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Total Pages : 430 pages
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Download or read book Acta ethnologica et linguistica written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Acta ethnologica et linguistica written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Catalogue: Authors written by Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
Author : Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1803274867
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems written by Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2023-06-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
Author : Agehanada Bharati
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110805871
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Ideas and Actions written by Agehanada Bharati and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN 13 : 1937306119
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil written by Gerhard Kubik and published by Diasporic Africa Press. This book was released on 2017-10-26 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance forms as the products of people living in various African cultures which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African musical cultures that have existed in the period between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of "retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.
Author : Richard Rudgley
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1466886005
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)
Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances written by Richard Rudgley and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-11-25 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to Queen Victoria, humans have abused all sorts of drugs in the name of religion, tradition, and recreation, including such "controlled substances" as chocolate, lettuce, and toads. From glue-sniffing to LSD to kava, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances provides the first reliable, comprehensive exploration of this fascinating and controversial topic. With over one hundred entries, acclaimed author Richard Rudgley covers not only the chemical and botanical background of each substance, but its physiological and psychological effect on the user. Of particular value is Rudgley's emphasis on the historical and cultural role of these mind-altering substances. Impeccably researched and hugely entertaining, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances will appeal to anyone interested in one of the most misunderstood and yet also most widespread of human activities - the chemical quest for an altered state of consciousness.
Author : Anke Hein
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319423843
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)
Download or read book The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan in Southwest China written by Anke Hein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book proposes a new model and scheme of analysis for complex burial material and applies it to the prehistoric archaeological record of the Liangshan region in Southwest China that other archaeologists have commonly given a wide berth, regarding it as too patchy, too inhomogeneous, and overall too unwieldy to work with. The model treats burials as composite objects, considering the various elements separately in their respective life histories. The application of this approach to the rich and diverse archaeological record of the Liangshan region serves as a test of this new form of analysis. This volume thus pursues two main aims: to advance the understanding of the archaeology of the immediate study area which has been little examined, and to present and test a new scheme of analysis that can be applied to other bodies of material.
Author : Raymond Case Kelly
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472080564
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Nuer Conquest written by Raymond Case Kelly and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change
Author : Kay Almere Read
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113917
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos written by Kay Almere Read and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-22 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
Author : Helen A. Kanitkar
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110807041
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book 1965-1969 written by Helen A. Kanitkar and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johannes Fabian
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813917863
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)
Download or read book Moments of Freedom written by Johannes Fabian and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannes Fabian was one of the first anthropologists to introduce the concept of popular culture into the study of contemporary Africa. Drawing on his research in the Shaba region of Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), he has been writing for thirty years about the practices, beliefs, and objects that make up popular culture in an urban African setting: labor and language, religious movements, theater and storytelling, music and painting, grassroots literacy and historiography. In Moments of Freedom Fabian reflects on anthropological uses of the concept of popular culture. He retraces how his explorations of popular culture in this urban-industrial setting showed that classiclal culture theory did not account for large aspects of contemporary African life. Popular culture draws on various genres of representation and performance, and Fabian explores the notion of genre itself as it applies to Shaba religious discourse, painting, and the theater. He also addresses the element of time and how spatial thinking about culture, ethnicity, and globalization acts as an obstacle to appreciating the contemporaneity of African popular culture. The volume ends with a discussion of contestation in light of current calls for democratization. In Moments of Freedom, Johannes Fabian takes stock of decades of anthropological work on popular culture and examines the development of his own thought over time. Throughout the volume, he makes eloquent connections to other firelds such as history, folklore studies, and cultural studies, suggesting areas for further research in each.
Author : Holger Jebens
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781845450052
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Pathways to Heaven written by Holger Jebens and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based around the case study of a single village in Papua New Guinea, 'Pathways to Heaven' examines the tensions, antagonisms and outright confrontations that can occur within local Christian communities upon the arrival of global versions of fundamentalism.
Author : Carol J. Greenhouse
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501725025
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book A Moment's Notice written by Carol J. Greenhouse and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the problem of time—the paradox of time's apparent universality and cultural relativity—Carol J. Greenhouse develops an original ethnographic account of our present moment, the much-heralded postmodern condition, which is at the same time a reflexive analysis of ethnography itself. She argues that time is about agency and accountability, and that representations of time are used by institutions of law, politics, and scholarship to selectively refashion popular ideas of agency into paradigms of institutional legitimacy. A Moment's Notice suggests that the problem of time in theory is the corollary of problems of power in practice.Greenhouse develops her theory in examinations of three moments of cultural and political crisis: the resistance of the Aztecs against Cortes, the consolidation of China's First Empire, and the recent partisan political contests over Supreme Court nominees in the United States. In each of these cases, temporal innovation is integral to political improvisation, as traditions of sovereignty confront new cultural challenges. These cases return the discussion to current issues of inequality, postmodernity, cultural pluralism, and ethnography.
Author : George Melville Bolling
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Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Language written by George Melville Bolling and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780422762502
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Ibss: Anthropology: 1975 written by International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1978-08-24 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Thomas E. Gilsdorf
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118194195
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (181 download)
Download or read book Introduction to Cultural Mathematics written by Thomas E. Gilsdorf and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-02-24 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenges readers to think creativelyabout mathematics and ponder its role in their own daily lives Cultural mathematics, or ethnomathematics as it is also known, studies the relationship between mathematics and culture—with the ultimate goal of contributing to an appreciation of the connection between the two. Introduction to Cultural Mathematics: With Case Studies in the Otomies and Incas integrates both theoretical and applied aspects of the topic, promotes discussions on the development of mathematical concepts, and provides a comprehensive reference for teaching and learning about multicultural mathematical practices. This illuminating book provides a nontraditional, evidence-based approach to mathematics that promotes diversity and respect for cultural heritages. Part One covers such major concepts as cultural aspects of mathematics, numeration and number symbols, kinship relations, art and decoration, games, divination, and calendars. Part Two takes those concepts and applies them to fascinating case studies of both the Otomies of Central Mexico and the Incas of South America. Throughout the book, numerous illustrations, examples, and motivational questions promote an interactive understanding of the topic. Each chapter begins with questions that encourage a cooperative, inquiry-based approach to learning and concludes with a series of exercises that allow readers to test their understanding of the presented material. Introduction to Cultural Mathematics is an ideal book for courses on cultural mathematics, the history of mathematics, and cultural studies. The book is also a valuable resource and reference for anyone interested in the connections between mathematics, culture, anthropology, and history.
