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  • - Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru
    af Karsten Paerregaard
    492,95 - 1.461,95 kr.

    As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines urban migrants and rural lives in Peru.

  • - An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
    af Stephen Nugent
    497,95 - 1.709,95 kr.

    Tracing the development of caboclo societies and arguing that much of the discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society, this book aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia.

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    430,95 kr.

    Integrates developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches radically alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas.

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    1.461,95 kr.

    Integrates developments in anthropological and sociological theory with a series of detailed studies of prehistoric material culture. The authors explore the manner in which semiotic, hermeneutic, Marxist, and post-structuralist approaches alter our understanding of the past, and provide a series of innovative studies of key areas.

  • - The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems
    af Jadran Mimica
    512,95 - 1.710,95 kr.

    From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops an interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.

  • - Rewriting the Self and the Social
     
    1.709,95 kr.

    As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

  • - Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis
     
    1.715,95 kr.

    How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

  • - Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
     
    1.706,95 kr.

    As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series and based on extensive fieldwork, this volume addresses a range of subjects of interest to peoples of the Pacific Island nations.

  • - Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis
     
    520,95 kr.

    How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

  • - Notions of Self and Emotion Among the Lohorung Rai
    af Charlotte E. Hardman
    515,95 kr.

    This study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe in Eastern Nepal. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the lives and rituals of the Lohorung.

  • - Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
    af Nicole Rodriguez Toulis
    499,95 - 1.461,95 kr.

    The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.

  • - Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
     
    1.717,95 kr.

    Anthropology, it is often argued, is an art of translation. Recently, however, social theorists have raised serious doubts about the translator's enterprise. Over the last few years the human social and ecological habitat has seen spectacular developments.

  • - Landscape, Values and the Environment
    af Veronica Strang
    492,95 - 1.712,95 kr.

    Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, this text explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.

  • - Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines
    af Mark Johnson
    530,95 - 1.709,95 kr.

    This study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities, and processes of cultural transformation.

  • - The Life of the Tamil Text
    af Saskia Kersenboom
    515,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

  • - Gossip, Sexuality and Creativity in Andalusia
    af Jerome R. Mintz
    499,95 - 1.719,95 kr.

    As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines such topics as carnival in a rural town; a round of criticism; social problems in the repertoire of Los Llorones; the rivalry; a country poet; and old and new voices.

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    537,95 kr.

    Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.

  • - Passion, Politics and Popular Culture
    af William Washabaugh
    513,95 - 1.705,95 kr.

    A study of contemporary flamenco music as a multi-dimensional movement of popular culture. Although portrayed as an apolitical, frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have influenced the Franco regime. This text explores flamenco in its social, cultural and historical context.

  • - Vol II: Property, Power and Ideology
     
    519,95 kr.

    All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

  • - Conversations in a Cameroon Village
    af Robert & Ph.D. Pool
    519,95 - 1.461,95 kr.

    Offers a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft - the context of illness explanations; and an examination of theoretical issues in anthropology - postmodernism and dialogue.

  • - Identities and Boundaries in Conflict
     
    1.712,95 kr.

    An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

  • - Anthropological Perspectives
     
    518,95 kr.

    Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how those people affected understand the ensuing processes.

  • - An Ethnographic Approach
    af Daniel Miller
    523,95 - 1.727,95 kr.

    Challenges many of our assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers perspectives that will inform the development of a political economy. In this book the importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and an analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of commodities emerges.

  • - Identities and Boundaries in Conflict
     
    520,95 kr.

    An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

  • - Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
    af Daniel Miller
    521,95 - 1.706,95 kr.

    Exploring modernity from an ethnographic perspective, the book focuses on Trinidad - a society which has suffered social rupture through slavery and indentured labour. It discusses mass consumption, and the use of goods and imported images to express and develop contradictions of modernity.

  • - Ecology, Culture and Domestication
     
    548,95 kr.

    This text reviews the concepts of "nature", both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organized around three themes: nature as a cultural construction; the cultural management of the environment; and relations between plants, animals and humans.

  • - Rewriting the Self and the Social
     
    490,95 kr.

    As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

  • - Vol I: History, Evolution and Social Change
     
    522,95 kr.

    All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

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    519,95 kr.

    Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.

  • - Politics and Perspectives
     
    524,95 kr.

    Talks about complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.