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  • 1
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    In the society of nature : a native ecology in Amazonia (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41103-3 , 978-0-521-41103-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xvi, 372 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 93
    Uniform Title: La _nature domestique
    Keywords: Ecuador Peru ; Achuar ; Weltanschauung ; Kulturökologie ; Subsistenzwirtschaft
    Abstract: The Achuar Indians live in the remote forest reaches of the Upper Amazon and have developed sophisticated strategies of resource management. Philippe Descola, who has gathered material over several years of fieldwork, documents their rich knowledge of the environment. He explains how this technical knowledge of the increasingly threatened Amazonian ecosystems is interwoven with cosmological ideas that endow nature with the characteristics of society. Combining a symbolist approach with an ecological analysis, the book contributes a new theory of the social construction of nature. (Verlagsangaben)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations, part title illustrations -- Preface -- Preface to the Englisch edition -- A note on spelling -- General introduction -- Part I. The Sphere of Nature -- Introduction I -- 1. The territorial space -- 2. Landscape and cosmos -- 3. Nature's beings -- Part II. On the Proper Use of Nature -- Introduction II -- 4. The world of the house -- 5. The world of gardens -- 6. The world of the forest -- 7. The world of the river -- 8. Categories of practice -- 9. The good life -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- Index of plants and animals
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 345-354
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  • 2
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    United States foreign policy toward Africa : incrementalism, crisis and change (1994)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-46677-6 , 978-0-521-46677-6 , 0-521-44439-X , 978-0-521-44439-2
    Language: English
    Pages: xxiii, 347 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in International Relations 31
    Keywords: Afrika USA ; Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Äthiopen ; Somalia ; Südafrika ; Beziehungen, internationale ; Politik ; Außenpolitik ; Geschichte ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: In this book Peter Schraeder offers the first comprehensive theoretical analysis of US foreign policy toward Africa in the postwar era. He argues that though we often assume that US policymakers 'speak with one voice', Washington's foreign policy is, however, derived from numerous centres of power which each have the ability to pull policy in different directions. The book describes the evolution of policy at three levels: Presidents and their close advisors; the bureaucracies of the executive branch; and Congress and African affairs interest groups. Most importantly, the evidence presented demonstrates that the nature of events in Africa has itself affected the operation of the US policymaking process, and the substance of US policy. Drawing on over 100 interviews, and detailed case studies in Zaire, Ethiopia-Somalia and South Africa, this book provides a unique analysis of the historical evolution of US foreign policy towards Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. An introduction to US foreign policy toward Africa; 2. Pattern and process in US foreign policy toward Africa; 3. US foreign policy toward Zaire; 4. US foreign policy toward Ethiopia and Somalia; 5. US foreign policy toward South Africa; 6. US Africa policies in the post-Cold War era.
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    Dialogues with the dead : the discussion of mortality among the Sora of aastern India (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38447-8 , 978-0-521-38447-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xix, 294 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 88
    Keywords: Indien Savara ; Tod ; Religion ; Schamanismus ; Begräbnissitte ; Trauer ; Seelenvorstellung ; Ethnopsychologie ; Psychologie ; Psychoanalyse ; Psychiatrie
    Abstract: Piers Vitebsky's study of religion and psychology in tribal India focusses upon a unique form of dialogue between the living and the dead, conducted through the medium of a shaman in trance. The dead sometimes nurture their living descendants, yet at other times they inflict upon them the very illnesses from which they died. Through intimate dialogue, the Sora use the occasion of death to explore their closest emotional attachments in all their ambivalence. Dr. Vitebsky analyses the actors' words and relationships over several years and develops a typology of moods among the dead and of kinds of memory among the living. In comparing Sora shamanism with the treatment of bereavement in psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, he highlights a contrast in their assumption which has far-reaching consequences for the social and professional scope of the two kinds of practice. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates, figures, texts -- Preface -- Part I. Sonum: the continuation of consciousness after death. 1. Dialogues between the living and the dead. 2. The Sora people. 3. The formation of the Sora person. 4. Interpreting and persuading the dead -- Part II. Responding to a new death. 5. Transcription of a dialogue from the inquest on Jamano. 6. Redeeming the dead and protecting the living -- Part III. Operating the calculus of all previous deaths. 7. Transcription of a dialogue with nineteen dead persons. 8. Memories and rememberers: states of mind among the dead and the living. 9. Forgetting the dead. 10. Dialogues with the self? Sora bereavement and the presuppositions of contemporary psychotherapy -- Appendix 1. List of sonums recorded in Alinsing -- Notes -- List of references -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 275-281 , Thesis (Ph.D.), University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1982 entitled Dialogues with the dead: the experience of mortality and its discussion among the Sora of central India.
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    South coast New Guinea cultures : History, comparison, dialectic (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-42931-5
    Language: English
    Pages: XII, 294 S.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 89
    Keywords: Neuguinea Melanesier ; Soziales Leben ; Ethnographie ; Sexualität ; Frau und sozialer Status ; Homosexualität
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    A _South African kingdom : the pursuit of security in nineteenth-century Lesotho (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44067-X , 978-0-521-44067-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 78
    Keywords: Südafrika Lesotho ; Sotho ; Wirtschaft ; Geschichte ; Politik
    Abstract: The BaSotho kingdom emerged and consolidated in the dramatic and dangerous environment of nineteenth-century South Africa. Elizabeth Eldridge provides a rich description of local agriculture, iron-working and craft industries, bringing out the resourceful responses of the BaSotho to the challenge of drought and famine, and explaining the dynamics of the competition for land. During the colonial period, regional economic integration increasingly influenced local production, land use and internal politics, and drew the BaSotho into the regional migrant labor system. Throughout these turbulent years, the overriding interest of the BaSotho was the pursuit of security. Dr. Eldredge analyzes the epic struggle which bound together rich and poor, chiefs and commoners, and men and women in a largely successful effort to sustain this fragile and innovative society in the face of political threats and environmental challenges. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviation -- Note on orthography and terminology -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Settlement and trade patterns before 1830 -- 3. Political consolidation and the rise of Moshoeshoe in the 1820s -- 4. The land of the BaSotho: the geographic extent of Moshoeshoe's authority, 1824-1864 -- 5. The European intrusion and the competition for land, 1834-1868 -- 6. Food and politics: feasts and famines -- 7. The rise and decline of craft specialization -- 8. The allocation of labor, 1830-1910 -- 9. The local exchange of goods and services, 1830-1910 -- 10. Women, reproduction, and production -- 11. The BaSotho and the rise of the regional European market, 1830-1910 -- 12. The colonial imposition and the failure of the local economy, 1871-1910 -- 13. Economy, politics, migrant labor, and gender -- 14. In pursuit of security -- Appendix: Note on oral sources -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-244
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    Slow death for slavery : The course of abolition in Northern Nigeria, 1897-1936 (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-37469-3 , 978-0-521-37469-9 , 0-521-44702-X /Pbk. , 978-0-521-44702-7 /Pbk.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 391 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 76
    Keywords: Nord-Nigeria Sokoto ; Sklaverei ; Abolition ; Kolonialpolitik ; Nigeria ; Kolonie, britisch ; Kolonialgeschichte
    Abstract: This book examines the gradual decline of slavery in Northern Nigeria during the first forty years of colonial rule. At the time of the British conquest, the Sokoto Caliphate was one of the largest slave societies in modern history. The authors have written a thoughtful and provocative book which raises doubts over the moral legitimacy of both the Sokoto Caliphate and the colonial state. They chart the development of British colonial policy towards resolving the dilemma of slavery and how to end it. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 - Slavery and the British conquest of Northern Nigeria -- 2 - Fugitive slaves and the crisis in slavery policy -- 3 - The debate on legal-status abolition -- 4 - Emancipation and the law -- 5 - Upholding proprietary rights to land -- 6 - The role of taxation in the reform of slavery -- 7 - The colonial economy and the slaves -- 8 - The persistence of concubinage -- 9- Legal-status abolition: the final phase -- Appendix : Court records of slaves issued certificates of freedom -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 368-379
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    West African slavery and Atlantic commerce : the Senegal River valley, 1700-1860 (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-44083-1 , 978-0-521-44083-7
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 250 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 77
    Keywords: Westafrika Senegal ; Senegambien ; Sklavenhandel ; Sklaverei ; Sklavenhandel, atlantischer ; Geschichte
    Abstract: West African societies were transformed by the slave trade, even in regions where few slaves were exported. While many books have been written on the import and export trade and on warrior predation, Dr Searing's concern is with the effects of the Atlantic slave trade on the societies of the Senegal river valley in the eighteenth century. He shows that the growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within West Africa. Slaves worked as seamen in the river and coasting trades, produced surplus grain to feed slaves in transit, and sometimes came to hold pivotal positions in the political structure of the coastal kingdoms of Senegambia. This local slave system had far-reaching consequences, leading to religious protest and slave rebellions. The changes in agricultural production fostered an ecological crisis. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Preface -- 1 - Cosaan: "the origins" -- 2 - Slavery and the slave trade in the Lower Senegal -- 3 - The Atlantic kingdom: maritime commerce and social change -- 4 - Merchants and slaves: slavery on Saint Louis and Gorée -- 5 - Famine, civil war, and secession, 1750-1800 -- 6 - From river empire to colony: Saint Louis and Senegal, 1800-1860 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
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    Lumbee Indian histories : Race, ethnicity, and Indian identity in the southern United States (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-42045-8
    Language: English
    Pages: XXVI, 309 S.
    Keywords: North Carolina Lumbee ; Tuscarora ; Ethnohistorie ; Beziehungen Indianer-Weiße ; Indianerpolitik ; Identität ; Ethnizität
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-306"This is the second of three volumes on a theory of culture in history. [...]" (page v)
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    The _cultural relations of classification : An analysis of Nuaulu animal categories from central Seram (1993)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-43114-X
    Language: English
    Pages: XXI, 315 S.
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 91
    DDC: 591/.09598
    Keywords: Ceram Ethnie Indonesien ; Ethnozoologie
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    Pragmatism in the age of Jihad : the precolonial state of Bundu (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41940-9 , 978-0-521-41940-6
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 252 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 75
    Keywords: Senegal Westafrika ; Geschichte ; Geschichte, vorkoloniale ; Islam ; Islam und Politik ; Sy, Malick
    Abstract: Bundu was an anomaly among the precolonial Muslim states of West Africa. Founded during the jihads which swept the savannah in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it developed a pragmatic policy, unique in the midst of fundamentalist, theocratic Muslim states. Located in the Upper Senegal and with access to the Upper Gambia, Bundu played a critical role in regional commerce and production and reacted quickly to the stimulus of European trade. Drawing upon a wide range of sources both oral and documentary, Arabic, English and French, Dr Gomez provides the first full account of Bundu's history. He analyses the foundation and growth of an Islamic state at a crossroads between the Saharan and trans-Atlantic trade, paying particular attention to the relationship between Islamic thought and court policy, and to the state's response to militant Islam in the early nineteenth century. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on spelling -- 1 - Introduction -- 2 - Malik Sy and the origins of a pragmatic polity -- 3 - Consolidation and expansion in the eighteenth century -- 4 - External reforms and internal consequences: Futa Toro and Bundu -- 5 - The reassertion of Sissibe integrity -- 6 - Structure of the Bundunke almaamate -- 7 - Struggle for the Upper Senegal Valley -- 8 - Al-hajj Umar in Bundu -- 9 - The age of Bokar Saada -- 10 - Mamadu Lamine and the demise of Bundu -- 11 - Conclusion -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 230-240
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    Prey into hunter : the politics of religious experience (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41154-8 , 0-521-42312-0
    Language: English
    Pages: XIII, 117 Seiten
    Edition: first published, digital printing 2004
    Series Statement: The _Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures 1984
    Keywords: Religion Chiliasmus ; Gewalt ; Opfer ; Ritual ; Symbol ; Initiation ; Kosmologie ; Heirat ; Mythos
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 110 - 113
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    Power, prayer and production : the Jola of Senegal (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40132-1 , 978-0-521-40132-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 258 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 82
    Keywords: Afrika Senegal ; Diola, Senegambien ; Islam ; Landwirtschaft ; Reis ; Soziales Leben ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: The Jola (Diola) are intensive wet-rice cultivators in the Lower Casamance region of Senegal. In this study, the author examines the reasons behind startling contrasts in the organization of agricultural tasks among three Jola communities located within a 45-kilometre radius from Ziguinchor. In Sambujat, situated in the non-Islamisized region south of the river, wet rice is a monocrop cultivated by both men and women. In Jipalom, in the Kajamutay region north of the river, Islam and cash cropping have been adopted; and in Fatiya, in the so-called 'Mandingized' region of the Kalunay, social relations have become hierarchical and this has had profound effects on the cropping system and on the division of labour. The author examines the shift of power relations over time, and their effects on the way in which production has been organized by age and gender, kin and class. Larger issues dealt with are Islamization, women's labour and the introduction of cash cropping. A concluding section places the history of Jola labour relations within the context of the political economy of Senegal.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Note on orthography; Introduction: ideology and agrarian change; Part I. The Political Economy of Sambujat: 1. The power of the spirit-shrines; 2. Rice fields and labour relationships; Conclusions to part I; Part II. At the Crossroads: The Kujamaat Jola of Jipalom: 3. Islamization and the introduction of a cash crop; 4. The impact on social and productive relations; Conclusions to part II; Part III. Manding Models and Fatiya Mores: 5. Ideology and legitimation; 6. Social relations of production restructured; Conclusions to part III; Epilogue: the Jola in the present national scene; Notes; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 242-252
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    The _elusive granary : herder, farmer, and state in northern Kenya (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40552-1 , 978-0-521-40552-2
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 212 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 73
    Keywords: Kenia Landwirtschaft ; Politik und Gesellschaft ; Weidewirtschaft ; Tierhaltung ; Dürre ; Hungersnot ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Bauer ; Wasserversorgung ; Bewässerung ; Nahrungsmittelversorgung
    Abstract: This book examines the social and political dimensions of Africa's food and environmental crises. Written by an anthropologist, it focuses on the changes and the problems faced during the last century by one particular ethnic group, the Il Chamus of Kenya and traces the area's transformation from a food-surplus 'granary' to one that is dependent on food imports and aid. By documenting the history, social structure and ecology of the area, Peter Little is able to show that the crisis among the region's herders is rooted in processes that preceded the devastating droughts of the 1980s. Drought is in fact a 'normal' state of affairs in semiarid Kenya, but the processes that have inhibited herders from adequately coping with it are not. The author analyses the relationships between social, political and ecological variables and he treats topics such as land management, food production, marketing, state policy making and labour organisation in an integrated fashion. This is a book that challenges many of the stereotypes about African social life, agriculture and ecology and it will be of interest to anthropologists, academics and practitioners in development studies, historians, ecologists and geographers. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations -- List of tables -- Preface -- 1 - Introduction: the study of agrarian change among African herders -- 2 - Society, ecology, and history -- 3 - Markets and the state -- 4 - Labor and agropastoral production -- 5 - Income, wages, and investment -- 6 - Expenditures, consumption, and the food crisis -- 7 - Land conflicts and sustainability -- 8 - In pursuit of the granary: development responses of community, donor, and state -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 189-200
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    The _Kanyok of Zaire : an institutional and ideolgical history to 1895 (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41298-6 , 978-0-521-41298-8
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 213 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 74
    Keywords: Luba Demokratische Republik Kongo ; Kaniok ; Yaka ; Ethnohistorie ; Geschichte ; Mythos und Legende
    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. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology -- Introduction -- 1 - Wood and wine, gardens and game -- 2 - Stratification, symbols, and spirits -- 3 - New legends for new leaders -- 4 - Serpents and lightning -- 5 - Dances, moats, and myths -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 188-197
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    Rezension zu: Barnard, Alan. Hunters and herders of southern Africa : A comparative ethnography of the Khoisan peoples (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    In:  Social Anthropology 2, 1994, S. 184-185
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    Titel der Quelle: Social Anthropology
    Angaben zur Quelle: 2, 1994, S. 184-185
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    Hunters and herders of southern Africa : a comparative ethnography of the Khoisan peoples (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-41188-2 , 978-0-521-41188-2 , 0-521-42865-3 , 978-0-521-42865-1
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 349 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 85
    Keywords: Südafrikanischer Jäger Ethnie, Afrika ; San ; Afrika ; Khoikhoi ; Ethnologie ; Jäger ; Hirte ; Ethnographie
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface; A note on orthography; Part I. The Khoisan Peoples: 1. Introduction; 2. Ethnic classification, origins, and history of the Khoisan peoples; Part II. A Survey of Khoisan Ethnography: 3. The !Kung; 4. The !Xo and Eastern Hoa; 5. The southern Bushmen; 6. The G/wi and G//ana of the central Kalahari; 7. The eastern and northern Khoe Bushmen; 8. The Nharo; 9. The Cape Khoekhoe and Korana; 10. The Nama and others; 11. The Damara and Hai//om; Part III. Comparisons and Transformations: 12. Settlement and territoriality among the desert-dwelling Bushmen; 13. Politics and exchange in Khoisan society; 14. Aspects of Khoisan religious ideology; 15. Bushman kinship: correspondences and differences;16. Khoe kinship: underlying structures and transformations; 17. Conclusions; References; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-336
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    Honor and grace in anthropology (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39055-9 , 978-0-521-39055-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 260 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 76
    Keywords: Mittelmeerraum Spanien ; Andalusien ; Katholik ; Soziales Leben ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    Abstract: Little has been written about honour in the social sciences and almost nothing about grace. Yet honour has caused more deaths than the plague and grace is what we all yearn for, whether in the form of favor, luck, pardon, gratuity, or salvation. This collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honor and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained. They range from the French royal rituals of the Middle Ages to the murderous feuds and peace-making rites of the Rif; they show how different peoples and periods have faced the problems of power, legitimacy, purity, divinity, and personal destiny. The concluding chapter suggests that anthropology, which ignored honor until a quarter of a century ago, should no longer ignore grace, whose varied connotations provide the basis of religious doctrines as well as the common coinage of the exchange of favors and thanks.
    Description / Table of Contents: Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France / Catherine Lafages -- The court surrounds the king: Louis XIV, the Palatine princess, and Saint-Simon / Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie -- Rites as acts of institution / Pierre Bourdieu -- Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain / Julio Caro Baroja -- The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community / J.G. Peristiany -- The Greek hero / J.K. Campbell -- Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily / Maria Pia Di Bella -- From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif / Raymond Jamous -- Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept / Sandra Ott -- Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology / Julian Pitt-Rivers.
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    Australian rock art : a new synthesis (1992)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34666-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 284 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    DDC: 709/.01/130994
    Keywords: Australien Ureinwohner, Australien ; Felsbild ; Felsbild-Interpretation ; Felsbild-Stil ; Kunst, ozeanische ; Prähistorische Kunst ; Anthropologie ; Archäologie ; Religion ; Kolonialismus ; Kolonie, australisch
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    Sacred void : spatial images of work and ritual among the Giriama of Kenya (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40466-5 , 978-0-521-40466-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 259 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karte
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 80
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Kenia ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Giryama ; Soziales Leben ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Raumvorstellung ; Viehhalter ; Sozialer Wandel ; Arbeitsmigration ; Anthropologie, soziale
    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 among 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 laborers or fisherman 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. It is the site of occasional large-scale ceremonies and becomes especially important at times of national crisis. It then acts as a moral core of Giriama society, and a symbolic defense against total domination and assimilation.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Fantasies of the West -- 2. Western Kaya, sacred centre -- 3. View from the west: cattle and co-operation -- 4. From west to east: the works of marriage -- 5. Spanning west and east: dances of death -- 6. Alternative authorities: incest and fertility -- 7. Alternative selves: invasions and cure -- 8. Coastal desires and personal centre -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [247]-253
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    Bartered brides : politics, gender and marriage in an Afghan tribal society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38158-4 , 978-0-521-38158-1 , 0-521-02467-6 , 978-0-521-02467-9
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xx, 309 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 74
    Keywords: Afghanistan Ethnie, Asien ; Paschtune ; Durrani ; Familie ; Frau ; Heirat ; Hochzeit ; Brautpreis ; Ehe ; Scheidung ; Sexualität ; Beziehungen Mann-Frau ; Schande ; Ehre ; Anthropologie, soziale
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Contexts Personal background -- Comparative perspectives on marriage -- Regional background: the Durrani of Saripul -- Part 2. Social groups and marriage. Patriliny, gender and endogamy -- The Maduzai subtribe -- Household production and reproduction -- Part 3. Ideologies of equality and inequality. Brideprice and direct exchange -- Rituals of marriage -- Marriage choice -- Part 4. Case studies adn structural implications. The power of shame -- The marriages of Jahhi Adam's descendants -- Durrani marriage: conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [293]-299 , [Based on] Thesis, Ph.D., University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies, 1979 entitled "Marriage and social organization among Durrani Pashtuns in northern Afghanistan"
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    Chiefdoms : power, economy, and ideology (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40190-9 , 978-0-521-40190-6
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 341 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [32]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [32]
    Keywords: Führer, politischer Evolution, soziale ; Großbritannien ; Tuareg ; Polynesien ; Mittelmeerraum ; Griechenland, klassisch ; Mississippi-Kultur ; Mittelamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Mittelamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika
    Abstract: The study of chiefdoms has moved from preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions. The contributors to this volume are interested in how ruling elites retain power through control over production and exchange, and then legitimize that control through an elaborate ideology. These case studies look at particular chiefdoms, originating in specific historical conditions. Despite obvious differences between the chiefdoms, certain common underlying processes are revealed. The collection recognizes how complex and interdependent are the sources of power in society, as well as the forces of instability that constantly threaten to tear society apart. Chiefdoms offers a rich and varied interpretation of sociopolitical power. (Verlagsangaben
    Description / Table of Contents: List of contirbutors -- Preface -- 1. The evolution of chiefdoms, Timothy Earle -- 2. Chiefdoms, states, and systems of social evolution, Kristian Kristiansen -- 3. The pattern of change in British prehistory, Richard Bradley -- 4. Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms, Timothy Earle -- 5. Lords of the waste: predation, pastoral production, and the process of stratification among the Eastern Twaregs, Candelario Sáenz -- 6. Chiefship and competitive involution: the Marquesas Islands of eastern Polynesia, Patrick Kirch -- 7. Trajectories towards social complexity in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, Antonio Gilman -- 8. Chiefdoms to city-states: the Greek experience, Yale Ferguson -- 9. Contrasting patterns of the Mississippian development, Vincas Steponaitis -- 10. Demography, surplus, and inequality: early political formations in highland Mesoamerica, Gary Feinman -- 11. Pre-Hispanic chiefdom trajectories in Mesoamerica, Central America, and northern South America, Robert Drennan -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-327"The seminar "Chiefdoms: their evolutionary significance", was held in Januar 18 to 22, 1988, at the School of American Research" (Preface)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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    Turko-Persia in historical perspective : First published (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39094-X , 978-0-521-39094-1
    Language: English
    Pages: XIV, 256 Seiten , Karten
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [31]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [31]
    Keywords: Naher Osten Zentral-Asien ; Turk-Volk ; Geschichte
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: the Turko-Persian tradition, ROBERT L. CANFIELD -- 2 Pre-Islamic and early Islamic cultures in Central Asia, RICHARD N. FRYE -- 3 Turko-Mongol influences in Central Asia, YURIBREGEL -- 4 Islamic culture and literature in Iran and Central Asia in the early modern period, MICHEL M. MAZZAOUI -- 5 Perso-Islamic culture in India from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, FRANCIS ROBINSON -- 6 Theological "extremism" and social movements in Turko-Persia, ROBERT L. CANFIELD -- 7 Local knowledge of Islam and social discourse in Afghanistan and Turkistan in the modern period, M. NAZIF SHAHRANI --8 Russia's geopolitical and ideological dilemmas in Central Asia, MILAN HAUNER -- Chronology of events and developments in the history of the Turko-Persian ecumene -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 230-248"Advanced Seminar on "Central Asia as a Culture Area" held at the School of American Research in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 15 to 19, 1985" (Preface)Enthält 8 Beiträge
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    Identity through history : living stories in a Solomon Islands society (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40172-0 , 978-0-521-40172-2
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 270 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 83
    Keywords: Salomonen Ethnologie ; Orale Tradition ; Mission ; Mission, christliche ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Anthropologie, soziale
    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.
    Description / Table of Contents: Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Part I. Orientations: 2. First encounters; 3. Portraits of the past; 4. Chiefs, persons and power; Part II. Transformations: 5. Crisis and Christianity; 6. Conversions and consolidation; Part III. Narrations: 7. Becoming Christian: playing with history; 8. Missionary encounters: narrating the self; Part IV. Revitalization: 9. Collisions and convergence; 10. The paramount chief: rites of renewal; 11. Conclusion; Notes; References.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite [257]-264
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    Classic Maya political history : hieroglyphic and archaeological evidence (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-39210-1 , 978-0-521-39210-5
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 396 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [33]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [33]
    Keywords: Mittelamerika Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Mittelamerika ; Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika ; Maya ; Geschichte, politische ; Politisches System ; Führer, politischer ; Elite, politische ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Ancient Maya civilization once flourished in the rainforests of what is today southern Mexico and Central America. It possessed the only full system of writing ever to be developed in the Americas. The pace of decipherment of Maya hieroglyphic writing has accelerated in the last few years, and half of the inscriptions from the sites of the Classic Period (AD?250-900) have now been read. Much of the newly available information consists of historical records of the careers of Maya rulers of the time.This volume is the first to present in detail the results of decipherment and to consider the implications of a Classic Maya written history. Contributors examine the way in which the Maya elite created the kinship, alliance, warfare, and ceremonial networks on which the civilization was founded. Drawing upon important material just recently made available, they have transformed our understanding of the Maya. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of figures -- List of Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Introduction, Norman Hammond -- 2. Classic Maya Emblem Glyphs, Peter Mathews -- 3. Prehistoric polities of the Pasion region: hieroglyphic texts and their archaeological settings, Peter Mathews and Gordon R. Willey -- 4. An epigraphic history of the western Maya region, Linda Schele -- 5. Cycles of growth at Tikal, Christopher Jones -- 6. Polities in the northeast Peten, Guatemala, T. Patrick Culbert -- 7. Dynastic history and culutral evolution at Copan, Honduras, William L. Fash and David S. Stuart -- 8. Diversity and continuity in Maya civilization: Quirigua as a case study, Robert J. Sharer -- 9. Elite interaction during the Terminal Classic period: new evidence from Chichen Itza, Linnea H. Wren and Peter Schmidt -- 10. Royal visits and other intersite relationships among the Classic Maya, Linda Schele and Peter Mathews -- 11. Inside the black box: defining Maya polity, Norman Hammond -- 12. Maya elite interaction: through a glass, sideways, Norman Yoffee -- 13. Maya political history and elite interaction: a summary view, T. Patrick Culbert -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 347-378""Elite Interaction in Classi Maya Civilization" [...] the seminar was held at the School of American Research, Santa Fe, on October 20-24, 1986." (Preface)Enthält 13 Beiträge
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    Ethiopia : power and protest : peasant revolts in the twentieth century (1991)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40011-2 , 978-0-521-40011-4
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xxi, 272 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 71
    Keywords: Äthiopien Eritrea ; Tigray ; Oromo ; Amhara ; Geschichte ; Wirtschaftlicher Aspekt ; Landbevölkerung ; Landarbeiter ; Landrecht ; Revolte ; Politische Bewegung ; Konflikt, ethnischer ; Haile Selassie I., Äthiopien, Kaiser
    Abstract: This study of popular protest and resistance in Ethiopia focuses on three important peasant-based rebellions that occurred between 1941 and 1970. The author attempts to uncover certain key features of popular protest in pre-revolutionary Ethiopia. Drawing upon ample evidence, he concludes that these revolts were not a consequence of capitalist exploitation, as was usually the case in most Third World countries, but were connected with the rise of a modern, bureaucratic, multi-ethnic national state. Ethiopian peasants were neither conservative nor compliant, as is often assumed, although their defiance was nevertheless essentially non-revolutionary. These interesting and fresh findings also suggest a possible explanation for the eruption and intensification of armed conflict in rural Ethiopia after 1974. On a theoretical level, the study makes a significant contribution to the ongoing analysis of social movements in agrarian societies. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of maps -- List of tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary -- Explanatory notes -- 1. Introduction: an historical/theoretical overview -- Part I. Society and History -- 2. The historical context -- 3. The social context -- Part II. Resistance and Repression -- 4. Tigrai: provincialism versus centralism -- 5. Bale: the nationalities armed -- 6. Gojjam: a vendée revolt? -- 7. Conclusions -- Epilogue: from rebellion to revolution? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 252-260
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    The _anthropology of war (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38042-1 , 978-0-521-38042-3
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 242 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [29]
    Series Statement: A _School of American Research Book [29]
    Keywords: Anthropologie Ethnopsychologie ; Krieg ; Gewalt ; Beziehungen, interethnische
    Abstract: This edited collection contains important new material on the origins and role of warfare in "tribal" societies. The chapters focus on a number of basic research issues, including war and social evolution, causes of war, ideology of war, and European transformation of indigenous warfare patterns. The anthropologist contributors represent different theoretical positions and world areas, and approach the phenomena of pre-state warfare from different perspectives. The diversity of views is a positive and particularly stimulating feature of the volume. The Anthropology of War is a significant contribution to an area within anthropology that has gained little attention, and will be of interest to political scientists, historians, and sociologists who are curious about how anthropologists deal with the problem of warfare. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of Contributors -- Preface -- 1. Conference overview, Clark McCauley -- 2. Explaining war, R. Brian Ferguson -- 3. Motivations and material causes: on the explanation of conflict and war, Clayton Robarchek -- 4. Reproductive and somatic conflicts of interest in the genesis of violence and warfare among tribesmen, Napoleon Chagnon -- 5. Uneasy peace: intertribal relations in Brazil's Upper Xingu, Thomas Gregor -- 6. Raiding, trading, and tribal autonomy in insular Southeast Asia, Thomas Gibson -- 7. The Snake Warriors - Sons of the Tiger's Teeth: a descriptive analysis of Carib warfare ca 1500-1820, Neil Whitehead -- 8. Warfare and the evolution of tribal polities in the prehistoric Southwest, Jonathan Haas -- 9. Chiefdom-level warfare as exemplified in Fiji and the Cauca Valley, Robert Carneiro -- References -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-235"Advanced Seminar held at the School of American Research in March, 1986" (Seite xi)Enthält 9 Beiträge
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    The _anthropology of numbers (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38045-6 , 978-0-521-38045-4
    ISSN: 0068-6794
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 201 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology 70
    Keywords: Zahl Symbolik ; Kulturanthropologie ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Wirtschaftsethnologie ; Kulturvergleich
    Abstract: Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. In this detailed anthropological study, Thomas Crump examines how people from a wide range of diverse cultures, and from different historical backgrounds, use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, psychological and linguistic implications, he analyses how numbers operate within different contexts. The author goes on to consider the relationship of numbers to specific themes, such as ethnoscience, politics, measurement, time, money, music, games and architecture. The Anthropology of Numbers is an original contribution to scholarship, written in a clear and accessible style. It will be of interest to anthropologists who study cognition, symbolism, primitive thought and classification, and to those in adjacent disciplines of psychology, cognitive science and mathematical social science
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. The ontology of number; 2. The cognitive foundations of numeracy; 3. Number and language; 4. Cosmology, society and politics; 5. Economy, society and politics; 6. Measurement, comparison and equivalence; 7. Time; 8. Money; 9. Music poetry and dance; 10. Games and chance; 11. Art and architecture; 12. The ecology of number; Notes; References; Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 180-189
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    Stealing people's names : history and politics in a Sepik River cosmology (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38504-0 , 978-0-521-38504-6
    ISSN: 1746-2304
    Language: English
    Pages: [xv], 221 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology 71
    Keywords: Ozeanien Papua-Neuguinea ; Melanesien ; Sepik ; Ethnie, Ozeanien ; Manambu ; Ethnographie ; Politisches System ; Soziales Leben ; Sozialer Wandel ; Ritual und Zeremonie ; Namen ; Kultureller Prozess ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Anthropologie, politische
    Abstract: Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person, and shows how the Avatip system of names parallels the gift-exchange systems of many other Melanesian societies. In ritualized debates, which form the public arena of Avatip political life, rival leaders and the groups they represent struggle in oratorical contests for the possession of strategic names, and, as they do so, continually manipulate possibilities of this symbolically constituted economy, these competitive processes over the past century have been progressively egalitarian type to one based on hereditary inequality and rank. The author offers a critique of the analytical arguing that it obscures the processes of political evolution in Melanesia and disguises the fundamental similarities underlying the sociocultural diversity of the region.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Manambu; 2. Avatip; 3. Magic and the totemic cosmology; 4. Ceremonial rank; 5. Male initiation; 6. Treading elder brothers underfoot; 7. The debating system; 8. The rise of the subclan Maliyaw; 9. Symbolic economies in Melanesia; Bibliography; Index.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 205-213 , [Based on author's thesis, Australian National University] , Thesis, Ph.D., Department of Prehistory and Anthropology, Australian National University, 1982 entitled "Stealing people's names: social structure, cosmology and politics in a Sepik River village". Online verfügbar unter https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/116867
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    The _Oromo of Ethiopia : a history, 1570-1860 (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-38011-1 , 978-0-521-38011-9
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xviii, 253 Seiten , Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 66
    Keywords: Äthiopien Geschichte ; Oromo ; Ethnie, Afrika ; Borana ; Kafa ; Ethnohistorie
    Description / Table of Contents: Oromo glossary -- List of maps -- Preface -- Standardization of the spelling of Ethiopian names in this study -- Introduction -- 1. The migration of pastoral Oromo to the southwestern parts of Ethiopia and their settlement in the Gibe region from 1570 to 1600 -- 2. Ennarya and the Sadacha 1600-1710 -- 3. The Gibe states from c. 1800 to the 1860s -- 4. The economic foundation of the Gibe states: agriculture and industry -- 5. Trade and the spread of Islam in the Gibe region -- 6. The era of Abba Bagibo in the politics of the Gibe regio 1825-1861 -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 234-245"This book is based mainly on the last section of my Ph.D. disseration presented to the School of Oriental and African Studies, London University, in June 1983." (Preface, Seite xiv) , Ph.D. Thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1983, entitled The Oromo of Ethiopia, 1500-1850: with special emphasis on the Gibe region
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    Slavery and African life : occidental, oriental and African slave trades (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-34867-6 , 978-0-521-34867-6 , 0-521-34396-8 /Hb. , 978-0-521-34396-1 /Hb.
    ISSN: 0065-406X
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 236 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Edition: First published
    Series Statement: African Studies (Cambridge) 67
    Keywords: Afrika, Subsahara Sklavenhandel ; Geschichte ; Ethnohistorie ; Soziale Bedingungen ; Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt ; Demographie ; Politische Ökonomie ; Anthropologie, politische ; Anthropologie, soziale ; Kulturwandel ; Wirtschaftlicher Wandel ; Abolition ; Methodologie ; Sozialwissenschaft
    Abstract: This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves - from Occidental and Oriental purchasers - in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure, and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century.While the book is primarily a general survey, it presents original research and analysis, especially in the author's demographic model, computer simulation of the slave trade, and analysis of slave prices. The demographic, economic, and social analyses are carefully introduced, so that the book may serve not only as a general introduction to African slavery for an undergraduate audience, but as a primer on interdisciplinary application of social science methodolgy. (Umschlagtext)
    Description / Table of Contents: List of plates -- List of figures -- List of maps -- Acknowledgements -- Prologue: Tragedy and sacrifice in the history of slavery -- 1 The political economy of slavery in Africa -- 2 Why Africans? The rise of the slave trade to 1700 2-- 3 Slavery and the African population: a demographic model -- 4 The quantitative impact of the slave trade, 1700-1900 -- 5 The economics and morality of slave supply -- 6 Patterns of slave life -- 7 Transformations of slavery and society ,1650-1900 -- 8 The end of slavery -- 9 The world and Africa -- Appendix 1: Slave prices -- Appendix 2: The demographic simulation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 212-226
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    Thoughtful foragers : a study of prehistoric decision making (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-35570-2 , 978-0-521-35570-4
    Language: English
    Pages: xii, 289 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: New Studies in Archaeology
    Keywords: Prähistorie, Eu Prähistorie ; Paläolithikum, Europa ; Mesolithikum ; Jäger, prähistorischer ; Entscheidungsfindung
    Note: Cambridge, Univ., Diss., 1987
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    The _politics of memory : native historical interpretation in the Colombian Andes (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-37345-X , 978-0-521-37345-6
    ISSN: 0068-6670
    Language: English
    Pages: xiv, 226 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Series Statement: Cambridge Latin American Studies 70
    Keywords: Südamerika Anden ; Kolumbien ; Indianer, Anden ; Indianer, Südamerika ; Paez ; Orale Geschichte ; Kultureller Prozess
    Abstract: Joanne Rappaport's book is a study of the intellectual history of the Paez, an indigenous community in the Colombian Andes. It traces the development of Paez historical thought over 300 years, from the 18th to the 20th century.
    Description / Table of Contents: List of illustrations Preface 1. Introduction: interpreting the past PART I: The creation of a chiefly ideology: paez historical thought under soanish rule 2. The rise of the colonial Cacique 3. The birth of the myth: Don Juan Tama y Calambas PART II: From colony to republic: cacique and caudillo 4. The chiefdom transformed: the nineteenth century Paez 5. From sharecropper to Caudillo: Manuel Quintin Lame PART III: Contemporary historical voices 6. The Cacique reborn: the twentieth century Paez 7. Julio Niquinas, a contemporary Paez historian 8. Conclusion: narrative and image in a textual community.
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 198-213
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    Archaeological thought in America (1990)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 0-521-40643-9 , 978-0-521-40643-7
    Language: English
    Pages: VIII, 357 Seiten
    Keywords: Prähistorie Prähistorie, Asien ; Prähistorie, Am ; Archäologie, Theorie
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