Explorations in Anthropology
Modernity - An Ethnographic Approach: Dualism and Mass Consumption in Trinidad
1st Edition
By Daniel Miller
April 19, 1994
From cultural studies, sociology, media studies, gender studies and elsewhere there have been a spate of books recently which have attempted to characterize the state of modernity. Many of these have also argued that what is required is an ethnographic work to determine how far these supposed ...
Interpretative Archaeology
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Tilley
February 17, 1994
This fascinating volume integrates recent 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 ...
Landscape: Politics and Perspectives
1st Edition
Edited
By Barbara Bender
December 21, 1993
This book is about the 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....
A Celebration of Demons
1st Edition
By Bruce Kapferer
February 11, 1991
The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot ...
Intimations of Infinity: The Cultural Meanings of the Iqwaye Counting and Number Systems
1st Edition
By Jadran Mimica
July 01, 1988
This is a remarkable work which captures the reader's imagination as only few books do. From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops a deeper and broader interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a powerful ...
Hunters and Gatherers (Vol I): Vol I: History, Evolution and Social Change
1st Edition
Edited
By Tim Ingold, David Riches, James Woodburn
January 01, 1988
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 ...