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Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range
of African societies, this volume allows similarities and
differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates
of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and
wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.
The first part of this book considers what kind of study social
anthropology is, the types of questions social anthropologists ask
and how they go about obtaining the answers. The second part
discusses the more important fields in which social anthropologists
have advanced our knowledge of other cultures: kinship and
marriage, social order, economic relations and magical and
religious institutions. The important theme of social change is
also discussed. First published in 1964.
Gathering together under a single cover material from a wide range
of African societies, this volume allows similarities and
differences to be easily perceived and suggests social correlates
of these in terms of age, sex, marital status, social grading and
wealth. It includes material on both traditional and modern cults.
`We made Kinder Scout, not just metaphorically, or metaphysically,
not just with our stories and our battles, but literally changed
its shape, from the peat washing off its summit, to the drystone
walls that turn the hillside into a harmonious grid, the trees that
are and more often aren't there, to the creatures that we've
allowed to remain and those we've done away with. It's our
mountain.' In 1951 the Peak District was designated the UK's first
national park: a commitment to protect and preserve our countryside
and wild places. Sandwiched between Manchester and Sheffield, and
sitting at the base of the Pennines, it is home to Kinder Scout,
Britain's most popular `mountain', a beautiful yet featureless and
disorientating plateau which barely scrapes the 600-metre contour,
whose lower slopes bore witness in 1932 to a movement of feet, a
pedestrian rebellion, which helped shape modern access legislation:
the Kinder Mass Trespass. But Kinder Scout's story is about much
more than the working class taking on the elite. Marked by the
passage of millions of feet and centuries of farming, a graveyard
for lost souls and doomed aircraft, this much-loved mountain is a
sacred canvas on which mankind has scratched and scraped its
likeness for millennia. It is a record of our social and political
history, of conflict and community. Writer Ed Douglas and
photographer John Beatty are close friends and have a shared
history with Kinder going back decades. In this unique
collaboration they reveal the social, political, cultural and
ecological developments that have shaped the physical and human
landscape of this enigmatic and treasured hill. Kinder Scout: The
People's Mountain is a celebration of a northern English mountain
and our role in its creation.
This book tells how quantitative ideas of chance have transformed the natural and social sciences as well as everyday life over the past three centuries. A continuous narrative connects the earliest application of probability and statistics in gambling and insurance to the most recent forays into law, medicine, polling, and baseball. Separate chapters explore the theoretical and methodological impact on biology, physics, and psychology. In contrast to the literature on the mathematical development of probability and statistics, this book centers on how these technical innovations recreated our conceptions of nature, mind, and society.
Thirty years ago a young man sailed by way of the Falkland Islands
to Antarctica, where he was to work as a field assistant on the
British Antarctic Survey. This adventure, lasting seven months,
shaped the course of John Beatty's life. Over the three decades
that followed, John travelled extensively, encountering the natural
rhythms and raw beauty of the world in its most remote and
spectacular settings. He took with him an innate photographic skill
by means of which, through countless rigorous and self-reliant
experiences in the wild, he developed an intensely personal and
unique vision, the expression of which is distilled in the images
contained in this book. Behind the camera's shutter, an artist's
eye was at work, seizing on opportunity and shaping it for our
appreciation. "Wild Vision" is the first retrospective of John's
work. To accompany his breathtaking photographs, he has written a
text that gives insights into the adventurous experiences that are
at the heart of his photography. Together, word and image take you
on a journey both graphic and spiritual, where place resonates in
all its dimensions: from kayaking down the Colorado River to
trekking through the Himalaya; from polar and Greenland ice-caps
into the incredible animal kingdoms of Africa; from Boreal forests
to landscapes that inspired the life's work of Charles Darwin. This
thrilling journey through awareness ends with our own relict and
staggeringly beautiful wild land of Britain. To follow it is to
learn to see.
This is the second of two volumes published by Cambridge University
Press in honor of Richard Lewontin. The first volume, Evolutionary
Genetics from Molecules to Morphology, honors Lewontin's more
technical contributions to genetics and evolutionary biology. This
second volume of essays honors the philosophical, historical, and
political dimensions of his work. Given the range of Lewontin's own
contributions, it is fitting that the volume covers such a wide
range of perspectives on modern biology. He was a very successful
practitioner of evolutionary genetics, a rigorous critic of the
practices of genetics and evolutionary biology, as well as an
articulate analyst of the social, political, and economic contexts
and consequences of genetic and evolutionary research. The volume
contains an essay by Lewontin on Natural History and Formalism in
Evolutionary Genetics, and an extended interview with Lewontin,
covering the history of evolutionary genetics as seen from his
perspective and exemplified by his career. The remaining chapters,
contributed by former students, post-docs, colleagues, and
collaborators, cover issues ranging from the history and conceptual
foundations of evolutionary biology and genetics, to the
implications of human genetic diversity, to the political economy
of agriculture and public health.
Even as a teenager, John Beattie felt drawn to the ocean, but it
was twenty-five years before his dreams of sailing the globe in his
35-foot yacht Warrior Queen could begin to come true. His voyage
began in England and continued to the South American coast and into
the depths of the rain forests via uncharted tributaries. The
adventure reached a stirring climax during his return voyage from
Venezuela. One day at dawn, hundreds of miles from land, he spotted
a man dying of thirst aboard a drifting open boat, a man given one
last slender chance to live.
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