‎Anthropologie‎

‎BOAS FRANZ. ESTABLISHING ACADEMIC ANTHROPOLOGY‎

‎The Mind of Primitive Man.‎

‎New York Macmillan 1911. 8vo. In the original full green cloth with title in gilt lettering to spine and front board. Light wear to extremities and a few leaves with traces after top corner having been bend otherwise a very fine and clean copy. X 2 294 pp. 5 pp of advertisement. � First printing of Boas' landmark work in which he "established academic anthropology". The book was immensely influential not only in establishing anthropoly as an academic discipline and in academia in general it was also a dominant factor in the public opinion since it challenged the widely held racist and eugenic claims about race and intelligence and particularly white supremacy. <br>Boas concludes the book with an examination of racism in the United States. He expresses his hope that anthropology can lead to more tolerance and sympathy for different civilizations since "all races have contributed in the past to cultural progress in one way or another" From the present work a goal he to a large extend succeded with: It is a work "which have changed men's mind". Lewis The Passion of Franz Boas American Anthlropologist 2001.<br><br>"Shortly after the turn of the twentieth century at a time when the dominant attitudes regarding primitives and anthropology in general were still of racial and social evolutionism Franz Boas wrote The Mind of Primitive Man. He stated there that "The judgment of the mental states of a people is generally guided by the difference between its social status and our own and the greater the difference between their intellectual emotional and moral processes and those which are found in our civilization the harsher our judgment." Thus began a new current among modern ethnologists antiquarians historians of culture and anthropologists with regards to primitives. The ex fonte thought of Boas affected the succeeding generations of scholars and within three decades had revolutionized the attitudes toward primitive culture and mentality." Quinn The Only Tradition p. 170.<br><br>"When Boas began his work in America evolutionism was the dominant even "hegemonic" paradigm in anthropology sociology and political economy. Intellectuals of the political left were as invested in evolutionism as were those on the right. In addition to evolutionism racial determinism and social Darwinism were also in the ascendance and these touched the emotions and socioeconomic interests of American and European elites even more. . <br>Boas's attack on evolutionism in addition to its theoretical and technical aspects involved an attempt to establish the common humanity of "Primitive Man" in scientific and popular discourse; to remove the supposed gap between "our" minds and "theirs" and to question the assumption that "our" culture is special exalted better than other." .<br>Beginning in 1894 Boas began to directly confront the question of the differences between "primitive man" and "civilized man" and racial differences and racial prejudices in a series of papers that eventuated in his 1911 book the present. The main argument was: "There is no fundamental difference in the way of thinking of primitive and civilized man. A close connection between race and personality has never been established. He concludes the book with a plea for greater tolerance of other "forms of civilization" and sympathy for "foreign races" so that "as all races have contributed in past to cultural progress in one way or another so they will be capable of advancing the interests of mankind if we are only willing to give them a fair opportunity". The book was very influential and widely read one of those books "which have changed men's mind" Bunzel 1962 basic for all who wanted to believe in the equality and common humanity of all peoples." Lewis The Passion of Franz Boas American Anthlropologist 2001. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 50084

‎ABU LUGHOD LILA‎

‎Veiled Sentiments: Honor And Poetry In A Bedouin Society 30th Anniversary Edition With A New Afterword‎

‎University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2016. Softcover. Brand new book. First published in 1986 Lila Abu-Lughod's Veiled Sentiments has become a classic ethnography in the field of anthropology. During the late 1970s and early 1980s Abu-Lughod lived with a community of Bedouins in the Western Desert of Egypt for nearly two years studying gender relations morality and the oral lyric poetry through which women and young men express personal feelings. The poems are haunting the evocation of emotional life vivid. But Abu-Lughod's analysis also reveals how deeply implicated poetry and sentiment are in the play of power and the maintenance of social hierarchy. What begins as a puzzle about a single poetic genre becomes a reflection on the politics of sentiment and the complexity of culture. This thirtieth anniversary edition includes a new afterword that reflects on developments both in anthropology and in the lives of this community of Awlad 'Ali Bedouins who find themselves increasingly enmeshed in national political and social formations. The afterword ends with a personal meditation on the meaning�for all involved�of the radical experience of anthropological fieldwork and the responsibilities it entails for ethnographers. University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2016 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 88313X1

‎HAWKINS JOHN P; ADAMS WALTER RANDOLPH‎

‎Roads To Change In Maya Guatemala: A Field School Approach To Understanding The K'iche'‎

‎University of Oklahoma Press Norman: . Softcover. Brand new book. Between 1995 and 1997 three groups of college students each spent two months in K'iche' Maya villages in Guatemala. Led by Professors John P. Hawkins and Walter Randolph Adams they participated in an ongoing field school designed to foster undergraduate research and documentation of K'iche' Maya culture in Guatemala. In this enlightening book Hawkins and Adams first describe their field-school method of involving undergraduate students in primary research and ethnographic writing and then present the best of the student essays which examine the effects of modernization on K'iche' Maya religion courtship marriage gender relations education and community development. The process of actively involving undergraduate students in research is one of the most effective methods of enhancing education. Indeed there is growing interest in this idea�currently the Council on Undergraduate Research a national organization boasts members from more than 870 colleges and universities. For educators of all fields interested in learning how to organize a field school that fosters research and publication Hawkins and Adams discuss the methods they used and the problems they encountered. Anthropologists and sociologists will find this demonstration of undergraduates' achievements useful for introductory and field methods courses. Finally the book's portrayal of the K'iche' Maya culture in transition will appeal to Mesoamericanists and Latinamericanists of any discipline. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman: paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 88183X1

‎CHAGNON NAPOLEON A‎

‎Yanomamo: The Fierce People‎

‎Harcourt Brace & Company San Diego: 1992. Softcover. Good condition but there is a considerable amount of highlighting. They have been called "our contemporary ancestors": the Yanomamo culture a tribe of some twenty thousand Indians who live on the border between Brazil and Venezuela in the ecologically fragile Amazon basin. Napoleon Chagnon who first made contact with them in 1964 is the world's foremost authority on the tribe and in this eloquent meticulously detailed and often passionate book he gives an unforgettable portrait of an extraordinary people and sounds an urgent call to halt what might otherwise be "the last days of Eden." Includes an Index and photographs by the author. "A sense of urgency pervades this book. The Yanomamo are the final tribes living stroong and free in the style first encountered by Europeans five centuries ago. Now they are on the edge of destruction. Chagnon has been pulled into this vortex." -- Edward O. Wilson Harcourt Brace & Company, San Diego: 1992 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 88218X1

‎SCHLEGEL STUART A‎

‎Wisdom From A Rainforest: The Spiritual Journey Of An Anthropologist‎

‎University of Georgia Press Athens: 2003. Softcover. Brand new book. In the early sixties Stuart Schlegel went into a remote rainforest on the Philippine island of Mindanao as an anthropologist in search of material. What he found was a group of people whose tolerant gentle way of life would transform his own values and beliefs profoundly. Wisdom from a Rainforest is Schlegel's testament to his experience and to the Teduray people of Figel from whom he learned such vital lasting lessons. Schlegel's lively ethnography of the Teduray portrays how their behavior and traditions revolved around kindness and compassion for humans animals and the spirits sharing their worlds. Schlegel describes the Teduray's remarkable legal system and their strong story-telling tradition their elaborate cosmology and their ritual celebrations. At the same time Schlegel recounts his own transformation�how his worldview as a member of an advanced civilized society was shaken to the core by a so-called primitive people. He begins to realize how culturally determined his own values are and to see with great clarity how much the Teduray can teach him about gender equality tolerance for difference generosity and cooperation. By turns funny tender and gripping Wisdom from a Rainforest honors the Teduray's legacy and helps us see how much we can learn from a way of life so different from our own. Includes an Index. Stuart A. Schlegel is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz and an Episcopal priest. He is the author of several books including Children of Tulus: Essays on the Tiruray People. "Very readable . . . A compelling portrait of a way of life very different from our own." � Washington Post Book World "The observations and insights of Wisdom from a Rainforest are thought-provoking and for the visionaries among us potentially inspiring." � Bloomsbury Review University of Georgia Press, Athens: 2003 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 74733X4

‎PROVINE ROBERT R‎

‎Curious Behavior: Yawning Laughing Hiccupping And Beyond‎

‎Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2014. Softcover. Brand new book. Robert Provine boldly goes where other scientists seldom tread�in search of hiccups coughs yawns sneezes and other lowly undignified human behaviors. Upon investigation these instinctive acts bear the imprint of our evolutionary origins and can be uniquely valuable tools for understanding how the human brain works and what makes us different from other species. Many activities showcased in Curious Behavior are contagious but none surpasses yawning in this regard�just reading the word can make one succumb. Though we often take it as a sign of sleepiness or boredom yawning holds clues to the development of our sociality and ability to empathize with others. Its inescapable transmission reminds us that we are sometimes unaware neurologically programmed beasts of the herd. Other neglected behaviors yield similar revelations. Tickling we learn may be the key to programming personhood into robots. Coughing comes in musical medical and social varieties. Farting and belching have import for the evolution of human speech. And prenatal behavior is offered as the strangest exhibit of all defying postnatal logic in every way. Our earthiest acts define Homo sapiens as much as language bipedalism tool use and other more studied characteristics. As Provine guides us through peculiarities right under our noses he beckons us to follow with self-experiments: tickling our own feet keeping a log of when we laugh and attempting to suppress yawns and sneezes. Such humble investigations provide fodder for grade school science projects as well as doctoral dissertations. Small Science can yield big rewards. Robert R. Provine is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. "Provine is a valiant man and this is an original book: a book about people's quirks and the uncomfortable noises that we have suppressed particularly after Victorian times. Why would someone study those seemingly uninteresting and inappropriate acts I would say the answer lies in the questions this neuroscientist has asked himself: why do we burp or sneeze What is a cough What has really gone with the wind Well you don't really know�and you won't until you read Curious Behavior� This disarmingly enchanting book manages to 'handle' even flatulence in the most skillful and scientific manner without ever losing focus on Provine's aim: an accurate description of the topic via a look at mechanisms evolutionary advantages limits and statistics� Prepare to be contaminated by this book and get ready to analyze the way you sneeze cough and everything else."�Tristan Bekinschtein Times Higher Education "In this charmingly written and profoundly informative book Provine gives us what he calls 'sidewalk' neuroscience a 'scientific approach to everyday behavior based on simple observations and demonstrations that readers even advanced grade-schoolers can use to confirm challenge or extend the reported findings.' In this era of 'neurorealism' where much of the public believes you aren't doing real science if you aren't using fMRI to scan some brains Provine's work in 'small science' is refreshing. 'The Small Science of this book is "small"' he explains not because it is trivial but because it does not require 'fancy equipment and a big budget.' Small science teaches the art of observation and methods of interpretation: 'Everyday life is teeming with the important and unexpected if you know where to look and how to see.' This message alone is worth the price of admission� Provine romps through the range of 'curious behaviors' of his title with each chapter offering up enlightening and unexpected findings� A marvelous book� 'Small science' at its best."�Carol Tavris The Wall Street Journal "Why do we yawn tickle laugh cough scratch sneeze hiccup vomit or cry Over the years Provine has investigated these and other behaviors in the lab and on the street and the result is beautifully written and constantly surprising."�Steven Poole The Guardian "With its many facts and anecdotes and unexpected stories Curious Behavior begs you to continue where curiosity leads you down both the boulevards and the back alleys of science. And that is exactly how Provine thinks science should be pursued."�James Gorman The New York Times "Readers will enjoy the stories and find the glimpses into the neuroscience of these curious behaviors engaging."�K.S. Milar Choice "Do you think that each of the behaviors covered here is merely a randomly eccentric human quirk Think again. For each of these odd functions Provine dexterously combines wit a fine way with words and precise scientific context to show us the evolutionary reason behind it� This is a delectable presentation for all who love the territory between pop and hardcore science writing. Highly recommended."�Margaret Heilbrun Library Journal "How can farting sneezing and other marginal biological realities illuminate humanness Neuroscientist Robert Provine turns an evolutionary lens on everything from the gross to the faintly improper. The 'contagiousness' of yawning for instance hints at the roots of empathy and herd behavior. Burping and farting were involved in the development of speech says Provine. And tickling may play a part in our early understanding that we are distinct beings you can't tickle yourself. An exercise in 'small science'�some of it speculative all of it fascinating."�Nature "In Curious Behavior neuroscientist Robert Provine discusses common yet seemingly strange actions such as crying tickling and yawning�subjects often overlooked by science. Beyond explaining how each of these actions work anatomically Provine explores their functions similarities and whether they might be linked by some higher social purpose� Follow his advice and Curious Behavior will leave you trying to yawn with clenched teeth sneeze with your eyes open and noticing just how often you laugh at things that really aren't funny."�Jessica Hamzelou New Scientist "The book provides a not-yet definitive but often fascinating take on our most curious behaviors."�Publishers Weekly "In this engrossing account of some curious physiological behaviors neuroscientist Robert Provine not only describes the biologic basis for some curious human actions such as laughing itching hiccuping vomiting coughing sneezing and several more curiosities he also describes the experiments performed to clarify these sometimes embarrassing operations� Fascinating descriptions and explanations about human behavior oddities are candidly presented with added whimsy for sweetening. Suitable for all ages it's the sort of a book on quirky embarrassing behaviors that you observed and performed but were too afraid to talk about."�Aron Row Sacramento Book Review "Provine has written a charming ode to 'Small Science'�science that does not require a large budget or fancy equipment but that is interesting nonetheless. Taking examples from his own research some of which involved nothing more complicated than stalking graduate students and observing how and when they laugh he explains the origins of some of the most prevalent but often overlooked human behaviors."�Anna Kuchment Scientific American "In Curious Behavior Robert Provine provides clear entertaining and most importantly data-driven accounts of familiar yet overlooked human quirks. These include yawning laughing crying tears coughing sneezing hiccupping vomiting and nausea tickling itching and scratching farting and belching and finally prenatal behavior. If you think you know when and why you laugh what makes a face look sad or why people yawn you're probably in for a surprise� Written with humor and wit Curious Behavior is an accessible and entertaining read with its musings about the theoretical Doomsday yawn ineffectual astronaut tears and the social implications of coughing and laughter. But it is also serious science about the importance of defining stimuli using specific language and understanding the difference between what people think they do and what they actually do. The book may provide new windows into autistic behaviors schizophrenia and the definition of self� In a world where there is an increasing gulf between the public and scientists Provine leads by example with straightforward science communication� This book is a must-have for any connoisseur of human behavior whether studying in a classroom or from a barstool."�Kenneth C. Catania The Scientist "Robert Provine shows how the methods of sidewalk neuroscience simple and cheap observations of everyday life that everyone can do can give rise to an alternative science of psychology. This is a delight to read fascinating and humane and very often funny."�Paul Bloom Yale University author of How Pleasure Works "Curious Behavior offers a lively and often surprising look at all the different ways we sneeze cough yawn and broadcast other bodily functions. Open this book which is based on serious research but reads like a detective novel and find out how much more there is to such behavior than you ever thought."�Frans de Waal Emory University author of The Age of Empathy "A lively and entertaining romp through the quirks and oddities of the least controllable of human behaviors. The writing style and topics are so provocative one is hard pressed not to enact these behaviors while reading."�Rachel Herz Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown University author of That's Disgusting "Why do we laugh Why do we yawn Why do we cry What is itch Finally here is a book that addresses these age-old issues! Provine the leading researcher of such phenomena discovers the extraordinary hidden in plain sight. It's a joy to read."�James W. Kalat North Carolina State University author of Biological Psychology 11th ed. "The indefatigably curious Robert Provine explores the little quirks of behavior that�so far�have fascinated everyone but the scientists and in doing so illuminates many aspects of our social lives inner lives and evolutionary origins."�Steven Pinker Harvard College Professor of Psychology Harvard University author of How the Mind Works and The Better Angels of Our Nature "In this marvelous book Provine�a pioneer in the field�puts these phenomena in proper evolutionary contexts arguing that such seemingly odd quirks can often illuminate our understanding of human nature."�V.S. Ramachandran University of California San Diego author of The Tell-Tale Brain Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2014 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 83815X1

‎SHIPMAN PAT‎

‎The Invaders: How Humans And Their Dogs Drove Neanderthals To Extinction‎

‎Harvard University Press Cambridge Massachusetts and London England: 2015. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. With their large brains sturdy physique sophisticated tools and hunting skills Neanderthals are the closest known relatives to humans. Approximately 200000 years ago as modern humans began to radiate out from their evolutionary birthplace in Africa Neanderthals were already thriving in Europe�descendants of a much earlier migration of the African genus Homo. But when modern humans eventually made their way to Europe 45000 years ago Neanderthals suddenly vanished. Ever since the first Neanderthal bones were identified in 1856 scientists have been vexed by the question why did modern humans survive while their evolutionary cousins went extinct The Invaders musters compelling evidence to show that the major factor in the Neanderthals' demise was direct competition with newly arriving humans. Drawing on insights from the field of invasion biology which predicts that the species ecologically closest to the invasive predator will face the greatest competition Pat Shipman traces the devastating impact of a growing human population: reduction of Neanderthals' geographic range isolation into small groups and loss of genetic diversity. But modern humans were not the only invaders who competed with Neanderthals for big game. Shipman reveals fascinating confirmation of humans' partnership with the first domesticated wolf-dogs soon after Neanderthals first began to disappear. This alliance between two predator species she hypothesizes made possible an unprecedented degree of success in hunting large Ice Age mammals�a distinct and ultimately decisive advantage for humans over Neanderthals at a time when climate change made both groups vulnerable. Pat Shipman is retired Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University. "Shipman is a genial and authoritative guide to a complex field� Shipman admits that scientists have yet to find genetic evidence that would prove her theory. Time will tell if she's right. For now read this book for an engagingly comprehensive overview of the rapidly evolving understanding of our own origins."�Toby Lester The Wall Street Journal "Few if any readers of this lucid and compelling exposition will come away believing that the early modern Europeans were not deeply implicated in the Neanderthals' disappearance."�Ian Tattersall The Times Literary Supplement "Are humans the ultimate invasive species So contends anthropologist Pat Shipman�and Neanderthals she opines were among our first victims. The relationship between Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis is laid out cleanly along with genetic and other evidence. Shipman posits provocatively that the deciding factor in the triumph of our ancestors was the domestication of wolves. Perhaps more troubling is the concept of early humans as invaders rather than just another species finding its way."�Daniel Cressey Nature "Since the discovery in the 19th century of Neanderthal remains the cause of their extinction has arguably been the most compelling mystery in human evolution� The Invaders offers us the appealing prospect of an expert writing on her specialism and clearly having a great deal of fun doing so. Shipman builds an extremely compelling case for the role of Homo sapiens as an invasive species who arrived in Europe about 40000 to 50000 years ago and had an immediate impact on their new ecosystem. The Neanderthals were not the only victims� What makes Shipman's argument really stand out and offer a fresh perspective on the extinction of Neanderthals is the role that she gives to wolves in the process that led to the dominance of Homo sapiens."�Simon Underdown Times Higher Education "A cautious but compelling argument."�Brian Bethune Maclean's "According to a leading U.S. anthropologist early dogs bred from wolves played a critical role in the modern human's takeover of Europe 40000 years ago when we vanquished the Neanderthal locals� If Shipman is right she will have solved one of evolution's most intriguing mysteries."�Robin McKie The Observer "Provocative� Shipman's story makes for a dramatic and compelling narrative."�Mark Derr Psychology Today "Why did the Neanderthals disappear In a judicious and enthralling account Shipman makes a compelling case that as a truly invasive species humans were the main cause. An original twist adds an accomplice to the scenario: An unexpectedly early prototype of man's best friend proved to be the Neanderthals' worst enemy."�Robert D. Martin A. Watson Armour III Curator of Biological Anthropology The Field Museum Chicago "If you want to understand your own mind read this remarkable and important book. Summoning new evidence Pat Shipman shows how our coevolution with wolves contributed to the extinction of Neanderthals and further transformed us through the process of domesticating dogs. You will never look at Fido the same way again!"�Nina G. Jablonski Ph.D. Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology The Pennsylvania State University Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London England: 2015 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 83822X1

‎Dersin Denise‎

‎What Life Was Like On the Banks Of the Nile: Egypt 3050 -30 BC‎

‎Alexandria VA: Time-Life Books. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1996. Hardcover. 0809493780 . Book is fine with pages clean and unmarked. DJ light wrinkling at top edge over spine. ; photographs maps drawings; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 191 pages . Time-Life Books hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 16336 ???????? : 0809493780 9780809493784

‎MANHEIM MARY H‎

‎Bone Remains: Cold Cases In Forensic Anthropology‎

‎Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge and London: 2013. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Over the past thirty years forensic anthropologist Mary H. Manheim has helped to identify hundreds of deceased persons throughout Louisiana and beyond. In Bone Remains she offers details of fifteen riveting cases from her files�many of them involving facial reconstructions where only bones offered clues to an individual's story. Manhein takes readers into the field inside her lab and through DNA databases and government bureaucracies as she and her team tirelessly work to identify and seek justice for those who can no longer speak for themselves. From a two-thousand-year-old mummy to Civil War sailors to graves disturbed by Hurricane Isaac Manhein presents both modern and historic cases. Her conversational accounts provide a fascinating look into the stories behind the headlines as well as sometimes heart-wrenching details of people lost and found. Manhein shows how each case came to her team how they used scientific analysis to unravel the secrets the bones had to tell and how facial reconstructions and a special database for missing and unidentified people assisted in closing cold cases long believed to be unsolvable. She also discusses several unsolved mysteries further reflecting the determination and passion central to her career for over three decades. Mary H. Manhein is the author of The Bone Lady: Life as a Forensic Anthropologist; Trail of Bones: More Cases from the Files of a Forensic Anthropologist; and the mystery novel Floating Souls: The Canal Murders. She is director of the Forensic Anthropology and Computer Enhancement Services FACES Laboratory at Louisiana State University. "This engaging book shows how science and human experiences come together in Manhein's efforts to resolve cold cases. Readers will encounter the reality of practice in forensic anthropology skillfully related by an accomplished professional."�Douglas H. Ubelaker author of Bones: A Forensic Detective's Casebook "In Bone Remains the reality of forensic anthropology comes to life for the reader. The nitty-gritty of human identification using anthropology is combined with stories from families and investigators to tell the whole story."�Robert E. Barsley former president of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences "Mary H. Manhein again shows that bones talk to her and that she hears what they are saying. She delightfully describes in Bone Remains how anthropologists and other scientists work in the field and in the laboratory to identify the dead to help solve cold cases and to clarify remote historical mysteries. A must for the forensically inclined."�Michael M. Baden MD former chief medical examiner New York City Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge and London: 2013 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 79568X2

‎Lissner Ivar‎

‎The silent past: Mysterious and forgotten cultures of the world‎

‎New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. First US Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Black cloth cover with gilt lettering on spine is clean and unworn. Corners sharp. Binding sound. No ownership or other marks. DJ has some light wear at edges. Not price clipped and now in mylar sleeve. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 374 pages . G. P. Putnam's Sons hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 16047

‎Bandi Hans George. & Ann E. Keep translator‎

‎Eskimo Prehistory‎

‎London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. Good with no dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. 0416129803 . Blue cloth cover with silver lettering is clean with very little signs of wear. Bookplate of Northwestern University Library with withdrawn markings usual library stamps. This was a non-circulating copy and was very lightly used if at all. Lacking DJ. ; Ex-Library; Photographs drawings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 238 pages . Methuen & Co. Ltd. hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 15922 ???????? : 0416129803 9780416129809

‎Lumbreras Luis G. & Betty J. Meggers‎

‎The Peoples and Cultures of Ancient Peru‎

‎Washington DC: Smithsonian Institution Press. Fine. 1974. Third Printing. Paperback. 0874741513 . Book is as new other than old price in pencil on half-title page. No ownership or other marks. This is the third printing 1978. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 248 pages . Smithsonian Institution Press paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 15959 ???????? : 0874741513 9780874741513

‎BEREZKIN YURI E. EDITOR‎

‎The Alutiit / Sugpiat: A Catalog Of The Collections Of The Kunstkamera‎

‎University of Alaska Press Fairbanks: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography or the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867 many of the artifacts are composed of fur feathers gut hair and other delicate materials which prevent their transport for display or study. To document these artifacts for the public the Kunstkamera collaborated with the Alutiiq Museum in Kodiak Alaska. Together anthropologists and members of the Alutiiq community combined the collection records with cultural knowledge and high-resolution digital imagery and worked to name objects describe their uses and detail the materials used in their construction. As a result this book will provide the Alutiit Alaskans Russians and the global community with lasting access to one of the oldest most extensive ethnographic collections from the central Gulf of Alaska. Translated into English by Lois Fields and Katherine Arndt. "The University of Alaska Press has released a catalog of the richest of troves - the Alutiiq collections of the Kunstkamera in St. Petersburg Russia. . . . Each artifact in the catalog is pictured on a white background in images clear enough to allow crafters to see how a hat is woven or a kayak constructed. Most images are accompanied by translated source documents that explain what the artifact was used for. . . .To an outside observer this might seem just like a history lesson. To the Kodiak Alutiiq it's an instruction manual." --James Brooks Kodiak Daily Mirror "This gorgeously illustrated 400-page book from University of Alaska Press is stunning in several respects a contender for the title of the most beautiful volume of Alaska ethnography ever published." --Mike Dunham Anchorage Daily News "When you go through this catalog it's breathtaking to see the pieces to actually be able to understand how they were made from the spruce root hats to the kayaks anyaks and masks." --Sven Haakanson director of the Alutiiq Museum & Archaeological Repository University of Alaska Press, Fairbanks: 2012 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 81001X1

‎Schaefer Stacy‎

‎To Think With A Good Heart‎

‎Salt Lake City Utah: University of Utah Press. New in New dust jacket. 2002. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 087480695X . New book and DJ in as new condition. No remainder mark. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 376 pages . University of Utah Press hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 15887 ???????? : 087480695X 9780874806953

‎Birket Smith Kaj & Roy Duffell translator‎

‎Primitive Man and His Ways: Patterns of Life in Some Native Societies‎

‎Cleveland Ohio: The World Publishing Company. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1960. First American Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Book and DJ as new. Cover is clean and unworn. Binding sound. Pages clean and unmarked. Not a remainder. DJ is clean and unworn not price clipped and now in archival mylar sleeve. This is an exceptionally fine copy of the first edition in English of this book first published in Danish in 1958. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages . The World Publishing Company hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 15898

‎KNAB TIMOTHY J‎

‎Dialogue Of Earth And Sky: Dreams Souls Curing And The Modern Aztec Underworld‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson . Softcover. Brand new book. In Mexico's Sierra Norte de Puebla beliefs that were held before the coming of Europeans continue to guide the lives of modern Aztecs. For residents of San Martin Zinacapan life in and on the earth is animated by the same forces through which people seek to maintain a cohesive view of the relationship of mankind the cosmos and the natural world. This delicate balance of the human spirit maintains the health and well-being of villagers and is an essential part of the social and ideological framework that makes a person's life whole. This book describes the basic elements of a belief system that has survived the onslaught of Catholicism colonialism and the modern world. Timothy Knab has spent thirty years working in this area of Mexico learning of the Most Holy Earth and following what its people there call "the good path." He was initiated as a dreamer learned the prayers and techniques for curing maladies of the human soul and from his long association with the Sanmartinos has constructed a thorough account of their beliefs and practices. Learning to recount dreams forming a dreamtale and "carrying it on one's back" to the waking world is the first part of the practitioner's labor in curing. But dreamtales are shown to be more than parables in this world for they embody the ethos and cosmovision that link Sanmartinos with their traditions and the Most Holy Earth. Building on this background Knab describes how the open-ended interpretation of dreams is the practitioner's primary instrument for restoring a client's soul to its proper equilibrium thus providing a practical approach to finding and resolving everyday problems. Many anthropologists hold that such beliefs have long since disappeared into the nebulous past but in San Martin they remain alive and well. The underworld of the ancestors talocan or Tlalocan for the Aztecs is still a vital part of everyday life for the people of the Sierra Norte de Puebla. The Dialogue of Earth and Sky is an important record of a culture that has maintained a precolumbian cosmovision for nearly 500 years revealing that this system is as resonant today with the ethos of Mesoamerican peoples as it was for their ancestors. University of Arizona Press, Tucson paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 69781X3

‎HAINES HELEN R. & SAMMELLS CLARE A. EDITORS‎

‎Adventures In Eating: Anthropological Experiences In Dining From Around The World‎

‎University of Colorado Press Boulder: 2010. Softcover. Brand new book. Anthropologists training to do fieldwork in far-off unfamiliar places prepare for significant challenges with regard to language customs and other cultural differences. However like other travelers to unknown places they are often unprepared to deal with the most basic and necessary requirement: food. Although there are many books on the anthropology of food Adventures in Eating is the first intended to prepare students for the uncomfortable dining situations they may encounter over the course of their careers. Whether sago grubs jungle rats termites or the pungent durian fruit are on the table participating in the act of sharing food can establish relationships vital to anthropologists' research practices and knowledge of their host cultures. Using their own experiences with unfamiliar-and sometimes unappealing-food practices and customs the contributors explore such eating moments and how these moments can produce new understandings of culture and the meaning of food beyond the immediate experience of eating it. They also address how personal eating experiences and culinary dilemmas can shape the data and methodologies of the discipline. The main readership of Adventures in Eating will be students in anthropology and other scholars but the explosion of food media gives the book additional appeal for fans of No Reservations and Bizarre Foods on the Travel Channel. Helen R. Haines is a research associate at Trent University Archaeology Research Center and teaches anthropology at Trent University and the University of Toronto-Mississauga. Clare A. Sammells is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bucknell University. University of Colorado Press, Boulder: 2010 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 73593X2

‎JACKSON MICHAEL‎

‎Lifeworlds: Essays In Existential Anthropology‎

‎University of Chicago Press Chicago and London: 2012. Softcover. Brand new book. Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined world and word and body and mind and taking inspiration from James Dewey Arendt Husserl Sartre Camus and especially Merleau-Ponty Jackson creates in these chapters a distinctive anthropological pursuit of existential inquiry. More important he buttresses this philosophical approach with committed empirical research. Traveling from the Kuranko in Sierra Leone to the Maori in New Zealand to the Warlpiri in Australia Jackson argues that anthropological subjects continually negotiate�imaginatively practically and politically�their relations with the forces surrounding them and the resources they find in themselves or in solidarity with significant others. At the same time that they mirror facets of the larger world they also help shape it. Stitching the themes peoples and locales of these essays into a sustained argument for a philosophical anthropology that focuses on the places between Jackson offers a pragmatic understanding of how people act to make their lives more viable to grasp the elusive to counteract external powers and to turn abstract possibilities into embodied truths. University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London: 2012 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 77307X1

‎WHITEHEAD NEIL L. & STEPHANIE W. ALEMAN EDITORS‎

‎Anthropologies Of Guayana: Cultural Spaces In Northeastern Amazonia‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson 2009. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Unlike better-known regions of the Amazon Guayana�a broad cultural region that includes the countries of Guyana Surinam and French Guiana as well as parts of eastern Venezuela and northern Brazil�has rarely been integrated into the broader narratives of South American anthropology and history. Nevertheless Guayana provides a unique historical context for the persistence and survival of native peoples distinct from the histories reflected by the intense colonial competition in the region over the past 500 years. This is an important collection that brings together the work of scholars from North America South America and Europe to reveal the anthropological significance of Guayana the ancient realm of El Dorado and still the scene of gold and diamond mining. Beginning with the earliest civilizations of the region the chapters focus on the historical ecology of the rain forest and the archaeological record up to the sixteenth century as well as ethnography ethnology and perceptions of space. The book features extensive discussions of the history of a range of indigenous groups such as the Waiwai Trio Waj�pi and Palikur. Contributions analyze the emergence of a postcolonial national society the contrasts between the coastlands and upland regions and the significance of race and violence in contemporary politics. A noteworthy study of the prehistory and history of the region the book also provides a useful survey of the current issues facing northeastern Amazonia. The chapters extend the anthropological agenda beyond the conventional focus on the "indigenous" even as contributors describe how Guayanese languages mythologies and social structures have remained resilient in the face of intense outside pressures. Neil L. Whitehead is a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Dark Shamans: Kanaim� and the Poetics of Violent Death. Stephanie Aleman is an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. University of Arizona Press, Tucson 2009 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 69775X2

‎YOUNG LISA C. & HERR SARAH A. EDITORS‎

‎Southwestern Pithouse Communities Ad 200-900‎

‎University of Arizona Press Tucson: 2012. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Pithouses are the earliest identifiable domestic architecture in many areas of the world and can provide insights into the origins of communities�a fundamental component of past and present societies. In this book Lisa Young and Sarah Herr invite archaeologists to explore the development of communities using information from pithouse sites in the American Southwest. Using regional and topical syntheses to investigate the formation of pithouse communities contributors to this volume examine the complex relationship between the economic transition to agricultural dependence and the social changes associated with sedentism. They discover that during this transformation people's relationship with the landscape changed in ways that affected their use of space community organization and cultural identity. Employing various theoretical perspectives these contributions analyze changes in pithouses site layout communal architecture and settlement patterns to investigate the development of place-based communities. Chapters look at community formation strategies in populous regions like the northern San Juan Basin the southern Colorado Plateau Mimbres/southern Mogollon and Hohokam Basin and Range and compare them with social structures in more sparsely populated regions like the northeast Hohokam peripheries the Arizona Transition Zone the Cibola region southeast New Mexico and the northern Rio Grande. The book also includes thematic discussions of panregional economic change the complex relationship between house and household and the demographic shifts accompanying the Neolithic Demographic Transition. An essential book for students and archaeologists interested in the origins of communities Southwestern Pithouse Communities is also an important comparative resource for scholars interested in social change during the transition to settled village life. University of Arizona Press, Tucson: 2012 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 76969X1

‎Hubert Henri‎

‎Rise of the Celts‎

‎New York: Dorset Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1988. Reprint. Hardcover. 0880292830 . Tan paper over boards with black cloth spine. DJ in archival sleeve. Book and DJ as new. Not a remainder. ; 1 x 9 x 6 Inches; 335 pages . Dorset Press hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 14809 ???????? : 0880292830 9780880292832

‎BESNIER NIKO‎

‎On The Edge Of The Global: Modern Anxieties In A‎

‎Stanford University Press Palo Alto: 2011. Hardcover with dustjacket. Brand new book. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Stanford University Press, Palo Alto: 2011 hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 73022X1

‎BESNIER NIKO‎

‎On The Edge Of The Global: Modern Anxieties In A‎

‎Stanford University Press Palo Alto: 2011. Softcover. Brand new book. Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Life in twenty-first century Tonga is rife with uncertainties. Though the postcolonial island kingdom may give the appearance of stability and order there is a malaise that pervades everyday life a disquiet rooted in the feeling that the twin forces of "progress" and "development"�and the seemingly inevitable wealth distribution that follows from them�have bypassed the society. Niko Besnier's illuminating ethnography analyzes the ways in which segments of this small-scale society grapple with their growing anxiety and hold on to different understandings of what modernity means. How should it be made relevant to local contexts How it should mesh with practices and symbols of tradition In the day-to-day lives of Tongans the weight of transformations brought on by neoliberalism and democracy press not in the abstract but in individually significant ways: how to make ends meet how to pay lip service to tradition and how to present a modern self without opening oneself to ridicule. Adopting a wide-angled perspective that brings together political economic cultural and social concerns this book focuses on the interface between the different forms that modern uncertainties take. Niko Besnier is Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Sociology & Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. He has also taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Yale University Victoria University of Wellington and UCLA. He is the author of five books most recently Gossip and the Everyday Production of Politics 2009. "Besnier takes us to Tongan beauty parlors pageants pawn shops outdoor markets church services and gyms to show how local 'modernities' and 'traditionalities' are enacted within disparate sites. His book remarkable in its nuanced respectful depiction of the emotional lives and intellectual perspectives of diverse informants is wonderful in argument and ethnography."�Deborah Gewertz Amherst College "Ethnographically acute and open-eared interpretively imaginative and principled and always engaging Besnier's book takes Tonga from 'the edge' to the center of new ways of thinking about 'the global.' Besnier's subtle attentiveness to the shape of both ordinary and extraordinary lives and events makes for a rich and theoretically provocative examination indeed."�Don Brenneis Professor of Anthropology University of California Santa Cruz "This is a study of how modernity renders one anxious�anxious to be a part of it and anxious not to lose oneself or one's traditions along the way. Keenly situated on the global edge and on the edges of bodies and things Besnier's study of Tonga as a nervous kaleidoscope�of make-up make-over bodybuilding and the pawning and reselling of everyday things�is sharply observed and beautifully drawn. Clear smart witty and touching."�Anne Allison Professor of Anthropology Duke University Stanford University Press, Palo Alto: 2011 paperback‎

书商的参考编号 : 73023X1

‎Ackerman Robert Editor:‎

‎Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer.‎

‎-Oxford University Press 2005-. First edition. x426 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by and in some cases to Sir J. G. Frazer 1854-1941 the eminent anthropologist classicist and historian of religion. Frazer was read by virtually everyone working in those fields in the first third of the twentieth century. His great work The Golden Bough offered a grand vision of humanity's mental and spiritual evolution - from vain attempts to compel the gods to do our bidding which Frazer called magic through equally vain attempts to propitiate the gods through prayer and sacrifice his characterization of religion to rationality and science. His richly varied correspondence with prominent figures such as Edmund Gosse A. E. Housman and Bronislaw Malinowski among others offers an unparalleled insight into British intellectual life of the time and also throws light upon the composition of The Golden Bough itself. -Oxford University Press, 2005- hardcover‎

书商的参考编号 : 23339 ???????? : 0199266964 9780199266968

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‎The Swazi: A South African Kingdom‎

‎Holt Rinehart & Winston New York: 1963. Softcover. Good condition. Describes a way of life that is strange to the Westerneye and mind. Swazi society is highly structured with a centralized state and a duel monarch - the king and the queen mother - that is always in a delicate state of balance. ISBN: 0030426154. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, New York: 1963 paperback‎

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