220; Text teilw. in persischer Sprache
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-533586-6 (hbk) , 978-0195335859 (pbk)
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 284 Seiten , Illustrationen
    DDC: 294.5/5
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    Keywords: Indien Himalaya ; Heilbehandlung ; Besessenheit ; Besessenheitskult ; Ritual ; Kult ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Konflikt ; Geist ; Hinduismus ; Gottheit ; Volksglaube ; Exorzismus ; Opfer ; Garhwal 〈Region, Indien〉
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-925605-5 , 978-0-19-925604-4 , 978-0-19-925605-1
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 301 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: first published in paperback
    Series Statement: Clarendon Lectures in Management Studies
    Keywords: Organisationsethnologie Theorie ; Soziale Beziehung ; Soziale Schichtung ; Soziologie ; Netzwerkanalyse ; Gesellschaft ; Philosophie
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 263-280
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-517706-0 , 0-19-517706-1 , 978-0-19-51770-7
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 208 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Frau ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Tradition ; Alltag ; Familie ; Haushalt
    Abstract: In this book, Tracy Pintchman has assembled ten leading scholars of Hinduism to explore the complex relationship between Hindu women's rituals and their lives beyond ritual. The book focuses particularly on the relationship of women's ritual practices to domesticity, exposing and exploring the nuances, complexities, and limits of this relationship. In many cultural and historical contexts, including contemporary India, women's everyday lives tend to revolve heavily around domestic and interpersonal concerns, especially care for children, the home, husbands, and other relatives. Hence, women's religiosity also tends to emphasize the domestic realm and the relationships most central to women. But women's religious concerns certainly extend beyond domesticity. Furthermore, even the domestic religious activities that Hindu women perform may not merely replicate or affirm traditionally formulated domestic ideals but may function strategically to reconfigure, reinterpret, criticize, or even reject such ideals. This volume takes a fresh look at issues of the relationship between Hindu women's ritual practices and normative domesticity. In so doing, it emphasizes female innovation and agency in constituting and transforming both ritual and the domestic realm and calls attention to the limitations of normative domesticity as a category relevant to many forms of Hindu women's religious practice.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pt. 1. Engaging domesticity. The cat in the courtyard: the performance of Sanskrit and the religious experience of women / Laurie L. Patton -- Wandering from "hills to valleys" with the goddess: protection and freedom in the Matamma tradition of Andhra / Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger -- Lovesick Gopi or woman's best friend: the mythic Sakhi and ritual friendships among women in Benares / Tracy Pintchman -- Words that breach walls: women's rituals in Rajasthan / Lindsey Harlan -- Threshold designs, forehead dots, and menstruation rituals: exploring time and space in Tamil Kolams / Vijaya Rettakudi Nagarajan. Pt. 2. Beyond domesticity. Domesticity and difference/women and men: religious life in medieval Tamilnadu / Leslie C. Orr -- The anatomy of devotion: the life and poetry of Karaikkal Ammaiyar / Elaine Craddock -- The play of the mother: possession and power in Hindu women's goddess rituals / Kathleen M. Erndl -- Does Tantric ritual empower women? Renunciation and domesticity among female Bengali Tantrikas / June McDaniel -- Performing arts, re-forming rituals: women and social change in South India / Vasudha Narayanan.
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-530434-9 , 978-0-19-530775-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XXII, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Rajasthan Punjab ; Sikhismus ; Kastenwesen ; Sozialer Status ; Gesellschaft, moderne ; Lied ; Tradition ; Musik, traditionelle ; Musikethnologie
    Abstract: Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But focus in these studies is typically placed on the way caste is imagined according to the agendas and desires of elite Westerners such as colonial officials. In this book, by contrast, the author argues that Bhats themselves understand the imaginative dimensions of caste relations. Indeed, such insights are shown to lie at the heart of the Bhats traditional profession of praise- and insult-singing. Likewise, the author demonstrates how the ability to cleverly rework and even sabotage lingering caste inequalities continues to form the basis for Bhat claims to status and dignity in contemporary India.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [201]-213
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-517782-7 , 978-0-19-517782-4 , 978-0-19-534643-5 /eBook
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 278 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Afrika Äthiopen ; Israel ; Jude ; Diaspora ; Repatriierung ; Geschichte ; American Association for Ethiopian Jews ; AAEJ 〉 American Association for Ethiopian Jews
    Abstract: "Operation Solomon" was one of the most remarkable rescue efforts in modern history, in which more than 14,000 Ethiopian Jews were airlifted to Israel in little more than a day. Now, in this riveting volume, Stephen Spector offers the definitive account of this incredible story, based on over 200 interviews and exclusive access to confidential documents. Written with the pace and immediacy of a novel, here is the dramatic story of the rescue of the dark-skinned Jews of Ethiopia. Spector recounts how 20,000 Jews were willingly lured from their ancestral villages to Addis Ababa, expecting to be taken quickly from there to the Holy Land. Instead, they became pawns in a struggle between the Israeli government and Ethiopia's repressive dictator, who tried to coerce Israel into selling him weapons he needed in a losing war against rebel armies. In the resulting stalemate, the Jewish community was forced to live for nearly a year in squalid hovels, vulnerable to the dangers of the city, including crime and HIV. Worse yet, the imminent collapse of Addis Ababa, with the rebels closing in on the capital, raised the threat of bloody street fighting or even a genocidal attack on the Jews, a small minority in a nation that is primarily Christian and Muslim. Spector describes the tense negotiations among Israelis, Ethiopians, and Americans, which became increasingly urgent as time ran low and the danger mounted. And he highlights the secret deals and sudden setbacks that nearly aborted the mission at the eleventh hour, even as Israeli jets sat on the runway in Ethiopia, waiting to take the Jews to the land for which they had yearned for generations. Recounting the full story for the first time, Operation Solomon is a stirring account of a heroic rescue achieved in the face of daunting odds.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments -- Glossary of names and terms -- Preface -- Introduction: from King Solomon to Operation Solomon -- 1. Restoring relations conceiving the Aliyah, July 1988-January 1990 -- 2. The AAEJ accelerates the process, February-April 1990 -- 3. A potential catastrophe, May-July 1990 -- Chomanesh and Dan'el -- 4. Eggs - Uri Lubrani - cluster bombs, July-October 1990 -- 5. Carrots, not carats - the kitchen cabinet, November-December 1990 -- 6. The doomsday scenario - the Falash Mura, January-February 1991 -- 7. Mengistu's chestnuts - the ante, March 1991 -- 8. Taking the chips away - the cordon sanitaire - Rudy Boschwitz, April 1-18, 1991 -- 9. The Boschwitz mission setting the price, April 24-29, 1991 -- 10. Playing poker with sechel, May 1-19, 1991 -- 11. The final week: Mengistu's flight - closing the deal, Monday, May 20-Wednesday, 22, 1991 -- 12. "The wings of history", Thursday, May 23, 1991 -- 13. Operation Solomon, Friday, May 24, 1991 4:00 am- 3:00 pm -- 14. Operation Solomon (continued), Friday, May 24-3:00 pm, Saturday, May 25, 1991 -- Chomanesh crosses the red sea -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1: annual emigration from Ethiopia to Israel -- Appendix 2: the number of people brought to Israel in Operation Solomon -- Appendix 3: a conversation with Kassa Kebede -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 251-268
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-514044-3
    Language: English
    Pages: VII, 189 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Keywords: Indien Kerala ; Sri Lanka ; Guyana ; Südafrika ; Süd-Indien ; Fest ; Hinduismus ; Religion und Gesellschaft ; Tradition ; Geschichte ; Altertum ; Mittelalter
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 179 - 183
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-513914-3 , 0-19-513915-1
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 224 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Keywords: Indien Uttarakhand ; Ländliches Gebiet ; Orale Geschichte ; Mythos ; Epen ; Tradition ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Tanz, ritueller ; Sport ; Theater ; Drama ; Hinduismus ; Garhwal 〈Region, Indien〉
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201 - 220
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 978-0-19-565833-0 , 0-19-564885-4
    Language: English
    Pages: XXIX, 436 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: first published, second impression
    Keywords: Indien Ländliches Gebiet ; Witwenschaft ; Askese ; Witwenverbrennung ; Hinduismus ; Familie ; Armut ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen
    Abstract: This text systematically examines the relationship between the ideals and the realities of widowhood in rural India. Chen shows how ideological constructions of widowhood - the ascetic, child and sati - embedded in orhodox Hindu traditions and texts are manifested in customary practices and norms. Based on rich empirical data the book provides a comprehensive view of the day-to-day realities of widows in rural India.
    Description / Table of Contents: Pt. I. Ideal Widowhood -- Ch. 1. The Ideal Hindu Woman -- Ch. 2. The Sati -- Ch. 3. The Remarried Widow -- Ch. 4. The Ascetic Widow -- Pt. II. Real Widows -- Ch. 5. Ties That Bind -- Ch. 6. Room and Board -- Ch. 7. A Share of Property -- Ch. 8. The Need to Work.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [396]-418
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-513877-5 , 978-0-19-513877-1 , 0-19-513897-X , 978-0-19-513897-9
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 591 Seiten, 8 ungezählte Blätter Bildtafeln , Illustrationen
    Edition: [Reprint]
    Series Statement: Native American Studies
    DDC: 970/.00497/003
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    Keywords: Nordamerika Indianer, Nordamerika ; Nachschlagewerk
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [561]-563
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-285346-5 , 978-0-19-285346-2
    Language: English
    Pages: 155 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Very Short Introductions 15
    Keywords: Kulturanthropologie Einführung ; Geschichte der Ethnologie ; Feldforschung
    Abstract: If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to modern thought: its investigation of culture as a distinctively human characteristic, its doctrine of cultural relativism, and its methodology of fieldwork and ethnography. They then examine specific ways in which social and cultural anthropology have advanced our understanding of human society and culture, drawing on examples from their own fieldwork. The book ends with an assessment of anthropologys present position, and a look forward to its likely future.
    Description / Table of Contents: A dispute in Donggo: fieldwork and ethnography -- Bee larvae and onion soup: culture --A brief encounter: society -- Fernando seeks a wife: sex and blood -- La Bose becomes Bakar: caste, class, tribe, nation -- A feast in Nuyoo: people and their things -- A drought in Bima: people and their gods -- Ñañuu María gets hit by lightning: people and their selves -- Afterword: Some things we've learned.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 143 - 148
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 386 Seiten
    Edition: repr.
    Keywords: Indien Hinduismus ; Gottheit ; Shivaismus ; Mythologie ; Askese ; Erotik
    Abstract: Originally published under the title Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva, this book traces the development of an Indian approach to an enduring human dilemma: the conflict between spiritual aspirations and human desires. The work examines hundreds of related myths and a wide range of Indian texts--Vedic, Puranic, classical, modern, and tribal--centering on the stories of the great ascetic, Siva, and his erotic alter ego, Kama
    Note: First published 1973 under the title: Ascetism and eroticism in the mythology of SivaLiteraturverzeichnis: Seite 326-340
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    ISBN: 0-19-264223-5 , 978-0-19-264223-3
    Language: English
    Pages: X, 604 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: Reprint
    Series Statement: Oxford Medical Publications
    Keywords: Afrika Medizin ; Krankheit ; Handbuch
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 93 Seiten
    Series Statement: Chatham House Memoranda
    Keywords: Afrika Bibliographie
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 230 Seiten
    Series Statement: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No 19
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    Oxford : Oxford University Press
    Language: English
    Pages: 120 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    DDC: 571.1
    Keywords: Rhodesien Felsbild ; Kunst, afrikanische ; Prähistorische Kunst
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