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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570940
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vi, 312 pages)
    DDC: 301/.01
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    Abstract: The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511518676
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 285 pages)
    Series Statement: Cultural margins 1
    DDC: 305.800941
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    Keywords: Öffentliche Meinung ; Sexualverhalten ; Großbritannien
    Abstract: The first book in the Cultural Margins series is a 1994 study of racism and homophobia in British politics, which demonstrates the demonisation of blacks, lesbians, and gays in New Right discourse. Anna Marie Smith develops theoretical insights from literary and cultural critics, including Nietzsche, Foucault, Derrida, Hall, and Gilroy, to produce detailed readings of two key moments in New Right discourse: the speeches of Enoch Powell on black immigration (1968–72) and the legislative campaign of the late 1980s to prohibit the promotion of homosexuality. Her analysis challenges the silence on racism and homophobia in previous studies of Thatcherism and the New Right, and shows how demonisation of lesbians and gays depends on previous demonisations of black immigrant and criminal figures. Overall, this book offers a devastating critique of racism and homophobia in late twentieth-century Britain.
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621925
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 126 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
    DDC: 305.26
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    Abstract: Haim Hazan is a leading specialist on old age in anthropology, and has published several books on particular communities of old people. The latest book is an essay on the realities of old age, as it is experienced, as opposed to the ideas about the old current in western societies. It argues that the construction of this world by outsiders is inevitably affected by deeply ingrained social attitudes and structures, such as the spatial segregation of the aged as a population, and the fear of death with which they are associated. By approaching the subject from the social constructionist perspective, and by drawing on a variety of detailed ethnographic accounts, the author describes a unique and nuanced social world. This is a sophisticated and original book, which should have a significant impact on a field still dominated by a 'social problems' approach.
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  • 4
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511620799
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 250 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/4
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    Abstract: In this interdisciplinary study, Professor Clyne examines the impact of cultural values on discourse. Through an exploration of the role of verbal communication patterns in successful and unsuccessful communication, he sets out to integrate and develop a framework for a linguistics of inter-cultural communication. Professor Clyne draws on data derived from recordings of spontaneous communication in the Australian workplace between people of vastly differing backgrounds, notably European and Asian, who use English as a lingua franca. This study offers both a pragmatic and a discourse perspective, not simply analysing data but seeking to extend the theoretical model. The rapidly increasing use of English as a language of inter-cultural communication between non-native speakers means that the issues raised here will be of interest not only to linguists but also to those involved in education, business and industry.
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  • 5
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139173834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 354 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
    DDC: 303.6/4
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    Keywords: Sozialrevolution ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: In this collection of essays, Theda Skocpol, author of the award-winning book States and Social Revolutions (1979), updates her arguments about social revolutions. How are we to understand recent revolutionary upheavals in countries across the globe? Why have social revolutions happened in some countries, but not in others that seem similar? Skocpol shows how she and other scholars have used ideas about states and societies to identify the particular types of regimes that are susceptible to the growth of revolutionary movements and vulnerable to transfers of state power to revolutionary challengers. Skocpol engages in thoughtful dialogue with critics, and she suggests how culture and ideology can properly be incorporated into historical and comparative studies. She also vigorously defends the value of an institutionalist, comparative and historical approach against recent challenges from Marxists, rational choice theorists, and culturally oriented interpreters of particular revolutions.
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    ISBN: 0521393051 , 0521459842
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 265 Seiten , Illustrationen , 24 cm
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations 32
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in international relations
    DDC: 305.42/01
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    Keywords: Feminist theory ; Women Political activity ; International relations ; Feminist theory ; Women in politics ; International relations ; Feminism ; Internationale Politik ; Frauenforschung ; Internationale Politik ; Feminismus ; Feminismus ; Internationale Politik
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (Seite 240-261) and index , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 7
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521360870
    Language: English
    Pages: XI, 471 S.
    Edition: Repr.
    Additional Information: Rezensiert in Ray, Benjamin C. Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. Robin Horton 1995
    DDC: 299.6
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    Keywords: Afrika (insgesamt) Kulturaustausch/Kulturkontakt ; Religion/Religionsgemeinschaften
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  • 8
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511841095
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxxi, 390 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
    Uniform Title: Works.
    DDC: 306/.2
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    Abstract: Max Weber (1864-1920), generally known as a founder of modern social science, was concerned with political affairs throughout his life. The texts in this edition span his career and include his early inaugural lecture The Nation State and Economic Policy, Suffrage and Democracy in Germany, Parliament and Government in Germany under a New Political Order, Socialism, The Profession and Vocation of Politics, and an excerpt from his essay The Situation of Constitutional Democracy in Russia, as well as other shorter writings. Together they illustrate the development of his thinking on the fate of Germany and the nature of politics in the modern western state in an age of cultural 'disenchantment'. The introduction discusses the central themes of Weber's political thought, and a chronology, notes and an annotated bibliography place him in his political and intellectual context.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521289254
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 308 S. , Karten, Diagramme
    Edition: Repr.
    Series Statement: Studies in literacy, family, culture and the state
    Series Statement: Cambridge paperback library
    DDC: 306.8'5'094
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    Keywords: Family History ; Marriage History ; Kinship History ; Europe. Families++- Anthropological perspectives ; Europe Social life and customs ; Einführung
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  • 10
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511552175
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 303 pages)
    DDC: 305.89/915
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Religion ; Weltbild ; Aborigines
    Abstract: Many of the elements ascribed to traditional Aboriginal beliefs and practices are the result of contact with external peoples - Melanesians and Indonesians, as well as Europeans. This controversial and provocative 1993 book is a detailed and continent-wide study of the impact of outsiders on Australian Aboriginal world-views. The author separates out a common core of religious beliefs which reflect the precontact spirituality of Australian Aborigines. This book investigates Aboriginal myth, ritual, cosmology and philosophy, and also examines social organisation, subsistence patterns and cultural change. It will be of great interest to readers in anthropology, religious studies, comparative philosophy and Aboriginal studies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570926
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 424 pages)
    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: Moishe Postone undertakes a fundamental reinterpretation of Karl Marx's mature critical theory. He calls into question many of the presuppositions of traditional Marxist analyses and offers new interpretations of Marx's central arguments. He does so by developing concepts aimed at grasping the essential character and historical development of modern society, and also at overcoming the familiar dichotomies of structure and action, meaning and material life. These concepts lead him to an original analysis of the nature and problems of capitalism and provide the basis for a critique of 'actually existing socialism'. According to this new interpretation, Marx identifies the core of the capitalist system with an impersonal form of social domination generated by labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination generated by labor itself and not simply with market mechanisms and private property. Proletarian labor and the industrial production process are characterized as expressions of domination rather than as means of human emancipation. This reinterpretation entails the form of economic growth and the structure of social labor in modern society to the alienation and domination at the heart of capitalism. This reformulation, Postone argues, provides the foundation for a critical social theory that is more adequate to late twentieth-century capitalism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557972
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 92
    DDC: 302.23/43/095482
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    Keywords: Stadt ; Armut ; Kino ; Madurai
    Abstract: This study of the Indian cinema is concerned particularly with cinema-goers in Madurai, a city in Tamil Nadu, South India. Sara Dickey reviews the history of Tamil film, explains the structure of the industry, and presents the perspective of the filmmakers. However, the core of the book is an analysis of the films themselves and the place they have in the lives of poor people, who organize fan clubs, discuss the films and the actors, and in various ways relate these fantasy worlds to their own lives. Dickey argues that the effect of these films is ultimately conservative, for they glorify poverty while holding out the hope of a better future. Her rich ethnography makes an interesting contribution to the study of film in India and, more generally, to the understanding of popular culture in an Indian city.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511527791
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 367 pages)
    DDC: 302.2/244
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    Keywords: Entwicklung ; Schriftlichkeit ; Marokko
    Abstract: Literacy is thought to be one of the primary cultural transmitters of information and beliefs within any society where it exists. Yet, when considered as a social phenomenon, literacy is remarkably difficult to define, because its functions, meanings, and methods of learning vary from one cultural group to the next. This book compares and contrasts our understanding of literacy and its acquisition and retention. It addresses major debates in education policy today, such as the importance of 'mother-tongue' literacy programs, the notion of literacy 'relapse', and the concept of educational poverty. The author focuses on Moroccan children whose parents are unschooled, whose language is often different from that used in the classroom, and whose first instruction often involves rote religious teaching.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570971
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 481 pages)
    Series Statement: Structural analysis in the social sciences 6
    DDC: 301
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    Keywords: Logik ; Sozialstruktur ; Soziologie ; Strukturalismus
    Abstract: In this book, the author proposes an interesting approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He provides a critique of the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make up society and the processes by which these structures are formed and are interlinked. A conceptualization of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This conceptualization allows for the multiplicity of processes of structuration, which the author refers to as logics, some of which function at the individual or 'micro' level, others at the organizational or 'meso' level, and still others at the society-wide, or 'macro' level. The author terms this conceptualization a theory of heterarchy and it is a truly comprehensive theory of societal structuration.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558269
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 289 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and emotional development
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
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    DDC: 305.23/0973
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Kind ; Children / United States / Social conditions ; Children / United States / History / 20th century ; Child development / United States / History / 20th century ; Lebenswelt ; Entwicklung ; Soziale Situation ; Kind ; Kinderpsychologie ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Kind ; Soziale Situation ; USA ; Kind ; Entwicklung ; Kinderpsychologie ; Lebenswelt
    Abstract: Each generation of American children across the tumultuous twentieth century has come of age in the different world. How do major historical events - such as war or the depression - influence children's development? Children in Time and Place brings together social historians and developmental psychologists to explore the implications of a changing society for children's growth and life chances. transitions provide a central theme, for historical transitions to the social transitions of children and their developmental experiences
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511625473
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 333 pages)
    DDC: 306.4/5
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    Keywords: Ethnomethodologie
    Abstract: Philosophers, historians, and sociologists of science have grown interested in the daily practices of scientists. Recent studies have drawn linkages between scientific innovations and more ordinary procedures, craft skills, and sources of sponsorship. These studies dispute the idea that science is the application of a unified method or the outgrowth of a progressive history of ideas. This book critically reviews arguments and empirical studies in two areas of sociology that have played a significant role in the 'sociological turn' in science studies: ethnomethodology (the study of ordinary practical reasoning) and the sociology of scientific knowledge. In both fields, efforts to study scientific practices have led to intractable difficulties and debates, due in part to scientistic and foundationalist commitments that remain entrenched with social-scientific research policies and descriptive language. The central purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of an empirical approach to the epistemic contents of science that avoids the pitfalls of scientism and foundationalism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511552311
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 252 pages)
    DDC: 330.994/01
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Aborigines ; Wirtschaft
    Abstract: It is a common perception that the influence of the Aborigines on British settlement in Australia was minimal. The economic significance of Aboriginal culture for the colonisers is rarely addressed and until now, has not been closely studied by an economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered system of decision-making able to satisfy the wants of the people. The book closely analyses the processes which allowed economic control of a country to pass from Aboriginal to European hands within 60 years of settlement. Professor Butlin's presentation of the contrast between one of the world's most ancient economies and one of its youngest is both illuminating and exciting.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557651
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 167 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in management 20
    DDC: 302.3/5
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    Keywords: Organisationssoziologie ; Einführung ; Einführung
    Abstract: It has been claimed that organisation theory is in a state of 'crisis'. This book traces the history of the orthodox systems theory paradigm in organisation studies from its foundations in positivist sociology, through its theoretical and empirical development under structural-functionalism, to its recent deconstruction by postmodernists. The analysis offers general support for the 'sociology-in-crisis' thesis, but takes issue with one of its main propositions, that paradigms are incommensurable. It is argued that paradigms are porous rather than hermetic phenomena, a fact which has profound implications for the theory building process. Based on language-game philosophy, a dialectical theory is developed to illustrate how seemingly exclusive idioms can be mediated. The enquiry provides a pluri-paradigm method for organisational research, and an epistemological framework for postmodern organisational analysis. ...
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511663765
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 206 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in rationality and social change
    DDC: 302/.14
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    Keywords: Kollektives Handeln ; Mikrosoziologie ; Kollektives Verhalten
    Abstract: The problem of collective action is that each member of a group wants other members to make necessary sacrifices while he or she 'free rides', reaping the benefits of collective action without doing the work. Inevitably the end result is that no one does the work and the common interest is not realized. This book analyses the social pressure whereby groups solve the problem of collective action. The authors show that the problem of collective action requires a model of group process and cannot be deduced from simple models of individual behaviour. They employ formal mathematical models to emphasize the role of small subgroups of especially motivated individuals who form the 'critical mass' that sets collective action in motion. The book will be read with special interest by sociologists, social psychologists, economists and political scientists. It will also be of concern to those in industrial relations and communications research working on issues in collective action and rational choice.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621741
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 298 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 89
    DDC: 306/.0995
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    Keywords: Alltag ; Neuguinea ; Pazifikküste
    Abstract: The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. In the first general book on the region, Dr Knauft reaches striking new comparative conclusions through a careful ethnographic analysis of sexuality, the status of women, ritual and cosmology, political economy, and violence among the region's seven major language-culture areas. The findings suggest new Melanesian regional contrasts and provide for a general critique of the way regional comparisons are constructed in anthropology. Theories of practice and political economy as well as post-modern insights are drawn upon to provide a generative theory of indigenous social and symbolic development.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511625480
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 270 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    DDC: 305.800973
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    Keywords: Rassenfrage ; Rassismus ; USA
    Abstract: First published in 1977, Portraits of White Racism advanced a distinctively sociological theory of racism. Based on five case histories, it critically assessed the prevailing social-psychological paradigm that equated racism with prejudice and provided an alternative interpretation. Racism, the book argued, could be understood as a culturally sanctioned strategy for defending social advantage based on race; it was not simply the product of psychological abnormalities. In this revised edition the theoretical perspective is updated, taking into account recent theorising in the sociology of racism.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511625022
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 324 pages)
    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: This book addresses critical issues in normative ethical theory. Every such theory must contain not only a theory of motivation but also a theory of value, and the link that is often forged between what is valuable and what would be right is human welfare or well-being. This topic is a subject of considerable controversy in contemporary ethics, not least because of the current reconsideration of utilitarianism. Indeed, there is as much disagreement about the nature of value and its relationship to welfare and morality, as there is about the substantive content of normative ethical theories. The essays in this collection, all written by a distinguished team of moral philosophers, provide an overview, analysis and an attempted resolution of those controversies. They constitute a rigorous account of the relationships among value, welfare and morality.
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    ISBN: 9781139166232
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 471 pages)
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    Keywords: Religion ; Knowledge, Sociology of ; Religion and science ; Wissenssoziologie ; Magie ; Religion ; Afrika ; Africa / Religion ; Afrika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Afrika ; Magie ; Afrika ; Wissenssoziologie ; Afrika ; Religion
    Abstract: Robin Horton's critical and creative writings on African religious thought have influenced anthropologists, philosophers, and all those interested in the comparative study of religion and thought. This selection of some of his classic papers, with a new introduction and postscript by the author, traces Horton's theoretical ideas over thirty years. In attempting to understand African religious thought, he also tackles broader issues in the history and sociology of thought, such as secularisation and modernisation. Part I is a critical assessment of two established interpretive approaches, the Symbolist and the Theological. Part II proposes an alternative 'Intellectualist' approach that emphasises the structural and processual similarities between religious and scientific thinking. The postscript appraises the Intellectualist approach in the light of theorising about religion and world views
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    ISBN: 9780511598364
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 324 pages)
    Uniform Title: Works
    DDC: 305.8/0092
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    Keywords: Malinowski, Bronislaw ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bronislaw Malinowski, born and educated in Poland, helped to establish British social anthropology. His classic monographs on the Trobriand Islanders were published between 1922 and 1935, when he was professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics. This 1993 collection of Malinowski's early writings, establishes the intellectual background to this achievement. Written between 1904 and 1914, before he went to Melanesia, all but two of the essays are published here in English for the first time. They show how Malinowski's considerable impact on twentieth-century thought is rooted in the late nineteenth-century philosophy of central Europe, especially the work of philosopher and physicist Ernst Mach, Friedrich Nietzsche, and in the ethnological theories of James Frazer.
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    ISBN: 9780511735240
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 201 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Ethnoarchaeology ; Excavations (Archaeology) ; Land settlement / History ; Land settlement patterns, Prehistoric / History ; Ethnoarchäologie ; Archäologie ; Siedlungsarchäologie ; Wüstung ; Konferenzschrift 1990 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Wüstung ; Ethnoarchäologie ; Wüstung ; Archäologie ; Siedlungsarchäologie
    Abstract: All archaeological sites have been abandoned, but people abandoned sites in many different ways, and for different reasons. What they did when leaving a settlement, structure, or activity area had a direct effect on the kind and quality of the cultural remains entering the archaeological record - for example, whether tools were removed, destroyed, or buried in the ground, and building structures dismantled or left standing. This book examines abandonment as a stage in the formation of an archaeological site, and relies on ethnoarchaelogical and archaeological data from many areas of the world - North and South America, Europe, Africa, and the Near East. It documents the many complex factors surrounding abandonment both across entire regions and within settlement areas, and makes an important theoretical and methodological contribution to this area of archaeological investigation
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    Keywords: Aborigines ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaft ; Wirtschaft. Geschichte ; Aboriginal Australians / Economic conditions ; Aboriginal Australians / History ; Aboriginal Australians / Government relations ; Economic history ; Wirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Aborigines ; Geschichte ; Australien ; Australia / Economic conditions ; Aborigines ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Aborigines ; Ökonomische Anthropologie
    Abstract: It is a common perception that the influence of the Aborigines on British settlement in Australia was minimal. The economic significance of Aboriginal culture for the colonisers is rarely addressed and until now, has not been closely studied by an economic historian. This imaginative book presents a concept of a pre-European Aboriginal economy. It shows how an Aboriginal presence over millennia shaped the local environment and responded to it, so that the Aboriginal economy developed into an ordered system of decision-making able to satisfy the wants of the people. The book closely analyses the processes which allowed economic control of a country to pass from Aboriginal to European hands within 60 years of settlement. Professor Butlin's presentation of the contrast between one of the world's most ancient economies and one of its youngest is both illuminating and exciting
    Description / Table of Contents: pt. I. The palaeoeconomic history of Aboriginal migration -- 1. Introduction. 2. Conventional views and alternative approaches. 3. Non-Malthusian issues: pathways and innovations. 4. Scarcity possibilities in Aboriginal migration. 5. Some possible migration scenarios. 6. A synthesis -- pt. II. Development, structure and function of Aboriginal economy -- 7. Introduction. 8. The process of early settlement. 9. Variety in the precontact Aboriginal economy. 10. The nature and function of Aboriginal economy. 11. Dynamic elements in the Aboriginal economy -- pt. III. Disease, economics and demography -- 12. Introduction. 13. The problem of an exposed population. 14. Re-estimating precontact populations. 15. Turning the models around -- pt. IV. The establishment of a bridgehead economy: 1788-1810 -- 16. Introduction. 17. History and theory. 18. Free lunches, antipodean style -- pt. V. The takeover process: 1788-1850 -- 19. Introduction. 20. British development in the long run
    Description / Table of Contents: 21. The hunter gatherers of empire. 22. British, American and Macassan presence in the takeover. 23. The major players. 24. Aborigines and British law. 25. The economics of takeover. 26. The composition and demographic impact of disease. 27. The interaction of disease with resistance, integration and submission -- 28. Conclusions -- Appendix 1: Preliminary model/checklist of Aboriginal migration to Australia -- Appendix 2: NOAA depth contour maps
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalismus ; Politik ; Nationalism / Europe ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Nationalismus ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Europe / Politics and government ; Europa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Europa ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalismus ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalitätenfrage ; Geschichte ; Europa ; Nationalbewegung ; Geschichte
    Abstract: The historical impact of national movements in Europe has been dramatic and continues to be an issue of major importance. Leading historians discuss authoritatively European nationalism in its historical context. Nationalism is not of course a specifically European phenomenon, but for reasons of space and intelligibility coverage has been limited geographically. The aim is that the essays should attract readers interested in a historical problem which has been difficult to encompass theoretically and to deal with practically. A glance at what is being shown or written in the media with regard to national and ethnical issues demonstrates the validity of this aim, not only with regard to the multinational former Soviet Union or Yugoslavia in eastern Europe, but also (for example) to the 'four nations' of the British Isles or bi-national Belgium in the west
    Description / Table of Contents: The British Isles : Celt and Saxon / Victor Kiernan -- The making of the French nation / Douglas Johnson -- The national question in Italy / Adrian Lyttelton -- The roots of the national question in Spain / Simon Barton -- Shifting nationalism : Belgians, Flemings and Walloons / Louis Vos -- The nation in German history / Walter Schmidt -- Nationalism and nation-state in Germany / Heinrich August Winkler -- The national identity of the Austrians / Ernst Bruckmüller -- The Czechs / Arnošt Klíma -- The national question in Hungary / Emil Niederhauser -- The union of Dalmatia with northern Croatia : a crucial question of the Croatian national integration in the nineteenth century / Miṙjana Gross -- The national question in Poland in the twentieth century / Jerzy Tomaszewski -- Finland : from Napoleonic legacy to Nordic co-operation / Matti Klinge
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    ISBN: 9781139052467
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 397 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Publications of the German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C.
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    Keywords: Weber, Max ; Weber, Max ; Sombart, Werner ; Protestantismus ; Wirtschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The historical relationship between Protestantism, capitalism, and democracy remains one of the most controversial intellectual themes of out time. Max Weber's famous thesis about the link between the 'Protestant ethic' and the 'spirit of capitalism' and its dissolution in his own era has been both widely acclaimed and heatedly disputed since its publication in 1904–5. This volume, the result of an international, interdisciplinary effort, throws light on the intellectual and cultural background of Weber's work, debates recent criticism of Weber's thesis, and confronts new historical insight on the 17th century with Weber's interpretation.
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    ISBN: 9780511628696
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 317 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 21
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte 1850-1920 ; Geschichte 1850-1920 ; Familie ; Industrialisierung ; Tilburg ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: This book is a quantitative study into the influence of the process of industrialisation on the nature and strength of family relationships in a Dutch community between 1850 and 1920. The study makes use of the unique and unusually rich source of Dutch population registers, which enables the author to trace the history of individual households. The study closely relates aspects of family and household with the social processes characteristic of an industrialising society, such as increasing rates of social and geographical mobility and the shift of production from the home into the factory. Results reveal a striking continuity in the strength of nineteenth-century family relations despite the gradual but profound process of social change surrounding these families. Changes in behavioural patterns did occur, however, under the influence of changes in demographic rates, regional geographical mobility systems and local developments in the housing market. Nevertheless, these changes cannot be taken as a weakening of family relationships.
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    ISBN: 9780511586354
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 231 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 87
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Stirrat, R. L. Power and religiosity in a post-colonial setting
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    Keywords: Catholic Church ; Catholic Church History 1965- ; Religionspolitik ; Gesellschaft ; Südasien ; Christian shrines Sri Lanka. ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages Sri Lanka. ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Christian shrines ; Catholic Church ; Sri Lanka ; History ; 1965- ; Christian shrines ; Sri Lanka ; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages ; Sri Lanka ; Sri Lanka ; Religion ; 20th century ; Sri Lanka Religion, 20th century. ; Sri Lanka Religion 20th century ; Sri Lanka ; Katholische Kirche ; Wallfahrt ; Geschichte 1965-1990
    Abstract: Over the past few decades a series of Catholic shrines have sprung up in Sri Lanka which draw hundreds of pilgrims. Although best known as centres for the exorcism of the demonically possessed, their miraculous efficacy also extends to helping people find jobs and preferment, and to alleviating suffering. Dr Stirrat, who has worked in Sri Lanka over a long period, is interested both in how people behave at the shrines, and in the historical and social contexts in which the shrines have appeared. He argues that an understanding of their religious importance is intricately connected with power, religious and political. This view challenges the conventional distinction between 'religion' and 'politics', and accordingly, religious suffering is seen as a complex metaphor linking together various social domains and a means through which conflicts over power and authority can be expressed.
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    ISBN: 9780511528170
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 234 pages)
    Series Statement: Political economy of institutions and decisions
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    Abstract: Many of the fundamental questions in social science entail an examination of the role played by social institutions. Why do we have so many social institutions? Why do they take one form in one society and quite different ones in others? In what ways do these institutions develop? When and why do they change? Institutions and Social Conflict addresses these questions in two ways. First it offers a thorough critique of a wide range of theories of institutional change, from the classical accounts of Smith, Hume, Marx and Weber to the contemporary approaches of evolutionary theory, the theory of social conventions and the new institutionalism. Secondly, it develops a new theory of institutional change that emphasises the distributional consequences of social institutions. The emergence of institutions is explained as a by-product of distributional conflict in which asymmetries of power in a society generate institutional solutions to conflicts.
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    ISBN: 9781139084871
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 183 pages)
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Soziologie ; Migration ; Ethnizität
    Abstract: Never before have so many people ended up in a place different from where they began, something which made the twentieth century a century of migration. Culture is central to the process of migration, yet it is rarely examined in studies of the political economy of labour migration. Originally published in 1992, From Another Place explores definitions and understandings of the relations between migration and cultural processes, calling into question the interrelation between circumstance and cultural practice. It is an insightful attempt to move away from the limitations of dichotomous explanations of migration, using the findings of sociology, political economy and literature in the discussion of cultural beliefs and practices. The book is a fascinating, empirically grounded study, useful in its discussion of the dynamics of gender and class as well as those of ethnicity and culture.
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    ISBN: 9780511607677
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (203 pages)
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    Keywords: Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book concerns barter, a transaction in which objects are exchanged directly for one another without the use of money. Economists treat barter as an inefficient alternative to market exchange, and assume that it is normal only in 'primitive' economies or marks the breakdown of more developed exchange mechanisms. For their part, anthropologists have been more interested in the social and moral complexities of the 'gift', and treat barter dismissively as mere haggling. The authors of this collection do not accept that barter occupies a residual space between monetary and gift economies. Using accounts from different parts of the world, they aim to demonstrate that it is more than a simple and self-evident economic institution. Barter may constitute a mode of exchange with its own social characteristics occupying a specific moral space. This novel treatment of barter represents an original and topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.
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    ISBN: 9781139166515
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 238 pages)
    Series Statement: Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology 1
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    Keywords: Konferenzschrift ; Konferenzschrift
    Abstract: A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modelled on animal behaviour, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The result has been insufficient appreciation of the role of culture in human motivation and a truncated view of culture as disembodied knowledge. In this volume, anthropologists have attempted a different approach, seeking to integrate knowledge, desire, and action in a single explanatory framework. This research builds upon recent work in cognitive anthropology on cultural models, that is, shared cognitive schemas through which human realities are constructed and interpreted, while also drawing upon insights from developmental psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and social theory. Most of the research described here was conducted in the United States and deals with some of the pressing concerns - romance, marriage, parenthood, and success - of women and men from different class and ethnic backgrounds. A study of gender roles in Mexico provides comparative cross-cultural data. Several of the chapters deal with oppressive social ideologies, exploring cultural models of gender and class. The careful, in-depth case studies and innovative methods of discourse analysis used here turn up findings about the relation of ideology to people's thought and action that challenge any kind of simple social determinism.
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    ISBN: 9780511607714
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 386 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 86
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Alltag ; Berlin ; Berlin
    Abstract: Belonging in the two Berlins is an ethnographic investigation into the meaning of German selfhood during the Cold War. Taking the practices of everyday life in the divided Berlin as his point of departure, Borneman shows how ideas of kin, state, and nation were constructed through processes of mirror-imaging and misrecognition. Using linguistics and narrative analysis, he compares the autobiographies of two generations of Berlins residents with the official version of the lifecourse prescribed by the two German states. He examines the relation of the dual political structure to everyday life, the way in which the two states legally regulated the lifecourse in order to define the particular categories of self which signify Germanness, and how citizens experientially appropriated the frameworks provided by these states. Living in the two Berlins constantly compelled residents to define themselves in opposition to their other half. Borneman argues that this resulted in a de facto divided Germany with two distinct nations and peoples. The formation of German subjectivity since World War II is unique in that the distinctive features for belonging - for being at home - to one side exclude the other. Indeed, these divisions inscribed by the Cold War account for many of the problems in forging a new cultural unity.
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    Keywords: Kollektiventscheidung
    Abstract: This textbook provides a survey of the literature of social choice. It integrates the ethical aspects of the subject, (discussing potentially desirable conditions for social judgements) with positive aspects of decision mechanisms that centre on the revelation of true preferences. The literature on the subject presently consists of a great many papers. This book draws them together in common notation and points out interpretations which are often missing in specialist papers. Applications in economics, electoral politics, and ethics are discussed. The book will be used by senior undergraduate and graduate students of economics, political science and philosophy as a text book in the subject.
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    ISBN: 9781139166508
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxv, 349 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 85
    DDC: 305.896/1068
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    Keywords: Khoisan ; Khoikhoin
    Abstract: The Khoisan are a cluster of southern African peoples, including the famous Bushmen or San 'hunters', the Khoekhoe 'herders' (in the past called 'Hottentots'), and the Damara, also a herding people. Most Khoisan live in the Kalahari desert and surrounding areas of Botswana and Namibia. In spite of differences in their way of life, the various groups have much in common, and this book explores these similarities and the influence of environment and history on aspects of Khoisan culture. This is the first book on the Khoisan as a whole since the publication in 1930 of The Khoisan Peoples of South Africa, by Isaac Schapera, doyen of southern African studies.
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    ISBN: 9780511628092
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 383 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialphilosophie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Politische Philosophie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This set of essays is concerned with the explanation of large scale social change. Concentration is on the social stagnation characteristic of agrarian circumstances, the conditions for exit from that world and the varied social orders that inhabit, sometimes precariously, the modern world community. The distinguished contributors, from archaeology, anthropology, sociology, economic history and philosophy, have all been stimulated by the work of Ernest Gellner, and the essays are in dialogue with his view of our social condition.
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    ISBN: 9780511558351
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 381 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Geschichte ; Race ; Physical anthropology ; Eugenics / Great Britain / History ; Eugenics / United States / History ; Racism / Great Britain / History ; Racism / United States / History ; Rassenfrage ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte ; Rassismus ; Rasse ; Anthropologie ; Begriff ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Great Britain / Race relations ; United States / Race relations ; USA ; Großbritannien ; USA ; Rassismus ; Anthropologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rasse ; Begriff ; Wissenschaft ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1919-1933 ; USA ; Rassismus ; Ethnologie ; Biologie ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte ; USA ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; Großbritannien ; Rassismus ; Wissenschaft ; Geschichte 1919-1939 ; USA ; Rassenfrage ; Geschichte 1914-1945 ; Rassenfrage ; Großbritannien ; Geschichte 1914-1945
    Abstract: This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two World Wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to cultural factors. Professor Barkan considers the social significance of this transformation, particularly its effect on race relations in the modern world. Discussing the work of the leading biologists and anthropologists who wrote between the wars, he argues that the impetus for the shift in ideologies came from the inclusion of outsiders (women, Jews, and leftists) who infused greater egalitarianism into scientific discourse. But even though the emerging view of race was constrained by a scientific language, he shows that modern theorists were as much influenced by social and political events as were their predecessors
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    ISBN: 9780511621895
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 270 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 83
    DDC: 306/.099593
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1890-1975 ; Mission ; Salomoninseln
    Abstract: For people who live in small communities transformed by powerful outside forces, narrative accounts of culture contact and change create images of collective identity through the idiom of shared history. How may we understand the processes that make such accounts compelling for those who tell them? Why do some narratives acquire a kind of mythic status as they are told and retold in a variety of contexts and genres? Identity Through History attempts to explain how identity formation developed among the people of Santa Isabel in the Solomon Islands who were victimised by raiding headhunters in the nineteenth century, and then embraced Christianity around the turn of the century. Making innovative use of work in psychological and historical anthropology, Geoffrey White shows how these significant events were crucial to the community's view of itself in shifting social and political circumstances.
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    ISBN: 9780511570933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (vii, 366 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Political sociology ; Social control ; Authoritarianism ; Kritische Theorie ; Politische Soziologie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Politische Soziologie ; Soziologische Theorie ; Kritische Theorie
    Abstract: Sciulli argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism. This 1992 book focuses on government structure and fails to take account of forms of social control exercised outside the governmental sphere. Rather than define authoritarianism primarily by contrast to liberal democracy, Sciulli argues, we need to broaden our conception of authoritarianism to include 'social authoritarianism', referring to social control imposed by private organizations and institutions. Sciulli develops an alternative conceptual framework, which he calls the theory of societal constitutionalism. He explains how the theory can be used to assess whether social order in a society, whether democratic or authoritarian in political rule, is characterized by some degree of social authoritarianism. The book will be important reading for theorists in sociology, political science and legal studies
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521374561 , 0521376076
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 311 Seiten , Diagramme
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: Studies in rationality and social change
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    Keywords: Gesellschaftsordnung ; Sozialordnung ; Soziale Integration ; Kollektives Verhalten ; Soziale Norm
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    ISBN: 9780511621581
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 117 pages)
    Series Statement: Lewis Henry Morgan lectures
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    Keywords: Religion ; Violence / Religious aspects ; Sacrifice ; Experience (Religion) ; Religion and civilization ; Gewalt ; Religiöse Erfahrung ; Opfer ; Religion ; Gewalt ; Religion ; Opfer ; Religion ; Religiöse Erfahrung
    Abstract: Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically sacrificing the participants themselves, so allowing them to participate in the immortality of a transcendent entity. Such sacrifices are achieved through acts of symbolic violence, ranging from bodily mutilations to the killing of animals. The theme is developed with reference to rituals of many types, from a variety of ethnographic sources, and Bloch shows that even exogamous marriage rituals can be reinterpreted in the light of this thesis. He concludes by considering the indirect relation of symbolic and ritual violence to political violence
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511529177
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 213 pages)
    Series Statement: African studies 74
    DDC: 967.51/0049639
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    Keywords: Geschichte Anfänge-1895 ; Soziales System ; Kanyoka
    Abstract: In this study John Yoder chronicles the history of the Kanyok, a people from the southern savanna of Zaire, from before 1500 until their incorporation into the Congo Free State in the 1890s. By analysing their oral histories, myths, and legends, he describes the political and cultural development of a people who, before 1891, had no written records. Yoder sets his work firmly within the larger context of the southern savanna by extending his investigations to the traditions of neighbouring peoples, in particular to the Luba and the Lunda, whose empires once dominated the region. In this way he demonstrates how the same stories and ideas circulated over a vast area but were continually adapted to local circumstances. Yoder's history of the Kanyok of Zaire thereby forms the nucleus for a broader and more composite understanding of the entire region.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511818691
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 367 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
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    DDC: 303.3/8
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    Keywords: Public opinion ; Attitude (Psychology) ; Political psychology ; Public opinion polls ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Einstellung ; Demoskopie ; Politische Einstellung ; Demoskopie ; Einstellung ; Politische Einstellung ; Öffentliche Meinung
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    ISBN: 0521392691 , 9780521794848
    Language: English
    Pages: 249 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
    DDC: 323.11991509429
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    Keywords: Ethnologie ; Grundeigentum ; Soziale Situation ; Yarralin ; Bodenordnung ; Aborigines
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    ISBN: 9780521297080 , 9780521229029
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 196 Seiten
    Edition: Reprinted
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521027
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 210 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 81
    DDC: 306.85/094897
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    Keywords: Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: Based on field research in eastern Finland not far from the Russian border, this book is an account of the main features of rural society in the area. It pays detailed attention to the adaptability of farming families in a rapidly changing world. Subjects treated include marriage and the family, work and mechanization, succession to farms, and the paradoxical combination of fierce individualism and co-operation. Two major themes of the book are the relation between law and custom, which is not always what it seems on the surface, and the complex interlocking of farm, family and the wider society.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511611827
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 278 pages)
    DDC: 305.8/001
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    Keywords: Ethnomethodologie ; Einführung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Einführung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Traditionally, when the human sciences consider foundational issues such as epistemology and method, they do so by theorising them. Ethnomethodology, however, attempts to make such foundational matters a focus of attention, and directly enquires into them. This book reappraises the significance of ethnomethodology in sociology in particular, and in the human sciences in general. It demonstrates how, through its empirical enquiries into the ordered properties of social action, ethnomethodology provides a radical respecification of the foundations of the human sciences, an achievement that has often been misunderstood. The chapters, by leading scholars, take up the specification of action and order in theorising, logic, epistemology, measurement, evidence, the social actor, cognition, language and culture, and moral judgement, and underscore the ramifications for the human sciences of the ethnomethodologist's approach. This is a systematic and coherent collection which explicitly addresses fundamental conceptual issues. The clear exposition of the central tenets of ethnomethodology is especially welcome.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139166430
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 264 pages)
    DDC: 305.89/912
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    Abstract: Deborah Gewertz and Frederick Errington have worked as anthropologists in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. In this, their second joint study of the Chambri, they consider the way those in a small-scale society, peripheral to the major centres of influence, struggle to sustain some degree of autonomy. They describe the Chambri caught up in world processes of social and cultural change, and attempt to create a 'collective biography' which conveys the intelligibility and significance of the twentieth-century experience of these Papua New Guineans whom they have come to know well. This biography consists of interlocking stories, twisted histories, commentaries and contexts about Chambri who are negotiating their objectives while entangled in systemic change and confronting Western representations of modernization and development.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521157
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 309 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 74
    DDC: 306.81
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    Keywords: Stamm ; Frau ; Familie ; Islam ; Maduzai ; Eheschließung ; Afghanistan
    Abstract: Bartered Brides is a detailed study of marriage among the Maduzai, a tribal society in Afghan Turkistan. It is the first study of the area which looks in depth at both the domestic aspects of marriage and its relation to the productive and reproductive activities of women, as well as marriage as a means of managing political and economic conflict and competition. The fieldwork was carried out in the early 1970s before the 1978 coup and Soviet invasion. In this respect the book offers a unique account of a world that has disappeared. Nancy Tapper presents both male and female perspectives, detailed case studies and historical and statistical material. As an ethnographic and historical record, Bartered Brides breaks new ground in the study of Islam, the Middle East and South-west Asia. As the most detailed and extensive discussion of a Middle Eastern marriage system to date, it contributes to wider anthropological studies of marriage, politics and gender.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139173902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 354 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/2/098
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    Keywords: Demokratisierung ; Politische Elite ; Stabilität ; Elite ; Südeuropa ; Lateinamerika ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570933
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (vii, 366 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Soziologische Theorie ; Kritische Theorie ; Politische Soziologie
    Abstract: Sciulli argues that the existing conceptual frameworks of political and social theory restrict both theorists and empirical researchers to a narrow definition of authoritarianism. This 1992 book focuses on government structure and fails to take account of forms of social control exercised outside the governmental sphere. Rather than define authoritarianism primarily by contrast to liberal democracy, Sciulli argues, we need to broaden our conception of authoritarianism to include 'social authoritarianism', referring to social control imposed by private organizations and institutions. Sciulli develops an alternative conceptual framework, which he calls the theory of societal constitutionalism. He explains how the theory can be used to assess whether social order in a society, whether democratic or authoritarian in political rule, is characterized by some degree of social authoritarianism. The book will be important reading for theorists in sociology, political science and legal studies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511527715
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 332 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in emotion and social interaction. Second series
    DDC: 155.8/09598
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    Keywords: Syair Perang Siak ; Kulturvergleich ; Ethnopsychologie ; Gefühl ; Indonesien
    Abstract: In this book, Karl G. Heider studies the cultural constructions of emotions, examining how different cultures shape ideas and talk about emotion. The main subjects of the study are the Minangkabau, a matrilineal Muslim culture of three million people in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Comparative data come from the Central Javanese, also of Indonesia and reference is made to studies of American emotions. The Minangkabau have two different 'cultures of emotion', used depending on whether they are speaking their own regional language or the national language. And the Central Javanese have yet another culture of emotion when they are speaking the 'same' national language. Landscapes of Emotion will appeal to a range of readers in anthropology, psychology, sociology and Asian studies who want to understand how different cultures shape emotion.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511803178
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 236 pages)
    Edition: Second edition
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    DDC: 393
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    Keywords: Funeral rites and ceremonies ; Death ; Brauch ; Bestattungsritus ; Tod ; Tod ; Brauch ; Bestattungsritus
    Abstract: This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology and religion. Part of its fascination is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. The authors refer to a wide variety of examples, from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the Berawan of Borneo and the pyramids of Egypt, as well as the dramas of medieval French royal funerals and the burial alive of the Dinka 'masters of the spear' in the Sudan, and other rituals which at first sight seem to have little in common. Many of these cases are anthropological classics, but the authors place them in an alternative context, so as to shape a novel synthesis on the anthropology of death ritual. A fresh introduction reviews theoretical developments in the field since the book first appeared in 1979
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    ISBN: 9780511470547
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 276 pages)
    DDC: 306/.0945/751
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Siedlung ; Stadtgeografie ; Apulien ; Locorotondo
    Abstract: This book is an historical and anthropological study of Locorotondo in the province of Bari in south-eastern Italy. It focuses on the unusual nature of peasant society in the region and attempts to explain how it came about. What distinguishes Locorotondo and the neighbouring towns is that peasants live dispersed in the countryside rather than in densely populated rural towns, the pattern more typical for southern Italy. The people are mainly small proprietor grape growers, and have traditionally been better off than other southern Italian peasants. The book traces the development pattern from the eighteenth century. Interweaving anthropological understanding with historical data, the author assesses its effect on family life, social structure, and the relationship between town and country.
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    ISBN: 9780511520600
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 287 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialstruktur ; Ethnische Identität ; Religionssoziologie ; Israel
    Abstract: This book is a major sociological analysis of the characteristics and interrelationships of ethnicity, religion, and socio-economic class in Israeli society. The analysis of ethnicity focuses on the differences among Jews from different countries of origin (from Europe, North Africa and Asia), although there is also a chapter on Palestinian Arabs in Israel. This work takes the analysis of ethnic identities and relations much further than previous studies of Israeli society, and is the first to compare the importance of ethnicity with both religion and class and to illustrate the nature of the relationships between all three divisions. The combination of sophisticated theory and research advances the study of Israeli society in particular and the study of social cleavages and conflicts within society in general.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511551604
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 421 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet studies 79
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    Keywords: NSZZ "Solidarność" ; NSZZ "Solidarność" ; Soziologie ; Berufsgruppe ; Gesellschaft ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Sozialismus ; Polen ; Sowjetunion
    Abstract: The Solidarity movement of the early 1980s not only triggered a transformation in Polish society, it forced a fundamental reconsideration of the nature of socialism throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Seen as one of the most important social movements of the twentieth century, Michael Kennedy develops a theoretical conception of Soviet-type societies by analysing Solidarity's significance. He explains the background to the nature of the conflict between Solidarity and the authorities and considers the implications of Solidarity's struggle for the theory of the Soviet-type system's reproduction and transformation. Then, the internal constitution of Solidarity in terms of gender and, in particular, cross-class alliances is examined, which is followed by the implications of his analysis both for understanding perestroika in the Soviet Union and more generally for reformulating a critical sociology of Soviet-type societies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521133
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 259 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 80
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    Keywords: Soziale Situation ; Giryama ; Religion ; Brauch
    Abstract: In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as labourers or fishermen on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. Their different perspectives sometimes conflict, but together provide a shifting idea of the sacred place. As the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies, moreover, the settlement becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defence against total domination and assimilation.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 259 pages)
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Giryama (African people) / Religion ; Giryama (African people) / Social life and customs ; Brauch ; Soziale Situation ; Giryama ; Religion ; Giryama ; Religion ; Giryama ; Soziale Situation ; Giryama ; Brauch
    Abstract: In this innovative study, David Parkin shows how indigenous African rites and beliefs may be reworked to accommodate a variety of economic systems, new spatial and ecological relations between communities, and the locally variable influences of Islam and Christianity. The Giriama people of Kenya include pastoralists living in the hinterland; farmers, who work land closer to the coast; and migrants, who earn money as labourers or fishermen on the coast itself. Wherever they live, they revere an ancient and formerly fortified capital, located in the pastoralist hinterland, which few of them ever see or visit. Their different perspectives sometimes conflict, but together provide a shifting idea of the sacred place. As the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies, moreover, the settlement becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defence against total domination and assimilation
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    ISBN: 9780511720260
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 197 pages)
    Edition: Canto edition.
    Series Statement: Canto original series
    Uniform Title: Cercle des feux.
    DDC: 981.100498
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    Keywords: Yanomami ; Erzählung
    Abstract: The Yanomami Indians, living in the depths of the Venezuelan forest, are one of the most interesting of the world's tribal peoples. Jacques Lizot lived among them for over fifteen years and has written an account which allows them to speak for themselves, in stories told by Yanomami individuals. The tales are revealing in the insights they provide into the Indians' daily experience; their shamanism, magic and sorcery; and conflict and alliance with other villages. The result is a richly evocative and intimate account - illustrated with revealing photographs of the Yanomami's own perceptions of their world - recreating in detail the atmosphere, speech, noises, smells and images of life in the Amazon forest.
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    ISBN: 9780511560873
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 281 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 17
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    DDC: 941/.0088286
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    Keywords: Society of Friends / History ; Society of Friends ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900 ; Geschichte ; Quakers / Great Britain / History ; Demographic transition / Great Britain ; Demographic transition / Ireland ; Quakers / Ireland / History ; Society of Friends / History ; Sozialstruktur ; Bevölkerung ; Großbritannien ; Irland ; Irland ; Großbritannien ; Britische Inseln ; Großbritannien ; Society of Friends ; Sozialstruktur ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Britische Inseln ; Society of Friends ; Bevölkerung ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Irland ; Society of Friends ; Sozialstruktur ; Geschichte 1650-1900 ; Großbritannien ; Society of Friends ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900 ; Irland ; Society of Friends ; Sozialgeschichte 1650-1900
    Abstract: In Friends in Life and Death two distinguished historians join forces to exploit the exceptional riches offered by the records of British and Irish Quakers for the student of social, demographic, and familial change during the period 1650–1900. Professor Vann and Eversley have analysed the experiences of more than 8,000 Quaker families, involving over 30,000 individuals, to produce an unparalleled study of patterns of child-bearing, marriage, and death among a major religious grouping. The authors, wherever possible, compare the Quakers in the British Isles with the contemporary population of Britain and Ireland as a whole, as well as with those of France, Québec, and the American colonies
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    ISBN: 9780511518218
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 387 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in the social and cultural foundations of language 10
    DDC: 409.953
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    Keywords: Zeremoniell ; Ethnolinguistik ; Nebilyer Valley
    Abstract: The highlanders of New Guinea are renowned for their elaborate systems of ceremonial exchange. Although much has been written about them, previous accounts have concentrated far less on the conduct of exchange events than on the structure of exchange systems. This 1991 book deals centrally with the conduct of particular exchange events, and shows through examination of them how larger social structures are reproduced and transformed. As part of the emphasis on exchange as social action, the book closely examines the oratory that plays a crucial part in the events. Basing their study on original fieldwork carried out in the Nebilyer Valley, Francesca Merlan and Alan Rumsey focus on an inter related set of large-scale compensation payments which arose out of an episode of warfare. This book furthers our understanding of the interaction between social structures and historical events; and particularly of the crucial role of talk. It will be of special interest to anthropologists and linguists.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xviii, 489 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 16
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1600-1700 ; Geschichte 1500-1600 ; Geschichte 1500-1620 ; Geschichte ; Manors / England / London / History ; Community organization / England / London / History ; Havering (London, England) / History ; London (England) / History / 16th century ; London (England) / History / 17th century ; London-Havering ; London-Havering ; Geschichte 1500-1620
    Abstract: A Community Transformed traces the restructuring of Havering between 1500 and 1620 through detailed analysis of demographic patterns, the economy, religion, social and cultural forms, and local administration and law. McIntosh's study, the most complex and richly drawn portrait of any English community in this period, goes beyond local history in illuminating the transition from medieval to early modem life. A Community Transformed is the sequel to Professor McIntosh's acclaimed work Autonomy and Community: The Royal Manor of Havering, 1200–1500, published by Cambridge in 1986
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    ISBN: 9780511563003
    Language: English , English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 149 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 14
    Uniform Title: Popolazione e alimentazione.
    DDC: 304.6/094
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1200-1900 ; Bevölkerung ; Bevölkerungswachstum ; Hungersnot ; Europa
    Abstract: From the time of Malthus, the insufficient supply of food resources has been considered the main constraint of population growth and the main factor in the high mortality prevailing in pre-industrial times. In this essay, the mechanisms of biological, social and cultural nature linking subsistence, mortality and population and determining its short and long term cycles are discussed. The author's analysis examines the existing evidence from the century of the Great Plague to the industrial revolution, interpreting the scanty quantitative information concerning caloric budgets and food supply, prices and wages, changes in body height and epidemiological history, demographic behaviours of the rich and of the poor. The emerging picture sheds doubts on the existence of a long term interrelation between subsistence of nutritional levels and mortality, showing that the level of the latter was determined more by the epidemiological cycles than by the nutritional level of the population.
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    ISBN: 9780511607783
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 358 pages)
    DDC: 305.5/633/0951
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    Keywords: Bauer ; Ländlicher Raum ; Landbevölkerung ; China ; Fallstudiensammlung ; Fallstudiensammlung
    Abstract: This landmark study of Zengbu, a Cantonese community, is the first comprehensive analysis of a rural Chinese society by foreign anthropologists since the Revolution in 1949. Jack and Sulamith Potter examine the revolutionary experiences of Zengbu's peasant villagers and document the rapid changeover from Maoist to post-Maoist China. In particular, they seek to explain the persistence of the deep structure of Chinese culture through thirty years of revolutionary praxis. The authors assess the continuities and changes in rural China, moving from the traditional social organization and cultural life of the pre-revolutionary period through the series of large-scale efforts to implement planned social change which characterized Maoism - land reform, collectivization, the Great Leap Forward, and the Cultural Revolution. They examine in detail late Maoist society in 1979–80 and go on to describe and analyse the extraordinary changes of the post-Mao years, during which Zengbu was decollectivized, and traditional customs and religious practices reappeared.
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    ISBN: 9781139173728
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 625 pages)
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    Keywords: Kongress ; Kulturpsychologie
    Abstract: This book raises the idea of a distinct discipline of cultural psychology, the study of the ways that psyche and culture, subject and object, and person and world make up each other. Cultural Psychology is a collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics who examine these relationships with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, personality dynamics, and gender. The chapters critically examine such questions as: Is there an intrinsic psychic unity to humankind? Can cultural traditions transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity than in ethnic divergences in mind, self, and emotion? Are psychological processes local or specific to the sociocultural environments in which they are embedded? The volume is an outgrowth of the internationally known Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development. It will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience of anthropologists, psychologists, linguists, historians, philosophers and hermeneutists interested in the prospects for a distinct discipline of cultural psychology.
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    ISBN: 9780511521010
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 192 pages)
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    Abstract: Concerned with the aspects of human behaviour which have been traditionally described as cultural or social, the author draws on his background in physics to suggest a scientific approach involving a reconceptualization of many of our assumed concepts. Are culture, society and similar concepts from anthropology and sociology of any real use in making sense of human social life? How can we understand the relationship between the social group and the individual human beings, with their self-awareness and sense of personal identity, who make it up? Drawing on his background in physics, Dr Samuel suggests a scientific approach involving a reconceptualization of many of the concepts we take for granted. The multimodal framework, or MMF, derives from this approach. It incorporates many of the insights of social and cultural anthropology, particularly the work of Gregory Bateson and Victor Turner, as well as being influenced by recent developments in the philosophy of science and related fields. Finally, the book considers some of the implications of the MMF for biological approaches, and focuses on questions of brain structure and on evolutionary explanations for human social behaviour.
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    ISBN: 9780511621703
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xix, 542 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in literacy, family, culture, and the state
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    DDC: 392/.5/095
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Marriage customs and rites / Asia ; Marriage customs and rites / Europe ; Sozialanthropologie ; Brauch ; Hochzeit ; Familie ; Geschichte ; Asien ; Europa ; Asia / Social life and customs ; Europe / Social life and customs ; Asien ; Europa ; Europa ; Hochzeit ; Brauch ; Geschichte ; Asien ; Hochzeit ; Brauch ; Geschichte ; Familie ; Sozialanthropologie
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    ISBN: 9780511621680
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 201 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 70
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    DDC: 306.4/5
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    Keywords: Numerals ; Folklore ; Symbolism of numbers ; Economic anthropology ; Symbolism in folklore
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    ISBN: 9780511521058
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 143 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 68
    DDC: 303.48/2
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    Keywords: Kulturkontakt
    Abstract: Tradition is a central concept in the social sciences, but it is commonly treated as unproblematic. Dr Boyer insists that social anthropology requires a theory of tradition, its constitution and transmission. He treats tradition 'as a type of interaction which results in the repetition which results in the repetition of certain communicative events', and therefore as a form of social action. Tradition as Truth and Communication deals particularly with oral communication and focuses on the privileged role of licensed speakers and the ritual contexts in which certain aspects of tradition are characteristically transmitted. Drawing on cognitive psychology, Dr Boyer proposes a set of general hypotheses to be tested by ethnographic field research. He has opened up an important new field for investigation within social anthropology.
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    ISBN: 9780511470721
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 250 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge South Asian studies 44
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    Abstract: To the modern world, the notions that freedom is an innate condition of human beings and that money possesses the power to bind people appear as natural facts. Bonded Histories traces the historical processes by which these notions became established as dominant discourses in India during colonial rule and continued into post-colonial India. Gyan Prakash locates the formulation of these discourses in the history of bonded labour in southern Bihar. He focuses on the emergence and subsequent transformation of the relationship of reciprocal power and dependence between landlords and labourers. The author explores the way in which these transformations were connected with broader shifts in the political economy of this part of the subcontinent; with the changing structures of agricultural production, land tenure and revenue demand; with local social hierarchies and the ideology of castes; and with Hindu cosmologies, spirit cults and their articulation in ritual practices.
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    ISBN: 9781139173759
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 187 pages)
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    Keywords: Spieltheorie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: This book, first published in 1991, offers an integrative approach to the study of formal models in the social and behavioural sciences. The theory presented here unifies both the representation of the social environment and the equilibrium concept. The theory requires that all alternatives that are available to the players be specified in an explicit and detailed manner, and this specification is defined as a social 'situation'. A situation, therefore, not only consists of the alternatives currently available to the players, but also includes the set of opportunities that might be induced by the players from their current environment. The theory requires that all recommended alternatives be both internally and externally stable; the recommendation cannot be self-defeating and, at the same time, should account for alternatives that were not recommended. In addition to unifying the representation and the solution concept, the theory also extends the social environments accommodated by current game theory.
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    ISBN: 9780511558009
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 207 pages)
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    Abstract: Drawing upon their joint fieldwork, the authors cast this book as a conversation involving themselves, a Colombian rural people, and the writings of past economists. In their view, the material practices of the rural folk constitute a house model of the economy, and the Colombian voices provide a window on prior European fold conversations about the house. The house and the corporation have been the principal modes of material organization in Western life: the former is older, but the latter now predominates. The authors suggest, through use of the Colombian conversations, that textualists of the past transformed and inscribed similar folk voices for their emerging theories of the corporation and the market. They argue that economic knowledge is not simply the product of a scientific community but is often appropriated from folk practices. By situating the knowledge gained from fieldwork within their own traditions, and by using that knowledge to reflect upon the origins of contemporary wisdom, the book implicates the modern-day ethnographer, rural folk, and economist as participants in a long conversation.
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    ISBN: 9780511607806
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 298 pages)
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    Abstract: The field of performance studies embraces performance behaviour of all kinds and in all contexts, from everyday life to high ceremony. This volume investigates a wide range of performance behaviour - dance, ritual, conflict situation, sports, storytelling and display behaviour - in a variety of circumstances and cultures. It considers such issues as the relationship between training and the finished performance; whether performance behaviour is universal or culturally specific; and the relationships between ritual aesthetics, popular entertainment and religion, and sports and theatre and dance. The volume brings together essays from leading anthropologists, artists and performance theorists to provide a definitive introduction to the burgeoning field of performance studies. It will be of value to scholars, teachers and students of anthropology, theatre, folklore, semiotics and performance studies.
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    ISBN: 9780511598357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xi, 310 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 72
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    Keywords: Alltag, Brauchtum ; Bedouins / Libya / Cyrenaica ; Beduine ; Cyrenaica (Libya) / Social life and customs ; Libyen ; Cyrenaika ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Erlebnisbericht ; Beduine ; Libyen ; Beduine ; Cyrenaika
    Abstract: Emrys Peters studied the Bedouin of Libya for more than thirty years. The handful of articles published during his lifetime were widely admired and are still essential reading for anthropologists. He left further significant papers unpublished at his death, and the editors have drawn on these for half of this collection, which brings together his major writings on the Bedouin. These seminal essays are not only of ethnographic interest. All Peters' work is informed by a rigorous theoretical intelligence, and his analysis of power in Bedouin society has fascinated many discerning social scientists
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction / Emanuel Marx -- 1. The Sanusi order and the Bedouin -- 2. The Bedouin way of life -- 3. The tied and the free -- 4. Aspects of the feud -- 5. Proliferation of segments -- 6. The power of Shaikhs -- 7. Debt relationships -- 8. Family and marriage -- 9. Bridewealth -- 10. The status of women
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    ISBN: 0521374251 , 9780521374255 , 0521376890 , 9780521376891
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 187 Seiten
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    Keywords: Interaktion ; Interaktion ; Situation ; Soziale Situation ; Sozialpsychologie ; Spieltheorie ; Theorie ; Soziologie ; Spieltheorie ; Verhaltenswissenschaften ; Interaktion ; Interaktion ; Spieltheorie ; Spieltheorie ; Verhaltenswissenschaften ; Spieltheorie ; Soziologie
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    Keywords: Sociology / Methodology ; Anthropology / Methodology ; Paradigms (Social sciences) ; Anthropologie ; Soziologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Anthropologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: John Barnes's collection of essays covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: he is primarily interested in 'what really happens'. Rather than revamp articles written with a distinctive set of assumptions to bring them into line with current intellectual fashion, Professor Barnes has chosen to let them stand as they are, products of identifiable theoretical stance and modes of exposition. But introductory notes to each chapter set out the context in which the piece was originally written and draw attention to later publications and events that bear on it. An introduction discusses in detail the author's view of social science as the construction of models rather than a search for social laws, while the final chapter presents a model of the modelling process itself
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    Keywords: Anthropologie ; Soziologie
    Abstract: John Barnes's collection of essays covers a variety of topics in sociology and anthropology, including lineage systems, social networks, colonialism, underlying assumptions of social science, and the significance of time in social analysis. Together they identify the author's particular view of social science: he is primarily interested in 'what really happens'. Rather than revamp articles written with a distinctive set of assumptions to bring them into line with current intellectual fashion, Professor Barnes has chosen to let them stand as they are, products of identifiable theoretical stance and modes of exposition. But introductory notes to each chapter set out the context in which the piece was originally written and draw attention to later publications and events that bear on it. An introduction discusses in detail the author's view of social science as the construction of models rather than a search for social laws, while the final chapter presents a model of the modelling process itself.
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    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 263 pages)
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    DDC: 331.13/79416
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    Keywords: Unemployed / Northern Ireland ; Unemployment insurance / Northern Ireland ; Arbeitslosigkeit ; Nordirland ; Nordirland ; Arbeitslosigkeit
    Abstract: Age-old ideas about the deserving and undeserving poor are still pervasive in our society. Stereotypes of the scrounger and the malingerer, and the widespread belief that much joblessness is voluntary, continue to constitute the ideological basis of conservative social policy on unemployment and poverty. In this study of unemployment in Belfast, Dr Howe successfully refutes some of the widely held myths about the black economy, the welfare benefit system and the so-called culture of dependency. This is a major ethnography of unemployment and the first community-based book on contemporary unemployment in the United Kingdom. It is an account of the social, psychological and material circumstances of working-class, long-term unemployed married men in both Catholic and Protestant communities in Belfast. Dr Howe shows how the experience of unemployment is shaped both by local factors and by factors that are more generally characteristic of industrial societies. These include the bureaucratic administration of welfare benefits, the exploitation of opportunities in the black economy and the conflict between those with and those without jobs
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511607691
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 174 pages)
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    Abstract: If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities? Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The notion of distinct mentalities has been used extensively by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity. Professor Lloyd rejects this psychologising talk of mentalities and proposes an alternative approach, which takes as its starting point the social contexts of communication. Discussing apparently irrational beliefs and behaviour (such as magic), he shows how different forms of thought coexist in a single culture but within conventionally defined contexts.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511572579
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxiii, 511 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 73
    DDC: 306.8/0943/471
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Erbfolge ; Eigentum ; Familienstruktur ; Ländlicher Haushalt ; Neckarhausen
    Abstract: This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep reflection on anthropological approaches to historical problems. David Sabean is concerned to recover the tenor of marital relationships within a particular context of production and surplus extraction; he is concerned equally with capturing the logic of gender and generational conflict within strategies of subsistence and survival, the fabric of rights and obligations, and the coherence of life trajectories. Sabean's analysis of Neckarhausen is a challenge to conventional notions about modernization and family and kinship. As population increased and an influx of captial brought about a reorganization of agricultural production, for managing the forces of social reproduction. Peasants, it turns out, were innovative and flexible, experimenting with new commodity markets. The 'green revolution' at the dawn of the modern era is shown to have had a tremendous impact on the utilization of labor. Intensification of agriculture completely reorganized women's schedules, bringing about a new labor discipline and a crisis in marital relationships. Arguing for the concept of 'property' as a fundamental tool for social analysis, Sabean examines the peculiarities of property devolution, the distribution of tools, and the sale of land. His book is a stunning example of history written from the perspective of 'everyday life'.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511521218
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 145 pages)
    Series Statement: New directions in archaeology
    DDC: 306/.3
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    Keywords: Lebensmittelversorgung ; Vorratswirtschaft ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift 1984 ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Bad Year Economics explores the role of risk and uncertainty in human economics within an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural framework. Drawing on archaeology, anthropology, and ancient and modern history, the contributors range widely in time and space across hunting, farming and pastoralism, across ancient states, empires, and modern nation states. The aim, however, is a common one: to analyse in each case the structure of variability - particularly with regard to food supply - and review the range of responses offered by individual human communities. These responses commonly exploit various forms of mobility, economic diversification, storage, and exchange to deploy local or temporary abundance as a defence against shortage. Different levels of response are used at different levels of risk. Their success is fundamental to human survival and their adoption has important ramifications throughout cultural behaviour.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570889
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 387 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 301/.01
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    Keywords: Einführung
    Abstract: This book sets out a generative structuralist conception of general theoretical sociology; its philosophy, its problems, and its methods. The field is defined as a comprehensive research tradition with many intersecting subtraditions that share conceptual components. The focus is on formalization and unification as processes that can help advance the state of theory today. An integrative philosophy of the field is set out in terms of a process worldview, with a focus on generativity in explanation and a conception of the structure of theories as hierarchical meaning control systems. This philosophy is implemented in two phases. In the first phase, Professor Fararo defines the core problems of theoretical sociology in the context of setting out and illustrating the logic of a nonlinear dynamical social systems framework. A critical analysis of the outcome of this phase then leads, in the second phase, to formal treatments of action principles and structural analysis. A variety of traditions are drawn upon to treat theoretical problems of order and integration, as well as to examine searchingly problems of formalization and unification in theoritical sociology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139084864
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 296 pages)
    DDC: 306.8/099
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    Keywords: Frau ; Akkulturation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Familie ; Familiensoziologie ; Pazifischer Raum ; Ozeanien ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: The combined forces of mission evangelism and colonial intervention have transformed the everyday family life of Pacific peoples. The dramatic changes that affected the political and economic autonomy of indigenous people in the region also had significant effects on domestic life. This book, originally published in 1989, examines the ways in which this happened. Using the insights of history and anthropology, chapters cover a wide range of geographical range, extending from Hawaii to Australia. The authors examine changes in medicine and health, religious beliefs, architecture and settlement, and the restructuring of the domestic realm. The book raises issues of concern to a wide range of interests: the peoples and history of the Pacific, the broader questions of colonialism and missionary endeavour, and the changing structure of the family.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511528842
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 357 pages)
    DDC: 303.48/3
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1815-1914 ; Sozialgeschichte 1815-1914 ; Ingenieur ; Deutschland ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: New Profession, Old Order explores the creative tension between modern technology and preindustrial Germany. It offers an explanation of why the engineering profession is so successful in transforming the physical world, did not achieve the professional power, cohesion, and prestige that its technological accomplishments would seem to have warranted. On the one hand, engineers were agents of modern instrumental rationality, specialization, practical knowledge, and entrepreneurial capitalism - forces antiasthetical to the quasi-aristocratic world of Bildung and bureaucracy that was the life blood of the preindustrial social hierarchy. On the other hand, it was this latter universe in which engineers had to survive and by whose standards they were judged for membership in the educated middle class or for access to prestigious careers. The result was an orientation that combined the old and the new in ways that were at once uniquely German and paradigmatic for modern industrial society.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511624995
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 311 pages)
    Series Statement: Studies in rationality and social change
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    Abstract: The question Jon Elster addresses in this challenging book is what binds societies together and prevents them from disintegrating into chaos and war. He analyses two concepts of social order: stable, predictable patterns of behaviour, and co-operative behaviour. The book examines various aspects of collective action and bargaining from the perspective of rational-choice theory and the theory of social norms. It is a fundamental assumption of the book that social norms provide an important kind of motivation for action that is irreducible to rationality. The book represents a major statement by Elster, which will be of particular interest to political scientists, political philosophers, sociologists, and economists.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511898297
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 208 pages)
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    Keywords: Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: The most influential sociologist to have emerged in the United States, Talcott Parsons developed a distinctive theoretical synthesis which drew on Weber, Smobart, Durkheim and Marx. He was the moving spirit behind the interdisciplinary Department of Social Relations at Harvard, and he became a central figure in the development of the social sciences in post-war America. Interest in his theories is now reviving, after a period of neglect, and Bruce C. Wearne's study will help a generation of scholars to reassess his work. Drawing on unpublished papers, Wearne describes Parson's religious background and his education and traces the impact of German and other social theory on his development as a scholar. The book concludes with a thorough and fresh reading of his classic work, The Social System.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511621659
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 276 pages)
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    Keywords: Geld ; Ökonomische Anthropologie ; Kulturanthropologie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This volume deals with the way in which money is symbolically represented in a range of different cultures, from South and South-east Asia, Africa and South America. It is also concerned with the moral evaluation of monetary and commercial exchanges as against exchanges of other kinds. The essays cast radical doubt on many Western assumptions about money: that it is the acid which corrodes community, depersonalises human relationships, and reduces differences of quality to those of mere quantity; that it is the instrument of man's freedom, and so on. Rather than supporting the proposition that money produces easily specifiable changes in world view, the emphasis here is on the way in which existing world views and economic systems give rise to particular ways of representing money. But this highly relativistic conclusion is qualified once we shift the focus from money to the system of exchange as a whole. One rather general pattern that then begins to emerge is of two separate but related transactional orders, the majority of systems making some ideological space for relatively impersonal, competitive and individual acquisitive activity. This implies that even in a non-monetary economy these features are likely to exist within a certain sphere of activity, and that it is therefore misleading to attribute them to money. By so doing, a contrast within cultures is turned into a contrast between cultures, thereby reinforcing the notion that money itself has the power to transform the nature of social relationships.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511558023
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 266 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social and cultural anthropology 66
    DDC: 946/.6
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    Keywords: Geschichte ; Basken ; Baskenland ; Elgeta
    Abstract: Set against the historical background of Spain's unification as a modern state, this book is a study of a complex, frequently violent, political phenomenon - Basque nationalism - which after ninety years continues to constitute a major challenge to Spain's established political order. It examines the origins of Basque nationalism in the Basque industrial heartland of Bilbao in the 1890s and analyses its development up to 1980 when the Basque country finally achieved home rule. In particular, the book shows how Basque nationalism operated upon the residents of the Basque country, divided by culture, loyalties, divergent economic and political aspirations and history, to create a new and exclusive political entity - the Basque nation. The main fieldwork was conducted during the two years surrounding the death of General Franco in 1975, a period of exceptional violence in the Basque country that marked Spain's transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one. Using a theoretical approach, the book provides an empirical analysis of one of Spain's most intractable political problems during a decisive period of Spanish history.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511571039
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (1 online resource (216 p.)) , digital, PDF file(s).
    Edition: Online-Ausg.
    Series Statement: American Sociological Association Rose Monographs
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    Parallel Title: Druckausg. Greenfeld, Liah Different worlds
    DDC: 306.47095694
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    Keywords: Art and society Israel ; Art, Israeli Themes, motives ; Art and society ; Art, Israeli Themes, motives ; Art and society ; Israel ; Art, Israeli ; Themes, motives ; Israel ; Kunst ; Israel ; Kunstsoziologie
    Abstract: Using a wealth of data collected in Israel, this study depicts a complete system in which art is created and evaluated - the scale of Israeli society allowing for a comprehensive and detailed description of all the agents involved in the production and consumption of modern art. The author analyses the patterns of social relations and behaviour created around two art worlds - the world of abstract avant-garde art and the world of traditional figurative painting. She argues that the two worlds differ radically both in terms of the factors that affect the formation of taste, the process of evaluation and the patterns of success in them and in the ways in which these factors exert their influence.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521249481 , 0521270936 , 9780521270939
    Language: English
    Pages: 121 Seiten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: Ceremoniën ; Collectief geheugen ; Esprit et corps ; Mémoire - Aspect social ; Psicologia Social ; Psychologie sociale ; Riten ; Rites et cérémonies - Aspect psychologique ; Gesellschaft ; Psychologie ; Sozialpsychologie ; Memory Social aspects ; Mind and body ; Rites and ceremonies Psychological aspects ; Social psychology ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Ritual ; Gedächtnis ; Gedächtnis ; Ritual ; Kollektives Gedächtnis
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570865
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 207 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 700/.1/030973
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Künste ; Kulturmuster ; USA
    Abstract: This book systematically examines prevailing cultural patterns in contemporary American society. Using information on several thousands of cultural organisations, including elite ones (such as opera and chamber music companies) and popular cultural ones (such as cinemas and live rock concerts), Professor Blau examines the geography of culture, the changing demands for culture, the interdependencies among cultural organisations of different kinds, the nature of labour markets for artists, and the effects of arts subsidies on nonprofit cultural establishments over a ten year period. One of the major conclusions of the book is that the social conditions that support elite and popular culture are increasingly similar over time.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557781
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 199 pages)
    Series Statement: The Arnold and Caroline Rose monograph series of the American Sociological Association
    DDC: 361
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    Keywords: Alter ; Sozialpolitik ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Sozialausgaben ; Sozialstaat ; Politik ; Wohlfahrtsstaat ; Soziale Klasse
    Abstract: This analysis of the growth of welfare spending examines the relative impact of class and status groups versus demographic composition and political structures. Special attention is given to the role of the aged as representative of the importance of ascription and middle-class groups in welfare growth, and to the effect of welfare spending on income inequality. Aggregate cross-national data from the UN, ILO, and the World Bank are analysed and the conclusion is drawn that a large aged population, especially in combination with democratic political processes, is a direct and crucial influence on the level of welfare spending.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511557699
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 311 pages)
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    Keywords: Soziologische Theorie ; Soziologie ; Methodologie ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: This book offers a comprehensive appraisal of the work of Anthony Giddens, who is known worldwide as one of the leading figures in social theory and the social sciences. During the last decade Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes which have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his approach are the 'theory of structuration' and the analysis of 'modernity'. Giddens's writings on these and related themes are widely recognized as among the most important contributions to theoretical debate in the social sciences. Social Theory of Modern Societies is the first volume to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Giddens's contributions. The volume includes eleven critical essays - all of which were specially commissioned for this volume - by authors who are well known in their own fields: Zygmunt Bauman, Richard J. Bernstein, Derek Gregory, Nicky Gregson, David Held, Bob Jessop, Linda Murgatroyd, Peter Saunders, Martin Shaw, John B. Thompson and Erik Olin Wright. In a long concluding chapter, Anthony Giddens responds to the criticisms raised by these and other authors, clarifying and elaborating his current views. The result is a unique and engaging book which gives both a critical evaluation of Giddens's work and a guide to some of the theoretical issues which are at the forefront of the social sciences today. It will be of interest to students and academics in sociology, politics and geography, and to students in the social sciences and humanities generally.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511583469
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 493 pages)
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    Keywords: Geschichte 1900-2000 ; Geschichte ; Philosophie ; Sozialwissenschaften ; Sociology / Methodology ; Sociology / Philosophy ; Social sciences / Methodology ; Social sciences / Philosophy ; Social structure / England / History / 20th century ; Methode ; Methodologie ; Soziologische Theorie ; England / Social conditions / 20th century ; Einführung ; Soziologische Theorie ; Methode ; Soziologische Theorie ; Methodologie
    Abstract: This second of three volumes sets out a general account of the structure and evolution of human societies. The author argues first that societies are to be defined as sets of roles whose incumbents are competitors for access to, or control of, the means of production, persuasion and coercion; and second, that the process by which societies evolve is one of competitive selection of the practices by which roles are defined analagous, but not reducible, to natural selection. He illustrates and tests these theses with evidence drawn from the whole range of societies documented in the historical and ethnographic record. The result is an original, powerful and far-reaching reformulation of evolutionary sociological theory which will make it possible to do for the classification and analysis of societies what Darwin and his successors have done for the classification and analysis of species
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511599637
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 335 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time 10
    DDC: 363.8/0942
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    Keywords: Appleby, Andrew B. ; Geschichte ; Sozialgeschichte 1500-1800 ; Bevölkerungsentwicklung ; Epidemie ; Bevölkerungsstruktur ; Hungersnot ; Frankreich ; Großbritannien ; Westeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung
    Abstract: Although Western societies cannot escape from images of famine in the present world, their direct experience of widespread hunger has receded into the past. England was one of the very first countries to escape from the shadow of famine; in this volume a team of distinguished economic, social and demographic historians analyses why. Focusing on England (whose experience is contrasted with France), the contributions combine detailed local studies of individual communities, broader analyses of the impact of hunger and disease, and methodological discussion to explore the effects of crisis mortality on early modern societies.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0521274079
    Language: English
    Pages: XD, 268 Seiten
    Edition: 4. Auflage
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social anthropology 32
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    Keywords: Islam ; Gesellschaft ; Geschichte ; Kultur
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511628061
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (121 pages)
    Series Statement: Themes in the social sciences
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    DDC: 302/.12
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    Keywords: Gesellschaft ; Psychologie ; Memory / Social aspects ; Rites and ceremonies / Psychological aspects ; Mind and body ; Social psychology ; Gedächtnis ; Ritual ; Kollektives Gedächtnis ; Gedächtnis ; Ritual ; Kollektives Gedächtnis
    Abstract: In treating memory as a cultural rather than an individual faculty, this book provides an account of how bodily practices are transmitted in, and as, traditions. Most studies of memory as a cultural faculty focus on written, or inscribed transmissions of memories. Paul Connerton, on the other hand, concentrates on bodily (or incorporated) practices, and so questions the currently dominant idea that literary texts may be taken as a metaphor for social practices generally. The author argues that images of the past and recollected knowledge of the past are conveyed and sustained by ritual performances and that performative memory is bodily. Bodily social memory is an essential aspect of social memory, but it is an aspect which has until now been badly neglected. An innovative study, this work should be of interest to researchers into social, political and anthropological thought as well as to graduate and undergraduate students
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