Studies in Anthropology and History
Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom: The Politics and Culture of Contemporary Nepal
1st Edition
Edited
By D. Gellner, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. Whelpton
November 24, 2016
With its systematic coverage of different groups, this book demonstrates how similar trends of ethnic formation are affecting all parts of Nepal. Yet, within the boundaries of a single culturally diverse state, very different forms of ethnicity have emerged. " This is a truly thematic collection ...
The Return of Ainu: Cultural mobilization and the practice of ethnicity in Japan
1st Edition
By Katarina Sjoberg
August 03, 2016
First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of the Ainu. The author’s main concern is the phenomenon called Fourth World Populations. After having read a book entitled Aiona by the French linguist ...
Catastrophe and Creation: The transformation of an African culture
1st Edition
By K. Elkholm Friedmann
July 21, 2016
First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, brutally violated and colonized by Europeans. This book is the outcome of a project called Society and Culture in Crisis whereby the author found ...
Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices: Sri Lankans and International Tourism
1st Edition
By Malcolm Crick
June 17, 2016
First Published in 1994. Studies in Anthropology and History is a series that will develop new theoretical perspectives, and combine comparative and ethnographic studies with historical research. The notion that tourism is the largest industry in the world seems to have acquired a wide currency ...
The Rationality of Rural Life: Economic and Cultural Change in Tuscany
1st Edition
By Jeff Pratt
June 03, 2016
This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context, exploring the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming, one which touches ...
Before Social Anthropology: Essays on the History of British Anthropology
1st Edition
By James Urry
February 29, 2016
First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bronislaw Malinowski and A.R. Radcliffe-Brown. However, the field of ethnology had originated in Britain in the 1840s and a broadly based general ...
Colonial Space: Spatiality in the Discourse of German South West Africa 1884-1915
1st Edition
By J.K. Noyes
February 29, 2016
First Published in 1992. This book is about space of a colony and how it was produced. It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of South-West Africa between the years 1884 and 1915. The author’s aim is to demonstrate the active role which literature had played in structuring the ...
Dresden: Paradoxes of Memory in History
1st Edition
By Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
August 12, 2014
The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has ...
The Hard People: Rivalry, Sympathy and Social Structure in an Alpine Valley
1st Edition
By Patrick Heady
May 01, 1999
Heady draws on both participant observation and interviews with older informants to trace the effects of recent exogenous technological and institutional changes, and the way local people have responded to them. His findings relate to such themes of recent history as nationalism, regionalism and ...
A Politics of Presence: Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
1st Edition
By Peter Pels
December 01, 1998
Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the ...
Androgynous Objects: String Bags and Gender in Central New Guinea
1st Edition
By Maureen A. MacKenzie
April 01, 1998
Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings 'woven' into the bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies. It is ...
Narratives of Nation in the South Pacific
1st Edition
Edited
By Ton Otto, Nicholas Thomas
February 01, 1997
It is striking that in many Pacific nations, 'national' narratives are subordinate to other fundamental historical imaginings, such as those concerning local political dynasties and conversion to Christianity. While leaders in Pacific states have frequently sought to legitimate new nations through ...