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Body Arts and Modernity

• Paperback | Engels
• Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this text shows how bodily presentation plays a fundam... Lees meer

Every Day's a Festival!

• Hardcover | Engels
• Despite their ubiquity and cultural prominence, the academic study of arts festivals has long been neglected. The burgeoning festivals industry is, ho... Lees meer

The Last White Canoe of the Lau of Malaita, Solomon Islands

Pierre Maranda, James Tuita Dede, Ben Burt

• Hardcover | Engels
• Building a beautiful ornamented 'white canoe' was a way for the Lau people of Malaita in Solomon Islands to honour the ghosts of their ancestors in th... Lees meer

African Americans & American Africans

Dmitri M Bondarenko

• Hardcover | Engels
• In America today, two communities with sub-Saharan African genetic origins exist side by side, though they have differing histories and positions with... Lees meer

Tikopia Collected

Elizabeth Bonshek

• Hardcover | Engels
• During 1928-9 the renowned anthropologist Raymond Firth visited Tikopia, a small island in the east of Solomon Islands, for the first time. This book ... Lees meer

A Northern Chin Tradition

S Khup Chin Pau

• Hardcover | Engels | Other Voices, Other Eyes
• In this volume we are provided with a unique insider's perspective on the rich culture of the northern Chin area of Burma\Myanmar by S. Khup Chin Pau,... Lees meer

Notes on the Cognitive Texture of an Oral Mind

Giancarlo M G Scoditti

• Hardcover | Engels
• This book marks the culmination of Giancarlo M.G. Scoditti's renowned series of publications on the cultural production of the northern Massim island ... Lees meer

The End of Anthropology?

• Hardcover | Engels
• Decolonisation, modernisation, globalisation, the crisis of representation, and the 'cultural turn' in neighbouring disciplines have unsettled anthrop... Lees meer

Made in Oceania

• Hardcover | Engels
• Throughout the Pacific, cultural heritage is both a powerful idiom in post-colonial state-making, and a potent mobilizing force in diverse grassroots ... Lees meer

Copyright Africa

• Paperback | Engels
• Africa is known for its multi-faceted immaterial culture, manifested in highly original music, oral texts, artistic performances and sporting events. ... Lees meer

The Line of Dust

Massimo Canevacci

• Hardcover | Engels
• In this volume Massimo Canevacci draws on ethnographic fieldworkcarried out together with Bororo of the Mato Grosso (Brazil), in particular Kleber Mer... Lees meer

Contesting the State

• Hardcover | Engels
• The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficult to define. It often appears in academic discourse ... Lees meer

The Ways of the World

Peter Mason

• Hardcover | Engels
• Before the emergence of anthropology around the middle of the nineteenth century, there was no ethnography as such. But the discipline owes its format... Lees meer

Twilight Zone Anthropology

Michal Buchowski

• Hardcover | Engels | The Rai Country | nr. 2
• Twilight Zone Anthropology provides an engaging and multifaceted picture of anthropology in Poland, Bronislaw Malinowski's motherland, with a comprehe... Lees meer

Iranian Sacred Defence Cinema

• Hardcover | Engels
• While the cinema of post-revolutionary Iran is internationally acknowledged, the world outside Iran has been ignorant of the Iranian war films that ar... Lees meer

Kitawa

G M G Scoditti

• Hardcover | Engels
• Sketching and carving both visualize and memorize a given image, but within Nowau culture the manner in which this is achieved in a canoe prowboard is... Lees meer

We Don't Do Dots

Lorraine Gibson

• Hardcover | Engels
• What does it mean when whites say that certain Australian Aboriginal people have 'no culture' but accept that they have art? Why are notions and image... Lees meer

Reinventing craft in China

Geoffrey Gowlland

• Hardcover | Engels
• How does a craft reinvent itself as 'traditional' following cultural, social and political upheaval? In the township of Dingshu, Jiangsu province of C... Lees meer

Saints and Their Pilgrims in Iran and Neighbouring Countries

• Hardcover | Engels | Anthropology of Persianate Societies
• The importance and ramifications of saints, sainthood and pilgrimage in contemporary Iran and neighbouring countries are great, yet the academic conce... Lees meer

The Four Seasons of the U'wa

Ann Osborn

• Hardcover | Engels
• A beleaguered indigenous population came to the attention of the world in 1997 by threatening mass suicide in a last-ditch attempt to protect their an... Lees meer

"I'm Adult! Aren't I!"

Geoffrey Ben-Nathan

• Hardcover | Engels
• - Essential reading for policy makers and practitioners alike - Seeks to address juvenile delinquency by advocating new government policies regarding ... Lees meer

Keeping the Faith

Heidi Armbruster

• Hardcover | Engels
• Indigenous Christian communities in Turkey and the Middle East have declined dramatically in recent years, with large numbers emigrating in the face o... Lees meer

Made in Niugini

Paul Sillitoe

• Hardcover | Engels | Rai | nr. 2
• This impressive and inspiring volume has as its modest origins the documentation of a contemporary collecting project for the British Museum. Informed... Lees meer

Social Anthropologies of the Welsh

• Hardcover | Engels | The Rai Country | nr. 5
• Asking the perennial question, 'Who are the Welsh?', this collection illustrates the history of anthropology in Wales and its distinctive contribution... Lees meer