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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: ill , 30 cm
    DDC: 304.6/32/0962
    Keywords: Fertility ; Egypt ; Egypt ; Population ; Birth control ; Egypt
    Note: World Fertility Survey, International Statistical Institute , This project was conducted as part of the World Fertility Survey and with the collaboration of the World Bank"--T.p. verso , Includes bibliographical references
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  • 2
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    Washington, D.C. : World Bank
    ISBN: 9780821382073 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 25 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource World Bank E-Library ISBN 9780821382073 (pbk.)
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    DDC: 305.5/630982
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  • 3
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    Washington, D.C. : World Bank
    ISBN: 0821379240 (Sekundärausgabe) , 9780821379240 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: Ill., col. map , 26 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource World Bank E-Library ISBN 0821379240
    Edition: ISBN 9780821379240
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    Series Statement: A World Bank country study
    DDC: 305.2350982
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  • 4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 6
    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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  • 7
    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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  • 8
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 9
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 10
    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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  • 11
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 12
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    New Haven, Conn : Human Relations Area Files, Inc
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 13
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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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  • 14
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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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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 16
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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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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    Language: English
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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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    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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    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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    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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    Language: English
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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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    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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    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: 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: 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: 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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    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: 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: 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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    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: 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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    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: 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: 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: 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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    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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    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: 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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    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: 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: 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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  • 43
    Language: English
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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: 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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  • 48
    Language: English
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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
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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: 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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    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: 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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    Language: English
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
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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
    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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    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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    Edition: eHRAF World Cultures
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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: 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: 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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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 119 p) , ill., col. map , 26 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: A World Bank country study
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 305.2350982
    Keywords: Youth / Argentina / Social conditions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-119)
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxix, 188 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: Latin American development forum series
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 305.23109729
    Keywords: Child development / Caribbean Area ; Child development / Latin America ; Child welfare / Caribbean Area ; Child welfare / Latin America ; Children / Caribbean Area / Social conditions ; Children / Latin America / Social conditions
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-173) and index
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 420 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: Online edition s.l.
    Series Statement: World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 302.23
    Keywords: Democracy ; Journalism / Political aspects ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Press and politics ; Representative government and representation
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : framing the debate. Evaluating media performance / Pippa Norris and Sina OdugbemiDiagnostic tools and performance indicators / Andrew Puddephatt -- The democratic roles of media systems : agenda setters, setting priorities. Media coverage of natural disasters and humanitarian crises / Susan D. Moeller -- Media agenda setting and donor aid / Douglas A. Van Belle -- Watchdogs : guarding governance. Corruption and the watchdog role of the news media / Sheila S. Coronel -- The media, government accountability, and citizen engagement / Katrin Voltmer -- Gate keepers : inclusive voices. Election campaigns, partisan balance, and the news media / Holli A. Semetko -- Limits on press freedom and regime support / Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart -- Media in the peace-building process : Ethiopia and Iraq / Monroe E. Price, Ibrahim Al-Marashi, and Nicole A. Stremlau -- Regional case studies of media roles. Central and Eastern Europe / Marius Dragomir -- Sub-Saharan Africa / Wisdom J. Tettey -- Latin America / Silvio Waisbord -- Arab States / Lawrence Pintak -- Asia / Angela Romano -- Conclusions : summing up the evidence, identifying effective policy options. Assessing the extent to which the news media act as watchdogs, agenda setters, and gatekeepers / Sina Odugbemi and Pippa Norris -- Policy recommendations / Sina Odugbemi and Pippa Norris.
    Note: "Originated with a workshop held in May 2007 at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government"--Pref. - Includes bibliographical references (p. 411-415) and index
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    ISBN: 0821377825 , 0821377833 , 9780821377826 , 9780821377833
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xi, 171 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Health, nutrition, and population series
    DDC: 362.109597
    Keywords: Health care reform ; Health insurance ; Medical care Finance ; Medical policy ; Health care reform ; Health insurance ; Medical care Finance ; Medical policy ; Delivery of Health Care ; Health Care Costs ; Health Care Reform ; Health Expenditures ; Health Policy ; Insurance, Health ; Health care reform ; Health insurance ; Medical care ; Medical policy ; Delivery of Health Care ; Health Care Costs ; Health Care Reform ; Health Expenditures ; Health Policy ; Insurance, Health
    Description / Table of Contents: Vietnam's health system since DOI MOIRecent trends in Vietnam's health sector performance -- Health insurance -- Reforming health insurance -- Service delivery -- Reforming service delivery -- Decentralization and government stewardship.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-164) and index
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    ISBN: 082137818X , 9780821378182
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (x, 67 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Bank working paper no. 166
    DDC: 362.1
    Keywords: Health promotion ; Integrated delivery of health care ; World health ; Health promotion ; Integrated delivery of health care ; World health ; Delivery of Health Care, Integrated ; World Health
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionMethodology -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusions.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 63-67)
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    ISBN: 0821380214 , 0821380222 , 9780821380215 , 9780821380222
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 142 p) , ill., maps , 26 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary Also available online
    Series Statement: A World Bank country study
    DDC: 382/.60984
    Keywords: Exports ; Exports ; Exports ; Bolivia ; Bolivia ; Bolivia ; Bolivia Commerce ; Bolivia Commercial policy ; Bolivia Economic policy ; Bolivia Commerce ; Bolivia Commercial policy ; Bolivia Economic policy
    Abstract: The publication investigates how Bolivia can achieve success in non-traditional exports by increasing the competitiveness of exporting firms.--Publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: The role of trade in Bolivia's development strategyBolivia's integration into the world economy -- Linkages between trade and the economy -- Export competitiveness and transport logistics -- A firm-level analysis of the factors affecting export performance.
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    ISBN: 0821380060 , 0821380079 , 9780821380062 , 9780821380079
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxix, 167 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Directions in development. Human development
    DDC: 338.4/33621009598
    Keywords: Health care reform ; Medical economics ; National health insurance ; Health care reform ; Medical economics ; National health insurance ; Financing, Government ; Health Care Reform economics ; Insurance, Health economics ; National Health Programs economics ; Population Dynamics ; Health care reform ; Medical economics ; National health insurance ; Financing, Government ; Health Care Reform ; Insurance, Health ; National Health Programs ; Population Dynamics
    Description / Table of Contents: Socioeconomic and health systems contextIndonesia's health financing system -- Assessment of health financing performance -- Key policy issues, options, and costs -- Policy options : finding resources for health -- Conclusions and next steps.
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-159) and index
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    ISBN: 0821380141 , 0821380168 , 9780821380147 , 9780821380161
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 61 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary Also available online
    Series Statement: A World Bank country study
    DDC: 338.6/420820984
    Keywords: Businesswomen ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Sex discrimination against women ; Small business Management ; Sex differences ; Women-owned business enterprises Management ; Businesswomen ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Sex discrimination against women ; Small business Management ; Sex differences ; Women-owned business enterprises Management ; Businesswomen ; Informal sector (Economics) ; Sex discrimination against women ; Small business ; Women-owned business enterprises
    Abstract: Bolivia's informal economic sector is the largest in Latin America, and women-owned businesses tend to be overrepresented in the informal sector and to be less profitable than firms in the formal sector. This study seeks to better understand gender-based differences in firms' tendencies toward formality, the impact of formality on profits, and the productivity of small informal firms. Using data from firm surveys, national household surveys, and qualitative data from focus groups, the study conducts a gender analysis of formality and productivity in six different sectors in Bolivia. The findings shed new light on how gender-based differences contribute to a firm's decision to become formal and the consequences of this decision for profitability. The outcomes of the study suggest that policies should focus on increasing the productivity and scale of women-owned businesses. Two general priorities emerge: promoting women's access to productive assets to facilitate growth and productivity and providing an enabling environment for women's entrepreneurship by expanding women's choices and capacity to respond to market opportunities.--Publisher's description
    Description / Table of Contents: Men and women in Bolivia's informal sectorGender, formality, and profitability -- Gender-specific constraints to productivity -- Implications of policies to increase the formalization and productivity of female owners of small and micro firms.
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    ISBN: 082138077X , 9780821380772
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxx, 100 p) , ill., map , 23 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Directions in development. Human development
    DDC: 363.8/56
    Keywords: Malnutrition ; Nutrition policy ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition policy ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Health Resources economics ; Malnutrition economics ; Malnutrition prevention & control ; Nutrition Policy economics ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition policy ; Cost-Benefit Analysis ; Health Resources ; Malnutrition ; Malnutrition ; Nutrition Policy
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : why scale up?Methodology : estimating the costs -- What will it cost and what are the potential benefits? -- Phasing the scale-up.
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    ISBN: 9780821374443 , 9780821377406
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xxiv, 308 p) , ill , 23 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 362.1/042
    Keywords: Equality Health aspects ; Health services accessibility ; Poor Cross-cultural studies Medical care ; World health ; Equality Health aspects ; Health services accessibility ; Poor Cross-cultural studies Medical care ; World health ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Developing Countries ; Health Policy ; Health Status Disparities ; Healthcare Disparities ; Socioeconomic Factors ; Equality ; Health services accessibility ; Health aspects ; Poor ; World health ; Medical care ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Cross-cultural studies ; Developing Countries ; Health Policy ; Health Status Disparities ; Healthcare Disparities ; Socioeconomic Factors
    Description / Table of Contents: An unacceptable realityApproaching a complex and persistent problem -- The importance of "listening" -- A menu of pro-poor policies -- Brazil, filling the cracks in universal coverage -- Cambodia: contracting with nongovernmental organizations to serve the poor -- Cambodia: health equity fund for the poor -- Chile: integrated services program for the poor -- Colombia: expanding health insurance for the poor -- India: community-based health care services -- Indonesia: health cards for the poor -- Kenya: expanding immunization reach through campaigns -- The Kyrgyz Republic: health financing reform and the poor -- Mexico: paying the poor to use health services -- Mexico: providing subsidized health insurance to the poor -- Nepal: participatory planning -- Rwanda: community-based health insurance -- Tanzania: social marketing for malaria prevention -- Vigilance.
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    ISBN: 0821381652 , 0821381660 , 9780821381656 , 9780821381663
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 76 p) , ill. (some col.) , 28 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 338.9009172/4
    Keywords: Economic development ; Financial crises ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Economic development ; Financial crises ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Economic development ; Financial crises ; Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 ; Developing countries ; Developing countries ; Developing countries ; Developing countries Economic conditions 21st century ; Developing countries Economic conditions 21st century
    Description / Table of Contents: IntroductionThe crisis -- Questioning the growth strategies -- Openness and financial development -- Resilience -- Concluding thoughts.
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    ISBN: 0821379348 , 0821379550 , 9780821379349 , 9780821379554
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xvii, 282 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    DDC: 331.1209172/4
    Keywords: International trade Social aspects ; Labor Social aspects ; Labor market ; International trade Social aspects ; Labor Social aspects ; Labor market ; International trade ; Labor ; Labor market ; Developing countries ; Developing countries Commerce ; Developing countries Commerce
    Description / Table of Contents: Overview: the promises and perils of globalization / Raymond Robertson ... [et al.]A review of the globailization literature: implications for employment, wages, and labor standards / Drusilla Brown -- Globalization and working conditions : a framework for county studies / Raymond Robertson -- Globalization and working conditions : evidence from Cambodia / Samsen Neak and Raymond Robertson -- The effect of globalization on working conditions: El Salvador, 1995-2005 -- Globalization and working conditions : evidence from Honduras / Douglas Marcouiller and Raymond Robertson -- Globalization and working conditions: evidence from Indonesia / Raymond Robertson ... [et al.] -- Export processing zones in Madagascar: the impact of the dismantling of clothing quotas on employment and labor standards / Jean-Pierre Cling, Mireille Razafindrakoto, and François Roubaud.
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  • 71
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    ISBN: 9780821381472
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (64 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: World Bank Annual Report
    Abstract: The World Bank Annual Report 2009, Year in Review, explores the impact of the global financial and economic crisis in developing countries, and fast-track funding and programs that can help member countries withstand the debacle. In addition, new and ongoing programs and projects in health, climate change, infrastructure, and several other areas are highlighted. A new feature this year is personal-impact stories for each region, relaying the positive effects of World Bank assistance on individuals
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  • 72
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    ISBN: 9780821381366
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (147 p)
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Independent Evaluation Group Studies
    Abstract: The Annual Review of Development Effectiveness 2009 presents evidence on the World Bank’s efforts in two areas. Part I tracks the outcomes of Bank projects and country programs and the evolution of monitoring and evaluation (M&E). Part II examines the Bank’s support for environmentally sustainable development compatible with economic growth and poverty reduction. The Bank’s project performance rebounded in 2008, allaying concerns about the weakened performance in 2007. As previous ARDEs have shown, project performance has been improving gradually for 15 years according to the traditional measure -- percent of projects with satisfactory (versus unsatisfactory) outcomes. But IEG ratings of M&E quality for completed projects indicate considerable room for progress. Information to assess impacts continues to be lacking although preliminary data suggests improvements in baseline data collection. Bank support for the environment has recovered since 2002 due to new sources of concessional finance. The outcomes of environment projects have improved in recent years. A growing number of regional projects are addressing the shared use of water resources. New global partnerships are deepening the Bank’s involvement in climate change issues. But M&E remains weak: three-quarters of environment-related projects - those managed by sectors other than environment - lack reporting of environmental outcomes
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  • 73
    ISBN: 0821377205 , 0821377213 , 9780821377208 , 9780821377215
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xviii, 257 p) , ill , 26 cm
    Edition: 2009 World Bank eLibrary
    Series Statement: Africa human development series
    DDC: 372.16096
    Keywords: Community organization ; Education Parent participation ; Education, Primary Aims and objectives ; Rural development projects ; School buildings Design and construction ; Community organization ; Education Parent participation ; Education, Primary Aims and objectives ; Rural development projects ; School buildings Design and construction ; Community organization ; Education ; Education, Primary ; Rural development projects ; School buildings
    Note: "Education For All Fast Track Initiative , Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 74
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4806
    Parallel Title: Byrd, William A Public finance, security, and development
    Keywords: Economic development ; Finance, Public ; Internal security ; Economic development ; Finance, Public ; Internal security
    Abstract: "Security is increasingly viewed as a key condition for economic growth and development. The authors argue that the work and impact of all development partners would be enhanced if the multiple linkages between public finance, security, and development were explicitly taken into account. At the extreme, in some cases better public finance management could have more impact on security than would more troops. The paper first outlines three core linkages between security and development-through the investment climate, human and social capital, and institutions. The authors then propose three complementary tools to analyze the security sector from the point of view of public finance management, service delivery, and governance. This conceptual framework is applied to the case of Afghanistan. The paper closes by drawing some conclusions about possible entry points for dialogue in this difficult area. "--World Bank web site
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  • 75
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4809
    Parallel Title: Urdapilleta, Eduardo Banking in Brazil
    Keywords: Banks and banking ; Banks and banking
    Abstract: " The objective of this paper is to analyze the industry structure of banking services in Brazil in order to shed light on financial performance and its drivers at a disaggregated level. The study illustrates how differences across market segments - which tend to be averaged out in aggregate analysis - need to be taken into account when analyzing performance and designing public policy for the banking sector. In particular, retail banking is found to be less sensitive to price competition and to exhibit considerably higher returns than corporate banking. The authors identify and discuss the factors underlying revenues, costs, and risks in each market segment, and conclude with policy implications. "--World Bank web site
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  • 76
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4814
    Parallel Title: Chen, Dandan Vocational schooling, labor market outcomes, and college entry
    Keywords: Education, Secondary ; Vocational education ; Education, Secondary ; Vocational education
    Abstract: "This paper examines the differentiated outcomes of vocational and general secondary academic education, particularly in terms of employment opportunities, labor market earnings, and access to tertiary education in Indonesia. With data from a panel of two waves of the Indonesia Family Life Survey in 1997 and 2000, the paper tracks a cohort of high school students in 1997 to examine their schooling and employment status in 2000. The findings demonstrate that: (1) attendance at vocational secondary schools results in neither market advantage nor disadvantage in terms of employment opportunities and/or earnings premium; (2) attendance at vocational schools leads to significantly lower academic achievement as measured by national test scores; and (3) There is no stigma attached to attendance at vocational schools that results in a disadvantage in access to tertiary education; rather, it is the lower academic achievement associated with attendance at vocational school that lowers the likelihood of entering college. The empirical approach of this paper addresses two limitations of the existing literature in this area. First, it takes into account the observation censoring issue due to college entry when evaluating labor market outcomes of secondary school graduates. Second, using an instrumental variable approach, the paper also treats endogeneity of household choice of vocational versus academic track of secondary education, teasing out the net effect of secondary school choice on labor market and schooling outcomes. "--World Bank web site
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  • 77
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4815
    Parallel Title: Zaidi, Salman Main drivers of income inequality in Central European and Baltic countries
    Keywords: Income distribution ; Income distribution ; Income distribution ; Income distribution
    Abstract: "Present levels of income inequality in Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia remain considerably higher than their pre-transition levels, although the relative pace of change over time has varied quite a bit across countries. Using data from the 2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions, this paper finds that prevailing levels of income inequality in these countries continue to be low by international standards, and that this is in large part due to the very high redistributive impact of direct taxes and public transfers. In addition to the instrumental role of tax and transfer policies in redistributing income, the paper highlights the important role played by differences in education levels and labor market participation rates in explaining observed inequalities across people and across different regions (although not in explaining observed differences across countries). The paper includes an analysis of key factors that help explain observed variation across countries in the level of public support for redistribution, including peoples' economic background and relative success in life, whether they perceive poverty to be associated with factors within or outside the control of those it afflicts (for example, laziness/lack of willpower vs. injustice in society). "--World Bank web site
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  • 78
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4819
    Parallel Title: Mitra, Pradeep Convergence in institutions and market outcomes
    Keywords: Economics ; Economics
    Abstract: "This paper uses firm-level data from the Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Surveys to study the process of convergence of transition countries with developed market economies. The study focuses on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending to firms, and how firms respond to the economic environment by restructuring. The authors find substantial evidence of convergence in a number of dimensions. The pattern of growth at the country, sector, and firm levels shows rapid growth of the new private sector and of the micro and small-firm sectors, with the size distribution of firms moving toward the pattern observed in the surveys of developed market economies. In finance, increasing reliance on retained earnings in transition countries reflects a maturation of the sector as new firms come to rely less on informal and family sources of finance. The authors find evidence of an inverse-U pattern, with the peak of restructuring activity taking place in 2002, the middle of the period analyzed. Throughout, the regional patterns suggest greater convergence in the transition countries that joined the European Union in 2004 than in the other, lower-income transition economies. "--World Bank web site
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  • 79
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4822
    Parallel Title: V. Del Carpio, Ximena Leveling the intra-household playing field
    Keywords: Child labor ; Transfer payments ; Child labor ; Transfer payments
    Abstract: "This paper analyzes changes in the allocation of child labor within the household in reaction to exogenous shocks created by a social program in Nicaragua. The paper shows that households that randomly received a conditional cash transfer compensated for some of the intra-household differences, as they reduced child labor more for older boys who used to work more and for boys who were further behind in school. The results also show that households that randomly received a productive investment grant, in addition to the basic conditional cash transfer benefits, both targeted at women, show an increased specialization of older girls in nonagricultural and domestic work, but no overall increase in girls' child labor. The findings suggest that time allocation and specialization patterns in child labor within the household are important factors to understand the impact of a social program. "--World Bank web site
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  • 80
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4824
    Parallel Title: Delavande, Adeline Measuring subjective expectations in developing countries
    Keywords: Social surveys ; Social surveys
    Abstract: "The majority of economic decisions taken by individuals are forward looking and thus involve their expectations of future outcomes. Understanding the expectations that individuals have is thus of crucial importance to designing and evaluating policies in health, education, finance, migration, social protection, and many other areas. However, the majority of developing country surveys are static in nature and do not contain information on the subjective expectations of individuals. Possible reasons given for not collecting this information include fears that poor, illiterate individuals do not understand probability concepts, that it takes far too much time to ask such questions, or that the answers add little value. This paper provides a critical review and new analysis of subjective expectations data from developing countries and refutes each of these concerns. The authors find that people in developing countries can generally understand and answer probabilistic questions, such questions are not prohibitive in time to ask, and the expectations are useful predictors of future behavior and economic decisions. The paper discusses the different methods being tried for eliciting such information, the key methodological issues involved, and the open research questions. The available evidence suggests that collecting expectations data is both feasible and valuable, suggesting that it should be incorporated into more developing country surveys. "--World Bank web site
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4827
    Parallel Title: Docquier, Frédéric Measuring skilled migration rates
    Keywords: Brain drain States, Small ; Migration, Internal ; States, Small Emigration and immigration ; Brain drain States, Small ; Migration, Internal ; States, Small Emigration and immigration
    Abstract: "Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of people. This paper focuses on this particularly important aspect of globalization, with emphasis on the movement of skilled people and its relationship with country size. In addition to overall skilled migration, it provides evidence that controls for migration age in order to distinguish between those educated in the home country and those educated abroad. The authors discuss the growth implications of the brain drain from small countries and policies that may help control it. "--World Bank web site
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  • 82
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4828
    Parallel Title: Schiff, Maurice W North-south trade-related technology diffusion, brain drain and productivity growth
    Keywords: Brain drain ; Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity ; Brain drain ; Diffusion of innovations ; Industrial productivity
    Abstract: "The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large states in the South. There are three main findings. First, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and their interaction on productivity growth in small states is more than three times that for large countries, with the negative impact of the brain drain thus more than three times greater in small than in large states. And third, the greater loss in productivity growth in small states has two brain drain-related causes: a substantially greater sensitivity of productivity growth to the brain drain, and brain drain levels that are more than five times greater in small than in large states. "--World Bank web site
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  • 83
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4833
    Parallel Title: Ferre, Celine Age at first child
    Keywords: Education ; Fertility, Human ; Teenage pregnancy ; Education ; Fertility, Human ; Teenage pregnancy
    Abstract: "Completing additional years of education necessarily entails spending more time in school. There is naturally a rather mechanical effect of schooling on fertility if women tend not to have children while continuing to attend high school or college, thus delaying the beginning of and shortening their reproductive life. This paper uses data from the Kenyan Demographic and Health Surveys of 1989, 1993, 1998, and 2003 to uncover the impact of staying one more year in school on teenage fertility. To get around the endogeneity issue between schooling and fertility preferences, the analysis uses the 1985 Kenyan education reform as an instrument for years of education. The authors find that adding one more year of education decreases by at least 10 percentage points the probability of giving birth when still a teenager. The probability of having one's first child before age 20, when having at least completed primary education, is about 65 percent; therefore, for this means a reduction of about 15 percent in teenage fertility rates for this group. One additional year of school curbs the probability of becoming a mother each year by 7.3 percent for women who have completed at least primary education, and 5.6 percent for women with at least a secondary degree. These results (robust to a wide array of specifications) are of crucial interest to policy and decision makers who set up health and educational policies. This paper shows that investing in education can have positive spillovers on health. "--World Bank web site
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  • 84
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4835
    Parallel Title: Amin, Mohammad Democracy and reforms
    Keywords: Democracy ; Economic policy ; Democracy ; Economic policy
    Abstract: "The authors use a sample of 147 countries to investigate the link between democracy and reforms. Democracy may be conducive to reforms, because politicians have the incentive to embrace growth-enhancing reforms to win elections. By contrast, authoritarian regimes do not have to worry as much about public opinion and may undertake reforms that are painful in the short run but bring future prosperity. This paper tests these hypotheses, using data on micro-economic reforms from the World Bank's Doing Business database. These data do not suffer the endogeneity issues associated with other datasets on changes in economic institutions. The results provide robust support for the claim that democracy is good for growth-enhancing reforms. "--World Bank web site
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  • 85
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4839
    Parallel Title: Fink, Guenther Determinants of international emergency aid
    Keywords: Disaster relief ; Natural disasters ; Disaster relief ; Natural disasters
    Abstract: "The authors use an original data set covering more than 400 recent natural disasters to analyze the determinants of international emergency aid. Although humanitarian need is a major determinant of emergency relief payments, the results imply that political and strategic factors play a crucial role in the emergency aid allocation. On average, donor governments favor smaller, geographically closer, and oil exporting countries, and display significant biases in favor of politically less aligned countries as well as toward their former colonies. The authors also test and reject the independence of donors' aid decisions, finding strong evidence for bandwagon effects in humanitarian assistance. "--World Bank web site
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  • 86
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4841
    Parallel Title: Anós Casero, Paloma What drives firm productivity growth ?
    Keywords: Industrial productivity ; Industrial productivity
    Abstract: "This paper presents new evidence on the causal links between changes in the business environment and firm productivity growth. It contributes to the literature in three important aspects. First, it constructs a unique database merging information from two large firm-level databases. The samples of both databases are merged on four criteria-country, sub-national location, firm size, and year-producing a panel of 22,004 firms in eight economies of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia,, Poland, Romania, Serbia, and Ukraine. Second, the paper addresses shortcomings of earlier studies, namely reverse causation, multicollinearity, and unreliable productivity estimates. Firm productivity growth is estimated drawing on corporate financial data from manufacturing firms included in the AMADEUS database. Changes in the business environment are estimated from the World Bank Enterprise Surveys conducted in 2002 and 2005. Multicollinearity problems in the full model regression are mitigated by constructing a set of six aggregate indicators of the business environment (using principal component analysis). The paper finds that, over the period 2001 to 2004, an increase of one standard deviation in infrastructure quality, financial development, governance, labor market flexibility, labor quality, and market competition raises the total factor productivity of the average firm by 9.8, 7.8, 3.2, 3.4, 5.8, and 3 percent, respectively. Lastly, the paper decomposes firm productivity growth and ranks the relative impact of changes in these six aspects of the business environment by country, by firm size, and by industry. "--World Bank web site
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  • 87
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4846
    Parallel Title: Das Gupta, Monica Is there an incipient turnaround in Asia's "missing girls" phenomenon ?
    Keywords: Sex of children, Parental preferences for ; Sex ratio ; Sex of children, Parental preferences for ; Sex ratio
    Abstract: "The apparently inexorable rise in the proportion of "missing girls" in much of East and South Asia has attracted much attention amongst researchers and policy-makers. An encouraging trend was suggested by the case of South Korea, where child sex ratios were the highest in Asia but peaked in the mid-1990s and normalized thereafter. Using census data, we examine whether similar trends have begun to manifest themselves in the two large populous countries of this region, China and India. The data indicate that child sex ratios are peaking in these countries, and in many sub-national regions are beginning to trend towards less masculinization. This suggests that, with continuing vigorous efforts to reduce son preference, the "missing girls" phenomenon could be addressed in Asia. "--World Bank web site
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  • 88
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4847
    Parallel Title: Rogers, F. Halsey No more cutting class?
    Keywords: Education ; Teachers Leaves of absence ; Education ; Teachers Leaves of absence
    Abstract: "Expanding and improving basic education in developing countries requires, at a minimum, teachers who are present in the classroom and motivated to teach, but this essential input is often missing. This paper describes the findings of a series of recent World Bank and other studies on teacher absence and incentives for performance. Surprise school visits reveal that teachers are absent at high rates in countries such as India, Indonesia, Uganda, Ecuador, and Zambia, reducing the quality of schooling for children, especially in rural, remote, and poor areas. More broadly, poor teacher management and low levels of teacher accountability afflict many developing-country education systems. The paper presents evidence on these shortcomings, but also on the types of incentives, management, and support structures that can improve motivation and performance and reduce avoidable absenteeism. It concludes with policy options for developing countries to explore as they work to meet Education for All goals and improve quality. "--World Bank web site
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  • 89
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4851
    Parallel Title: Ianchovichina, Elena Inclusive growth analytics
    Keywords: Economic development ; Economic development ; Zambia Economic conditions 1964- ; Zambia Economic conditions 1964-
    Abstract: "This paper argues that inclusive growth analytics has a distinct character focusing on both the pace and pattern of growth. Traditionally, applied country-specific poverty and growth analyses have been done separately. This paper describes the conceptual elements for an analytical strategy aimed to integrate these two strands of analyses, and to identify and prioritize country-specific constraints to sustained and inclusive growth. The authors apply the framework to the case of Zambia. The analysis suggests that income growth in Zambia is constrained by poor access to domestic and international markets, inputs, extension services, and information. High indirect costs - mostly attributable to infrastructure service-related inputs in production including energy, transport, telecom, water, but also insurance, marketing, and professional services - undermine Zambia's competitiveness, limit job creation, and therefore serve as a major constraint to inclusive growth. Improving the quality and access to secondary and tertiary education is essential if the poor are to benefit from future growth of the non-farm economy. Weak governance and, in particular, poor government effectiveness are factors behind the market coordination failures and the identified government failures, and are as such major obstacles to inclusive growth in Zambia. "--World Bank web site
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  • 90
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4852
    Parallel Title: Toto Same, Achille Transforming natural resource wealth into sustained growth and poverty reduction
    Keywords: Natural resources Government policy ; Natural resources Government policy
    Abstract: "Oil and mineral revenues raise national savings and hence facilitate investment, capital accumulation, and sustained growth; thus, there are benefits of owning large natural resources. There can be a significant spillover effect from the oil sector to the non-oil sector particularly if governments are committed to bridge the infrastructure gap and promote the non-oil economy and foremost the non-oil tradable sector. Consequently, the capacity for coordinated policy formulation and execution is fundamental as well as sound windfall management mechanisms and institutions. This conceptual framework uses the case of Indonesia and the example of Norway to argue that the resource paradox is avoidable. Abundance should not be a curse, but rather a blessing for Sub-Saharan Africa's oil and mineral exporting countries. The country context and political economy matter a great deal but should not be the main driving forces behind windfall management, to avoid excessive rent-seeking activities, inefficiency, and wasteful spending. The EITI++ implementation can contribute to make a difference, mostly through capacity building, implementation assistance, and coordination support. "--World Bank web site
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  • 91
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4864
    Parallel Title: Lloyd, P. J How do agricultural policy restrictions to global trade and welfare differ across commodities ?
    Keywords: Agricultural subsidies ; Agriculture and state ; Agricultural subsidies ; Agriculture and state
    Abstract: "For decades the world's agricultural markets have been highly distorted by national government policies, but very differently for different commodities. Hence a weighted average across countries of nominal rates of assistance or consumer tax equivalents for a product can be misleading as an indicator of the trade or welfare effects of policies affecting that product's global market. This is especially the case when some countries tax and others subsidize its production or consumption. This article develops a new set of more-satisfactory indicators for that purpose, drawing on the recent literature on trade restrictiveness indexes. It then exploits a global agricultural distortions database recently compiled by the World Bank to generate the first set of estimates of those two indicators for each of 28 key agricultural commodities from 1960 to 2004, based on a sample of 75 countries that together account for more than three-quarters of the world's production of those agricultural commodities. These reveal the considerable extent of reforms in agricultural policies of developing as well as high-income countries over the past two decades. "--World Bank web site
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  • 92
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4867
    Parallel Title: Timilsina, Govinda R A review of regulatory instruments to control environmental externalities from the transport sector
    Keywords: Transportation Environmental aspects ; Transportation Environmental aspects
    Abstract: "This study reviews regulatory instruments designed to reduce environmental externalities from the transport sector. The study finds that the main regulatory instruments used in practice are fuel economy standards, vehicle emission standards, and fuel quality standards. Although industrialized countries have introduced all three standards with strong enforcement mechanisms, most developing countries have yet to introduce fuel economy standards. The emission standards introduced by many developing countries to control local air pollutants follow either the European Union or United States standards. Fuel quality standards, particularly for gasoline and diesel, have been introduced in many countries mandating 2 to 10 percent blending of biofuels, 10 to 50 times reduction of sulfur from 1996 levels, and banning lead contents. Although inspection and maintenance programs are in place in both industrialized and developing countries to enforce regulatory standards, these programs have faced several challenges in developing countries due to a lack of resources. The study also highlights several factors affecting the selection of regulatory instruments, such as countries' environmental priorities and institutional capacities. "--World Bank web site
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4868
    Parallel Title: Van Kooten, G. C Wind power development
    Keywords: Wind power ; Wind power
    Abstract: "This study reviews the prospects of wind power at the global level. Existing studies indicate that the earth's wind energy supply potential significantly exceeds global energy demand. Yet, only 1 percent of the global electricity demand is currently derived from wind power despite 40 percent annual growth in wind generating capacity over the past 25 years. More than 98 percent of total current wind power capacity is installed in the developed countries plus China and India. It has been estimated that wind power could supply 7 to 34 percent of global electricity needs by 2050. However, wind power faces a large number of technical, economic, financial, institutional, market, and other barriers. To overcome these barriers, many countries have employed various policy instruments, including capital subsidies, tax incentives, tradable energy certificates, feed-in tariffs, grid access guarantees and mandatory standards. Besides these policies, climate change mitigation initiatives resulting from the Kyoto Protocol (e.g., CO2-emission reduction targets in developed countries and the Clean Development Mechanism in developing countries) have played a significant role in promoting wind power. "--World Bank web site
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4871
    Parallel Title: Available in another form Wage subsidy and labor market flexibility in South Africa
    Keywords: Labor market ; Unskilled labor ; Labor market ; Unskilled labor
    Abstract: "In this paper, the authors use a highly disaggregate general equilibrium model to analyze the feasibility of a wage subsidy to unskilled workers in South Africa, isolating and estimating its potential employment effects and fiscal cost. They capture the structural characteristics of the labor market with several labor categories and substitution possibilities, linking the economy-wide results on relative prices, wages, and employment to a micro-simulation model with occupational choice probabilities in order to investigate the poverty and distributional consequences of the policy. The impact of a wage subsidy on employment, poverty, and inequality in South Africa depends greatly on the elasticities of substitution of factors of production, being very minimal if unskilled and skilled labor are complements in production. The desired results are attainable only if there is sufficient flexibility in the labor market. Although the impact in a low case scenario can be improved by supporting policies that relax the skill constraint and increase the production capacity of the economy especially towards labor-intensive sectors, the gains from a wage subsidy are still modest if the labor market remains very rigid. "--World Bank web site
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  • 95
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4873
    Parallel Title: Coolidge, Jacqueline G Small businesses in South Africa
    Keywords: Small business Taxation ; Small business Taxation
    Abstract: "The authors use firm-level survey data on 998 small and medium enterprises registered for tax in South Africa regarding tax compliance costs to investigate the use of outsourcing to complete tax compliance tasks. Overall, about 43 percent of the enterprises do all their tax compliance work in-house, 11 percent outsource all their tax compliance work, and the remaining 46 percent use a combination of both ("partial outsourcing"). The data display an inverted-U shape for outsourcing of tax compliance tasks: the smallest firms (those under R 300,000 turnover or well under US
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  • 96
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4879
    Parallel Title: Allcott, Hunt The performance of decentralized school systems
    Keywords: Schools Decentralization ; Schools Decentralization
    Abstract: "This program evaluation estimates the effects on standardized test scores of graduating from the Fe y Alegria private school system in Venezuela. The authors find an Average Treatment Effect on the order of 0.1 standard deviations (approximately 16 percent of the average score), using a control group of public school students. These effects are significantly larger for households at the bottom of the distribution, and smaller for those at the top. The authors posit that the better performance of the Fe y Alegria system stems from their labor contract flexibility and decentralized administrative structure. "--World Bank web site
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4891
    Parallel Title: Neagu, Ileana Cristina Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market
    Keywords: Foreign workers ; Skilled labor ; Foreign workers ; Skilled labor
    Abstract: "The initial occupational placements of male immigrants in the U.S. labor market vary significantly by country of origin even when education and other factors are taken into account. Does the heterogeneity persist over time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with higher initial levels. Nevertheless, the magnitude of convergence suggests full catch-up is unlikely. Country specific attributes are found to have less direct impact on the rate of assimilation than on the initial performance. "--World Bank web site
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  • 98
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4893
    Parallel Title: Dasgupta, Susmita Stockpiles of obsolete pesticides and cleanup priorities
    Keywords: Pesticides Risk mitigation ; Pesticides Risk mitigation
    Abstract: "Obsolete pesticides have accumulated in almost every developing country or economy in transition over the past several decades. Public health and environmental authorities are eager to reduce health threats by removing and decontaminating stockpile sites, but there are many sites, cleanup can be costly, and public resources are scarce. Under these conditions, it seems sensible to develop a methodology for prioritizing sites and treating them sequentially, as budgetary resources permit. This paper presents a methodology that develops cleanup priority indices for Tunisia. The approach integrates information on populations at risk, their proximity to stockpiles, and the relative toxic hazards of the stockpiles. The robustness of this approach is tested by varying model parameters widely and testing for stability in the rank-ordering of results. "--World Bank web site
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  • 99
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4911
    Parallel Title: Abe, Kazutomo Weathering the storm
    Keywords: Harbors ; Harbors
    Abstract: "The world economic crisis of 2008 presents clear challenges to prospects for economic growth in developing countries. This is particularly true for emerging economies in East Asia that have relied to a great extent over the past decade on export-led growth. What steps to facilitate trade promise a relatively strong return on investment for East Asia to help sustain trade and growth? The authors examine how port infrastructure affects trade and the role of transport costs in driving exports and imports for the region. They find that port congestion has significantly increased the transport costs to East Asia from both of the United States and Japan. The analysis suggests that cutting port congestion by 10 percent could cut transport costs in East Asia by up to 3 percent. This translates into a 0.3 to 0.5 percent across-the-board tariff cut. In addition, the estimates suggest that the trade cost reduction of investment in port infrastructure in East Asia that translates into higher consumer welfare would far outweigh the cost for physical expansion of the ports in the region. "--World Bank web site
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    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 4912
    Parallel Title: Yepes, Tito Making sense of Africa's infrastructure endowment
    Keywords: Infrastructure (Economics) ; Infrastructure (Economics)
    Abstract: "The paper's objective is to explain factors underlying Africa's weak infrastructure endowment and to identify suitable infrastructure goals for the region based on benchmarking against international peers. The authors use a dataset covering the stocks of key infrastructure-including information and communication technology (ICT), power, roads, and water-across 155 developing countries over the period 1960 to 2005. The paper also examines subregional differences within Africa. They make use of regression techniques to control for a comprehensive set of economic, demographic, geographic, and historic conditioning factors, as well as adjusting for potential endogeneities. Results show that Africa lags behind all other regions of the developing world in its infrastructure endowment, except in ICT. By far the largest gaps arise in the power sector, with generating capacity and household access to electricity at half the levels observed in South Asia. While it is often assumed that Africa's infrastructure deficit is largely a reflection of its relatively low income levels, the authors find that African countries have much more limited infrastructure than income peers in other parts of the developing world. Countries that face the most challenging environment, with low population density, weak governance, and history of conflict, have the poorest infrastructure endowments. At the outset of the data series, Africa was doing significantly better than other developing regions for road density, generation capacity, and fixed-line telephones, but Africa's relative position has deteriorated over time. The most dramatic loss of ground has come in electrical generating capacity, which has stagnated since 1980. "--World Bank web site
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