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Author : Gilbert Tournoy
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058674241
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Humanistica Lovaniensia written by Gilbert Tournoy and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 53
Author : Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen
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Total Pages : 220 pages
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Download or read book War as a Cultural and Social Force written by Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 1400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Current Index to Journals in Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 1400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Reichel-Dolmatoff
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004666397
Total Pages : 82 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Shamanism and Art of the Eastern Tukanoan Indians written by Reichel-Dolmatoff and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Александра Юрьевна Айхенвальд
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Total Pages : 160 pages
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Download or read book Tariana texts and cultural context written by Александра Юрьевна Айхенвальд and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janet M. Chernela
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292711860
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon written by Janet M. Chernela and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wanano Indians of the northwest Amazon have a social system that differs from those of most tropical forest tribes. Neither stratified by wealth nor strictly egalitarian, Wanano society is "ranked" according to rigidly bound descent groups. In this pioneering ethnographic study, Janet M. Chernela decodes the structure of Wanano society. In Wanano culture, children can be "grandparents," while elders can be "grandchildren." This apparent contradiction springs from the fact that descent from ranked ancestors, rather than age or accumulated wealth, determines one's standing in Wanano society. But ranking's impulse is muted as senior clans, considered to be succulent (referring to both seniority and resource abundance), must be generous gift-givers. In this way, resources are distributed throughout the society. In two poignant chapters aptly entitled "Ordinary Dramas," Chernela shows that rank is a site of contest, resulting in exile, feuding, personal shame, and even death. Thus, Chernela's account is dynamic, placing rank in historic as well as personal context. As the deforestation of the Amazon continues, the Wanano and other indigenous peoples face growing threats of habitat destruction and eventual extinction. If these peoples are to be saved, they must first be known and valued. The Wanano Indians of the Brazilian Amazon is an important step in that direction.
Author : Kaj Århem
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Makuna written by Kaj Århem and published by Smithsonian Books (DC). This book was released on 1998 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In stunning, full-color photographs and evocative text, Samper and Arhem celebrate the natural surroundings, domestic life, and vibrant rituals of a rain-forest people whose future is being jeopardized by outsiders' destruction of their lands.
Author : Liu Dachang
Publisher : CIFOR
ISBN 13 : 9798764986
Total Pages : 103 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (987 download)
Download or read book Rehabilitation of Degraded Forests to Improve Livelihoods of Poor Farmers in South China written by Liu Dachang and published by CIFOR. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the result of a project initiated by the Chinese Acadamy of Forestry (CAF) and finalised with inputs by representatives of Center for International Forestry Research(CIFOR), and Canada's International Development Research Centre (IDRC) at a meeting in Singapore in 1995.
Author : Jordan Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134876572
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Consuming Habits written by Jordan Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psycho- active substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives. Psychoactive substances have been central to the formation of civilizations and the growth of the world economy. Consuming Habits describes how and why: tea and coffee replaced beer on the breakfast tables of 18th century Europe in Islamic emirates at the turn of the century kola nuts formed part of tax payments, and were given as gifts by so-called `big men' In 1902 opera singers had their doctors prescribe them cocaine to aid singing the original version of `coca-cola' was described as a `brain tonic.' This pioneering collection of original essays explores the rich analytical category of psychoactive substances from challenging historical and anthropological perspectives.
Author : Guido Starosta
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137538724
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)
Download or read book The New International Division of Labour written by Guido Starosta and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-02 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the debate over the new international division of labour (NIDL) that dominated discussions in international political economy and development studies until the early 1990s. It submits that a revised NIDL thesis can shed light on the specificities of capitalist development in various parts of the world today. Taken together, the contributions amount to a novel value-theoretical approach to understanding the NIDL. This rests upon the distinction between the global economic content that determines the constitution and dynamics of the NIDL and the evolving national political forms that mediate its development. More specifically, the authors argue that uneven development is an expression of the underlying essential unity of the production of relative surplus-value on a world scale. They substantiate and illustrate this argument through several international case studies, including Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Ireland, South Korea, Spain and Venezuela.
Author : Kaj Århem
Publisher : Academiae Ubsaliensis
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Makuna Social Organization written by Kaj Århem and published by Academiae Ubsaliensis. This book was released on 1981 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Irving Goldman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book The Cubeo Indians of the Northwest Amazon written by Irving Goldman and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Publisher : Green Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rainforest Shamans written by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff and published by Green Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologist Reichel-Dolmatoff spent most of his working life among tribes living in the vast rainforests of the Colombian Northwest Amazon. This collection of essays considers the Tukano Indians and their society. Many of the essays are concerned with the role of shamanism in Tukanoan society, including initiation practices and their curing spells, which show the Tukanoan concepts of illness and its cure. Other essays describe their concepts of universal energies and the ways they can be balanced, and the ecological dimensions of their world-view.
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Total Pages : 816 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Religion Index One written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Hugh-Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521358903
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (589 download)
Download or read book The Palm and the Pleiades written by Stephen Hugh-Jones and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it was first published in 1979, this book, together with its companion volume, From the Milk River, by Christine Hugh-Jones, was hailed as setting 'a new standard for South American ethnographers, one to be emulated' (Third World Quarterly). Both are now available for the first time in paperback. The book is an extended study in English of Amazonian ritual. Through an analysis of a secret men's cult widespread throughout Northwest Amazonia, Hugh-Jones builds up a general picture of a South American Indian society, and of a religious and cosmological system that is common to a large area of Northwest Amazonia. The book is also an exercise in the anthropological interpretation of ritual, myth and religious symbolism from a structuralist point of view.
Author : E. Jean Matteson Langdon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Portals of Power written by E. Jean Matteson Langdon and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shamans and their practices have fascinated Western civilization since publication of the earliest ethnographies. Yet, alien to a positivistic worldview and characterized by hysteria, ecstasy, and magic, shamanism has continued to be classified as vestigial or archaic long after such labels have become meaningless. Lately, a fresh approach has emerged that rejects arbitrary definition in favor of symbolic analysis and native interpretation. Portals of Power explores this new perspective. Researchers from South America, Europe, and the United States examine shamanism in twelve South American societies. In considering such aspects as visionary experience, native conceptions of power, ritual efficacy, expressive culture, and response to change, contributors to this volume present shamanism as an enduring cultural form, rather than an archaic religion. This is a work that transcends debates about "true" shamanism, to present a global view of shamanism as a dynamic aspect of culture.
Author : Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff
Publisher : Green Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Forest Within written by Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff and published by Green Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a detailed portrait of how an aboriginal tribe of the remote Amazonian region understands the cosmic dimensions of their partnership with the rainforest. Anthropologist Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff, who spent most of his life working in Colombia among the Indian tribes of the North-West Amazon, explores the world-view of the Tukano Indians: their view of the forest as a model of the cosmos; the master of the animals; their complex and multi-dimensional bond with their environment; and their social and sexual restrictions in order to harmonise with the rainforest.
