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The Anthropological Circle - Symbol, Function, History

de Marc Augé

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 Anthropology is both outside of history and within it. Histories of anthropology tend to summarise particular authors' intellectual differences; but, as Marc AugÃ© argues in this book, first published in English in 1982, these differences may be intrinsically derived from intellectual divisions within anthropology as obvious as they are irreconcilable.
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Power And Intimacy In The Christian Philippines

de Fenella (London School Of Economics And Political Science) Cannell

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 Fenella Cannell's study of everyday life in the lowland Philippines offers a powerful alternative to existing interpretations of the relationship between culture and tradition in the region and beyond. This book addresses not only South-East Asianists, but all those with an interest in the anthropology of religion and post-colonial cultures.
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The Bedouin Of Cyrenaica - Studies In Personal And Corporate Power

de Emrys L. Peters

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 This collection brings together Emrys Peters' major writings on the Bedouin of Libya.
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Hunters And Herders Of Southern Africa - A Comparative Ethnography Of The Khoisan Peoples

de Alan (University Of Edinburgh) Barnard

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 A detailed study of the Khoisan, the cluster of southern African peoples which include the Bushmen, the Khoekho and the Damara.
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The Fish People - Linguistic Exogamy And Tukanoan Identity In Northwest Amazonia

de Jean E. (Massachusetts Institute Of Technology) Jackson

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 The BarÃ¡, or Fish people of the Northwest Amazon form part of a network of intermarrying local communities - each community speaks a different language and marriages must take place between people from different communities with different languages. Here, Jean Jackson discusses BarÂ· marriage, kinship, spatial organization and other features of their social landscape.
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The Roads Of Chinese Childhood - Learning And Identification In Angang

de Charles (University Of Cambridge) Stafford

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 This 1995 book describes learning and the process of childhood in Angang, a fishing community in south-eastern Taiwan, and the ways in which children learn, consciously and unconsciously, about forms of identification both as children within the family and as citizens of the nation.
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Power And Religiosity In A Post-Colonial Setting - Sinhala Catholics In Contemporary Sri Lanka

de R. L. (University Of Sussex) Stirrat

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 This study of religious change and cultural fragmentation in contemporary Sri Lanka focuses on a series of new Catholic shrines that attract hundreds of pilgrims. Their fame is based, among other things, on their efficacy as centres for demonic exorcism, alleviating suffering, and helping people to find jobs.
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Stealing People'S Names - History And Politics In A Sepik River Cosmology

de Simon J. (University Of Ulster) Harrison

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 Among the people of Avatip, a community in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea, the most prestigious and valued forms of wealth are personal names. In this intriguing study, Simon Harrison analyses the significance of names in the context of Avatip ritual, cosmology and concepts of the person.
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A Place Of Their Own - Family Farming In Eastern Finland

de Ray (University Of Cambridge) Abrahams

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 This is a study of family farming in eastern Finland. It looks at the connections between farm and family, and considers the significance of mechanization and other modern developments for the persistence of the family as a farming unit. Here, and in other contexts, the author draws attention to the adaptability of families in a changing world.
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The Anthropology Of Numbers

de Thomas Crump

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 Numbers are an important feature of almost all known cultures. This detailed anthropological study examines how people from a wide range of cultures and historical backgrounds use and understand numbers. By looking at the logical, linguistical and psychological implications, the author analyses how numbers operate within different contexts.
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The Palm And The Pleiades - Initiation And Cosmology In Northwest Amazonia

de Stephen Hugh-Jones

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 The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest Amazonia.
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Hunters, Pastoralists And Ranchers - Reindeer Economies And Their Transformations

de Tim Ingold

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 In this book, drawing on ethnographic material from North America and Eurasia, Tim Ingold explains the causes and mechanisms of transformations between hunting, pastoralism and ranching, each based on the same animal in the same environment, and each viewed in terms of a particular conjunction of social and ecological relations of production.
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The Political Economy Of West African Agriculture

de Keith Hart

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 West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa.
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Actions, Norms And Representations - Foundations Of Anthropological Enquiry

de Ladislav Holy e Milan Stuchlik

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 The nature of social reality, and its availability to the observer, remains a fundamental methodological problem for the social anthropologist. In this book the authors argue that the difference between these two kinds of data is not merely a casual difference in the way in which the information comes to the anthropologist.
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Day Of Shining Red

de Gilbert Lewis

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 Anthropologists, in studying other cultures, are often tempted to offer their own explanations of strange customs when they feel that the people involved have not given a good enough reason for these customs. The question how the anthropologist can justify interpretations of customs which go beyond those offered by the people themselves runs through this book.
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Chinese Ritual And Politics

de Emily Martin (The Johns Hopkins University) Ahern

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 Ritual action in China often takes its logic from political action. In this book Emily Ahern explores the implications of this.
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Quiet Days In Burgundy - A Study Of Local Politics

de Marc Abeles

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 This ethnographic study of political life in the department of the Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The author, a French anthropologist, has extensive field experience in Ethiopia. Drawing on local history, interviews and participant observation, AbÃ©lÃ¨s develops a fresh perspective on political life in France.
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The Majangir - Ecology And Society Of A Southwest Ethiopian People

de Jack (Harvard University, Massachusetts) Stauder

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 In this study Dr Stauder examines the various social and spatial groupings of Majang society.
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Casting Out Anger - Religion Among The Taita Of Kenya

de Grace Gredys (University Of Rochester, New York) Harris

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 This account of an East African religion as it was during the 1950s discusses a variety of issues in the study of religion, within the context of case materials and other field data. The result is a many-sided, yet integrated picture of a single religion, that among the Taita of Kenya.
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Spirits Of Protest - Spirit-Mediums And The Articulation Of Consensus Among The Zezuru Of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

de Peter (Universidade Estadual De Campinas, Brazil) Fry

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 In this study, Peter Fry describes and analyses spirit-mediumship amongst a community of Zezuru people living near Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).
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Why Marry Her? - Society And Symbolic Structures

de Luc De Heusch

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 This collection of essays on the themes of social organization, kinship and religion provides an excellent guide for English-speaking scholars to the understanding of French structuralist thought. Upon publication, this was the first time that Luc de Heusch's important book Pourquoi l'Ã©pouser? (Editions Gallimard, 1971) had appeared in English.
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Elite Politics In Rural India - Political Stratification And Political Alliances In Western Maharashtra

de Anthony T. (University Of Rochester, New York) Carter

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 A study of the system of political stratification and the pattern of political alliances in rural Western Maharashtra. Based on fieldwork in a large village, a nearby market town and taluka headquarters, and political institutions in the surrounding countryside, Dr Carter's central concern is with the manner in which the pattern of political alliances is shaped by political stratification.
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Buddhist Monk, Buddhist Layman - A Study Of Urban Monastic Organization In Central Thailand

de Jane Bunnag

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 Most anthropological and sociological studies of Buddhism have concentrated on village and rural Buddhism. This is a systematic anthropological study of monastic organization and monk-layman interaction in a purely urban context in the countries where Theravada Buddhism is practised, namely, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Laos and Thailand.
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The Political Organization Of Unyamwezi

de R. G. (University Of Cambridge) Abrahams

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 This is a detailed study of the political organization in Unyamwezi, an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence.
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