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Author : Linda Kay Watts
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ISBN 13 : 9780773479180
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (791 download)
Download or read book The Social Semiotics of Relational Terminology at Zuni Pueblo written by Linda Kay Watts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Linda Kay Watts
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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The Social Semiotics of Relational Terminology at Zuni Pueblo written by Linda Kay Watts and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author conducted ethnolinguistic fieldwork at Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, focused on the folk semantics, linguistic composition and reported situational use of Zuni relational terminology. A social semiotic analysis relates these ethnolinguistic data to a revisionist, cultural model of Zuni social organization.
Author : Warren Shapiro
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760461822
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Focality and Extension in Kinship written by Warren Shapiro and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called ‘tribal’ peoples that anthropologists have studied and, especially in recent years, they have received considerable attention from scholars in this field. However, these scholars tend to argue that performative kinship in the Tribal World is semantically on a par with kinship established through procreation and marriage. Harold Scheffler, long-time Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, has argued, by contrast, that procreative ties are everywhere semantically central, i.e. focal, that they provide bases from which other kinship ties are extended. Most of the essays in this volume illustrate the validity of Scheffler’s position, though two contest it, and one exemplifies the soundness of a similarly universalistic stance in gender behaviour. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with current controversy in kinship and gender studies, as well as those who would know what anthropologists have to say about human nature. “The study of kinship once ruled the discipline of anthropology, and Hal Scheffler was one of its magisterial figures. This volumes reminds us why. Scheffler’s powerful analyses of kinship systems often conflicted with the views of his more relativist contemporaries. He cut through the fog of theory to emphasise the human essentials, namely the importance of the social bonds rooted in motherhood and fatherhood. Anthropology in its decades-long retreat from the serious study of kinship has lost a great deal. This volume points the way to a restoration.” — Peter Wood, National Association of Scholars
Author : Vladimir I. Ionesov
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 : 9780773472907
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book The Struggle Between Life and Death in Proto-Bactrian Culture written by Vladimir I. Ionesov and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A systematic analysis of the Bactrian archaeological record. The author's assessments of excavated findings aim to provide a better sense of how urban (or fortress-city) life developed out of small-scale traditional societies.
Author : H. Sidky
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Total Pages : 960 pages
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Download or read book A Critique of Postmodern Anthropology--in Defense of Disciplinary Origins and Traditions written by H. Sidky and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 960 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christine Mathieu
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Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History and Anthropological Study of the Ancient Kingdoms of the Sino-Tibetan Borderland--Naxi and Mosuo written by Christine Mathieu and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naxi and the Mosuo (who are officially considered a part of the Naxi) are peoples living in northwestern Yunnan Province of China. Anthropologist Mathieu investigates the histories of these groups through a reading of textual sources, local and imperial historiography, oral tradition, and religious ceremonial texts. Her major objective is to describe the process by which the tribes oriented towards Tibet were transformed into vassal subjects of the Chinese empire. She also seeks to elucidate the ethnic relationship between the Naxi and Mosuo. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
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Total Pages : 594 pages
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Author : Andrys Onsman
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Defining Indigeneity in the Twenty-first Century written by Andrys Onsman and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Onsman (Australian indigenous studies, Monash U., Melbourne) was born in Frisl n, one of the Netherlands, and takes his native people as a case study to investigate the nature of indigeneity as the notion and implications of it become important in international affairs. He weaves his study around seven interviews--one in English, five in Dutch, and
Author : Marcela Mendoza
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
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Total Pages : 258 pages
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Download or read book Band Mobility and Leadership Among the Western Toba Hunter-gatherers of Gran Chaco in Argentina written by Marcela Mendoza and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work analyzes the mobility, settlement patterns and socio-political organization of the Western Toba bands of Northern Argentina from a classic anthropological perspective, based on ethnographic and historical research. The more specific and innovative contributions of the analysis are on the mapping and description of range sizes and patterns of mobility of bands around the 1930s; a description of the nature of Toba egalitarian leadership in relation to the social organization of bands; and the contextualization of ethnographic data within an historical framework.
Author : John R. F. Bower
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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Download or read book A Comparative Study of Prehistoric Foragers in Europe and North America written by John R. F. Bower and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is a comparison of the Palaeoindian and the archaic communities of north America and those of the final Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic of northern Eurasia.
Author : Anthony Good
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Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Worship and the Ceremonial Economy of a Royal South Indian Temple written by Anthony Good and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The temple of the god Kalugacalamurtti - the local name for Murugan, Siva's younger son - is the largest economic enterprise in the town of Kalugumalai, South India, yet ostentatious display and devotionalism loom far larger in the conduct of its affairs than economic rationality, despite attempts at bureaucratic rationalism by successive governments. This book describes this Hindu temple's complex patterns of public liturgy and private worship, and explores the metaphysical themes which underlie them according to the Saiva Sidhhanta philosophy governing temple worship. It shows how temple rituals portray and enact the sexuality, kinship, and regality of the gods. It then recounts how temple economy and administration have changed over the past two centuries, how groups and interests within Kalugumalai town challenged the temple's hegemony over their affairs, and how and why the Rajas of Ettaiyapuram, the temple's hereditary Trustees, successfully resisted repeated government attempts to assume control of the temple over the past 50 years. There have relatively few previous ethnographic studies of large Hindu temples and no other field-worker has access to such detailed information
Author : Stephen M. Lyon
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Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book An Anthropological Analysis of Local Politics and Patronage in a Pakistani Village written by Stephen M. Lyon and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asymmetrical power relationships are found throughout Pakistan's Punjabi and Pukhtun communities. These relationships must be examined as manifestations of cultural continuity rather than as separate structures. The various cultures of Pakistan display certain common cultural features which suggest a re-examination of past analytical divisions of tribe and peasant societies. This book looks at the ways power is expressed, accumulated and maintained in three social contexts: kinship, caste, and political relationships. These are embedded within a collection of 'hybridising' cultures. Socialisation within kin groups provides the building blocks for Pakistani asymmetrical relationships, which may be understood as a form of patronage. As these social building blocks are transferred to non-kin contexts, the patron/client aspects are more easily identified and studied. State politics and religion are examined for the ways in which these patron/client roles are enacted on much larger scales but remain embedded within the cultural values underpinning those roles.
Author : Arthur James Wells
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Total Pages : 1896 pages
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Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan J. Ryan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295978161
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (781 download)
Download or read book The Trickster Shift written by Allan J. Ryan and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trickster Shift not only presents some of the most stunningly original examples of contemporary Native art but also allows the artists to offer their own insights into the creative process and the nature of Native humour.
Author : Will Roscoe
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826313706
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Zuni Man-woman written by Will Roscoe and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of We'wha (1849-96), the Zuni who was perhaps the most famous berdache (an individual who combined the work and traits of both men and women) in American Indian history.
Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252012495
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (124 download)
Download or read book The Anthropology of Experience written by Victor Witter Turner and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.
Author : Laurajane Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134368038
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Uses of Heritage written by Laurajane Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-11-22 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.
