Category: Anthropology

Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives (European Association of Social Anthropologists)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Routledge : August 1996

Seller ID: 115329

ISBN-13: 9780415132169

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies -- from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. The discussion is divided into three parts, emphasising the problems posed by the nature-cul...
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Chisungu: A Girl's Initiation

By: Audrey Richards

Price: $14.99

Publisher: : 0001-01-01 00:00:00

Seller ID: 19097

ISBN: 028176

Binding: Unknown

Condition: Used - Good

The Broken Fountain

By: Belmonte, Thomas

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Columbia University Press : April 1979

Seller ID: 9389

ISBN-13: 9780231045438

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Semai: A Nonviolent People of Malaya (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology)

By: Dentan, Robert Knox

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Holt McDougal : January 1979

Seller ID: 45208

ISBN-13: 9780030453762

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa

By: Dettwyler, Katherine

Price: $8.98

Publisher: Waveland Press : July 1993

Seller ID: 159090

ISBN-13: 9780881337488

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This Fissured Land: An Ecological History of India

By: Gadgil, Madhav, Guha, Ramachandra

Price: $9.99

Publisher: University of California Press : March 1993

Seller ID: 6154

ISBN-13: 9780520082960

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Ecologist Madhav Gadgil and historian Ramachandra Guha offer fresh perspectives both on the ecological history of India and on theoretical issues of interest to environmental historians regardless of geographical specialization.Juxtaposing data from India with the ecological literature on lifestyles as diverse as those of modern Americans and Amazonian Indians, the authors analyze the social conflicts that have emerged over environmental exploitation and explore the impact of changing patterns of resource use on human societies. They present a socio-ecological analysis of the modes of resource...
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Kokoro: An Intimate Portrait of Japanese Inner Life

By: Hearn, Lafcadio

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Tuttle Publishing : August 2022

Seller ID: 185740

ISBN-13: 9784805317204

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Hindu Javanese

By: Hefner, Robert W.

Price: $17.49

Publisher: Princeton University Press : January 1990

Seller ID: 14705

ISBN-13: 9780691028569

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The description for this book, Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam, will be forthcoming.

A House of My Own: Social Organization in the Squatter Settlements of Lima, Peru

By: Lobo, Susan

Price: $12.48

Publisher: University of Arizona Press : November 1981

Seller ID: 71290

ISBN-13: 9780816507610

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

A fairly comprehensive monograph, highly suitable for classroom use, that offers a wide range of information fit into traditional anthropological categories. . . . an interesting study of cultural integrity and pattern in a setting of what appears to be complex sociopolitical chaos. --American Anthropologist Whether or not one accepts Susan Lobo's optimistic analysis, her ability to translate the apparent chaos of shanty-town lives into such neat patterns and to help outsiders view life as the inhabitants do are important contributions. --Inter-American Review of Bibliography An extremely c...
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