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  • 1
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Tamil (Indic people) ; Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Trawick, Margaret ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Love ; Tamilen ; Tamilen
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by Béteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Note: Caste in a Tanjore village - By E. Kathleen Gough - 1969 -- - Brahman kinship in a Tamil village - By E. Kathleen Gough - 1956 -- - Economics of development in village India - by M. R. Haswell ; foreword by Colin Clark - 1967 -- - Culture summary: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 -- , - The smile of Murugan on Tamil literature of South India - Kamil V. Zvelebil - 1973 -- - Agriculture and social structure in Tamil Nadu: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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  • 2
    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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  • 3
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Ethnology--Samoan Islands ; Samoa ; Samoan Islands ; Samoans ; Tubuai (French Polynesia) ; Girls--Samoan Islands ; Children--Samoan Islands ; Women, Samoan--Social life and customs ; Adolescence ; Samoan Islands--Social life and customs ; Western Samoa ; Ethnology--Samoa--Sala'ilua ; Sala'ilua (Samoa)--Social life and customs ; Samoans-Social conditions ; Samoans-Economic conditions ; Rural development-Samoa ; Developing countries-Economic conditions ; Samoaner ; Samoaner
    Abstract: This collection about the Samoans consists of 15 documents and a culture summary, covering a wide variety of cultural and historical information from the1830s to the 1990s. The Samoans are Polynesian people who live on a group of small islands in the Central Pacific which constitute the territories of American Samoa and (since 1962) the independent state of Western Samoa. The earliest descriptions of Samoan culture and history were compiled by the missionaries John B. Stair and George Turner, who lived in different parts of the island from 1838-1945 and 1840-1880, respectively. Five documents are ethnographic accounts and essays by Margaret Mead who, in 1925-1928, lived among Samoans villagers mostly in the Manuan group of islands in American Samoa. One document revisits some of the major arguments advanced in Mead's works, notably her portrayal of adolescent Samoan girls as sexually permissive. The remaining seven documents in the collection further enrich the historical and cultural information on Samoa with additional themes and in-depth analysis including plant resources and indigenous botanical knowledge, traditional material culture, a socio-political analysis of the modern history of American and Western Samoa, post-war reconstruction of Western Samoa, material culture and social change, structures and processes in the Western Samoan Sala'ilua village, and recent changes in the economic options of households and individuals in Vaega and Neiafu villages in Western Samoa
    Note: Samoan material culture - by Te Rangi Hiroa (P. H. Buck) - 1930 -- - Modern Samoa: its government and changing life - by Felix M. Keesing ... - 1934 -- - Ethnobotany of the Samoans - William Albert Setchell - 1924 -- - Culture summary: Samoans - Thomas Bargatzky - 2009 -- - Social organization of Manua - Margaret Mead - 1930 -- - Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation - by Margaret Mead ... foreword by Franz Boas ... - 1928 -- - Western Samoa - W. E. H. Stanner - 1953 -- - The role of the individual in Samaon culture - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Samoan children at work and play - Margaret Mead - 1928 -- - Americanization in Samoa - Margaret Mead - 1929 -- , - Samoa, a hundred years ago and long before: together with notes on the cults and customs of twenty-three other islands in the Pacific - George Turner - 1884 -- - Old Samoa: or flotsam and jetsam from the Pacific Ocean - by the Rev. John B. Stair ; with an introd. by the Bishop of Ballarat - 1897 -- - Sala'ilua: a Samoan mystery - Bradd Shore - 1982 -- - Samoan planters: tradition and economic development in Polynesia - J. Tim O'Meara - 1990 -- - Ta'u: stability and change in a Samoan village - Lowell D. Holmes - 1958 -- - The history of Samoan sexual conduct and the Mead-Freeman controversy - Paul Shankman - 1996
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  • 4
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Maori (New Zealand people) ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Economic conditions ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Kinship ; Maori (New Zealand people)--Social conditions ; Family--New Zealand ; Kinship--New Zealand ; New Zealand--Social life and customs ; Maori ; Maori
    Note: Culture summary: Maori - Christopher Latham - 2009 -- - The Maori: volume 1 - by Elsdon Best - 1924 -- - The Maori: volume 2 - by Elsdon Best ... - 1924 -- - The coming of the Maori - by Te Rangi Hiroa, Sir Peter Buck - 1952 -- - Economics of the New Zealand Maori - Raymond William Firth ; with a pref. by R. H. Tawney - 1959 -- - The Maori: a study in acculturation - H.B. Hawthorn - [1944] -- - New growth from old: the Whanau in the modern world - Joan Metge ; illustrated by Toi Te Rito Maihi - 1995 -- - Conflicts of redistribution in contemporary Maori society: leadership and the Tainui settlement - Toon van Meijl - 2003 -- - Effecting change through electoral politics: cultural identity and the Maori franchise - Ann Sullivan - 2003 -- - References - Edited by Toon van Meijl and Michael Goldsmith - 2003 -- - The making of the Maori: culture invention and its logic - Allan Hanson - 1989
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  • 5
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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  • 6
    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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  • 7
    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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  • 8
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula ; Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel ; Folklore--Arabian Peninsula ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Beduine ; Beduine
    Abstract: This collection of three documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1900s to mid-1970s. Alois Musil, a Czech historical geographer, traveled with the Rwala Bedouins between 1908 and 1915 working for the Austro-Hungarian government. His book provides first hand accounts of daily life, ethical codes, social structures and religious practices of the Rwala when they were still living in the desert as nomadic pastoralists. Carl Reinhard Raswan, a German adventurer, spent 22 years off and on among the Rwala Bedouins from 1913-1935. He presents detailed information on Rwala code of honor and ethics, drought and patterns of migration, marriage practices and duties of village Sheiks. Anthropologist William Lancaster conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among various Rwala groups in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in 1972-1975. Lancaster's work explores how Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks have changed over the past several decades in response to external forces, notably the division of their traditional homeland among four newly emerged sovereign states (namely, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) and the oil boom in the region. This work also deconstructs travelers' reports and European imaginations of the Bedouin which tend to romanticize their desert life and "exotic" lineage systems. The Rwala are nomadic pastoralists who live mainly in southeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They speak Arabic and refer to themselves as "baduw," that is, people of the "desert." All Rwala are believed to be descended from a common but unknown Arab ancestor. Their access to grazing land has been altered by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across their customary migration routes. Since 1970 the Rwala have made more money from commerce and wage labor than from pastoralism
    Note: Culture summary: Rwala Bedouin - William Young - 2009 -- - Black tents of Arabia - Carl R. Raswan - 1947 -- - The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins - by Alois Musil ... published under the patronage of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and of Charles R. Crane - 1928 -- - The Rwala Bedouin today - William Lancaster - 1981
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  • 9
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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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  • 10
    Online Resource
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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: 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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  • 11
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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    Keywords: Bedouins ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Bedouins--Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs ; Kuwait--Social life and customs ; Beduine ; Beduine
    Abstract: This collection of five documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1880s to early 2000s. Two documents date back to the first quarters of the 20th century when most of the area was ruled by European colonialists. One is a chapter from a handbook compiled by the intelligence division of the British Navy, the other is a book written by H. R. P. Dickson, a British political agent who worked in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq in 1920s-1930s. Dickson's book provides a first hand account of Bedouin culture and society including the physical environment, material culture, seasonal movements, organization of tribes and lineages, cultural norms relating to visiting and hospitality, folklore, religious beliefs and practices, warfare, and inter-community relations. The remainder of the collection consists of three articles, all by professional anthropologists. Two discuss indigenous conflict resolution practices with particular emphasis on blood feuds and cattle raiding. The remaining article explores the effects of a wide variety of external and internal factors, notably colonialism, commercialization of pastoral production, occupational change and sedentarization, on Bedouin culture and identity. The Bedouin are Arabic-speaking people who earn their living primarily from animal husbandry by natural graze and browse of sheep, goats, and camels. Traditionally, the Bedouin lived in tents, formed scattered camping units that seasonally migrated over a vast area of the Middle East and North Africa influenced by availability of pasture and water. This way of life and social organization has been significantly affected by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across customary migration routes. As a consequence, the Bedouin have begun to engage in new activities including tourism, commerce and wage labor
    Note: Culture summary: Bedouin - Dawn Chatty and William Young - 2009 -- - The Arab of the desert: a glimpse into Badawin life in Kuwait and Sau'di Arabia - by H. R. P. Dickson - 1951 -- - The Bedouin tribes: chapter 3 - Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty - 1920 -- - Where have the Bedouin gone? - Donald P. Cole - 2003 -- - Settlement of violence in Bedouin society - Sulayman N. Khalaf - 1990 -- - Camel raiding of north Arabian Bedouin: a mechanism of ecological adaptation - Louise E. Sweet - 1965
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  • 12
    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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  • 13
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: eHRAF World Cultures
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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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    Language: English
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Note: Culture summary: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 -- , - The sociological role of the Yoruba cult-group - William R. Bascom - 1944 -- - Native administration in Nigeria - Margery Perham - 1937 -- - The traditional political system of the Yoruba - Peter C. Lloyd - 1954 -- - Social status, wealth and individual differences among the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Teh Esusu: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- , - Theistic beliefs of the Yoruba and Ewe peoples of West Africa - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1950 -- - Some modern changes in the government of Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - The Yoruba of Nigeria - Peter C. Lloyd - 1965 -- - Indigenous Yoruba psychiatry - Raymond Prince - 1964 -- - Manners and customs - Samuel Johnson - 1921 -- - The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria - by William Bascom - [1969] -- - Sex and the empire that is no more: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: 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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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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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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  • 17
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
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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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    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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  • 19
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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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  • 20
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    Keywords: Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Love ; Tamil (Indic people) ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Trawick, Margaret
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by B́eteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Description / Table of Contents: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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    Keywords: Agriculture and state-India-Chingleput (District) ; Agriculture and state-India-Tamil Nadu ; Chingleput, India (District)-Rural conditions ; Land tenure-India-Chingleput (District) ; Love ; Tamil (Indic people) ; Tamil (Indic people)-Social life and customs ; Trawick, Margaret
    Abstract: This collection of 23 documents about Indian Tamils, all in English, deal primarily with specific village surveys or regional studies in Tamil Nadu. No single document in the collection gives a general overview of all aspects of Tamil ethnography. Information regarding the caste and class organization of the Tamil is provided by B́eteille, Sivetsen, Gough, Beck, and Mencher. Tamil economics is covered by Haswell and in the six south Indian village economic studies presented in Thomas, Ramakrishnan, Thirumalai, Natarajan, and Veeraraghaven. Also discussed are the status and powers of women in Tamil society, health and health policies in the village of Thaiyur, and social change in the village of Pulicat. The Tamil homeland is in southwestern India and is roughly equivalent to the modern state of Tamil Nadu. The Tamil comprise the vast majority of the population of Tamil Nadu and a good number of Indian Tamil also live in the small territory of Pondicherry, around the city of Bangalore, and elsewhere in India. The Tamil speak Tamil, a Dravidian language. Within villages, society is ordered by a hierarchy of castes
    Description / Table of Contents: Tamil - Clarence Maloney - 2009 -- - Caste, class, and power: changing patterns of stratification in a Tanjore village - By By André Béteille - 1971 -- - When caste barriers fall: a study of social and economic change in a south indian village - Dagfinn Sivertsen - 1963 -- - Pills against poverty: a study of the introduction of western medicine in a Tamil village - By Goran Djurfeldt and Staffan Lindberg - 1975 -- - Peasant society in Konku: a study of right and left subcastes in south India - Brenda E. F. Beck - 1972 -- - Dravidianization: a Tamil revitalization movement - Ebenezer Titus Jacob-Pandian - 1972 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: past origins, present transformations and future prospects - by Joan P. Mencher - 1978 -- - The tribulations of fieldwork - By André Béteille - 1975 -- - Viewing hierarchy from the bottom up - Joan P. Mencher - 1975 -- - Some south Indian villages: a resurvey with analysis and observations - Edited by P. J. Thomas and K. C. Ramakrishnan - 1940 -- - Vadamalaipuram: (Ramnad District) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Gangaikondan: (Tinnevelly District.) - By B. Natarajan - 1940 -- - Palakkurichi: (Tanjore Dt.) - By S. Thirumalai - 1940 -- - Eruvellipet: (South Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Dusi: (North Arcot Dt.) - By A. K. Veeraraghavan - 1940 -- - Notes on love in a Tamil family - Margaret Trawick - 1990 -- - On the meaning of sakti to women in Tamil Nadu - Margaret Egnor - 1991 -- - The auspicious married woman - Holly Baker Reynolds - 1991 -- - Marriage in Tamil culture: the problem of conflicting 'models' - Sheryl B. Daniel - 1991 -- - The paradoxical powers of Tamil women - Susan S. Wadley - 1991
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    Keywords: Child development-Liberia-Gbarngasuakwelle ; Child psychology-Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle ; Children, Kpelle ; Children, Kpelle-Cultural assimilation ; Children, Kpelle-Education ; Children, Kpelle-Games ; Education--Liberia ; Folk classification--Liberia ; Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)-Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people) ; Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Education ; Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites ; Kpelle (African people)--Religion ; Kpelle (African people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs ; Learning, Psychology of ; Liberia--Social life and customs ; Poro (Society) ; Secrecy ; Socialization--Case studies
    Abstract: This collection about the Kpelle consists of 10 documents, covering a variety of cultural information, from the 1910s to the 1980s. German ethnologist Diedrich H. Westermann describes Kpelle environment, economy, language, family, social organization, religion and arts as observed in 1914-1915. His work is the oldest and by far the largest in the collection, though Gibbs provides a more general social and cultural summary of Kpelle based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1957-1958. The remaining 8 documents are results of research concerned with specific issues and the focus of most of these studies was on rural Kpelle communities in Liberia. Kpelle communities found in cities (e.g., Monorovia) and outside Liberia (e.g., Kpelle of Guinea or Guerźe) are not covered. The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group in the West African nation of Liberia and a significant group in neighboring Guinea
    Description / Table of Contents: Kpelle - Gerald M. Erchak - 2009 -- - The Kpelle of Liberia - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1965 -- - Women and marriage in Kpelle society - Caroline H. Bledsoe - 1980 -- - The language of secrecy: symbols & metaphors in Poro ritual - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1984 -- - Village of curers and assassins: on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmolotical categories - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1975 -- - The Kpelle: a negro tribe in Liberia - Diedrich H. Westerman - 1921 -- - Full respect: Kpelle children in adaptation - Gerald Michael Erchak - 1977 -- - Marital instability among the Kpelle: towards a theory of epainogamy - James L. Gibbs - 1963 -- - Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1962 -- - The Kpelle moot: a therapeutic model for the informal settlement of disputes - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1963 -- - Playing on the mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development - David F. Lancy - 1996
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: 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: 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: 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: Captain Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926-1927 ; Ethnology--Madagascar ; Tanala (Malagasy people) ; Tanala
    Abstract: This collection consists of a culture summary and one book. The book, authored by Ralph Linton, is based on his field work conducted in 1926-1927 and sponsored by the Field Museum. Although Linton was only among the Tanala for two months, he spent about one year and a half traveling throughout Madagascar, and as a result presents data on various other tribes of the island in comparison with that on the Tanala. The work is presented as a standard ethnography, with sections on tribal identification, economy, social organization, government, religion, warfare, amusement, art, life cycle, folklore, and a brief history of tribal wars. The Tanala, also called Antanala, are a Malagasy speaking people living in southeastern Madagascar, an island nation located off the eastern coast of southern Africa
    Note: Culture summary: Tanala - Teferi Abate Adem - 2009 -- - The Tanala: a hill tribe of Madagascar - by Ralph Linton ... Marshall Field expedition to Madagascar, 1926 - 1933
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    Keywords: Child development-Liberia-Gbarngasuakwelle ; Child psychology-Liberia--Gbarngasuakwelle ; Children, Kpelle ; Children, Kpelle-Cultural assimilation ; Children, Kpelle-Education ; Children, Kpelle-Games ; Education--Liberia ; Folk classification--Liberia ; Gbarngasuakwelle (Liberia)-Social life and customs ; Kpelle (African people) ; Kpelle (African people)--Economic conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Education ; Kpelle (African people)--Marriage customs and rites ; Kpelle (African people)--Religion ; Kpelle (African people)--Rites and ceremonies ; Kpelle (African people)--Social conditions ; Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs ; Learning, Psychology of ; Liberia--Social life and customs ; Poro (Society) ; Secrecy ; Socialization--Case studies
    Abstract: This collection about the Kpelle consists of 10 documents, covering a variety of cultural information, from the 1910s to the 1980s. German ethnologist Diedrich H. Westermann describes Kpelle environment, economy, language, family, social organization, religion and arts as observed in 1914-1915. His work is the oldest and by far the largest in the collection, though Gibbs provides a more general social and cultural summary of Kpelle based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in 1957-1958. The remaining 8 documents are results of research concerned with specific issues and the focus of most of these studies was on rural Kpelle communities in Liberia. Kpelle communities found in cities (e.g., Monorovia) and outside Liberia (e.g., Kpelle of Guinea or Guerźe) are not covered. The Kpelle are the largest ethnic group in the West African nation of Liberia and a significant group in neighboring Guinea
    Description / Table of Contents: Kpelle - Gerald M. Erchak - 2009 -- - The Kpelle of Liberia - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1965 -- - Women and marriage in Kpelle society - Caroline H. Bledsoe - 1980 -- - The language of secrecy: symbols & metaphors in Poro ritual - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1984 -- - Village of curers and assassins: on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmolotical categories - By Beryl Larry Bellman - 1975 -- - The Kpelle: a negro tribe in Liberia - Diedrich H. Westerman - 1921 -- - Full respect: Kpelle children in adaptation - Gerald Michael Erchak - 1977 -- - Marital instability among the Kpelle: towards a theory of epainogamy - James L. Gibbs - 1963 -- - Poro values and courtroom procedures in a Kpelle chiefdom - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1962 -- - The Kpelle moot: a therapeutic model for the informal settlement of disputes - James L. Gibbs, Jr. - 1963 -- - Playing on the mother-ground: cultural routines for children's development - David F. Lancy - 1996
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    Keywords: Yoruba (African people) ; Yoruba
    Abstract: This collection of 31 documents about the Yoruba covers the time period from 1880 to the 1960s. The book by anthropologist William R. Bascom (1969) provides comprehensive first-hand ethnographic accounts of Yoruba culture as observed in 1937-1938, 1950-1951 and 1965. Articles by Bascom discuss aspects of Yoruba culture and society including social structure, cult groups and divination, functions of local credit institutions, and food and cooking. Other anthropological studies include both broad ethnographic surveys, and relatively short manuscripts examining specific themes including political structure, lineage groups, kinship and marriage, class and economic differentiation, craft organization, land tenure and tenancy, urbanization and change, and divination, cult groups, witchcraft and dynamics of gender and religion. Also included in the collection are reports by a senior colonial government official and two missionaries. The collection focuses largely on Yoruba communities in Nigeria, except Parrinder (1947) who provides a brief ethnographic survey of the Yoruba in Benin (formerly Dahomey). Readers will also find useful information in Matory and Bascom (1969) relating to the influences of Yoruba religion and art forms on the cultures of peoples of African origin in the Caribbean, Cuba, Brazil, and the United States
    Description / Table of Contents: Yoruba - Sandra T. Barnes - 2009 -- - The Yoruba-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria - Daryll Forde - 1951 -- - The sanctions of Ifa divination - William R. Bascom - 1941 -- - The laws and customs of the Yoruba people - by A. K. Ajisafe ; with a portrait of the author - 1924 -- - The principle of seniority in the social structure of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1942 -- - Yoruba food - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - Yoruba cooking - William R. Bascom - 1951 -- - The Yoruba lineage - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Kinship and lineage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1955 -- - Craft organization on Yoruba towns - Peter C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Some problems of tenancy in Yoruba land tenure - Peter C. Lloyd - 1955 -- - Land tenure in the Yoruba provinces - H. L. Ward Price - 1939 -- - The terminology of kinship and marriage among the Yoruba - William B. Schwab - 1958 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: a credit institution of the Yoruba - William R. Bascom - 1952 -- - Ifa divination - J. D. Clarke - 1939 -- - The integration of the new economic classes into local government in western Nigeria - P. C. Lloyd - 1953 -- - Yoruba-speaking peoples in Dahomey - Geoffrey Parrinder - 1947 -- - The Atinga cult among the south-western Yoruba: a sociological analysis of a witch-finding movement - P. Morton-Williams - 1956 -- - Native administration in the British African territories: part III, West Africa: Nigeria, Gold Coast, Sierra Leone, Gambia - Lord Hailey - 1951 -- - Three Yoruba fertility ceremonies - J. D. Clarke - 1944 -- - Ifa Divination: comments on the paper by J. D. Clarke - William R. Bascom - 1942 --^
    Description / Table of Contents: gender and the politics of metaphor in Oyo Yoruba religion - J. Lorand Matory - 1994
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    Keywords: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Arabian Peninsula--Description and travel ; Bedouins--Arabian Peninsula ; Bedouins--Saudi Arabia ; Folklore--Arabian Peninsula ; Saudi Arabia--Social life and customs
    Abstract: This collection of three documents and a culture summary, all in English, cover historical and cultural information from about late-1900s to mid-1970s. Alois Musil, a Czech historical geographer, traveled with the Rwala Bedouins between 1908 and 1915 working for the Austro-Hungarian government. His book provides first hand accounts of daily life, ethical codes, social structures and religious practices of the Rwala when they were still living in the desert as nomadic pastoralists. Carl Reinhard Raswan, a German adventurer, spent 22 years off and on among the Rwala Bedouins from 1913-1935. He presents detailed information on Rwala code of honor and ethics, drought and patterns of migration, marriage practices and duties of village Sheiks. Anthropologist William Lancaster conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork among various Rwala groups in Syria, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia in 1972-1975. Lancaster's work explores how Rwala families, lineages and Sheiks have changed over the past several decades in response to external forces, notably the division of their traditional homeland among four newly emerged sovereign states (namely, Syria, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq) and the oil boom in the region. This work also deconstructs travelers' reports and European imaginations of the Bedouin which tend to romanticize their desert life and "exotic" lineage systems. The Rwala are nomadic pastoralists who live mainly in southeastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. They speak Arabic and refer to themselves as "baduw," that is, people of the "desert." All Rwala are believed to be descended from a common but unknown Arab ancestor. Their access to grazing land has been altered by the creation of nation-states in the 20th century and the establishment national boundaries across their customary migration routes. Since 1970 the Rwala have made more money from commerce and wage labor than from pastoralism
    Description / Table of Contents: Rwala Bedouin - William Young - 2009 -- - Black tents of Arabia - Carl R. Raswan - 1947 -- - The manners and customs of the Rwala Bedouins - by Alois Musil ... published under the patronage of the Czech Academy of Sciences and Arts and of Charles R. Crane - 1928 -- - The Rwala Bedouin today - William Lancaster - 1981
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    Keywords: Amish
    Description / Table of Contents: Amish - John A. Hostetler - 2009 -- - Amish society - John A. Hostetler - 1980 -- - A peculiar people: Iowa's Old Order Amish - By Elmer Schwieder and Dorothy Schwieder - 1975
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    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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    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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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : TSO | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780113310609
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (166 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: This publication has been designed to be a role specific handbook for senior managers and project board members, which describes how to oversee projects, The guide sets PRINCE2 in the wider context of project management (but still non-specific for industry sector) and describes or cross-references techniques which support the PRINCE2 method. being managed using PRINCE2.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Tantor Media, Inc. | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781400190638
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (24533 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: What does it take to turn ideas into action? What are the elements of a perfect pitch? How do you win the war for talent? How do you establish a brand without bucks? These are some of the issues everyone faces when starting or revitalizing any undertaking, and Guy Kawasaki, former marketing maven of Apple Computer, provides the answers. The Art of the Start will give you the essential steps to launch great products, services, and companies-whether you are dreaming of starting the next Microsoft or a not-for-profit that's going to change the world. It also shows managers how to unleash entrepreneurial thinking at established companies, helping them foster the pluck and creativity that their businesses need to stay ahead of the pack. Kawasaki provides readers with GIST-Great Ideas for Starting Things-including his field-tested insider's techniques for bootstrapping, branding, networking, recruiting, pitching, rainmaking, and, most important in this fickle consumer climate, building buzz. At Apple, Kawasaki helped turn ordinary customers into fanatics. As founder and CEO of Garage Technology Ventures, he has tested his iconoclastic ideas on real-world start-ups. And as an irrepressible columnist for Forbes, he has honed his best thinking about The Art of the Start.
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    ISBN: 9781400192472
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (45949 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: Based on an extraordinary collaboration between Steve Forbes, chairman, CEO, and editor in chief of Forbes Media, and classics professor John Prevas, Power Ambition Glory provides intriguing comparisons between six great leaders of the ancient world and contemporary business leaders. -Great leaders not only have vision but know how to build structures to effect it. Cyrus the Great did so in creating an empire based on tolerance and inclusion, an approach highly unusual for his or any age. Jack Welch and John Chambers built their business empires using a similar approach, and like Cyrus, they remain the exceptions rather than the rule. -Great leaders know how to build consensus and motivate by doing what is right rather than what is in their self-interest. Xenophon put personal gain aside to lead his fellow Greeks out of a perilous situation in Persia-something very similar to what Lou Gerstner and Anne Mulcahy did in rescuing IBM and Xerox. -Character matters in leadership. Alexander the Great had exceptional leadership skills that enabled him to conquer the eastern half of the ancient world, but he was ultimately destroyed by his inability to manage his phenomenal success. The corporate world is full of similar examples, such as the now incarcerated Dennis Kozlowski, who, flush with success at the head of his empire, was driven down the highway of self-destruction by an out-of-control ego. -A great leader is one who challenges the conventional wisdom of the day and is able to think outside the box to pull off amazing feats. Hannibal did something no one in the ancient world thought possible: he crossed the Alps in winter to challenge Rome for control of the ancient world. That same innovative way of thinking enabled Serge Brin and Larry Page of Google to challenge and best two formidable competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo! -A leader must have ambition to succeed, and Julius Caesar had plenty of it. He set Rome on the path to empire, but his success made him believe he was a living god and blinded him to the dangers that eventually did him in. The parallels with corporate leaders and Wall Street master-of-the-universe types are numerous, but none more salient than Hank Greenberg, who built the AIG insurance empire only to be struck down at the height of his success by the corporate daggers of his directors. -And finally, leadership is about keeping a sane and modest perspective in the face of success and remaining focused on the fundamentals-the...
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    ISBN: 9781400194056
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (33459 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: The times are changing at an ever-increasing velocity. Old systems, organizations, and ways of operating no longer work in our dynamic, complex and increasingly unstable new environment. Out of this chaos and confusion, a new and different leader must emerge. Old systems and methods will no longer work. Leading the Charge is a visionary leadership book that examines the trends that have reshaped our world and the ways in which leaders and organizations can effectively respond. Tomorrow's successful leaders-in all fields, including the military, academia, politics, and business-must know how to create, operate, and thrive in very fluid, flattened, and integrated structures that are remarkably different from the traditional organizations we are used to seeing. They will have to manage rapidly changing technology and flows of information, as well as create faster and more far-reaching spans of control. Leading the Charge shows the way. It is an incisive and compelling guide to the new world of leadership, one that will prove indispensable for years to come. Organized around "Leading a New World," a revolutionary leadership course developed and taught by General Zinni at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke University, Leading the Charge makes a convincing case that leaders must: -change with the times to be relevant -be ready for crisis mode at any given time -have a moral compass and the ability to steer the company in the right direction -be forward thinking, not reactive, to provide innovation and creativity -develop other great leaders.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : IT Governance Publishing | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781849281362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (64 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Is your vital business information vulnerable to an attack from within? Growing dependence on IT may mean your business is becoming increasingly vulnerable to a sinister and unpleasant threat: the threat from within. How exposed is your company to the risk of a malicious attack by a discontented or psychologically unbalanced employee? What precautions have you taken to ensure that your IT systems cannot be manipulated for purposes of insider fraud? What steps do you need to take to prevent your IT systems from falling prey to organized crime through someone who has been planted within your firm or someone who is being threatened or bribed? Product designs and customer lists are not only useful information to you. They are also valuable information for your competitors. Employees who move to another company, or decide to set up in business on their own, may attempt to take some of this information with them. How will you stop this from happening? In this book, Clive Blackwell gets you up to speed on the key security problems that businesses are now facing as a result of the insider threat. Benefits to business include: Protect your company from sabotage. With the right strategy in place, you can restrict the opportunities open to disgruntled employees to disrupt your business operations through your IT system. Prevent major fraud. By employing dual control mechanisms for authorising large transactions, and by investigating accounting anomalies, you can protect your business from insider fraud. Prevent information theft. Use least privilege rules to limit data access, and set up a proper system of data management. You need to ensure that your employees cannot sell or exploit your proprietary information for their own purposes if you want to protect your competitiveness. As Dr Blackwell comments, "Systematic defence is required, as no single method can protect against employees with legitimate access to organizational resources."
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : O'Reilly Media | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781449365714
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (15 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Ever since we first introduced the term Web 2.0, people have been asking, What ™s next? Assuming that Web 2.0 was meant to be a kind of software version number (rather than a statement about the second coming of the Web after the dotcom bust), we ™re constantly asked about Web 3.0. Is it the semantic web? The sentient web? Is it the social web? The mobile web? Is it some form of virtual reality? It is all of those, and more. The Web is no longer a collection of static pages of HTML that describe something in the world. Increasingly, the Web is the world "everything and everyone in the world casts an information shadow,an aura of data which, when captured and processed intelligently, offers extraordinary opportunity and mindbending implications. Web Squared is our way of exploring this phenomenon and giving it a name.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Recorded Books | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781440744518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (14086 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: A private consultant who specializes in knowledge management and organizational storytelling, Stephen Denning has a list of clients that includes GE, IBM, Shell, McDonald's and the U.S. Army. In this witty book, he explains that storytelling can be the key to overcoming obstacles and generating enthusiasm in the workplace. With Denning's guidance, leaders can steer their companies toward new levels of success.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Ascent Audio | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781469089393
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (41216 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: Every day, we make decisions on topics ranging from personal investments to schools for our children to the meals we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, we often choose poorly. The reason, the authors explain, is that, being human, we are all susceptible to various biases that can lead us to blunder. Our mistakes make us poorer and less healthy; we often make bad decisions involving education, personal finance, health care, mortgages and credit cards, the family, and even the planet itself. Thaler and Sunstein invite us to enter an alternative world, one that takes our humanness as a given. They show that by knowing how people think, we can design choice environments that make it easier for people to choose what is best for themselves, their families, and their society. Using colorful examples from the most important aspects of life, Thaler and Sunstein demonstrate how thoughtful “choice architecture” can be established to nudge us in beneficial directions without restricting freedom of choice. Nudge offers a unique new take-from neither the left nor the right-on many hot-button issues, for individuals and governments alike. This is one of the most engaging and provocative audio books to come along in many years. Included in this recording are a Bonus Chapter and a Postscript added in the Paperback Edition.
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    ISBN: 9781400192083
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (24683 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: In Think Smart, the renowned neuropsychiatrist and bestselling author Richard Restak details how each of us can improve and tone our body's most powerful organ: the brain. As an expert on the brain, Restak knows that in the last five years there have been exciting new scientific discoveries about the brain and its performance. So he has asked his colleagues-among them the world's leading brain scientists and researchers-one important question: What can I do to help my brain work more efficiently? Their surprising and remarkably feasible answers are at the heart of Think Smart. Dr. Restak combines advice culled from cutting-edge research with brain-tuning exercises to show how individuals of any age can make their brains work more effectively. In the same accessible prose that made Mozart's Brain and the Fighter Pilot a New York Times bestseller, Restak presents a wide array of practical recommendations about a variety of topics, including the crucial role sleep plays in boosting creativity, the importance of honing sensory memory, and the neuron-firing benefits of certain foods. In Think Smart, the man the Smithsonian Institution has called "wise, witty, and ethical" offers audiences helpful suggestions for fighting neurological decline that will put every listener on the path to building a healthier, more limber brain.
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    ISBN: 9781400190768
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (34647 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: "Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing." -Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia With more than 2,000,000 individual articles on everything from Aa! (a Japanese pop group) to Zzyzx, California, written by an army of volunteer contributors, Wikipedia is the number-eight site on the World Wide Web. Created (and corrected) by anyone with access to a computer, this impressive assemblage of knowledge is growing at an astonishing rate of more than 30,000,000 words a month. Now, for the first time, a Wikipedia insider tells the story of how it all happened-from the first glimmer of an idea to the global phenomenon it's become. Andrew Lih has been an administrator (a trusted user who is granted access to technical features) at Wikipedia for more than four years, as well as a regular host of the weekly Wikipedia podcast. In The Wikipedia Revolution, he details the site's inception in 2001, its evolution, and its remarkable growth, while also explaining its larger cultural repercussions. Wikipedia is not just a Web site; it's a global community of contributors who have banded together out of a shared passion for making knowledge free. The Wikipedia Revolution features a foreword by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and an afterword that is itself a Wikipedia creation.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Tantor Media, Inc. | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781400193783
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (37353 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay, and rising stars like Twitter and Flickr, are prime examples of what journalist Adam L. Penenberg calls a "viral loop"-to use the product means having to share it with others. After all, what's the sense of being on Facebook if none of your friends are? The end result is a business that spreads rapidly, scales quickly, and has the promise to create staggering wealth. In this game-changing, essential book, Penenberg-who identified the phenomenon in a ground-breaking cover story for Fast Company-tells the fascinating, vivid story of the entrepreneurs who first harnessed the unprecedented potential of viral loops to create the successful online businesses (some with billion-dollar valuations) that we have all grown to rely on. While Viral Loop is fascinating for Penenberg's savvy, incisive explanation of the concept, it's even more valuable for its prescriptive nature. Throughout the book, Penenberg illustrates how any kind of business can uncork viral loops to benefit its own bottom line, even retrofitting the concept for the offline world. Penenberg explores viral loops and their impact on contemporary American business, while illustrating how all kinds of businesses-from the smallest start-ups to nonprofit organizations to the biggest multinational corporations-can use the paradigm-busting power of viral loops to enable their business through technology.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Tantor Media, Inc. | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781400193318
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (38919 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Bill Walsh was perhaps the most influential and successful coach in NFL history, transforming the San Francisco 49ers from the worst franchise in sports to a dynasty that won five Super Bowls. He is acclaimed not only for his strategic brilliance but also for his advanced approach to leadership. His teams sustained a consistency of excellence rarely seen in sports or anywhere else. Drawn from a series of deeply revealing conversations with coauthor Steve Jamison, The Score Takes Care of Itself offers Walsh's best leadership principles illustrated by anecdotes from his entire career. Additional insights and perspective are provided by his son Craig Walsh. A sample of Bill's wisdom: -Believe in people: No one will ever come back later and thank you for expecting too little of them. -Professionalism matters: There was no showboating allowed after touchdowns, no taunting of opponents, and no demonstrations to attract attention to oneself. -Keep a short enemies list: One enemy can do more damage than the good done by a hundred friends. -Leaders can't escape criticism: Ignore the undeserved. Learn from the deserved. Lick your wounds. Move on. It may hurt, but sometimes you can't have the last word. The book will delight football fans and guide the vast business audience eager to learn how Bill Walsh motivated individuals and crafted winning teams.
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    ISBN: 9781400193394
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (7224 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: When Hugh MacLeod was a struggling young copywriter living in a YMCA, he started to doodle on the backs of business cards while sitting at a bar. Those cartoons eventually led to a popular blog-gapingvoid.com-and a reputation for pithy insight and humor, in both words and pictures. MacLeod has opinions on everything from marketing to the meaning of life, but one of his main subjects is creativity. How do new ideas emerge in a cynical, risk-averse world? Where does inspiration come from? What does it take to make a living as a creative person? Ignore Everybody expands on MacLeod's sharpest insights, wittiest cartoons, and most useful advice. For example: -Selling out is harder than it looks. Diluting your product to make it more commercial will just make people like it less. -If your plan depends on you suddenly being "discovered" by some big shot, your plan will probably fail. Nobody suddenly discovers anything. Things are made slowly and in pain. -Don't try to stand out from the crowd; avoid crowds altogether. There's no point trying to do the same thing as 250,000 other young hopefuls, waiting for a miracle. All existing business models are wrong. Find a new one. -The idea doesn't have to be big. It just has to be yours. The sovereignty you have over your work will inspire far more people than the actual content ever will. After learning MacLeod's forty keys to creativity, you will be ready to unlock your own brilliance and unleash it on the world.
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    ISBN: 9781400192656
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (35625 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Roger Connors and Tom Smith literally wrote the book on accountability. Their bestseller The Oz Principle has sold more than 500,000 copies in several editions since 1994. As they've worked with thousands of clients over two decades through their firm, Partners in Leadership, the authors have developed new strategies for holding people accountable while building morale. They offer powerful steps to establish a positive "Accountability Connection," rather than waiting to place blame after problems arise and people fail to deliver. Drawing on case studies, many from client companies, the authors show how to establish clear expectations and manage the unmet expectations that inevitably occur. And they offer a positive, principled way that engages hearts and minds. This book can help people at every level-from senior executives to front-line workers-enjoy greater productivity, profitability, and job satisfaction.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : HighBridge | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781598879049
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (25150 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Audiobooks
    Abstract: Do you want to be perfect? Or do you want to be happy? We're all laboring under our own and society's expectations to be perfect in every way-to look younger, to make more money, to be happy all the time. But according to Tal Ben-Shahar, the New York Times bestselling author of Happier, the pursuit of perfect may actually be the number-one internal obstacle to finding happiness. Applying cutting-edge research in the field of positive psychology-the scientific principles taught in his wildly popular course at Harvard University-Ben-Shahar takes us off the impossible pursuit of perfection and directs us to the way to happiness, richness, and true fulfillment. He shows us the freedom derived from not trying to do it all right all the time and the real lessons that failure and painful emotions can teach us. He provides exercises for self reflection, meditations, and “Time-Ins” to help you rediscover what you really want out of life.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Elsevier Science | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780123745224
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (352 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Many high net worth individuals are interested in diversifying their portfolios and investing in collectibles. A collectible is any physical asset that appreciates in value over time because it is rare or desired by many. Stamps, coins, fine art, antiques, books, and wine are examples of collectibles. Where does the financial advisor or investment manager for these high net worth individuals go to learn about these investments? There is no comprehensive resource from the financial standpoint--until now. Dr Stephen Satchell of Trinity College, Cambridge, has developed a book in which experts in various types of collectibles analyze the financial aspects of investing in these collectibles. Chapters address issues such as: liquidity challenges, tax ramifications, appreciation timelines, the challenge of forecasting and measuring appreciation, and the psychological component of collecting and the role of emotion in collectible investing. Key Features Feature: Contributors are experts in collectible investing from around the world Benefit: Gives financial advisors and wealth managers handy access to expert opinions to better advise clients interested in collectible investments Feature: Experts discuss the pros and cons of collectibles from an investment perspective in their area of expertise Benefit: One stop shopping, all expertise brought together in one volume, creating a handy reference guide Feature: Experts discuss art, stamps, coins, antiques, wine, from around the world in one global perspective Benefit: Wealth managers can gain information about a wide range of collectibles and learn about investing in these types with a global perspective
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Recorded Books | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781440744907
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (8013 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Based on the success story of a small Seattle coffee shop, this little book is a tasty brew of sound principles and instructive anecdotes. As the coffee shop owner looks for ways to retain his customer base, a consultant helps him focus on what really matters. Authors Yerkes and Decker, renowned for their consulting and business savvy, have done their homework and turned Beans into "a business fable taken from real life."
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Helion | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781457176425
    Language: English , Polish
    Pages: 1 online resource (328 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Czy wiesz, jaki serwer HTTP jest najpopularniejszy w sieci? W?a?nie tak, jest to Apache! W lipcu 2008 roku jego udzia? w rynku wynosi? blisko 50% (wed?ug Netcraft). Historia tego serwera si?ga roku 1995, kiedy ukaza?a si? jego pierwsza oficjalna wersja, oznaczona numerem 0.6.2. Cechy, które zadecydowa?y o sukcesie tego rozwi?zania, to bezpiecze?stwo, skalowalno??, wielow?tkowo?? i obs?uga ró?norodnych j?zyków skryptowych. Dzi?ki ksi??ce "Apache. Receptury" zapoznasz si? z gotowymi przepisami na rozwi?zanie ciekawych, specyficznych oraz intryguj?cych problemów. Nauczysz si? instalowa? serwer z ró?nych ?róde? oraz na ró?nych platformach. Dowiesz si?, w jaki sposób zwi?kszy? jego bezpiecze?stwo, jak uruchomi? serwery wirtualne oraz poprawi? wydajno?? Apache. Autorzy ksi??ki poka?? Ci, jak uruchomi? obs?ug? j?zyków skryptowych, tak aby serwowane strony sta?y si? dynamiczne. Ca?a wiedza zostanie przedstawiona w sprawdzony w tej serii sposób: problem - rozwi?zanie - analiza. Sposoby instalacji serwera Apache Dodawanie funkcjonalno?ci dzi?ki modu?om Mo?liwo?ci rejestracji zdarze? Konfiguracja serwerów wirtualnych Wykorzystanie aliasów, przekierowa? oraz przepisa? (mod_rewrite) Zarz?dzanie dost?pem do serwowanych zasobów Bezpiecze?stwo serwera Apache Wykorzystanie szyfrowanej transmisji - protokó? SSL Zapewnienie wydajno?ci Wykorzystanie j?zyków skryptowych Oto ksi??ka z najlepszymi przepisami na Apache!
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Ascent Audio | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781469002231
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (2334 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Now more than ever, fear and uncertainty are becoming staples of daily life. During changing times, it's easy to worry, give up, and let fear paralyze you. However, you have more control than you think you do, and how you handle adversity is your choice-the only choice that matters. Many successful people and businesses have grown to prominence during even the worst recessions and downturns. These successful people and organizations all shared similar characteristics and took similar actions to thrive while others merely tried to survive. You can do the same. In The Shark and the Goldfish, bestselling author Jon Gordon shares an inspiring fable about a goldfish who has always been fed, a nice shark who teaches him to find food, and a wave of change that brings them together. In the process of finding food the shark teaches the goldfish the ultimate lesson-that the difference between a full belly and an empty stomach depends solely on your faith, beliefs, and actions. In the face of adversity, this is a simple fable that reinforces a proven truth-you can't control the events in your life. But you can control how you respond to them. You can allow the waves of change to crush you, or you can learn to ride them to a successful future. Packed with tips and strategies for thriving during tough times, The Shark and the Goldfish will have a lifelong impact.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Tantor Media, Inc. | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781400192212
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (31766 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grassroots, and interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do you do it? While The Whuffie Factor traverses the landscape of Web 2.0 and shows how to become a player, it is not just another book about online marketing. People see the huge business potential of the online world and the first impulse is: let's throw a bunch of money at it. To which Tara Hunt says: "Stop! Money isn't the capital of choice in online communities; it is whuffie-social capital-and how to raise it is the heart of this book." In the Web 2.0 world, market capital flows from having high social capital. Without whuffie you lose your connections, and any recommendation you make will be seen as spam-met with negative reactions and a loss of social capital. The Whuffie Factor provides businesspeople with a strategic map and specific tactics for the constantly evolving, elusive, and strange world of online communities. Tara Hunt reveals how social networking has more influence over buying decisions than any other marketing tool and how businesses can tap into the vast world of Web 2.0 to build an unshakable foundation for twenty-first-century-style online success.
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    ISBN: 9781400190607
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (28961 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When people arrive at the Element, they feel most themselves, most inspired, and achieve at their highest levels. The Element draws on the stories of a wide range of people: Paul McCartney, The Simpsons creator Matt Groening, Meg Ryan, Gillian Lynne, who choreographed the Broadway productions of Cats and The Phantom of the Opera, journalist Arianna Huffington, renowned physicist Richard Feynman, and many others, including business leaders and athletes. It explores the components of this new paradigm: the diversity of intelligence, the power of imagination and creativity, and the importance of commitment to our own capabilities. With a wry sense of humor, Ken Robinson looks at the conditions that enable us to find ourselves in the Element and those that stifle that possibility. He shows that age and occupation are no barrier and that once we have found our path, we can help others do so as well. The Element shows the vital need to enhance creativity and innovation by thinking differently about human resources and imagination. It is an essential strategy for transforming education, business, and communities to meet the challenges of living and succeeding in the twenty-first century.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : SitePoint | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: Forms' - is there any other word that strikes as much fear into the hearts of web designers? Not any more ... Fancy Form Design is a practical hands-on, full color book that follows the process of creating visually stunning yet usable web forms, from start to end. The book covers all design elements from planning the form's purpose and interface through to mastering markup, applying style with CSS, and adding interactivity and visual effects with JavaScript. By the end of the you'll will have the code, and wisdom, they need to build fancy forms of their own.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Chapman and Hall/CRC | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (256 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books ; local
    Abstract: Expounding on the results of the author's work with the US Army Research Office, DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, and various defense industry contractors, Governing Lethal Behavior in Autonomous Robots explores how to produce an "artificial conscience" in a new class of robots, humane-oids, which are robots that can potentially perform more et
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Apress | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (250 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Written by Linux expert author Sander van Vugt, Ubuntu Netbooks: The Path to Low-Cost Computing shows you everything you need to make the best of your netbook with Ubuntu. You'll speed up your netbook, connect to the Internet using 3G, make calls using Skype, use multimedia and cloud applications, and much more.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Auerbach Publications | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781420070910
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (411 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Rapid deployment and acceptance of broadband networks, including the 802.11 a/b/g, 3G cellular networks, WiMAX, and emerging 4G cellular IP networks, have sparked a growing reliance on voice over IP and the quickly emerging IP TV and Mobile TV. Providing the necessary background and technical understanding to stay abreast of and even ahead of the I
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    ISBN: 9781420072143
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (344 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Exploring how concurrent programming can be assisted by language-level techniques, Introduction to Concurrency in Programming Languages presents high-level language techniques for dealing with concurrency in a general context. It provides an understanding of programming languages that offer concurrency features as part of the language definition.Th
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : O'Reilly Media, Inc. | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (21 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Big Data: when the size and performance requirements for data management become significant design and decision factors for implementing a data management and analysis system. For some organizations, facing hundreds of gigabytes of data for the first time may trigger a need to reconsider data management options. For others, it may take tens or hundreds of terabytes before data size becomes a significant consideration.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : AMACOM | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (215 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Few businesses are compensated well for the value they provide.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Apress | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (300 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: This is the updated and expanded Special Edition of Dan Cederholm's best-selling Web Standards Solutions. Web standards are the standard technology specifications enforced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to make sure that web designers and browser manufacturers are using the same technology syntax. Utilizing web standards helps deliver content to the widest audience possible, while also ensuring future compatibility. These standards also allow content to be more compatible with different viewing devices, such as screen readers, mobile phones and handheld devices. HTML, XHTML, and CSS are all examples of Web Standards technologies. This book is your essential guide to understanding the advantages you can bring to your web pages by implementing web standards and knowing precisely how to apply them. Web standards such as XHTML and CSS are now fairly well-known technologies, and they will likely be familiar to you, the web designer-indeed, they are all around you on the Web. However, within web standards still lies a challenge-while the browser's support for web stan- dards is steadily increasing, many web developers and designers have yet to discover the real benefits of web standards or to respect the need to adhere to them. The real art is in truly understanding the benefits and implementing the standards efficiently. Web Standards Solutions is broken down into 16 short chapters, each covering the theory and practice of different web standards concepts and showing multiple solutions to given problems for easy learning. You'll learn about creating multicolumn layouts, using image replacement techniques to your best advantage, making the best use of tables and lists, and much more. This highly modular approach allows you to rapidly digest, understand, and utilize the essentials of web standards.
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    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: How to find great performers...and lose poor ones.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Rockport Publishers | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (192 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: The fifth volume in the best-selling LogoLounge series brings together an exciting collection of 2,000 totally new logos from designers worldwide submitted to LogoLounge.com, the largest collection of logo designs in the world.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Wiley | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (244 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: “ Fletcher and Gardner have created a comprehensive resource that will be of interest not only to those working in the field of finance, but also to those using numerical methods in other fields such as engineering, physics, and actuarial mathematics. By showing how to combine the high-level elegance, accessibility, and flexibility of Python, with the low-level computational efficiency of C++, in the context of interesting financial modeling problems, they have provided an implementation template which will be useful to others seeking to jointly optimize the use of computational and human resources. They document all the necessary technical details required in order to make external numerical libraries available from within Python, and they contribute a useful library of their own, which will significantly reduce the start-up costs involved in building financial models. This book is a must read for all those with a need to apply numerical methods in the valuation of financial claims. ” –David Louton, Professor of Finance, Bryant University This book is directed at both industry practitioners and students interested in designing a pricing and risk management framework for financial derivatives using the Python programming language. It is a practical book complete with working, tested code that guides the reader through the process of building a flexible, extensible pricing framework in Python. The pricing frameworks' loosely coupled fundamental components have been designed to facilitate the quick development of new models. Concrete applications to real-world pricing problems are also provided. Topics are introduced gradually, each building on the last. They include basic mathematical algorithms, common algorithms from numerical analysis, trade, market and event data model representations, lattice and simulation based pricing, and model development. The mathematics presented is kept simple and to the point. The book also provides a host of information on practical technical topics such as C++/Python hybrid development (embedding and extending) and techniques for integrating Python based programs with Microsoft Excel. The book is accompanied by a CD ROM containing a code library; and a companion website www.wiley.com/go/fletcher_python which will feature code-based updates relating to Python 3.0.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Academic Press | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (525 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: To create truly effective human-centric ambient intelligence systems both engineering and computing methods are needed. This is the first book to bridge data processing and intelligent reasoning methods for the creation of human-centered ambient intelligence systems. Interdisciplinary in nature, the book covers topics such as multi-modal interfaces, human-computer interaction, smart environments and pervasive computing, addressing principles, paradigms, methods and applications. This book will be an ideal reference for university researchers, R&D engineers, computer engineers, and graduate students working in signal, speech and video processing, multi-modal interfaces, human-computer interaction and applications of ambient intelligence.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Rockport Publishers | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (288 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: An indispensable primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, Form, Fit, and Fashion guides the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : AMACOM | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (240 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: A guidebook for those who have the vision and drive to take the organization to the next level...and a boss.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Rockport Publishers | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (192 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Good habits are found in every part of the design process, from promoting yourself well in order to land the client, to working with that client, to achieving the desired results on press.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Rockport Publishers | Boston, MA : Safari
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (320 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: This book offers designers a vast collection of inspiring and innovative graphic works from the real world.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : William Andrew | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780815515838
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (500 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Nanotechnology is a technology on the verge of commercialization. In this important work, an unrivalled team of international experts provides an exploration of the emerging nanotechnologies that are poised to make the nano-revolution a reality in the manufacturing sector. From their different perspectives, the contributors explore how developments in nanotechnology are transforming areas as diverse as medicine, advanced materials, energy, electronics and agriculture. Key topics covered include: Characterization of nanostructures Bionanotechnology Nanoelectronics Micro- and nanomachining Self-assembly techniques New applications of carbon nanotubes Environmental and health impacts This book provides an important and in-depth guide to the applications and impact of nanotechnology to different manufacturing sectors. As such, it will find a broad readership, from R&D scientists and engineers to venture capitalists. About the Authors Waqar Ahmed is Chair of Nanotechnology & Advanced Manufacturing and the Director of the Institute of Advanced Manufacturing and Innovation at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. He has contributed to the wider industrial adoption of surface coating solutions through fundamental research and modeling of gas phase processes in CVD and studies of tribological behavior. Mark J. Jackson is a Professor at the Birck Nanotechnology Center and Center for Advanced Manufacturing, College of Technology at Purdue University. Dr Jackson is active in research work concerned with understanding the properties of materials in the field of microscale metal cutting, micro- and nanoabrasive machining, and laser micromachining. He is also involved in developing next generation manufacturing processes and biomedical engineering. • Explains how to use biological pathways to produce nanoelectric devices • Presents data on new, experimental designs • Discusses the history of carbon nanotubes and how they are synthesized to fabricate novel nanostructures (incl. data on laser ablation) • Extensive use of illustrations, tables, and figures throughout
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Routledge | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780080554808
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (128 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Management Extra brings all the best management thinking together in one package. The series fuses key ideas with applied activities to help managers examine and improve how they work in practice. Management Extra is an exciting, new approach to management development. The books provide the basis for self-paced learning at level 4/5. The flexible learning structure allows busy participants to study at their own convenience, minimising time away from the job. The programme allows trainers to quickly plan and deliver high quality, business-led courses. Trainers can select materials to meet the needs of their delegates, clients, and budget. Each book is divided into themes of ideal length for delivering in a training session. Each theme has a range of activities for delegates to complete, putting the training into context and relating it to their own situation and business. The books’ lively style will stimulate further interest in the subjects covered. Guides for further reading and valuable web references provide a lead-in to further research. Management Extra is based on the NVQ framework to ease the creation of Diploma, Post Graduate Diploma or NVQ programmes for managers. It is accredited with all leading awarding bodies.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Chapman and Hall/CRC | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781420069549
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (387 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Designed for senior undergraduate and first-year graduate students, Grid Computing: Techniques and Applications shows professors how to teach this subject in a practical way. Extensively classroom-tested, it covers job submission and scheduling, Grid security, Grid computing services and software tools, graphical user interfaces, workflow editors,
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Elsevier Science | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780080922744
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (360 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: The advent of wireless sensor technology and ad-hoc networks has made DSC a major field of interest. Edited and written by the leading players in the field, this book presents the latest theory, algorithms and applications, making it the definitive reference on DSC for systems designers and implementers, researchers, and graduate students. This book gives a clear understanding of the performance limits of distributed source coders for specific classes of sources and presents the design and application of practical algorithms for realistic scenarios. Material covered includes the use of standard channel codes, such as LDPC and Turbo codes, to DSC, and discussion of the suitability of compressed sensing for distributed compression of sparse signals. Extensive applications are presented and include distributed video coding, microphone arrays and securing biometric data. This book is a great resource covering the breadth and depth of distributed source coding that’s appropriate for everyone from theoreticians to practitioners. – Richard Baraniuk, Rice University *Clear explanation of the principles of distributed source coding (DSC), a technology that has applications in sensor networks, ad-hoc networks, and distributed wireless video systems for surveillance *Edited and written by the leading players in the field, providing a complete and authoritative reference *Contains all the latest theory, practical algorithms for DSC design and the most recently developed applications
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Syngress | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780080958576
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (496 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Winner of the Best Book Bejtlich Read in 2009 award! "SQL injection is probably the number one problem for any server-side application, and this book is unequaled in its coverage." Richard Bejtlich, http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/ SQL injection represents one of the most dangerous and well-known, yet misunderstood, security vulnerabilities on the Internet, largely because there is no central repository of information to turn to for help. This is the only book devoted exclusively to this long-established but recently growing threat. It includes all the currently known information about these attacks and significant insight from its contributing team of SQL injection experts. What is SQL injection?-Understand what it is and how it works Find, confirm, and automate SQL injection discovery Discover tips and tricks for finding SQL injection within the code Create exploits using SQL injection Design to avoid the dangers of these attacks
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Productivity Press | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9781420090611
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (248 pages)
    Edition: 2nd edition
    Series Statement: Finance professional collection
    Keywords: Managerial accounting ; Accountants ; Industrial management ; Electronic books ; local ; Comptabilité de gestion ; Comptables ; Gestion d'entreprise ; accountants ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Quality Control ; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing Industries ; Accountants ; Industrial management ; Managerial accounting ; Commerce ; Business & Economics ; Accounting
    Abstract: The first edition of Brian Maskell‘s now classic work proved that when given the chance, accountants would prefer not to serve out their working days as number crunching automatons. With its energetic tone and common sense approach, the book inspired numbers people at all levels to become true allies in their companies lean revolutions. It enco
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Morgan Kaufmann | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780123749420
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (664 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
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    Abstract: Geometric Algebra for Computer Science (Revised Edition) presents a compelling alternative to the limitations of linear algebra. Geometric algebra (GA) is a compact, time-effective, and performance-enhancing way to represent the geometry of 3D objects in computer programs. This book explains GA as a natural extension of linear algebra and conveys its significance for 3D programming of geometry in graphics, vision, and robotics. It systematically explores the concepts and techniques that are key to representing elementary objects and geometric operators using GA. It covers in detail the conformal model, a convenient way to implement 3D geometry using a 5D representation space. Numerous drills and programming exercises are helpful for both students and practitioners. A companion web site includes links to GAViewer, a program that will allow you to interact with many of the 3D figures in the book; and Gaigen 2, the platform for the instructive programming exercises that conclude each chapter. The book will be of interest to professionals working in fields requiring complex geometric computation such as robotics, computer graphics, and computer games. It is also be ideal for students in graduate or advanced undergraduate programs in computer science. Explains GA as a natural extension of linear algebra and conveys its significance for 3D programming of geometry in graphics, vision, and robotics. Systematically explores the concepts and techniques that are key to representing elementary objects and geometric operators using GA. Covers in detail the conformal model, a convenient way to implement 3D geometry using a 5D representation space. Presents effective approaches to making GA an integral part of your programming. Includes numerous drills and programming exercises helpful for both students and practitioners. Companion web site includes links to GAViewer, a program that will allow you to interact with many of the 3D figures in the book, and Gaigen 2, the platform for the instructive programming exercises that conclude each chapter.
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    [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Academic Press | Boston, MA : Safari
    ISBN: 9780123747150
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (736 pages)
    Edition: 1st edition
    Keywords: Electronic books ; local ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cognitive Radio Communications and Networks gives comprehensive and balanced coverage of the principles of cognitive radio communications, cognitive networks, and details of their implementation, including the latest developments in the standards and spectrum policy. Case studies, end-of-chapter questions, and descriptions of various platforms and test beds, together with sample code, give hands-on knowledge of how cognitive radio systems can be implemented in practice. Extensive treatment is given to several standards, including IEEE 802.22 for TV White Spaces and IEEE SCC41 Written by leading people in the field, both at universities and major industrial research laboratories, this tutorial text gives communications engineers, R&D engineers, researchers, undergraduate and post graduate students a complete reference on the application of wireless communications and network theory for the design and implementation of cognitive radio systems and networks Each chapter is written by internationally renowned experts, giving complete and balanced treatment of the fundamentals of both cognitive radio communications and cognitive networks, together with implementation details Extensive treatment of the latest standards and spectrum policy developments enables the development of compliant cognitive systems Strong practical orientation – through case studies and descriptions of cognitive radio platforms and testbeds – shows how real world cognitive radio systems and network architectures have been built Alexander M. Wyglinski is an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), Director of the WPI Limerick Project Center, and Director of the Wireless Innovation Laboratory (WI Lab) Each chapter is written by internationally renowned experts, giving complete and balanced treatment of the fundamentals of both cognitive radio communications and cognitive networks, together with implementation details Extensive treatment of the latest standards and spectrum policy developments enables the development of compliant cognitive systems Strong practical orientation – through case studies and descriptions of cognitive radio platforms and testbeds – shows how "real world" cognitive radio systems and network architectures have been built
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