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Values and Valuables - From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Paperback): Cynthia Werner, Duran Bell Values and Valuables - From the Sacred to the Symbolic (Paperback)
Cynthia Werner, Duran Bell; Contributions by Maurice Godelier, James A. Egan, Fran coise Dussart, …
R1,142 Discovery Miles 11 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this exciting new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology, Cynthia Werner and Duran Bell bring together a group of distinguished anthropologists and economists to discuss the complex ways in which different cultures imbue material objects with symbolic qualities whose value cannot be reduced to material or monetary equivalents. Objects with sacred or symbolic qualities are valued quite differently than mundane objects, and the contributors to this volume set out to unravel how and why. In the first of three sections, the authors consider the extent to which sacred objects can or cannot be exchanged between individuals (e.g., ancestral objects, land, dreaming stories). In the next section, contributors discuss the value and power of markets, money, and credit. They consider theoretical models for understanding money transactions, competing currencies, and the power of credit among marginalized groups around the globe. The last section examines the ways in which contemporary people bestow symbolic value on some objects (e.g., family heirlooms, pre-Columbian artifacts, fashion goods) and finally how some individuals themselves are valued in monetary and symbolic ways. With its emphasis on the interplay of cultural and economic values, this volume will be a vital resource for economists and economic anthropologists. Published in cooperation with the Society for Economic Anthropology. Visit their web page.

Aboriginal Religions in Australia - An Anthology of Recent Writings (Paperback): Max Charlesworth Aboriginal Religions in Australia - An Anthology of Recent Writings (Paperback)
Max Charlesworth; Fran coise Dussart, Howard Morphy
R1,722 Discovery Miles 17 220 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, the mythical time when the Ancestor Spirits shaped the territories of the Aborigines and laid down a moral and ritual law for their occupants, is the fundamental religious reality. It is the basis of the Aborigines's view of their land or country, kinship relationships, ritual and art. However, the Dreaming is not a static principle since it is interpreted in different ways, as in the extraordinary movement in contemporary indigenous painting, and in attempts at an accommodation with Christianity. The contributions of anthropologists, cultural historians, philosophers of religion and others are included in this anthology which not only guides readers through the literature but also ensures this still largely inaccessible material is available to a wider range of readers and non-specialist students and academics.

Aboriginal Religions in Australia - An Anthology of Recent Writings (Hardcover, New Ed): Max Charlesworth Aboriginal Religions in Australia - An Anthology of Recent Writings (Hardcover, New Ed)
Max Charlesworth; Fran coise Dussart, Howard Morphy
R4,494 Discovery Miles 44 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Over the last 25 years there has been an explosion of interest in the Aboriginal religions of Australia and this anthology provides a variety of recent writings, by a wide range of scholars. Australian Aboriginal Religions are probably the oldest extant religious systems. Over some 50,000 years they have coped with change and re-invented themselves in an astonishingly creative way. The Dreaming, the mythical time when the Ancestor Spirits shaped the territories of the Aborigines and laid down a moral and ritual law for their occupants, is the fundamental religious reality. It is the basis of the Aborigines's view of their land or country, kinship relationships, ritual and art. However, the Dreaming is not a static principle since it is interpreted in different ways, as in the extraordinary movement in contemporary indigenous painting, and in attempts at an accommodation with Christianity. The contributions of anthropologists, cultural historians, philosophers of religion and others are included in this anthology which not only guides readers through the literature but also ensures this still largely inaccessible material is available to a wider range of readers and non-specialist students and academics.

Entangled Territorialities - Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada (Paperback): Fran coise Dussart, Sylvie... Entangled Territorialities - Negotiating Indigenous Lands in Australia and Canada (Paperback)
Fran coise Dussart, Sylvie Poirier
R797 Discovery Miles 7 970 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Entangled Territorialities offers vivid ethnographic examples of how Indigenous lands in Australia and Canada are tangled with governments, industries, and mainstream society. Most of the entangled lands to which Indigenous peoples are connected have been physically transformed and their ecological balance destroyed. Each chapter in this volume refers to specific circumstances in which Indigenous peoples have become intertwined with non-Aboriginal institutions and projects including the construction of hydroelectric dams and open mining pits. Long after the agents of resource extraction have abandoned these lands to their fate, Indigenous peoples will continue to claim ancestral ties and responsibilities that cannot be understood by agents of capitalism. The editors and contributors to this volume develop an anthropology of entanglement to further examine the larger debates about the vexed relationships between settlers and indigenous peoples over the meaning, knowledge, and management of traditionally-owned lands.

Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics (Paperback): Fran coise Dussart, Sylvie Poirier Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics (Paperback)
Fran coise Dussart, Sylvie Poirier; Contributions by Anne-Marie Colpron, Robert R Crepeau, Ingrid Hall, …
R847 Discovery Miles 8 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
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