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Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference (Paperback): Amaryll Chanady Latin American Identity and Constructions of Difference (Paperback)
Amaryll Chanady
R638 Discovery Miles 6 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Required reading for those interested in Latin American identity. Authors recognize difficulty of the pregnancy of the moment - globalization and diaspora - in which the topic is being discussed. In the introduction, Chanady offers an excellent historical review of the topic. Essays by Enrique Dussel, Josâe Rabasa (see item #bi 98003988#), Franðcois Perus, and Iris Zavala are especially noteworthy"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

River of Renewal (Paperback): Stephen Most River of Renewal (Paperback)
Stephen Most
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A land of mountains, forests, wetlands, lakes, and rivers, the Klamath Basin spans the Oregon-California border. Farms and ranches, logging towns, and back-to-the land communities are scattered over this 10-million-acre bioregion. There are Indian reservations at the headwaters, at the estuary, and across the major tributary of the Klamath River. In this place that has witnessed, ever since the Gold Rush, a succession of wars and resource conflicts, myths of the West loom large, amplifying the differences among its inhabitants. At the core of the contemporary controversy is over-allocation of the waters of the Klamath Basin. This dispute has pitted farmers and ranchers against locals whose cultures and livelihoods depend upon fishing and others who would forestall the extinction of wild salmon. Yet it has also revealed the unity of the Klamath Basin, the interdependence of economic recovery with ecological restoration, and the urgency for all the communities within the basin to find common ground.

The Yanomamo (Paperback, International Edition): Napoleon Chagnon The Yanomamo (Paperback, International Edition)
Napoleon Chagnon
R1,902 R1,723 Discovery Miles 17 230 Save R179 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The Yanomamo of Venezuela and Brazil are a truly remarkable people, and one of the few sovereign tribal societies left on earth. This classic ethnography, based on the authors extensive fieldwork, includes a brief discussion of events and changes that have occurred since 1996. The Legacy 6th Edition of The Yanomamo also includes a Q&A interview with the author, which reveals his own perspective on his lifes work, reflects changes within the field of anthropology itself, and presents the authors views on the recent decade of controversies that his work has inspired among critics (including some anthropologists).

In Defense of Mohawk Land - Ethnopolitical Conflict in Native North America (Paperback, New): Linda Pertusati In Defense of Mohawk Land - Ethnopolitical Conflict in Native North America (Paperback, New)
Linda Pertusati
R751 Discovery Miles 7 510 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Examines the conflict that exists between the Mohawk Warrior Movement and Canada within the context of the Mohawk nation's struggle for national self-determination.

During 1990, a land dispute between the Mohawk territory of Kanehsatake and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada took center stage in the world community, erupting into months of intense and often violent confrontation. Rooted in the historical reality of past injustices, the events of the 1990 Mohawk-Oka conflict epitomized the relationship and struggles which exists between Aboriginal nations, ethnonationalist movements, and the state.

By examining the Mohawk-Oka conflict, this book tells a story of struggle and survival during the 1990 invasion by the Quebec provincial police and Canadian army into Mohawk sovereign land. The story is one of an embattled nation's struggle and aboriginal right to determine its political and economic destiny. Through extensive research of archived documents, newspapers, and interviews with leaders and members of the Mohawk Warrior Movement and other central figures in the Mohawk nation, the author demonstrates how politicized ethnicity and ideology can become significant factors in the repertoire of indigenous ethnonationalist social movements for generating and maintaining social protest.

"The events described are dramatic (and tragic) and the account is compelling. The detailed exposition effectively conveys the ambivalences, ambiguities, and other complexities behind the public events. This is a story that deserves to be heard, and the analysis is insightful and persuasive". -- Robin M. Williams, Jr., Cornell University

Institutionalizing Illness Narratives - Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Institutionalizing Illness Narratives - Discourses on Fever and Care from Southern India (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Mathew George
R2,032 Discovery Miles 20 320 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is an ethnographic work that uses a critical medical anthropology approach to examine the concept of fever care in the context of southern India. Through a study of fevers, the study provides a critical overview to medical practice itself, as it is said that the history of fevers is also the history of medicine. This association between fevers and medicine is as relevant today, as this in-depth study of fever care reveals. Acknowledging the central role of health institutions in creating and propagating notions about illness in society, the author examines fever care through a study of hospitals. The study examines various discourses on fevers prevalent in the southern state of Kerala, which influence policy and programmatic dimensions of the state health services system. Fever care implies those aspects related to provisioning and cost involved among public and private sector hospitals. A second and more important dimension of this book is a critique of the culture of biomedical practice, informed by the social constructivist framework and approaches in the field of science studies. Overall, the book studies the processes by which physical symptoms like fever are treated as epidemics to be controlled, and are therefore brought within a biomedical system, thereby opening up options for commercialization of care.

Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Roderick A.... Vertebrate Sound Production and Acoustic Communication (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Roderick A. Suthers, W. Tecumseh Fitch, Richard R Fay, Arthur N. Popper
R5,530 Discovery Miles 55 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Although the fundamental principles of vocal production are well-understood, and are being increasingly applied by specialists to specific animal taxa, they stem originally from engineering research on the human voice. These origins create a double barrier to entry for biologists interested in understanding acoustic communication in their study species. The proposed volume aims to fill this gap, providing easy-to-understand overviews of the various relevant theories and techniques, and showing how these principles can be implemented in the study of all main vertebrate groups. The volume will have eleven chapters assembled from the world's leading researchers, at a level intelligible to a wide audience of biologists with no background in engineering or human voice science. Some will cover sound production in a particular vertebrate group; others will address a particular issue, such as vocal learning, across vertebrate taxa. The book will highlight what is known and how to implement useful techniques and methodologies, but will also summarize current gaps in the knowledge. It will serve both as a tutorial introduction for newcomers and a springboard for further research for all scientists interested in understanding animal acoustic signals.

Critically Modern - Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Paperback): Bruce M. Knauft Critically Modern - Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies (Paperback)
Bruce M. Knauft
R634 Discovery Miles 6 340 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization and modernity outside anthropology." -Charles Piot "In these essays theory and ethnography are presented in ways that make them mutually enriching. The volume should appeal to scholars across the entire range of disciplines that deal with modernity and/or globalization." -Edward LiPuma Are there multiple ways of being "modern" in the world today? How do people in various parts of the world become modern in their own distinct ways? Does the current focus on modernity in the social sciences resurrect a series of dichotomies ("traditional" and "modern," "the West" and "the Rest," "developed" and "undeveloped") that social theorists have sought to move beyond in recent years? Or do inflections of modernity capture key features of ideology and influence in the contemporary world? Combining rich ethnographic analysis with incisive theoretical critiques, this timely volume is certain to make an important mark in anthropology and in all related fields in which modernity is a central problematic. Contributors: Donald L. Donham, Robert J. Foster, Jonathan Friedman, Ivan Karp, John D. Kelly, Bruce M. Knauft, Lisa B. Rofel, Debra A. Spitulnik, Michel-Rolph Trouillot, and Holly Wardlow.

Neural Functions of the Delta-Opioid Receptor (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015): Ying Xia Neural Functions of the Delta-Opioid Receptor (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015)
Ying Xia
R4,468 Discovery Miles 44 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is the first to summarize the progress of research on neural functions of the the delta opioid receptor (DOR) to date. This receptor, a member of the opioid receptor family, was traditionally thought to be primarily involved in pain modulation. Recent new findings have shown its unique role in neuroprotection and many other functions. Many scientists from a number of independent laboratories have now confirmed that DOR can provide neuroprotection against hypoxic/ischemic injuries. They have also found that it plays a role in a variety of physiological and pathophysiological events such as hypoxic encephalopathy, epilepsy, acupuncture, Parkinson's disease, etc. by regulating ionic homeostasis, glutamate transportation and signaling, and balancing intracellular survival/death signals. The book will provide a comprehensive overview of the current state of DOR research and provide a blueprint for future directions.

Isotopic Landscapes in Bioarchaeology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016): Gisela Grupe, George C... Isotopic Landscapes in Bioarchaeology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Gisela Grupe, George C McGlynn
R4,036 Discovery Miles 40 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This work takes a critical look at the current concept of isotopic landscapes ("isoscapes") in bioarchaeology and its application in future research. It specifically addresses the research potential of cremated finds, a somewhat neglected bioarchaeological substrate, resulting primarily from the inherent osteological challenges and complex mineralogy associated with it. In addition, for the first time data mining methods are applied. The chapters are the outcome of an international workshop sponsored by the German Science Foundation and the Centre of Advanced Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich. Isotopic landscapes are indispensable tracers for the monitoring of the flow of matter through geo/ecological systems since they comprise existing temporally and spatially defined stable isotopic patterns found in geological and ecological samples. Analyses of stable isotopes of the elements nitrogen, carbon, oxygen, strontium, and lead are routinely utilized in bioarchaeology to reconstruct biodiversity, palaeodiet, palaeoecology, palaeoclimate, migration and trade. The interpretive power of stable isotopic ratios depends not only on firm, testable hypotheses, but most importantly on the cooperative networking of scientists from both natural and social sciences. Application of multi-isotopic tracers generates isotopic patterns with multiple dimensions, which accurately characterize a find, but can only be interpreted by use of modern data mining methods.

Ethics and Extermination - Reflections on Nazi Genocide (Hardcover, New): Michael Burleigh Ethics and Extermination - Reflections on Nazi Genocide (Hardcover, New)
Michael Burleigh
R2,280 Discovery Miles 22 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This series of essays by one of today's most original and prolific scholars on German racial policy concern three interrelated aspects of Nazi Germany: relations with "the East," "euthanasia," and extermination. The collection includes important and wholly new contributions to the German-Soviet war and other national tragedies; to the controversial question of whether the Nazi analogy has any relevance to contemporary ethical discussions; and to the contemporary historiography, including works of fiction and literary criticism, of the Holocaust.

Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria (Hardcover): Darryl Forde Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria (Hardcover)
Darryl Forde
R3,567 Discovery Miles 35 670 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria

Under the Knife - Cosmetic Surgery, Boundary Work, and the Pursuit of the Natural Fake (Paperback): Samantha Kwan, Jennifer... Under the Knife - Cosmetic Surgery, Boundary Work, and the Pursuit of the Natural Fake (Paperback)
Samantha Kwan, Jennifer Graves
R633 Discovery Miles 6 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Most women who elect to have cosmetic surgery want a "natural" outcome-a discrete alteration of the body that appears unaltered. Under the Knife examines this theme in light of a cultural paradox. Whereas women are encouraged to improve their appearance, there is also a stigma associated with those who do so via surgery. Samantha Kwan and Jennifer Graves reveal how women negotiate their "unnatural"-but hopefully (in their view) natural-looking-surgically-altered bodies. Based on in-depth interviews with 46 women who underwent cosmetic surgery to enhance their appearance, the authors investigate motivations for surgery as well as women's thoughts about looking natural after the procedures. Under the Knife dissects the psychological and physical strategies these women use to manage the expectations, challenges, and disappointments of cosmetic surgery while also addressing issues of agency and empowerment. It shows how different cultural intersections can produce varied goals and values around body improvement. Under the Knife highlights the role of deep-seated yet contradictory gendered meanings about women's bodies, passing, and boundary work. The authors also consider traditional notions of femininity and normalcy that trouble women's struggle to preserve an authentic moral self.

Neurotoxin Modeling of Brain Disorders - Life-long Outcomes in Behavioral Teratology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the... Neurotoxin Modeling of Brain Disorders - Life-long Outcomes in Behavioral Teratology (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2016)
Richard M. Kostrzewa, Trevor Archer
R5,606 Discovery Miles 56 060 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book is authored by leading experts who made major discoveries in neuroteratology research focused on modeling human neural developmental disorders. Individual chapters address ADHD (attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder), Lesch-Nyhan disease, psychoses and schizophrenia, autism, and models of Parkinson's Disease and tardive dyskinesia. The effects of perinatal stress and agonist insults on life-long outcomes are addressed, as well as the overall effects of perinatal neurotoxins on development of specific neural phenotypic systems. The book provides a unique compendium on how perinatal insults of various types can produce effects in brain that persist throughout the life span. Researchers can derive insight into experimental approaches in this research field; clinicians can develop insights into the influences of the many noxious and seemingly innocuous substances that might influence brain development in children.

Reverse Anthropology - Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea (Paperback): Stuart Kirsch Reverse Anthropology - Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea (Paperback)
Stuart Kirsch
R642 Discovery Miles 6 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational mining company and the Indonesian state. This book highlights Yonggom participation in two political movements: an international campaign against the Ok Tedi mine, which is responsible for extensive deforestation and environmental problems, and the opposition to Indonesian control over West Papua, including Yonggom experiences as political refugees in Papua, New Guinea. The author challenges a prevailing homogenization in current representations of indigenous people, showing how Yonggom modes of analysis specifically have shaped these political movements.

Climate without Nature - A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene (Hardcover): Andrew M. Bauer, Mona Bhan Climate without Nature - A Critical Anthropology of the Anthropocene (Hardcover)
Andrew M. Bauer, Mona Bhan
R2,812 Discovery Miles 28 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book offers a critical reading of the Anthropocene that draws on archaeological, ecological, geological, and ethnographic evidence to argue that the concept reproduces the modernist binary between society and nature, and forecloses a more inclusive politics around climate change. The authors challenge the divisions between humans as biological and geophysical agents that constitute the ontological foundations of the period. Building on contemporary critiques of capitalism, they examine different conceptions of human-environment relationships derived from anthropology to engage with the pressing problem of global warming.

Frontiers of Citizenship - A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Hardcover): Yuko Miki Frontiers of Citizenship - A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil (Hardcover)
Yuko Miki
R2,827 Discovery Miles 28 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding of slavery, citizenship, and the origins of Brazil's 'racial democracy'. Through groundbreaking archival research that brings the stories of slaves, Indians, and settlers to life, Yuko Miki challenges the widespread idea that Brazilian Indians 'disappeared' during the colonial era, paving the way for the birth of Latin America's largest black nation. Focusing on the postcolonial settlement of the Atlantic frontier and Rio de Janeiro, Miki argues that the exclusion and inequality of indigenous and African-descended people became embedded in the very construction of Brazil's remarkably inclusive nationhood. She demonstrates that to understand the full scope of central themes in Latin American history - race and national identity, unequal citizenship, popular politics, and slavery and abolition - one must engage the histories of both the African diaspora and the indigenous Americas.

The Encrypted State - Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes (Hardcover): David Nugent The Encrypted State - Delusion and Displacement in the Peruvian Andes (Hardcover)
David Nugent
R1,645 Discovery Miles 16 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What happens when a seemingly rational state becomes paranoid and delusional? The Encrypted State engages in a close analysis of political disorder to shed new light on the concept of political stability. The book focuses on a crisis of rule in mid-20th-century Peru, a period when officials believed they had lost the ability to govern and communicated in secret code to protect themselves from imaginary subversives. The Encrypted State engages the notion of sacropolitics-the politics of mass group sacrifice-to make sense of state delusion. Nugent interrogates the forces that variously enable or disable organized political subjection, and the role of state structures in this process. Investigating the role of everyday cultural practices and how affect and imagination structure political affairs, Nugent provides a greater understanding of the conditions of state formation, and failure.

PTSD - Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Implications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2006): N. Kato, M.... PTSD - Brain Mechanisms and Clinical Implications (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2006)
N. Kato, M. Kawata, R. K. Pitman
R4,389 Discovery Miles 43 890 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book breaks new ground by offering neuroscientific insights into post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). PTSD has emerged as the model mental disorder for studying the effect of the environment on human biological systems, especially the brain. The authors - who range from skilled basic scientists to experienced diagnosticians and therapists - are leaders in the recent surge of biological investigation into this distressing and disabling condition.

The Chosen Body - The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (Paperback, New Ed): Meira Weiss The Chosen Body - The Politics of the Body in Israeli Society (Paperback, New Ed)
Meira Weiss
R682 Discovery Miles 6 820 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book examines how the social and cultural paradigms of contemporary Israel are articulated through the body. To construct a panoramic view of how the Israeli body is chosen, regulated, cared for, and ultimately made perfect, the author draws upon some twenty years of ethnographic research in Israel in a range of subjects. These include premarital and prenatal screening, the regulation of the body and its imagery among appearance-impaired children and their families, the screening and sanctifying of the body as part of the bereavement and commemoration of fallen soldiers, and the discourse of the chosen body as it surfaces during terrorist attacks, military socialization, war, and the peace process.

Power in the Telling - Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era (Paperback): Brook Colley Power in the Telling - Grand Ronde, Warm Springs, and Intertribal Relations in the Casino Era (Paperback)
Brook Colley; Foreword by David G Lewis; Series edited by Coll Thrush, Charlotte Cot e
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From 1998 through 2013, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs sought to develop a casino in Cascade Locks, Oregon. This prompted objections from the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who already operated a lucrative casino in the region. Brook Colley's in-depth case study unravels the history of this disagreement and challenges the way conventional media characterizes intertribal casino disputes in terms of corruption and greed. Instead, she locates these conflicts within historical, social, and political contexts of colonization. Through extensive interviews, Colley brings to the forefront Indigenous perspectives on intertribal conflict related to tribal gaming. She reveals how casino economies affect the relationship between gaming tribes and federal and state governments, and the repercussions for the tribes themselves. Ultimately, Colley's engaging examination explores strategies for reconciliation and cooperation, emphasizing narratives of resilience and tribal sovereignty.

Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Paperback): D.T. Goldberg Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader (Paperback)
D.T. Goldberg
R1,332 Discovery Miles 13 320 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader" delineates the prevailing concerns and considerations, principles and practices, concepts and categories that fall under the rubric of "multiculturalism". The contributors spell out what they take multiculturalism to be committed to as much as what it is against. The themes analyzed, include the relations between self and other, selves and others; between knowledge, power, pedagogy, and empowerment; between disciplinary definition and canonical confinement; between meaning, ambiguity, and representation; between history and multiple intersecting histories, reason and rationalities; and between culture domination, resistance, and self-assertion.

Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016): Barbara Gornicka Nakedness, Shame, and Embarrassment - A Long-Term Sociological Perspective (Paperback, 1st ed. 2016)
Barbara Gornicka
R2,834 Discovery Miles 28 340 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Barbara Gornicka presents a sociological investigation - both historical and contemporary - into the problems surrounding naked bodies. She draws on her own participation in a nudist swimming club and goes on to study the often very complex and paradoxical emotions that have been associated with nakedness in the Western world for centuries. The book provides answers not only to why we find exposing our naked bodies shameful, but also why we find it sexual and erotic in the first place. It looks beneath taboos surrounding nakedness today and offers a theoretical explanation for their development over time. On the basis of her historical analysis, the author demonstrates that it was not until the late nineteenth or twentieth century that we began to see nudity as erotic.

Impacts of Racism on White Americans (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Raymond G. Hunt, Benjamin P. Bowser Impacts of Racism on White Americans (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Raymond G. Hunt, Benjamin P. Bowser
R4,697 Discovery Miles 46 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Praise for the first edition . . . "A welcome addition to the growing sociological literature that looks beyond the circumstances of victims for the solutions to various social problems." --Contemporary Sociology "A clear articulation of a number of historical, spatial, and international perspectives on race relations. The new and novel focus provides fresh insights into a field that has found the development of a unified theory elusive." --International Social Science Review Challenging the popularly held view that racism is disappearing as a social phenomenon, the second edition of Impacts of Racism on White Americans reexamines the questions proposed by its first edition and notes that one decade later little has changed. This stimulating collection of original papers focuses on the new ways in which white Americans act out racism and weighs the advantages and disadvantages that whites experience from racism. Drawing on evidence from the social and behavioral sciences, this timely revision argues that racism is essentially a problem of European Americans and that most whites do not benefit from racism in the long term. In addition, this volume holds that racism cannot be eliminated until it is viewed as a white problem that seriously compromises the quality of life. The concluding chapter of the first edition, which summarized the major insights and findings of that edition, has been reprinted and in the final chapter of this new edition, editors Benjamin P. Bowser and Raymond G. Hunt expand on recommendations and clearly illustrate how far we've come, and most important, how far we have to go. Sure to follow the success of its first edition, Impacts of Racism on White Americans will make a major contribution to our understanding of the impacts of racism while providing students and professionals in race/ethnic studies, sociology, urban studies, and social psychology with thought-provoking, quality material.

Ethnic Identity - Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, Fourth Edition): Lola Romanucci-Ross, George... Ethnic Identity - Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century (Paperback, Fourth Edition)
Lola Romanucci-Ross, George A Vos, Takeyuki Tsuda; Contributions by Andrea Boscoboinik, George A De Vos, …
R1,392 Discovery Miles 13 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities, on ethnic ascription versus self-definitions, and on shifting ethnic identities and political control. The international group of scholars examines ethnic identities, conflicts and accommodations around the globe, in Africa (including Zaire and South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. It will serve as an excellent text for courses in race & ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran - Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies (Hardcover): Erika Friedl Folksongs from the Mountains of Iran - Culture, Poetics and Everyday Philosophies (Hardcover)
Erika Friedl
R4,237 Discovery Miles 42 370 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In Iran, folksongs are part of folklore and offer an intimate portrait of a vanishing era. They are also 'the voice' of ordinary people, providing a medium to express emotions, opinions and concerns. This book is based on folksongs collected over a 50-year period among the Boir Ahmad tribal people in the Zagros Mountains of West Iran. Erika Friedl has recorded, transcribed and translated more than 600 lyrics from a Lur community, and her analysis of the folksongs provides an intimate portrait of local people's attitudes, attachments, fears and desires. From songs of love, sex and mourning, to lyrics discussing beauty, infatuation and the community's violent tribal history, Friedl's solid understanding of the cultural background, lifestyle and worldview of these people lets her add ethnographic details that illuminate the deep meaning of the texts. In this way, Friedl goes far beyond a translation of words: she sheds light on a culture where beliefs, critical evaluation of circumstances and philosophical tenets are shown to be integral to each song's message. Based on fieldwork that began in 1965, Erika Friedl's research on the folklore in Boir Ahmad represents the best-documented modern folklore compendium on an Iranian tribe. This new book will be important for future generations of scholars, including ethnographers, Iranists, linguists, ethnomusicologists and those researching Persian literature and cultures of the Middle East.

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