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Springer The Archaeology and Politics of Food and Feasting in Early States and Empires
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Springer From Biped to Strider The Emergence Of Modern Human Walking Running And Resource Transport
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Springer Archaeology Under Dictatorship
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Springer The Bank of Israel Volume 2 Selected Topics in Israels Monetary Policy
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Springer Global Archaeological Theory
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Springer Global Archaeological Theory Contextual Voices and Contemporary Thoughts
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Springer The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities Beyond Identification
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Springer The Archaeology of Plural and Changing Identities Beyond Identification
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Random House USA Inc Zoobiquity
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Between Two Ages
Trade Review[The author's] range of investigation sweeps from New Left politics to the bureaucratization of Soviet communism. Mostly, he examines the ambivalence inherent in America's dual role as disseminator of the technetronic revolution and principal preserver of the international status quo. Brzezinski's optimistic conclusions may comfort a few, but his cavalier treatment of contrary analyses, combined with his past record of undistinguished prognostication, can hardly leave them smug. The opinions are strong and, in general, challenge everyone, from the concerned layman to the practicing scholar. * Library Journal *
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ABC-CLIO Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education
Book SynopsisThe first of its kind, this handbook synthesizes major advances in the sociology of education over the past several decades. It incorporates both a systematic review of significant theoretical and empirical work and challenging original contributions by distinguished American, English, and French sociologists. In his introduction, John G. Richardson traces the development of the sociology of education and reviews the important classical European works in which this discipline is grounded. Each chapter, devoted to a major topic in the field, provides both a review of the literature and an exposition of an original thesis. The inclusion of subjects outside traditional sociological concern--such as the historical foundations of education and the sociology of special education--gives an interdisciplinary scope that enhances the volume's usefulness.
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Random House USA Inc Half And Half Writers on Growing Up Biracial and
Book SynopsisAs we approach the twenty-first century, biracialism and biculturalism are becoming increasingly common. Skin color and place of birth are no longer reliable signifiers of one's identity or origin. Simple questions like What are you? and Where are you from? aren't answered—they are discussed. These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality, address the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits of being part of two worlds. Through the lens of personal experience, they offer a broader spectrum of meaning for race and culture. And in the process, they map a new ethnic terrain that transcends racial and cultural division.
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Random House USA Inc Beyond Culture
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Springer Andean Archaeology North and South v 3
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Springer Archaeology at the Millennium A Sourcebook
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Springer Ancient Dna Recovery And Analysis Of Genetic Material From Paleontological Archaeological Museum Medical And Forensic Specimens
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WW Norton & Co The Ambiguous Iroquois Empie The Covenant Chain Confederation of Indian Tribes with English Colonies
Book SynopsisWinner of the Distinguished Book Award of the Society of Colonial Wars.Trade Review"A learned and lively new history of the Iroquois to 1744 . . . [that] stands by itself as a very important book. . . . [It] surely must now be the definite history of the Iroquois in their era of triumph and the first stages of decline." -- Ronald Sanders, author of Lost Tribes and Promised Lands
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WW Norton & Co The Tender Passion The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Volume 2 The Bourgeois Experience from Victoria to Freud
Book SynopsisThe Tender Passion looks at the Victorian middle classes' ideal and real notions of love.
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WW Norton & Co Education of the Senses The Bourgeois Experience Victoria to Freud Volume 1
Book SynopsisThe most learned, as well as the wittiest survey of human sexuality ever to be published. New York Times
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Random House USA Inc Survival of the Friendliest
Book SynopsisA powerful new theory of human nature suggests that our secret to success as a species is our uniquefriendliness?Brilliant, eye-opening, and absolutely inspiring?and a riveting read. Hare and Woods have written the perfect book for our time.??Cass R. Sunstein, author ofHow Change Happensand co-author ofNudge For most of the approximately 300,000 years that Homo sapiens have existed, we have shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. All of these were smart, strong, and inventive. But around 50,000 years ago, Homo sapiens made a cognitive leap that gave us an edge over other species. What happened? Since Charles Darwin wrote about ?evolutionary fitness,? the idea of fitness has been confused with physical strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. In fact, what made us evolutionarily fit was a remarkable kind of friendliness, a virtuosic ability to coordinate and communicate with others that allowed us to achieve all the cultural and technical marvels in human history. Advancing what they call the ?self-domestication theory,? Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University and his wife, Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, shed light on the mysterious leap in human cognition that allowed Homo sapiens to thrive. But this gift for friendliness came at a cost. Just as a mother bear is most dangerous around her cubs, we are at our most dangerous when someone we love is threatened by an ?outsider.? The threatening outsider is demoted to sub-human, fair game for our worst instincts. Hare?s groundbreaking research, developed in close coordination with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution, reveals that the same traits that make us the most tolerant species on the planet also make us the cruelest. Survival of the Friendliest offers us a new way to look at our cultural as well as cognitive evolution and sends a clear message: In order to survive and even to flourish, we need to expand our definition of who belongs.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe
Book SynopsisAtlantic Europe is the zone par excellence of megalithic monuments, which encompass a wide range of earthen and stone constructions from inpressive stone circles to modest chambered tombs. A single basic concept lies behind this volume - that the intrinsic qualities encountered within the diverse landscapes pf Atlantic Europe both informed the settings chosen for the monuments and played a role in determining their form and visual appearance. Monuments and Landscape in Atlantic Europe goes significantly beyond the limits of existing debate by inviting archaeologists from different countries with the Atlantic zone (including Britain, France, Ireland, Spain and Sweden) to examine the relationship between landscape features and prehistoric monuments in their specialist regions. By placing the issue within a broader regional and intellectual context, the authors illustrate the diversity of current archaeological ideas and approaches converging around this central theme.Table of ContentsPreface. Introduction: Situating Monuments: the Dialogue between Built Form and Landform in Atlantic Europe Chris Scarre Part I: Atlantic Iberia: 1. Standing Stones and Natural Outcrops: the Role of Ritual Monuments in the Neolithic Tansition of the Central Alentejo Manuel Calado 2. Castanheiro do Vento and the Significance of Monumental Copper Age Sites in Northern Portugal Vítor Oliveira Jorge, Jaão Muralha Cardoso, António Sá Coixão & Leonor Sousa Pereira 3. The Architecture of the Natural World: Rock Art in North-West Iberia Lara Bacelar Alves Part II: Atlantic France 3. The Perception of Space and Geometry: Megalithic Monuments of West-Central France in their Relationship to the Landscape Luc Laporte, Roger Joussame & Chris Scare 4. Coast and Cosmos: the Neolithic Monuments of Northern Brittany Chris Scarre Part III: Britain and Ireland 5. All Cultural Things: Actual and Conceptual Monuments in the Neolithic of Western Britain Vicki Cummings 6. The Land, the Sky and the Scottish Stone Circle Richard Bradley 7. Knocknarea: the Ultimate Monument. Megaliths and Mountains in Neiolithic Cúil Irra, North West Ireland Stefan Bergh 7. Megaliths in a Mythologised Landscape: South-west Ireland in the Iron Age William O'Brien Part IV: Scandinavia 8. Visible Intentions? Viewshed Analysis of Bronze Age Burial Mounds in Western Scania, Sweden Karin Ericson Lageras 9. Conclusion: Long Conversations Concerning Time, Descent and Place in the World
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Time Space and the Unknown Maasai Configurations
Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2004. Uncertainty is an aspect of existence among the Maasai in East Africa. They take ritual precautions against mystical misfortune, especially at their ceremonial gatherings, which exude displays of confidence, and generate a sense of time, space, community, and being. Yet their performances are undermined by a concern for clandestine psychopaths who are thought to create havoc through sorcery. Normally elders seek moral explanations for erratic encounters with misfortune, viewing God as the Supreme and unknowable figure of Providence. However, sorcery lies beyond their collective wisdom, and they look for guidance from their Prophet, as a more powerful sorcerer to whom they are bound for protection. This work examines the variation of this pattern, associated with different profiles of social life and tension across the Maasai federation.Table of ContentsPaul Spencer is Emeritus Professor of African Anthropology at SOAS and Honorary Director of the International African Institute. He has published extensively on age systems and pastoralism in East Africa; and the present work follows from his earlier books on The Samburu (1965) and The Maasai of Matapato (1988) both now reissued by Routledge.
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Basic Books Postethnic America
Book SynopsisPostethnic America is a bracing reminder of America's universalist promise, and a stirring call for a new form of nationalism.
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Chinese SpiritMedium Cults in Singapore
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iUniverse Blooms Morning Coffee Comforters and the Secret Meaning of Everyday Life
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iUniverse Letter From an Empty Valley Ten Meditations on the Post Industrial Age
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iUniverse 100 Happy Naked New Yorkers
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iUniverse An Education System Worthy of Malaysia
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The House That Race Built Original Essays by Toni Morrison Angela Y Davis Cornel West and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Intertwined Lives Margaret Mead Ruth Benedict and Their Circle
Book SynopsisA uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead’s best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), and Benedict’s Patterns of Culture (1934), Race (1940), and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and beyond.With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters op
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Archaeology on the Great Plains
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Basic Books The Transparent Society Will Technology Force Us To Choose Between Privacy And Freedom
Book SynopsisIn New York and Baltimore, police cameras scan public areas twenty-four hours a day. Huge commercial databases track you finances and sell that information to anyone willing to pay. Host sites on the World Wide Web record every page you view, and smart toll roads know where you drive. Every day, new technology nibbles at our privacy.Does that make you nervous? David Brin is worried, but not just about privacy. He fears that society will overreact to these technologies by restricting the flow of information, frantically enforcing a reign of secrecy. Such measures, he warns, won''t really preserve our privacy. Governments, the wealthy, criminals, and the techno-elite will still find ways to watch us. But we''ll have fewer ways to watch them. We''ll lose the key to a free society: accountability. The Transparent Society is a call for reciprocal transparency. If police cameras watch us, shouldn''t we be able to watch police stations? If credit bureaus sell our data, shouldn''t we know wTable of ContentsA New World * The Challenge of an Open Society * The Age of Knowledge * Privacy Under Siege * Can We Own Information? Minefields * Human Nature and the Dilemma of Openness * Lessons in Accountability * The War Over Secrecy Road Maps * Pragmatism in an Uncertain World * Humility and Limits * Global Transparency * The Road of Openness
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INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US Science In Public Communication Culture And Credibility
Book SynopsisDoes the general public need to understand science? And if so, is it scientists'' responsibility to communicate? Critics have argued that, despite the huge strides made in technology, we live in a scientifically illiterate society--one that thinks about the world and makes important decisions without taking scientific knowledge into account. But is the solution to this illiteracy to deluge the layman with scientific information? Or does science news need to be focused around specific issues and organized into stories that are meaningful and relevant to people''s lives? In this unprecedented, comprehensive look at a new field, Jane Gregory and Steve Miller point the way to a more effective public understanding of science in the years ahead.Table of Contents* Preface * The Recent "Public Understanding of Science Movement" * Science in Public Culture * Popular Science: Friend or Foe? * Popularization, Public Understanding, and the Public Sphere * Media Issues in the Public Understanding of Science * Case Studies in Public Science * An ABC of Risk - Apples, Beef, and Comets * Science in Museums * Initiatives and Activities in the Public Understanding of Science * A Protocol for Science Communication for the Public Understanding of Science * References * Index
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The Fall of the Asante Empire
Book SynopsisIn 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram''s horns, engulfed him with a zeal bordering on phrensy, shooting muskets into the air. The envoy was escorted, as no fewer than 100 bands played, to the Asante king''s palace and greeted by a tremendous throng of 30,000 noblemen and soldiers, bedecked with so much gold that his party had to avert their eyes to avoid the blinding glare. Some Asante elders wore gold ornaments so massive they had to be supported by attendants. But a criminal being lead to his execution - hands tied, ears severed, knives thrust through his cheeks and shoulder blades - was also paraded before them as a warning of what would befall malefactors. This first encounter set the stage for one of the longest and fiercest wars in all the European conquest of Africa. At its height, the Asante empire, on the Gold Coast of Africa in present-day Ghana, comprised three million people and had its own highly sophisticated social, political, and military institutions. Armed with European firearms, the tenacious and disciplined Asante army inflicted heavy casualties on advancing British troops, in some cases defeating them. They won the respect and admiration of British commanders, and displayed a unique willingness to adapt their traditional military tactics to counter superior British technology. Even well after a British fort had been established in Kumase, the Asante capital, the indigenous culture stubbornly resisted Europeanization, as long as the golden stool, the sacred repository of royal power, remained in Asante hands. It was only after an entire century of fighting that resistance ultimately ceased.
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Polity Press The Machine at Work
Book Synopsisaeo A clearly written critical assessment of recent approaches to the technical, social and cultural dimensions of technology. aeo This book sheds new light on the implications of new theories for existing ideas about the nature of technology, especially the relation between technology and work.Trade Review"A challenging analysis of the relations between work and technology from an anti-essentialist perspective. Key issues concerning the production and consumption of technology are debated in a lucid and scholarly manner. Highly recommended." Professor John Hassard, Keele University "The application of contemporary sociological models of technological change in the workplace is still in its infancy. The Machine at Work plays a crucial role in bridging this gap. It is one of the few recent publications helping the study of technological change at work to come of age." Professor Richard Badham, University of Wollongong "This book is well written and accessible. Besides being of interest to scholars, especially students of sociology, organisational theory, innovation and management studies, The Machine at Work should provide stimulating reading for those with a more general interest in contemporary analyses of technology." The Times Higher Education Supplement "A fine introductory text." Information Technology and People "[A] fascinating book ... [It] raise[s] very real methodological questions and, what is more to the point, attempts to provide answers to them." British Journal of SociologyTable of ContentsAcknowledgements. Introduction: Deus ex Machina. . 1. Theories of Technology. 2. The Luddites: Diablo Ex Machina. . 3. Configuring the User: Inventing New Technologies. 4. Some Failures of Nerve in Constructivist and Feminist Analyses of Technology. 5. Technology and Work Organizations. 6. What's Social about Being Shot?. Notes. References. Index.
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Polity Press Globalization and Culture
Book SynopsisGlobalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses. This book brings together for the first time a social theory and cultural studies approach to the understanding of globalization.Trade Review"It is not simply the theoretical balance and clarity of writing that makes Globalization and Culture a worthy introductory text. It is also in the way that the book manages to anchor key issues such as deterritorialization in specific case examples and practical illustrations ... [It] is a sophisticated, balanced, and highly readable book, further marking Tomlinson as a persuasive critical voice in the burgeoning globalization debate." Scope "It is often argued that culture has been a neglected aspect of globalization. John Tomlinson provides us at last with a book which systematically explores the centrality of culture to debates on globalization. He does so with a refreshing clarity in a text which is to be commended for its coherence and accessibility." Mike Featherstone, Nottingham Trent University "It is frequently maintained that discussions of globalization have been marginalized within culture studies. John Tomlinson's book, Globalization and Culture, contributes to new work that attempts to address this issue and brings a cultural studies approach to the the concept of globalization." The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural TheoryTable of Contents1. Globalization and Culture. . Globalization as Complex Connectivity. Culture as a Dimension of Globalization. Why Culture Matters for Globalization. Why Globalization Matters for Culture. 2. Global Modernity. . Global Modernity as Historical Period. Globalization as a 'Consequence of Modernity'. Suspicion of Global Modernity. Conclusion. 3. Global Culture: Dreams, Nightmares and Scepticism. Dreams: Historical Imaginings of a Global Culture. Nightmares: Global Culture as Cultural Imperialism. Global Culture: The Sceptical Viewpoint. 4. Deterritorialization: The Cultural Condition of Globalization. . The Concept of Deterritorialization. The Mundane Experience of Deterritorialization. Objections to Deterritorialization. Deterritorialization at the 'Margins'. Hybridization. 5. Mediated Communication and Cultural Experience. . Mediation and Connectivity. Mediated Proximity 1: Intimacy Redefined. Mediated Proximity 2: Televisual Involvement and the Closing of Moral Distance. 6. The Possibility of Cosmopolitanism. Cosmopolitanism: Idea, Ideology, Ideal. Cosmopolitans Without a Cosmopolis. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Polity Press Choosing Ethnic Identity
Book SynopsisChoosing Ethnic Identity explores the ways in which people are able to choose their ethnic identities in contemporary multiethnic societies such as the USA and Britain. Notions such as adopting an identity, or self--designated terms, such as Black British and Asian American, suggest the importance of agency and choice for individuals.Trade Review"In this intellectually challenging and highly original study, Miri Song mobilizes a wide body of theoretical writing and empirical evidence, originating in both the UK and the U.S. Choosing Ethic Identity presents a new conceptual apparatus for evaluating inequality in societies increasingly confronted by manifold narratives of victimization," Steven J. Gold, Michigan State University "Miri Song has written an enormously stimulating and authoritative account of the changing nature of ethnic identity. Drawing judiciously on a wealth of material from both the US and Britain, she is able to show that the assertion of ethnic identity involves a complex set of political and social relations. Song's account of these issues should be a must for anybody who is concerned with the formation of ethnic and racial identities." John Solomos, Professor of Sociology, City University, London “Choosing Ethnic Identity makes an important contribution to a developing literature in the field of race and ethnic studies dealing with the subtleties and complexities of both radicalized and ethicized identities, and the political landscapes in which some versions of identity are erased or marginalized. Tracing the intertwining race of ethnicity in Britain and the United States, Song exposes some of the plasticity of ethnicity as 'options' in the shaping of lives and subjective and the political tensions surrounding them.....Overall, this is a readable and valuable contribution to the theorization of race and ethnicity on both sides of the Atlantic." Caroline Knowles, University of LondTable of ContentsPreface. Chapter 1 Ethnic identities: choices and constraints. Chapter 2 Comparing minorities’ ethnic options. Chapter 3 Negotiating individual and group identities. Chapter 4 The growth of ‘mixed race’ people. Chapter 5 The diversification of ethnic groups. Chapter 6 The second generation in a global context. Chapter 7 Debates about racial hierarchy. Chapter 8 The future of ‘race’ and ethnic identity. Notes. References. Index
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AltaMira Press The Power of the Machine
Book SynopsisHornborg argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes. He demonstrates how the power of the machine generates increasingly asymmetrical exchanges and distribution of resources and risks between distant populations and ecosystems, and thus an increasingly polarized world order. The author challenges us to reconceptualize the machineindustrial technomassas a species of power and a problem of culture. He shows how economic anthropology has the tools to deconstruct the concepts of production, money capital, and market exchange, and to analyze capital accumulation as a problem at the very interface of the natural and social sciences. His analysis provides an alternative understanding of economic growth and technological development. Hornborg''s work is essential for researchers in anthropology, human ecology, economics, political economTrade ReviewThere is more to culture than meets the eye, that product of cultural processing designed to overlook that 'more'; that 'more' being the allegedly natural and objective foundations of our life in common with all its iniquities and inanities. This is the message of Hornborg's astonishing book, bound to spur the social-scientific community to take another hard look on their own seemingly self-evident concepts and hidden from view assumptions. The book crowns years of study and thought which went deeper than even the most earnest and acute self-scrutiny of anthropologists and economists went thus far. Very seldom is describing the publication of a book as revolutionary event as apt. Hornborg's oeuvre stands a chance to revolutionise not only the paradigm of the theory of modern society, but the way we divide human actions from their precultural conditions and so called 'unanticipated consequences.' -- Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Universities of Leeds and WarsawThis book will be the talk of anthropology in the next decade, since it provides a compelling connection between culture theory, social justice, and environmental crisis. The linkage of energy, unequal exchange, and world systems theory is original and masterful. The discussion of money, fetishism, and meaning is likewise. Hornborg's thoughtful and rigorous synthesis renews critical social science in a time of fragmentation and doubt. Scholars in anthropology and interdisciplinary environmental studies are sure to be impressed. -- Josiah McC. Heyman, (Michigan Technological University)The strength of the book is its interdisciplinarity....This book would be appropriate reading for those social scientists, whether anthropologists, sociologists, political scientists, or environmentalists, interested in global studies, Marxist critiques of culture, human-environmental relations, and science and technology studies. -- Mary C. Ingram, University of California, Santa Barbara * Journal Of World-Systems Research *At a time when some paleobiologists are predicting that humanity has so fouled its nest that our planet will eventually be ceded to rats and ants, Alf Hornborg is more hopeful... [an] ambitious, thought -provoking study of the tensions between conservation and economic development...Hornborg is convincing. He says one of anthropology's greatest challenges is to deconstruct the most powerful discourses of our time which present themselves as somehow above and beyond culture. -- Jonathan Benthall, University College London * Anthropological Theory *Hornborg's The Power of the Machine offers a rich theoretical analysis of how technology masks the inequalities between nations, humans, and ecosystems within the World System... he challenges conventional political economic and sociological perspectives about global underdevelopment... As a truly interdisciplinary writer, Hornborg combines perspectives from natural science, political economy, and cultural anthropology to critique not only global unequal exchange but also the very categories that we, as social scientists, use to analyze such exchange... The strength of this book is its interdisciplinarity. One would hope to find an interdisciplinary focus in a volume written by several authors, but not expect to find such focus in a single-authored text... I appreciate Hornberg's two-pronged goal: not only does he demonstrate how technology operates as a mechanism of Western hegemony but he challenges us as social scientists to be wary of the role that we play in analyzing such inequities — to not reify the machine is to call global exchange by its real name: deliberate uneven development. -- Mary C. Ingram, University of California, Santa Barbara * Journal Of World Systems Research, Ix, I, Winter 2003 *Hornborg will be aware of the irony that his thoroughly modern study (professional erudition, academic logic and technique, mass-produced book aimed at an academic audience, etc.) is a radical critique of the conditions of its own production. But in so doing Hornborg poses new and interesting questions. By also suggesting how we might approach the issues they raise the author has made a major contribution to debates about modernity, global inequalities, technology and the fate of the environment. * Ethnos *This is a critical discussion of the whole range of world-system type theories, which is simultaneously a highly original contribution to the genre and a splendid introduction to the implicit and explicit understandings of the relevant literature. The discussion, which ranges widely through cultures and history, is firmly anchored in classic anthropological theory and data even as it projects its conclusions onto the varieties of malaise that bedevil the modern world. The impression is of disciplined, learned open-mindedness. This is the sort of book one reads with pleasure and profit even while one may disagree with some of it—what a real 'contribution' is all about. -- Igor Kopytoff, (University of Pennsylvania)This is one of the most thought provoking books I've read lately... Hornborg wants to understand how it is that relations of power come to seem inevitable and natural... He urges a truly holistic study of humankind. We Americans would all do well to follow his example and learn from one another. -- E. Paul Durrenberger, Pennsylvania State University * Journal of Anthropological Research, Vol. 59, 2003 *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Introduction: The Machine as Emperor Part 3 Part 1: Technology and Unequal Exchange Chapter 4 Chapter 1: Technology and Economics: The Interfusion of the Social and the Material Chapter 5 Chapter 2: Cornucopia or Zero-Sum Game: The Epistemology of Sustainability Chapter 6 Chapter 3: The Thermodynamics of Imperialism: Towards an Ecological Theory of Unequal Exchange Chapter 7 Chapter 4: Ecosystems, World Systems, and Environmental Justice Chapter 8 Chapter 5: Conceptualizing Accumulation from Spondylus Shells to Fossil Fuels Chapter 9 Chapter 6: Use Value, Energy, and the Image of Unlimited Good Chapter 10 Chapter 7: Language and the Material: Probing our Categories Chapter 11 Chapter 8: Symbolic Technologies: Machines and the Marxian Notion of Fetishism Part 12 Part 2: Money, Modernity and Personhood Chapter 13 Chapter 9: Money, Reflexivity, and the Semiotics of Modernity Chapter 14 Chapter 10: Ecology as Semiotics: A Contextualist Manifesto Chapter 15 Chapter 11: Exchange, Personhood, and Human Ecology Chapter 16 Chapter 12: The Abstraction of Discourse and Identity: A Case Study Chapter 17 Afterword: Culture, Modernity, and Power: The Relevance of Anthropology Chapter 18 References Chapter 19 Index
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AltaMira Press Ethnographic Archaeologies
Book SynopsisEthnographic archaeology has emerged as a form of inquiry into archaeological dilemmas that arise as scholars question older, more positivistic paradigms. Ethnographic Archaeologies describes diverse methods, objectives, and rationalities currently employed in the making of engaged and collaborative archaeological research.The contributors to this volume, for example, understand ethnographic archaeology variously as a means of critical engagement with heritage stakeholders, as the basis of public-policy debates, as a critical archaeological study of ethnic groups, as the study of what archaeology actually does (as opposed to what researchers often think they are doing) in excavations and surveys, and as a foundation for transnational collaborations among archaeologists. What keeps the term ethnographic archaeology coherent and relevant is the consensus among practitioners that they are embarking on a new archaeological path by attempting to engage the present directly and fundamentallyTrade ReviewThis important collection expands the boundaries of archaeology and charts out an emerging and dynamic field. The eminent contributors, in their consistently powerful and thought-provoking papers, situate archaeological practice in the ethnographic present, forcing us to reflect on our responsibilities towards the various communities associated with the archaeological past and with archaeology as a discipline. In these pages, archaeology is re-connected with ethnography in a critical, reflexive, and ethically sensitive manner. -- Yannis Hamilakis, University of Southampton, UK and author of The Nation and its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology and National Imagination in GreeceTable of Contents1 The Ethnographic Turn in Archaeology: Research Positioning and Reflexivity in Ethnographic Archaeologies 2 A Critical Assessment of Ethnography in Archaeology 3 A Dangerously Elusive Method: Disciplines, Histories, and the Limits of Reflexivity 4 The Pageantry of Archaeology 5 The Foundations of Archaeology 6 The Location of Archaeology 7 Real People or Reconstructed People? Ethnocritical Archaeology, Ethnography, and Community-Building
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AltaMira Press Ethnography
Book SynopsisOne of anthropology''s leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition. In this engaging and thought-provoking book, Wolcott distinguishes ethnography as more than just a set of field methods and practices, separating it from many related qualitative research traditions as ''a way of seeing'' through the lens of culture. For both beginning and experienced ethnographers in a wide range of disciplines, Wolcott''s book will provide important ideas for improving research practice.Trade ReviewThis second edition draws readers closer to Wolcott’s vision of the interpretive stance that underlies ethnography. In an era when ethnographers may be challenged to articulate how their work contributes to different kinds of knowledge, this book shows the way. -- Peter Demerath, University of MinnesotaThis casual yet informed synthesis, written in an egaging style, is what sets Wolcott's book apart from the humdrum of texts that discuss methods formally, often in a staccato, bland, and abstracted tone, usually detatched from application....Wolcott's excursion is a wonderful raft ride through the flows, eddies, and rapids of anthropological experience that is always theoretically informed. * H-Afrarts, December 2008 *My students are always impressed with Wolcott's engaging writing style, wit, and no nonsense approach to fieldwork. Ethnography: A Way of Seeing highlights the importance of creativity and common sense in doing fieldwork. -- Douglas Foley, The University of Texas at AustinTable of ContentsChapter 1 Ethnography in the Good Old Days Chapter 2 Where in the World Do You Think You Are Going? Chapter 3 Ethnography as a Way of Looking Chapter 4 Ethnography as a Way of Seeing Chapter 5 Traditional Ethnography and Ethnographic Traditions Chapter 6 Ethnography from Inside Out Chapter 7 Hurried Ethnography for Harried Ethnographers Chapter 8 Ethnography's Many Faces Chapter 9 Does It Matter Whether or nor It's Ethnography? Chapter 10 Ethnography as a Piece of Cake Chapter 11 Writing with Culture Chapter 12 Writing Ethnography Chapter 13 Ethnography Matters: Looking Ahead, Looking Back
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AltaMira Press The Anthropology of Learning in Childhood
Book SynopsisThe Anthropology of Learning in Childhood offers a large, mural-like portrait of childhood across time, culture, species, and environment. Even a casual reading of the literature on childhood will persuade one that learning is a very important topic that commands the attention of tens of thousands of scholars and practitioners. Yet, anthropological research on children has exerted relatively little influence on this community. This book will change that. The book demonstrates that anthropologists studying childhood can offer a description and theoretically sophisticated account of children''s learning and its role in their development, socialization, and enculturation. Further, it demonstrates the particular contribution that children''s learning makes to the construction of society and culture as well as the role that culture-acquiring children play in human evolution. Chapters have been contributed in archaeology, primatology, biological and cultural anthropology, and cross-cultural Trade ReviewDavid Lancy, John Bock, and Suzanne Gaskins have assembled an outstanding set of essays on what children around the world learn, how they learn it, and the many people involved in that learning. This book will be a valuable resource for students, researchers, educators, and all those interested in a broader cross-cultural perspective on these critical issues for understanding children and childhood. -- Jill E. Korbin, Case Western Reserve UniversityThis reference volume is a unique contribution to childhood studies. The eminent contributors present the full breadth of anthropological knowledge about children's learning, from historical and cross-cultural studies to evolutionary biology and life-history theory. By leaving out no perspective or condition, the volume presents a synthesis of what anthropologists know about childhood learning. There is something for everyone here—students, teachers, and researchers alike. Nothing like this book currently exists, and it is unlikely to be matched for many years. -- Jane B. Lancaster, University of New MexicoThe Anthropology of Learning in Childhood shows us how and why we acquire knowledge and understanding of the world. The authors provide excellent overviews of evolutionary perspectives, social processes in learning, the roles of play and work, non-parental teachers, classrooms, and the importance of moral, sociolinguistic, and gender frameworks. The time and context ranges from non-human primates and the Paleolithic, right up to the present. This is a marvelously holistic, landmark book - one of the best books on learning in sociocultural contexts currently available. -- Thomas S. Weisner, University of California, Los AngelesA fascinating collection of anthropological accounts of children's learning in context. From archaeology to evolutionary biology, from primate routines to identity construction, from pottery-making to street crime, this book brings to light the mundane and the extraordinary in children's experiences of learning culture across time and space. It challenges the reader to focus on the real conditions of contemporary children's lives. -- Margaret Eisenhart, University of Colorado at BoulderDavid Lancy, John Bock, and Suzanne Gaskins make an important contribution to our understanding of children’s learning through a unique collection of eighteen essays written by archaeologists, cultural anthropologists, evolutionary anthropologist, and linguist. This volume is noteworthy for its comprehensiveness including chapters examining the archaeological record, nonhuman primates, traditional societies, and children’s learning in adverse environments….As Lancy, Bock, and Gaskins’s book reflects, this scholarship has resulted in a fundamental reformulation of learning including its evolutionary significance, what children learn, and how learning takes place in diverse contexts. * American Journal of Play *Table of ContentsChapter 1. Putting Learning in Context Chapter 2. An Evolutionary Perspective on Learning in Social, Cultural, and Ecological Context Chapter 3. The Cross-Cultural Study of Children's Learning and Socialization: A Short History Chapter 4. Parental Ethnotheories of Children's Learning Chapter 5. Learning through Observation in Daily Life Chapter 6. Work, Play, and Learning Chapter 7. The Role of Adults in Children's Learning Chapter 8. Learning from Other Children Chapter 9. Learning in Schools Chapter 10. Learning Communicative Competence Chapter 11. Learning Morality Chapter 12. Learning Gender Roles Chapter 13. Skill Learning For Survival in Non-Human Primates Chapter 14. Learning the Environment Chapter 15. Learning to Hunt Chapter 16. Learning In and From the Past Chapter 17. Learning on the Streets: Peer Socialization in Adverse Environments Chapter 18. Children's Learning in New Settings
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AltaMira Press Participant Observation
Book SynopsisParticipant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use of participant observation. The authors have written a guide to the collection of systematic data in naturalistic settings - communities in many different cultures - to achieve an understanding of the most fundamental processes and patterns of social life. This book serves as a basic primer for the beginning researcher and as a useful reference and guide for experienced researchers in many fields who wish to reexamine their own skills and abilities in light of best practices of participant observation. This new edition includes discussions of participant observation in nontypical settings, such as the Internet, participant observation in applied research, and ethics of participant observatTrade ReviewParticipant observation lies at the heart of the ethnographic approach to qualitative research. The essence of participant observation is immersion in the settings, the cultural practices and daily activities of people who are the focus of study. Through participant observation, we researchers form relationships with people who teach us to see the world through their eyes. The translation of everyday experience and knowledge acquisition in the field into the rigorous conduct of participation is rare in the world of qualitative inquiry. In this valuable and easy to understand publication, DeWalt and DeWalt, two widely recognized and internationally ethnographers pool their knowledge to offer a comprehensive and structured approach to participant observation that is 'must' reading for initiates and experienced researchers alike. -- Jean J. Schensul, Institute for Community ResearchThis excellent book (1st ed., 2002) about the use of participant observation in anthropological field research goes appreciably beyond this specific topic. In very accessible prose, Kathleen DeWalt (anthropology, Univ. of Pittsburgh) and Billie DeWalt (formerly, director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh) cover in some detail the many aspects of participant observation: its essential nature to the enterprise of anthropology and the preparation for and potential pitfalls of using this approach. The authors also present concepts not strictly associated with participant observation, like validity and reliability, elements of research design, online research, and a strong chapter on data management. In addition, there is discussion of computer indexing and coding, informed consent, and the legal status of anthropological research with reference to who owns field notes and the potential for the subpoena of those notes and the researcher. The authors systematize and demystify note taking and include an appendix with examples of field notes from three projects. There are many apt examples throughout that elucidate the points made. The expansive and timely bibliography is of particular note. An excellent basic methodological reference work for undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals. Summing Up: Essential. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1. What is Participant Observation? Chapter 2. Learning to Be a Participant Observer Chapter 3. Doing Participant Observation: Becoming a Participant Chapter 4. The Costs of Participation: Culture Shock Chapter 5. Doing Participant Observation: Becoming an Observer Chapter 6. Gender and Sex Issues in Participant Observation Chapter 7. Designing Research with Participant Observation Chapter 8. Informal Interviewing in Participant Observation Chapter 9. Writing Field Notes Chapter 10. Analyzing Field Notes Chapter 11. Ethical Concerns in Participant Observation Chapter 12 Appendix: Sample Field Notes Chapter 13 Bibliography
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AltaMira Press,U.S. Participant Observation
Book SynopsisParticipant observation is the foundation of ethnographic research design and supports and complements other types of qualitative and quantitative data collection. Qualitative research in such diverse areas as anthropology, sociology, education, medicine draws on the insights gained through the use of participant observation. The authors have written a guide to the collection of systematic data in naturalistic settings - communities in many different cultures - to achieve an understanding of the most fundamental processes and patterns of social life. This book serves as a basic primer for the beginning researcher and as a useful reference and guide for experienced researchers in many fields who wish to reexamine their own skills and abilities in light of best practices of participant observation. This new edition includes discussions of participant observation in nontypical settings, such as the Internet, participant observation in applied research, and ethics of participant observatTrade ReviewParticipant observation lies at the heart of the ethnographic approach to qualitative research. The essence of participant observation is immersion in the settings, the cultural practices and daily activities of people who are the focus of study. Through participant observation, we researchers form relationships with people who teach us to see the world through their eyes. The translation of everyday experience and knowledge acquisition in the field into the rigorous conduct of participation is rare in the world of qualitative inquiry. In this valuable and easy to understand publication, DeWalt and DeWalt, two widely recognized and internationally ethnographers pool their knowledge to offer a comprehensive and structured approach to participant observation that is 'must' reading for initiates and experienced researchers alike. -- Jean J. Schensul, Institute for Community ResearchThis excellent book (1st ed., 2002) about the use of participant observation in anthropological field research goes appreciably beyond this specific topic. In very accessible prose, Kathleen DeWalt (anthropology, Univ. of Pittsburgh) and Billie DeWalt (formerly, director, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh) cover in some detail the many aspects of participant observation: its essential nature to the enterprise of anthropology and the preparation for and potential pitfalls of using this approach. The authors also present concepts not strictly associated with participant observation, like validity and reliability, elements of research design, online research, and a strong chapter on data management. In addition, there is discussion of computer indexing and coding, informed consent, and the legal status of anthropological research with reference to who owns field notes and the potential for the subpoena of those notes and the researcher. The authors systematize and demystify note taking and include an appendix with examples of field notes from three projects. There are many apt examples throughout that elucidate the points made. The expansive and timely bibliography is of particular note. An excellent basic methodological reference work for undergraduate and graduate students as well as professionals. Summing Up: Essential. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsChapter 1. What is Participant Observation? Chapter 2. Learning to Be a Participant Observer Chapter 3. Doing Participant Observation: Becoming a Participant Chapter 4. The Costs of Participation: Culture Shock Chapter 5. Doing Participant Observation: Becoming an Observer Chapter 6. Gender and Sex Issues in Participant Observation Chapter 7. Designing Research with Participant Observation Chapter 8. Informal Interviewing in Participant Observation Chapter 9. Writing Field Notes Chapter 10. Analyzing Field Notes Chapter 11. Ethical Concerns in Participant Observation Chapter 12 Appendix: Sample Field Notes Chapter 13 Bibliography
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Exploring Everyday Life
Book SynopsisThe numerous tasks and routines that shape our daily existence can seem mundane, even invisibleand yet they play an extremely powerful role in structuring and reproducing society. Exploring Everyday Life casts light on these so-called trivialities, serving as both a guide to the invisible world of the everyday and an instruction manual for first-time explorers.Ehn, Lofgren, and Wilk demonstrate how to use a broad array of ethnographic tools to discover, map, and document new and unexplored territories and guide readers through the process of cultural analysis. Their concrete examples shed light on how a study or paper assignment can evolve and point to how cultural analysis of everyday life can be practically applied in business, government, and other arenas outside of academia.Trade ReviewBooks that teach the art of analyzing a culture and are easy to read are rare. This book fills that gap by making it an everyday experience. For example, in the third chapter, ‘Making the Familiar Strange,’ the goal is to discover what is new and strange within homes of differing cultures. These small details help ethnographers understand what is going on in the lives of the people that they are studying. In another chapter, ‘Sharing a Meal,’ the authors point out how much can be learned by observing a mealtime with a family. The simple act of eating a meal together varies given the combination of cultural expectations and family histories; this is a real learning experience when viewed from an ethnographic perspective. The study of cultural ideals and mores is fraught with difficulties; the authors have broken this into basics that make ethnography doable and fun. Their examples help learners craft their studies step-by-step, as well as give advice on analysis that is both helpful and insightful. A well-researched and highly readable book for both social science and anthropological interests. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Most academic levels/libraries. * CHOICE *This is a wonderful handbook: the chapters are content rich, with a bevy of excellent examples. The authors offer concrete and specific attention to proceeding with research on cultural meaning, cultural objects, and cultural fields. It will be a valuable addition for any number of classes at both the undergraduate and graduate levels: qualitative methods, ethnography, a course on writing in the social sciences, or ones focused on culture, micro-sociology, and/or everyday life. -- Amy L. Best, George Mason UniversityAn easy-to-read and practical guide to understanding how anthropologists study the everyday and to what ends they apply their insights. It offers incredibly accessible writing, with short and straightforward chapters and clear examples. -- Georgina Drew, University of AdelaideExploring Everyday Life is a book to be used, not simply read. The authors encourage us to be more conscious about the unconscious, to see how the ordinary in life is as important as the extraordinary in making us who we are. And they succeed in making ethnographic methods a widely accessible tool of both social analysis and quotidian engagement. Such considered and self-reflective observations of the commonplace not only afford not only a better understanding of the world but allow us to live better within it. -- David W. Montgomery, University of PittsburghA rare and wonderfully elaborate hands-on approach to ethnography and cultural analysis; this text is a source of inspiration on how to convert unnoticed everyday phenomena into cultural analysis. -- Morten Kyed, Aalborg UniversityTable of Contents1—Hidden Worlds Finding the tools From idea to finished product The need for a cultural perspective Analytical strategies Structure of the book 2—The importance of small things The first step: getting going The second step: searching for literature The third step: collecting material The fourth step: the analysis The fifth step: writing 3—Making the familiar strange Making a first attempt Looking for entrances To avoid the predictable Choosing methodological entrances New questions and surprising answers Return to the past A life-history perspective The strange home The home as an art installation The importance of details and activities The advantages of limitation 4—Sharing a meal Table manners The hidden world of the dinner table Forming a family meal Power at the table Class and family history Doing mealtime ethnography Meals as models 5—Do you remember Facebook? Exploring media in everyday life Beginning at the end Analog and digital living Media taking place Virtual intimacy Are you there? Follow the Objects 6—Catching a mood Locating the setting Analytical approaches Touring the senses The station as a sensorium Changing moods Describing atmospheres Intimate moods Changing tracks Sensing the World 7—Crafting wood and words Ethnographic writing Making things with words Autoethnographic writing Describing non-verbal experience Do it by feel Writing DIY: three versions Manual Story Analysis Working knowledge The importance of failures Working and Writing 8—Demystifying fieldwork The classic style Making changes to the classic mold The jungle ideal Where is the field now? Organizing information Past, present, future 9—Taking cultural analysis out into the world The surprise effect Open fieldwork What’s this thing about culture? A double cultural analysis Learning to communicate Time discipline and teamwork Three ways of surprising a client So what? The critical edge References
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University Press of America Turning Adversity to Advantage A History of the
Book SynopsisThis book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.Trade ReviewThe abundant use of archival sources and an intense focus on one group and how that group sought to direct their own destiny amidst a changing and challenging world are the strengths of the volume….Minor's book is an important one. * Southwestern Historical Quarterly *Table of ContentsChapter 1 Maps, Tables, and Figures Chapter 2 Preface Chapter 3 Chapter 1: The Comanche-Lipan War for Control of the High Plains, 1700-1720 Chapter 4 Chapter 2: Lipan-Spanish Contacts at San Antonio, 1720-1730 Chapter 5 Chapter 3: The Lipan War Against the Spanish, 1730-1749 Chapter 6 Chapter 4: Peace with the Spanish in Texas Leads to Tribal Division, 1749-1751 Chapter 7 Chapter 5: The Lipan Missions of San Lorenzo and San Saba, 1751-1759 Chapter 8 Chapter 6: The Lipan Missions on the Upper Nueces River, 1760-1767 Chapter 9 Chapter 7: Dancing the Mitote (War Dance) in Texas and Coahuila, 1760-1772 Chapter 10 Chapter 8: The Apache Campaigns in the Sierra Madres, 1772-1777 Chapter 11 Chapter 9: The Spanish Attempt to Divide and Destroy the Lipans, 1777-1781 Chapter 12 Chapter 10: Lipan Apache Survival Strategies, 1780-1790 Chapter 13 Chapter 11: Juan de Ugalde's War against the Apaches of Coahulia, 1779-1790 Chapter 14 Chapter 12: Ugalde's Legacy: The Lipan Apaches Seek Revenge, 1790-1799 Chapter 15 Chapter 13: The Lipan Role in the Battles for Mexican and Texas Independence, 1800-1836 Chapter 16 Chapter 14: Lipan Apaches and the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845 Chapter 17 Chapter 15: Lipan Relations with the State of Texas, 1846-1851 Chapter 18 Chapter 16: Facing the Reservation: The Fourth Crisis Point in Lipan History, 1852-1860 Chapter 19 Chapter 17: Depredations and Military Response, 1846-1872 Chapter 20 Chapter 18: The War to Annihilate the Lipans in Mexico, 1873-1881 Chapter 21 Chapter 19: The Lipan Apaches Today Chapter 22 Notes Chapter 23 References Cited Chapter 24 Index Chapter 25 About the Author
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AltaMira Press Inuit Whaling and Sustainability
Book SynopsisThis study shows how efforts to curb the wanton slaughter of whales has impacted most severely on the Inuit subsistence hunters, whilst completely failing to stop the industrialized slaughter of whales "for research".Trade ReviewThis is an exceptional book. . . a rare initiative in the field of Arctic cultural ecology combined with clear-eyed and forthright confrontation of issues. . . . The provenance of the book is impressive. The authors are internationally respected experts in the field....The straightforward assertions of the Inuit quoted, most of them speaking contemporarily in this last decade of the millennium, arrest the eye, challenge the conscience, evoke respect, and generate desire for policy reform and international action that will recognize the indigenous rights and sustainable feasibility of Inuit whaling....The book is well-illustrated...[and] has significant implications for people concerned with socioeconomic, ecological and human rights issues not only in the Arctic, but in many other settings in the world. * Practicing Anthropology *A composite work by a panel of authors (including natural resource management scholar Milton M. R. Freeman and renowned Russian Arctic anthropologist Igor I. Krupnik), the text does a remarkably successful job in presenting a trans-regional (Siberian, Alaskan, Canadian) aboriginal perspective on the highly emotional debate concerning whaling and the indigenous whale fishery; <... the text does serve a useful purpose in articulating a position-that of indigenous peoples -which is largely underrepresentedin mainstream western media....For a medium compendium of indigenous arctic whale techniques, Inuit, Whale, and Sustainability in a very good place to begin... -- Eric Wilson * The Great Circle, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1999 *This book is a well-organized presentation of arguments and issues from a perspective that has so far been very limited in print format, making for an intellectually and ethically stimulating read. Bibliographic references are recent and from a wide variety of sources. The reviewer strongly recommends this book to those interested in environmental ethics and natural resource management. The reader will gain access to an Inuit perspective generally not available and a greater understanding and appreciation for their culture. -- Raquel Roizman, (University of Northern British Columbia) * Natural Resources Forum 24 *Inuit, Whaling, and Sustainability makes a persuasive case for attending to the specific needs of Inuit communities in the future regulation of whaling. One hopes that its arguments will actually reach the policymakers whose decisions impact so decisively on these indigenous groups. -- Noel Castree, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester * Ecumene, (4) *The authors demonstrate that whaling provides and requires reinforcement of traditional patterns of obligation/connectedness, leadership, maintenance of cultural connections, validation of elders, and spiritual satisfaction; in addition, Inuit hunting knowledge is essential to understanding sustainable whale management. * CHOICE *It challenges some of the stereotypes prevalent in Southern metropoles concerning the nature of the Inuit-whaling relationship and precisely what the category of aboriginal whaling should consist of a valuable addition to reading lists on the international politics of whaling and a very refreshing read. -- David Scrivner, (Keele University)A composite work by a panel of authors (including natural resource management scholar Milton M. R. Freeman and renowned Russian Arctic anthropologist Igor I. Krupnik), the text does a remarkably successful job in presenting a trans-regional (Siberian, Alaskan, Canadian) aboriginal perspective on the highly emotional debate concerning whaling and the indigenous whale fishery; the text does serve a useful purpose in articulating a position-that of indigenous peoples -which is largely underrepresented in mainstream western media....For a medium compendium of indigenous arctic whale techniques, Inuit, Whale, and Sustainability in a very good place to begin. -- Eric Wilson * The Great Circle, Vol. 21, No. 2, 1999 *This volume is an important contribution to the history of the American West because it puts the cultural anthropology of the American Inuit people into a clear and accessible light. -- Michael Dyer * Journal of the West *
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