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Irish America

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 Few writers on the Irish in America have looked beyond the nineteenth-century ethnic enclaves of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, or Chicago, or have asked how the notion of an Irish-American ethnic identity in contemporary America can be reconciled with five, six, or seven generations of intermarriage and assimilation over the last century and a half. This study, based on interviews with 500 people of Irish ancestry in Albany, New York, aims to discover in what senses and in what degrees the present-day descendants of nineteenth-century Irish immigrants possess distinctive social practices and ways of seeing the world, and raises questions about the social conditions in which ideas of Irishness have been created and re-created.
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Anthropology And History In Franche-Comte - A Critique Of Social Theory

by Robert Layton

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 This is a study of continuity and change in rural France based on fieldwork carried out over a period of 25 years, and on historical documents spanning more than 300 years. Producer co-operatives have existed in Franche-Comte since the thirteenth century. Communities there, unlike modern English villages, are highly corporate. Robert Layton explores the relationships between inheritance rules, management of common land, household labour, and inter- household relations, as well as the impact on villages of national politics and economy. Comparison with other regions of Western Europe allows a reinterpretation of the eighteenth-century enclosures in England. Layton presents a dialogue between ethnography and social theory, and argues for a revision of the theories of Marx, Giddens, and Bourdieu so as to better explain the mechanisms of continuity, change, and adaptation in social life.
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Steel To Stone - A Chronicle Of Colonialism In The Southern Highlands Of Papua New Guinea

by Jeffrey Clark

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 In this book the late Jeffrey Clark subjects the history of colonialism among the Wiru of Papua New Guinea to a fresh and subtle examination. He reflects upon his own fieldwork as an anthropologist as he scrutinizes the cultural construction of encounters and exchanges between New Guineans and Australians from the 1930s on. Colonized and colonizers alike are the focus of an analysis that draws upon theories of culture, temporality, discursive representation, and anthropology in the postcolonial era. Steel to Stone offers an original critique of several different theories and perspectives and, in its ensemble of frameworks, constitutes a highly innovative contribution to anthropological thinking about history and culture. Of especial interest is Clark's application, in a New Guinean context, of Foucault's analysis of `the way in which new regimes of power and knowledge are inscribed on the body'. The Wiru, faced with the impact of a colonizing culture, are shown to inscribe their own history on the body, and to read in it their understanding of particular events. Overall, Clark provides a compelling picture of a contemporary Melanesian culture, at the critical point at which the Wiru people are interpreting, invoking, and reinventing their history in the context of a developing nation state.
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Anthropology Of Landscape - Perspectives On Place And Space

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 This volume offers anthropological perspectives on landscape, a topic of emerging interest for anthropologists, geographers, art historians and archaeologists. It proposes that landscape be conceptualized as a cultural process situated between "place" and "space".
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The Arabesk Debate - Music And Musicians In Modern Turkey

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 The Arabesk Debate describes the way in which Turkish musicians discuss, dispute, and attribute meaning to their music. Martin Stokes examines the debate over 'Arabesk', a musical genre popular throughout Turkey. His book is an ethnographic study of urban music-making in Istanbul, focusing on the activities of professional musicians and their audiences in the city.
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Inside The Cult - Religious Innovation And Transmission In Papua New Guinea

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 The millenarian cult of Pomio Kivung in Papua New Guinea looks forward to the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of ancestors bearing "cargo". Drawing on this belief, this study develops an original theory of modes of religiosity.
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A Failure Of Treatment

by Lewis

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 Offers a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. This book records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ritual to bring a spirit to heal a man; it also shows how cultural beliefs and assumptions may influence events. It focuses on how those closely involved maintained their hope and beliefs.
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The Archetypal Actions Of Ritual - A Theory Of Ritual Illustrated By The Jain Rite Of Worship

by Humphrey e Laidlaw

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 This book presents a new and radical general theory of ritual by drawing on an ethnographically rich account of the ritual worship of the Jains of western India. The authors argue that ritual is not a logically separate type of activity, but rather a quality that can be attributed to a much wider range of everyday activity than is usually supposed.
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Riches And Renunciation - Religion, Economy, And Society Among The Jains

by Laidlaw

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 Drawing upon a detailed study of Jainism in the city of Jaipur, India, this study shows how renunciation and asceticism play a central role in the life of a thriving business community, and how world-renunciation combines for Jain families with the pursuit of wordly happiness.
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Shamans And Elders - Experience, Knowledge, And Power Among The Daur Mongols

by Humphrey e Onon

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 Shamans and Elders is a ground-breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. Caroline Humphrey and Urgunge Onon offer much-needed insight on a little-known world, and point the way to a new method of doing anthropology.
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Identity And Ecology In Arctic Siberia - The Number One Reindeer Brigade

by Anderson

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 A first-hand account of a reindeer-herding collective in the remote Taimyr peninsula of Siberia, providing information on the historical and political dynamics of northern Asia. The text also traces the changes caused in the region by the formation of, and the break-up of, the Soviet Union.
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The Heat Of The Hearth - The Process Of Kinship In A Malay Fishing Community

by Carsten

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 In this text, the author offers a very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience of life as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi.
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The Anthropology Of Landscape - Perspectives On Place And Space

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 This volume offers anthropological perspectives on landscape, a topic of emerging interest for anthropologists, geographers, art historians and archaeologists. It proposes that landscape be conceptualized as a cultural process situated between "place" and "space".
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Inside The Cult - Religious Innovation And Transmission In Papua New Guinea

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 The millenarian cult of Pomio Kivung in Papua New Guinea looks forward to the establishment of a period of supernatural bliss, heralded by the return of ancestors bearing "cargo". Drawing on this belief, this study develops an original theory of modes of religiosity.
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Organizing Jainism In India And England

by Marcus (Lecturer, Lecturer, Institute Of Social And Cultural Anthropology, Oxford) Banks

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 Although the Jains have a religious history spanning two-and-a-half millennia Western scholars have shown little interest in them until recently. Drawing on fieldwork conducted among Jains in Gujarat State, India and Leicester, England, Marcus Banks aims to provide an understanding of contemporary Jain identity through an examination of their organizations.
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Contested Hierarchies - A Collaborative Ethnography Of Caste Among The Newars Of The Kathmandu Valley, Nepal

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 This collective study of the urban civilization of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal, is the most complete and approachable account yet of a regional caste system. All the major Newari viewpoints are covered: low castes as well as high, artisans as well as priests, Buddhist as well as Hindu, rural as well as urban.
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Changing Inner Mongolia - Pastoral Mongolian Society And The Chinese State

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 This study of the effect of social engineering in Inner Mongolia since the Chinese communists took control illuminates the transformations and continuities of life in pastoral Mongolian society and suggests an indigenous mechanism that has helped to shape the pastoral nomadic sociopolitical order.
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Dualism And Hierarchy C - Processes Of Binary Combination In Keo Society

by Gregory (, Professor In The Department Of Anthropology, University Of Alberta) Forth

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 Society in the Keo region of the Indonesian island of Flores reveals a pervasive pairing of villages, clans, and other groups. This study - deriving from fieldwork conducted by the author over 15 years - analyzes a form of society known as morphological dualism, or dual organization.
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Sea Hunters Of Indonesia - Fishers And Weavers Of Lamalera

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 Sea Hunters of Indonesia is a comprehensive study of the culture, economy, and history of Lamalera, a traditional whaling and textile-producing community in Indonesia, now becoming a major tourist attraction. R.H. Barnes offers a richly detailed and beautifully illustrated view of unique ways of life that are now under threat.
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Born And Bred - Idioms Of Kinship And New Reproductive Technologies In England

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 This is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. It dwells on the way the past features in talk about the place and each other, questioning the claim that such a preoccupation is due to nostalgia. It also makes connections across domains and argues that kinship is resonant in each.
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History, Memory, And Identity In Post-Soviet Estonia - The End Of A Collective Farm

by Sigrid (, Independent Scholar) Rausing

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 Located in the world of a former collective farm in Estonia, Sigrid Rausing's book describes the changing identity of the Swedish speaking minority in Estonia under pre-Soviet and Soviet rule, its new post-Soviet dependence on Sweden, and its current attempt to restore a Swedish cultural identity.
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A Market Out Of Place? - Remaking Economic, Social, And Symbolic Boundaries In Post-Communist Lithuania

by Pernille (, Senior Researcher, The Danish National Institute Of Social Research) Hohnen

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 Focuses on the seamy side of market economy in Lithuania and shows how a 'market' becomes established by people, sacrifices, and contestation. It pictures the hardship of entrepreneurs creating market economies by travelling to buy merchandise for resale, and shows how their ideas slowly develop into established routines in a stable market.
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Global Migrants, Local Lives - Travel And Transformation In Rural Bangladesh

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 Long-term migration is one of the most important factors in the formation of cultural identities in the modern world. This study covers major aspects of Bangladeshi life to show how migration has become a central economic and social resource in the community.
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Personal States - Making Connections Between People And Bureaucracy In Turkey

by Catherine (, Research Fellow In Social Anthropology, St John'S College, Cambridge) Alexander

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 This text charts how Turkish people, both individually and collectively, attempt to personalize the impersonality of the state. The narratives and metaphors used in these constructions draw on resources close to hand such as the organization of the factory and the family structure.
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