Explorations in Anthropology
Beyond Boundaries: Understanding, Translation and Anthropological Discourse
1st Edition
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By Gisli Palsson
January 30, 2025
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. Modern humans inhabit a 'global village' ...
Child's Play: Myth, Mimesis and Make-Believe
1st Edition
By Laurence R. Goldman
January 30, 2025
This innovative book finally takes seriously the need for anthropologists to produce in-depth ethnographies of children's play. In examining the subject from a cross-cultural perspective, the author argues that our understanding of the way children transform their environment to create make-believe...
Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
1st Edition
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By Cecile Barraud, Daniel de Coppet, Andre Iteanu, Raymond Jamous
January 30, 2025
Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative ...
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol II): Vol II: Property, Power and Ideology
1st Edition
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By Tim Ingold, David Riches, James Woodburn
August 05, 2021
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 these wide-ranging volumes in which internationally leading scholars consider ...
Amazonian Caboclo Society: An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy
1st Edition
By Stephen Nugent
March 31, 2021
Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little ...
Brothers: The Politics of Violence among the Sekani of Northern British Columbia
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By Guy Lanoue
March 31, 2021
A provocative analysis of a nativist movement.The creation of a huge artificial lake in western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This caused considerable social distress ...
Children of the Blood: Society, Reproduction and Cosmology in New Guinea
1st Edition
By Bernard Juillerat
March 31, 2021
This fascinating book, translated from the French, explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. Based on fifteen years of research, it offers a detailed examination of all aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their ...
Constituting the Minangkabau
1st Edition
By Joel Kahn
March 31, 2021
This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia. The author argues that the impact of ...
Domesticating Resistance: The Dhan-Gadi Aborigines and the Australian State
1st Edition
By Barry Morris
March 31, 2021
In this fascinating study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia, the author combines the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist. In so doing he brings alive the contours of crude racism, as well as the more subtle expressions...
Hahalis and the Labour of Love: A Social Movement on Buka Island
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By Eleanor Rimoldi, Eleanor Rimoldi
March 31, 2021
This book studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. The first extended ethnography of Buka published in nearly...
What's in a Relative: Household and Family in Formentera
1st Edition
By Joan Bestard-Camps
March 31, 2021
In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of...
The Migration Process: Capital, Gifts and Offerings among British Pakistanis
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By Pnina Werbner
September 01, 2002
This study, which breaks new ground in urban research, is a comprehensive and definitive account of one of the many communities of South Asians to emerge throughout the Western industrial world since the Second World War - the British Pakistanis in Manchester. This book examines the cultural ...