Explorations in Anthropology
The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images
1st Edition
By Alfred Gell
July 01, 2001
Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is ...
Other Worlds: Notions of Self and Emotion among the Lohorung Rai
1st Edition
By Charlotte Hardman
December 01, 2000
This important ethnographic study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe of about 3,000 members living in Eastern Nepal. These rice farmers have a tradition of migration combined with hunting and gathering. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, ...
Common Worlds and Single Lives: Constituting Knowledge in Pacific Societies
1st Edition
Edited
By Verena Keck
November 01, 1998
In Pacific societies, local knowledge, which has been accumulated over thousands of years and is irreplaceable, is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. At the same time, an enormous body ...
Pacific Answers to Western Hegemony: Cultural Practices of Identity Construction
1st Edition
Edited
By Jürg Wassmann
August 01, 1998
The destruction of local identity through the relentless encroachment of a 'McDonald-ized' cultural imperialism is a global phenomenon. Yet the reactions of Pacific peoples to this Western hegemony are diverse and encourage the creation of independent cultural identities through sports and games, ...
Making Doctors: An Institutional Apprenticeship
1st Edition
By Simon Sinclair
November 01, 1997
Few outsiders realize that student illness is frequently, and ironically, a by-product of medical training. This unique study by a medical doctor and trained anthropologist debunks popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical establishment and asks provoking questions about ...
Discourses of Development: Anthropological Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By R. D. Grillo, R. L. Stirrat
October 01, 1997
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. By treating development as problematic, this book seeks to ...
Beauty and Power: Transgendering and Cultural Transformation in the Southern Philippines
1st Edition
By Mark Johnson
September 01, 1997
This compelling 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 in a world of contract labourers ...
Uncommon Ground: Landscape, Values and the Environment
1st Edition
By Veronica Strang
August 01, 1997
- What makes people care about the environment? - Why and how do different cultural groups value land in different ways? With increasing international concern about green issues, and the apparent failure of mechanistic solutions to complex problems, Uncommon Ground provides a timely understanding ...
Meanings of the Market: The Free Market in Western Culture
1st Edition
Edited
By James G. Carrier
July 01, 1997
For almost twenty years, the 'Free Market' has been a central feature of public debate in the West, Eastern Europe and elsewhere. In the name of the Market and its supposed benefits, governments and international agencies have imposed massive changes on peoples' lives. Curiously, scholars have paid...
Believing Identity: Pentecostalism and the Mediation of Jamaican Ethnicity and Gender in England
1st Edition
By Nicole Toulis
May 01, 1997
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 ...
Linking Separate Worlds: Urban Migrants and Rural Lives in Peru
1st Edition
By Karsten Paerregaard
May 01, 1997
This pathbreaking ethnography of population movements between rural and urban places in Peru addresses the conceptual and methodological problems of studying ‘deterritorialized' populations and the implications of this for anthropology's notions of culture and identity. Based on extensive fieldwork...
Material Conflicts: Parades and Visual Displays in Northern Ireland
1st Edition
By Neil Jarman
May 01, 1997
The deep and abiding sectarian divide splintering Northern Ireland has been the focus of considerable attention recently. In particular, the role parades and visual displays play in underscoring opposition has come into the spotlight with the emergence of heightened tensions, close on the heels of ...