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Tradition And Christianity - The Colonial Transformation Of A Solomon Islands Society

by Ben Burt

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 First Published in 1994. Tradition and Christianity explores how and why a Pacific Islands people, fiercely attached to the tradition of their ancestors, have transformed their society by changing their religion.
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Women Of The Place - Kastom, Colonialism And Gender In Vanuatu

by Margaret Jolly

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 A study of gender relations in the kastom communities of South Pentecost, Vanuatu. This book 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.
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Exploring Confrontation - Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture And History

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 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 contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality.This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka''s political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.
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Exploring Confrontation - Sri Lanka: Politics, Culture And History

42,39€ + 10% CARD

 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 contextualised engagement with the pogroms of 1915 and 1983, as well as other incidents, as at the same time he delineates some of the limits of empiricist rationality.This book is replete with rich ethnographic detail and serves as an exercise in historical anthropology which illuminates Sri Lanka''s political culture. It not only opens out the contrast between Western and Indian world views, but also explores the human condition by bringing out the immediacy surrounding acts of victimisation and human beings in conflict.
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Tradition And Christianity - The Colonial Transformation Of A Solomon Islands Society

by Ben Burt

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 First Published in 1994. Tradition and Christianity explores how and why a Pacific Islands people, fiercely attached to the tradition of their ancestors, have transformed their society by changing their religion.
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Tradition And Christianity - The Colonial Transformation Of A Solomon Islands Society

by Ben Burt

60,94€ + 10% CARD

 First Published in 1994. Tradition and Christianity explores how and why a Pacific Islands people, fiercely attached to the tradition of their ancestors, have transformed their society by changing their religion.
ENGLISH

Rationality Of Rural Life - Economic And Cultural Change In Tuscany

by Jeff Pratt

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 An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.
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Rationality Of Rural Life - Economic And Cultural Change In Tuscany

by Jeff Pratt

68,89€ + 10% CARD

 An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.
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Androgynous Objects - String Bags And Gender In Central New Guinea

by Maureen A. Mackenzie

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 This book explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgymous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of central New Guinea.
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Androgynous Objects - String Bags And Gender In Central New Guinea

by Maureen A. Mackenzie

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 This book explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgymous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of central New Guinea.
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Nationalism And Ethnicity In A Hindu Kingdom - The Politics And Culture Of Contemporary Nepal

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 This volume takes a long-term view of the various processes of ethnic and national development that have been displayed, both before and after 1990. It brings together twelve carefully chosen ethnographic and historical chapters covering all of the
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A History Of Curiosity - The Theory Of Travel 1550-1800

by Justin Stagl

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 First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices - Sri Lankans And International Tourism

by Malcolm Crick

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 First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Rationality Of Rural Life - Economic And Cultural Change In Tuscany

by Jeff Pratt

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 An exploration of the developments in rural life, this book takes an in-depth look at the strengths and weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture.
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Colonial Space - Spatiality In The Discourse Of German South West Africa 1884-1915

by J.K. Noyes

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 First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Before Social Anthropology - Essays On The History Of British Anthropology

by James Urry

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 First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Narratives Of Nation In The South Pacific

by Nicholas Thomas

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 First Published in 1997. These studies from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands add much to our knowledge of historical imaginings and contemporary culture in the Pacific, but raise wider questions concerning the current transformation of national identities.
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Narratives Of Nation In The South Pacific

by Nicholas Thomas

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 First Published in 1997. These studies from Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu, Samoa and the Cook Islands add much to our knowledge of historical imaginings and contemporary culture in the Pacific, but raise wider questions concerning the current transformation of national identities.
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Dresden - Paradoxes Of Memory In History

by Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke

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 By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and "ethnographic excursions" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past.
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Women Of The Place - Kastom, Colonialism And Gender In Vanuatu

by Margaret Jolly

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 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 which Christian missions, the labour trade, and the development of Western political institutions had a divergent impact on women and men is explored. The relations between persons and things is highlighted in an examination of the myths and rituals of the life-cycle and of grade-taking. The significance of this ritual is located in the context of colonial history, particularly the impact of pacification on men. Finally, the book considers more generally kastom and gender in the post-colonial state.
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Women Of The Place - Kastom, Colonialism And Gender In Vanuatu

by Margaret Jolly

56,96€ + 10% CARD

 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 which Christian missions, the labour trade, and the development of Western political institutions had a divergent impact on women and men is explored. The relations between persons and things is highlighted in an examination of the myths and rituals of the life-cycle and of grade-taking. The significance of this ritual is located in the context of colonial history, particularly the impact of pacification on men. Finally, the book considers more generally kastom and gender in the post-colonial state.
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Dresden - Paradoxes Of Memory In History

by Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke

76,84€ + 10% CARD

 By weaving together scholarly research, oral history, and "ethnographic excursions" or narratives of salient experiences, this book makes an important contribution to the study of social aspects of the past.
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Catastrophe And Creation - The Transformation Of An African Culture

by K. Elkholm Friedmann

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 An historical anthropological study of Congolese society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. It focuses on the transition from a pre-colonial to a colonial order. The approach is "global" and seeks to understand social and cultural transformations as historical products of global relations.
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Hard People - Rivalry, Sympathy And Social Structure In An Alpine Valley

by Patrick Heady

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 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.
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