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  • Economic History Society  (6)
  • Eltis, David  (5)
  • Bloch, Maurice  (3)
  • Brown, Steven
  • Cambridge : Cambridge University Press  (14)
  • Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Pr. [u.a.]
  • London [u.a.] : Seminar Press
  • Geschichte  (12)
  • Anthropology  (2)
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  • 1
    ISBN: 9781139024723
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 591 Seiten)
    Edition: Cambridge histories online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; Volume 2: AD 500-AD 1420
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 2
    DDC: 306.3/62
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    Keywords: Slavery History ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Geschichte ; Sklaverei ; Antike
    Abstract: Medieval slavery has received little attention relative to slavery in ancient Greece and Rome and in the early modern Atlantic world. This imbalance in the scholarship has led many to assume that slavery was of minor importance in the Middle Ages. In fact, the practice of slavery continued unabated across the globe throughout the medieval millennium. This volume - the final volume in The Cambridge World History of Slavery - covers the period between the fall of Rome and the rise of the transatlantic plantation complexes by assembling twenty-three original essays, written by scholars acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields. The volume demonstrates the continual and central presence of slavery in societies worldwide between 500 CE and 1420 CE. The essays analyze key concepts in the history of slavery, including gender, trade, empire, state formation and diplomacy, labor, childhood, social status and mobility, cultural attitudes, spectrums of dependency and coercion, and life histories of enslaved people.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9780521840699
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 705 Seiten , Diagramme, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge world history of slavery ; volume 4: AD 1804 - AD 2016
    Angaben zur Quelle: Volume 4
    DDC: 306.3620936
    Keywords: Slavery History To 1500 ; Slave trade History To 1500 ; Mediterranean Region History To 476 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Mittelmeerraum ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139020008
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 234 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
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    DDC: 153
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    Keywords: Ethnopsychology ; Anthropology ; Cognition and culture ; Cognition and culture ; Anthropology ; Ethnopsychology ; Anthropologie
    Abstract: This provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Opening with an exploration of the history of anthropology, Bloch shows why and how naturalist approaches were abandoned and argues that these once valid reasons are no longer relevant. Bloch then shows how such subjects as the self, memory and the conceptualisation of time benefit from being simultaneously approached with the tools of social and cognitive science. Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge will stimulate fresh debate among scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: 1. Why social scientists should not avoid cognitive issues; 2. Innateness and social scientists' fears; 3. How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology; 4. The nature/culture wars; 5. Time and the anthropologists; 6. Reconciling social science and cognitive science notions of the 'self'; 7. What goes without saying; 8. Memory
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 1139518372 , 1139020005 , 1139514873 , 9781139020008 , 9781139518376 , 9781139514873
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: New departures in anthropology
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bloch, Maurice Anthropology and the cognitive challenge
    DDC: 153
    Keywords: Cognition and culture ; Anthropology ; Ethnopsychology ; PSYCHOLOGY ; Cognitive Psychology ; SCIENCE ; Cognitive Science ; Anthropology ; Cognition and culture ; Ethnopsychology ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover; ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE CHALLENGE; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; One: Why anthropologists cannot avoid cognitive issues and what they gain from these; The negative side of the book; The constructive side of the book; Two: Innateness and social scientists fears; Does acknowledging a genetic factor in cognition imply racist or sexist beliefs?; The significance of cultural knowledge for human beings; Three: How anthropology abandoned a naturalist epistemology: a cognitive perspective on the history of anthropology
    Abstract: In this provocative new study one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists proposes that an understanding of cognitive science enriches, rather than threatens, the work of social scientists. Maurice Bloch argues for a naturalist approach to social and cultural anthropology, introducing developments in cognitive sciences such as psychology and neurology and exploring the relevance of these developments for central anthropological concerns: the person or the self, cosmology, kinship, memory and globalisation. Opening with an exploration of the history of anthropology, Bloch shows why and how naturalist approaches were abandoned and argues that these once valid reasons are no longer relevant. Bloch then shows how such subjects as the self, memory and the conceptualisation of time benefit from being simultaneously approached with the tools of social and cognitive science. Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge will stimulate fresh debate among scholars and students across a wide range of disciplines
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511605390
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 342 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Human capital ; Economic development ; Business and education ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Humankapital ; Schule ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Humankapital ; Schule ; Wirtschaftsentwicklung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Human Capital and Institutions is concerned with human capital in its many dimensions and brings to the fore the role of political, social, and economic institutions in human capital formation and economic growth. Written by leading economic historians, including pioneers in historical research on human capital, the chapters in this text offer a broad-based view of human capital in economic development. The issues they address range from nutrition in pre-modern societies to twentieth-century advances in medical care; from the social institutions that provided temporary relief to workers in the middle and lower ranges of the wage scale to the factors that affected the performance of those who reached the pinnacle in business and art; and from political systems that stifled the advance of literacy to those that promoted public and higher education. Just as human capital has been a key to economic growth, so has the emergence of appropriate institutions been a key to the growth of human capital
    Description / Table of Contents: Biotechnology and the burden of age-related diseases / Robert W. Fogel -- Extending the reach of anthropometric history to the distant past / Richard H. Steckel -- Insecurity, safety nets, and self-help in Victorian and Edwardian Britain / George R. Boyer -- The evolution of schooling in the Americas, 1800-1925 / Stanley L. Engerman, Elisa V. Mariscal, and Kenneth L. Sokoloff -- Why the United States led in education : lessons from secondary school expansion, 1910 to 1940 / Claudia Goldin and Lawrence F. Katz -- The production of engineers in New York colleges and universities, 1800-1950 : some new data / Michael Edelstein -- Young geniuses and old masters : the life cycles of great artists from Masaccio to Jasper Johns / David W. Galenson and Robert Jensen -- An elite minority : Jews among the richest 400 Americans / Peter Temin -- Suffrage and the terms of labor / Robert J. Steinfeld -- Prodigals and projectors : an economic history of usury laws in the United States from colonial times to 1900 / Hugh Rockoff
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  • 6
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511512124
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 372 pages) , Diagramme, Karten
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    DDC: 306.3/62/097
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / America / History ; Slavery / Economic aspects / America / History ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Amerika ; Colonies / America / History ; Amerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Amerika ; Wirtschaft ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Slavery in the Development of the Americas brings together work from leading historians and economic historians of slavery. The essays cover various aspects of slavery and the role of slavery in the development of the southern United States, Brazil, Cuba, the French and Dutch Caribbean, and elsewhere in the Americas. Some essays explore the emergence of the slave system, and others provide important insights about the operation of specific slave economics. There are reviews of slave markets and prices, and discussions of the efficiency and distributional aspects of slavery. Perspectives are brought on the transition from slavery and subsequent adjustments, and the volume contains the work of prominent scholars, many of whom have been pioneers in the study of slavery in the Americas
    Note: White Atlantic? The choice for African slave labor in the plantation Americas , The Dutch and the slave Americas , Mercantile strategies, credit networks, and labor supply in the colonial Chesapeake in trans-Atlantic perspective , African slavery in the production of subsistence crops: the case of São Paulo in the nineteenth century , The transition from slavery to freedom through manumission: a life-cycle approach applied to the United States and Guadeloupe , Prices of African slaves newly arrived in the Americas, 1673-1865: new evidence on long-run trends and regional differentials , Amercian slave markets during the 1850s: slave price rises in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil in comparative perspective , The relative efficiency of free and slave agriculture in the antebellum United States: a stochastic production frontier approach , Wealth accumulation in Virginia and in the century before the Civil War , The poor: slaves in early America , The north-south wage gap before and after the civil war
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511583667
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 353 pages)
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    DDC: 306.3/62/097
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Kolonie ; Sklaverei ; Slavery / America / History ; Slave trade / America / History ; Colonies / America / History ; Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Schwarze ; Amerika ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Colonies / America / History ; Amerika ; Amerika ; Sklavenhandel ; Schwarze ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Why were the countries with the most developed institutions of individual freedom also the leaders in establishing the most exploitative system of slavery that the world has ever seen? In seeking to provide new answers to this question, The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas examines the development of the English Atlantic slave system between 1650 and 1800. The book outlines a major African role in the evolution of the Atlantic societies before the nineteenth century and argues that the transatlantic slave trade was a result of African strength rather than African weakness. It also addresses changing patterns of group identity to account for the racial basis of slavery in the early modern Atlantic World. Exploring the paradox of the concurrent development of slavery and freedom in the European domains, David Eltis provides a fresh interpretation of this difficult historical problem
    Description / Table of Contents: Slavery and freedom in the early modern world -- The English, the Dutch, and transoceanic migration -- Europeans and African slavery in the Americas -- Gender and slavery in the early modern Atlantic world -- Productivity in the slave trade -- Africa and Europe in the early modern era -- The African impact on the transatlantic slave trade -- The English plantation Americas in comparative perspective -- Ethnicity in the early modern Atlantic world -- Europe and the Atlantic slave systems -- Epilogue on abolition
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511622168
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 112 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 33
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    DDC: 306.4/83/0941
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1700-1800 ; Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1750-1914 ; Geschichte ; Gesellschaft ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 18th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 19th century ; Sports / Social aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sports / Economic aspects / Great Britain / History / 20th century ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Sport ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Geschichte 1750-1914
    Abstract: This book provides a concise, up-to-date survey of one of the most dramatic changes in the cultural life of Victorian and Edwardian Britain, the radical transformation which occurred in the extent and nature of its participation in sport. Neil Tranter focuses on the issues which have attracted most interest from historians of sport and poses a number of important questions: did levels of involvement in sport increase or decrease during the initial stages of urban-industrialisation? When did the new sporting culture first emerge, and what were its principal features and the mechanisms through which it spread? What were the main aims of the participants and supporters, and to what extent were these aims achieved? The author also discusses the economic consequences of this cultural change and the examines the role of women in this sporting 'revolution' and asks why their participation was so much more restricted than that of men
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  • 9
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139171120
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 36
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    DDC: 306.3/62/0975
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1790-1860 ; Geschichte ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Slavery / Economic aspects / Southern States ; Wirtschaft ; Gesellschaft ; Sklaverei ; Geschichte ; Southern States / Economic conditions ; USA Südstaaten ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1790-1860 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte 1800-1861 ; USA Südstaaten ; Sklaverei ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte
    Abstract: Even while slavery existed, Americans debated slavery. Was it a profitable and healthy institution? If so, for whom? The abolition of slavery in 1865 did not end this debate. Similar questions concerning the profitability of slavery, its impact on masters, slaves, and nonslaveowners still inform modern historical debates. Is the slave South best characterized as a capitalist society? Or did its dogged adherence to non-wage labor render it precapitalist? Today, southern slavery is among the most hotly disputed topics in writing on American history. With the use of illustrative material and a critical bibliography, Dr Smith outlines the main contours of this complex debate, summarizes the contending viewpoints, and at the same time weighs up the relative importance, strengths and weaknesses of the various competing interpretations. This book introduces an important topic in American history in a manner which is accessible to students and undergraduates taking courses in American history
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139171175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 114 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 32
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    DDC: 305.23/0942
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1880-1990 ; Geschichte ; Kind ; Children / England / History ; Children and adults / England / History ; Kind ; Großbritannien ; Großbritannien ; Kind ; Geschichte 1880-1990
    Abstract: This book is intended to be a guide to the burgeoning literature on the history of childhood. Harry Hendrick reviews the most important debates and the main findings of a number of historians on a range of topics including the changing social constructions of childhood, child-parent relations, social policy, schooling, leisure and the thesis that modern childhood is 'disappearing'. The intention of this concise study is to provide readers with a reliable account of the evolution of some of the most important developments in adult-child relations during the last one hundred years. The author draws his material not only from historians but also from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists and children's rights activists. Thus he successfully shows how much of our 'modern' understanding of childhood and of children results from both an historical and a social scientific understanding
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170994
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 84 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 11
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    DDC: 304.8/094/09034
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Geschichte 1815 ; Geschichte ; Migration ; Soziale Probleme ; Auswanderung ; Wirtschaftliche Lage ; Europa ; Europe / Emigration and immigration / History ; USA ; Europa ; Europa ; Auswanderung ; Geschichte 1815-1930 ; Soziale Probleme ; Geschichte 1815 ; USA ; Wirtschaftliche Lage
    Abstract: Why did 60 million people leave Europe for overseas destinations in the hundred years after the Napoleonic Wars? What were the social and economic causes and effects of this mass migration? Why did some people emigrate and not others, and why did so many emigrants return to Europe? This short comprehensive survey answers these and other questions regarding emigration from different parts of Europe in the years between 1815 and 1930. Written specifically for undergraduate students, it reviews the current literature in several European languages, summarises both economic and demographic theories, and analyses the relation between economic change in Europe and the emigration rate, as well as discussing the economic effects of immigration on the receiving countries and the social experiences or the immigrants
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170963
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 88 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 1
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    DDC: 306.85/09
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1500-1914 ; Geschichte ; Families / History ; Familie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Familie ; Geschichte 1500-1914
    Abstract: Over the past thirty years family history has been one of the most important and controversial growth areas in the development of social history. In this guide to the burgeoning literature on the Western family Professor Anderson reviews the main findings of historians and considers them in the light of the problems inherent in the interpretation of family history. He focuses particularly on the strengths and limitations of the different approaches that have been adopted, showing that although this variety of method has complicated matters, it has also produced a more rounded understanding of the history of the family. Updated to include work published between 1980 and 1994, this book will be invaluable to students of family history, and to scholars who are non-specialist in the field
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139170970
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vi, 80 pages)
    Series Statement: New studies in economic and social history 7
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    DDC: 941.508
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900 ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Hungersnot ; Irland ; Ireland / History / Famine, 1845-1852 ; Ireland / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Irland ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1846-1850 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1849 ; Irland ; Hungersnot ; Geschichte 1845-1850 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 1837-1900 ; Irland ; Sozialgeschichte 〈1837-1900
    Abstract: The Irish Famine of 1846–50 was one of the great disasters of the nineteenth century, whose notoriety spreads as far as the mass emigration which followed it. Cormac O'Gráda's concise survey suggests that a proper understanding of the disaster requires an analysis of the Irish economy before the invasion of the potato-killing fungus, Phytophthora infestans, highlighting Irish poverty and the importance of the potato, but also finding signs of economic progress before the Famine. Despite the massive decline in availability of food, the huge death toll of one million (from a population of 8.5 million) was hardly inevitable; there are grounds for supporting the view that a less doctrinaire attitude to famine relief would have saved many lives. This book provides an up-to-date introduction by a leading expert to an event of major importance in the history of nineteenth-century Ireland and Britain
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Population and potatoes : the pre-famine context -- 2. The Great Hunger 1845-1850 -- 3. Aftermath : Ireland after 1850 -- 4. Conclusion -- Select bibliography -- Bibliographical update and commentary -- Glossary -- Index
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    ISBN: 9780511621673
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (x, 214 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 61
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    DDC: 306.6
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Merina (Malagasy people) / Rites and ceremonies ; Circumcision / Madagascar ; Merina (Malagasy people) / History ; Beschneidung ; Ritual ; Merina ; Hova ; Merina ; Ritual ; Beschneidung ; Merina ; Hova ; Beschneidung ; Hova ; Ritual
    Abstract: The circumcision ritual of the Merina of Madagascar is seen by them primarily as a blessing, involving the transfer of the love and concern of the ancestors of their descendants. Yet the ritual ends in an act of ciolent wounding of the child. Similarily, while the ritual involves a symbolic assault on women, it is nonetheless welcomed by them as a mark of receiving the blessing of the ancestors. In this book, Maurice Bloch provides a detailed description and analysis of the Merina circumcision ritual today, offers an account of its history, and discusses the significance of his analysis for anthropological theories of ritual in general. Pursuing the theme of the combination of religious joy and illumination with violence, Professor Bloch explains how, at various times, the circumcision ceremony can be a familial ritual as well as glorification of a militarist and expansionist state, or associated with anti-colonial nationalism. Describing changes that have occurred in the form of the ritual over two centuries, Professor Bloch argues that in order to understand the properties of ritual in general, it is necessary to view it over a longer time scale than anthropologists have tended to do previously. Adopting such an historical perspective enables him to identify the stability of the Merina ritual's symbolic content, despite changes in its organisation, and dramatically changing politico-economic contexts. As well as presenting an original historical approach to the anthropological study of ritua;, Professor Bloch discusses a range of general theoretical issues, including the nature of ideology, and the relationship between images created in ritual and other types of knowledge. The book will appeal widely to scholars and students of anthropology, history, African studies, and comparative religion
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