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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Tamil (Indic people) ; Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Trawick, Margaret ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Love ; Tamilen ; Tamilen
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by Béteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Note: Caste in a Tanjore village - By E. Kathleen Gough - 1969 -- - Brahman kinship in a Tamil village - By E. Kathleen Gough - 1956 -- - Economics of development in village India - by M. R. Haswell ; foreword by Colin Clark - 1967 -- - Culture summary: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 -- , - The smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India - Kamil V. Zvelebil - 1973 -- - Agriculture and social structure in Tamil Nadu: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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  • 2
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Carib Indians ; Indians of South America--Guyana ; Barama River Carib ; Barama River Carib
    Abstract: This collection about the Barama River Carib consists of two documents and a cultural summary that covers cultural, ecological, and historical information collected by professional anthropologists from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Barama River Carib are a small group of indigenous people located in the North West District of Guyana. John Gillin explores relationships between ecology and dominant features of Barama River Carib's social organization and personality as observed in the 1930s. Kathleen Adams studied this community some forty years later. Her work gives particular emphasis to changes observed in Barama River Carib's demography, settlement pattern, and semi-nomadic adaptation to the rain forest as they were being integrated into a national political economy by the Guyanese government
    Note: Culture summary: Barama River Carib - Kathleen J. Adams - 2009 -- - The Barama River Caribs of British Guiana - John Gillin - 1936 -- - The Barama River Caribs of Guyana restudied: forty years of cultural adaptation and population change - Kathleen Joy Adams - 1973
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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Ethnology--Samoan Islands ; Samoa ; Samoan Islands ; Samoans ; Tubuai (French Polynesia) ; Girls--Samoan Islands ; Children--Samoan Islands ; Women, Samoan--Social life and customs ; Adolescence ; Samoan Islands--Social life and customs ; Western Samoa ; Ethnology--Samoa--Sala'ilua ; Sala'ilua (Samoa)--Social life and customs ; Samoans-Social conditions ; Samoans-Economic conditions ; Rural development-Samoa ; Developing countries-Economic conditions ; Samoaner ; Samoaner
    Abstract: This collection about the Samoans consists of 15 documents and a culture summary, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information from the1830s to the 1990s. The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. The earliest descriptions of Samoan culture and history were compiled by the missionaries John B. Stair and George Turner, who lived in different parts of the island from 1838-1945 and 1840-1880, respectively. Five documents are ethnographic accounts and essays by Margaret Mead who, in 1925-1928, lived among Samoans villagers mostly in the Manuan group of islands in American Samoa. One document revisits some of the major arguments advanced in Mead's works, notably her portrayal of adolescent Samoan girls as sexually permissive. The remaining seven documents in the collection further enrich the historical and cultural information on Samoa with additional themes and in-depth analysis including plant resources and indigenous botanical knowledge, traditional material culture, a socio-political analysis of the modern history of American and Western Samoa, post-war reconstruction of Western Samoa, material culture and social change, structures and processes in the Western Samoan Sala'ilua village, and recent changes in the economic options of households and individuals in Vaega and Neiafu villages in Western Samoa
    Note: Samoan material culture - by Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck) - 1930 -- - Modern Samoa: its government and changing life - by Felix M. Keesing ... - 1934 -- - Ethnobotany of the Samoans - William Albert Setchell - 1924 -- - Culture summary: Samoans - Thomas Bargatzky - 2009 -- - Social organization of Manua - Margaret Mead - 1930 -- - Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation - by Margaret Mead ... foreword by Franz Boas ... - 1928 -- - Western Samoa - W. E. H. Stanner - 1953 -- - The role of the individual in Samaon culture - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Samoan children at work and play - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Americanization in Samoa - Margaret Mead - 1929 -- , - Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific - George Turner - 1884 -- - Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean - by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat - 1897 -- - Sala'ilua: a Samoan mystery - Bradd Shore - 1982 -- - Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia - J. Tim O'Meara - 1990 -- - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan village - Lowell D. Holmes - 1958 -- - The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy - Paul Shankman - 1996
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  • 4
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Amish ; Amische ; Amische
    Note: Culture summary: Amish - John A. Hostetler - 2009 -- - Amish society - John A. Hostetler - 1980 -- - A peculiar people: Iowa's Old Order Amish - By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder - 1975
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  • 5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula ; Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel ; Folklore--Arabian Peninsula ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Beduine ; Beduine
    Abstract: This collection of three documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1900s to mid-1970s. Alois Musil, a Czech historical geographer, traveled with the Rwala Bedouins between 1908 and 1915 working for the Austro-Hungarian government. His book provides first hand accounts of daily life, ethical codes, social structures and religious practices of the Rwala when they were still living in the desert as nomadic pastoralists. Carl Reinhard Raswan, a German adventurer, spent 22 years off and on among the Rwala Bedouins from 1913-1935. He presents detailed information on Rwala code of honor and ethics, drought and patterns of migration, marriage practices and duties of village Sheiks. Anthropologist William Lancaster conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among various Rwala groups in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in 1972-1975. Lancaster's work explores how Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks have changed over the past several decades in response to external forces, notably the division of their traditional homeland among four newly emerged sovereign states (namely, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) and the oil boom in the region. This work also deconstructs travelers' reports and European imaginations of the Bedouin which tend to romanticize their desert life and "exotic" lineage systems. The Rwala are nomadic pastoralists who live mainly in southeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They speak Arabic and refer to themselves as "baduw," that is, people of the "desert." All Rwala are believed to be descended from a common but unknown Arab ancestor. Their access to grazing land has been altered by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across their customary migration routes. Since 1970 the Rwala have made more money from commerce and wage labor than from pastoralism
    Note: Culture summary: Rwala Bedouin - William Young - 2009 -- - Black tents of Arabia - Carl R. Raswan - 1947 -- - The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins - by Alois Musil ... published under the patronage of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and of Charles R. Crane - 1928 -- - The Rwala Bedouin today - William Lancaster - 1981
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  • 6
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Bedouins ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Bedouins--Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Beduine ; Beduine
    Abstract: This collection of five documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1880s to early 2000s. Two documents date back to the first quarters of the 20th century when most of the area was ruled by European colonialists. One is a chapter from a handbook compiled by the intelligence division of the British Navy, the other is a book written by H. R. P. Dickson, a British political agent who worked in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq in 1920s-1930s. Dickson's book provides a first hand account of Bedouin culture and society including the physical environment, material culture, seasonal movements, organization of tribes and lineages, cultural norms relating to visiting and hospitality, folklore, religious beliefs and practices, warfare, and inter-community relations. The remainder of the collection consists of three articles, all by professional anthropologists. Two discuss indigenous conflict resolution practices with particular emphasis on blood feuds and cattle raiding. The remaining article explores the effects of a wide variety of external and internal factors, notably colonialism, commercialization of pastoral production, occupational change and sedentarization, on Bedouin culture and identity. The Bedouin are Arabic-speaking people who earn their living primarily from animal husbandry by natural graze and browse of sheep, goats, and camels. Traditionally, the Bedouin lived in tents, formed scattered camping units that seasonally migrated over a vast area of the Middle East and North Africa influenced by availability of pasture and water. This way of life and social organization has been significantly affected by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across customary migration routes. As a consequence, the Bedouin have begun to engage in new activities including tourism, commerce and wage labor
    Note: Culture summary: Bedouin - Dawn Chatty and William Young - 2009 -- - The Arab of the desert: a glimpse into Badawin life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia - by H. R. P. Dickson - 1951 -- - The Bedouin tribes: chapter 3 - Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty - 1920 -- - Where have the Bedouin gone? - Donald P. Cole - 2003 -- - Settlement of violence in Bedouin society - Sulayman N. Khalaf - 1990 -- - Camel raiding of north Arabian Bedouin: a mechanism of ecological adaptation - Louise E. Sweet - 1965
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  • 7
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Tiwi (Australian people) ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Art, Tiwi (Australia) ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Folklore ; Women, Tiwi (Australia) Tiwi (Australian people)--Social life and customs ; Tiwi ; Tiwi
    Abstract: This collection about the Tiwi consists of 11 documents and a culture summary, all in English. It covers a variety of historical, geographical, and cultural information from 1900 to the 1960s collected primarily by professional anthropologists and government officials. The Tiwi are aboriginal people inhabiting Melville and Bathurst Islands of northern Australia. Anthropologist Jane Goodale provides comprehensive firsthand ethnographic accounts of Tiwi society as observed in 1950s and 1960s. She describes major features of Tiwi society through detailed exposition of the experiences of individual women, men, and children in different groups (households, matrilineal sibs, phratries, and moieties) and a wide variety of social situations relating to puberty rites, marriage arrangements, and funeral ceremonies. Other anthropological studies included examine status manipulation and political behavior, art and religion, kinship and social organization, use of personal names, marriage contracts, puberty and initiation rites, economic activities, and division of labor by gender. There is little information on changes that might have occurred in Tiwi society after 1962 (the year Goodale visited the area for the last time) to the present
    Note: Culture summary: Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 2009 -- - The Tiwi of North Australia - by C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling - 1960 -- - The Tiwi: their art, myth, and ceremony - Charles P. Mountford - 1958 -- - The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands - C. W. M. Hart - 1939-31 -- - Personal names among the Tiwi - C. W. M. Hart - 1930-31 -- - Notes on the natives of Bathurst Island, North Australia - Herbert Basedow - 1913 -- - Marriage contracts among the Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 1962 -- - Qualifications of manhood: Tiwi invoke the power of a yam - Jane C. Goodale - 1963 -- - 'Alonga Bush': a Tiwi hunt - Jane C. Goodale - 1957 -- - Life at Bathurst Island Mission - Arthur Barclay - 1939 -- - Tiwi wives: a study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia - [by] Jane C. Goodale - [1971] -- - Production and reproduction of key resources among the Tiwi of North Australia - Jane C. Goodale - 1982
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  • 8
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Abkhazians ; Family--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Child rearing--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Abkhazians--Social conditions ; Abkhazians--Social life and customs ; Centenarians--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Abchasen ; Abchasen
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and four English language documents dealing with the people and culture of Abkhazia, covering approximately 1864 to 1979. The study by Paula Garb is based on the memories of centenarian informants and goes back in time to the middle or late nineteenth century. They recount the transition from czarist fuedalism to capitalist development, early Soviet government, the formation of collective farms, World War II, and their opinions of modern (late twentieth century) Abkhazian youth. Benet focuses on various environmental and biological factors leading to extreme longevity of a large number of individuals in Abkhaz society. Other ethnographic topics discussed are kinship and kinship terminology, women's roles, marriage, sexual behavior, child-rearing practices, funerals, religion, and folklore. Dzhanashvili and Dzhanashia both deal in large part with Abkhaz religion, including gods, ceremonies, spirits of the dead, and holidays. Dzhanashvili also presents some general ethnographic information on social life (marriage, the fosterage system of the upper class), and some notes on mortuary practices. The Abkhazians mostly live in the de facto autonomous republic of Abkhazia located between the southwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and a narrow strip along the Black Sea coast in the extreme northwest region of the Republic of Georgia
    Note: Culture summary: Abkhazians - B. George Hewitt - 2009 -- - Abkhazia and the Abkhaz - M. G. Dzhanashvili - 1894 -- - The Religious beliefs of the Abkhasians - N. S. Janashia - 1937 -- - Abkhasians: the long-living people of the Caucasus - By Sula Benet - [1974] -- - From childhood to centenarian - Paula Garb - 1984
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Mapuche Indians ; Indian children-Chile ; Indian children--Argentina ; Indians of South America--Chile ; Indians of South America-Argentina ; Mapuche Indians-Social life and customs ; Indians of South America-Chile ; Mapuche Indians--Social life and customs ; Mapuche Indians--Religion ; Mapuche ; Mapuche
    Abstract: This collection consists of nine documents, all in English, about the Mapuche. Titiev gives a good overall picture of Mapuche culture with special emphasis on sociopolitical structure and acculturation but only covers the period from 1930 to the late 1940s. Cooper's writing, based on secondary documentation, supplements the data in Titiev, particularly in regard to diversity among the various tribal divisions, and adds more historical background information. Latcham's account of Mapuche culture as it existed in the late nineteenth century is poorly organized, but provides many useful details on Mapuche life. Although its major focus is on childhood and child-rearing practices, Hilger's piece provides a wealth of information on the life cycle, material culture, subsistence activities, religion, kinship, political organization, art, and culture history of both Chilean and Argentinian groups of Mapuche. Faron deals with Mapuche social structure, religion, and morals; Baccara discusses the Mapuche ethnic resurgence in post-dictatorship Chile; and Nakashima Degarrond describes female shamanism among the Mapuche of Chile. Historically, Mapuche or "people from the land" was the term used to designate the Mapuche occupying the south-central area of Chile but now is the term used for all Mapuche. The Mapuche speak a language called Mapudungun, composed of several dialects
    Note: Culture summary: Mapuche - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 2009 -- - Araucanian culture in transition - Mischa Titiev - 1951 -- - Ethnology of the Araucanos - Richard E. Latcham - 1909 -- - The Araucanians - John M. Cooper - 1946 -- - Araucanian child life and its cultural background - by Sister M. Inez Hilger - 1957 -- - Mapuche social structure: institutional reintegration in a patrilineal society of central Chile - Louis C. Faron ; foreword by Julian H. Steward - 1961 -- - Hawks of the sun: Mapuche morality and its ritual attributes - by Louis C. Faron - 1964 -- - The Mapuche people in post-dictatorship Chile - Guillaume Boccara - 2002 -- - Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights - Tom D. Dillehay - 1990 -- - Female shamanism and the Mapuche transformation into Christian Chilean Farmers - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 1998
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  • 10
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Maori (New Zealand people) ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Economic conditions ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Kinship ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions ; Family--New Zealand ; Kinship--New Zealand ; New Zealand--Social life and customs ; Maori ; Maori
    Note: Culture summary: Maori - Christopher Latham - 2009 -- - The Maori: volume 1 - by Elsdon Best - 1924 -- - The Maori: volume 2 - by Elsdon Best ... - 1924 -- - The coming of the Maori - by Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck - 1952 -- - Economics of the New Zealand Maori - Raymond William Firth ; with a pref. by R. H. Tawney - 1959 -- - The Maori: a study in acculturation - H.B. Hawthorn - [1944] -- - New growth from old: the Whanau in the modern world - Joan Metge ; illustrated by Toi Te Rito Maihi - 1995 -- - Conflicts of redistribution in contemporary Maori society: leadership and the Tainui settlement - Toon van Meijl - 2003 -- - Effecting change through electoral politics: cultural identity and the Maori franchise - Ann Sullivan - 2003 -- - References - Edited by Toon van Meijl and Michael Goldsmith - 2003 -- - The making of the Maori: culture invention and its logic - Allan Hanson - 1989
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  • 11
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    Keywords: Mossi (African people) ; Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions
    Abstract: This collection of 10 documents covers historical, cultural, and geographical information on the Mossi people from their first conquest by French colonialists in 1896/1897 to the emergence of Burkina Faso as an independent nation in 1961. The earliest account of pre-colonial Mossi culture and society in this collection was compiled by Mangin, a Catholic missionary who worked among the Mossi at the turn of the 20th century. Two documents focus on political and social structures as observed in 1908-1916 by Tauxier, a French colonial administrator with a long association with traditional Mossi leaders. The remaining seven documents were compiled by two American anthropologists, Skinner and Hammond, and are based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ouagadougou and other parts of Mossi country mostly in 1954-1957. In one document Skinner discusses urbanization and modernization issues based on data and interviews from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 1964-1965 and later on in 1966-1969 when the author served as the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso. The Mossi are a Voltaic-speaking people located mostly in the West African nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The Mossi are historically noted for their empire, which lasted for at least five centuries until conquest by the French at the end of the nineteenth century
    Description / Table of Contents: Mossi - Gregory A. Finnegan - 2009 -- - Essay on the manners and customs of the Mossi people in the western Sudan - Eugène Mangin - 1921 -- - Economic change and Mossi acculturation - Peter B. Hammond - 1959 -- - The black population of the Sudan, Mossi and Gourounsi country, documents and analyses - Louis Tauxier - 1912 -- - The black population of Yatenga - L. Tauxier - 1917 -- - Christianity and Islam among the Mossi - Elliott P. Skinner - 1958 -- - Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic - Elliott P. Skinner - 1960 -- - Mossi joking - Peter B. Hammond - 1964 -- - The Mossi of the Upper Volta - Elliott Percival Skinner - 1964 -- - Trade and market among the Mossi people - By Elliott P. Skinner - 1962 -- - African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou - by Elliott P. Skinner - [1974]
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    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Child development-Liberia-Gbarngasuakwelle ; Child psychology-Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle ; Children, Kpelle ; Children, Kpelle-Cultural assimilation ; Children, Kpelle-Education ; Children, Kpelle-Games ; Education--Liberia ; Folk classification--Liberia ; Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)-Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people) ; Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Education ; Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites ; Kpelle (African people)--Religion ; Kpelle (African people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs ; Learning, Psychology of ; Liberia--Social life and customs ; Poro (Society) ; Secrecy ; Socialization--Case studies
    Abstract: This collection about the Kpelle consists of 10 documents, covering a variety of cultural information, from the 1910s to the 1980s. German ethnologist Diedrich H. Westermann describes Kpelle environment, economy, language, family, social organization, religion and arts as observed in 1914-1915. His work is the oldest and by far the largest in the collection, though Gibbs provides a more general social and cultural summary of Kpelle based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1957-1958. The remaining 8 documents are results of research concerned with specific issues and the focus of most of these studies was on rural Kpelle communities in Liberia. Kpelle communities found in cities (e.g., Monorovia) and outside Liberia (e.g., Kpelle of Guinea or Guerźe) are not covered. The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group in the West African nation of Liberia and a significant group in neighboring Guinea
    Description / Table of Contents: Kpelle - Gerald M. Erchak - 2009 -- - The Kpelle of Liberia - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1965 -- - Women and marriage in Kpelle society - Caroline H. Bledsoe - 1980 -- - The language of secrecy: symbols & metaphors in Poro ritual - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1984 -- - Village of curers and assassins: on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmolotical categories - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1975 -- - The Kpelle: a negro tribe in Liberia - Diedrich H. Westerman - 1921 -- - Full respect: Kpelle children in adaptation - Gerald Michael Erchak - 1977 -- - Marital instability among the Kpelle: towards a theory of epainogamy - James L. Gibbs - 1963 -- - Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1962 -- - The Kpelle moot: a therapeutic model for the informal settlement of disputes - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1963 -- - Playing on the mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development - David F. Lancy - 1996
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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    Keywords: Ainu ; Ainu--Medicine ; Ainu ; Ainu
    Abstract: This collection about the Ainu consists of 8 documents, all in English, including three books which were translated from Japanese. The collection contains a variety of cultural and historical information from two widely contrasting time periods. The first covers the years 1877 to 1924 when most Ainu were living in their traditional homeland in southern Sakhalin. The second is from the 1960s-1970s after the Ainu almost disappeared as a distinct group following their relocation in the Hokkaidō Island by the Japanese government during World War II. The oldest materials in the collection were compiled by Batchelor, an English missionary who lived among the Ainu for fifty years in 1877-1924; Pilsudski, a German ethnologist who conducted fieldwork there from 1895-1905; and Munro, an English physician who lived in Japan in 1900-1942. These works provide firsthand accounts of pre-relocation Ainu culture and society, covering religion, ceremonials, mythology, folklore, economic activities, life cycles, and health issues. Three of the books in the collection were authored by Japanese scholars focusing on Japanese conquest and assimilation of the Ainu (Takakura), ecological and economic effects of relocation (Watanabe), and features of Ainu kinship system (Sugiura). The remaining two books are by Ohnuki-Tierney, an American anthropologist who, in 1965-1969, sought to retrospectively reconstruct the "Ainu way of life" through extensive ethnographic fieldwork among elderly informants in Sakhalin. Ohnuki-Tierney's works, which also provide extensive review of previous works on the Ainu in Sakhalin, Hokkaidō and the neighboring islands, are the most comprehensive sources. Ainu people who lived in Kurile and the other islands taken over by the USSR during World War II are not covered in the collection
    Note: Culture summary: Ainu - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 2009 -- - The Ainu of northern Japan: a study in conquest and acculturation - [by] Shinichiro Takakura ; translated and annotated by John A. Harrison - 1960 -- - Ainu life and lore: echoes of a departing race - [by] John Batchelor - 1927 -- - Kinship organization of the Saru Ainu - [by] Kenichi Sugiura and Harumi Befu - 1962 -- - Ainu creed and cult - Edited with a pref. and an additional chapter by B.Z. Seligman. Introd. by H. Watanabe - 1963 -- - Pregnancy, birth and miscarriage among the inhabitants of Sakhalin Island (Gilyak and Ainu) - [by] Bronislaw Pilsudski - 1910 -- - The Ainu: a study of ecology and the system of social solidarity between man and nature in relation to group structure - [by] Hitoshi Watanabe - 1964 -- - The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1974 -- - Illness and healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: a symbolic interpretation - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1981
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    Keywords: Vedda (Sri Lankan people) ; Wedda ; Wedda
    Abstract: This collection consists of three documents, all in English, containing information about the Vedda during three periods of time: 1850s, mid-1910s, and late 1960s. The first comprehensive ethnographic account of Vedda in this collection was compiled by C. G. Seligmann and B. Z. Seligmann. It provides a first hand account of Vedda kinship, village life, economic activities, settlement patterns, life cycles, religion, music, language and perceptions as observed in 1907-1908. Seligmanns's account is supplemented by James Brow's study of kinship and caste system among the Vedda of Anuradhapura district in the Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The remaining book in the collection was authored by John Bailey, a British colonial government official, and he covers a variety of information relating to settlement pattern, economic activities and religion. The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India
    Note: Culture summary: Vedda - James Brow and Michael Woost - 2009 -- - The Veddas - By C. G. Seligmann... and Brenda Z. Seligman. With a chapter by C.S. Myers ... and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara ... - 1911 -- - An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon: their habits, customs, and superstitions - John Bailey - 1863 -- - Vedda villages of Anuradhapura: the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka - James Brow - 1978
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    Keywords: Ethnology--Hmong (Asian people) ; Religion--Hmong (Asian people) ; Ethnology--China--Kweichow Province ; Hmong (Asian people)--China ; Hmong (Asian people)--China--Social life and customs ; Ethnic relations--Political aspects ; Miao ; Miao
    Abstract: This collection of ten documents, three translated from the Chinese, provide historical, economic and cultural information about the Miao, circa 1920-2000. Most are based on fieldwork with different Miao communities in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s at a time when many Miao farmers actively participated first in the liberation struggle against Japanese occupation and later on during the "Long March" with the victorious Red Army. The earliest and most basic sources in the collection are by Graham which, together, provide a variety of cultural information including language, mythology, subsistence, dwellings, family life, kinship, village government, arts, religion and ceremonials. His focus on the Miao of southern Szechwan is complimented by Rui who provides a brief description of a subgroup called Magpai Miao. Four documents focus on different Miao groups living in Kweichow, Hunan, and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Based on ethnographic data collected in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Chinese government gradually opened rural communities to Western researchers and travelers, the two remaining works discuss the ways in which the cultures and identities of the Miao (and other minority ethnic groups) have been constructed and deployed since the 1949 and especially in the context of China's post-Mao economic reforms. The Miao are one of 56 non-Han Chinese people officially recognized by the government as minority nationalities. They are distinguished by language, dress, historical traditions, and cultural practice from neighboring ethnic groups and the dominant Han Chinese
    Note: Culture summary: Miao - Norma Diamond - 2009 -- - A report on an investigation of the Miao of western Hunan - [by] Shun-sheng Ling and Yih-fu Ruey ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1947 -- - The Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow - [by] Margaret Portia Mickey - 1947 -- - Religious beliefs of the Miao and I tribes in An-shun Kweichow - [by] Kuo-chun Ch'en ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 -- - The customs of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1937 -- - The ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao - Translated from the Miao into Chinese by Hsiung Ts'ao-sung ; translated from the Chinese by David Crockett Graham, with the assistance of Hsiung Ts'ao-sung - 1937 -- - Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1954 -- - Studies of Miao-I societies in Kweichow - [by] Che-lin Wu, Ch'en Kuo-chnn and others ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 -- , - Minority rules: the Miao and the feminine in China's cultural politics - Louisa Schein - 2000 -- - Ethnicity and the state: the Hua Miao of southwest China - Norma Diamond - 1993 -- - Magpie Miao of southern Szechuan - Ruey Yih-fu - 1960
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  • 16
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    Keywords: Mossi (African people) ; Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions ; Mossi ; Mossi
    Abstract: This collection of 10 documents covers historical, cultural, and geographical information on the Mossi people from their first conquest by French colonialists in 1896/1897 to the emergence of Burkina Faso as an independent nation in 1961. The earliest account of pre-colonial Mossi culture and society in this collection was compiled by Mangin, a Catholic missionary who worked among the Mossi at the turn of the 20th century. Two documents focus on political and social structures as observed in 1908-1916 by Tauxier, a French colonial administrator with a long association with traditional Mossi leaders. The remaining seven documents were compiled by two American anthropologists, Skinner and Hammond, and are based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ouagadougou and other parts of Mossi country mostly in 1954-1957. In one document Skinner discusses urbanization and modernization issues based on data and interviews from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 1964-1965 and later on in 1966-1969 when the author served as the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso. The Mossi are a Voltaic-speaking people located mostly in the West African nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The Mossi are historically noted for their empire, which lasted for at least five centuries until conquest by the French at the end of the nineteenth century
    Note: Culture summary: Mossi - Gregory A. Finnegan - 2009 -- - Essay on the manners and customs of the Mossi people in the western Sudan - Eugène Mangin - 1921 -- - Economic change and Mossi acculturation - Peter B. Hammond - 1959 -- - The black population of the Sudan, Mossi and Gourounsi country, documents and analyses - Louis Tauxier - 1912 -- - The black population of Yatenga - L. Tauxier - 1917 -- - Christianity and Islam among the Mossi - Elliott P. Skinner - 1958 -- - Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic - Elliott P. Skinner - 1960 -- - Mossi joking - Peter B. Hammond - 1964 -- - The Mossi of the Upper Volta - Elliott Percival Skinner - 1964 -- - Trade and market among the Mossi people - By Elliott P. Skinner - 1962 -- - African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou - by Elliott P. Skinner - [1974]
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    Keywords: Kpelle (African people) ; Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites ; Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions ; Poro (Society) ; Kpelle (African people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Secrecy ; Liberia--Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people)--Religion ; Folk classification--Liberia ; Children, Kpelle ; Socialization--Case studies ; Kpelle (African people)--Education ; Education--Liberia ; Children, Kpelle-Education ; Children, Kpelle-Games ; Children, Kpelle-Cultural assimilation ; Learning, Psychology of ; Child development-Liberia-Gbarngasuakwelle ; Child psychology-Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle ; Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)-Social life and customs ; Kpelle ; Kpelle
    Abstract: This collection about the Kpelle consists of 10 documents, covering a variety of cultural information, from the 1910s to the 1980s. German ethnologist Diedrich H. Westermann describes Kpelle environment, economy, language, family, social organization, religion and arts as observed in 1914-1915. His work is the oldest and by far the largest in the collection, though Gibbs provides a more general social and cultural summary of Kpelle based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1957-1958. The remaining 8 documents are results of research concerned with specific issues and the focus of most of these studies was on rural Kpelle communities in Liberia. Kpelle communities found in cities (e.g., Monorovia) and outside Liberia (e.g., Kpelle of Guinea or Guerzé) are not covered. The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group in the West African nation of Liberia and a significant group in neighboring Guinea
    Note: Culture summary: Kpelle - Gerald M. Erchak - 2009 -- - The Kpelle of Liberia - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1965 -- - Women and marriage in Kpelle society - Caroline H. Bledsoe - 1980 -- - The language of secrecy: symbols & metaphors in Poro ritual - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1984 -- - Village of curers and assassins: on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmolotical categories - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1975 -- - The Kpelle: a negro tribe in Liberia - Diedrich H. Westerman - 1921 -- - Full respect: Kpelle children in adaptation - Gerald Michael Erchak - 1977 -- - Marital instability among the Kpelle: towards a theory of epainogamy - James L. Gibbs - 1963 -- - Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1962 -- - The Kpelle moot: a therapeutic model for the informal settlement of disputes - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1963 -- - Playing on the mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development - David F. Lancy - 1996
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  • 18
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    Keywords: Rwandans ; Ethnology Rwanda ; Social structure--Rwanda--History ; Patronage, Political--Rwanda--History ; Patron and client--Rwanda--History ; Political anthropology--Rwanda--History ; Rwanda--Politics and government ; Rwanda--Ethnic relations ; Tutsi (African people) ; Hutu (African people) ; Tutsi ; Tutsi
    Abstract: This collection of fifteen documents covers historical, cultural, and economic information on the Rwandans, circa 1895 to 2004. The Rwandan culture has its roots in the precolonial kingdom of Rwanda and encompasses both the population of the modern state of Rwanda and speakers of the Kinyarwanda language in the neighboring Congo and Uganda. The basic and most comprehensive sources in the collection were compiled by the Belgian ethnologist Jacques Maquet in 1949-1957. Maquet discusses the processes and rules that structured Rwandan society into a caste-like political system consisting of cattle owning ruling elites, Tutsi, a farming majority, Hutu, and a forest dwelling hunting minority, Twa. However, his arguments are strongly challenged by the works of three scholars, Mamdani, Catharine Newbury, and David Newbury, who do not view ethnicity as a primordial identity. The collection also includes four documents which, together, provide the earliest available firsthand information on the Rwandans: Czekanowski, who, in 1907-1909, collected a wide variety of information relating to history, language, and arts in the Mpororo region; the now classic work of John Roscoe, a European clergy who traveled extensively in central Africa; and van Hove, a Belgian colonial administrator and lawyer. Two documents from Christopher Taylor deal with ethnomedicine and diet, and the remaining three deal with the nature of the violence that swept Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandans encompass groups presently known as the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
    Note: Culture summary: Rwandans - Timothy Longman - 2009 -- - Essay on the common law of Ruanda - J. Vanhove - 1941 -- - The kingdom of Ruanda - Jacques J. Maquet - 1954 -- - A Hamitic kingdom in the center of Africa: in Ruanda on the shores of Lake Kivu (Belgian Congo) - G. Pagés - 1933 -- - Investigations in the area between the Nile and the Congo: First volume: ethnography, the interlacustrine region of Mporo and Ruanda - Jan Czkanowski ; musical appendix by E. M. Hornbostel - 1917 -- - The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the third part of the report of the Mackie ethnological expedition to central Africa - John Roscoe - 1924 -- - The premise of inequality in Ruanda:: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom - Jacques J. Maquet - 1961 -- - The cohesion of oppression: clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960 - Catharine Newbury - 1988 -- , - The origins of Hutu and Tutsi - Mahmood Mamdani - 2001 -- - The clans of Rwanda: an historical hypothesis - David S. Newbury - 1980 -- - The harp that plays by itself - Christopher C. Taylor - 1992 -- - Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins: gender and the control of resources in Rwanda - Villia Jefremovas - 1991 -- - Mutton, mud, and runny noses - Christopher C. Taylor - 2005 -- - Rwanda: the rationality of genocide - René Lemarchand - 1995 -- - Background to genocide: Rwanda - Catharine Newbury - 1995 -- - Genocide and socio-political change: massacres in two Rwandan villages - Timothy Longman - 1995
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    Keywords: Tanala (Malagasy people) ; Ethnology--Madagascar ; Captain Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926-1927 ; Tanala ; Tanala
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and one book. The book, authored by Ralph Linton, is based on his field work conducted in 1926-1927 and sponsored by the Field Museum. Although Linton was only among the Tanala for two months, he spent about one year and a half traveling throughout Madagascar, and as a result presents data on various other tribes of the island in comparison with that on the Tanala. The work is presented as a standard ethnography, with sections on tribal identification, economy, social organization, government, religion, warfare, amusement, art, life cycle, folklore, and a brief history of tribal wars. The Tanala, also called Antanala, are a Malagasy speaking people living in southeastern Madagascar, an island nation located off the eastern coast of southern Africa
    Note: Culture summary: Tanala - Teferi Abate Adem - 2009 -- - The Tanala: a hill tribe of Madagascar - by Ralph Linton ... Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926 - 1933
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Note: Culture summary: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 -- , - The sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group - William R. Bascom - 1944 -- - Native administration in Nigeria - Margery Perham - 1937 -- - The traditional political system of the Yoruba - Peter C. Lloyd - 1954 -- - Social status, wealth and individual differences among the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Teh Esusu: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- , - Theistic beliefs of the Yoruba and Ewe peoples of West Africa - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1950 -- - Some modern changes in the government of Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - The Yoruba of Nigeria - Peter C. Lloyd - 1965 -- - Indigenous Yoruba psychiatry - Raymond Prince - 1964 -- - Manners and customs - Samuel Johnson - 1921 -- - The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria - by William Bascom - [1969] -- - Sex and the empire that is no more: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: Captain Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926-1927 ; Ethnology--Madagascar ; Tanala (Malagasy people) ; Tanala
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and one book. The book, authored by Ralph Linton, is based on his field work conducted in 1926-1927 and sponsored by the Field Museum. Although Linton was only among the Tanala for two months, he spent about one year and a half traveling throughout Madagascar, and as a result presents data on various other tribes of the island in comparison with that on the Tanala. The work is presented as a standard ethnography, with sections on tribal identification, economy, social organization, government, religion, warfare, amusement, art, life cycle, folklore, and a brief history of tribal wars. The Tanala, also called Antanala, are a Malagasy speaking people living in southeastern Madagascar, an island nation located off the eastern coast of southern Africa
    Note: Culture summary: Tanala - Teferi Abate Adem - 2009 -- - The Tanala: a hill tribe of Madagascar - by Ralph Linton ... Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926 - 1933
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    Keywords: Ainu ; Ainu--Medicine
    Abstract: This collection about the Ainu consists of 8 documents, all in English, including three books which were translated from Japanese. The collection contains a variety of cultural and historical information from two widely contrasting time periods. The first covers the years 1877 to 1924 when most Ainu were living in their traditional homeland in southern Sakhalin. The second is from the 1960s-1970s after the Ainu almost disappeared as a distinct group following their relocation in the Hokkaid̄o Island by the Japanese government during World War II. The oldest materials in the collection were compiled by Batchelor, an English missionary who lived among the Ainu for fifty years in 1877-1924; Pilsudski, a German ethnologist who conducted fieldwork there from 1895-1905; and Munro, an English physician who lived in Japan in 1900-1942. These works provide firsthand accounts of pre-relocation Ainu culture and society, covering religion, ceremonials, mythology, folklore, economic activities, life cycles, and health issues. Three of the books in the collection were authored by Japanese scholars focusing on Japanese conquest and assimilation of the Ainu (Takakura), ecological and economic effects of relocation (Watanabe), and features of Ainu kinship system (Sugiura). The remaining two books are by Ohnuki-Tierney, an American anthropologist who, in 1965-1969, sought to retrospectively reconstruct the "Ainu way of life" through extensive ethnographic fieldwork among elderly informants in Sakhalin. Ohnuki-Tierney's works, which also provide extensive review of previous works on the Ainu in Sakhalin, Hokkaid̄o and the neighboring islands, are the most comprehensive sources. Ainu people who lived in Kurile and the other islands taken over by the USSR during World War II are not covered in the collection
    Description / Table of Contents: Ainu - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 2009 -- - The Ainu of northern Japan: a study in conquest and acculturation - [by] Shinichiro Takakura ; translated and annotated by John A. Harrison - 1960 -- - Ainu life and lore: echoes of a departing race - [by] John Batchelor - 1927 -- - Kinship organization of the Saru Ainu - [by] Kenichi Sugiura and Harumi Befu - 1962 -- - Ainu creed and cult - Edited with a pref. and an additional chapter by B.Z. Seligman. Introd. by H. Watanabe - 1963 -- - Pregnancy, birth and miscarriage among the inhabitants of Sakhalin Island (Gilyak and Ainu) - [by] Bronislaw Pilsudski - 1910 -- - The Ainu: a study of ecology and the system of social solidarity between man and nature in relation to group structure - [by] Hitoshi Watanabe - 1964 -- - The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1974 -- - Illness and healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: a symbolic interpretation - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1981
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    Keywords: Ethnic relations--Political aspects ; Ethnology--China--Kweichow Province ; Ethnology--Hmong (Asian people) ; Hmong (Asian people)--China ; Hmong (Asian people)--China--Social life and customs ; Religion--Hmong (Asian people)
    Abstract: This collection of ten documents, three translated from the Chinese, provide historical, economic and cultural information about the Miao, circa 1920-2000. Most are based on fieldwork with different Miao communities in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s at a time when many Miao farmers actively participated first in the liberation struggle against Japanese occupation and later on during the "Long March" with the victorious Red Army. The earliest and most basic sources in the collection are by Graham which, together, provide a variety of cultural information including language, mythology, subsistence, dwellings, family life, kinship, village government, arts, religion and ceremonials. His focus on the Miao of southern Szechwan is complimented by Rui who provides a brief description of a subgroup called Magpai Miao. Four documents focus on different Miao groups living in Kweichow, Hunan, and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Based on ethnographic data collected in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Chinese government gradually opened rural communities to Western researchers and travelers, the two remaining works discuss the ways in which the cultures and identities of the Miao (and other minority ethnic groups) have been constructed and deployed since the 1949 and especially in the context of China's post-Mao economic reforms. The Miao are one of 56 non-Han Chinese people officially recognized by the government as minority nationalities. They are distinguished by language, dress, historical traditions, and cultural practice from neighboring ethnic groups and the dominant Han Chinese
    Description / Table of Contents: Miao - Norma Diamond - 2009 -- - A report on an investigation of the Miao of western Hunan - [by] Shun-sheng Ling and Yih-fu Ruey ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1947 -- - The Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow - [by] Margaret Portia Mickey - 1947 -- - Religious beliefs of the Miao and I tribes in An-shun Kweichow - [by] Kuo-chun Ch'en ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 -- - The customs of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1937 -- - The ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao - Translated from the Miao into Chinese by Hsiung Ts'ao-sung ; translated from the Chinese by David Crockett Graham, with the assistance of Hsiung Ts'ao-sung - 1937 -- - Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1954 -- - Studies of Miao-I societies in Kweichow - [by] Che-lin Wu, Ch'en Kuo-chnn and others ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: the Miao and the feminine in China's cultural politics - Louisa Schein - 2000 -- - Ethnicity and the state: the Hua Miao of southwest China - Norma Diamond - 1993 -- - Magpie Miao of southern Szechuan - Ruey Yih-fu - 1960
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    Keywords: Vedda (Sri Lankan people)
    Abstract: This collection consists of three documents, all in English, containing information about the Vedda during three periods of time: 1850s, mid-1910s, and late 1960s. The first comprehensive ethnographic account of Vedda in this collection was compiled by C. G. Seligmann and B. Z. Seligmann. It provides a first hand account of Vedda kinship, village life, economic activities, settlement patterns, life cycles, religion, music, language and perceptions as observed in 1907-1908. Seligmanns's account is supplemented by James Brow's study of kinship and caste system among the Vedda of Anuradhapura district in the Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The remaining book in the collection was authored by John Bailey, a British colonial government official, and he covers a variety of information relating to settlement pattern, economic activities and religion. The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India
    Description / Table of Contents: Vedda - James Brow and Michael Woost - 2009 -- - The Veddas - By C. G. Seligmann... and Brenda Z. Seligman. With a chapter by C.S. Myers ... and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara ... - 1911 -- - An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon: their habits, customs, and superstitions - John Bailey - 1863 -- - Vedda villages of Anuradhapura: the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka - James Brow - 1978
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    Keywords: Ethnology Rwanda ; Hutu (African people) ; Patron and client--Rwanda--History ; Patronage, Political--Rwanda--History ; Political anthropology--Rwanda--History ; Rwanda--Ethnic relations ; Rwanda--Politics and government ; Rwandans ; Social structure--Rwanda--History ; Tutsi (African people)
    Abstract: This collection of fifteen documents covers historical, cultural, and economic information on the Rwandans, circa 1895 to 2004. The Rwandan culture has its roots in the precolonial kingdom of Rwanda and encompasses both the population of the modern state of Rwanda and speakers of the Kinyarwanda language in the neighboring Congo and Uganda. The basic and most comprehensive sources in the collection were compiled by the Belgian ethnologist Jacques Maquet in 1949-1957. Maquet discusses the processes and rules that structured Rwandan society into a caste-like political system consisting of cattle owning ruling elites, Tutsi, a farming majority, Hutu, and a forest dwelling hunting minority, Twa. However, his arguments are strongly challenged by the works of three scholars, Mamdani, Catharine Newbury, and David Newbury, who do not view ethnicity as a primordial identity. The collection also includes four documents which, together, provide the earliest available firsthand information on the Rwandans: Czekanowski, who, in 1907-1909, collected a wide variety of information relating to history, language, and arts in the Mpororo region; the now classic work of John Roscoe, a European clergy who traveled extensively in central Africa; and van Hove, a Belgian colonial administrator and lawyer. Two documents from Christopher Taylor deal with ethnomedicine and diet, and the remaining three deal with the nature of the violence that swept Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandans encompass groups presently known as the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
    Description / Table of Contents: Rwandans - Timothy Longman - 2009 -- - Essay on the common law of Ruanda - J. Vanhove - 1941 -- - The kingdom of Ruanda - Jacques J. Maquet - 1954 -- - A Hamitic kingdom in the center of Africa: in Ruanda on the shores of Lake Kivu (Belgian Congo) - G. Pagés - 1933 -- - Investigations in the area between the Nile and the Congo: First volume: ethnography, the interlacustrine region of Mporo and Ruanda - Jan Czkanowski ; musical appendix by E. M. Hornbostel - 1917 -- - The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the third part of the report of the Mackie ethnological expedition to central Africa - John Roscoe - 1924 -- - The premise of inequality in Ruanda:: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom - Jacques J. Maquet - 1961 -- - The cohesion of oppression: clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960 - Catharine Newbury - 1988 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: an historical hypothesis - David S. Newbury - 1980 -- - The harp that plays by itself - Christopher C. Taylor - 1992 -- - Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins: gender and the control of resources in Rwanda - Villia Jefremovas - 1991 -- - Mutton, mud, and runny noses - Christopher C. Taylor - 2005 -- - Rwanda: the rationality of genocide - René Lemarchand - 1995 -- - Background to genocide: Rwanda - Catharine Newbury - 1995 -- - Genocide and socio-political change: massacres in two Rwandan villages - Timothy Longman - 1995
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    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Bedouins ; Bedouins--Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection of five documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1880s to early 2000s. Two documents date back to the first quarters of the 20th century when most of the area was ruled by European colonialists. One is a chapter from a handbook compiled by the intelligence division of the British Navy, the other is a book written by H. R. P. Dickson, a British political agent who worked in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq in 1920s-1930s. Dickson's book provides a first hand account of Bedouin culture and society including the physical environment, material culture, seasonal movements, organization of tribes and lineages, cultural norms relating to visiting and hospitality, folklore, religious beliefs and practices, warfare, and inter-community relations. The remainder of the collection consists of three articles, all by professional anthropologists. Two discuss indigenous conflict resolution practices with particular emphasis on blood feuds and cattle raiding. The remaining article explores the effects of a wide variety of external and internal factors, notably colonialism, commercialization of pastoral production, occupational change and sedentarization, on Bedouin culture and identity. The Bedouin are Arabic-speaking people who earn their living primarily from animal husbandry by natural graze and browse of sheep, goats, and camels. Traditionally, the Bedouin lived in tents, formed scattered camping units that seasonally migrated over a vast area of the Middle East and North Africa influenced by availability of pasture and water. This way of life and social organization has been significantly affected by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across customary migration routes. As a consequence, the Bedouin have begun to engage in new activities including tourism, commerce and wage labor
    Description / Table of Contents: Bedouin - Dawn Chatty and William Young - 2009 -- - The Arab of the desert: a glimpse into Badawin life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia - by H. R. P. Dickson - 1951 -- - The Bedouin tribes: chapter 3 - Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty - 1920 -- - Where have the Bedouin gone? - Donald P. Cole - 2003 -- - Settlement of violence in Bedouin society - Sulayman N. Khalaf - 1990 -- - Camel raiding of north Arabian Bedouin: a mechanism of ecological adaptation - Louise E. Sweet - 1965
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    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Amish
    Description / Table of Contents: Amish - John A. Hostetler - 2009 -- - Amish society - John A. Hostetler - 1980 -- - A peculiar people: Iowa's Old Order Amish - By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder - 1975
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    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Mossi (African people) ; Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)--Social conditions
    Abstract: This collection of 10 documents covers historical, cultural, and geographical information on the Mossi people from their first conquest by French colonialists in 1896/1897 to the emergence of Burkina Faso as an independent nation in 1961. The earliest account of pre-colonial Mossi culture and society in this collection was compiled by Mangin, a Catholic missionary who worked among the Mossi at the turn of the 20th century. Two documents focus on political and social structures as observed in 1908-1916 by Tauxier, a French colonial administrator with a long association with traditional Mossi leaders. The remaining seven documents were compiled by two American anthropologists, Skinner and Hammond, and are based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out in Ouagadougou and other parts of Mossi country mostly in 1954-1957. In one document Skinner discusses urbanization and modernization issues based on data and interviews from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in the 1964-1965 and later on in 1966-1969 when the author served as the Ambassador of the United States to Burkina Faso. The Mossi are a Voltaic-speaking people located mostly in the West African nation of Burkina Faso (formerly Upper Volta). The Mossi are historically noted for their empire, which lasted for at least five centuries until conquest by the French at the end of the nineteenth century
    Description / Table of Contents: Mossi - Gregory A. Finnegan - 2009 -- - Essay on the manners and customs of the Mossi people in the western Sudan - Eugène Mangin - 1921 -- - Economic change and Mossi acculturation - Peter B. Hammond - 1959 -- - The black population of the Sudan, Mossi and Gourounsi country, documents and analyses - Louis Tauxier - 1912 -- - The black population of Yatenga - L. Tauxier - 1917 -- - Christianity and Islam among the Mossi - Elliott P. Skinner - 1958 -- - Traditional and modern patterns of succession to political office among the Mossi of the Voltaic Republic - Elliott P. Skinner - 1960 -- - Mossi joking - Peter B. Hammond - 1964 -- - The Mossi of the Upper Volta - Elliott Percival Skinner - 1964 -- - Trade and market among the Mossi people - By Elliott P. Skinner - 1962 -- - African urban life: the transformation of Ouagadougou - by Elliott P. Skinner - [1974]
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    Cheltenham, U.K : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781781952689
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 139 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jones, Campbell Unmasking the entrepreneur
    DDC: 338/04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Kritik ; Entrepreneurship ; Entrepreneurship ; Kritik ; Rollenverhalten ; Electronic books ; Entrepreneurship ; Rollenverhalten
    Abstract: This book asks what lies behind the friendly face of the entrepreneur. It challenges the widespread idea that entrepreneurship is a necessary and good thing, subjecting "the entrepreneur" to critical analysis. Unmasking the Entrepreneur demonstrates the socially embedded nature of entrepreneurship and considers the history, ethics and politics of entrepreneurship. Drawing on a range of ideas from critical social theory and philosophy, it investigates entrepreneurship in unusual places such as among illegal immigrants and revolutionary France. Ultimately, this book offers a unique and powerful critique of the very idea of the entrepreneur
    Abstract: 'I am an entrepreneur' -- For a critical theory of entrepreneurship -- The sublime object of entrepreneurship -- The birth of the entrepreneur -- Entrepreneurial excess -- Is the Marquis de Sade an entrepreneur? -- Every age gets the entrepreneur it deserves -- Enterprise of the other -- What remains
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 116-133) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035306183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 310 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kodama, Mitsuru, 1957 - Innovation networks in knowledge-based firms
    DDC: 658.4/063
    Keywords: Wissensgesellschaft ; Lernende Organisation ; Innovation ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Geschäftsmodell ; Knowledge management ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations ; Informationsmanagement ; Innovation ; Netzwerk ; Business ; Data processing ; Information resources management ; Management information systems ; High technology industries ; Management ; Informationsmanagement ; Innovation ; Netzwerk ; Managementinformationssystem ; Informationstechnik
    Abstract: Innovation Networks in Knowledge-based Firms explores corporate strategic management in an information and communication technology (ICT) environment, and illustrates the significance of new business models based on 'boundary innovation' management through broadband networks as fixed and mobile wireless infrastructures. The author bridges theory and practice and provides international scope; he seeks to make transparent the mechanisms behind the processes that generate product and service innovation in ICT industries, such as search and advertising (Yahoo, Google), music distribution (Apple iPod) and gaming (Sony Playstation, Nintendo DS). He develops new business models based on 'boundary innovation' management and explains the innovation networks formed via three types of knowledge innovator - platform, process, and content. These knowledge innovators play an important role in merging different technologies (including ICT) and business models to develop new business value chains and new industries that span various industrial fields. Highlighting new theoretical and managerial insights and implications in the realm of ICT, this book will be invaluable to academics, students and practitioners with an interest in business, management, ICT and high-tech industries
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Network innovation in the knowledge-based society -- 1. Network innovation for knowledge-based firms -- 2. Network innovation through real and virtual space: Theoretical frameworks -- Part II: Platform innovators -- 3. Ict innovation through co-creation and co-evolution -- 4. Boundaries innovation through ict development -- Part III: Process innovators -- 5. Dynamic collaboration through broadband innovation -- 6. Ict-based integrative competences through the balance of process, practice and ict -- Part VI: Content innovators -- 7. Mobile phone business innovation for business ecosystems through co-creation and co-evolution -- 8. Virtual service through collaboration between innovative customers and platform innovators -- Part V: Network innovation through co-creation and co-evolution -- 9. Process view of the knowledge-based firm -- 10. Conclusion: The network innovation-based firm in the knowledge-based society -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-303) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 384 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Mazzarol, Tim, 1957 - The strategy of small firms
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    Keywords: KMU ; Strategisches Management ; Innovationsmanagement ; Entrepreneurship ; Welt ; Small business Management ; Strategic planning ; Business planning ; Organizational effectiveness ; Strategisches Management ; Klein- und Mittelbetriebe ; Strategic planning ; Small business Management ; Strategisches Management ; Klein- und Mittelbetrieb
    Abstract: Throughout the book, the authors offer a conceptual framework supported by original case study data to explain how and why a small firm should approach strategic planning, the forces influencing the planning process, and the nexus between innovation and planning. The majority of all businesses throughout the world are small firms, which play a crucial role in the growth of the world's economies. Tim Mazzarol and Sophie Reboud address questions such as: what is the value of planning for small firms, and how should these firms approach strategic planning? This book provides an in-depth analysis of the theory and conceptual frameworks associated with planning and strategy in small firms. It also explores key issues linked with why and how small firms should plan and the benefits they gain. This timely book will be invaluable to academics, postgraduate research students and professional advisors working in the field of small business management and entrepreneurship. Supported by original research and comprehensive key theories, entrepreneurs and practicing managers with an interest in understanding the foundations of planning and strategy will find this book of great importance to them
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The conceptual structure of the book -- 3. A review of the literature Part 1 -- 4. A review of the literature Part 2 -- 5. Entrepreneur versus owner-manager -- 6. The strategic myopia of small firms -- 7. The strategic management process -- 8. Strategic options for small firms -- 9. Innovation as competitive advantage -- 10. Applying the innovation framework -- 11. Strategic networks and outsiders -- 12. Managing the strategic triangle -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-378) and index
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    Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing
    ISBN: 9781035305476
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 336 pages) , illustrations
    Edition: Rev. ed
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Jastram, Roy W., 1915 - The golden constant
    DDC: 332.4/2220941
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    Keywords: 1560-2007 ; Gold ; Preis ; Kaufkraftparität ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Gold History ; Prices History ; Prices History ; Großbritannien ; Goldwährung ; Geschichte 1560-1976 ; USA ; Goldpreis
    Abstract: The Golden Constant is a unique examination of how gold's purchasing power has remained consistent over the centuries. First published in 1977, this new edition has additional material to bring it up to date. The book is the only in-depth examination of how the purchasing power of gold has performed over the centuries in both England and the USA. It contains a thorough explanation of how the gold market evolved and how this is related to economic and political developments, from 1560 in England, and from 1800 in the USA, up to 2007. The book also contains detailed historical statistics on gold, wholesale and consumer prices and the real price of gold. This important book will be an essential resource for institutional and individual investors in the gold industry. Academics, economic historians and economists interested in monetary and financial history will find this book to be a fascinating read
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: About the new edition -- Preface previously written / by Roy W. Jastram -- Foreword to the new edition / by Pierre Lassonde -- Introduction -- Part I: The English experience -- 1. The price of gold -- 2. Historical fluctuations in the price of gold -- 3. Commodity prices and the construction of Indexnumbers -- 4. The purchasing power of gold -- 5. The purchasing power of gold in inflation and deflation -- Part II: The American experience -- 6. The evolution of the gold standard and historical fluctuations in gold prices -- 7. The purchasing power of gold -- 8. Reflections on the golden constant -- Part III: After the gold price was freed, 1971-2007 -- 9. The gold market and the purchasing power of gold, 1971-2007 -- 10. Further explorations into the gold price and its purchasing power -- Appendices -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305407
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 428 pages) , illustrations, maps
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Entrepreneurship and innovations in functional regions
    DDC: 338/.04
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    Keywords: Entrepreneurship ; Innovation ; Regionalentwicklung ; Entrepreneurship ; Technological innovations ; Industrial location ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress ; Konferenzschrift ; Unternehmen ; Innovation ; Forschung und Entwicklung ; Know-how-Transfer ; Regionalentwicklung ; Kongress
    Abstract: In recent decades, the world has witnessed the emergence of a global knowledge economy in which functional regions increasingly play a role as independent and dynamic market places. These are integrated with other functional regions by means of flows of information, knowledge, and commodities. This contemporary and illuminating book provides a state-of-the-art overview of current research on innovation and entrepreneurship in functional regions. There are numerous questions regarding entrepreneurship and innovation in functional regions that have not yet been answered - until now. Some of the issues that the expert contributors in this field question are - How do firms compete and how do they develop their competitive strategies? How important are entrepreneurial actions and innovation? How important are firm size, firm maturity and corporate structure for innovation? Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Functional Regions will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of entrepreneurship, business economics, innovation and regional science
    Note: "The contributions forming the different chapters in this book were first presented and discussed at the Eight Uddevalla Symposium 2005 ... held at and hosted by the University West, Uddevalla, Sweden"--Pref , Includes bibliographical references and index , Introduction - Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Functional Regions / , Engineering Culture, Innovation, and Modern Wealth Creation / , Swedish Paradox Revisited / , Firm Location, Corporate Structure and Innovation / , Firm Size, Firm Maturity and Product and Process R&D in Swedish Manufacturing Firms / , University Educated Labour, R&D and Regional Export Performance / , Magnitude and Destination Diversity of Exports - the Role of Product Variety / , Differences in Survivor Functions according to Different Competitive Strategies / , Resource-Based Analysis of Bankruptcy Law, Entrepreneurship and Corporate Recovery / , Agglomeration Economies, Learning Processes, and Patterns of Firm Spatial Clustering / , Assiduous Firms in a 'Learning Region' - The Case of East-Wurttemberg, Germany / , Cluster Dynamics: Insights from Broadcasting in Three UK City-Regions / , Technology, Innovation and Latecomer Strategies: The Case of Mobile Handset Manufacturing Sector in China / , Enterprise Development Policy: Modelling the Policy Context / , Entrepreneurial Business Support Networks: A Leader Institution Perspective /
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    ISBN: 9781035305483
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 320 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Doi, Takerō, 1970 - The public sector in Japan
    DDC: 351.52
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    Keywords: Öffentlicher Sektor ; Japan ; Public administration ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Finanzpolitik ; Ziel ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Steuerpolitik ; Öffentliche Schulden ; Soziale Sicherheit ; Politische Reform ; Japan ; Öffentlicher Sektor ; Finanzierung ; Fiskalpolitik ; Dezentralisation ; Verwaltungsreform
    Abstract: This book provides the reader with the basis for a theoretical understanding of public-sector finance in general - and more specifically, a comprehensive, policy-oriented application of that understanding to Japanese public finance. Particular emphasis is placed upon developing tools which can be used both theoretically and empirically to clarify essential economic concerns in Japan's public sector. These include the macroeconomic incidence of fiscal decentralization, dependence on government bonds for covering fiscal deficits, and social security reform. In analyzing Japan's underperforming public sector, the authors develop and recommend policy solutions aimed at achieving Japan's growth potential, improving the quality of the public sector, and strengthening the sector's contribution to the Japanese economy. Guiding the reader toward an overall understanding of public-sector reforms, decentralization and fiscal policy in Japan, this book will strongly appeal to academics, students and researchers with an interest in modern public finance theory and macroeconomic analysis
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. History of postwar public finance -- 3. The central government budget and fiscal policy -- 4. Aging and intergenerational conflict: Social security benefits and burdens -- 5. Restoring fiscal balance in an aging Japan -- 6. The tax system and its reform -- 7. Local public finance and the soft-budget problem -- 8. Decentralization reform -- 9. The management and sustainability of government debt -- 10. Reform of the public sector -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305728
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 299 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Creedy, John, 1949 - Population ageing, pensions and growth
    DDC: 331.252
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    Keywords: Alternde Bevölkerung ; Altersvorsorge ; Steuer ; Privater Konsum ; Intertemporale Entscheidung ; Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Older people Government policy ; Economic aspects ; Pensions ; Expenditures, Public ; Social policy ; Economic development ; Age distribution (Demography) Economic aspects ; Older people Government policy ; Economic aspects ; Pensions ; Expenditures, Public ; Social policy ; Economic development ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Altersversorgung ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung
    Abstract: This highly topical book explores key issues in evaluating the long-run implications of population ageing for pensions, taxation, intergenerational equity and social welfare. Societies face long-term phenomena, such as demographic change and climate change that impose costs and benefits far into the future. These present challenges for policymakers in planning intertemporal consumption paths that balance the goals of efficiency and equity. An exploration of these issues, with respect to population ageing in particular, is the primary motivation for this book. John Creedy and Ross Guest evaluate these problems with a particular focus on the role of concepts, assumptions and value judgements. This book will be a fascinating read for researchers interested in the social evaluation of population ageing and climate change. Public policy makers and advisers will find the analysis of practical policy questions such as alternative regimes for taxing public pensions of special interest. Graduate students of macroeconomics and public economics will also find helpful discussions of social discounting, the efficiency and equity effects of tax smoothing, and potential new effects of population ageing on labour productivity
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- Part II: Discounting and time preference -- 2. Discounting and time preference -- 3. The elasticity of marginal valuation -- 4. Sustainable pReferences -- 5. Representative agent and social planner -- Part III: Pensions and taxation -- 6. Pension tax, savings and labour supply -- 7. Private pensions and savings -- Part IV: Population ageing -- 8. Tax smoothing and population ageing -- 9. Demographic change in oecd countries -- 10. Capital intensity and productivity -- 11. Extensions and sensitivity analyses -- Bibliography -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-288) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305674
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 599 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Rose, Adam Economics of climate change policy
    Keywords: Umweltökonomik ; Klimaschutz ; Umweltpolitik ; Theorie ; Welt ; Environmental economics ; Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Global warming Economic aspects ; Carbon dioxide mitigation Economic aspects ; Greenhouse gas mitigation Economic aspects ; Energy policy Economic aspects ; Anthropogene Klimaänderung ; Umweltpolitik ; Wirtschaft ; Umweltökonomie ; Klimaschutz ; Treibhausgas ; Emissionsverringerung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Treibhauseffekt
    Abstract: This important collection embodies the author's pioneering and on-going efforts to incorporate equity and efficiency principles into the economics of climate change policy. It represents a valuable compendium of work, both previously published and original, the range of which is not otherwise readily accessible. Adam Rose was one of the first both to identify the central role of equity among nations and regions in addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation and to quantify many equity principles so that they could be incorporated into formal models. Comprising classic explorations into GHG emission trading design with respect to burden-sharing, borrowing and banking, and political constraints, the papers contained in this volume provide guidance on coalition choices for individual states of the US and partnership choices for developing countries involved in the Clean Development Mechanism today and in emission allowance trading in the future. The impacts of mitigation policy across industries and socioeconomic groups are also analysed, using computable general equilibrium models to examine the economic implications of carbon taxes, fuel taxes, tradable emission permits, and strict regulation. In addition, the book establishes a firm grounding for policy analysis by providing a basic understanding of the carbon cycle, drivers of GHG emissions, and some economic impacts of climate change. The Economics of Climate Change Policy will be of great interest and value to academics and students of environmental economics and policy and will be welcomed by environmental policy-makers involved in climate change issues at the local, regional, national and international level
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction: A personal, professional and policy odyssey -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. 'Introduction: Nature of the issue and policy options' -- 2. 'What are the options that could significantly affect the North American carbon cycle?' -- 3. 'An international system of tradeable co2 entitlements: Implications for economic development' -- 4. 'Global warming policy: Who decides what is fair?' -- 5. 'Greenhouse gas mitigation action planning: An overview' -- Part II: Greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts -- 6. 'A greenhouse gas emissions inventory for pennsylvania' -- 7. 'Carbon dioxide emissions in the us economy: A structural decomposition analysis' -- 8. 'Characterizing regional economic impacts and responses to climate change' -- 9. 'Simulating the economic impacts of climate change in the mid-atlantic region' -- 10. 'Global climate change and the value of solar energy in us agriculture' -- Part III: Efficiency considerations in policy design -- 11. 'The efficiency and equity of marketable permits for co2 emissions' -- 12. 'Regrets or no regrets - that is the question: Is conservation a costless co2 mitigation strategy?' -- 13. 'The changing role of transaction costs in the evolution of joint implementation' -- 14. 'An economic analysis of flexible permit trading in the kyoto protocol' -- 15. 'A dynamic analysis of the marketable permits approach to global warming policy: A comparison of spatial and temporal flexibility' -- Part IV: International equity and global cooperation -- 16. 'Reducing conflict in global warming policy: The potential of equity as a unifying principle' -- 17. 'Equity in environmental policy with an application to global warming' -- 18. 'Long-run implications for developing countries of joint implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation' -- 19. 'International equity and differentiation in global warming policy' -- 20. 'Greenhouse gas emissions trading among Pacific rim countries: An analysis of policies to bring developing countries to the bargaining table' -- Part V: National impacts of mitigation policy -- 21. 'Motor-fuel taxes and household welfare: An applied general equilibrium analysis' -- 22. 'Global warming policy, energy, and the Chinese economy' -- 23. 'Greenhouse gas reduction policy in the United States: Identifying winners and losers in an expanded permit trading system' -- 24. 'Interregional burden-sharing of greenhouse gas mitigation in the United States' -- 25. 'Regional carbon dioxide permit trading in the United States: Coalition choices for pennsylvania' -- Part VI: Regional impacts of mitigation policy -- 26. 'Global warming policy and the pennsylvania economy: A computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 27. 'The impact of a carbon tax on the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 28. 'Assessing the impacts of carbon emission reduction policies on the mid-atlantic regional economy: A dynamic computable general equilibrium analysis' -- 29. 'Income distribution impacts of climate change mitigation policy in the susquehanna river basin economy' -- 30. 'Climate change policy formation in minnesota: The case for a regional approach' -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305650
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 271 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: New directions in modern economics series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Monetary policy and financial stability
    DDC: 332.46
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    Keywords: 1995-2004 ; Geldpolitik ; Preisstabilität ; Globalisierung ; Keynesianismus ; Welt ; Monetary policy ; Keynesian economics ; Economic policy ; Banks and banking, Central ; Kaleckian Model of Growth and Distribution ; Monetary policy ; Keynesian economics ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geldpolitik ; Neokeynesianismus
    Abstract: This book provides an enlightening glimpse into the deep theoretical traditions of post-Keynesian theory whilst also illuminating the richness and uniqueness of post-Keynesian economic policy. The editors have gathered together leading scholars and researchers to push the boundaries of post-Keynesian thinking. They address a number of important issues dealing with wage determination, income distribution and central bank governance. Many of these chapters share a common theme including a criticism of the usefulness of monetary policy in fighting or targeting inflation and the questions this raises for central bank governance. The book also focuses on open economy issues such as capital flows, globalization, FDI and the Washington Consensus. Monetary Policy and Financial Stability is required reading for students, scholars and researchers of economics, and for policymakers seeking rational alternatives to the current neo-classical orthodoxy
    Description / Table of Contents: Wage bargaining and monetary policy in a Kaleckian monetary distribution and growth model : making sense of the NAIRU / Eckhard Hein -- Price and wage determination and the inflation barrier : moving beyond the Phillips curve / Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer -- Central bank governance, the euthanasia of the rentier and interest rate policy : a note on post-Keynesian monetary policy after Taylor / Louis-Philippe Rochon -- The macroeconomic governance of the European Monetary Union : a Keynesian perspective / Angel Asensio -- Inflation targeting and monetary policy governance : the case of the European Central Bank / Sergio Rossi -- Enforcing the IMF in the global economy : an institutional analysis / Jean-Pierre Allegret and Philippe Dulbecco -- Too much consensus could be harmful : assessing the degree of implementation of stabilization and structural policies and their impact on growth / Eric Berr, François Combarnous and Eric Rougier -- The political economy of global economic disgovernance / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira -- Tobin, globalization and capital flows / Robert W. Dimand -- The impact of FDI on capital formation : the case of Mexico / Claudia Maya -- Financial liberalization, economic growth and rents / Domenica Tropeano -- The Argentine Jefes program : from a post-financial crisis emergency safety net to a long-run policy promoting development / Corinne Pastoret.
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 203 pages) , illustration
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dringoli, Angelo Creating value through innovation
    DDC: 658.4012
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    Keywords: Innovationsmanagement ; Shareholder Value ; Wettbewerbsvorteil ; Economic value added ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations Management ; Creative ability in business ; New products Decision making ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsmanagement ; Modellierung ; Evaluation ; Economic value added ; Strategic planning ; Technological innovations Management ; Creative ability in business ; New products Decision making ; Unternehmen ; Innovationsmanagement ; Modellierung ; Evaluation
    Abstract: In open and dynamic markets, only innovation can give a firm a competitive advantage and with it the superior cash flows that generate value. This book offers a new conceptual structure and applicable analytical models for evaluating a firm's innovation strategies in highly competitive environments and for estimating firm value. Using analytical models, Angelo Dringoli examines the conditions under which innovation strategy can create and maintain value, based on different environmental dynamics. Quantitative models are used to determine the value of innovation strategies in highly dynamic and competitive industries. These clearly reveal the economic variables and relations upon which the strategy depends, and the conditions for creating sustainable value within the firm. This stimulating integrated analysis will appeal to researchers and postgraduate students with an interest in economics, finance and business administration, as well as managers and professionals involved in strategic management and firm evaluation
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. The value of the firm in highly competitive industries -- 2. Main determinants of operating cash flows -- 3. Fundamental environment trends and innovation strategies -- 4. Creating value through process innovation strategies -- 5. Creating value through product innovation strategies -- 6. Creating value through integrated innovation strategies -- 7. Designing the r&d system of innovation -- 8. The sustainability of value in highly competitive industries -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 184-190) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305704
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 177 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Organizing in the face of risk and threat
    DDC: 658.4056
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    Keywords: Organisation ; Risikomanagement ; Krisenmanagement ; Organizational behavior ; Industrial organization ; Risk management ; Crisis management ; Arbeitsorganisation ; Krisenmanagement ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Arbeitsorganisation ; Krisenmanagement
    Abstract: Barbara Czarniawska is a distinguished scholar and author in the field of organization. Drawing on her extensive knowledge she has gathered together other leading experts to apply organization theory to yet another relevant field of practice - risk management. There are no prescriptions for organizing in the face of risk and threat, but the accumulating experience shows that a well-rehearsed improvisation brings much better results than planning and construction of formal organizations. This timely book contains cases of risk and threat where the former strategy succeeds and the latter fails. The wealth of cases presented includes the Marburg virus outbreak in Angola, bird flu, health insurance after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and the Tjörn bridge catastrophe in Sweden. Graduate and postgraduate students in business and management schools, as well as academics teaching courses in risk management across disciplines should not be without this book. Risk management specialists will also find this book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: 1. Introduction: Action nets / Barbara Czarniawska -- 2. Risk and organizing - the growth of a research field / Ulla Eriksson-Zetterquist -- 3. Marburg virus, or a story of preparedness / Andreas Diedrich -- 4. Bird flu - threat or opportunity? / Kajsa Lindberg -- 5. Welfare services - an area for risk management? / Lars Norén -- 6. Adventure tourism: Making risk safe / Eva Gustavsson -- 7. A net of actions in the tracks of storm gudrun / David Renemark -- 8. The tjörn bridge catastrophe - on building a new bridge out of an old one / Lars Walter -- 9. Small time breaks / Tobias Engberg -- 10. The aesthetic threat / Peter Zackariasson -- 11. Conclusions: Plans or well-practiced improvisations? / Barbara Czarniawska -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-175) and index , Translated from the Swedish
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    ISBN: 9781035305735
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 184 pages) , illustrations
    Series Statement: INFER advances in economic research
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Integration and globalization
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Wirtschaftliche Konvergenz ; Industrieländer ; Entwicklungsländer ; International economic integration Congresses ; Globalization Congresses Economic aspects ; International economic integration ; Globalization Economic aspects ; Europe Congresses Economic integration ; Developing countries Congresses Economic integration ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftliche Integration ; Globalisierung
    Abstract: The main challenges the European Single Market is facing in the 21st century result from the enlargement to Central and Eastern Europe, the EMU, and the globalization of trade and investment that has aided the rise of competitive emerging markets. This state-of-the-art book provides fresh theoretical and empirical evidence on the challenges presented by integration and globalization for both developed and developing countries. The authors demonstrate how the European Single Market remains a work in progress with many critical issues still to be addressed. These include the rigidities in product and labor markets, the need for innovation and quality upgrading, and the rapid catch-up of new member countries. They go on to show how firms use the opportunities provided by integration and globalization to fragment their production processes internationally, which brings gains but also requires structural adjustment. The book also argues that global environmental coordination may be less detrimental to the growth prospects of developing countries than is commonly believed. Illustrating a number of methodologies, this book will be a great resource tool for postgraduates and undergraduates in the fields of international economics and business, as well as researchers and policy-makers
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Overview -- 1. Integration and globalization: An overview / Helena Marques, Elias Soukiazis and Pedro Cerqueira -- Part II: European economies and integration -- 2. Challenges for the internal market in the 21st century / Fabienne Ilzkovitz, Adriaan Dierx, Viktoria Kovacs and Nuno Sousa -- 3. Testing nominal rigidities in an integrated economy: An application to Spain / Maria Ángeles Caraballo and Carlos Usabiaga -- 4. Innovation, competitiveness and growth: The case of central and eastern European countries / Eleonora Cavallaro and Marcella Mulino -- 5. Price convergence in the new EU member states: Selected aspects and implications / Václav Zd'árek -- Part III: Developing economies and globalization -- 6. Outsourcing: A story of metamorphosis / Soumodip Sarkar -- 7. International spillovers and learning by doing in a regionalized model of climate change: A post-kyoto analysis / Nicola Cantore -- 8. Assessing exchange rate pass-through in India during recent globalization / Sushanta Mallick and Helena Marques -- 9. A dynamic cge analysis of the eu-jordan fta: Welfare and policy implications / Omar Feraboli -- Index.
    Note: "The contributions in this volume result from the 6th Workshop in International Economics of the International Network for Economic Research (INFER), held at the University of Coimbra in June 2007."--Preface , Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305414
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (400 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Technological change and mature industrial regions
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: 1950-2005 ; Technischer Fortschritt ; Regionalentwicklung ; Alte Industrieregion ; Regionalpolitik ; Welt ; Technological innovations Economic aspects ; Technological innovations Political aspects ; Technological innovations ; Industrial policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Regionalwirtschaft ; Regionalentwicklung ; Industriepolitik ; Technische Innovation
    Abstract: Technological Change and Mature Industrial Regions explicitly adopts an inter-disciplinary approach to analysing the structural transformation of mature regions. The major focus of the book is from an economics perspective, but it also employs sociological analyses, business history approaches and technological analyses. It critically considers the identification and development of regional capabilities and regional policy initiatives for mature industrial areas in the context of globalisation and technological change. Specific cases from a range of different countries help to distinguish which aspects of mature regions' technology, knowledge or structure are region-specific, and which are more generally applicable to mature industrial regions throughout the world. The book will prove to be invaluable for academic researchers as well as government and policy communities
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Part I: Mature regions: Technology, society and industrial structure -- 1. The problems of mature regions: An Introduction and overview / Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 2. Regional capabilities and industrial regeneration / Nick von Tunzelmann -- 3. Multinational firms and technological innovation: The 'global versus local' challenge / Simona Iammarino, Odile E.M. Janne and Philip McCann -- 4. Interdependence among the Brazilian states: An input-output approach / Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Eduardo Amaral Haddad and Edson Paulo Domingues -- 5. The changing structure of trade and interdependence in a mature economy: The us midwest / Geoffrey J.D. Hewings and John B. Parr -- 6. Mature industries and declining regions: An analysis of the Spanish case / Josep-Maria Arauzo-Carod and Elisabet Viladecans-Marsal -- Part II: Mature region-industry case studies -- 7. Birmingham's marshallian knowledge: A constraining geo-historical context for domestic saloon manufacturers? / Peter Clark -- 8. Life after longbridge? Crisis and restructuring in the west midlands auto cluster / David Bailey and Seiji Kobayashi -- 9. Massachusetts medical devices: Leveraging the region's capabilities / Michael H. Best -- 10. Economic restructuring, regional 'visioning' and the role of universities: The outcomes of an automobile plant closure in southern adelaide, australia / Andrew Beer and Holli Thomas -- 11. Maturity or decline of Italian industrial districts / Ivana Paniccia -- 12. Knowledge spillovers and industrial transformation: The west midlands and saxony automotive clusters / Odile E.M. Janne and Mahtab Akhavan Farshchi -- Part III: Regional policy and mature industrial regions -- 13. A cost-benefit approach to the assessment of regional policy / J. Kim Swales -- 14. Regional policies in Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom: A shift in paradigm? / Ilaria Mariotti -- 15. Innovation policy after the 'celtic tiger' / Declan Jordan and Eoin O'Leary -- 16. Grants and the location of foreign direct investment: Evidence from the UK regions / Colin Wren and Jonathan Jones -- 17. Cluster policy implementation and evaluation in Slovenia: Lessons from a transition economy / Anja Cotič Svetina, Marko Jaklič and Hugo Zagorsek -- 18. Lagging regions and policy options: The case of greece in the European context / Yannis Psycharis and George Petrakos -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305681
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 482 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Salzberger, Thomas Measurement in marketing research
    DDC: 658.83
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    Keywords: Marktforschung ; Messung ; Multivariate Analyse ; Theorie ; Marketing research Methodology ; Rasch models ; Marketingforschung ; Latente Variable ; Stochastisches Modell ; Quantitative Methode ; Marketingforschung ; Latente Variable ; Stochastisches Modell ; Quantitative Methode
    Abstract: Measurement in Marketing Research investigates latent variables in marketing, focusing on current paradigms as well as recently suggested alternative concepts. The book proposes a unified scientific definition of measurement that allows for testing the hypothesis of the real existence of a latent variable. Thomas Salzberger analyses current measurement approaches in terms of their compliance with the scientific requirements of measurement. He reaches the conclusion that the predominantly applied practices, to a varying extent, suffer from substantial shortcomings, and suggests an alternative framework of measurement based on the philosophy of Rasch modelling. In the Rasch model great importance is attached to the mathematical principles of measurements, which take precedence over 'flexibility' in terms of accommodating idiosyncrasies of the data. The Rasch model promises to narrow the gap between the quality of measurement in the natural sciences and in the social sciences. The future of measurement in marketing is about to be set. This book aims to raise researchers' awareness of measurement issues and to contribute to a transfer of knowledge from psychometrics into marketing research. Marketing researchers and postgraduate students will find this book invaluable
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- 1. Quantitative research in marketing -- 2. Contemporary measurement in marketing research -- 3. New contributions on measurement in marketing -- 4. The requirements of measurement -- 5. A new agenda of measurement in marketing -- 6. Scientific and practical marketing research -- 7. Empirical examples -- 8. Conclusions and discussion -- References -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-464) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781035305711
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xlii, 209 pages)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Taxation and the promotion of human happiness
    DDC: 336.2001
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    Keywords: Steuertheorie ; Steuerinzidenz ; Steuereinnahmen ; Steuergerechtigkeit ; Zufriedenheit ; Wirtschaftsgeschichte ; Theorie ; Taxation ; Steuerpolitik ; Utilitarismus
    Abstract: George Warde Norman was a Director of the Bank of England from 1821 to 1872, a key figure behind the Bank Charter Act of 1844, and one of the founders of the Political Economy Club. In 1821 G.W. Norman began an essay on taxation as part of the utilitarian programme. His vision was for increased human happiness through a wholesale reform of the revenue system founded upon direct taxation in the form of a comprehensive property tax. He continued to work on the essay over many years, never losing his faith in the utilitarian ideal or his belief in the property tax solution as the key to fiscal happiness. This book represents G.W. Norman's final thoughts, themselves a manifestation of a significant element in the development of 19th century policy and institutions. This edition of a hitherto unknown work demonstrates the importance of utilitarianism to liberal thinking on taxation. As such, this unique book will appeal to specialists in the history of economic thought and to historians, especially those with an interest in the history of public finance, an area in which G.W. Norman's contribution has been almost entirely overlooked. Providing a new and previously unexploited source, it should also prove to be a fascinating read for postgraduates working in these fields
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Political economy and taxation -- 2. Advantages of taxation -- Part II: Qualities of taxation -- 3. Taxes and other sources of revenue -- 4. Computability -- 5. Simplicity -- 6. Frugality in collection -- 7. Constancy -- 8. Divisibility -- 9. Popularity -- 10. Noninterference -- 11. Equality -- 12. Uncorruptiveness -- 13. Unvexatiousness -- 14. Unevasibility -- Part III: Review of existing or supposed taxes -- 15. Motive influencing the framers of taxes -- 16. General observations on indirect taxes -- 17. Custom house duties -- 18. The excise monopolies -- 19. Taxes on particular classes or persons -- 20. Direct taxes on objects of luxury -- 21. Taxes on travelling and the conveyance of intelligence -- 22. Taxes on justice -- 23. Taxes on the transfer of property, on knowledge, on prudence, on ingenuity, and on health -- 24. Taxes on rent, tythe, land tax -- 25. Continuation of taxes on rent, poor rate, house and window tax -- 26. The poll-tax -- 27. Legacy duty and stamp duty on probates of wills -- 28. The assessed taxes and stamp duties -- 29. Turnpike and bridge tolls, barrières and harbour and light dues -- 30. Taxes on vices -- 31. The income tax in England -- 32. An improved property tax -- 33. Proposals for reform -- Index.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages xli-xlii) and index
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    ISBN: 9781035305247
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 400 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Purchasing power parities of currencies
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    Keywords: Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Kaufkraftparität ; Messung ; Vergleich ; Finanzmathematik ; Purchasing power parity ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Realeinkommen ; Kaufkraftvergleich ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Messung ; Kaufkraftparität
    Abstract: This up-to-date book demonstrates how the purchasing power parities (PPPs) of currencies are being increasingly used in place of exchange rates for a variety of purposes. These include: comparisons of real income, measurements of global inequality and poverty, calculation of the human development index and assessment of nations economic performance. Despite the increasing popularity of PPPs, many users have very little appreciation of the data and methods used in their derivation. This timely monograph brings together a number of significant contributions from leading researchers in the field, offering a comprehensive review of the latest methods used in the construction and application of PPPs. The authors provide a broad overview of the current state-of-the-art both in terms of techniques as well as current practice with various international organisations. Given the increasing application of PPPs in this truly globalised world, this book will be a stimulating read for researchers and academics involved in international comparisons and development economics, general economists and economist statisticians
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- / d.s. Prasada rao -- 2. The compilation of purchasing power parities: The eurostat-oecd purchasing power parity programme -- / david roberts -- Part II: System methods for ppp computation -- 3. Aggregation methods in international comparisons: An evaluation / Bert Balk -- 4. Generalised eltetö-köves-szulc and country-product-dummy methods for international comparisons / D.S. Prasada Rao -- 5. True international income comparisons correcting for substitution bias / Steve Dowrick -- 6. Additivity, matrix consistency and a new method for international comparisons of real income and purchasing power parities / Itsuo Sakuma, D.S. Prasada Rao and Yoshimasa Kurabayashi -- 7. Implicit data structures and properties of selected additive indices / James Cuthbert -- Part III: Methods for spatial linking and analysis of price structures -- 8. Similarity Indexes and criteria for spatial linking / Erwin Diewert -- 9. Comparing per capita income levels across countries using spanning trees: Robustness, prior restrictions, hybrids and hierarchies / Robert Hill -- 10. Chaining methods for international real product and purchasing power comparisons: Issues and alternatives / Bettina Aten and Alan Heston -- 11. Aggregation methods based on structural international prices -- / sergey sergeev -- Part IV: Applications -- 12. Purchasing power parities and their policy relevance / Michael Ward -- 13. Purchasing power parity adjustments for productivity level comparisons / Bart van Ark and Marcel Timmer -- 14. Ppps and the price competitiveness of international tourism destinations / Larry Dwyer, Peter Forsyth and D.S. Prasada Rao -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305629
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 332 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Twenty-first century macroeconomics
    DDC: 338.927
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    Keywords: 1980-2006 ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Klimawandel ; Umweltschutz ; Welt ; Economic development Environmental aspects ; Macroeconomics ; Global warming ; Konferenzschrift ; Klimaänderung ; Umweltschutz ; Klimaschutz ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: The authors and editors of this book challenge traditional assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental impacts and social equity. Policies including carbon trading, revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in the twenty-first century. What are the likely economic effects of climate change? What are the costs of substantial action to avert climate change? What economic policies can be effective in responding to climate change? The debate has broad implications for public policy. However, it also raises fundamental questions about economic analysis itself, and moves issues of environmental policy from the microeconomic to the macroeconomic level. Taking global climate change seriously requires a re-examination of macroeconomic goals. Economic growth has been closely linked to expanded use of energy, primarily fossil fuels. The assumption of continuing economic growth, in turn, leads economists to discount future costs, including the generational impacts of climate change. Challenging conventional concepts of growth implies different development paths both for rich and poor nations. This volume brings together contributions from scholars around the world to address these issues. Scholars, researchers and students of economics and development studies along with policymakers and non-governmental organizations will find this insightful book of great interest
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Introduction / Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin -- Part I: The scope of the challenge -- 1. Understanding the challenge of global warming / Lloyd J. Dumas -- 2. The new climate economics: The stern review versus its critics / Frank Ackerman -- 3. Economics and climate change: Resilience, equity, and sustainability / Neva R. Goodwin -- 4. The right to development in a climate-constrained world / Paul Baer, Tom Athanasiou and Sivan Kartha -- Part II: Macroeconomic theory perspectives -- 5. The economic fundamentals of global warming / Duncan K. Foley -- 6. Energy productivity, labor productivity, and global warming / Lance Taylor -- 7. Macroeconomics and sustainable development: Applying the sustainomics framework / Mohan Munasinghe -- 8. Ecological macroeconomics: Consumption, investment and climate change / Jonathan M. Harris -- Part III: Policy options for responding to climate change -- 9. Cap and dividend: How to curb global warming while promoting income equity / James K. Boyce and Matthew Riddle -- 10. Policies for funding a response to climate change / Brian Roach -- 11. The new EU emissions trading scheme: A blueprint for the global carbon market? / Christian Egenhofer -- 12. Implementation of sustainable development in Poland / Andrzej Kassenberg -- 13. Climate change from the investor's perspective / Adam Seitchik -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305636
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 310 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Microfoundations of economic success
    DDC: 338.94798
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    Keywords: 1990-2007 ; Systemtransformation ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftsreform ; Estland ; Estonia Economic conditions 1991- ; Estonia Economic policy 1991- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Estland ; Wirtschaftspolitik
    Abstract: This book explores the nature of the flexibility of Estonia's rapid growth, that enables it to swiftly seize opportunities and weather crises without undue cost. The distinguished cast of contributors draws upon detailed data on individual firms and households to explore the basis for Estonia's record as the most successful of all the EU accession countries over the last decade. They conclude that much of this accomplishment can be attributed to the greater flexibility of the Estonian economy, both in price setting in employment and wages, and in consumption. The book also reveals that Estonia is able to adjust to shocks more rapidly and with less real impact than other countries. Coupled with a favourable macroeconomic policy and a good institutional structure and legal framework, this indicates that Estonia will be an excellent example to other countries despite the recent downturn. This unique book will be of great interest to researchers and students of the economics of transition, and will prove invaluable to policy-makers and their advisors in both transition countries and the rest of the EU, as well as graduate students studying microeconomics and monetary policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- 1. The path of transition in Estonia / David G. Mayes and Martti Randveer -- 2. Comparison of pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area and Estonia / Aurelijus Dabusinskas and Martti Randveer -- 3. The principles of wage formation in Estonian companies / Tairi Rõõm and Lenno Uusküla -- 4. Productivity in Estonian enterprises: The role of innovation and competition / Priit Vahter -- 5. Liquidity and productivity shocks: A look at sectoral firm creation / Lenno Uusküla -- 6. A microeconometric analysis of household saving in Estonia: Income, wealth and financial exposure / Dmitry Kulikov, Annika Paabut and Karsten Staehr -- 7. Estimates of employment and welfare effects of personal labour income taxation in a flat-tax country / Karsten Staehr -- 8. Outlook / David G. Mayes and Martti Randveer -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035305599
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 354 pages) , illustrations
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The economics of digital markets
    DDC: 338.761004
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    Keywords: 1995-2010 ; Informationstechnik ; IKT-Sektor ; Telekommunikation ; Internet ; Welt ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Computer software industry ; Information technology Economic aspects ; Computer software industry Economic aspects ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Informationstechnische Industrie ; Telekommunikationswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftliche Betrachtungsweise ; Electronic Commerce
    Abstract: This innovative book provides state-of-the-art analyses of the current condition of the economics of digital markets. The most recent developments in web technology are evolving, creating an increasingly deregulated environment. Much of the impetus for liberalisation is in response to multimedia convergence and the globalisation of markets, leading to uncertainties in the sector. Gary Madden and Russel Cooper examine the microeconomics of platform structure and firm competition within and between digital markets, modern theoretical treatments of regulatory intervention in digital markets and the consideration of forward-looking experimental analysis of demand for yet-to-be provided services. Bringing together a highly focused group of eminent scholars, this book will appeal to academics, postgraduate students, and both international treaty and national government agencies as well as market analysts
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. Policy towards standardisation in wireless telecommunications / Luís M.B. Cabral and David Salant -- 2. Assembling platforms: Strategy and competition / Eric Brousseau and Thierry Pénard -- 3. Fines, damages and the technological protection of information goods / Claude Crampes, Abraham Hollander and Charbel Macdissi -- 4. Vertical relationships and horizontal mergers in the internet / Edmond Baranes and Thomas Cortade -- 5. Strategic commitments and the principle of reciprocity in interconnection pricing / Nicholas Economides, Giuseppe Lopomo and Glenn Woroch -- 6. International sourcing in European telecommunications: Capability development and resource interactions / Carsten Zimmermann, Philipp Zimmermann and Dieter Lange -- 7. Network economic externalities in the media and telecommunications industries / Armando Calabrese, Massimo Gastaldi and Nathan Levialdi Ghiron -- 8. Forecasting ict business markets: A simultaneous equation modelling approach / Moshen Hamoudia and Miriam Scaglione -- 9. A demand system approach to network technology expenditure forecasting with short time-series / Russel Cooper and Gary Madden -- 10. Estimating wireless-only household penetration: A local perspective / Paul Rappoport, James Alleman and Lester Taylor -- 11. Korean mobile number policy and provider switching behaviour / Moon-Koo Kim, Jong-Hyun Park and Kyoung-Yong Jee -- 12. The economic impact of alternative interconnection arrangements among network operators / Livio Cricelli, Michele Grimaldi and Nathan Levialdi Ghiron -- 13. Access-usage complementarity, the waterbed effect and mobile termination charges regulation / Aniruddha Banerjee -- 14. Network neutrality and its potential impact on digital content platforms / Rob Frieden -- 15. Technological advance and the changing structure of transnational standards organisations / D. Linda Garcia and Madhura K. Kale -- 16. Municipal broadband internet initiatives: Lessons from us history / Carol Ting -- 17. Network neutrality: Theory and practice / Gerald R. Faulhaber -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781035306152
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 pages)
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science series
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Migration and human capital
    DDC: 304.8
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    Keywords: 1970-2005 ; Globalisierung ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Brain Drain ; Humankapital ; Welt ; Migration, Internal ; Emigration and immigration Economics aspects ; Emigration and immigration Political aspects ; Amerika ; Brain-Drain ; Humankapital ; Internationale Migration ; Intraragional ; Migration ; Wanderung ; Migration, Internal ; Emigration and immigration ; Human capital ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Konferenzschrift 2005 ; Migration ; Arbeitsmobilität ; Humankapital
    Abstract: Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic trends, driving factors and institutional settings behind migration processes. Migration and Human Capital also looks at many current policy issues regarding migration, such as the creative class in metropolitan areas, the brain drain, regional diversity, population ageing, illegal immigration, ethnic networks and immigrant assimilation. With specific reference to Europe and North America, the book reviews and applies models of internal migration; analyses the spatial concentration of human capital; considers migration in a family context; and addresses the political economy of international migration. This book will be invaluable for researchers and policy makers in the fields of internal and international migration. It provides up-to-date readings for advanced courses that focus on migration and population change in a global context
    Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction and overview -- 1. Migration in a globalised world: A new paradigm / Jacques Poot, Brigitte Waldorf and Leo van Wissen -- Part II: Internal migration -- 2. Inter-regional migration modelling: A review / John Stillwell -- 3. In search of a modelling strategy for projecting internal migration in European countries / Leo van Wissen, Nicole van der Gaag, Phil Rees and John Stilwell -- 4. Internal migration between us states: A social network analysis / Gunther Maier and Michael Vyborny -- Part III: Human capital -- 5. Regional concentration of highly educated couples / Signe Jauhiainen -- 6. The emergence of a knowledge agglomeration: A spatial-temporal analysis of intellectual capital in Indiana / Brigitte Waldorf -- 7. Knowledge spillovers: Mobility of highly educated workers within the high technology sector in Finland / Kirsi Mukkala -- 8. Rural-urban income disparities among the highly educated / Audrey Muhlenkamp and Brigitte Waldorf -- Part IV: International migration -- 9. The impact of immigration on the employment of natives in regional labour markets: A meta-analysis / Simonetta Longhi, Peter Nijkamp and Jacques Poot -- 10. Ethnic network externalities and labour market integration / Thomas de Graaff, Cees Gorter, Henri L.F. de Groot and Peter Nijkamp -- 11. International economic integration and migration: The case of Romania / Daniela L. Constantin, Valentina Vasile, Diana Preda and Luminita Nicolescu -- 12. Migration policies, illegal immigration and the underground economy / Jesús Clemente, Gemma Larramona and Fernando Pueyo -- 13. Brain drains, brain gains and migration policies / Natasha T. Duncan -- Index.
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    ISBN: 9781848446168
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 284 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Marshall and Schumpeter on evolution
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    Keywords: Marshall, Alfred ; Schumpeter, Joseph A. ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomen ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Kapitalismus ; Wirtschaftssoziologie ; Wirtschaftsphilosophie ; Economic development Sociological aspects ; Electronic books ; Marshall, Alfred, 1842-1924 ; Schumpeter, Joseph Alois, 1883-1950 ; Economics ; Sociological aspects ; Economics ; Philosophy ; Evolutionary economics ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Marshall, Alfred 1842-1924 ; Schumpeter, Joseph A. 1883-1950 ; Evolutorische Wirtschaft
    Abstract: This unique and original work contends that, despite the differences between Marshallian and Schumpeterian thinking, they both present formidable challenges to a broad type of social science beyond economics, particularly under the influence of the German historical school. In a departure from the received view on the nature of the works of Marshall and Schumpeter, the contributors explore their themes in terms of an evolutionary vision and method of evolution; social science and evolution; conceptions of evolution; and evolution and capitalism
    Abstract: pt. 1. Vision and method of evolution -- pt. 2. Social science and evolution -- pt. 3. Conceptions of evolution -- pt. 4. Evolution and capitalism
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Love ; Tamil (Indic people) ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Trawick, Margaret
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by B́eteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Description / Table of Contents: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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    Keywords: Child development-Liberia-Gbarngasuakwelle ; Child psychology-Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle ; Children, Kpelle ; Children, Kpelle-Cultural assimilation ; Children, Kpelle-Education ; Children, Kpelle-Games ; Education--Liberia ; Folk classification--Liberia ; Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)-Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people) ; Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Education ; Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites ; Kpelle (African people)--Religion ; Kpelle (African people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs ; Learning, Psychology of ; Liberia--Social life and customs ; Poro (Society) ; Secrecy ; Socialization--Case studies
    Abstract: This collection about the Kpelle consists of 10 documents, covering a variety of cultural information, from the 1910s to the 1980s. German ethnologist Diedrich H. Westermann describes Kpelle environment, economy, language, family, social organization, religion and arts as observed in 1914-1915. His work is the oldest and by far the largest in the collection, though Gibbs provides a more general social and cultural summary of Kpelle based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1957-1958. The remaining 8 documents are results of research concerned with specific issues and the focus of most of these studies was on rural Kpelle communities in Liberia. Kpelle communities found in cities (e.g., Monorovia) and outside Liberia (e.g., Kpelle of Guinea or Guerźe) are not covered. The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group in the West African nation of Liberia and a significant group in neighboring Guinea
    Description / Table of Contents: Kpelle - Gerald M. Erchak - 2009 -- - The Kpelle of Liberia - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1965 -- - Women and marriage in Kpelle society - Caroline H. Bledsoe - 1980 -- - The language of secrecy: symbols & metaphors in Poro ritual - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1984 -- - Village of curers and assassins: on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmolotical categories - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1975 -- - The Kpelle: a negro tribe in Liberia - Diedrich H. Westerman - 1921 -- - Full respect: Kpelle children in adaptation - Gerald Michael Erchak - 1977 -- - Marital instability among the Kpelle: towards a theory of epainogamy - James L. Gibbs - 1963 -- - Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1962 -- - The Kpelle moot: a therapeutic model for the informal settlement of disputes - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1963 -- - Playing on the mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development - David F. Lancy - 1996
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: Abkhazians ; Abkhazians--Social conditions ; Abkhazians--Social life and customs ; Centenarians--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Child rearing--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Family--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and four English language documents dealing with the people and culture of Abkhazia, covering approximately 1864 to 1979. The study by Paula Garb is based on the memories of centenarian informants and goes back in time to the middle or late nineteenth century. They recount the transition from czarist fuedalism to capitalist development, early Soviet government, the formation of collective farms, World War II, and their opinions of modern (late twentieth century) Abkhazian youth. Benet focuses on various environmental and biological factors leading to extreme longevity of a large number of individuals in Abkhaz society. Other ethnographic topics discussed are kinship and kinship terminology, women's roles, marriage, sexual behavior, child-rearing practices, funerals, religion, and folklore. Dzhanashvili and Dzhanashia both deal in large part with Abkhaz religion, including gods, ceremonies, spirits of the dead, and holidays. Dzhanashvili also presents some general ethnographic information on social life (marriage, the fosterage system of the upper class), and some notes on mortuary practices. The Abkhazians mostly live in the de facto autonomous republic of Abkhazia located between the southwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and a narrow strip along the Black Sea coast in the extreme northwest region of the Republic of Georgia
    Description / Table of Contents: Abkhazians - B. George Hewitt - 2009 -- - Abkhazia and the Abkhaz - M. G. Dzhanashvili - 1894 -- - The Religious beliefs of the Abkhasians - N. S. Janashia - 1937 -- - Abkhasians: the long-living people of the Caucasus - By Sula Benet - [1974] -- - From childhood to centenarian - Paula Garb - 1984
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Indian children--Argentina ; Indian children-Chile ; Indians of South America--Chile ; Indians of South America-Argentina ; Indians of South America-Chile ; Mapuche Indians ; Mapuche Indians--Religion ; Mapuche Indians--Social life and customs ; Mapuche Indians-Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection consists of nine documents, all in English, about the Mapuche. Titiev gives a good overall picture of Mapuche culture with special emphasis on sociopolitical structure and acculturation but only covers the period from 1930 to the late 1940s. Cooper's writing, based on secondary documentation, supplements the data in Titiev, particularly in regard to diversity among the various tribal divisions, and adds more historical background information. Latcham's account of Mapuche culture as it existed in the late nineteenth century is poorly organized, but provides many useful details on Mapuche life. Although its major focus is on childhood and child-rearing practices, Hilger's piece provides a wealth of information on the life cycle, material culture, subsistence activities, religion, kinship, political organization, art, and culture history of both Chilean and Argentinian groups of Mapuche. Faron deals with Mapuche social structure, religion, and morals; Baccara discusses the Mapuche ethnic resurgence in post-dictatorship Chile; and Nakashima Degarrond describes female shamanism among the Mapuche of Chile. Historically, Mapuche or "people from the land" was the term used to designate the Mapuche occupying the south-central area of Chile but now is the term used for all Mapuche. The Mapuche speak a language called Mapudungun, composed of several dialects
    Description / Table of Contents: Mapuche - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 2009 -- - Araucanian culture in transition - Mischa Titiev - 1951 -- - Ethnology of the Araucanos - Richard E. Latcham - 1909 -- - The Araucanians - John M. Cooper - 1946 -- - Araucanian child life and its cultural background - by Sister M. Inez Hilger - 1957 -- - Mapuche social structure: institutional reintegration in a patrilineal society of central Chile - Louis C. Faron ; foreword by Julian H. Steward - 1961 -- - Hawks of the sun: Mapuche morality and its ritual attributes - by Louis C. Faron - 1964 -- - The Mapuche people in post-dictatorship Chile - Guillaume Boccara - 2002 -- - Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights - Tom D. Dillehay - 1990 -- - Female shamanism and the Mapuche transformation into Christian Chilean Farmers - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 1998
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    Keywords: Clans ; Creation--Mythology ; Indians of North America--Social life and customs ; Wyaco, Virgil, 1926- ; Zuni Indians ; Zuni Indians--Biography ; Zuni Indians--Legal status, laws, etc ; Zuni Indians--Politics and government ; Zuni mythology
    Abstract: This collection about the Zuni, a pueblo Indian group located in the southwestern United States, consists of 33 documents. The collection is oriented toward traditional Zuni ethnography represented by the classic works of Stevenson, Cushing, Kroeber, Parsons, Bunzel, and Woodbury. The social and political organization of the Zuni are covered in Ladd, Eggan, Eggan and Pandey, and Pandey. Kinship is discussed in Kroeber, Schneider, and Ladd; and agriculture is covered by Cushing, Bohrer, and Damp. Acculturation and culture change are topics of focus in McFeat, Leighton, Mills, and Eggan and Pandey. Other ethnographic subjects covered in this collection are kachinas, family and household, and ceramics. Wyaco wrote an autobiographical account of growing up in the Zuni society, and Pandey critiques various anthropologists' work with the Zuni over the years. The Zuni, who call themselves "A shiwi," are primarily concentrated in the single village or pueblo of Zuni situated on a reservation in west-central New Mexico
    Description / Table of Contents: their mythology, esoteric fraternities, and ceremonies - by Matilda Coxe Stevenson - 1904 -- - A Zuni life: a Pueblo Indian in two worlds - Virgil Wyaco ; transcribed and edited by J.A. Jones ; historical sketch by Carroll L. Riley - 1998 -- - Bibliography - Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor - 1979 -- - Outlines of Zuñi creation myths - By Frank Hamilton Cushing - 1896 -- - Zuni agriculture - By Vorsila L. Bohrer, With sections by Lawrence Kaplan and Thomas W. Whitaker - 1960 -- - People of the middle place: a study of the Zuni Indians - by Dorothea C. Leighton and John Adair - [1963] -- - Zuni law: a field of values - by Watson Smith and John M. Roberts. With an appendix by Stanley Newman - 1954 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: lessons for repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution - by William L. Merrill, Edmund J. Ladd, and T. J. Ferguson - 1993 -- - Acts of resistance: Zuni ceramics, social identity, and the Pueblo Revolt - Barbara J. Mills - 2002 -- - Anthropologists at Zuni - Triloki Nath Pandey - 1972 -- - Images of power in a Southwestern pueblo - Triloki Nath Pandey - 1977 -- - Zuni history, 1850-1970 - Fred Eggan and T. N. Pandey - 1979 -- - Zuni sacred theater - by Barbara Tedlock - 1983 -- - The witches were saved: a Zuni origin story - Dennis Tedlock - 1988 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a revisionist cultural model of Zuni social organization - Linda K. Watts - 1997 -- - Zuni prehistory and history to 1850 - Richard B. Woodbury - 1979
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    Keywords: Family--New Zealand ; Kinship--New Zealand ; Maori (New Zealand people) ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Economic conditions ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Kinship ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions ; New Zealand--Social life and customs
    Description / Table of Contents: Maori - Christopher Latham - 2009 -- - The Maori: volume 1 - by Elsdon Best - 1924 -- - The Maori: volume 2 - by Elsdon Best ... - 1924 -- - The coming of the Maori - by Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck - 1952 -- - Economics of the New Zealand Maori - Raymond William Firth ; with a pref. by R. H. Tawney - 1959 -- - The Maori: a study in acculturation - H.B. Hawthorn - [1944] -- - New growth from old: the Whanau in the modern world - Joan Metge ; illustrated by Toi Te Rito Maihi - 1995 -- - Conflicts of redistribution in contemporary Maori society: leadership and the Tainui settlement - Toon van Meijl - 2003 -- - Effecting change through electoral politics: cultural identity and the Maori franchise - Ann Sullivan - 2003 -- - References - Edited by Toon van Meijl and Michael Goldsmith - 2003 -- - The making of the Maori: culture invention and its logic - Allan Hanson - 1989
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    Keywords: Art, Tiwi (Australia) ; Tiwi (Australian people) ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Folklore ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Women, Tiwi (Australia) Tiwi (Australian people)--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection about the Tiwi consists of 11 documents and a culture summary, all in English. It covers a variety of historical, geographical, and cultural information from 1900 to the 1960s collected primarily by professional anthropologists and government officials. The Tiwi are aboriginal people inhabiting Melville and Bathurst Islands of northern Australia. Anthropologist Jane Goodale provides comprehensive firsthand ethnographic accounts of Tiwi society as observed in 1950s and 1960s. She describes major features of Tiwi society through detailed exposition of the experiences of individual women, men, and children in different groups (households, matrilineal sibs, phratries, and moieties) and a wide variety of social situations relating to puberty rites, marriage arrangements, and funeral ceremonies. Other anthropological studies included examine status manipulation and political behavior, art and religion, kinship and social organization, use of personal names, marriage contracts, puberty and initiation rites, economic activities, and division of labor by gender. There is little information on changes that might have occurred in Tiwi society after 1962 (the year Goodale visited the area for the last time) to the present
    Description / Table of Contents: Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 2009 -- - The Tiwi of North Australia - by C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling - 1960 -- - The Tiwi: their art, myth, and ceremony - Charles P. Mountford - 1958 -- - The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands - C. W. M. Hart - 1939-31 -- - Personal names among the Tiwi - C. W. M. Hart - 1930-31 -- - Notes on the natives of Bathurst Island, North Australia - Herbert Basedow - 1913 -- - Marriage contracts among the Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 1962 -- - Qualifications of manhood: Tiwi invoke the power of a yam - Jane C. Goodale - 1963 -- - 'Alonga Bush': a Tiwi hunt - Jane C. Goodale - 1957 -- - Life at Bathurst Island Mission - Arthur Barclay - 1939 -- - Tiwi wives: a study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia - [by] Jane C. Goodale - [1971] -- - Production and reproduction of key resources among the Tiwi of North Australia - Jane C. Goodale - 1982
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    Keywords: Adolescence ; Children--Samoan Islands ; Developing countries-Economic conditions ; Ethnology--Samoa--Sala'ilua ; Ethnology--Samoan Islands ; Girls--Samoan Islands ; Rural development-Samoa ; Sala'ilua (Samoa)--Social life and customs ; Samoa ; Samoan Islands ; Samoan Islands--Social life and customs ; Samoans ; Samoans-Economic conditions ; Samoans-Social conditions ; Tubuai (French Polynesia) ; Western Samoa ; Women, Samoan--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection about the Samoans consists of 15 documents and a culture summary, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information from the1830s to the 1990s. The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. The earliest descriptions of Samoan culture and history were compiled by the missionaries John B. Stair and George Turner, who lived in different parts of the island from 1838-1945 and 1840-1880, respectively. Five documents are ethnographic accounts and essays by Margaret Mead who, in 1925-1928, lived among Samoans villagers mostly in the Manuan group of islands in American Samoa. One document revisits some of the major arguments advanced in Mead's works, notably her portrayal of adolescent Samoan girls as sexually permissive. The remaining seven documents in the collection further enrich the historical and cultural information on Samoa with additional themes and in-depth analysis including plant resources and indigenous botanical knowledge, traditional material culture, a socio-political analysis of the modern history of American and Western Samoa, post-war reconstruction of Western Samoa, material culture and social change, structures and processes in the Western Samoan Sala'ilua village, and recent changes in the economic options of households and individuals in Vaega and Neiafu villages in Western Samoa
    Description / Table of Contents: its government and changing life - by Felix M. Keesing ... - 1934 -- - Ethnobotany of the Samoans - William Albert Setchell - 1924 -- - Culture summary: Samoans - Thomas Bargatzky - 2009 -- - Social organization of Manua - Margaret Mead - 1930 -- - Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation - by Margaret Mead ... foreword by Franz Boas ... - 1928 -- - Western Samoa - W. E. H. Stanner - 1953 -- - The role of the individual in Samaon culture - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Samoan children at work and play - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Americanization in Samoa - Margaret Mead - 1929 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific - George Turner - 1884 -- - Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean - by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat - 1897 -- - Sala'ilua: a Samoan mystery - Bradd Shore - 1982 -- - Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia - J. Tim O'Meara - 1990 -- - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan village - Lowell D. Holmes - 1958 -- - The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy - Paul Shankman - 1996
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    Keywords: Carib Indians ; Indians of South America--Guyana
    Abstract: This collection about the Barama River Carib consists of two documents and a cultural summary that covers cultural, ecological, and historical information collected by professional anthropologists from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Barama River Carib are a small group of indigenous people located in the North West District of Guyana. John Gillin explores relationships between ecology and dominant features of Barama River Carib's social organization and personality as observed in the 1930s. Kathleen Adams studied this community some forty years later. Her work gives particular emphasis to changes observed in Barama River Carib's demography, settlement pattern, and semi-nomadic adaptation to the rain forest as they were being integrated into a national political economy by the Guyanese government
    Description / Table of Contents: Barama River Carib - Kathleen J. Adams - 2009 -- - The Barama River Caribs of British Guiana - John Gillin - 1936 -- - The Barama River Caribs of Guyana restudied: forty years of cultural adaptation and population change - Kathleen Joy Adams - 1973
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    London [u.a.] : Routledge
    ISBN: 9780415317047 , 9780415317054 , 0415317045 , 0415317053
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 308 S.
    Edition: Digital print.
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Mass media and culture ; Intercultural communication ; Kultursoziologie ; Massenmedien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Massenmedien ; Kultursoziologie
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    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Ethnic relations--Political aspects ; Ethnology--China--Kweichow Province ; Ethnology--Hmong (Asian people) ; Hmong (Asian people)--China ; Hmong (Asian people)--China--Social life and customs ; Religion--Hmong (Asian people)
    Abstract: This collection of ten documents, three translated from the Chinese, provide historical, economic and cultural information about the Miao, circa 1920-2000. Most are based on fieldwork with different Miao communities in China during the late 1930s and early 1940s at a time when many Miao farmers actively participated first in the liberation struggle against Japanese occupation and later on during the "Long March" with the victorious Red Army. The earliest and most basic sources in the collection are by Graham which, together, provide a variety of cultural information including language, mythology, subsistence, dwellings, family life, kinship, village government, arts, religion and ceremonials. His focus on the Miao of southern Szechwan is complimented by Rui who provides a brief description of a subgroup called Magpai Miao. Four documents focus on different Miao groups living in Kweichow, Hunan, and Yunnan and Guizhou provinces. Based on ethnographic data collected in the 1980s and early 1990s, when the Chinese government gradually opened rural communities to Western researchers and travelers, the two remaining works discuss the ways in which the cultures and identities of the Miao (and other minority ethnic groups) have been constructed and deployed since the 1949 and especially in the context of China's post-Mao economic reforms. The Miao are one of 56 non-Han Chinese people officially recognized by the government as minority nationalities. They are distinguished by language, dress, historical traditions, and cultural practice from neighboring ethnic groups and the dominant Han Chinese
    Description / Table of Contents: Miao - Norma Diamond - 2009 -- - A report on an investigation of the Miao of western Hunan - [by] Shun-sheng Ling and Yih-fu Ruey ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1947 -- - The Cowrie Shell Miao of Kweichow - [by] Margaret Portia Mickey - 1947 -- - Religious beliefs of the Miao and I tribes in An-shun Kweichow - [by] Kuo-chun Ch'en ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 -- - The customs of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1937 -- - The ceremonies of the Ch'uan Miao - Translated from the Miao into Chinese by Hsiung Ts'ao-sung ; translated from the Chinese by David Crockett Graham, with the assistance of Hsiung Ts'ao-sung - 1937 -- - Songs and stories of the Ch'uan Miao - [by] David Crockett Graham - 1954 -- - Studies of Miao-I societies in Kweichow - [by] Che-lin Wu, Ch'en Kuo-chnn and others ; translation by Lien-en Tsao - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: the Miao and the feminine in China's cultural politics - Louisa Schein - 2000 -- - Ethnicity and the state: the Hua Miao of southwest China - Norma Diamond - 1993 -- - Magpie Miao of southern Szechuan - Ruey Yih-fu - 1960
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: Adolescence ; Children--Samoan Islands ; Developing countries-Economic conditions ; Ethnology--Samoa--Sala'ilua ; Ethnology--Samoan Islands ; Girls--Samoan Islands ; Rural development-Samoa ; Sala'ilua (Samoa)--Social life and customs ; Samoa ; Samoan Islands ; Samoan Islands--Social life and customs ; Samoans ; Samoans-Economic conditions ; Samoans-Social conditions ; Tubuai (French Polynesia) ; Western Samoa ; Women, Samoan--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection about the Samoans consists of 15 documents and a culture summary, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information from the1830s to the 1990s. The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. The earliest descriptions of Samoan culture and history were compiled by the missionaries John B. Stair and George Turner, who lived in different parts of the island from 1838-1945 and 1840-1880, respectively. Five documents are ethnographic accounts and essays by Margaret Mead who, in 1925-1928, lived among Samoans villagers mostly in the Manuan group of islands in American Samoa. One document revisits some of the major arguments advanced in Mead's works, notably her portrayal of adolescent Samoan girls as sexually permissive. The remaining seven documents in the collection further enrich the historical and cultural information on Samoa with additional themes and in-depth analysis including plant resources and indigenous botanical knowledge, traditional material culture, a socio-political analysis of the modern history of American and Western Samoa, post-war reconstruction of Western Samoa, material culture and social change, structures and processes in the Western Samoan Sala'ilua village, and recent changes in the economic options of households and individuals in Vaega and Neiafu villages in Western Samoa
    Description / Table of Contents: its government and changing life - by Felix M. Keesing ... - 1934 -- - Ethnobotany of the Samoans - William Albert Setchell - 1924 -- - Culture summary: Samoans - Thomas Bargatzky - 2009 -- - Social organization of Manua - Margaret Mead - 1930 -- - Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation - by Margaret Mead ... foreword by Franz Boas ... - 1928 -- - Western Samoa - W. E. H. Stanner - 1953 -- - The role of the individual in Samaon culture - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Samoan children at work and play - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Americanization in Samoa - Margaret Mead - 1929 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific - George Turner - 1884 -- - Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean - by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat - 1897 -- - Sala'ilua: a Samoan mystery - Bradd Shore - 1982 -- - Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia - J. Tim O'Meara - 1990 -- - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan village - Lowell D. Holmes - 1958 -- - The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy - Paul Shankman - 1996
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Abkhazians ; Abkhazians--Social conditions ; Abkhazians--Social life and customs ; Centenarians--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Child rearing--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia ; Family--Georgia (Republic)--Abkhazia
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and four English language documents dealing with the people and culture of Abkhazia, covering approximately 1864 to 1979. The study by Paula Garb is based on the memories of centenarian informants and goes back in time to the middle or late nineteenth century. They recount the transition from czarist fuedalism to capitalist development, early Soviet government, the formation of collective farms, World War II, and their opinions of modern (late twentieth century) Abkhazian youth. Benet focuses on various environmental and biological factors leading to extreme longevity of a large number of individuals in Abkhaz society. Other ethnographic topics discussed are kinship and kinship terminology, women's roles, marriage, sexual behavior, child-rearing practices, funerals, religion, and folklore. Dzhanashvili and Dzhanashia both deal in large part with Abkhaz religion, including gods, ceremonies, spirits of the dead, and holidays. Dzhanashvili also presents some general ethnographic information on social life (marriage, the fosterage system of the upper class), and some notes on mortuary practices. The Abkhazians mostly live in the de facto autonomous republic of Abkhazia located between the southwestern slopes of the Greater Caucasus Mountains and a narrow strip along the Black Sea coast in the extreme northwest region of the Republic of Georgia
    Description / Table of Contents: Abkhazians - B. George Hewitt - 2009 -- - Abkhazia and the Abkhaz - M. G. Dzhanashvili - 1894 -- - The Religious beliefs of the Abkhasians - N. S. Janashia - 1937 -- - Abkhasians: the long-living people of the Caucasus - By Sula Benet - [1974] -- - From childhood to centenarian - Paula Garb - 1984
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Ainu ; Ainu--Medicine
    Abstract: This collection about the Ainu consists of 8 documents, all in English, including three books which were translated from Japanese. The collection contains a variety of cultural and historical information from two widely contrasting time periods. The first covers the years 1877 to 1924 when most Ainu were living in their traditional homeland in southern Sakhalin. The second is from the 1960s-1970s after the Ainu almost disappeared as a distinct group following their relocation in the Hokkaid̄o Island by the Japanese government during World War II. The oldest materials in the collection were compiled by Batchelor, an English missionary who lived among the Ainu for fifty years in 1877-1924; Pilsudski, a German ethnologist who conducted fieldwork there from 1895-1905; and Munro, an English physician who lived in Japan in 1900-1942. These works provide firsthand accounts of pre-relocation Ainu culture and society, covering religion, ceremonials, mythology, folklore, economic activities, life cycles, and health issues. Three of the books in the collection were authored by Japanese scholars focusing on Japanese conquest and assimilation of the Ainu (Takakura), ecological and economic effects of relocation (Watanabe), and features of Ainu kinship system (Sugiura). The remaining two books are by Ohnuki-Tierney, an American anthropologist who, in 1965-1969, sought to retrospectively reconstruct the "Ainu way of life" through extensive ethnographic fieldwork among elderly informants in Sakhalin. Ohnuki-Tierney's works, which also provide extensive review of previous works on the Ainu in Sakhalin, Hokkaid̄o and the neighboring islands, are the most comprehensive sources. Ainu people who lived in Kurile and the other islands taken over by the USSR during World War II are not covered in the collection
    Description / Table of Contents: Ainu - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 2009 -- - The Ainu of northern Japan: a study in conquest and acculturation - [by] Shinichiro Takakura ; translated and annotated by John A. Harrison - 1960 -- - Ainu life and lore: echoes of a departing race - [by] John Batchelor - 1927 -- - Kinship organization of the Saru Ainu - [by] Kenichi Sugiura and Harumi Befu - 1962 -- - Ainu creed and cult - Edited with a pref. and an additional chapter by B.Z. Seligman. Introd. by H. Watanabe - 1963 -- - Pregnancy, birth and miscarriage among the inhabitants of Sakhalin Island (Gilyak and Ainu) - [by] Bronislaw Pilsudski - 1910 -- - The Ainu: a study of ecology and the system of social solidarity between man and nature in relation to group structure - [by] Hitoshi Watanabe - 1964 -- - The Ainu of the northwest coast of southern Sakhalin - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1974 -- - Illness and healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: a symbolic interpretation - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney - 1981
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel ; Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia ; Folklore--Arabian Peninsula ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection of three documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1900s to mid-1970s. Alois Musil, a Czech historical geographer, traveled with the Rwala Bedouins between 1908 and 1915 working for the Austro-Hungarian government. His book provides first hand accounts of daily life, ethical codes, social structures and religious practices of the Rwala when they were still living in the desert as nomadic pastoralists. Carl Reinhard Raswan, a German adventurer, spent 22 years off and on among the Rwala Bedouins from 1913-1935. He presents detailed information on Rwala code of honor and ethics, drought and patterns of migration, marriage practices and duties of village Sheiks. Anthropologist William Lancaster conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among various Rwala groups in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in 1972-1975. Lancaster's work explores how Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks have changed over the past several decades in response to external forces, notably the division of their traditional homeland among four newly emerged sovereign states (namely, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) and the oil boom in the region. This work also deconstructs travelers' reports and European imaginations of the Bedouin which tend to romanticize their desert life and "exotic" lineage systems. The Rwala are nomadic pastoralists who live mainly in southeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They speak Arabic and refer to themselves as "baduw," that is, people of the "desert." All Rwala are believed to be descended from a common but unknown Arab ancestor. Their access to grazing land has been altered by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across their customary migration routes. Since 1970 the Rwala have made more money from commerce and wage labor than from pastoralism
    Description / Table of Contents: Rwala Bedouin - William Young - 2009 -- - Black tents of Arabia - Carl R. Raswan - 1947 -- - The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins - by Alois Musil ... published under the patronage of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and of Charles R. Crane - 1928 -- - The Rwala Bedouin today - William Lancaster - 1981
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Bedouins ; Bedouins--Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection of five documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1880s to early 2000s. Two documents date back to the first quarters of the 20th century when most of the area was ruled by European colonialists. One is a chapter from a handbook compiled by the intelligence division of the British Navy, the other is a book written by H. R. P. Dickson, a British political agent who worked in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq in 1920s-1930s. Dickson's book provides a first hand account of Bedouin culture and society including the physical environment, material culture, seasonal movements, organization of tribes and lineages, cultural norms relating to visiting and hospitality, folklore, religious beliefs and practices, warfare, and inter-community relations. The remainder of the collection consists of three articles, all by professional anthropologists. Two discuss indigenous conflict resolution practices with particular emphasis on blood feuds and cattle raiding. The remaining article explores the effects of a wide variety of external and internal factors, notably colonialism, commercialization of pastoral production, occupational change and sedentarization, on Bedouin culture and identity. The Bedouin are Arabic-speaking people who earn their living primarily from animal husbandry by natural graze and browse of sheep, goats, and camels. Traditionally, the Bedouin lived in tents, formed scattered camping units that seasonally migrated over a vast area of the Middle East and North Africa influenced by availability of pasture and water. This way of life and social organization has been significantly affected by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across customary migration routes. As a consequence, the Bedouin have begun to engage in new activities including tourism, commerce and wage labor
    Description / Table of Contents: Bedouin - Dawn Chatty and William Young - 2009 -- - The Arab of the desert: a glimpse into Badawin life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia - by H. R. P. Dickson - 1951 -- - The Bedouin tribes: chapter 3 - Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty - 1920 -- - Where have the Bedouin gone? - Donald P. Cole - 2003 -- - Settlement of violence in Bedouin society - Sulayman N. Khalaf - 1990 -- - Camel raiding of north Arabian Bedouin: a mechanism of ecological adaptation - Louise E. Sweet - 1965
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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Love ; Tamil (Indic people) ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Trawick, Margaret
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by B́eteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Description / Table of Contents: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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    Keywords: Vedda (Sri Lankan people)
    Abstract: This collection consists of three documents, all in English, containing information about the Vedda during three periods of time: 1850s, mid-1910s, and late 1960s. The first comprehensive ethnographic account of Vedda in this collection was compiled by C. G. Seligmann and B. Z. Seligmann. It provides a first hand account of Vedda kinship, village life, economic activities, settlement patterns, life cycles, religion, music, language and perceptions as observed in 1907-1908. Seligmanns's account is supplemented by James Brow's study of kinship and caste system among the Vedda of Anuradhapura district in the Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The remaining book in the collection was authored by John Bailey, a British colonial government official, and he covers a variety of information relating to settlement pattern, economic activities and religion. The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India
    Description / Table of Contents: Vedda - James Brow and Michael Woost - 2009 -- - The Veddas - By C. G. Seligmann... and Brenda Z. Seligman. With a chapter by C.S. Myers ... and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara ... - 1911 -- - An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon: their habits, customs, and superstitions - John Bailey - 1863 -- - Vedda villages of Anuradhapura: the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka - James Brow - 1978
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    Keywords: Art, Tiwi (Australia) ; Tiwi (Australian people) ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Folklore ; Tiwi (Australian people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Women, Tiwi (Australia) Tiwi (Australian people)--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection about the Tiwi consists of 11 documents and a culture summary, all in English. It covers a variety of historical, geographical, and cultural information from 1900 to the 1960s collected primarily by professional anthropologists and government officials. The Tiwi are aboriginal people inhabiting Melville and Bathurst Islands of northern Australia. Anthropologist Jane Goodale provides comprehensive firsthand ethnographic accounts of Tiwi society as observed in 1950s and 1960s. She describes major features of Tiwi society through detailed exposition of the experiences of individual women, men, and children in different groups (households, matrilineal sibs, phratries, and moieties) and a wide variety of social situations relating to puberty rites, marriage arrangements, and funeral ceremonies. Other anthropological studies included examine status manipulation and political behavior, art and religion, kinship and social organization, use of personal names, marriage contracts, puberty and initiation rites, economic activities, and division of labor by gender. There is little information on changes that might have occurred in Tiwi society after 1962 (the year Goodale visited the area for the last time) to the present
    Description / Table of Contents: Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 2009 -- - The Tiwi of North Australia - by C. W. M. Hart and Arnold R. Pilling - 1960 -- - The Tiwi: their art, myth, and ceremony - Charles P. Mountford - 1958 -- - The Tiwi of Melville and Bathurst Islands - C. W. M. Hart - 1939-31 -- - Personal names among the Tiwi - C. W. M. Hart - 1930-31 -- - Notes on the natives of Bathurst Island, North Australia - Herbert Basedow - 1913 -- - Marriage contracts among the Tiwi - Jane C. Goodale - 1962 -- - Qualifications of manhood: Tiwi invoke the power of a yam - Jane C. Goodale - 1963 -- - 'Alonga Bush': a Tiwi hunt - Jane C. Goodale - 1957 -- - Life at Bathurst Island Mission - Arthur Barclay - 1939 -- - Tiwi wives: a study of the women of Melville Island, North Australia - [by] Jane C. Goodale - [1971] -- - Production and reproduction of key resources among the Tiwi of North Australia - Jane C. Goodale - 1982
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    Keywords: Ethnology Rwanda ; Hutu (African people) ; Patron and client--Rwanda--History ; Patronage, Political--Rwanda--History ; Political anthropology--Rwanda--History ; Rwanda--Ethnic relations ; Rwanda--Politics and government ; Rwandans ; Social structure--Rwanda--History ; Tutsi (African people)
    Abstract: This collection of fifteen documents covers historical, cultural, and economic information on the Rwandans, circa 1895 to 2004. The Rwandan culture has its roots in the precolonial kingdom of Rwanda and encompasses both the population of the modern state of Rwanda and speakers of the Kinyarwanda language in the neighboring Congo and Uganda. The basic and most comprehensive sources in the collection were compiled by the Belgian ethnologist Jacques Maquet in 1949-1957. Maquet discusses the processes and rules that structured Rwandan society into a caste-like political system consisting of cattle owning ruling elites, Tutsi, a farming majority, Hutu, and a forest dwelling hunting minority, Twa. However, his arguments are strongly challenged by the works of three scholars, Mamdani, Catharine Newbury, and David Newbury, who do not view ethnicity as a primordial identity. The collection also includes four documents which, together, provide the earliest available firsthand information on the Rwandans: Czekanowski, who, in 1907-1909, collected a wide variety of information relating to history, language, and arts in the Mpororo region; the now classic work of John Roscoe, a European clergy who traveled extensively in central Africa; and van Hove, a Belgian colonial administrator and lawyer. Two documents from Christopher Taylor deal with ethnomedicine and diet, and the remaining three deal with the nature of the violence that swept Rwanda in 1994. The Rwandans encompass groups presently known as the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa
    Description / Table of Contents: Rwandans - Timothy Longman - 2009 -- - Essay on the common law of Ruanda - J. Vanhove - 1941 -- - The kingdom of Ruanda - Jacques J. Maquet - 1954 -- - A Hamitic kingdom in the center of Africa: in Ruanda on the shores of Lake Kivu (Belgian Congo) - G. Pagés - 1933 -- - Investigations in the area between the Nile and the Congo: First volume: ethnography, the interlacustrine region of Mporo and Ruanda - Jan Czkanowski ; musical appendix by E. M. Hornbostel - 1917 -- - The Bagesu and other tribes of the Uganda Protectorate: the third part of the report of the Mackie ethnological expedition to central Africa - John Roscoe - 1924 -- - The premise of inequality in Ruanda:: a study of political relations in a central African kingdom - Jacques J. Maquet - 1961 -- - The cohesion of oppression: clientship and ethnicity in Rwanda, 1860-1960 - Catharine Newbury - 1988 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: an historical hypothesis - David S. Newbury - 1980 -- - The harp that plays by itself - Christopher C. Taylor - 1992 -- - Loose women, virtuous wives, and timid virgins: gender and the control of resources in Rwanda - Villia Jefremovas - 1991 -- - Mutton, mud, and runny noses - Christopher C. Taylor - 2005 -- - Rwanda: the rationality of genocide - René Lemarchand - 1995 -- - Background to genocide: Rwanda - Catharine Newbury - 1995 -- - Genocide and socio-political change: massacres in two Rwandan villages - Timothy Longman - 1995
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    Keywords: Clans ; Creation--Mythology ; Indians of North America--Social life and customs ; Wyaco, Virgil, 1926- ; Zuni Indians ; Zuni Indians--Biography ; Zuni Indians--Legal status, laws, etc ; Zuni Indians--Politics and government ; Zuni mythology
    Abstract: This collection about the Zuni, a pueblo Indian group located in the southwestern United States, consists of 33 documents. The collection is oriented toward traditional Zuni ethnography represented by the classic works of Stevenson, Cushing, Kroeber, Parsons, Bunzel, and Woodbury. The social and political organization of the Zuni are covered in Ladd, Eggan, Eggan and Pandey, and Pandey. Kinship is discussed in Kroeber, Schneider, and Ladd; and agriculture is covered by Cushing, Bohrer, and Damp. Acculturation and culture change are topics of focus in McFeat, Leighton, Mills, and Eggan and Pandey. Other ethnographic subjects covered in this collection are kachinas, family and household, and ceramics. Wyaco wrote an autobiographical account of growing up in the Zuni society, and Pandey critiques various anthropologists' work with the Zuni over the years. The Zuni, who call themselves "A shiwi," are primarily concentrated in the single village or pueblo of Zuni situated on a reservation in west-central New Mexico
    Description / Table of Contents: their mythology, esoteric fraternities, and ceremonies - by Matilda Coxe Stevenson - 1904 -- - A Zuni life: a Pueblo Indian in two worlds - Virgil Wyaco ; transcribed and edited by J.A. Jones ; historical sketch by Carroll L. Riley - 1998 -- - Bibliography - Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor - 1979 -- - Outlines of Zuñi creation myths - By Frank Hamilton Cushing - 1896 -- - Zuni agriculture - By Vorsila L. Bohrer, With sections by Lawrence Kaplan and Thomas W. Whitaker - 1960 -- - People of the middle place: a study of the Zuni Indians - by Dorothea C. Leighton and John Adair - [1963] -- - Zuni law: a field of values - by Watson Smith and John M. Roberts. With an appendix by Stanley Newman - 1954 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: lessons for repatriation from Zuni Pueblo and the Smithsonian Institution - by William L. Merrill, Edmund J. Ladd, and T. J. Ferguson - 1993 -- - Acts of resistance: Zuni ceramics, social identity, and the Pueblo Revolt - Barbara J. Mills - 2002 -- - Anthropologists at Zuni - Triloki Nath Pandey - 1972 -- - Images of power in a Southwestern pueblo - Triloki Nath Pandey - 1977 -- - Zuni history, 1850-1970 - Fred Eggan and T. N. Pandey - 1979 -- - Zuni sacred theater - by Barbara Tedlock - 1983 -- - The witches were saved: a Zuni origin story - Dennis Tedlock - 1988 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a revisionist cultural model of Zuni social organization - Linda K. Watts - 1997 -- - Zuni prehistory and history to 1850 - Richard B. Woodbury - 1979
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  • 73
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    Keywords: Family--New Zealand ; Kinship--New Zealand ; Maori (New Zealand people) ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Economic conditions ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Kinship ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions ; New Zealand--Social life and customs
    Description / Table of Contents: Maori - Christopher Latham - 2009 -- - The Maori: volume 1 - by Elsdon Best - 1924 -- - The Maori: volume 2 - by Elsdon Best ... - 1924 -- - The coming of the Maori - by Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck - 1952 -- - Economics of the New Zealand Maori - Raymond William Firth ; with a pref. by R. H. Tawney - 1959 -- - The Maori: a study in acculturation - H.B. Hawthorn - [1944] -- - New growth from old: the Whanau in the modern world - Joan Metge ; illustrated by Toi Te Rito Maihi - 1995 -- - Conflicts of redistribution in contemporary Maori society: leadership and the Tainui settlement - Toon van Meijl - 2003 -- - Effecting change through electoral politics: cultural identity and the Maori franchise - Ann Sullivan - 2003 -- - References - Edited by Toon van Meijl and Michael Goldsmith - 2003 -- - The making of the Maori: culture invention and its logic - Allan Hanson - 1989
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    Keywords: Carib Indians ; Indians of South America--Guyana
    Abstract: This collection about the Barama River Carib consists of two documents and a cultural summary that covers cultural, ecological, and historical information collected by professional anthropologists from the 1920s to the 1970s. The Barama River Carib are a small group of indigenous people located in the North West District of Guyana. John Gillin explores relationships between ecology and dominant features of Barama River Carib's social organization and personality as observed in the 1930s. Kathleen Adams studied this community some forty years later. Her work gives particular emphasis to changes observed in Barama River Carib's demography, settlement pattern, and semi-nomadic adaptation to the rain forest as they were being integrated into a national political economy by the Guyanese government
    Description / Table of Contents: Barama River Carib - Kathleen J. Adams - 2009 -- - The Barama River Caribs of British Guiana - John Gillin - 1936 -- - The Barama River Caribs of Guyana restudied: forty years of cultural adaptation and population change - Kathleen Joy Adams - 1973
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    Keywords: Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel ; Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia ; Folklore--Arabian Peninsula ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection of three documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1900s to mid-1970s. Alois Musil, a Czech historical geographer, traveled with the Rwala Bedouins between 1908 and 1915 working for the Austro-Hungarian government. His book provides first hand accounts of daily life, ethical codes, social structures and religious practices of the Rwala when they were still living in the desert as nomadic pastoralists. Carl Reinhard Raswan, a German adventurer, spent 22 years off and on among the Rwala Bedouins from 1913-1935. He presents detailed information on Rwala code of honor and ethics, drought and patterns of migration, marriage practices and duties of village Sheiks. Anthropologist William Lancaster conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among various Rwala groups in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in 1972-1975. Lancaster's work explores how Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks have changed over the past several decades in response to external forces, notably the division of their traditional homeland among four newly emerged sovereign states (namely, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) and the oil boom in the region. This work also deconstructs travelers' reports and European imaginations of the Bedouin which tend to romanticize their desert life and "exotic" lineage systems. The Rwala are nomadic pastoralists who live mainly in southeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They speak Arabic and refer to themselves as "baduw," that is, people of the "desert." All Rwala are believed to be descended from a common but unknown Arab ancestor. Their access to grazing land has been altered by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across their customary migration routes. Since 1970 the Rwala have made more money from commerce and wage labor than from pastoralism
    Description / Table of Contents: Rwala Bedouin - William Young - 2009 -- - Black tents of Arabia - Carl R. Raswan - 1947 -- - The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins - by Alois Musil ... published under the patronage of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and of Charles R. Crane - 1928 -- - The Rwala Bedouin today - William Lancaster - 1981
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    Keywords: Amish
    Description / Table of Contents: Amish - John A. Hostetler - 2009 -- - Amish society - John A. Hostetler - 1980 -- - A peculiar people: Iowa's Old Order Amish - By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder - 1975
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  • 77
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    Keywords: Indian children--Argentina ; Indian children-Chile ; Indians of South America--Chile ; Indians of South America-Argentina ; Indians of South America-Chile ; Mapuche Indians ; Mapuche Indians--Religion ; Mapuche Indians--Social life and customs ; Mapuche Indians-Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection consists of nine documents, all in English, about the Mapuche. Titiev gives a good overall picture of Mapuche culture with special emphasis on sociopolitical structure and acculturation but only covers the period from 1930 to the late 1940s. Cooper's writing, based on secondary documentation, supplements the data in Titiev, particularly in regard to diversity among the various tribal divisions, and adds more historical background information. Latcham's account of Mapuche culture as it existed in the late nineteenth century is poorly organized, but provides many useful details on Mapuche life. Although its major focus is on childhood and child-rearing practices, Hilger's piece provides a wealth of information on the life cycle, material culture, subsistence activities, religion, kinship, political organization, art, and culture history of both Chilean and Argentinian groups of Mapuche. Faron deals with Mapuche social structure, religion, and morals; Baccara discusses the Mapuche ethnic resurgence in post-dictatorship Chile; and Nakashima Degarrond describes female shamanism among the Mapuche of Chile. Historically, Mapuche or "people from the land" was the term used to designate the Mapuche occupying the south-central area of Chile but now is the term used for all Mapuche. The Mapuche speak a language called Mapudungun, composed of several dialects
    Description / Table of Contents: Mapuche - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 2009 -- - Araucanian culture in transition - Mischa Titiev - 1951 -- - Ethnology of the Araucanos - Richard E. Latcham - 1909 -- - The Araucanians - John M. Cooper - 1946 -- - Araucanian child life and its cultural background - by Sister M. Inez Hilger - 1957 -- - Mapuche social structure: institutional reintegration in a patrilineal society of central Chile - Louis C. Faron ; foreword by Julian H. Steward - 1961 -- - Hawks of the sun: Mapuche morality and its ritual attributes - by Louis C. Faron - 1964 -- - The Mapuche people in post-dictatorship Chile - Guillaume Boccara - 2002 -- - Mapuche ceremonial landscape, social recruitment and resource rights - Tom D. Dillehay - 1990 -- - Female shamanism and the Mapuche transformation into Christian Chilean Farmers - Lydia Nakashima Degarrod - 1998
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  • 78
    ISBN: 9781849802178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 212 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Studies in evolutionary political economy
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The governance of network industries
    DDC: 363.6
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    Keywords: 1975-2005 ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Infrastrukturpolitik ; Deregulierung ; Welt ; Public utilities Management ; Privatization ; Infrastructure (Economics) ; Deregulation ; Infrastruktur ; Kommunaler Versorgungsbetrieb ; Deregulierung ; Privatisierung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Infrastruktur ; Versorgungsbetrieb ; Deregulierung ; Privatisierung ; Infrastruktur ; Versorgungswirtschaft ; Deregulierung
    Abstract: Infrastructures are subject to substantial readjustments of governance structures, often labeled as liberalization, privatization or re-regulation. This affects all traditional infrastructure sectors including communications, energy, transport and water. This study highlights and illustrates some of the major challenges for readjusting the governance of network industries from an economic, institutional, political and technological perspective. The three parts of the book address the institutional design of infrastructures, the role of technology in different sectors and actor behaviour
    Abstract: pt. I. Institutions -- pt. II. Technology -- pt. III. Policies
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    ISBN: 9781849801959
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 242 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Educating economists
    DDC: 330.071173
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    Keywords: American Economic Association ; Ökonomen ; Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftshochschule ; Bildungsinvestition ; Wirtschaftsliberalismus ; USA ; Economics Study and teaching (Higher) ; Economics Study and teaching (Graduate) ; Electronic books ; Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium
    Abstract: The economics major is a central part of a college education. But is that economics major doing what it is meant to do? And if not, how should it be changed? This book raises a set of provocative questions that encourage readers to look at the economics major in a different light than it is typically considered and provides a series of recommendations for change
    Abstract: Teagle Foundation Repor: The Economics Major as Part of a Liberal Education / David Colander and KimMarie McGoldrick -- Teaching Students to "Think About the Economy" / Joseph Persky -- Economics Major as Illiberal Education / Stephen A. Marglin -- Moral Reasoning in Economics / Jonathan B. Wight -- Thinking for Yourself, Like an Economist / Robert F. Garnett -- 6. Teaching Economics Students as if they are Geniuses / James Wible -- Need for Depth in the Economics Major / Benjamin M. Friedman -- Using Pedagogical Change to Improve Student Learning in the Economics Major / Scott Simkins and Mark Maier -- 9. Providing Incentives for Change: Evaluating Teaching / Ann L. Owen -- Reflections on Introductory Course Structures / Paul W. Grimes -- Economics and Liberal Education: Why, Where, and How / Michael K. Salemi -- Reinvigorating Liberal Education with an Expected Proficiencies Approach. to the Academic Major / W. Lee Hansen -- Integrative Nature of the Economics Major / Jessica Holmes -- Availability of Interdisciplinary Economics Educators and the Actions of Deans: Explaining the Small Contribution of Economics to a Liberal Education / Arthur H. Goldsmith -- Economics Major at a Crossroads / David Kennett -- Crafting the Economics Major as an Exercise in Property Rights / Neil Skaggs -- Preserving Liberal Arts Education: A Futile Endeavor / Brendan O'Flaherty -- Good Researchers Make Good Teachers / Catherine Hill -- Overstating the Challenges, Underestimating the Solutions / George Daly -- How the Shifting Landscape Affects our Students / David W. Breneman -- Role of Incentives (and Culture) in Rebalancing the Economics Major / Bradley W. Bateman -- What Do Economics Majors Think of the Economics Major? / Steve Jones, Eric Hoest, Richie Fuld, Mahesh Dahal and David Colander -- Wrapping Up the Discussion / John Siegfried
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-233) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848449497
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 323 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Critical management studies at work
    DDC: 658
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    Keywords: Management ; Theorie ; Critical Management Studies ; Management ; Critical theory ; Management ; Theorie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Management ; Theorie
    Abstract: This book is the first of its kind to reflect on what it means to actually perform critical management studies (CMS): how consultants, researchers, teachers and managers negotiate the tensions they experience in their everyday practice
    Abstract: pt. I. Critical management research in action : choice and constraint in the generation and translation of actionable knowledge -- pt. II. Critical teaching and learning : responsiveness and responsibilities in contemporary management education -- pt. III. Critical identities : the critical turn in everyday domains of practice
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  • 81
    ISBN: 9781781007815
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 302 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New thinking in political economy
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Aimar, Thierry, 1966 - The economics of ignorance and coordination
    DDC: 330.157
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    Keywords: Österreichische Schule ; Austrian school of economics ; Electronic books ; Wiener Schule
    Abstract: This book clarifies the specific nature of the Austrian theory and restores the unity and open-mindedness of the Austrian school in general. The intention is not to offer a collection of different or parallel ideas, but rather to retrace, from a pedagogical and constructive perspective, the various stages of the construction of a well-founded theoretical edifice: from Ludwig von Mises to Murray Rothbard, from Friedrich Hayek to Israel M. Kirzner and from Lachmann to Lavoie. The book is a reconstitution of the way Austrian ideas and concepts organize themselves in a common structure
    Abstract: pt. 1. Foundations -- pt. 2. Catallaxy, a response to ignorance -- pt. 3. Applications and debates
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  • 82
    ISBN: 9781849801881 , 1847209726 , 9781847209726
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 210 p)
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Boons, Frank Creating ecological value
    DDC: 658.4/083
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    Keywords: Umweltmanagement ; Corporate Social Responsibility ; Social responsibility of business Environmental aspects ; Business planning ; Social responsibility of business ; Industrial management Environmental aspects ; Kaffeewirtschaft ; Kraftfahrzeugindustrie ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz ; Wertschöpfung ; Electronic books ; Umweltschutz ; Unternehmen ; Wertschöpfung ; Kraftfahrzeugindustrie ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz ; Kaffeewirtschaft ; Strategisches Management ; Umweltschutz
    Abstract: Firms adopt a wide variety of ecological strategies, ranging from the development of innovative products with reduced environmental impact to lobbying against governmental attempts to set standards for the way in which firms deal with the natural environment. This book explores this variety and is the first to provide a coherent evolutionary approach to the ecological strategies of firms
    Abstract: ch. 1. How do firms create ecological value? -- ch. 2. Definitions of ecological value : patches of history -- ch. 3. Technological change and strategic perspectives -- ch. 4. Elements of strategic perspectives and the internal dynamics of firms -- ch. 5. Shaping strategic perspectives through resource networks -- ch. 6. The coffee PCS -- ch. 7. The automobile PCS -- ch. 8. An evolutionary approach towards the strategic perspectives of firms -- ch. 9. The future of creating ecological value
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-206) and index
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  • 83
    ISBN: 9781848447257
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 237 p) , ill., map
    Series Statement: The Locke Institute
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Brancato, Ekaterina Markets versus hierarchies
    DDC: 338.947
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    Keywords: Industrieökonomik ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Geschichte ; Russland ; Electronic books ; Soviet Union Economic condtiions ; Russia (Federation) Economic conditions ; Russia Economic conditions ; Russland ; Politische Ökonomie ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Geschichte 900-
    Abstract: This unique book uses a transaction cost perspective to illustrate how hierarchies influenced the structure of markets and behaviour of individual businesses and cartels in pre-revolutionary, Soviet and present-day Russia
    Abstract: pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. The pre-revolutionary period -- pt. 3. The Soviet period : 1917-85 -- pt. 4. Perestroika and the post-Soviet era
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 212-230) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848447370
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 151 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kemmerling, Achim Taxing the working poor
    DDC: 339.525
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    Keywords: Einkommensteuer ; Niedriglohn ; Steuerinzidenz ; Arbeitsangebot ; Theorie ; OECD-Staaten ; Poor Taxation ; Fiscal policy ; Distribution (Economic theory) ; Labor supply Effect of taxation on ; Electronic books ; Steuer ; Arbeitsmarkt ; Umverteilung
    Abstract: In most industrialized countries the tax burden of poor people has increased dramatically over the last few decades. This book analyses both the political origins of this increase and its consequences for the labour market
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. A comparative welfare state analysis of tax mixes -- 3. The economics of taxing labour -- 4. Political economy applied to tax mixes -- 5. Empirical evaluation -- 6. Conclusion : employment and redistribution are not incompatible
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 126-143) and index
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  • 85
    ISBN: 9781849802321
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 425 p)
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental and energy law
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    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Keywords: Climatic changes Economic aspects ; Climatic changes Government policy ; Climatic changes Law and legislation ; Environmental law, International ; Global warming Law and legislation ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This timely book examines the legal and policy challenges in international, regional and national settings, faced by developing countries in mitigating and adapting to climate change
    Abstract: pt. I. Climate justice -- pt. II. Expanding the scope of the climate change legal regimes -- pt. III. The clean development mechanism and mitigation strategies -- pt. IV. Climate policy bridging the north and south
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  • 86
    ISBN: 9781848449374
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 238 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The dynamics of regions and networks in industrial ecosystems
    DDC: 338.927
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    Keywords: Produktionsstandort ; Umwelt ; Umweltbelastung ; Regionalentwicklung ; Unternehmensnetzwerk ; Umweltökonomik ; Welt ; Business networks ; Environmental economics Case studies ; Environmental economics Mathematical models ; Industrial productivity ; Industrial location ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industrie ; Ökosystem ; Regionalplan ; Industrie ; Standortfaktor ; Umweltbelastung ; Umweltökonomie
    Abstract: Industrial ecology provides a rigorous and comprehensive description of human production and consumption processes in the larger context of environmental and socioeconomic change. This volume offers methodologies for such descriptions, with contributions covering both basic and advanced analytical concepts and tools to explore the dynamics of industrial ecosystems, concentrating specifically on regions and networks
    Abstract: The dynamics of regions and networks in industrial ecosystems : background and concepts / Matthias Ruth and Brynhildur Davidsdottir -- Dynamics of geographically based industrial ecosytems / Marian R. Chertow -- Regional dynamics and industrial ecosystems : an introduction / David L. Rigby -- Spatial and temporal life cycle assessment : ozone formation potential from natural gas use in a typical residential building in Pittsburgh, USA / Shannon M. Lloyd and Robert Ries -- Estimating generalized regional input-output systems : a case study of Australia / Blanca Gallego and Manfred Lenzen -- The economic and environmental consequences of reduced air transport services in Pennsylvania : a regional input-output life cycle assessment case study / Gyorgyi Cicas, Chris T. Hendrickson and H. Scott Matthews -- Design approach frameworks, regional metabolism and scenarios for sustainability / Tim Baynes, Jim West and Graham M. Turner -- Learning and evolution in industrial ecosystems : an introduction / Peter M. Allen -- A framework for analysis of industrial networks / Ruud Kempener ... [et al.] -- Understanding and shaping the evolution of sustainable large-scale socio-technical systems / Igor Nikolic, Gerard P.J. Dijkema and Koen H. van Dam -- Futures scenarios of industrial ecosystems : a research design for transportation planning / Paul Beavis ... [et al.] -- PowerPlay : developing strategies to promote energy efficiency / Matthias Ruth ... [et al.] -- The dynamics of regions and networks in industrial ecosystems : retrospect and prospect / Brynhildur Davidsdottir and Matthias Ruth
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    Cheltenham, Glos : Edward Elgar
    ISBN: 9781849802109
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 236 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in ecological economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hunt, Colin A. G. Carbon sinks and climate change
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    Keywords: Wald ; CO2-Speicherung ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Klimaschutz ; Klimawandel ; Internationale Umweltpolitik ; Welt ; Forestry projects Environmental aspects ; Global warming ; Carbon sequestration ; Electronic books ; Wald ; Klimaänderung ; Kohlenstoff ; Kohlenstoffkreislauf ; Umweltzertifikathandel ; Rahmenübereinkommen der Vereinten Nationen über Klimaänderungen Kyoto-Protokoll 1997 Dezember 11
    Abstract: "Reforestation and avoiding deforestation are methods of harnessing nature to tackle global warming - the greatest challenge facing humankind. In this book, Colin Hunt deals comprehensively with the present and future role of forests in climate change policy and practice. The author provides signposts for the way ahead in climate change policy and offers practical examples of forestry's role in climate change mitigation in both developed and tropical developing countries. Chapters on measuring carbon in plantations, their biodiversity benefits and potential for biofuel production complement the analysis. He also discusses the potential for forestry in climate change policy in the United States and other countries where policies to limit greenhouse gas emissions have been foreshadowed. The author employs scientific and socio-economic analysis and lays bare the complexity of forestry markets. A review of the workings of carbon markets, based both on the Kyoto Protocol and voluntary participation, provides a foundation from which to explore forestry's role. Emphasis is placed on acknowledging how forests' idiosyncrasies affect the design of markets for sequestered carbon. The realization of forestry's potential in developed countries depends on the depth of cuts in greenhouse gas emissions, together with in-country rules on forestry. An increase in funding for carbon retention in tropical forests is an immediate imperative, but complexities dictate that the sources of finance will likely be dedicated funds rather than carbon markets."--Back cover
    Description / Table of Contents: The making of markets for carbon and the potential of forestry offsets -- Forestry in the Kyoto Protocol -- Forestry in voluntary carbon markets -- Biodiversity benefits of reforestation and avoiding deforestation -- Measuring the carbon in forest sinks -- Forests as a source of biofuels -- Forestry in the climate change policies of selected developed countries -- Policies for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD).
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    ISBN: 9781849803335
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 248 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hamouda, Omar F., 1948 - Money, investment and consumption
    DDC: 330.156
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    Keywords: Keynes, John Maynard ; Keynes, John Maynard ; Keynesianismus ; Keynesian economics ; Electronic books ; Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946 A treatise on money ; Keynes, John Maynard 1883-1946 General theory of employment, interest and money ; Keynessche Theorie ; Makroökonomie
    Abstract: Contrary to the commonly perpetuated belief that Keynes’s theory is appropriate only to economic depressions, the author of this provocative book maintains that Keynes provided a complete set of macroeconomic relations and the ingredients of a new theoretical model, much more reflective of and analytically appropriate to the 21st century than those on which current macroeconomics is based
    Abstract: 1. The financial crisis of 2008 and the UnKeynesian Keynes -- 2. Money, price, and interest -- 3. Keynes's semantic shifts : the shock of a treatise on money -- 4. Keynes's theoretical shift : casualty of the criticism of the treatise -- 5. Keynes's causal relations : the general theory derailed -- 6. Inflation/deflation and the policy of the general general theory
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-236) and indexes
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    ISBN: 9781848449114
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 190 p)
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Colander, David C., 1947 - The making of a European economist
    DDC: 330.094
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsstudium ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; EU-Staaten ; Economics Study and teaching (Graduate) ; Economists ; Electronic books ; Europa ; Wirtschaftswissenschaften
    Abstract: David Colander's highly original and thought provoking book considers ongoing changes in graduate European economics education. Following up on his earlier classic studies of US graduate economic education, he studies the 'economist production function' in which universities take student 'raw material' and transform it into economists, In doing so he provides insight into economists and economics
    Abstract: pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Qualitative results of the survey -- pt. III. Student interviews -- pt. IV. Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-177) and index
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  • 90
    ISBN: 9781849801850
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 401 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction?
    DDC: 339.46
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    Keywords: 1988-2007 ; Öffentliche Dienstleistung ; Armutsbekämpfung ; Dezentralisierung ; Finanzpolitik ; Finanzbeziehungen ; Welt ; Poverty ; Intergovernmental fiscal relations ; Decentralization in government ; Poverty Political aspects ; Electronic books ; Konferenzschrift 2006 ; Fiskalföderalismus ; Öffentliche Leistung ; Dezentralisation ; Entwicklungsländer ; Armut ; Bekämpfung
    Abstract: Does decentralization enhance service delivery and poverty reduction? Drawing on cutting edge research, expert contributors address this fundamental question facing policy-makers in developing as well as advanced countries. This timely book builds upon insights on the recent developments in the intergovernmental literature first outlined in the Handbook of Fiscal Federalism. New empirical evidence from across the globe is presented: policy-oriented chapters evaluate fiscal federalism with an emphasis on the effectiveness of decentralized service delivery, the decentralization process in different parts of the world is appraised, and specially commissioned research focuses on the political economy process and the outcomes of the decentralization process. The role of international agencies, as explicit donors, is examined in several chapters
    Abstract: pt. 1. Positive approaches -- pt. 2. What do we know? -- pt. 3. Selected normative and policy issues
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    ISBN: 9781848445970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 191 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Available in another form
    Keywords: Hate Economic aspects ; Electronic books
    Abstract: This important and highly original book explores the application of economics to the subject of hate via such diverse topics as war, terrorism, road rage, witchcraft mania, marriage and divorce, and bullying and harassment
    Abstract: 1. Towards the economics of hate -- 2. The quiet and peaceful world of microeconomics (QPWM) -- 3. Why is hate like raspberry jam? hatred in conventional microeconomics -- 4. Widening the economic approach to hate -- 5. Applied hate in the material world at the individual level -- 6. Hate in the air : the economics of psychic possession -- 7. Phobias, -isms and schisms : group hate -- 8. Is conflict resolution theory relevant? -- 9. Is there a policy conclusion?
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 92
    ISBN: 9781848449091
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 227 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Advances in Chinese economic studies
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als China's integration with the global economy
    DDC: 337.51
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    Keywords: World Trade Organization Congresses ; 1995-2006 ; Globalisierung ; Internationale Wirtschaftsbeziehungen ; Wirtschaftsintegration ; Auslandsinvestition ; Handelsliberalisierung ; WTO-Mitgliedschaft ; China ; Electronic books ; China Congresses Foreign economic relations ; Konferenzschrift 2007 ; China ; Weltwirtschaft ; World Trade Organization ; Globalisierung ; China ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Direktinvestition
    Abstract: China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the development of the Chinese economy as well as the multilateral trading system. This book provides a remarkable background of information about China's economy after WTO accession and analyses many important issues concerning China's economic growth, international trade, transparency of trade policy, regional trade arrangements, foreign direct investment, banking sector liberalization, exchange rate reform, agricultural trade and energy demand
    Abstract: pt. I. Economic growth and globalization -- pt. 2. Foreign direct investment and exchange rate -- pt. 3. Agricultural trade and energy demand
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    ISBN: 9781849802024
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 326 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als International handbook of urban policy ; Vol. 2: Issues in the developed world
    Keywords: Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtentwicklung ; Stadtökonomik ; Stadtsoziologie ; Industrieländer ; Urban policy ; Globalization ; Sustainable development ; Cities and towns ; Equality ; Sociology, Urban ; Urban economics ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Industriestaaten ; Stadtentwicklung ; Verstädterung ; Stadtökonomie ; Stadtplanung ; Migrationspolitik
    Abstract: This Handbook brings together a range of viewpoints on a number of the burning issues affecting urban sustainability in North America and Europe at the beginning of the 21st century. H.S. Geyer and his contributors cover a wide spectrum of the urban policy issues that determine the growth and development progress as well as the livability of cities in the Occident
    Abstract: pt. I. The urban policy context -- pt. 2. Evolving urban systems -- pt. 3. Forces of spatial economic change -- pt. 4. The changing demographic landscape
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , Title from cover
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    ISBN: 9781849802338
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 216 pages) , illustrations, 1 map
    Series Statement: New horizons in environmental economics
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Distributional impacts of climate change and disasters
    DDC: 363.3492163
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    Keywords: 1990-2095 ; Klimawandel ; Treibhausgas-Emissionen ; Umweltpolitik ; Sozialer Wandel ; Verteilungswirkung ; Prognose ; Welt ; Natural disasters Social aspects ; Climatic changes Environmental aspects ; Human beings Effect of climate on ; Climatic changes Social aspects ; Climatic changes Risk management ; Environmental impact analysis ; Natural disasters Economic aspects ; Klimaänderung ; Auswirkung ; Mensch ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Klimaänderung ; Auswirkung ; Mensch
    Abstract: Climate change tends to increase the frequency and intensity of weather-related disasters, which puts many people at risk. Economic, social and environmental impacts further increase vulnerability to disasters and tend to set back development, destroy livelihoods, and increase disparity nationally and worldwide. This book addresses the differential vulnerability of people and places, introducing concepts and methods for analysis and illustrating the impact on local, regional, national, and global scales
    Abstract: pt. I. Background -- pt. II. Differential impacts
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    ISBN: 9781781007785
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 198 p) , ill
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    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Barrett, Mary Women in family business leadership roles
    DDC: 658/.02
    Keywords: Familienunternehmen ; Weibliche Führungskräfte ; Leadership in women ; Women executives ; Family-owned business enterprises Management ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Mary Barrett and Ken Moores breathe new life into research on one of the largest and yet frequently overlooked business sectors. They analyse thirteen international cases of women in family business to discover how women attained leadership or, sometimes, failed to do so. By examining in detail how women have reached the top in the traditionally conservative environment of family business, the book avoids essentialist assumptions about women as leaders. It illuminates classic issues of entrepreneurship in a family business context, particularly the dual imperatives of innovation and business continuity. Women in Family Business Leadership Roles presents contemporary research that looks at the patterns of success and failure, and understand whether this is the result of gender or other factors
    Abstract: 1. Women, leadership and family business -- 2. A global perspective -- 3. Frameworks and method -- 4. Stumbling into the spotlight -- 5. Building their own stage -- 6. Directing the spotlight elsewhere -- 7. Coping with shadows -- 8. Becoming invisible -- 9. Lessons of the spotlight
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-192) and index
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    ISBN: 9781848449435
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 151 p) , ill
    Series Statement: New horizons in regional science
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stimson, Robert J. Leadership and institutions in regional endogenous development
    DDC: 307.1/4
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    Keywords: Regionalentwicklung ; Endogenes Wachstumsmodell ; Institutionenökonomik ; Endogenous growth (Economics) ; Development leadership ; Entrepreneurship ; Regional economics ; Financial institutions ; Electronic books ; Regionale Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Institutionenökonomie
    Abstract: The authors of this comprehensive book provide a detailed rationale and original theory for the study of leadership and institutional factors, including entrepreneurship, in the growth and development of cities and regions. They demonstrate why leadership, institutions and entrepreneurship can - and indeed do - play a crucial enhancing role as key elements in the process of regional endogenous growth
    Abstract: pt. I. Developing a new conceptual model framework for endogenous regional economic growth and development : incorporating resource endowments and market fit, leadership, institutional factors and entrepreneurship -- pt. II. Examples of regional development initiatives involving leadership and institutional factors : case studies from North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-146) and index
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    ISBN: 9781849803465
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 341 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Economists in the Americas
    DDC: 330.098
    Keywords: 1920-2006 ; Wirtschaftswissenschaft ; Ökonomen ; Wirtschaftsordnung ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Ökonomische Ideengeschichte ; Amerika ; Economics History ; Economics History ; Economists Political activity ; Economists Political activity ; Electronic books ; Latin America Economic policy ; United States Economic policy ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Amerika ; Volkswirtschaft ; Wirtschaftspolitik ; Amerika ; Volkswirt ; Politische Betätigung
    Abstract: Probably no region's economists have had greater public visibility or greater impact on regional and national public policy than Latin America's and no region has been more directly affected by the spread of US economics. Economists in the Americas joins a small but important comparative literature on economics as a profession and is the first comparative treatment of professional economists in the United States and Latin America
    Abstract: 1. Economists in the Americas : convergence, divergence and connection / Verónica Montecinos, John Markoff and María José Álvarez-Rivadulla -- 2. The internationalization of ideas in Argentina's economics profession / Glen Biglaiser -- 3. Economists in the Brazilian government : from developmentalist state to neoliberal policies / Maria Rita Loureiro -- 4. Economics : the Chilean story / Verónica Montecinos -- 5. Colombia : economics, economic policy and economists / Luis Bernardo Flórez Enciso -- 6. From nationalism to neoliberalism : conflict and consensus in the history of Mexican economics / Sarah Babb -- 7. The United States : an economist's economy / Marion Fourcade -- 8. Economics, economists and politics in Uruguay / Adolfo Garcé -- 9. Epilogue : a glance beyond the neoliberal moment / Verónica Montecinos and John Markoff
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781848449183
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 146 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Studies in fiscal federalism and state-local finance
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hallwood, Paul The political economy of financing Scottish government
    DDC: 336.411
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Finanzen ; Finanzbeziehungen ; Schottland ; Decentralization in government Economic aspects ; Finance, Public ; Electronic books ; Scotland Economic policy ; Great Britain Economic conditions ; Scotland Economic conditions ; Great Britain Economic policy ; Schottland ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Fiskalföderalismus
    Abstract: Can the UK survive widespread dissatisfaction in both Scotland and England with the financing of public spending by Scotland's parliament? This timely book explains how fiscal autonomy could raise economic growth and efficiency in Scotland- to the benefit of both Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom. The authors discuss how other reform proposals - which amount to cutting Scotland's block grant - would fail as they would not be seen in Scotland as legitimate. They conclude that fiscal autonomy would be accepted as it reduces Scotland's democratic deficit in public spending, and would go a long way toward reducing vertical and horizontal imbalances in the UK
    Abstract: 1. Introduction -- 2. Searching for a politically and economically rational public funding model for Scotland -- 3. The economic case for fiscal devolution -- 4. Objectives of an effective fiscal federal system -- 5. Fiscal federalism : a Scottish perspective -- 6. The case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 7. A restatement of the case for Scottish fiscal autonomy -- 8. Fiscal devolution in some other countries -- 9. Empirical evidence : tax devolution and prosperity -- 10. A separate currency for Scotland? -- 11. Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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    ISBN: 9781848447325
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 161 p) , ill
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Fleming, Peter, 1972 - Charting corporate corruption
    DDC: 364.16/8
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    Keywords: Unternehmen ; Korruption ; Business ethics History ; Corporations Corrupt practices ; History ; Electronic books ; Unternehmen ; Korruption
    Abstract: In the post-Enron era, corporate corruption is increasingly on the research agenda. This informative book provides a novel approach by charting the causes of corruption. It demonstrates how agency (decisions and choices of individuals) and structure (the contextual pressures in the business environment) can interact to result in the rapid escalation of corporate crime. By analyzing and describing the social psychological dimensions of this escalation, the book will be effective in creating preventive measures that can be designed and implemented in business organizations
    Abstract: 1. 'Bad apple' approaches to organizational corruption -- 2. Rationalization, self-deception and corruption -- 3. 'When giants stumble' : agency, rationalization and the ruin of barings bank -- 4. 'Bad barrel' perspectives on corporate corruption -- 5. Environmental pressures towards corruption -- 6. Structure and the 2002 accounting scandals -- 7. The escalation of corruption in organizations -- 9. Conclusion : individuals, organizations and the political economy of the firm
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 142-152) and index
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    ISBN: 9781781007754
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 315 p) , ill., maps
    Series Statement: Edward Elgar E-Book Archive
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Geography, structural change and economic development
    DDC: 338.9
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    Keywords: Wirtschaftsgeographie ; Strukturwandel ; Regionaler Strukturwandel ; Betriebliche Standortwahl ; Entwicklung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Theorie ; Welt ; Economic development ; Economic development Social aspects ; Electronic books ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wirtschaftswachstum ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Strukturwandel
    Abstract: The authors in this book regard the process of economic expansion as a non-homogeneous and multifaceted phenomenon which has deeply affected human welfare, and cultural, social and political change. The book is a bridge between the theorists (Rosenstein-Rodan, Lewis, Myrdal, and Hirschmann) who in the post-war period analyzed regional inequalities, structural change and dualism, and the modern literature on--economic growth. The latter has emphasized the existence of multiple equilibria, bifurcations and various types of dynamic complexity, and clarified the conditions for the emergence of phenomena such as cumulative causation, path dependence and hysteresis. These are the typical ingredients of structural change, economic development or underdevelopment
    Abstract: pt. 1. The impact of geographical factors : aspects of location and specialization -- pt. 2. The process of structural change and the role of dualism
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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