Bøger i Studies in Anthropology and History serien
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- The Theory of Travel 1550-1800
630,95 kr. This volume examines the early modern methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical perspective. The author weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links between the figures, the philosophies and the literature of early modern times.
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- 630,95 kr.
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- 1.855,95 kr.
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- Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
1.855,95 kr. First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 1.855,95 kr.
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- Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan
655,95 kr. First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 655,95 kr.
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- The transformation of an African culture
624,95 kr. First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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- 624,95 kr.
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- Critical Essays 1971-1981
1.855,95 kr. The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless theorizing of structuralism and functionalism, is seen as inevitable when anthropology is forced to think about its own epistemology. Another current concern is taken up with reflections on the politics of representing the other. In the later essays, he opposes post-modern fashions and re-asserts the need to continue with a truly critical agenda.
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- 1.855,95 kr.
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561,95 kr. A collection of essays which focuses upon local perceptions of the state, efforts to ground nationhood in tradition, the character of national narratives and recent transformations of the Pacific nationalism. Case studies are included from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands.
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- 561,95 kr.
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- Paradoxes of Memory in History
702,95 - 1.855,95 kr. By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and "ethnographic excursions" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past.
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- 702,95 kr.
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- Critical Essays 1971-1981
740,95 kr. Intended for anthropologists, these collected papers present the author's concern with modern thought and the problem of ethnography. They demonstrate that the arguments formulated in Fabian's "Time and the Other" were the result of practical problems he faced working as an ethnographer.
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- 740,95 kr.
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- The Politics and Culture of Contemporary Nepal
1.787,95 kr. This volume takes a long-term view of the various processes of ethnic and national development that have been displayed, both before and after 1990. It brings together twelve carefully chosen ethnographic and historical chapters covering all of the
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- 1.787,95 kr.
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- Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley
1.828,95 kr. Examines the sociological problem of the reconciliation of individual self-interest and social solidarity through the eyes of villagers in the east Italian Alps. This text traces the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes and the way local people have responded.
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- 1.828,95 kr.
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- The transformation of an African culture
1.833,95 kr. An historical anthropological study of Congolese society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on the transition from a pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global" and seeks to understand social and cultural transformations as historical products of global relations.
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- 1.833,95 kr.
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- Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany
1.828,95 kr. An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.
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- 1.828,95 kr.
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- Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
1.787,95 kr. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the Uluguru mountains of Eastern Tanzania in the late colonial period, and how they used each others methods and routines to do this.
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- 1.787,95 kr.
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- Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
550,95 kr. An anthropological exploration of Icelandic history, society and culture as the importance of language and texts ranging from the medieval Commonwealth to the modern nation-state is investigated.
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- 550,95 kr.
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- Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany
623,95 kr. An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.
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- 623,95 kr.
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- Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan
1.832,95 kr. Discusses cultural change among the Ainu, Japan's indigenous people, its specificity and the circumstances which have led to it. The book focuses on strategies in response to change, laying bare the multiple nature of agency that characterizes the interaction between the Ainu, and the State.
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- 1.832,95 kr.
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- The Politics and Culture of Contemporary Nepal
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- 535,95 kr.