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Oxford University Press, USA A Linguistic History Of Arabic Oxford Linguistics
Book SynopsisA Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich and complex picture of early Arabic language history and establishes the basis for a comprehensive, linguistically-based understanding of the history of Arabic.Trade Review...highly stimulating read for anyone with interest in the history of Arabic...It deserves a warm welcome. * Clive Holes SOAS *Table of Contents1. Introduction: A Language and its Secrets ; 2. Old Arabic, Neo-Arabic, and Comparative Linguistics ; 3. Case and Proto Arabic ; 4. Al-Idgham al-Kabiyr and Case Endings ; 5. Pre-Diasporic Arabic in the Diaspora: A Statistical Approach to Arabic Language History ; 6. Nigerian Arabic and Reconstruction of the Imperfect Verb ; 7. Imala ; 8. Suffix Pronouns and Reconstruction ; 9. Summary and Epilogue ; Appendix ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press Slain God
Book SynopsisThroughout its entire history, the discipline of anthropology has been perceived as undermining, or even discrediting, Christian faith. Many of its most prominent theorists have been agnostics who assumed that ethnographic findings and theories had exposed religious beliefs to be untenable. E. B. Tylor, the founder of the discipline in Britain, lost his faith through studying anthropology. James Frazer saw the material that he presented in his highly influential work, The Golden Bough, as demonstrating that Christian thought was based on the erroneous thought patterns of ''savages.'' On the other hand, some of the most eminent anthropologists have been Christians, including E. E. Evans-Pritchard, Mary Douglas, Victor Turner, and Edith Turner. Moreover, they openly presented articulate reasons for how their religious convictions cohered with their professional work.Despite being a major site of friction between faith and modern thought, the relationship between anthropology and ChristiaTrade ReviewThis is a startling book. Many anthropologists do not realize how deeply religious many of the great anthropologists of religion have been. The Slain God raises the question of how faith shapes what the anthropologist sees, and it will change the way the reader thinks about the answer. * Tanya Luhrmann, Watkins University Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University *Larsen's book is beautifully written and based on the most patient scrutiny of every scrap of evidence. It provides an authoritative account of some of anthropology's most influential practitioners. * David Martin, London School of Economics *Larsen shines a bright sidelight on the history of social anthropology and of it treatment of Christianity * Jonathan Benthall, The Times Literary Supplement *Larsen tells the story beautifully in his narrative biographical style. * Matthew Milliner, First Things *As in his earlier work, Larsen disrupts a teleological vision of religion condemned to disappear before the forces of progress and modernity. He is to be congratulated for challenging this narrative head-on and confronting what amounts to anti-religious bias in the human sciences. * Journal of Theological Studies *This well-written and finely research book ... should be widely discussed in a variety of circles concerned with anthropology, religious studies, theology and the history of religion * Journal of Ecclesiastical History *a welcome contribution to the history of anthropology ... Larsen's narrative and sharp observations skilfully weave together authors' biographical experiences with their theoretical and ethnographic findings ... I hope this book will break for good certain unspoken taboos in the discipline that one cannot be at the same time a serious anthropologist and a practising 'believer'. * Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute *One of the many virtues of Larsen's study is its revealing of the 'all too human' character of the scholarship by the anthropologists he examines. * Christian Smith, First Things *Readers interested in continuing debates over faith, science and secularism will find much of value in this very important book. The further you get into the book, the more astonished you are that no predecessor has written such a full-length study of this critically important topic. * Philip Jenkins, Patheos *Witty, penetrating, following the evidence where it leads, this book is a great delight. * John Wilson, Book of the Year 2014, Books and Culture *Larsen has broken new ground in an area that was overgrown with the weeds of anecdote and myth. The subject has the quality of an 'elephant in the room' among both Christians and anthropologists, each of whom seem to feel that the other has nothing to offer. Quite the contrary, Larsen has demonstrated that the two are uneasy siblings, some believers and some skeptics, but siblings nonetheless. * Michael A. Rynkiewich, International Bulletin of Missionary Research *Larsen's book is clearly and delightfully written. It is, he says, the first book-length study of the subject, and it is as welcome as it is overdue * Peter J. Leithart *In his latest book, The Slain God , Timothy Larsen provides a compelling account of the complex relationship between anthropology and the Christian faith . . . His is the first book-length study of the relationship between anthropology and Christianity and as such is of interest to anyone who wishes to understand this relationship better. The book is also particularly timely in view of the recent resurgence of interest in these issues in the anthropology of Christianity. * Julien Dugnoille, Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford. *This book will be greeted as something of a bombshell amongst anthropologists of religion...a highly original book that should be with us for a long time to come. * Joel Robbins, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University *Larsen provides a most satisfying study ... Beautifully written and carrying lightly an immense amount of historical and literary research well placed in the extensive footnotes to each chapter, one is impressed with the fullness of Larsens explorations ... By bringing so many strands together in a remarkably complete documentation of all sources, Larsens work stands as difficult to refute by those intoxicated with the fable that anthropology is of its nature secular, that all religion is illogical and beyond analytical remit, save to destroy it and that faith is incompatible with the good works of the discipline. * New Blackfriars *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Introduction: Anthropology, History, and Doubt ; 1. Edward Burnett Tylor ; 2. James George Frazer ; 3. E. E. Evans-Pritchard ; 4. Mary Douglas ; 5. Victor Turner and Edith Turner ; Epilogue: The Ever-Recurring Drama ; Works Cited
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Oxford University Press (UK) Possession and Ownership
Book SynopsisPossession and Ownership brings together linguists and anthropologists in a series of cross-linguistic explorations of expressions used to denote possession and ownership, concepts central to most if not all the varied cultures and ideologies of humankind. Possessive noun phrases can be broadly divided into three categories - ownership of property, whole-part relations (such as body and plant parts), and blood and affinal kinship relations. As Professor Aikhenvald shows in her extensive opening essay, the same possessive noun or pronoun phrase is used in English and in many other Indo-European languages to express possession of all three kinds - as in Ann and her husband Henry live in the castle Henry''s father built with his own hands - but that this is by no means the case in all languages. In some, for example, the grammar expresses the inalienability of consanguineal kinship and sometimes also of sacred or treasured objects. Furthermore the degree to which possession and ownership Trade ReviewThis volume, the result of cooperation among eminent linguists and anthropologists, is a significant intellectual achievement. * Lars Johanson, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Project Muse *Table of Contents1. Possession and Ownership: a cross-linguistic perspective ; 2. Ownership, part-whole and Other Possessive-associated Relations in Nelemwa ; 3. Possession in Moskona, an East Bird's Head Language ; 4. Possession and Ownership in Manambu, a Ndu Language from the Sepik Area, Papua New Guinea ; 5. Possession in Martuthunira ; 6. Possession in Nanti ; 7. Possession and Association in Galo Language and Culture ; 8. Possessive Constructions in Chinese ; 9. Possession in Hone ; 10. Possession in Lipke ; 11. Possession in Wandala ; 12. Spirits of the Forest, the Wind, and New Wealth: defining some of the possibilities, and limits, of Kamula possession ; 13. Being and Belonging: exchange, value, and land ownership in the Western highlands of Papua New Guinea ; 14. Possession and Also Ownership - vignettes
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Oxford University Press Inc Ritual Theory Ritual Practice
Book SynopsisRitual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell''s sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications of our interest in ritual by concentrating on anthropology, sociology, and the history of religions. Now with a new foreword by Diane Jonte-Pace, Bell''s work is a must-read for understanding the evolution of the field of ritual studies and its current state.Trade ReviewThrows down the gauntlet to cultural interpretations of ritual....Bell's erudition and command of the literature, especially in the field of anthropology, is most impressive. Her appeal for the centrality of dynamic individuals, strategies, and power relationships is powerful and will no doubt strike a chord among those similarly disaffected with prevailing trends in understanding ritual. * American Journal of Sociology *Table of ContentsCONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; THE PRACTICE OF RITUAL THEORY; II. THE SENSE OF RITUAL; III. RITUAL AND POWER; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press Inc Moral Time
Book SynopsisConflict attracts a great deal of attention--as much or more than any other element of human life. People generally dislike it, and try to prevent and avoid it as much as possible. So why do clashes of right and wrong occur? And why are some clashes worse than others? In Moral Time, Donald Black shows how changes in intimacy (friends or strangers?), inequality (rich or poor?), and cultural diversity (Christian or Jew?) all determine when conflict happens. A reduction of closeness or a display of disrespect alters a relationship, for example, and the greater and faster the change, the more likely conflict will ensue. Throughout the book, Black applies his theory to an astounding range of human behavior, from bad manners to crime and warfare, accusations of witchcraft, racism, and anti-Semitism, conflict about creativity in science and art. Written in Black''s trademark straightforward style, Moral Time is a powerful and incisive new take on conflict--a fundamental and inescapable featurTrade ReviewWhile sociologists focused on power and resources might suggest that there is more than this underlying conflict, this book offers an intriguing set of social dynamics for theorists to engage. * Steven Hitlin, University of Iowa, Social Forces Journal *Table of Contents1. Introduction: The Nature of Social Time-The Origin of Conflict ; Part One: Relational Time ; 2. Overintimacy: Overinvolvement-Overexposure ; 3. Underintimacy: Underinvolvement-Underexposure ; Part Two: Vertical Time ; 4. Overstratification: Oversuperiority-Overinferiority ; 5. Understratification: Undersuperiority-Underinferiority ; Part Three: Cultural Time ; 6. Overdiversity: Overtraditionalism-Overinnovation ; 7. Underdiversity: Undertraditionalism-Underinnovation ; Conclusion: The Geometry of Social Time-Tribal Time-Modern Time-Postmodern Time
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Oxford University Press The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
Book SynopsisTranscending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives on imperial state formation prior to the European colonial expansion.The world''s first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth''s entire population. Yet despite empires'' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE.A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehofer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.Trade ReviewThis volume is an ambitious cross-cultural perspective of the ancient empires in a series of case studies based on political theory as well as on recent archeological research. * Journal of World History *Table of ContentsCONTRIBUTORS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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Oxford University Press, USA The Mind Possessed The Cognition of Spirit Possession in an AfroBrazilian Religious Tradition
Book SynopsisIn The Mind Possessed, Emma Cohen considers how the psychological systems undergirding spirit concepts are activated in real-world settings.Trade ReviewWho is dancing before me: my neighbor or a powerful spirit? Where do minds go when the body is occupied by someone else? The Mind Possessed details the colorfulness of spirit possession while rendering it understandable. This gracefully written book potently models how the cognitive sciences should impact the study of culture and religion. Cohen demonstrates that a sophisticated understanding of human minds enriches anthropology and religious studies with scientific insights. Simultaneously she shows that careful ethnography can highlight questions for psychological sciences that might otherwise go unnoticed, in this case, complex issues concerning human minds and bodies. * Justin L. Barrett, Senior Researcher, Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology, University of Oxford, author of Why Would Anyone Believe in God?The Mind Possessed is an extraordinary accomplishment. Drawing on her fieldwork in Brazil, Emma Cohen explores the fascinating phenomena of spirit possession-the belief in, *Table of ContentsNote on Translated Sources ; 1. Introducing Possession ; 2. Historical and Ethnographic Setting ; 3. The Research Community ; 4. Describing, Interpreting, and Explaining Spirit Possession ; 5. Medicalist, Physiological, and Sociological Explanations ; 6. Spirits as Concepts ; 7. Observing Possession ; 8. The Social Relevance of Spirits ; 9. Explaining Distributions of Spirit Concepts and Spirit Possession ; Appendix ; Glossary ; Notes ; References ; Index
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Oxford University Press Autoethnography Understanding Qualitative Research
Book SynopsisAutoethnography is a method of research that involves describing and analyzing personal experiences in order to understand cultural experiences. The method challenges canonical ways of doing research and recognizes how personal experience influences the research process. Autoethnography acknowledges and accomodates subjectivity, emotionality, and the researcher''s influence on research. In this book, the authors provide a historical and conceptual overview of autoethnography. They share their stories of coming to autoethnography and identify key concerns and considerations that led to the development of the method. Next, they outline the purposes and practices--the core ideals--of autoethnography, how autoethnographers can accomplish these ideals, and why researchers might choose to do autoethnography. They describe the processes of doing autoethnography, conducting fieldwork, discussing ethics in research, and interpreting and analyzing personal experience, and they explore the various modes and techniques used and involved in writing autoethnography. They conclude with goals for creating and assessing autoethnography and describe the future of autoethnographic inquiry. Throughout, the authors provide numerous examples of their work and share key resources. This book will serve as both a guide to the practices of doing autoethnography and an exemplar of autoethnographic research processes and representations.Trade Review"Overall, the text provides a useful, detailed framework for embarking on autoethnographic research, and can be very informative to other qualitative researchers considering the utility of various methods when conceiving and designing a research study." --PsycCRITIQUESTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ; Chapter 1: Introduction to Autoethnography ; Chapter 2: Autoethnographic Research Design and Philosophy ; Chapter 3: Doing Autoethnography ; Chapter 4: Representing Autoethnography ; Chapter 5: Evaluating Autoethnography ; Chapter 6: Resources for Doing and Writing Autoethnography ; References
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The University of Chicago Press Dance Sex and Gender
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Palgrave MacMillan Us Shamans Spirituality and Cultural Revitalization Explorations in Siberia and Beyond Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
Book SynopsisMany voices clamor to be heard in debates about whether shamans cure, and whether shamanic spirituality is worth continuing or recovering in the twenty-first century. This book provides newinsights into the fascinating resurgence of shamanism through an exploration of the politicalrepression of religion and its transcendenceTrade Review"Balzer, one of the first western-trained scholars to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in Siberia, is uniquely positioned to write this book. Here she argues that far from fading away, shamanism is being revitalized in Central and Far Eastern Russia following the dissolution of the former Soviet Union. One of the many strengths of this volume is the elegant way she positions her analysis in both Russian and Euro-American anthropological theories." - Julie Cruikshank, Professor Emerita of Anthropology, University of British Columbia"A remarkably sensitive collection of essays spanning three decades of research. The breadth and depth of shamanic practice from across the north Asian landscape comes into vivid focus." - Bruce Grant, Associate Professor of Anthropology, New York UniversityTable of ContentsSpirits Under Siege Doctors or Deceivers? Sacred Genders Poetics of Sacred Language Through Time and Space Flights of the Sacred: Birds, Trees and Open Body-Mindedness Two Urban Shamans: Unmasking Leadership Social Medicine? Religious Movements in Siberia Sustainable Faith? Multiple generations of healing and spirituality Sacred Trust: Doing Fieldwork in Siberia
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Palgrave Macmillan Illegal Traveller An AutoEthnography of Borders Global Ethics
Book SynopsisBased on fieldwork among undocumented immigrants and asylum seekers Illegal Traveller offers a narrative of the polysemic nature of borders, border politics, and rituals and performances of border-crossing. Interjecting personal experiences into ethnographic writing it is 'a form of self-narrative that places the self within a social context'.Trade Review"Shahram Khosravi's new book, 'Illegal' Traveller is really powerful and rich. One of the gems for me is the way the author clarifies the networks of migration from several perspectives. There are so many facets: the loneliness of making one's way alone and defenseless except for trying to keep one's wits; the political economies of the networks of smuggling at the lower levels; the human rights indignities of being stateless and vulnerable to rape, violence, extortion, and disappointment; and the ways in which small time smugglers also are liable to bankruptcy and inability always to calculate the margins. Also of course, the descriptions of the author's family as mid level khans with open houses both in Isfahan and Bakhtiari country, and the alienation of being Bakhtiari in Isfahan. Also the descriptions of Defense Colony in Delhi (the American Institute of Indian Studies has a house there) and the Topkapi area of Istanbul, places I have inhabited as well, albeit under very different circumstances. The minority experiences with the resonances that are invoked from Kafka, Benjamin, and the comparative references from the southern border of the U.S. (migrants from Mexico and Central America) as well as the borders around Fortress Europe make the book a cartography of the contemporary world, one that is only gradually being taken seriously by analysts as something quite other than an aberration." - Michael M. J. Fischer, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities, Professor of Anthropology and Science and Technology Studies MIT, USA "The little-seen and personal perspective that is presented in Illegal traveller not only offers new empirical insights on human smuggling as a process, but also addresses the emotional aspects of the process of 'illegal' migration which hardly ever emerge in academic writing...Illegal traveller with its particular perspective on smugglers, which goes beyond state-defined categories of who and what is defined to be criminal, is a welcome contribution to the debate about 'illegal' migration from a side of the story that is too often ignored, but in need of telling." - Ilse van Liempt, Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Urban Geography at the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands. 'A moving, original and profound meditation on borders and illegality [...] Combining analysis with personal anecdotes and biographical vignettes [...] Khosravi combines intellectual distance with irony, wit and passion and never loses his ability to relate the particular to the general.' - Matt Carr, Race & Class 'Illegal Traveller is a very welcome addition to the literature on migration and it can be recommended to all whose interests go beyond traditional approaches.' - Journal of the Finnish Anthropological SocietyTable of ContentsIntroduction Accustomed Soil Border Guards and Border People The Community of Displacement The Invisible Border Homelessness We Borders Conclusion
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MIT Press Ltd Origins of Human Communication
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MIT Press Techniques of the Observer
Book SynopsisJonathan Crary's Techniques of the Observer provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity. This analysis of the historical formation of the observer is a compelling account of the prehistory of the society of the spectacle.In Techniques of the Observer Jonathan Crary provides a dramatically new perspective on the visual culture of the nineteenth century, reassessing problems of both visual modernism and social modernity.Inverting conventional approaches, Crary considers the problem of visuality not through the study of art works and images, but by analyzing the historical construction of the observer. He insists that the problems of vision are inseparable from the operation of social power and examines how, beginning in the 1820s, the observer became the site of new discourses and practices that situated vision within the body as a physiological e
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MIT Press Ltd Convergent Evolution in StoneTool Technology
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Penguin Random House LLC Out There Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures Documentary sources in contemporary art
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Penguin Random House LLC Cognition in the Wild
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Penguin Random House LLC Does Technology Drive History
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Longleaf - Univ of Notre Dame Du Lac Where the Two Roads Meet 3 American Indian Catholics
Book SynopsisThis third and concluding volume from the series, considers the ways in which Indian Catholics have tried to follow the route of two separate traditions, each with its own expectations, patterns and identities.Trade Review“From the complete opposition existing between Lakota (Sioux) culture and that of the European settlers and missionaries who moved into their land to the forces changing Lakota traditions and the Catholic Church as their world enters the 21st century, Vecsey has reached it all.” —Msgr. Paul A. Lenz, Executive Director, Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions“The third volume of Christopher Vecsey’s comprehensive study is a richly textured addition to his portrayal of religious and cultural interactions over the tumultuous half-millenium of contact between Native American people and Catholic Christianity, mainly in North America. ” —Howard L. Harrod, Oberlin Alumni Professor of Social Ethics and Sociology of Religion, Vanderbilt University“[Vecsey] has provided us with an important foundation for reforming our understanding of the espeirential complexities of Christianity in Native North America.” —Western Historical Quarterly“[This is] a fascinating overview of the interfaith dialogue between church leaders and Indian religious authorities during the 1970s. Vecsey’s work is a balanced and fair account of a highly complex and emotionally charged history of Native American Catholicism. It is sensitively written, detailing the complexities while neither assigning blame nor glossing over abuses. Much of what is recounted is tragic and at times heartbreaking. The book is written with a careful balance between data and insightful analysis or commentary. Native American Christianity is a highly complex, multifaceted, and politically and emotionally charged phenomenon. Vecsey’s masterly account is a helpful contribution to an understanding of it.” —The Journal of American History“Concluding his important trilogy on Native American Catholicism, Vecsey’s well-crafted and thorough study demonstrates his characteristic sensitivity to the variety of voices in the historic and contemporary dialogue between Indians and Catholicism.” —Walter H. Conser, Jr., Professor of Religion and History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington“Christopher Vecsey has written a most insightful study of the interaction between Native American traditions and Catholicism, the result of over a decade of research. Through historical documentation and contemporary interviews he presents a well-balanced evaluation of the achievements and failures of Catholicism in the evangelization of Native Americans. This is the best scholarly book on the subject that I have seen.” —Paul B. Steinmetz, S.J., author of Pipe, Bible and Peyote among the Oglala Lakota: A Study in Religious Identity and The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology“[T]he book provides valuable information on the Catholic church’s experience with Native Americans, focusing mainly on the 20th century. It is an important part of the puzzle of how churches in America relate to Native Americans and to other ethnic groups.” —Journal of the West“...[T]he book achieves its goal of chronicling Native American relations with the Catholic Church. The richness of the book flows from the hundreds of interviews and extensive archival research performed by the author.” —New Mexico Historical Review“After 500 plus years of ‘evangelization’ among the first peoples of the Americas, Vecsey’s third volume shows that Native American people have not lost their identity in the Catholic Church in the United States. Rather, they retain their identity despite enormous social, economic and religious forces to assimilate them into American Catholic society, as well as stormy disagreements among themselves.” —Marie Therese Archambault, O.S.F.
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Bloomsbury USA 3pl The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities
Book SynopsisZilinskas and Balint and their contributors examine the divisions between minority groups and the scientific community, particularly in the area of medical and genetic research. Minorities have reasons to be skeptical of medical research in general and genetics research in particular.Table of ContentsPreface The Age of Biology and the Responsible Ancestor by Martha A. Krebs and Daniel Drell The Human Genome Project: Hereditary Diseases and Implications for Gene Therapy by Karen E. Nelson The Genetics of Human Behavior: Lessons from the Human Genome Project by Jonathan Beckwith The Human Genome Project and the African American Community: Race, Diversity, and American Science by Fatimah Jackson Scientific and Folk Ideas about Heredity by Jonathan M. Marks Social and Medical Implications of New Genetic Techniques by Robert F. Murray, Jr. Genetic Education to African American and Russian Immigrant Communities in Northwest Baltimore by Ilana Suez Mittman The Human Genome Project and Buddhism by Akey C. F. Hung Thoughts on the Human Genome Project and Maryland by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend The Human Genome Project: Reaching Minority Communities in Maryland, A Report of Results of the Conference Evaluation Study prepared by the Survey Research Center The Human Genome Project and Minority Communities: The Importance of Dialogue and Access to Information by Raymond A. Zilinskas and Peter J. Balint
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin The Game of Death in Ancient Rome Arena Sport and Political Suicide
Book SynopsisOffering a reminder of the complex uses to which institutionalized violence can be put, this study shows how the deadly violence of arena sport and political suicide served a social purpose in ancient Rome.
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Yale University Press Twenty Lectures on Chinese Culture
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Yale University Press Ritual Politics and Power
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Yale University Press The Domestication of the Human Species
Book SynopsisThe author takes domestication as the starting point for his inquiry into human evolution. Wilson argues that settling down into a built environment was the most radical innovation in human development and that it had a crucial effect on human psychology and social relations.
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Yale University Press Creating Chinese Ethnicity
Book SynopsisDescribes the daily lives, occupations and history of the Subei people, immigrants from the Jiangsu Province, who have become the most despised people in China's largest city, Shanghai. Honig uses archival research and interviews conducted in Shanghai.
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Yale University Press Narratives of Human Evolution
Book SynopsisAims to uncover a hidden level of agreement among theories of human evolution. Analyzing classic texts on evolution by Darwin and Keith as well as relatively recent accounts by Dart, Robinson and Tobias, the book reveals that they have a common narrative form based on the universal hero tale.
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Yale University Press Culture and Anarchy
Book SynopsisThis work argues for reason over anarchy and seems to advocate what many see as an elitist model of culture. This edition adds to the debate with essays from Maurice Cowling, Gerald Graff, Samuel Lipman and Steven Marcus.
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Yale University Press Blood Relations Menstruation and the Origins of Culture
Book SynopsisIntegrating perspectives of evolutionary biology and social anthropology within a Marxist framework, the author rejects the assumption that human culture is an extension of primate behaviour and argues that it is the product of a social, sexual and political revolution spearheaded by women.Table of ContentsAnthropology and origins; Levi-Strauss and "the mind"; totemism as exchange; the sex-strike; origins theories in the 1980s; the problem of the killer ape; between blood, stone, and fire; solidarity and cycles; the revolution; ice-age rhythms; the hunter's moon; the raw and the cooked; the rule of men; the dragon within.
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Yale University Press Music Science and Natural Magic in SeventeenthCentury England
Book SynopsisThis text argues that changing musical practice in 16th-century Europe affected 17th-century English thought on science and magic. It maps out the various relationships between these disciplines, using different historical, geographical, and social approaches.
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Springer Primate Locomotion
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Springer Seriation Stratigraphy and Index Fossils The Backbone of Archaeological Dating
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Springer Domestic Architecture and Power The Historical Archaeology of Colonial Ecuador Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology
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Springer Applying Evolutionary Archaeology
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Springer Encyclopedia of Prehistory Published in Conjunction with the Human Relations Area Files Arctic and
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Springer Encyclopedia of Prehistory Volume 3 East Asia and Oceania Elgar Reference Collection
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Springer The Muse of History and the Science of Culture
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Springer Genomic Diversity Applications in Human Population Genetics Proceedings of the Symposium on Molecular Anthropology in the 21st Century Held During August 1998 in Williamsburg Virginia USA
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Springer Prehistoric Iberia Genetics Anthropology and Linguistics Proceedings of an International Conference on Prehistoric Iberia Genetics Held November 1617 1998 in Madrid Spain
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Springer Archaeology at the Millennium A Sourcebook
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