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Citizenship and Exclusion (Hardcover): Veit Bader Citizenship and Exclusion (Hardcover)
Veit Bader
R2,870 Discovery Miles 28 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Citizenship implies exclusion of non-members. Migrations, processes and policies of first admission and incorporation of ethnically and culturally diverse newcomers are among the most hotly contested political issues, especially in a world of gross inequalities. This comparative and interdisciplinary collection sees distinguished moral and political philosophers, historians, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists from America, Australia and Europe criticize existing institutions and increasingly restrictive policies and look for alternatives more in line with principles and constitutions of liberal democratic welfare states.

Children and Media Outside the Home - Playing and Learning in After-School Care (Hardcover): K Vered Children and Media Outside the Home - Playing and Learning in After-School Care (Hardcover)
K Vered
R1,510 Discovery Miles 15 100 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Karen Orr Vered demonstrates how children's media play contributes to their acquisition of media literacy. Theorizing after-school care as intermediary space, a large-scale ethnographic study informs this theory-rich and practical discussion of children's media use beyond home and classroom.

Media and Nation Building - How the Iban became Malaysian (Hardcover, New): John Postill Media and Nation Building - How the Iban became Malaysian (Hardcover, New)
John Postill
R3,018 Discovery Miles 30 180 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the end of the Cold War and the proliferation of civil wars and "regime changes," the question of nation building has acquired great practical and theoretical urgency. From Eastern Europe to East Timor, Afghanistan and recently Iraq, the United States and its allies have often been accused of shirking their nation-building responsibilities as their attention - and that of the media -- turned to yet another regional crisis. While much has been written about the growing influence of television and the Internet on modern warfare, little is known about the relationship between media and nation building. This book explores, for the first time, this relationship by means of a paradigmatic case of successful nation building: Malaysia. Based on extended fieldwork and historical research, the author follows the diffusion, adoption, and social uses of media among the Iban of Sarawak, in Malaysian Borneo and demonstrates the wide-ranging process of nation building that has accompanied the Iban adoption of radio, clocks, print media, and television. In less than four decades, Iban longhouses ('villages under one roof') have become media organizations shaped by the official ideology of Malaysia, a country hastily formed in 1963 by conjoining four disparate territories.

John Postill is a Research Fellow at the University of Bremen. He is currently studying e-government and ethnicity in Malaysia. Trained as an anthropologist at University College London, he has published a range of articles on the anthropology of media, with special reference to Malaysian Borneo.

Reflexive Ethnography - A Guide to Researching Selves and Others (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Charlotte Aull Davies Reflexive Ethnography - A Guide to Researching Selves and Others (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Charlotte Aull Davies
R4,492 Discovery Miles 44 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Reflexive Ethnography is a unique guide to ethnographic research for students of anthropology and related disciplines. It provides practical and comprehensive guidance to ethnographic research methods, but also encourages students to develop a critical understanding of the philosophical basis of ethnographic authority. Davies examines why reflexivity, at both personal and broader cultural levels, should be integrated into ethnographic research and discusses how this can be accomplished for a variety of research methods. This revised and updated second edition includes: a new chapter on internet-based research and 'interethnography' chapters on selection of topics and methods, data collection and analysis, and ethics and politics of research practical advice on writing up ethnographic study new and updated research examples. Postmodernist relativism can lead to an over-emphasis on reflexivity that denies the possibility of social research. Reflexive Ethnography utilises postmodernist insights - incorporation of different standpoints, exposure of the intellectual tyranny of meta-narratives - but proposes that reflexive ethnographic research be undertaken from a realist perspective. Reflexive Ethnography will help students to use and understand ethnographic research practices that fully incorporate reflexivity without abandoning claims to develop valid knowledge of social reality.

Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality - Volume 2: Reproductive and Interpersonal Aspects of Dominance and Status... Social Stratification and Socioeconomic Inequality - Volume 2: Reproductive and Interpersonal Aspects of Dominance and Status (Hardcover)
Lee Ellis
R2,787 Discovery Miles 27 870 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is the second volume of a two volume work on biosocial approaches to social stratification and human inequality. The volume considers linkages between gender and stratification; between neurohormonal variables and status; and between health, reproduction, and social status. The contributors explore topics that environmentalists shun, and discuss how the effect of biological variables on social stratification may have evolutionary consequences.

Perspectives on Korean Music - Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity (Hardcover,... Perspectives on Korean Music - Volume 2: Creating Korean Music: Tradition, Innovation and the Discourse of Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Keith Howard
R4,485 Discovery Miles 44 850 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

With the rise of nationalism in the Republic of Korea, music has come to play a central role in the discourse of identity. This volume asks what Koreans consider makes music Korean, and how meaning is ascribed to musical creation. Keith Howard explores specific aspects of creativity that are designed to appeal to a new audience that is increasingly westernized yet proud of its indigenous heritage - updates of tradition, compositions, and collaborative fusions. He charts the development of the Korean music scene over the last 25 years and interprets the debates, claims and statistics by incorporating the voices of musicians, composers, scholars and critics. Koreanness is a brand identity with a discourse founded on heritage, hence Howard focuses on music that is claimed to link to tradition, and on music compositions where indigenous identity is consciously incorporated. The volume opens with SamulNori, a percussion quartet known throughout the world that was formed in 1978 but is rooted in local and itinerant bands stretching back many centuries. Parallel developments in vocal genres, folksongs and p'ansori ('epic storytelling through song') are considered, then three chapters explore compositions written both for western instruments and for Korean instruments, and designed both for Korean and international audiences. Over time, Howard shows how the two musical worlds - kugak, traditional music, and yangak, western music - have collided, and how fusions have emerged. This volume documents how identity has been negotiated by musicians, composers and audiences. Until recently, references to tradition were common and, by critics and musicologists, required. Western music increasingly encroached on the market for Korean music and doubts were raised about the future of any music identifiably Korean. Today, Korean musical production exudes a resurgent confidence as it amalgamates Korean and western elements, as it arranges and incorporates the old in the new, and as it creates a music suitable for the contemporary world.

Contested Voices - Women Immigrants in Today's World (Hardcover): M. Githens Contested Voices - Women Immigrants in Today's World (Hardcover)
M. Githens
R1,927 Discovery Miles 19 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Using the concepts of intersectionality and the social construction of identity, Contested Voices offers a comprehensive picture of immigrant women today and the impact which public policy, class, race, religion, and ethnicity have on their efforts to adjust to a new environment. Rejecting the notion that all immigrant women have the same experiences in adapting and adjusting to their new environment, the book examines the impact of gendered immigration policy in the receiving country, the attitudes and role expectations of both the citizens in the receiving country and the members of the women's own immigrant community who live there, and the women's efforts to construct a viable social identity their new country.

An Ethnography of Stress - The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia (Hardcover): V. Burbank An Ethnography of Stress - The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia (Hardcover)
V. Burbank
R2,868 Discovery Miles 28 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of cognitive anthropology with frameworks drawn from epidemiology, evolutionary theory, and social, psychological and biological sciences illuminates the actions, emotions, and stresses of daily life. While this analysis implicates structures and processes of inequality in the genesis of ill health, its focus remains on the people who suffer, grieve, and live with the dilemmas of an intercultural life.

To Be An American - Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (Hardcover): Bill Ong Hing To Be An American - Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (Hardcover)
Bill Ong Hing
R3,098 Discovery Miles 30 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The impetus behind California's Proposition 187 clearly reflects the growing anti-immigrant sentiment in this country. Many Americans regard today's new immigrants as not truly American, as somehow less committed to the ideals on which the country was founded. In clear, precise terms, Bill Ong Hing considers immigration in the context of the global economy, a sluggish national economy, and the hard facts about downsizing. Importantly, he also confronts the emphatic claims of immigrant supporters that immigrants do assimilate, take jobs that native workers don't want, and contribute more to the tax coffers than they take out of the system.

A major contribution of Hing's book is its emphasis on such often-overlooked issues as the competition between immigrants and African Americans, inter-group tension, and ethnic separatism, issues constantly brushed aside both by immigrant rights groups and the anti-immigrant right. Drawing on Hing's work as a lawyer deeply involved in the day-to-day life of his immigrant clients, To Be An American is a unique blend of substantive analysis, policy, and personal experience.

Tradition and Transition in East Africa - Studies of the Tribal Factor in the Modern Era (Hardcover): P. H. Gulliver Tradition and Transition in East Africa - Studies of the Tribal Factor in the Modern Era (Hardcover)
P. H. Gulliver
R6,755 Discovery Miles 67 550 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in 1969. Divided into two parts, the first sections in the book examine the significance of the tribal factor in certain general contexts and discuss some of the particular backgrounds to contemporary transition in East Africa. There are essays on politics, economic development, language, law and education, together with a comparative look at European nationalism. In the second part, the grass-roots basis and development of the concept of the tribe are considered and its operation in social life in rural areas discussed. The contributions come from a wide range of scholars in the social sciences, history and law and the contributors are: W.J. Argyle, George Bennett, Tom J. Mboya, W.H. Whiteley, Eugene Cotran, J.W. Tyler, J.S. La Fontaine, Michael Twaddle, Kathleen M. Stahl, P.H. Gulliver, Kirsten Alneas, David J. Parkin, R.D. Grillo, I.M. Lewis, H.F. Morris.

African Ecology and Human Evolution (Hardcover): Fran cois Bourli ere, Clark F. Howell African Ecology and Human Evolution (Hardcover)
Fran cois Bourli ere, Clark F. Howell
R7,697 Discovery Miles 76 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This pioneering volume summarizes the results of diverse research on Pleistocene environments and the cultural and biological evolution of man in Africa. The book includes chapters on Pleistocene stratigraphy and climatic changes throughout the African continent; on the ecology, biology and sociology of African primate and human populations. Contributors include: C. Arambourg, P. Biberson, W. W. Bishop, Geoffrey Bond, F. Bourliere, Karl W. Butzer, Desmond Clark, H. B. S. Cooke, Irven DeVore, John T. Emlen, A. T. Grove, J. de Heinzelin, J. Hiernaux, Clark Howell, L. S. B. Leakey, I. Liben, T. Monod, R. F. Moreau, R. A. pullan, J. T. Robinson, George B. Schaller, S. L. Washburn. Originally published in 1964.

Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya (Hardcover, annotated edition): Ivan Karp Fields of Change among the Iteso of Kenya (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Ivan Karp
R7,027 Discovery Miles 70 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Fields of Change is a study of the means by which the Iteso adapted to the imposition of colonial rule and the loss of political independence. It explores their pacification and incorporation into a colonial state and the effects that these processes have had on Iteso territorial and political systems. At the same time it examines the way in which the political system both affected and was affected by other aspects of the Iteso social system, most notably in the fields of religion, descent and domestic kinship. First published in 1978.

Mau Mau and the Kikuyu (Hardcover): Louis Leakey Mau Mau and the Kikuyu (Hardcover)
Louis Leakey
R9,872 Discovery Miles 98 720 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This widely-acclaimed book on a troubled period of Kenyan history summarizes some of the more important Kikuyu customs, and a discussion of their break-down under the impact of European civilization. This discussion illustrates why and how the Mau Mau came into being and how the situation could be improved so that peace could once again come to Kenya.

Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (Hardcover, Revised edition): David Parkin Neighbours and Nationals in an African City Ward (Hardcover, Revised edition)
David Parkin
R1,781 Discovery Miles 17 810 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This study analyses the way in which tribal ties are maintained in the development of a tribally mixed, middle class community in Kampala, Uganda. Political independence in the early nineteen sixties in much of Africa created expectations of increased development, education and living standards. There was hope that ethnic tensions arising from false colonial boundaries might be transcended by newly emerging socio-economic status-groups. However, the new national boundaries suddenly made aliens of peoples who had migrated and settled in towns distant from their home countries. The interplay of nationality, ethnicity and socio-economic status or class was given a new theatre. Hope was dramatically tempered by nationalist and ethnic conflicts which cut across ethnically mixed, small status groups of neighbours and friends. In Kampala, Uganda, this rapidly unfolding drama resulted in the expulsion of two Kenyan ethnic groups and polarised peoples from northern and southern Uganda. The essentialisation of ethnic and national identity imposed by colonialism was thus taken on in this new situation by the people themselves, with the result that they became 'cultural' starting-points of social and political judgement. Originally published in 1969.

Women of Tropical Africa (Hardcover): Denise Paulme Women of Tropical Africa (Hardcover)
Denise Paulme
R6,746 Discovery Miles 67 460 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is unique in its approach in that each chapter covers women in their everyday lives and the problems, which concern them. Until now, ethnographic research has almost always been carried out with the help of the male population and as a result the picture that has emerged has been largely the image, which the men, and the men alone, have of their society. Originally published in 1963.

Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe - A Functional Study of Nutrition among the Southern Bantu (Hardcover): Audrey I. Richards Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe - A Functional Study of Nutrition among the Southern Bantu (Hardcover)
Audrey I. Richards
R9,887 Discovery Miles 98 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The force of hunger in shaping human character and social structure has been largely overlooked. This omission is a serious one in the study of primitive society, in which starvation is a constant menace. This work remedies this deficiency and opens up new lines of anthropological inquiry. The whole network of social institutions is examined which makes possible the consumption, distribution, and production of food-eating customs, as well as the religion and magic of food-production.

Habitat, Economy and Society - A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (Hardcover, illustrated edition): C. Daryll Forde Habitat, Economy and Society - A Geographical Introduction to Ethnology (Hardcover, illustrated edition)
C. Daryll Forde
R7,674 Discovery Miles 76 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

An introduction to the ethnography and human geography of non-European peoples, this book deals with the economic and social life of a number of groups at diverse levels of cultural achievement and in different regions of the world. International in its scope the book covers: Malaysia, Africa, North America, Canada, Siberia, the Amazon, Eastern Solomon Islands, India, Central Asia and the Middle East. Originally published in 1934. This re-issues the seventh edition of 1949.

Death and the right hand (Hardcover): Robert Hertz Death and the right hand (Hardcover)
Robert Hertz; Translated by Rodney Needham, Claudia Needham
R9,876 Discovery Miles 98 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

First published in English 1960. The historical value of Hertz's writings is that they are a representative example of the culmination of two centuries of development of sociological thought in France, from Montesquieu to Durkheim and his pupils. In the intervening years since publication, that development has grown into the systematic comparative study of primitive institutions, based on a great body of ethnographic facts from all over the world: in effect social anthropology.

Social Life of Early Man (Hardcover): S.L. Washburn Social Life of Early Man (Hardcover)
S.L. Washburn
R6,744 Discovery Miles 67 440 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Attempting to reconstruct the life of early societies, particular emphasis is laid upon social behaviour among primates, as well as approaches from ethnology, prehistoric archaeology, geography, genetics, human stress biology and psychology.
First published in 1962.

Classification and Human Evolution (Hardcover): Sherwood L. Washburn Classification and Human Evolution (Hardcover)
Sherwood L. Washburn
R6,753 Discovery Miles 67 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume reviews the meaning of taxonomic statements and considers our present knowledge regarding the number and characteristics of species among living and extinct primates, including man and his ancestors. They also examine the relationship of behaviour changes and selection pressures in evolutionary sequences. First published in 1964.

The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Hardcover): Edmund Leach The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Hardcover)
Edmund Leach
R7,629 Discovery Miles 76 290 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Levi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Levi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.

Bones - Inside and Out (Hardcover): Roy A. Meals Bones - Inside and Out (Hardcover)
Roy A. Meals
R779 R684 Discovery Miles 6 840 Save R95 (12%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Bone is ubiquitous and versatile, and uniquely repairs itself without scarring. However, we rarely see bone in its living state-and even then, mostly in two-tone images that only hint at its marvels. After it serves and protects vertebrate lives, bone reveals itself in surprising ways, sometimes hundreds of millions of years later. In Bones, orthopaedic surgeon Roy Meals explores and extols this amazing material that both supports and records vertebrate life. He demystifies the biological makeup of bones; how they grow, break and heal; and how medical innovations-from the first X-rays to advanced surgical techniques-enhance our lives. With enthusiasm and humour, Meals also reveals the enduring presence of bone outside the body-as fossils, ossuaries, tools, musical instruments-and celebrates allusions to bone in history, religion and idiom. Approachable and entertaining, Bones richly illuminates our bodies' essential framework.

Western Civilization in Southern Africa - Studies in Culture Contact (Hardcover): Isaac Schapera Western Civilization in Southern Africa - Studies in Culture Contact (Hardcover)
Isaac Schapera
R5,849 Discovery Miles 58 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The book is structured as follows: * An introduction of old Bantu culture * An account of modern Bantu life * Discussion of the influence exerted by Christianity and Education upon communal life of the Bantu * Examination of special aspects of Bantu culture as they have been modified by Western civilization: language and music * The economic, political and legal positions of the native tribes in South Africa are also covered. First published in 1934.

Laboratory Manual and Workbook for Biological Anthropology (Spiral bound, 2nd ed.): K Elizabeth Soluri, Sabrina C. Agarwal Laboratory Manual and Workbook for Biological Anthropology (Spiral bound, 2nd ed.)
K Elizabeth Soluri, Sabrina C. Agarwal
R2,083 Discovery Miles 20 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Maasai of Matapato - A Study of Rituals of Rebellion (Paperback, 2nd edition): Paul Spencer The Maasai of Matapato - A Study of Rituals of Rebellion (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Paul Spencer
R1,597 Discovery Miles 15 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

When first published in 1988, this classic study was the first to relate the dynamics of the Maasai age organisation to the tensions within the family. Together, these provide the twin strands of a man's career and, opposed ritually, reflecting a fundamental ambivalence in Maasai thought. The analysis is illustrated with extensive case material from the the Matapato, selected for this study as a typical Maasai group.

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