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In examining the changes that have taken place in the secret cosmological lore transmitted in male initiation ceremonies among the Mountain Ok of Inner New Guinea, this book offers a new way of explaining how cultural change occurs. Professor Barth focuses on accounting for the local variations in cosmological traditions that exist among the Ok people, who otherwise share largely similar cultures. Rejecting existing anthropological theory as inadequate for explaining this, Professor Barth constructs a new model of the mechanisms of cultural change, emphasizing the role that individual creativity plays in it, and maintaining that cosmologies can be adequately understood only if they are regarded as knowledge in the process of communication, rather than as fixed bodies of belief.
"One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length
introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in
anthropology-British, German, French, and American. The result of
lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth,
Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the
foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany, this volume not only traces the development of each
tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses
their future potentials.
A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores
political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the
importance of individual decision-making for wider social
processes.
A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores
political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the
importance of individual decision-making for wider social
processes.
In "Balinese Worlds," Fredrik Barth proposes a new model for
anthropological analysis of complex civilizations that is based on
a fresh, synthetic account of culture and society in North Bali and
one that takes full notice of individual creativity in shaping the
contours of this dynamic culture.
This is the autobiography of the last absolute ruler of the Swat Valley. The Wali oversaw a period of tumultuous change, culminating in a peaceful transfer of his power to Pakistan in 1969.
"One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length
introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in
anthropology-British, German, French, and American. The result of
lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth,
Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the
foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in
Halle, Germany, this volume not only traces the development of each
tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses
their future potentials.
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