Studies in Anthropology and History
Women of the Place: Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu
1st Edition
By Margaret Jolly
January 01, 1997
Women of the Place is a study of gender relations in the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. It considers kastom in these communities not as an eternal tradition, but rather as a way of life, an identity in relation, and in resistance to the forces of European development. The way in...
The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
1st Edition
By Gisli Pálsson
September 01, 1995
First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specifically, the understanding of particular aspects of Icelandic society and history. The discussion is centred on a range of issues; moving between general ...
The Textual Life of Savants: Ethnography, Iceland, and the Linguistic Turn
1st Edition
By Gisli Palsson
August 01, 1995
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel 1550-1800
1st Edition
By Justin Stagl
June 01, 1995
First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a criticalhistorical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the ...
A History of Curiosity: The Theory of Travel-1550-1800
1st Edition
By Justin Stagl
June 01, 1995
The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. Stagl weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasizing links ...
Exploring Confrontation: Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture and History
1st Edition
Edited
By Michael Roberts
June 01, 1995
Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his ...
Tradition and Christianity: The Colonial Transformation of a Solomon Islands Society
1st Edition
By Ben Burt
March 01, 1994
Burt studies the effects of the 19th century labour trade, colonial subjugation and the subsequent Christian conversion. He examines the anti-colonial Maasina Rule movement of the 1940s and finally illustrates the subsequent efforts of Kwara'ae leaders to regain their self-determination and to ...
The Ghotul in Muria Society
1st Edition
By Simeran Man Singh Gell
January 01, 1992
First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1981
1st Edition
By Johanne Fabian
January 01, 1991
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless ...