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Indiana Masonic Law and Forms of Procedure for the Use of Freemansons and Masonic Lodges (Hardcover): William H. Smythe Indiana Masonic Law and Forms of Procedure for the Use of Freemansons and Masonic Lodges (Hardcover)
William H. Smythe
R888 Discovery Miles 8 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Brotherhood - Being a Presentation of the Principles of Odd-fellowship ... (Hardcover): T. G. (Thomas G. ). Beharrell The Brotherhood - Being a Presentation of the Principles of Odd-fellowship ... (Hardcover)
T. G. (Thomas G. ). Beharrell
R885 Discovery Miles 8 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes - Volume 17 (Paperback): W. Watts Miller Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes - Volume 17 (Paperback)
W. Watts Miller
R1,073 Discovery Miles 10 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SECTION I

La conference de Rene Maublanc sur 'Marx et Durkheim' (20 decembre 1934) "Isabelle Gouarne"

Marx et Durkheim "Rene Maublanc"

SECTION II

Marxisme et durkheimisme dans l'entre-deux-guerres en France "Isabelle Gouarne"

From Solidarity to Social Inclusion: The Political Transformations of Durkheimianism "Derek Robbins"

A Durkheimian Account of Globalization: The Construction of Global Moral Culture "David Inglis"

David, Emile. Les ambivalences de l'identite juive de Durkheim "Matthieu Dmitri Bera"

SECTION III REVIEW ARTICLE BOOK REVIEWS"

Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes - Volume 19 (Paperback): W. Watts Miller Durkheimian Studies/Etudes Durkheimiennes - Volume 19 (Paperback)
W. Watts Miller
R1,178 Discovery Miles 11 780 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

SECTION I A Major Discovery: Durkheim's Bordeaux University Library Loans Editorial Introduction William Watts Miller La liste des emprunts de Durkheim a la bibliotheque universitaire de Bordeaux: une imagination methodologique en acte Nicolas Sembel Emprunts de Durkheim a la bibliotheque universitaire de Bordeaux / Durkheim's Loans from Bordeaux University Library: 1889-1902 Document etabli par Nicolas Sembel, avec l'aide de Matthieu Bera Demandes d'acquisition de Durkheim / Durkheim's Acquisition Requests: 1887-1901 Document etabli par Matthieu Bera Index SECTION II The Career of Emile Durkheim in Brazilian Sociology, 1899-2012 Marcio de Oliviera The Russian Career of Durkheim's Sociology of Religion and Les Formes Elementaires: Contribution to a Study Alexander Gofman Par la porte etroite de la pedagogie: Emile Durkheim ou de l'education Jean-Louis Fabiani SECTION III REVIEW ARTICLES Le Centenaire des Formes elementaires de la vie religieuse (1912-2012): un double homage reussi Jean-Marc Larouche Reading Durkheim in Philosophical Context Warren Schmaus A Durkheimian Quest Alexander Riley Quoi de neuf sur Mauss ? Quae tota nostra est Nicolas Sembel BOOK REVIEWS Ramond Boudon (ed.), Durkheim fut-il durkheimien? Jean-Christophe Marcel Marcel Mauss, Techniques, technologie et civilisation, ed. N. Schlanger; Jean-Francois Bert (ed.), 'Les Techniques du corps' de Marcel Mauss: Dossier critique Mike Gane

The Children of Spring Street - The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation (Hardcover, 1st ed.... The Children of Spring Street - The Bioarchaeology of Childhood in a 19th Century Abolitionist Congregation (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2019)
Meredith A.B. Ellis
R2,079 Discovery Miles 20 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This book examines how the shifts in the early 19th century in New York City affected children in particular. Indeed, one could argue that within this context, that "children" and "childhood" came into being. In order to explore this, the skeletal remains of the children buried at the small, local, yet politically radical Spring Street Presbyterian Church are detailed. Population level analyses are combined with individual biological profiles from sorted burials and individual stories combed from burial records and archival data. What emerges are life histories of children-of infants, toddlers, younger children, older children, and adolescents-during this time of transition in New York City. When combined with historical data, these life histories, for instance, tell us about what it was like to grow up in this changing time in New York City

Pacific Climate Cultures - Living Climate Change in Oceania (Hardcover): Tony Crook, Peter Rudiak-Gould Pacific Climate Cultures - Living Climate Change in Oceania (Hardcover)
Tony Crook, Peter Rudiak-Gould
R3,124 Discovery Miles 31 240 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Low-lying Pacific island nations are experiencing the frontline of sea-level rises and climate change and are responding creatively and making-sense in their own vernacular terms. Pacific Climate Cultures aims to bring Oceanic philosophies to the frontline of social science theorization. It explores the home-grown ways that 'climate change' becomes absorbed into the combined effects of globalization and into a living nexus of relations amongst human and non-humans, spirits and elements. Contributors to this edited volume explore diverse examples of living climate change-from floods and cyclones, through song and navigation, to new forms of art, community initiatives and cultural appropriations-and demonstrate their international relevance in understanding climate change. A Prelude by His Highness Tui Atua Efi and Afterword by Anne Salmond frame an Introduction by Tony Crook & Peter Rudiak-Gould and nine chapters by contributors including John Connell, Elfriede Hermann & Wolfgang Kempf and Cecilie Rubow. Endorsement from Professor Margaret Jolly, Australian National University: This exciting volume offers innovative insights on climate cultures across Oceania. It critically interrogates Western environmental sciences which fail to fully appreciate Oceanic knowledges and practices. It reveals how climate science can be both 'a weapon of the weak' and 'an act of symbolic violence of the powerful'. A compelling series of studies in the Cook islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Papua New Guinea and Samoa suggest not diverse cultural constructions of 'natural facts' but processes of knowledge exchange and at best a respectful reciprocity in confronting present challenges and disturbing future scenarios. 'Home-grown' Pacific discourses and ways of living emphasise the interconnections of all life on earth and in our cosmos; they do not differentiate between the natural and the moral, between environmental and cultural transformations. These studies evoke the creative agency of Oceanic peoples, too often seen as on the vanguard of victimhood in global representations of climate change, and offer distinctive visions for all humanity in these troubling times.

Cultural Portrayals of African Americans - Creating an Ethnic/Racial Identity (Hardcover): Janis F. Hutchinson Cultural Portrayals of African Americans - Creating an Ethnic/Racial Identity (Hardcover)
Janis F. Hutchinson
R2,215 R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Save R170 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of papers encourages social and biological scientists to question their presentations of African Americans and to recognize that afrocentricity is important in refocusing portrayals of African Americans. It contrasts the production of these cultural portrayals by the majority of the U.S. population with those by African Americans themselves. It shows the process of creating a racial identity as well as the historical background related to a new evaluation of what it is to be African American in the United States.

For the Love of Lab Rats - Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research (Hardcover, New): Simone Dennis For the Love of Lab Rats - Kinship, Humanimal Relations, and Good Scientific Research (Hardcover, New)
Simone Dennis
R2,283 Discovery Miles 22 830 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The movement of research animals across the divides that have separated scientist investigators and research animals as Baconian dominators and research equipment respectively might well give us cause to reflect about what we think we know about scientists and animals and how they relate to and with one another within the scientific coordinates of the modern research laboratory. Scientists are often assumed to inhabit the ontotheological domain that the union of science and technology has produced; to master 'nature' through its ontological transformation. Instrumental reason is here understood to produce a split between animal and human being, becoming inextricably intertwined with human self-preservation. But science itself is beginning to take us back to nature; science itself is located in the thick of posthuman biopolitics and is concerned with making more than claims about human being, and is seeking to arrive at understandings of being as such. It is no longer relevant to assume that instrumental reason continues to hold a death grip on science, nor that it is immune from the concerns in which it is deeply embedded. And, it is no longer possible to assume that animal human relationships in the lab continue along the fault line of the Great Divide. This book raises critical questions about what kinship means, or might mean, for science, for humanimal relations, and for anthropology, which has always maintained a sure grip on kinship but has not yet accounted for how it might be validly claimed to exist between humanimals in new and emerging contexts of relatedness. It raises equally important questions about the position of science at the forefront of new kinships between humans and animals, and questions our assumptions about how scientific knowing is produced and reflected upon from within the thick of lab work, and what counts as 'good science'. Much of it is concerned with the quality of humanimal relatedness and relationship. For the Love of Lab Rats will be of great interest to scientists, laboratory workers, anthropologists, animal studies scholars, posthumanists, phenomenologists, and all those with an interest in human-animal relations.

Democracy Compromised - Chiefs and the politics of the land in South Africa (Paperback): Lungisile Ntsebeza Democracy Compromised - Chiefs and the politics of the land in South Africa (Paperback)
Lungisile Ntsebeza
R1,591 Discovery Miles 15 910 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Democracy Compromised is about traditional authorities (chiefs of various ranks) in a democracy. The book addresses mainly two integrally related questions. First, how despite their role in the apartheid state, traditional authorities have not only survived, but have won unprecedented powers in rural governance in South Africa's democracy, and, secondly, how they derive their authority. It argues that chieftaincy has always been contested and that it has throughout its history since the advent of colonialism been dependent on the support of the state. The role of traditional authorities in the land allocation process is central to our understanding, not only of their survival, but on how they derived their authority. The book will be of particular interest to academics, researchers, students, activists and policy makers.

Speaking Our Minds - Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special (Hardcover): Thom... Speaking Our Minds - Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special (Hardcover)
Thom Scott-Phillips
R4,308 Discovery Miles 43 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective tell us about the nature of language and communication? Drawing on a range of disciplines including cognitive science, linguistics, anthropology and evolutionary biology, Speaking Our Minds explains how language evolved and why we are the only species to communicate in this way. Written by a rising star in the field, this groundbreaking book is required reading for anyone interested in understanding the origins and evolution of human communication and language.

Old Age in Transition - The Geriatric Ward (Hardcover): Peter Woolfson Old Age in Transition - The Geriatric Ward (Hardcover)
Peter Woolfson
R2,214 R2,045 Discovery Miles 20 450 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Most studies of geriatric patients have focused on nursing homes. In fact, most people are placed in these institutions only after being evaluated by medical and social service staff. This ethnography details the day-to-day experiences of a geriatric and assessment unit by examining the staff, families, and patients themselves. It looks at the activities that take place in the unit as well as the less obvious cultural patterns of the process. Using the Ethnography of Speaking method, it explores the human side of this most difficult of life's decisions.

Borderwork in Multicultural Australia (Paperback): John O'Carroll Borderwork in Multicultural Australia (Paperback)
John O'Carroll
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Refugees. Border protection. Ethnic gangs. Terrorism. History wars. Pauline Hanson. Australia's faith in multiculturalism has been shaken by fierce attacks from its enemies and a sense of crisis among its friends. Multiculturalism has become a political tool to win votes and generate community anxiety. What is left of the multicultural ideal?Bob Hodge and John O'Carroll take the pulse of multicultural Australia in the wake of September 11. They investigate the hot spots' of multiculturalism, showing how they cluster around fiercely defended boundaries and borders, both literal and symbolic. They tackle the issues of racism past and present, and show how injustice impacts on many communities in Australia, including Aboriginals as well as more recent migrant groups.The authors argue that despite appearances, multiculturalism is alive and well in Australia, and a commitment to tolerance and diversity characterises daily life. In fact, Australia's multiculture is the best kind of borderwork against terrorism, racism and injustice. A timely, original and optimistic discussion of Australia's multicultural past and our possible futures.' Graeme Turner, Director, Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland This clearly written book shines a welcome light on the fog of critique of Australian multiculturalism from both the Right and the Left.' Jock Collins, Professor of Economics, University of Technology Sydney

Science and Technology in Society - From Biotechnology to the Internet (Hardcover, New): DL Kleinman Science and Technology in Society - From Biotechnology to the Internet (Hardcover, New)
DL Kleinman
R3,300 Discovery Miles 33 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This thoughtful and engaging text challenges the widely held notion of science as somehow outside of society, and the idea that technology proceeds automatically down a singular and inevitable path. Through specific case studies involving contemporary debates, this book shows that science and technology are fundamentally part of society and are shaped by it.
Draws on concepts from political sociology, organizational analysis, and contemporary social theory.
Avoids dense theoretical debate.
Includes case studies and concluding chapter summaries for students and scholars.

Killing with Kindness - Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs (Hardcover, New): Mark Schuller Killing with Kindness - Haiti, International Aid, and NGOs (Hardcover, New)
Mark Schuller; Foreword by Paul Farmer
R2,979 Discovery Miles 29 790 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

After Haiti's 2010 earthquake, over half of U.S. households donated to thousands of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in that country. Yet we continue to hear stories of misery from Haiti. Why have NGOs failed at their mission?
Set in Haiti during the 2004 coup and aftermath and enhanced by research conducted after the 2010 earthquake, "Killing with Kindness" analyzes the impact of official development aid on recipient NGOs and their relationships with local communities. Written like a detective story, the book offers rich enthnographic comparisons of two Haitian women's NGOs working in HIV/AIDS prevention, one with public funding (including USAID), the other with private European NGO partners. Mark Schuller looks at participation and autonomy, analyzing donor policies that inhibit these goals. He focuses on NGOs' roles as intermediaries in "gluing" the contemporary world system together and shows how power works within the aid system as these intermediaries impose interpretations of unclear mandates down the chain--a process Schuller calls "trickle-down imperialism."

Measuring the Master Race - Physical Anthropology in Norway 1890-1945 (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Jon Royne Kyllingstad Measuring the Master Race - Physical Anthropology in Norway 1890-1945 (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Jon Royne Kyllingstad
R1,108 Discovery Miles 11 080 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Leviticus as Literature (Hardcover): Mary Douglas Leviticus as Literature (Hardcover)
Mary Douglas
R3,234 Discovery Miles 32 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other forbidden animals are not abhorrent, they command the same respect due to all God's creatures. Boldly challenging several traditions of Bible criticism, Mary Douglas claims that Leviticus is not the narrow doctrine of a crabbed professional priesthood but a powerful intellectual statement about a modern religion which emphasizes God's justice and compassion.

Remaking Micronesia - Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-82 (Hardcover, New): David Hanlon Remaking Micronesia - Discourses Over Development in a Pacific Territory, 1944-82 (Hardcover, New)
David Hanlon
R2,332 Discovery Miles 23 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Carolina, Mariana and Marshall Islands have experienced world war, atomic weapons testing and varying brands of colonialism in the 20th century. Following the seizure of the islands from Japan, agencies of the US government sought to better possess and control the area through a series of developmental initiatives. Interdisciplinary in its approach, this text goes beyond the liberal discourse surrounding modernity to examine what economic development actually entailed. It explores in ethnographic terms how different groups of island people responded to development programmes in multiple, complex, layered and sometimes conflicting ways that reflected their own historical experiences and cultural understandings.

Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Human Morphology (Paperback): Conrad B Quintyn Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Human Morphology (Paperback)
Conrad B Quintyn
R2,401 R2,040 Discovery Miles 20 400 Save R361 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Human Morphology provides students with a collection of readings that explore critical concepts in biological anthropology and human evolution. The text is divided into 10 distinct sections that feature an introduction, relevant readings, and post-reading questions. Opening sections explore creationism versus evolution, the history of evolutionary thought, population genetics and microevolution, and heritability. Students read about natural selection in action, primate behavior, evolutionary systematics, and human evolution and the origins of bipedalism. The final sections examine Neanderthals, the origins of modern humans, and what it is to be human. Concise and accessible, Readings in Evolutionary Theory, Genetics, and the Origins of Modern Human Morphology is an ideal resource for courses in anthropology and human evolution.

The Menace of Multiculturalism - Trojan Horse in America (Hardcover, New): Alvin J Schmidt The Menace of Multiculturalism - Trojan Horse in America (Hardcover, New)
Alvin J Schmidt
R2,517 R2,218 Discovery Miles 22 180 Save R299 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this broad condemnation of multiculturalism, the author works to uncover pernicious errors in the arguments of diversity's proponents and to sound a warning against the dire consequences for American culture if the tenets of political correctness are incorporated into our social structure. Schmidt begins by exposing multiculturalism, not as a movement aimed at expanding democratic ideals, but rather as a crypto-Marxist political ideology that seeks to import Marxist concepts into social and cultural institutions. Subsequent chapters then illuminate a number of dismaying trends: a tendency toward historical revisionism in multiculturalist arguments, the sly linguistic maneuvering and limits on speech that characterize political correctness, and the dismantling of the traditional image of the family unit-the primary building block of American society. Schmidt concludes with a rousing admonition to expel from our midst the latter-day Trojan horse that is multiculturalism. Casting a troubled glance over the list of social ills plaguing America today-besieged inner cities, divisive racial politics, diminishing educational standards, and rampant divorce and illegitimacy-we have cause to wonder whether the advocates of multiculturalism represent the solution or the source of the problem. In this rousing condemnation of the multiculturalist agenda, the author fixes an unflinching critical gaze on the subtle deceptions and wrongheaded conclusions at work in the arguments for cultural pluralism, moral relativism, and political correctness. An exhaustive and damning account of multiculturalism's wages and a compelling argument for the importance of traditional American values make this book essential reading for anyone concerned about our country's present plight and future prospects.

People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover): Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan People and Change in Indigenous Australia (Hardcover)
Diane Austin-Broos, Francesca Merlan; Contributions by Paul Burke, Yasmine Musharbash, Ute, …
R2,372 Discovery Miles 23 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

People and Change in Australia arose from a conviction that more needs to be done in anthropology to give a fuller sense of the changing lives and circumstances of Australian indigenous communities and people. Much anthropological and public discussion remains embedded in traditionalizing views of indigenous people, and in accounts that seem to underline essential and apparently timeless difference. In this volume the editors and contributors assume that "the person" is socially defined and reconfigured as contexts change, both immediate and historical. Essays in this collection are grounded in Australian locales commonly termed "remote." These indigenous communities were largely established as residential concentrations by Australian governments, some first as missions, most in areas that many of the indigenous people involved consider their homelands. A number of these settlements were located in proximity to settler industries including pastoralism, market-gardening, and mining. These are the locales that many non-indigenous Australians think of as the homes of the most traditional indigenous communities and people. The contributors discuss the changing circumstances of indigenous people who originate from such places. Some remain, while others travel far afield. The accounts reveal a diversity of experiences and histories that involve major dynamics of disembedding from country and home locales, and re-embedding in new contexts, and reconfigurations of relatedness. The essays explore dimensions of change and continuity in childhood experience and socialization in a desert community; the influence of Christianity in fostering both individuation and relatedness in northeast Arnhem Land; the diaspora of Central Australian Warlpiri people to cities and the forms of life and livelihood they make there; adolescent experiences of schooling away from home communities; youth in kin-based heavy metal gangs configuring new identities, and indigenous people of southeast Australia reflecting on whether an "Aboriginal way" can be sustained. The volume takes a step toward understanding the relation between changing circumstances and changing lives of indigenous Australians today and provides a sense of the quality and the feel of those lives.

A Global Community - The Jews from Aleppo, Syria (Hardcover): Walter P. Zenner A Global Community - The Jews from Aleppo, Syria (Hardcover)
Walter P. Zenner
R1,365 Discovery Miles 13 650 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The Jews from Aleppo, Syria, and their descendants compose a remarkable but little-known community that has spread throughout the world during the past two centuries, adapting to myriad social settings from Kobe to Buenos Aires. Aleppan Jews are known for their strong Jewish identity and commercial acumen, as well as their learning and piety. The religious leadership of Aleppan Jewry, unlike other Sephardim, is also noted for its militant conservatism.

A Global Community is the first comprehensive scholarly interpretation of the historical experience of this unusual community in Syria and in the other places to which Aleppan Jewry have immigrated. Their incorporation into the nation-states in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas has forced Syrian Jews to change their modes of identification as Jews and reshape their culture while maintaining international familial and communal ties. A Global Community is pertinent to current discussions and debates concerning ethnic persistence and assimilation, transnational diasporas, and nationalism.

Walter P. Zenner points to the social, economic, and cultural links that the various Syrian Jewish communities have made for the unique persistence of community throughout the diaspora. He pisces special interest on the communities in Israel and the United States but also studies the communities in England and Latin America. He utilizes rabbinical responses, travelers' writings, secondary sources, interviews, and oral histories to provide a unique look into this Middle Eastern Jewish community for those interested in Ashkenazic as well as Sephardic Judaism.

Social Control in China - A Study of Chinese Work Units (Hardcover, New): Victor N. Shaw Social Control in China - A Study of Chinese Work Units (Hardcover, New)
Victor N. Shaw
R2,810 R2,544 Discovery Miles 25 440 Save R266 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

China is in the midst of dramatic economic and social reform--reform that may well suggest a long-term developmental trend toward modernization and democracy. This evolution in the structure of Chinese society means that the authoritarian social control system in China must change if loss of community ties, dislocation, and social disintegration are to be avoided in the coming years. This book provides a blueprint for the social architecture of China and offers an argument for how change in the essential structure of Chinese society must be implemented. Shaw's investigation of work units--the building blocks of contemporary China--pinpoints them as the primary sites of social control and as the most important components of any efforts at reform.

Folklore, Culture, and Aging - A Research Guide (Hardcover, Annotated edition): David P. Shuldiner Folklore, Culture, and Aging - A Research Guide (Hardcover, Annotated edition)
David P. Shuldiner
R2,448 R2,222 Discovery Miles 22 220 Save R226 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A resource guide by and about elders and the process of aging, this volume provides a list of over 1,500 references, all annotated, covering a wide range of subject areas. It is organized under such topics as "Customs and Beliefs," "Narratives," "Traditional Arts," "Health and Healing," and "Applied Folklore," and is further divided into regional and topical subheadings. It also features works on methods and concepts in field research in folklore, oral history, and community studies, a chapter on general works from other fields of interest, as well as a chapter on films. The introduction offers not only a description of the nature and role of elders as creators and carriers of culture, but also a challenge to readers--reflected in the broad range of materials cited--defying both narrow conceptions of aging and the aged, and limited notions about the full scope of expressive culture addressed by folklore studies.

Etnologia lo que fue - lo que es (English, Spanish, Hardcover): Juan A Hasler Etnologia lo que fue - lo que es (English, Spanish, Hardcover)
Juan A Hasler
R762 Discovery Miles 7 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

El autor de esta colactanea considera que la etnologia es una disciplina que debe recurrir a otras, principalmente en la arqueologia y en la linguistica. Hizo sus primeros estudios en la Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia, de orientacion pedagogica fuertemente humboldtiana, en Ciudad de Mexico. Posteriormente se doctoro en la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de Koln, de orientacion completamente humboldtiana. Este libro es la recopilacion de veintitres notas de etnologia y arqueologia en distintas revistas academicas. De ellas, 16 son investigaciones propias con lo que esto supone de aportes personales y 7 son resenas bibliograficas muy informativas acerca de libros del ramo. La casi totalidad de estos articulos fue escrita en los anos mozos del autor, epoca de la cual es tambien este retrato. En lo geografico, esas notas abarcan desde Europa Oriental ("Guerra de razas y reaccion gitana," "Origen y ocaso de tadtl monoteista," "Serbokroatische Volkskunde," "Pasteurs nomades mediterraneens"), y, pasando por sitios de ocupacion paleolitica en Europa Central y Occidental, llegan a la actualidad en la Peninsula berica ("El chozo en Extremadura," "La vivienda rustica en Espana"), para dar el gran salto a Austroamerica ("Existet-il le maitre des bois en Argentine?," "Tigres de papel y tigres verdaderos," "Cuentos chilenoargentinos." En seguida, estas Analectas presentan trabajos que se refi eren al Ecuador y a Colombia ("Diccionario del Folklore Ecuatoriano," "Ceramica erotica de Tumaco, y otras, descifrada"), desde donde el autor encuentra puentes hacia America Media ("Parturienta de Tumaco, y otras, descifrada"), hasta incluir un analisis, hecho de estudiante, de "Dos capas de elementos paleoliticos entre los cazadores de Mejico." El resto de esta coleccion se ocupa de cuestiones teoricas ("Exigencias de una ciencia cultural: la Prehistoria," "Anthropologists in the Field," y otros).

Introduction to the Sociology of Missions (Hardcover, New): Robert L Montgomery Introduction to the Sociology of Missions (Hardcover, New)
Robert L Montgomery
R3,601 R3,182 Discovery Miles 31 820 Save R419 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

While much work has been done to apply anthropological insights to the study of missions, the sociological perspective has been generally neglected by missiologists. This volume defines the sociology of missions as a discrete subdiscipline within the sociology of religion and provides a working set of conceptual resources for those involved in mission work to use in furthering their understanding of their task. The author reviews the major areas of sociology that are most relevant to missions and presents his findings as a basis for discussion and a stimulus to further exploration of relevant sociological concepts and theories. One of his main goals is to increase dialogue between missiologists and sociologists of religion, by providing the former with a sociological perspective and the latter with a deeper understanding of the missionary enterprise.

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