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  • 1980-1984  (13)
  • Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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  • 1
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    American Odyssey : Haitians in New York City (1984)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501727498
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 305.8/9697294/07471
    Abstract: Caribbean immigrants have now become part of the social landscape of many American cities. Few studies, however, have treated in detail the process of their integration in American society. American Odyssey assesses the development and adaptation, in both human and socio-economic terms, of the Haitian immigrant community in three boroughs of New York City.An informed and well-rounded portrayal of a Caribbean community in New York, this book offers a fresh theoretical view of the structuring of urban ethnicity and provides the ethnographic background essential to understanding the problems of the Haitian population in the United States.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jan 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501727498
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.7591/9781501727498
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  • 2
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    Women and Community in Oman (1984)
    New York, NY : New York University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780814722947
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    DDC: 305.4/2/095353
    Abstract: Before 1970 Oman was one of teh more isolated countries on the Arab peninsula. The growth of the oil economy during the seventies, however, has brought rapid change to the small towns and villages that make up the country. In Women and Community in Oman Chritine Eickelman captures the tone and feel of this desert culture on the verge of substantial, and probably irreversible, change. During 1979 and 1980 she lived in Hamra, an oasis of 2,500 persons and the capital of the Abriyin tribe. Situated on the western edge of the Jabal al-Akhdar region of inner Oman, this was formerly one of the most inaccessible areas of the peninsula. Eickelman lived there among the people of Hamra, visiting Omani, this was formerly one of the most inaccessible areas of the peninsula. Eickelman lived there among the people of Hamra, visiting Omani homes, and speaking daily with the men and women - especially the women. The result is a lively and very personal firsthand account of day-to-day life in the Omani interior. The book looks at the practical changes in the life of the Omanis, and at the roles, concerns, and aspirations of the women there. Eickelman explores key concepts in the Omani community and family life, from choosing a spouse and "negotiating" a marriage to giving birth and raising children; from work and status within the community to rituals, mores and sociability in the neighborhood. Eickelman's study stands as a discriminateing and sympathetic view of a sturdily independent culture. This perceptive and informative account will be of lasting importance and interest to Middle East specialists, anthroupoligists, those concerned with women's studies, and to al persons who want to learn more about the implications of political and social change in the Third World.
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    DOI: 10.18574/nyu/9780814722947.001.0001
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814722947
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  • 3
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    Japanese Women : Constraint and Fulfillment (1984)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824840662
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (358 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.4/0952
    Keywords: Life cycle, Human Case studies ; Participant observation ; Sex role Case studies ; Women Case studies Social conditions ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9780824840662
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824840662
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  • 4
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    Conflict in Japan (1984)
    Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780824844165
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (428 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 303.6/0952
    Keywords: Social conflict ; Social conflict ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: Social and political conflict in postwar Japan is the subject of this volume, which draws together a series of field-based studies by North American and Japanese sociologists, anthropologists, and political scientists. It focuses attention on the sources of conflict and the ways in which conflict is expressed and managed. This book challenges the widely held theories stressing the harmony and vertical structure of social relations in Japan, which imply that conflict is only of minimal importance. Not only does the research presented here force recognition of the existence and complexity of conflict patterns in Japan, its approach to conflict provides a dynamic, empirical, and interdisciplinary focus on social and political processes in the postwar period. The editors' theoretical introduction is followed by a general conceptual piece by one of Japan's foremost sociologists. Ten empirical studies, each offering both new data and new insights on known data about Japanese social and political systems, analyze conflict and conflict resolution in interpersonal relations, industrial relations, education, rural villages, government bureaucracy, parliament, political parties, and interest groups, including how they are manifested in women's and student protest movements and portrayed in the mass media. Western social science conflict theories are applied to enhance our understanding of both the universal and the unique elements in Japanese social and political institutions.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)
    DOI: 10.1515/9780824844165
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824844165
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  • 5
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    The Varieties of Ethnic Experience : Kinship, Class, and Gender among California Italian-Americans (1984)
    Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781501721250
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2018]
    Series Statement: The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    DDC: 305.8/51/079461
    Abstract: Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States, this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture, and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class, kinship, and gender in America's past and present. Micaela di Leonardo focuses on a group of Italian-American families who live in Northern California and who range widely in economic status. Combining the methods of participant-observation, oral history, and economic-historical research, she breaks decisively with the tradition of viewing white ethnicity solely as Eastern, urban, and working class.The author integrates lively narrative accounts with analysis to give a fresh interpretation of ethnic identity as both materially grounded and individually negotiated. She examines the ways in which different occupational experiences influence individual choice of family or community as the unit of collective ethnic identity, and she considers the boundaries at which individuals, particularly women, work out their personal ethnic identities. Her analysis illuminates the political meanings that the images of ethnic woman and family have taken on in popular discourse.A provocative study that sets the reflections of a broad range of Italian-Americans in the context of their varied life histories, this book provides an informed commentary on family, class, culture, and gender in American life.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
    DOI: 10.7591/9781501721250
    URL: https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501721250
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  • 6
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    Words like Arrows : A Collection of Yiddish Folk Sayings (1984)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487572068
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (288 p.)
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 398/.9/37
    Abstract: 'A word and an arrow are the same -- both deliver with speedy aim.' From this saying comes the title of this entertaining collection of lively and engaging adages, bons mots, maxims, and proverbs -- an attractive sampling of the accumulated wisdom of the past. The timeless Yiddish sayings in this volume -- some 1800 of them -- paint a verbal picture of the long and varied experience Jewish life in Eastern Europe and later in immigrant North America. They reflect religious, moral, and political concerns as well as the daily struggle for survival. They range from statements of the obvious to profound commentaries on subjects as varied as arranging a marriage, bearing and raising children, education them, earning a living, growing old, and dying. In her introduction Shirley Kumove provides a concise description of the Yidding language and its development, the historical and social context in which these folk sayings were created, and an explanation of folk sayings as a form of education as well as encapsulated philosophy. More than 50 delightful illustrations by Frank Newfeld accompany the text which is presented in Hebrew letters, in transcription for those interested in the sound of Yiddish, and in English translation.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 22. Okt 2019)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781487572068
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487572068
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  • 7
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    Wives & Property : Reform of the Married Women's Property Law in Nineteenth-Century England (1983)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487599577
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource , halftones throughout
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 305.4/2/0942
    Abstract: In the 1870s Millicent Garrett Fawcett had her purse snatched by a young thief in London. When he appeared in court to testify, she heard the young man charged with 'stealing from the person of Millicent Fawcett a purse containing £1 18s 6d the property of Henry Fawcett.' Long after the episode she recalled: 'I felt as if I had been charged with theft myself.' The English common law which deprived married women of the right to own and control property had far-reaching consequences for the status of women not only in other areas of law and in family life but also in education, and employment, and public life. To win reform of the married women's property law, feminism as an organized movement appeared in the 1850s, and the final success of the campaigns for reform in 1882 was one of the greatest achievements of the Victorian women's movement. Dr Holcombe explores the story of the reform campaign in the context of its time, giving particular attention to the many important men and women who worked for reform and to the debates on the subject which contributed greatly to the formulation of a philosophy of feminism.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mrz 2019)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781487599577
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487599577
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  • 8
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    An Epoch of Miracles : Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya. (1983)
    Austin : University of Texas Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780292771451
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 398.2/08997
    Keywords: Indians of Mexico Folklore ; Maya literature Translations into English ; Maya literature--Translations into English ; Mayas Folklore ; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
    Abstract: “Mr. Allan Burns, I am here to tell you an example, the example of the Hunchbacks.” So said Paulino Yamá, traditionalist and storyteller, to Allan Burns, anthropologist and linguist, as he began one story that found its way into this book. Paulino Yamá was just one of several master storytellers from the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico from whom Burns learned not only the Mayan language but also the style and performance of myths, stories, riddles, prayers, and other forms of speech of their people. The result is An Epoch of Miracles, a wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya, an important New World tradition never before systematically described. An Epoch of Miracles brings us over thirty-five long narratives of things large, small, strange, and “regular” and as many delightful short pieces, such as bird lore, riddles, and definitions of anteaters, rainbows, and other commonplaces of the Mayan world. Here are profound narratives of the Feathered Serpent, the mighty Rain God Chac and his helpers, and the mysterious cult of the Speaking Cross. But because these are modern, “Petroleum Age” Maya, here too are a discussion with Cuba’s Fidel Castro and a greeting to former president Richard Nixon. All pieces are translated ethnopoetically; examples of several genres are presented bilingually. An especially valuable feature is the indication of performance style, such as pauses and voice quality, given with each piece.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Okt 2021)
    DOI: 10.7560/720374
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292771451
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  • 9
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    Ladies of the Leisure Class : The Bourgeoises of Northern France in the 19th Century (1982)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691209487
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2020]
    DDC: 305.4/8
    Keywords: Hochschulschrift
    Abstract: In a social and cultural study of nineteenth-century bourgeois women in northern France, Bonnie Smith shows how the advent of industrialization removed women from the productive activity of the middle class and confined them to a largely reproductive experience. Out of this, she suggests, they created their own world, centered on domesticity, family, and religion. To understand these women, the author argues, it is necessary to examine their world on its own terms as a coherent whole.Professor Smith draws on demographic, psychoanalytic, anthropological, linguistic, as well as historical insights and uses a variety of evidence that includes personal interviews, photographs, letters, genealogical records, and traditional archival sources. Part One outlines the transition from mercantile to industrial manufacturing that terminated the relationship between home and business and that separated the sexes according to their respective functions. Part Two concentrates on the lives of the women following their acceptance of an exclusively reproductive function and shows how the interdependence and fusion of household chores, religious values, and social conscience fostered a unified cultural system. Part Three, then, explores the propagation of this domesticity by the convent, as the primary educational system, and by the sentimental novel, as the vehicle most suited for an ideological expression of domestic life.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 05. Mai 2020)
    DOI: 10.1515/9780691209487
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691209487
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  • 10
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    Millennialism, Utopianism, and Progress (1982)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487583231
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (336 p.)
    Edition: [2019]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 303.4/4/01
    Abstract: The basis of the book is the provocative thesis that the idea of progress results from the uneasy eighteenth-century union of elements of millennial and utopian thought. Professor Olson traces changes in the major elements of millennialism since the days of Hebrew exile in Babylon, of utopianism since Plato's reflects on the ideal republic, and of progress since the unlikely merger of these very different world-views in eighteenth-century Europe. Forced to re-examine the history of their people's relationship with God, the exiled Hebrews produced various interpretations of their past and probably future. The notions of a saving élite of history as a dynamic and periodized drama, and of an end-time at which history would be fulfilled all emerged in this period of crisis. Apocalyptic writings, the literary form of millennialism, came later in the book of Daniel. Olson views Jesus and his followers as millennialists and apocalyptic expression as a characteristic Christian response to crisis. Plato's reflections on the decline of justice were taken up by Thomas More in his Utopia, a society outside history valuing object truth and justice, where the arbitrary rule of the Tudors and the collapse of the Christian commonwealth could be avoided. In the seventeenth century a number of other 'rationalist' utopias emerged. Finally these two world-views, one historical and dynamical, the other rationalist and ahistorical, the idea of progress was forged -- history becomes blind necessity willing the betterment of mankind. This dominion over nature, which has seemed both realizable and desirable to many in the twentieth century, appears the ultimate end of progress -- yet it would eliminate human will. Olson argues that our only hope for dealing with the problems created by the doctrine of progress lies in understanding it problematic origins in order to begin a constructive critique.
    Note: Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)
    DOI: 10.3138/9781487583231
    URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487583231
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  • 11
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    Cultural Transmission and Evolution (MPB-16), Volume 16 : A Quantitative Approach. (MPB-16) (1981)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691209357
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Edition: [2020]
    Series Statement: Monographs in Population Biology 93
    DDC: 306
    Abstract: A number of scholars have found that concepts such as mutation, selection, and random drift, which emerged from the theory of biological evolution, may also explain evolutionary phenomena in other disciplines as well. Drawing on these concepts, Professors Cavalli-Sforza and Feldman classify and systematize the various modes of transmitting "culture" and explore their consequences for cultural evolution. In the process, they develop a mathematical theory of the non-genetic transmission of cultural traits that provides a framework for future investigations in quantitative social and anthropological science.The authors use quantitative models that incorporate the various modes of transmission (for example, parent-child, peer-peer, and teacher-student), and evaluate data from sociology, archaeology, and epidemiology in terms of the models. They show that the various modes of transmission in conjunction with cultural and natural selection produce various rates of cultural evolution and various degrees of diversity within and between groups. The same framework can be used for explaining phenomena as apparently unrelated as linguistics, epidemics, social values and customs, and diffusion of innovations. The authors conclude that cultural transmission is an essential factor in the study of cultural change.
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691209357
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691209357
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  • 12
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    The New Sciences Organizations : A Reconceptualization of the Wealth of Nations (1981)
    Toronto : University of Toronto Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9781487574598
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (224 p.)
    Edition: [2020]
    Series Statement: Heritage
    DDC: 303
    Abstract: For the past eighty years, the market-centred theory of social and organizational systems has dominated private enterprise and public agencies. The late Professor Ramos exposes the failure of social science in general, and organizational theory in particular, to deal adequately with the needs of humanity in search of a meaning and order of existence and presents and alternative, a new science of organizations which address the problems of ordering social and personal affairs in both ‘micro’ and ‘macro’ perspectives.
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    DOI: 10.3138/9781487574598
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487574598
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    Public Man, Private Woman : Women in Social and Political Thought - Second Edition (1981)
    Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press | Berlin : Walter de Gruyter GmbH
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    ISBN: 9780691215952
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (408 p.)
    Edition: 2021
    DDC: 305.4/2
    Keywords: Knowledge, Theory of ; Political science History ; Women Political activity ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory ; Aristotle ; Bentham, Jeremy ; Brownmiller, Susan ; Camus, Albert ; Douglas, Ann ; Freud, Sigmund ; Gunnell, John G ; Hampshire, Stuart ; Hegel, G.W.F ; Hobbes, Thomas ; Janeway, Elizabeth ; King, Martin Luther ; Marx, Karl ; Okin, Susan Moller ; Plato ; Rosenthal, Abigail ; Socrates ; Suffragists ; alienation ; authority ; children ; depoliticize ; equality ; ideology ; individualism ; language ; liberalism ; misogyny ; natural ; patriarchal ; patriarchalism ; patriarchy ; self-consciousness ; utilitarianism
    Abstract: Focusing on the Western philosophical tradition and the work of contemporary feminists, Jean Elshtain explores the general tendency to assert the primacy of the public world—the political sphere dominated by men—and to denigrate the private world—the familial sphere dominated by women. She offers her own positive reconstruction of the public and the private in a feminist theory that reaffirms the importance of the family and envisions an "ethical polity."...
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    DOI: 10.1515/9780691215952
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691215952
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