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The Pastoral Continuum(Hardback)
The Marginalization of Tradition in East Africa
Clarendon Press
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29/01/1998
Paul Spencer presents the definitive study of the ways of life of the cattle-herding peoples of East Africa, drawing on many years of research. This region has offered a prime example of a tradition...
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Dancing through Time(Hardback)
A Sepik Cosmology
Clarendon Press
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17/12/1998
Dancing through Time presents a rich and incisive analysis of person, time, and identity among the Karawari speakers of Ambonwari village in the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea, through the ex...
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A Place Apart(Hardback)
An Anthropological Study of the Icelandic World
Clarendon Press
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16/07/1998
A Place Apart offers a rich and reflective representation of Iceland and Icelanders today. Kirsten Hastrup draws upon extensive first-hand research, but also upon her original theory of what anthro...
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Living on Mangetti(Hardback)
`Bushman' Autonomy and Namibian Independence
Oxford University Press
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13/01/2000
Living on Mangetti is an anthropological case study of the little-known Hai||om 'Bushmen' of Northern Namibia. The book is a result of direct interaction during long-term field research and vividly...
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Born and Bred(Hardback)
Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England
Oxford University Press
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23/03/2000
The study of kinship is undergoing a renaissance in social anthropology. A reflexive scrutiny of the enterprise of anthropology itself has led to questions about the cultural premisses that social a...
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A Failure of Treatment(Paperback)
Oxford University Press
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23/03/2000
This book is a study of a serious illness in a New Guinea village. It records the failure of local treatments and Western medicine, and of a communal ritual to bring a spirit to heal a man; it also ...
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Age, Marriage, and Politics in Fifteenth-Century Ragusa(Hardback)
Oxford University Press
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08/06/2000
This book combines the insights of history and anthropology with innovative techniques such as computer simulation to investigate the relationships between politics, kinship, and marriage in the lat...
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Changing Inner Mongolia(Hardback)
Pastoral Mongolian Society and the Chinese State
Oxford University Press
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19/10/2000
Since the Chinese Communists took control of Inner Mongolia, very little has been written about that region, the vast steppeland of northern China. This book charts the recent history of the pastora...
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From Cosmogony to Exorcism in a Javavese Genesis(Hardback)
The Spilt Seed
Oxford University Press
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01/02/2001
Stephen Headley translates and studies a Javanese ritual and myth, the birth of the man-eating demon, Kala. He shows that this genesis myth, with its movement from cosmogony to exorcism, constitutes...
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