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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323426Author P. Nick KarduliasFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 555g

This significant work reconstructs the repertory of insignia of rank and the contexts and symbolic meanings of their use, along with their original terminology, among the Nahuatl-speaking communities of Mesoamerica from the fifteenth through the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607322023Author Arthur A. JoyceFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 655g

Individual agents are frequently evident in early writing and notational systems, yet these systems have rarely been subjected to the concept of agency as it is traceable in archeology. Agency in Ancient Writing addresses this oversight, allowing...

Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual communities. Online worlds have recently thrown into question the traditional...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602232662Author Elizabeth MarinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602231795Author Ernest S. Burch Jr.Format PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint University of Alaska PressPublisher University of Alaska PressWeight(grams) 482g

Suspect Others explores how ideas of self-knowledge and identity arise from a unique set of rituals ritual revelation generates self-knowledge in Suriname, a postcolonial Caribbean nation rife with racial and religious suspicion. Amid competition for...

This book offers a brief introduction to the anthropological study of Russia. Moving beyond the conceptual iron curtain that has divided past study of Russia into "East" and "West," it situates Russia in a global context and provides readers with all of...

This archaeological report centers on findings at Aguateca, a unique site in the Petexbatun region of the southern Mayan lowlands that was unexpectedly attacked in AD 810, using the excavation data from twelve structures and various use areas to...

The study of human migration is integral to the understanding of essential features of human experience. Many ancient civilizations were created and modified through migrations, and migrations of later periods gave rise to the modern ethnic map of the...

In articles for the newspaper O Brado Africano in the mid-1950s, poet and journalist Jose Craveirinha described the ways in which the Mozambican football players in the suburbs of Lourenco Marques (now Maputo) adapted the European sport to their own...

Wengle documents what fieldworking ethnographers undergo; what kind of data ethnographers generate, what kind of facts they notice, what kinds of events they record. The anonymity of Wengle's informants let them speak bluntly about their experiences......

We know more about the physical body-how it begins, how it responds to illness, even how it decomposes-than ever before. Yet not all bodies are created equal, some bodies clearly count more than others, and some bodies are not recognized at all. In...

In ""Matters of Choice"", Iris Lopez presents a comprehensive analysis of the dichotomous views that have portrayed sterilization either as part of a coercive program of population control or as a means of voluntary, even liberating,...

In 2000, the U.S. passed a major aid package that was going to help Colombia do it all: cut drug trafficking, defeat leftist guerrillas, support peace, and build democracy. More than 80% of the assistance, however, was military aid, at a time when the...

What happens to student activism once mass protests have disappeared from view, and youth no longer embody the political frustrations and hopes of a nation? After the Revolution chronicles the lives of student activists as they confront the possibilities...

Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation. It is based on extended field research carried out by...

Based on the day-to-day record of an American sociologist imprisoned for three years in a Japanese concentration camp in the seaport town of Bacolod, Negros Island, Philippines, this book deals with the relations between people in a situation of stress...

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Population Association of America. The contributors are: S.L. Wolfbein, P.H. Jacobson, C. Tietze, I. Taeuber, J...

Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian investi gates the settings and responses to a series of group visions reported by Spaniards in rural Galicia, Valencia, Cantabria, and Navarre in the...

The main contribution of this book lies in its focus on real alternatives in future population growth. At some time-taken as 1956 in India for this case study-a low-income country may have the option of effectively promoting the reduction of fertility,...

The author analyzes data on workers in five privately-owned factories in Poona, India. Originally published in 1963. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the...

This study opposes the prevailing view that Indian villages have little social solidarity and points out the relationship between village solidarity and the potentially centrifugal factors of caste, conflict, and power. Originally published in 1965. ...

This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization. The survival of these forms has allowed the...

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as...

Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places? In this book William Christian investi gates the settings and responses to a series of group visions reported by Spaniards in rural Galicia, Valencia, Cantabria, and Navarre in the...

Taking a novel approach to the contradictory impulses of violence and care, illness and healing, this book radically shifts the way we think of the interrelations of institutions and experiences in a globalizing world. Living and Dying in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472106011Author Aletta BiersackFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan...

Contentment and Suffering, a psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia, provides a rich portrait of Torajan life and contributes to debates on the relationship between culture and individual psychology. Hollan and Wellenkamp...

The first contemporary enthnographic account of urban life in China, Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City studies both public and private life, including such aspects as religious belief, gender images, family life, and sexual attraction.About the...

"The Genealogical Science" analyzes the scientific work and social implications of the flourishing field of genetic history. A biological discipline that relies on genetic data in order to reconstruct the geographic origins of contemporary...

Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality - not to mention the...

Norman Street is the first serious examination of a scenario that appears likely to be played out again and again as federal budget policies result in reduced services for urban areas across the country. Based on a three-year study conducted in...

The pioneering and hugely influential work of Mikhail Bakhtin has led scholars in recent decades to see all discourse and social life as inherently "dialogical." No speaker speaks alone, because our words are always partly shaped by our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646424627Author Christine A KrayFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of Colorado

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607325567Author C. James MacKenzieFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint University at Albany, Institute for Mesoamerican StudiesPublisher University at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323891Author James L. MondlochFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607323136Author Dean E. ArnoldFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint University Press of ColoradoPublisher University Press of ColoradoWeight(grams) 621g

While many people outside India find the images, sounds, and practices of Indian performing arts compelling and endeavor to incorporate them into the "global" repertoire, few are aware of the central role of religious belief and practice in Indian...