Social and cultural anthropology Books

Dit boek, getiteld ""Waarschuwing Tegen Het Gevaar Van Alle Zulke Spelen, Waarin, Tegen Eene Groote, Doch Onzekere Winst, Een"" is geschreven door Johannes Samuel Swaan en werd oorspronkelijk gepubliceerd in 1809. Het boek waarschuwt tegen de gevaren van...

Das Buch ""Verzeichnis von Werken und Aufs�����tzen: welche in �����lterer und neuerer Zeit �����ber die Geschichte und Sprache der Zigeuner"" von Franz Miklosich aus dem Jahr 1886 ist ein umfassendes Verzeichnis �����ber alle Publikationen, die sich mit...

""Taciti Germania"" est commentarius historicus a Tacito scriptus, qui de vita et moribus Germanorum narrat. Jacobus Grimm, Germaniae linguista et mythologus, hunc commentarium anno MDCCCXXXV edidit, quo in eo annotationes et interpretationes addidit. In...

Storia degli Abusi Feudali (1883) di Winspeare, Davide ����� un libro che esplora la storia degli abusi feudali in Italia. L'autore esamina come i feudatari hanno sfruttato la loro posizione per opprimere i contadini e gli altri membri della societ������...

Este livro, intitulado ""Relat������rio da Vener�����vel Ordem Terceira de Nossa Senhora do Monte do Carmo: No Primeiro Ano do Priorado de Sua Excel������ncia o Senhor Visconde de Sistello (1881)"" foi escrito por Manuel Pedro da Cunha Vasconcellos. Ele...

El libro ""Relaci������n Hist������rial de Indios Chiquitos V2 (1895)"" de Juan Patricio Fern�����ndez es una obra hist������rica que relata la historia de los indios chiquitos, un grupo �����tnico que habitaba en la regi������n de Bolivia y Brasil. La...

""Rapport Sur Les Travaux De La Commission Administrative: Depuis L'Annee 1830 Jusques Inclus 1838 (1839)"" est un livre �����crit par In. R. Des Sourds-Muets Et Des Aveugles. Ce livre est un rapport sur les travaux de la Commission Administrative depuis...

Pr�����cis d'Ethnographie, de Statistique et de G�����ographie Historique V1: ou Essai d'une G�����ographie de l'Homme (1837) est un livre �����crit par Fr�����d�����ric de Rougemont. Le livre se concentre sur les sujets de l'ethnographie, de la...

Le livre ""Nos Gr�����ves Houill�����res et l'Action Socialiste: D'apr�����s une Enqu������te sur Place (1900)"" de Georges C. Rutten est une enqu������te sur les mouvements de gr�����ve dans les mines de charbon en France au d�����but du XXe si�����cle...

The contemporary nation-state is popular in that it rests upon mutual identification between rulers and ruled

Anthropology is primarily done in the field, unlike the laboratory oriented experimental sciences

Supergrow is a collection of fifteen essays that appeared between 1966 and 1969 in publications such as the American Scholar, the New York Times, Antioch Review, Esquire, and the Saturday Review

What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty...

William Graham Sumner is remembered primarily as an opponent of government intervention in social and economic issues

Ever since the first contacts between Europe and Africa, African people have been confined to the fringes of Eurocentric experience in the Western mind

Laughter and Liberation is based on the idea that humor is an agent of psychological liberation

The forest foragers of the Congo Basin, known collectively as "Pygmies," are the largest and most diverse group of active hunter-gatherers remaining in the world

Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples--faraway peoples--so that Americans might better understand themselves

Checklist of Civilizations and Culture contains all known principal civilizations and cultures of the world, with such definition as is possible of their area and time, their subdivisions and periods, and a brief indication of their character

This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise - the mismatch between the symbiotic relation...

This volume develops a unique framework to understand India through indigenous and European perspectives, and examines how it copes with the larger challenges of a globalized world. Through a discussion of religious and philosophical traditions, cultural...

Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis, this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation...

Originally published in 1990, this book reveals the extent to which petty landlordism is developing not just in the African urban settlements that have sprung up but in government-sponsored low-cost housing estates. The first part of the book traces...

Listening to popular music and watching television have become the two most common activities for postwar generations in Britain. From the experiences of programmes like Oh Boy! and Juke Box Jury, to the introduction of 24 hour music video channels, the...

A successful and distinctive text which provides an invaluable introduction to the theoretical and philosophical issues surrounding social research.

The ethic of a people determines how they act in life situations, requiring right and wrong behavior. It can be seen in their daily activities, by the words they say--whether spoken or written--and by the things they do, both publicly and privately. The...

This book is about a 'Small Island', namely Mauritius in the southwestern Indian Ocean. It is also about a 'Large Ocean', the Indian Ocean world-its peoples, histories and cultures. It casts light on the life of an island through what is known not only...

This book brings together ethnographic field research on four permacultural ecovillages in Brazil to highlight the importance of spirituality and ecological epistemologies as key analytical tools. It demonstrates that ecological spirituality can, and...

Representing Vulnerabilities in Contemporary Literature includes a collection of essays exploring the ways in which recent literary representations of vulnerability may problematize its visibilization from an ethical and aesthetic perspective. Recent...

This book explores the transitions in the adivasi identity as well as in the political representation of adivasi communities in Bangladesh.It traces the use of categories such as "primitive", "tribe", and "adivasi" in post-colonial Bangladesh, both in...

Based on almost eight years of fieldwork in a town and a village in South China, this book analyzes contradictions among various dimensions of the peasant economy, social relationships, popular religion, and local politics in rural China. Compared to...

Scrupulously based in anthropology and history - and drawing on social theory and critical thought - this book revisits the disciplines, archives, and subjects of modernity.

This book explores the complexities of Indigenous and non-Indigenous relations in contemporary Australia.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

The Shelf2Life Mountaineering Collection provides a unique glimpse into the history and evolution of mountaineering through the late 19th and early 20th centuries. From historical maps, first-hand accounts of early summits, descriptions of peaks and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...