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The Natives are Restless (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Natives are Restless (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R569 Discovery Miles 5 690 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
How Generations Remember (Hardcover): Monika Palmberger How Generations Remember (Hardcover)
Monika Palmberger
R1,547 Discovery Miles 15 470 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bulletin; v.5 (1903-1907) (Hardcover): India) Government Museum (Madras Bulletin; v.5 (1903-1907) (Hardcover)
India) Government Museum (Madras
R929 Discovery Miles 9 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of North Carolina [1908]; 1908 (Hardcover): Freemasons... Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free, and Accepted Masons of North Carolina [1908]; 1908 (Hardcover)
Freemasons Grand Lodge of North Caro
R1,110 Discovery Miles 11 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Peace Agreement and Environmentalism in Colombia - Department of World Languages and Cultures (Hardcover): Kristen E Viera The Peace Agreement and Environmentalism in Colombia - Department of World Languages and Cultures (Hardcover)
Kristen E Viera
R698 Discovery Miles 6 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Englishman's Handbook (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Englishman's Handbook (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Englishman's Handbook (Hardcover): Idries Shah The Englishman's Handbook (Hardcover)
Idries Shah
R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Personalist Anthropology: A philosophical guide to life (Hardcover): Juan Manuel Burgos Personalist Anthropology: A philosophical guide to life (Hardcover)
Juan Manuel Burgos
R1,905 Discovery Miles 19 050 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Comparative Law and Anthropology (Hardcover): James A.R. Nafziger Comparative Law and Anthropology (Hardcover)
James A.R. Nafziger
R6,722 Discovery Miles 67 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This cutting-edge Research Handbook, at the intersection of comparative law and anthropology, explores mutually enriching insights and outlooks. The 20 contributors, including several of the most eminent scholars, as well as new voices, offer diverse expertise, national backgrounds and professional experience. Their overall approach is ''ground up'' without regard to unified paradigms of research or objects of study. Through a pluralistic definition of law and multidisciplinary approaches, Comparative Law and Anthropology significantly advances both theory and practice. The Research Handbook's expansive concept of comparative law blends a traditional geographical orientation with historical and jurisprudential dimensions within a broad range of contexts of anthropological inquiry, from indigenous communities, to law schools and transitional societies. This comprehensive and original collection of diverse writings about anthropology and the law around the world offers an inspiring but realistic source for legal scholars, anthropologists and policy-makers. Contributors include: U. Acharya, C. Bell, J. Blake, S. Brink, E. Darian-Smith, R. Francaviglia, M. Lazarus-Black, P. McHugh, S.F. Moore, E. Moustaira, L. Nader, J. Nafziger, M. Novakovic, R. Price, O. Ruppel, J.A. Sanchez, W. Shipley, R. Tejani, A. Telesetsky, K. Thomas

A Narrative of the Rise & Progress of Emigration From the Counties of Lanark & Renfrew to the New Settlements in Upper Canada,... A Narrative of the Rise & Progress of Emigration From the Counties of Lanark & Renfrew to the New Settlements in Upper Canada, on Government Grant - Comprising the Proceedings of the Glasgow Committee for Directing the Affairs and Embarkation of The... (Hardcover)
Robert Lamond; Created by Glasgow Committee on Emigration
R827 Discovery Miles 8 270 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Transnational Management - Identity and Nunchi in Multinational Corporations (Hardcover): Steffen Kromer Transnational Management - Identity and Nunchi in Multinational Corporations (Hardcover)
Steffen Kromer
R1,306 Discovery Miles 13 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Theory of the Leisure Class (Hardcover): Thorstein Veblen The Theory of the Leisure Class (Hardcover)
Thorstein Veblen
R956 Discovery Miles 9 560 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Reindeer and Its Domestication (Hardcover): Berthold 1874-1934 Laufer The Reindeer and Its Domestication (Hardcover)
Berthold 1874-1934 Laufer
R789 Discovery Miles 7 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Landscape in the Longue Duree (Hardcover): Christopher Tilley Landscape in the Longue Duree (Hardcover)
Christopher Tilley
R1,572 Discovery Miles 15 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover): Alin Rus The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
Alin Rus
R2,720 Discovery Miles 27 200 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays. By focusing on northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine-two of the most ruralized regions in Europe-this work reveals the complex landscape of peasant plays and the essential role they perform in shaping local culture, economy, and social life. The rapid demise of these practices and the creation of preservation programs is analyzed in the context of the corrosive effects of global capitalism and the processes of globalization, urbanization, mass-mediatization, and heritagization. Just like peasants in search of better resources, rural plays "migrate" from their villages of origin into the urban, modern, and more dynamic world, where they become more visible and are both appreciated and exploited as forms of transnational, intangible cultural heritage.

Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (Hardcover): Laszlo Zsolnai, Peter Rona Agency and Causal Explanation in Economics (Hardcover)
Laszlo Zsolnai, Peter Rona
R1,397 Discovery Miles 13 970 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands (Hardcover): Ulrike Matthies Green, Kirk E. Costion Modeling Cross-Cultural Interaction in Ancient Borderlands (Hardcover)
Ulrike Matthies Green, Kirk E. Costion
R2,266 Discovery Miles 22 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume introduces the Cross-Cultural Interaction Model (CCIM), a visual tool for studying the exchanges that take place between different cultures in borderland areas or across long distances. The model helps researchers untangle complex webs of connections among people, landscapes, and artifacts, and can be used to support multiple theoretical viewpoints. Through case studies, contributors apply the CCIM to various regions and time periods, including Roman Europe, the Greek province of Thessaly in the Late Bronze Age, the ancient Egyptian-Nubian frontier, colonial Greenland in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the Mississippian realm of Cahokia, ancient Costa Rica and Panama, and the Moquegua Valley of Peru in the early Middle Horizon period. They adapt the model to best represent their data, successfully plotting connections in many different dimensions, including geography, material culture, religion and spirituality, and ideology. The model enables them to expose what motivates people to participate in cultural exchange, as well as the influences that people reject in these interactions. These results demonstrate the versatility and analytical power of the CCIM. Bridging the gap between theory and data, this tool can prompt users to rethink previous interpretations of their research, leading to new ideas, new theories, and new directions for future study.

Shaping Claims to Urban Land - An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces (Hardcover): Fons van... Shaping Claims to Urban Land - An Ethnographic Guide to Governmentality in Bukavu's Hybrid Spaces (Hardcover)
Fons van Overbeek
R3,106 Discovery Miles 31 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The concept of 'hybridity' is often still poorly theorized and problematically applied by peace and development scholars and researchers of resource governance. This book turns to a particular ethnographic reading of Michel Foucault's Governmentality and investigates its usefulness to study precisely those mechanisms, processes and practices that hybridity once promised to clarify. Claim-making to land and authority in a post-conflict environment is the empirical grist supporting this exploration of governmentality. Specifically in the periphery of Bukavu. This focus is relevant as urban land is increasingly becoming scarce in rapidly expanding cities of eastern Congo, primarily due to internal rural-to-urban migration as a result of regional insecurity. The governance of urban land is also important analytically as land governance and state authority in Africa are believed to be closely linked and co-evolve. An ethnographic reading of governmentality enables researchers to study hybridization without biasing analysis towards hierarchical dualities. Additionally, a better understanding of hybridization in the claim-making practices may contribute to improved government intervention and development assistance in Bukavu and elsewhere.

Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities (Hardcover): Jean Rahier Representations of Blackness and the Performance of Identities (Hardcover)
Jean Rahier
R2,793 Discovery Miles 27 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The essays gathered in this volume deal with representations of blackness and the performance of black identities in various historically determined societal contexts of the Americas, Benin, and Spain. The book is grounded on the premise that representations constitute, in part, the world in which we live. An important aspect of the struggles of dominated people consists in more or less overtly challenging, manipulating, combatting, negating, and sometimes inverting representations of themselves reproduced in the dominant discourse of their national society. The contributors approach various forms of blackness within the fluctuation of political, economic, and social processes embedded in particular time/space contexts, which are constituted within local, regional, national, and transnational dimensions. Identities, whatever they may be, cannot be defined once and for all in fixed or essentialist terms as if they were unchanging or frozen in time and space. If, as this book proposes, identities are fluid, it is because they are constantly enacted and reenacted, performed anew within specific situations, and within changing socioeconomic and political contexts that provide sites for their negotiations and renegotiations, definitions and redefinitions. Thus, the book approaches black identities as performances.

Stray Leaves From a Freemason's Notebook (Hardcover): Erskine Neale Stray Leaves From a Freemason's Notebook (Hardcover)
Erskine Neale
R975 Discovery Miles 9 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons of the State of North Carolina [1869]; 1869 (Hardcover):... Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Ancient, Free & Accepted Masons of the State of North Carolina [1869]; 1869 (Hardcover)
Freemasons Grand Lodge of North Caro
R940 Discovery Miles 9 400 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Volume XXV) (Hardcover): The journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (Volume XXV) (Hardcover)
R1,124 R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Save R110 (10%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover): Gufu Oba Herder Warfare in East Africa: A Social and Spatial History (Hardcover)
Gufu Oba
R2,362 Discovery Miles 23 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Herder Warfare in East Africa presents a regional analysis of the spatial and social history of warfare among the nomadic peoples of East Africa, covering a period of 600 years. The long duree facilitates understanding of how warfare among pastoralist communities in earlier centuries contributed to political, economic and ethnic shifts across the grazing lands in East Africa. The book discusses herder warfare from the perspective of warfare ecology, highlighting the interrelations between environmental and cultural causalities - including droughts, famine, floods, ritual wars, religious wars and migrations - and the processes and consequences of war. Regional synthesis concentrates on frontiers of conflicts extending from the White Nile Basin in south Sudan - into the southern savannas of East Africa, the Great East African Rift Valley, and the northern and southern Horn of Africa - examining historical military power shifts between diverse pastoralist cultures. Case studies are set in the coastal hinterland of East Africa and the Jubaland-Wajir frontiers. Warfare combined with environmental disasters caused social-economic breakdowns and the enslavement of defeated groups. The dynamics of herder warfare changed after colonial entry, response to pastoralist resistance and slave emancipation. The book is of interest to specialist and non-specialist readers exploring pastoralism, social anthropology and warfare and conflict studies; and is suitable for introductory graduate courses in environmental and social history of warfare .

Made in Niugini - Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 2nd New edition): Paul Sillitoe Made in Niugini - Technology in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (Hardcover, 2nd New edition)
Paul Sillitoe
R4,331 Discovery Miles 43 310 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This impressive and inspiring volume has as its modest origins the documentation of a contemporary collecting project for the British Museum. Informed by curators' critiques of uneven collections accompanied by highly variable information, Sillitoe set out with the ambition of recording the totality of the material culture of the Wola of the southern highlands of Papua New Guinea, at a time when the study of artefacts was neglected in university anthropology departments. His achievements, presented in this second edition of Made in Nuigini with a new contextualizing preface and foreword, brought a new standard of ethnography to the incipient revival of material culture studies, and opened up the importance of close attention to technology and material assemblages for anthropology. The `economy' fundamentally concerns the material aspects of life, and as Sillitoe makes clear, Wola attitudes and behaviour in this regard are radically different to those of the West, with emphasis on `maker users' and egalitarian access to resources going hand in hand with their stateless and libertarian principles. The project begun in Made in Niugini, which necessarily restricted itself to moveable artefacts, is continued and extended by the newly published companion volume Built in Niugini, which deals with immoveable structures and buildings. It argues that the study of material constructions offers an unparalleled opportunity to address fundamental philosophical questions about tacit knowledge and the human condition.

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan - Making Sacred Forests (Hardcover): Aike P. Rots Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan - Making Sacred Forests (Hardcover)
Aike P. Rots
R4,241 Discovery Miles 42 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shinto, Nature and Ideology in Contemporary Japan is the first systematic study of Shinto's environmental turn. The book traces the development in recent decades of the idea of Shinto as an 'ancient nature religion,' and a resource for overcoming environmental problems. The volume shows how these ideas gradually achieved popularity among scientists, priests, Shinto-related new religious movements and, eventually, the conservative shrine establishment. Aike P. Rots argues that central to this development is the notion of chinju no mori: the sacred groves surrounding many Shinto shrines. Although initially used to refer to remaining areas of primary or secondary forest, today the term has come to be extended to any sort of shrine land, signifying not only historical and ecological continuity but also abstract values such as community spirit, patriotism and traditional culture. The book shows how Shinto's environmental turn has also provided legitimacy internationally: influenced by the global discourse on religion and ecology, in recent years the Shinto establishment has actively engaged with international organizations devoted to the conservation of sacred sites. Shinto sacred forests thus carry significance locally as well as nationally and internationally, and figure prominently in attempts to reposition Shinto in the centre of public space.

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