Explorations in Anthropology
Carnival Song and Society: Gossip, Sexuality and Creativity in Andalusia
1st Edition
By Jerome R. Mintz
April 01, 1997
Carnival songs resemble a tabloid newspaper in their verve, spirit and range of themes. They are a measure of social change and an annual summary of events and opinion. The songs involve considerable artistry and are renowned as well for their raucous humor and vulgar concerns. (Promiscuity and ...
Capitalism: An Ethnographic Approach
1st Edition
By Daniel Miller
January 01, 1997
This provocative book challenges many of our ingrained assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers fresh perspectives that will inform the development of a new and relevant political economy for our times. The complex and often contradictory world within which modern ...
Flamenco: Passion, Politics and Popular Culture
1st Edition
By William Washabaugh
September 01, 1996
Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses. This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and ...
Key Issues in Hunter-Gatherer Research
1st Edition
Edited
By Linda J. Ellanna, Ernest S. Burch
August 01, 1996
Hunter-gatherer research has experienced enormous expansion over the past three decades. In the late 1950s less than a score of anthropologists were actively engaged in issue-oriented studies of foraging populations. Since then, the number of active researchers has grown into the hundreds.This book...
The Anthropology of Europe: Identities and Boundaries in Conflict
1st Edition
Edited
By Cris Shore, Victoria A. Goddard, Josep R. Llobera
August 01, 1996
This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of ...
Redefining Nature: Ecology, Culture and Domestication
1st Edition
Edited
By Roy Ellen, Katsuyoshi Fukui
April 01, 1996
- How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million ...
Cosmos and Society in Oceania
1st Edition
Edited
By Daniel de Coppet, Andre Iteanu
December 01, 1995
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. In ...
Word, Sound, Image: The Life of the Tamil Text
1st Edition
By Saskia Kersenboom
November 01, 1995
This original and radical book challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. In India, traditional texts are always performed; as a result, form and meaning can change depending on the occasion. This...
The Urban Context: Ethnicity, Social Networks and Situational Analysis
1st Edition
Edited
By Alisdair Rogers, Stephen Vertovec
May 12, 1995
Addresses issues of current social and theoretical concern such as urban ethnic conflict, multiculturalism and immigration.How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? The essays in this volume argue that a powerful and related set of methodologies - ...
Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument
1st Edition
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By Pat Caplan
April 06, 1995
Are disputes ever really resolved, or do people need to find ways of accommodating them and living with the consequences? Can dispute settlement procedures at the local level be transferred to wider environments? In attempting to answer these questions, some of the foremost specialists in the ...
Developing Areas: A Book of Readings and Research
1st Edition
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By Vijayan Pillai, Lyle Shannon
February 27, 1995
With subjects ranging from the global challenge of the AIDS epidemic to the role of family planning in developing nations, and the link between Central America's forests and North America's hamburgers, this interdisciplinary introduction by some of the world's foremost experts in development ...
Dialogue and the Interpretation of Illness: Conversations in a Cameroon Village
1st Edition
By Robert Pool
May 11, 1994
The etiology of the Wimbum people in the Western Grassfields of Cameroon is described through an examination of the way in which the meanings of key concepts, used to interpret and explain illness and other forms of misfortune, are continually being produced and reproduced in the praxis of everyday...