Makuna Social Organization
Title | Makuna Social Organization PDF eBook |
Author | Kaj Århem |
Publisher | Academiae Ubsaliensis |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 1981 |
Genre | Social Science |
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Nature and Society
Title | Nature and Society PDF eBook |
Author | Philippe Descola |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2003-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134827156 |
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-culture dualism, some misguided attempts to respond to these problems, and potential avenues out of the current dilemmas of ecological discourse.
Makuna
Title | Makuna PDF eBook |
Author | Kaj Århem |
Publisher | Smithsonian Books (DC) |
Pages | 194 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Photography |
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In stunning, full-color photographs and evocative text, Samper and Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose future is being jeopardized by outsiders' destruction of their lands.
Locality and Belonging
Title | Locality and Belonging PDF eBook |
Author | Nadia Lovell |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2003-12-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134739796 |
Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and the UK present rigorous case studies of 'belonging' from the UK, South Africa, Argentina, Zanzibar, Amazonia, Indonesia and West Africa. Among the themes explored are: * space, memory and ethnicity * the mnemonic use of objects * mythologies of football and history * use of 'natural features' of the environment * nationhood and post-colonial identity making.
Conceptualizing Society
Title | Conceptualizing Society PDF eBook |
Author | Adam Kuper |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 231 |
Release | 2002-03-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1134926480 |
The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view that no theory could possibly do justice to the insights and complex descriptions of ethnography. In this volume, the first papers taken from the first conference of the newly-formed European Association of Social Anthropologists, the contributors discuss the various models at the disposal of the modern ethnographer. Their concerns range through structuralism, postmodernism and world systems theory, and the volume as a whole offers a lively account of the state of general theory in social anthropology today.
Barter, Exchange and Value
Title | Barter, Exchange and Value PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Humphrey |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 1992-06-11 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780521406826 |
This novel treatment of barter represents a topical addition to the literature on economic anthropology.
Companion Animals and Us
Title | Companion Animals and Us PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony L. Podberscek |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2005-07-21 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780521017718 |
Explores our complex relationships with pets.