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Book Synopsis Nomadism in South Asia by : Aparna Rao
Download or read book Nomadism in South Asia written by Aparna Rao and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing On Nomadic Societies In The Region, This Reader Brings Together Essays, Which Illustrate How Large Sections Of Rural South Asian Have Long Been Dynamic, Mobile, Resilient And Rational Agents. It Discusses Primarity Three Types Of Nomads--Animal Husbanders, Including Gatherers And Hunters, Peripatetic Traders And Entretainers.
Book Synopsis Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia by : Lawrence S. Leshnik
Download or read book Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia written by Lawrence S. Leshnik and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis South Asian Nomads by : Anita Sharma
Download or read book South Asian Nomads written by Anita Sharma and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Sevʹi︠a︡n Izrailevich Vaĭnshteĭn Publisher :Cambridge University Press ISBN 13 :9780521220897 Total Pages :314 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (28 download)
Book Synopsis Nomads South Siberia by : Sevʹi︠a︡n Izrailevich Vaĭnshteĭn
Download or read book Nomads South Siberia written by Sevʹi︠a︡n Izrailevich Vaĭnshteĭn and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1980-12-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes chapter on reindeer herding.
Book Synopsis Nomadism in South Asia by : Aparna Rao
Download or read book Nomadism in South Asia written by Aparna Rao and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focussing On Nomadic Societies In The Region, This Reader Brings Together Essays, Which Illustrate How Large Sections Of Rural South Asian Have Long Been Dynamic, Mobile, Resilient And Rational Agents. It Discusses Primarity Three Types Of Nomads--Animal Husbanders, Including Gatherers And Hunters, Peripatetic Traders And Entretainers.
Book Synopsis The Education of Nomadic Peoples by : Caroline Dyer
Download or read book The Education of Nomadic Peoples written by Caroline Dyer and published by ITESO. This book was released on 2006 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a series of international case studies, prefaced by a comprehensive literature review and concluding with an end note drawing together the themes and key issues relating to educational services for nomadic groups around the world. [Book jacket].
Book Synopsis No Five Fingers are Alike by : Joseph C. Berland
Download or read book No Five Fingers are Alike written by Joseph C. Berland and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world. Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and skills. No Five Fingers Are Alike, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies. By applying methods of anthropological observation as well as psychological experimentation, Berland develops a theory about the relationship between social experience and mental growth. He suggests that there are certain social conditions under which mental growth can be accelerated. His work promises to stand as an important contribution to the cross-cultural literature on cognitive development.
Book Synopsis Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia by : Lawrence S. Leshnik
Download or read book Pastoralists and Nomads in South Asia written by Lawrence S. Leshnik and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Problems of Nomadism in the High-mountain Regions of Southwestern and Southern Asia by :
Download or read book Problems of Nomadism in the High-mountain Regions of Southwestern and Southern Asia written by and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Art of Not Being Governed by : James C. Scott
Download or read book The Art of Not Being Governed written by James C. Scott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author and scholar James C. Scott, the compelling tale of Asian peoples who until recently have stemmed the vast tide of state-making to live at arm’s length from any organized state society For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge literature on state-making whose author evaluates why people would deliberately and reactively remain stateless. Among the strategies employed by the people of Zomia to remain stateless are physical dispersion in rugged terrain; agricultural practices that enhance mobility; pliable ethnic identities; devotion to prophetic, millenarian leaders; and maintenance of a largely oral culture that allows them to reinvent their histories and genealogies as they move between and around states. In accessible language, James Scott, recognized worldwide as an eminent authority in Southeast Asian, peasant, and agrarian studies, tells the story of the peoples of Zomia and their unlikely odyssey in search of self-determination. He redefines our views on Asian politics, history, demographics, and even our fundamental ideas about what constitutes civilization, and challenges us with a radically different approach to history that presents events from the perspective of stateless peoples and redefines state-making as a form of “internal colonialism.” This new perspective requires a radical reevaluation of the civilizational narratives of the lowland states. Scott’s work on Zomia represents a new way to think of area studies that will be applicable to other runaway, fugitive, and marooned communities, be they Gypsies, Cossacks, tribes fleeing slave raiders, Marsh Arabs, or San-Bushmen.
Book Synopsis Nomads in the Middle East by : Beatrice Forbes Manz
Download or read book Nomads in the Middle East written by Beatrice Forbes Manz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of pastoral nomads in the Islamic Middle East from the rise of Islam, through the middle periods when Mongols and Turks ruled most of the region, to the decline of nomadism in the twentieth century. Offering a vivid insight into the impact of nomads on the politics, culture, and ideology of the region, Beatrice Forbes Manz examines and challenges existing perceptions of these nomads, including the popular cyclical model of nomad-settled interaction developed by Ibn Khaldun. Looking at both the Arab Bedouin and the nomads from the Eurasian steppe, Manz demonstrates the significance of Bedouin and Turco-Mongolian contributions to cultural production and political ideology in the Middle East, and shows the central role played by pastoral nomads in war, trade, and state-building throughout history. Nomads provided horses and soldiers for war, the livestock and guidance which made long-distance trade possible, and animal products to provision the region's growing cities.
Book Synopsis The World of Nomads by : Shyam Singh Shashi
Download or read book The World of Nomads written by Shyam Singh Shashi and published by Lotus Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Asia Before Europe by : K. N. Chaudhuri
Download or read book Asia Before Europe written by K. N. Chaudhuri and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1990 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamic interaction between economic life, society and civilisation in the regions around and beyond the Indian Ocean during the period from the rise of Islam to 1750. Within a distinctive theory of comparative history, Professor Chaudhuri analyses how the identity of different Asian civilisations was established. He examines the structural features of food habits, clothing, architectural styles and housing; the different modes of economic production; and the role of crop raising, pastoral nomadism, and industrial activities for the main regions of the Indian Ocean. In an original and perceptive conclusion, the author demonstrates how Indian Ocean societies were united or separated from one another by a conscious cultural and linguistic identity. However, there was a deeper structure of unities created by a common ecology, technology, technology of economic production, traditions of government, theory of political obligations and rights, and a shared historical experience. His theory enables the author to show that the real Indian Ocean was an area that extended historically from the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to the sea which lies beyond Japan.
Book Synopsis The Nomadic Alternative by : Thomas Jefferson Barfield
Download or read book The Nomadic Alternative written by Thomas Jefferson Barfield and published by Pearson. This book was released on 1993 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following basic themes in each chapter, this text makes an ethnographic and historical examination of nomadic pastoral societies in Africa, the Near East, Iranian Plateau, and Central Eurasia. It studies the cattlekeepers, the camel nomads, the good shepherds of southwest Asia, the horseriders, the yakbreeders, and the enduring nomad. For anthropologists and all those interested in nomadic cultures.
Book Synopsis Modernity and Malaysia by : Alberto Gomes
Download or read book Modernity and Malaysia written by Alberto Gomes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together over thirty years of detailed ethnographic research on the Menraq of Malaysia, this fascinating book analyzes and documents the experience of development and modernization in tribal communities. Descendents of hunter-gatherers who have inhabited Southeast Asia for about 40,000 years, the Menraq (also known as Semang or Negritos) were nomadic foragers until they were resettled in a Malaysian government-mandated settlement in 1972. Modernity and Malaysia begins with the ‘Jeli Incident’ in which several Menraq were alleged to have killed three Malays, members of the dominant ethnic group in the country. Alberto Gomes links this uncharacteristic violence to Menraq experiences of Malaysian-style modernity that have left them displaced, depressed, discontented, and disillusioned. Tracing the transformation of the lives of Menraq resulting from resettlement, development, and various ‘civilizing projects’, this book examines how the encounter with modernity has led the subsistence-oriented, relatively autonomous Menraq into a life of dependence on the state and the market. Challenging conventional social scientific understanding of concepts such as modernity and marginalization, and providing empirical material for comparison with the experience of modernity for indigenous peoples around the world, Modernity and Malaysia is a valuable resource for students and scholars of anthropology, development studies and indigenous studies, as well as those with a more general interest in asian studies.
Download or read book The Scythians written by Barry Cunliffe and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-26 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions between the nomads and their neighbours. The Scythians fought the Persians on a number of occasions, in one battle killing their king and on another occasion driving the invading army of Darius the Great from the steppe. Relations with the Greeks around the shores of the Black Sea were rather different - both communities benefiting from trading with each other. This led to the development of a brilliant art style, often depicting scenes from Scythian mythology and everyday life. It is from the writings of Greeks like the historian Herodotus that we learn of Scythian life: their beliefs, their burial practices, their love of fighting, and their ambivalent attitudes to gender. It is a world that is also brilliantly illuminated by the rich material culture recovered from Scythian burials, from the graves of kings on the Pontic steppe, with their elaborate gold work and vividly coloured fabrics, to the frozen tombs of the Altai mountains, where all the organic material - wooden carvings, carpets, saddles and even tattooed human bodies - is amazingly well preserved. Barry Cunliffe here marshals this vast array of evidence - both archaeological and textual - in a masterful reconstruction of the lost world of the Scythians, allowing them to emerge in all their considerable vigour and splendour for the first time in over two millennia.
Book Synopsis Vanishing Beauty by : Madhuvanti Ghose
Download or read book Vanishing Beauty written by Madhuvanti Ghose and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book commemorates the remarkable gift of over 400 works from the collection of Barbara and David Kipper to the Art Institute of Chicago. These outstanding pieces of jewelry and ritual objects offer a material record of vanishing ways of life. Used as portable forms of wealth, as personal adornment, and in religious practice, they represent a broad spectrum of cultures. The majority comes from the Himalayan region, including Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan, and Mongolia, and other pieces hail from Afghanistan, China, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. The catalogue showcases stunning works--including delicate amulet boxes, other Tibetan Buddhist artifacts, and ornate Turkmen jewelry--through dramatic photography undertaken specifically for this publication. With five essays placing the objects in the contexts of their native regions, Vanishing Beauty offers a beautiful presentation of creativity and craftsmanship from across Asia.
