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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.
"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.
Moving from Edward Burnett Tylor all the way through the
development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive
tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of
anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich,
meanwhile, articulates the development of anthropology in German,
paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which
surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin
then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its
separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman
traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the
discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises
of contemporary anthropology in the United States.
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.
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.
In this detailed ethnography of the Northern district of Buleleng,
Barth rejects mainstream anthropological generalizations of Bali as
a cultural system of carefully articulated parts. Instead--drawing
on many sources, including the sociology of knowledge,
interactional analysis, postmodern thought, and his own
exceptionally varied field experience--Barth presents a new model
that actually generates variation. Barth's innovative analysis of
Balinese life highlights both the constructive and the
disorganizing effects of individual action, the constant flux of
interpretation, and the powerful interaction of memory and social
relationships, and knowledge as a cultural resource.
"Balinese Worlds" is a unique contribution not only to Balinese
studies but also to the theory and methods of the anthropology of
complex societies.
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.
Moving from Edward Burnett Tylor all the way through the
development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive
tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of
anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich,
meanwhile, articulates the development of anthropology in German,
paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which
surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin
then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its
separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman
traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the
discipline after World War II, and the "fault lines" and promises
of contemporary anthropology in the United States.
Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come
from the perspective of honour or political violence. By contrast,
this important study offers a new perspective on its causes in
Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province, challenging
stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and
militant. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book
sheds light on the complexities of violence, not only at the
structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men
involved in lethal conflict.In this way, the book provides a
subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable
beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of
violence in the Middle East and South Asia. 'We should make the
best possible use of this analysis: for its daring perspectives,
extreme empirical findings, and wide relevance. It deserves a very
careful reading for its contributions to so many aspects of our
understanding of honour, politics and human society' - Fredrik
Barth.
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.
In this detailed ethnography of the Northern district of Buleleng,
Barth rejects mainstream anthropological generalizations of Bali as
a cultural system of carefully articulated parts. Instead--drawing
on many sources, including the sociology of knowledge,
interactional analysis, postmodern thought, and his own
exceptionally varied field experience--Barth presents a new model
that actually generates variation. Barth's innovative analysis of
Balinese life highlights both the constructive and the
disorganizing effects of individual action, the constant flux of
interpretation, and the powerful interaction of memory and social
relationships, and knowledge as a cultural resource.
"Balinese Worlds" is a unique contribution not only to Balinese
studies but also to the theory and methods of the anthropology of
complex societies.
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