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Frontiers of Social Anthropology

Author : Samira Dasgupta
Publisher : Gyan Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Social Anthropology written by Samira Dasgupta and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume deals with the basic concepts, horizons and methods used in social anthropology, to cater to the aspiring students of college and various Indian universities, besides serving as a tool for the prospective job seekers in their competitive examinations. Group behaviour is the basic unit of observation among social anthropologists. Family marriage and kinship studies are essential to understand the social structure as well as change. The framework of the study of society culture and civilisation are also dealt. Field work will serve as the essential laboratory for an anthropologist. Like all the disciplines, anthropology has its separate identity, domain with its own techniques of data collection. The role of a social anthropologist who may be otherwise referred as to social doctor, in developmental and planning works is highlighted at the end.

Frontiers of Anthropology

Author : Ashley Montagu
Publisher : Penguin Adult HC/TR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Anthropology written by Ashley Montagu and published by Penguin Adult HC/TR. This book was released on 1974 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History

Author : Bradley J. Parker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 081653411X
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2016-04 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.

Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History

Author : Bradley J. Parker
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816551286
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Untaming the Frontier in Anthropology, Archaeology, and History written by Bradley J. Parker and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a half century of attempts by social scientists to compare frontiers around the world, the study of these regions is still closely associated with the nineteenth-century American West and the work of Frederick Jackson Turner. As a result, the very concept of the frontier is bound up in Victorian notions of manifest destiny and rugged individualism. The frontier, it would seem, has been tamed. This book seeks to open a new debate about the processes of frontier history in a variety of cultural contexts, untaming the frontier as an analytic concept, and releasing it in a range of unfamiliar settings. Drawing on examples from over four millennia, it shows that, throughout history, societies have been formed and transformed in relation to their frontiers, and that no one historical case represents the normal or typical frontier pattern. The contributors—historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists—present numerous examples of the frontier as a shifting zone of innovation and recombination through which cultural materials from many sources have been unpredictably channeled and transformed. At the same time, they reveal recurring processes of frontier history that enable world-historical comparison: the emergence of the frontier in relation to a core area; the mutually structuring interactions between frontier and core; and the development of social exchange, merger, or conflict between previously separate populations brought together on the frontier. Any frontier situation has many dimensions, and each of the chapters highlights one or more of these, from the physical and ideological aspects of Egypt’s Nubian frontier to the military and cultural components of Inka outposts in Bolivia to the shifting agrarian, religious, and political boundaries in Bengal. They explore cases in which the centripetal forces at work in frontier zones have resulted in cultural hybridization or “creolization,” and in some instances show how satellite settlements on the frontiers of core polities themselves develop into new core polities. Each of the chapters suggests that frontiers are shaped in critical ways by topography, climate, vegetation, and the availability of water and other strategic resources, and most also consider cases of population shifts within or through a frontier zone. As these studies reveal, transnationalism in today’s world can best be understood as an extension of frontier processes that have developed over thousands of years. This book’s interdisciplinary perspective challenges readers to look beyond their own fields of interest to reconsider the true nature and meaning of frontiers.

Neoliberal Frontiers

Author : Brenda Chalfin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226100626
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Neoliberal Frontiers written by Brenda Chalfin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Neoliberal Frontiers, Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana’s Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanaian sovereignty. From the revealing vantage point of the Customs office, Chalfin discovers a fascinating inversion of our assumptions about neoliberal transformation: bureaucrats and local functionaries, government offices, checkpoints, and registries are typically held to be the targets of reform, but Chalfin finds that these figures and sites of authority act as the engine for changes in state sovereignty. Ghana has served as a model of reform for the neoliberal establishment, making it an ideal site for Chalfin to explore why the restructuring of a state on the global periphery portends shifts that occur in all corners of the world. At once a foray into international political economy, politics, and political anthropology, Neoliberal Frontiers is an innovative interdisciplinary leap forward for ethnographic writing, as well as an eloquent addition to the literature on postcolonial Africa.

New Frontiers in Ethnography

Author : Sam Hillyard
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1849509433
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (495 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Ethnography written by Sam Hillyard and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses continuities and innovations within the ethnographic canon. This title uses Hammersley's (1991) book "What's Wrong with Ethnography" to open and situate the debate, and engages with contemporary debates and arguments on both sides of the Atlantic.

Frontiers of Capital

Author : Melissa S. Fisher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822337393
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Capital written by Melissa S. Fisher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy.

Frontiers of Capital

Author : Melissa S. Fisher
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822388235
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Capital written by Melissa S. Fisher and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-31 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the NASDAQ having lost 70 percent of its value, the giddy, optimistic belief in perpetual growth that accompanied the economic boom of the 1990s had fizzled by 2002. Yet the advances in information and communication technology, management and production techniques, and global integration that spurred the “New Economy” of the 1990s had triggered profound and lasting changes. Frontiers of Capital brings together ethnographies exploring how cultural practices and social relations have been altered by the radical economic and technological innovations of the New Economy. The contributors, most of whom are anthropologists, investigate changes in the practices and interactions of futures traders, Chinese entrepreneurs, residents of French housing projects, women working on Wall Street, cable television programmers, and others. Some contributors highlight how expedited flows of information allow business professionals to develop new knowledge practices. They analyze dynamics ranging from the decision-making processes of the Federal Reserve Board to the legal maneuvering necessary to buttress a nascent Japanese market in over-the-counter derivatives. Others focus on the social consequences of globalization and new modes of communication, evaluating the introduction of new information technologies into African communities and the collaborative practices of open-source computer programmers. Together the essays suggest that social relations, rather than becoming less relevant in the high-tech age, have become more important than ever. This finding dovetails with the thinking of many corporations, which increasingly employ anthropologists to study and explain the “local” cultural practices of their own workers and consumers. Frontiers of Capital signals the wide-ranging role of anthropology in explaining the social and cultural contours of the New Economy. Contributors. Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Greg Downey, Melissa S. Fisher, Douglas R. Holmes, George E. Marcus, Siobhán O’Mahony, Aihwa Ong, Annelise Riles, Saskia Sassen, Paul A. Silverstein, AbdouMaliq Simone, Neil Smith, Caitlin Zaloom

Archaeology of Frontiers & Boundaries

Author : J J ROBINSON
Publisher : Elsevier
ISBN 13 : 1483294390
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology of Frontiers & Boundaries written by J J ROBINSON and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-06-28 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archaeology of Frontiers & Boundaries

Anthropology's Global Histories

Author : Rainer F. Buschmann
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824861477
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)

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Book Synopsis Anthropology's Global Histories by : Rainer F. Buschmann

Download or read book Anthropology's Global Histories written by Rainer F. Buschmann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology’s global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea. Buschmann explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. He also shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Finally, he places the German experience in the broader context of Euro-American anthropology. Anthropology's Global Histories will interest students and scholars of anthropology, history, world history, and Pacific studies.

Frontiers of Civil Society

Author : Marek Mikuš
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1785338919
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers of Civil Society written by Marek Mikuš and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2018-06-13 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Serbia, as elsewhere in postsocialist Europe, the rise of “civil society” was expected to support a smooth transformation to Western models of liberal democracy and capitalism. More than twenty years after the Yugoslav wars, these expectations appear largely unmet. Frontiers of Civil Society asks why, exploring the roles of multiple civil society forces in a set of government “reforms” of society and individuals in the early 2010s, and examining them in the broader context of social struggles over neoliberal restructuring and transnational integration.

New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology

Author : Masamichi S. Sasaki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004170340
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book New Frontiers in Comparative Sociology written by Masamichi S. Sasaki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of notable papers from the first six volumes of the journal "Comparative Sociology." Its content represents leading-edge and contemporarily astute analyses in the burgeoning science of comparative sociology, especially relevant to a globalizing world in transition. Given that not everyone is acquainted with comparative sociology, this book offers an opportunity to enlighten readers unfamiliar with the discipline about the importance of comparative sociology to the new world order. Taken together, the articles illuminate various aspects of comparative sociologya "theoretical, methodological, substantive. Some compare social entities in subjective, case-study fashion, while others report on rigorous social research. All contribute in one form or another to describing the many and varied facets of the exciting a oenewa science of comparative sociology. The content of this volume has previously been published in "Comparative Sociology" volumes 1 a " 6.3.

Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia

Author : Lipokmar Dzüvichü
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0429537484
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Objects and Frontiers in Modern Asia written by Lipokmar Dzüvichü and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2019-03-06 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the geographies between the Mekong and the Indus, this book brings objects to the centre of enquiry in the understanding of modern Asian frontiers. It explores how a range of objects have historically been significant bearers and agents of frontier making. For instance, how are objects connected to aspects of state making, social change, everyday life, diplomacy, political and ecological worlds, capital, forms of violence, resistances, circulations, and aesthetic expressions? This book seeks to interrogate and understand the dynamism of frontiers from the vantage point of objects such as salt, rubber, tea, guns, silk scarves, horses, and opium. It attempts to explore objects as sites of encounter, mediation, or dislocation between the social and the spatial. The book not only locates objects in the specificities of frontier spaces, but it also looks at how they are produced, circulated, and come to be intricately linked to a wide range of people, institutions, networks, and geographies. In the process, it explores how objects traverse and come to inhabit multiple historical, cultural, and geographical scales. This book will be of interest to researchers and academics working in areas of history, social and cultural anthropology, Asian studies, frontiers and borderland studies, cultural studies, political and economic studies, and museum studies.

Border Encounters

Author : Jutta Lauth Bacas
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782381384
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book Border Encounters written by Jutta Lauth Bacas and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the tremendous changes affecting Europe in recent decades, those concerning political frontiers have been some of the most significant. International borders are being opened in some regions while being redefined or reinforced in others. The social relationships of those living in these borderland regions are also changing fundamentally. This volume investigates, from a local, ground-up perspective, what is happening at some of these border encounters: face-to-face interactions and relations of compliance and confrontation, where people are bargaining, exchanging goods and information, and maneuvering beyond state boundaries. Anthropological case studies from a number of European borderlands shed light on the questions of how, and to what extent, the border context influences the changing interactions and social relationships between people at a political frontier.

Border Approaches

Author : Hastings Donnan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Border Approaches written by Hastings Donnan and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outgrowth of the annual conference of the Anthropological Association of Ireland, held in May 1992 in Carlingford, County Louth, Ireland.

Frontiers and Borderlands

Author : Michael Rösler
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Frontiers and Borderlands written by Michael Rösler and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction / Tobias Wendl & Michael R(c)œsler -- The internal African frontier : cultural conservatism and ethnic innovation / Igor Kopytoff -- Where is the border now? : the new politics of identity in South Africa / Carolyn Hamilton -- Island as borderland : such as R(c)ơgen and Usedom / Ina-Maria Greverus -- Power versus knowledge : smugglers and the state along Ghana's eastern frontier / Paul Nugent -- Shopping and sectarianism at the Irish border / Hastings Donnan -- Smuggling as a border way of life : a Mediterranean case / Henk Driessen -- Multiple legal construction of socio-economic spaces : resource management and conflict in the Central Moluccas / Franz von Benda-Beckman -- Limits on the access to land, cattle and women among some West African peoples / R(c)ơdiger Schott -- Boundaries between African customary law and the constitution in South Africa / Tom W. Bennett -- Frontier languages, language boundaries / Klaus Schubert -- Separation through unification : changing cultural models in a East German factory / Heike Wieschiolek -- Toward an anthropology of borderlands : the Mexican-US border and the crossing of the 21st century / Robert R. Alvarez.

Anthropology of Policy

Author : Cris Shore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134827024
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Anthropology of Policy written by Cris Shore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight into issues at the heart of anthropology.