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Book Synopsis Kinship Studies in Nepali Anthropology by : Laya Prasad Uprety
Download or read book Kinship Studies in Nepali Anthropology written by Laya Prasad Uprety and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at Seminar on "Kinship Studies in Nepali Anthropology", organized by Central Department of Anthropology, Tribhuvan University; held on September 30, 2016.
Book Synopsis Nepali Anthropology by : Binod Pokharel
Download or read book Nepali Anthropology written by Binod Pokharel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Culture, Creation, and Procreation by : Monika Böck
Download or read book Culture, Creation, and Procreation written by Monika Böck and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Ends of Kinship by : Sienna R. Craig
Download or read book The Ends of Kinship written by Sienna R. Craig and published by Global South Asia. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ends of Kinship explores dynamics of migration and social change between Nepal and New York City. It asks how individuals, families, and communities care for each other and carve out spaces of belonging from high mountain villages in the Himalayan region of Mustang, on the border with Tibet, to the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork with people in and from Mustang, this ethnography engages with foundational questions in cultural anthropology: What makes and sustains kinship? What does education prepare us for? How are traditions governing birth, death, marriage, and moral economies defended and transformed? How do different generations abide with and understand each other? The Tibetan Buddhist notion of khora encompasses cyclic existence as well as the daily act of circumambulating the sacred in order to make and remake oneself. Sienna Craig draws on this concept to think about cycles of mobility and patterns of world-making between Nepal and New York. Stylistically, Ends of Kinship contributes to experiments in ethnographic writing. Its core chapters are written as teachable and publicly accessible literary ethnography. Between the chapters sit short stories that present a sense of some of the most difficult aspects of migration while respecting the privacy of the author's informants. Line drawings by Tibetan thangka artist Tenzin Norbu illustrate the contrasting worlds in which Mustangis now encounter the central life experiences addressed in each chapter"--
Book Synopsis Dividends of Kinship by : Peter P. Schweitzer
Download or read book Dividends of Kinship written by Peter P. Schweitzer and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aiming to reassert the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship within the framework of social anthropology, this text looks at its benefits and burdens across cultures.
Book Synopsis The Ends of Kinship by : Sienna R. Craig
Download or read book The Ends of Kinship written by Sienna R. Craig and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, people from Mustang, Nepal, have relied on agriculture, pastoralism, and trade as a way of life. Seasonal migrations to South Asian cities for trade as well as temporary wage labor abroad have shaped their experiences for decades. Yet, more recently, permanent migrations to New York City, where many have settled, are reshaping lives and social worlds. Mustang has experienced one of the highest rates of depopulation in contemporary Nepal—a profoundly visible depopulation that contrasts with the relative invisibility of Himalayan migrants in New York. Drawing on more than two decades of fieldwork with people in and from Mustang, this book combines narrative ethnography and short fiction to engage with foundational questions in cultural anthropology: How do different generations abide with and understand each other? How are traditions defended and transformed in the context of new mobilities? Anthropologist Sienna Craig draws on khora, the Tibetan Buddhist notion of cyclic existence as well as the daily act of circumambulating the sacred, to think about cycles of movement and patterns of world-making, shedding light on how kinship remains both firm and flexible in the face of migration. From a high Himalayan kingdom to the streets of Brooklyn and Queens, The Ends of Kinship explores dynamics of migration and social change, asking how individuals, families, and communities care for each other and carve out spaces of belonging. It also speaks broadly to issues of immigration and diaspora; belonging and identity; and the nexus of environmental, economic, and cultural transformation.
Book Synopsis Comparative Studies in Kinship by : Jack Goody
Download or read book Comparative Studies in Kinship written by Jack Goody and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Against the background of the problems involved in the comparative study of human society, the essays in this book show the comparative ideal in practice, which combines elements from both sociology and anthropology. In each essay, specific problems are treated in a way which tests theory against evidence, to replace assertion by demonstration. Topics covered include: - Incest and Adultery - Double descent systems - Inheritance, social change and the boundary problem - Marriage policy - The circulation of women and children in northern Ghana - Indo-European kinship. First published in 1969.
Download or read book Relative Values written by Sarah Franklin and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays that redefine and transform the field of kinship./div
Book Synopsis Kinship Matters by : Fatemeh Ebtehaj
Download or read book Kinship Matters written by Fatemeh Ebtehaj and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the fifth in the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group series and it concerns the evolving notions and practices of kinship in contemporary Britain and the interrelationship of kinship, law and social policy. Assembling contributions from scholars in a range of disciplines, it examines social, legal, cultural and psychological questions related to kinship. Rising rates of divorce and of alternative modes of partnership have raised questions about the care and well-being of children, while increasing longevity and mobility, together with lower birth rates and changes in our economic circumstances, have led to a reconsideration of duties and responsibilities towards the care of elderly people. In addition, globalisation trends and international flows of migrants and refugees have confronted us with alternative constructions of kinship and with the challenges of maintaining kinship ties transnationally. Finally, new developments in genetics research and the growing use of assisted reproductive technologies may raise questions about our notions of kinship and of kin rights and responsibilities. The book explores these changes from various perspectives and draws on theoretical and empirical data to describe practices of kinship in contemporary Britain.
Book Synopsis Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society by : Mark Pickett
Download or read book Caste and Kinship in a Modern Hindu Society written by Mark Pickett and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly contribution to the anthropology of caste, and of Hindu society more generally.
Book Synopsis Research Practices in the Study of Kinship by : Alan Barnard
Download or read book Research Practices in the Study of Kinship written by Alan Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Versatility of Kinship by : Linda S Cordell
Download or read book The Versatility of Kinship written by Linda S Cordell and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies in Anthropology: The Versatility of Kinship focuses on the dynamics involved in the special class of interpersonal ties that bind individuals to others. The selection first offers information on the variant usage in American kinship, uses of kinship in Kwaio, Solomon Islands, and incest and kinship structure. Discussions focus on incest categories in Cachama and Mamo, childhood bonds and adult residence, kinship with the dead, kinship, social identities, and behavior, and models of relatedness. The text then explores the biological, linguistic, and cultural aspects of the Hopi-Tewa system of mating in First Mesa, Arizona and the Navajo exogamic rules and preferred marriages. The publication ponders on the Kpelle negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties and kinship and descent in the ethnic reassertion of the Eastern Creek Indians. Topics include social and cultural history, genealogy as social instrument, crystallization of the Eastern Creek community, Kpelle marriage and matrilateral ties, ethnographic background, and the negotiation of marriage and matrilateral ties. The selection is a valuable reference for anthropologists, sociologists, and readers interested in the dynamics of kinship.
Book Synopsis Himalayan Anthropology by : James F. Fisher
Download or read book Himalayan Anthropology written by James F. Fisher and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-24 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis While the Gods Were Sleeping by : Elizabeth Enslin
Download or read book While the Gods Were Sleeping written by Elizabeth Enslin and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and marriage brought American anthropologist Elizabeth Enslin to a world she never planned to make her own: a life among Brahman in-laws in a remote village in the plains of Nepal. As she faced the challenges of married life, birth, and childrearing in a foreign culture, she discovered as much about human resilience, and the capacity for courage, as she did about herself. While the Gods Were Sleeping: A Journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepaltells a compelling story of a woman transformed in intimate and unexpected ways. Set against the backdrop of increasing political turmoil in Nepal, Enslin's story takes us deep into the lives of local women as they claim their rightful place in society and make their voices heard.
Book Synopsis Selves in Time and Place by : Debra Skinner
Download or read book Selves in Time and Place written by Debra Skinner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1998 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently anthropology has turned to accounts of persons-in-history/history-in-persons, focusing on how individuals and groups as agents both fashion and are fashioned by social, political, and cultural discourses and practices. In this approach, power, agency, and history are made explicit as individuals and groups work to constitute themselves in relation to others and within and against sociopolitical and historical contexts. Contributors to this volume extend this emphasis, drawing upon their ethnographic research in Nepal to examine closely how selves, identities, and experience are produced in dialogical relationships through time in a multi-ethic nation-state and within a discourse of nationalism. The diversity of peoples, recent political transformations, and nation-building efforts make Nepal an especially rich locale to examine people's struggles to define and position themselves. But the authors move beyond geographical boundaries to more theoretical terrain to problematicize the ways in which people recreate or contest certain identities and positions. Various authors explore how people_positioned by gender, ethnicity, and locale_use cultural genres to produce aspects of identities and experiences; they examine how subjectivities, agencies and cultural worlds co-develop and are shaped through engagement with cultural forms; and they portray the appropriation of multiple voices for self and group formation. As such, this collection offers a richly textured and complex accounting of the mutual constitution of selves and society.
Book Synopsis Selected Essays on the Anthropology of Nepal by : Dilli Ram Dahal
Download or read book Selected Essays on the Anthropology of Nepal written by Dilli Ram Dahal and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sensory Biographies by : Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais
Download or read book Sensory Biographies written by Prof. Robert R. Desjarlais and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-03-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist priest in his mid-eighties known as Ghang Lama, members of an ethnically Tibetan Buddhist people whose ancestors have lived for three centuries or so along the upper ridges of the Yolmo Valley in north central Nepal. It was clear through their many conversations that both individuals perceived themselves as nearing death, and both were quite willing to share their thoughts about death and dying. The difference between the two was remarkable, however, in that Ghang Lama's life had been dominated by motifs of vision, whereas Kisang Omu's accounts of her life largely involved a "theatre of voices." Desjarlais offers a fresh and readable inquiry into how people's ways of sensing the world contribute to how they live and how they recollect their lives.