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Cambridge University Press Undermining the Japanese Miracle
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Cambridge University Press Tales of Hi and Bye Greeting and Parting Rituals Around the World
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Cambridge University Press Death in Berlin
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Cambridge University Press Meditation in Modern Buddhism Renunciation and Change in Thai Monastic Life
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Cambridge University Press Society and Death in Ancient Egypt
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Cambridge University Press An Anthropology of Names and Naming
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Cambridge University Press Rural Hausa
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Marriage in Contemporary China
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Cambridge University Press Whitefella Comin
Book SynopsisFirst published in 1992, Whitefella Comin' depicts life at Doomadgee, an Aboriginal settlement administered by Brethren missionaries from the early 1930s until 1983. In addressing the structures and processes of power relations between Aborigines and Whites, the author develops an analysis of resistance and accommodation on the part of Aboriginal people.Table of ContentsPreface; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. Doomadgee: the politics of colonial social relations; 2. 'Wild time': a history of coercion and resistance; 3. Station and fringe-dwelling life; 4. Doomadgee mission: institutionalisation and a new form of colonial struggle; 5. Whitefella comin': power relations and the different domains; 6. Politics and identity within the Aboriginal domain; 7. Authority relations, the missionary staff and Aboriginal consciousness; 8. Councillors, 'Yellafellas' and the influence of colonial ideology; 9. Christianity, domination and resistance; 10. Coercion, resistance and accommodation in colonial social relations; Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
Book SynopsisPart of a resurgence in the comparative study of ancient societies, this book presents a variety of methods and approaches to comparative analysis through the examination of wide-ranging case studies. The diverse topics and regions covered in the book contribute to the growing understanding of variation and change in ancient complex societies.Table of Contents1. Comparative archaeology: a commitment to understanding variation all contributors; 2. Approaches to comparative analysis in archaeology Michael E. Smith and Peter Peregrine; 3. Comparative frames for the diachronic analysis of complex societies: next steps Gary M. Feinman; 4. What it takes to get complex: food, goods, and work as shared cultural ideals form the beginning of sedentism Monica L. Smith; 5. Challenges for comparative study of early complex societies Robert D. Drennan and Christian E. Peterson; 6. Patterned variation in regional trajectories of community growth Christian E. Peterson and Robert D. Drennan; 7. The genesis of monuments in island societies Michael J. Kolb; 8. Power and legitimation: political strategies, typology and cultural evolution Peter Peregrine; 9. The strategies of provincials in empires Barbara L. Stark and John K. Chase; 10. Households, economies, and power in the Aztec and Inka imperial provinces Timothy Earle and Michael E. Smith; 11. Low-density, agrarian-based urbanism: scale, power, and ecology Roland Fletcher; 12. Archaeology, early complex societies, and comparative social science history Michael E. Smith.
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Cambridge University Press Public Justice and the Anthropology of Law
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Cambridge University Press The Marrying of Anne of Cleves
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Cambridge University Press Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
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Cambridge University Press Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
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Cambridge University Press Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
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Cambridge University Press Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
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Cambridge University Press Women and Family in Contemporary Japan
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Cambridge University Press The Wild Bull and the Sacred Forest
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Cambridge University Press Chinese Festivals Introductions to Chinese Culture
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Cambridge University Press Shared Wealth and Symbol
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology Society and Identity in Modern Japan
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Cambridge University Press Women and Family in Contemporary Japan
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Cambridge University Press Language across Difference
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Cambridge University Press The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation
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Cambridge University Press A History of the Khipu 94 Cambridge Latin American Studies Series Number 94
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Cambridge University Press The Comparative Archaeology of Complex Societies
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Cambridge University Press The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection
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Cambridge University Press Pul Eliya
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Cambridge University Press Bedouin Justice Laws and Customs amongst the Egyptian Bedouin
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Cambridge University Press Macedonian Folklore
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Cambridge University Press Man
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Cambridge University Press Religion and Politics in Muslim Society
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Cambridge University Press Caste Society and Politics in India from the Eighteenth Century to the Modern Age 3 The New Cambridge History of India
Book SynopsisAdopting an historical and anthropological approach, the book seeks to account for the development and persistence of India's caste system over 350 years. Unlike many studies of the subject which are highly polemical or too technical for non-specialists, this volume is intended for a student and general market.Trade Review'The book is extraordinary in the diversity of themes that it handles and the chronological span it covers. ... What emerges is an extraordinarily nuanced understanding of caste that satisfies the historian and provokes the social anthropologist.' Dr Seema Alavi, The Book Review'Susan Bayley deserves praise for attempting to explain how caste in India has come to mean what it does today. Her analysis covers almost the entire Indian subcontinent, something which today is a rarity, given the current trend of ever more narrowly focused studies.' The Journal of Peasant StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Historical origins of a 'caste society'; 2. The 'Brahman Raj': kings and service people, c. 1700–1830; 3. Western 'Orientalists and the Colonial perception of caste'; 4. Caste and the modern nation: incubus or essence; 5. The everyday experience of caste in Colonial India; 6. Caste debate and the emergence of Gandhian Nationalism; 7. State policy and 'reservations': the politicization of caste-based social welfare goals; 8. Caste in the everyday life of Independent India; 9. 'Caste wars' and the mandate of violence; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press The Indian Princes and their States 6 The New Cambridge History of India
Book SynopsisThis is a fascinating portrait of the princes of India from their pre-colonial origins to their decline after 1947. Frequently caricatured as British stooges, Ramusack argues that the princes were not a British creation. Many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable autonomy until the distintegration of the princely states.Trade Review'Barbara Ramusack's The Indian Princes and their States is a significant contribution to the history of princely India and the nature of indirect rule under British paramountcy … The Indian Princes and their States is a long overdue treatment of princely India during the colonial period … Her research is rich, interweaving primary literary and oral sources, colonial and postcolonial histories, archival photographs, paintings, maps, and references to literature, film and music. Her prose is readable; her language concise and clear. Furthermore, there is a sense of this scholar's deep interest in her topic … It is a vital resource on an area of Indian history that has often been neglected.' Journal of the Oxford University History Society'… this is [a] good book and deserves a wide readership.' The Muslim World Book Review'Ramusack is to be commended …' Review in History'There are few scholars with greater qualifications to undertake this survey study of the states than Barbara Ramusack. One of the first and one of the most significant scholars to examine the states seriously, she brings to this project a long familiarity with both the scholarship and the research challenges. … Ramusack's rich personal research achievement enriches and adds credibility to the usual survey treatment of the other volumes in this series. Clearly, here is one of the best in the New Cambridge History of India set. … richly textured … a complex and important book, simultaneously a grand introductory volume to the Indian princes accessible to the neophyte (the focus of the Cambridge series) and a cautionary and inspirational test for those engaged in research on the states … masterful …' The Journal of Asian Studies'… a considerable scholarly achievement … Broad-ranging in its coverage, both geographically and thematically, it will be an important reference work for all those interested in modern South Asian history.' Contemporary South Asia'This outstanding book fills a glaring gap in India historiography; it is the result of thorough research in archives and the literature and is very likely to achieve the status of a classic contribution … a well documented history of colonialism in India from a new perspective. They include important surveys of research done or still missing, of discrepancies in British administration and diversity of the Indian States. The author's rigorous sense of nuances helps her to draw an authoritative picture of many aspects of the often over-simplified princely positions … this major work was indeed written in the spirit of the Rudolphs' 'modernity of tradition' and Benedict Anderson's approach to history. It is a 'must'.' Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History'… not only an important contribution to South Asia's modern history, but a fine synthesis of academic research done in the past decades. Ramusack's book will encourage historians of South Asia to take a different view of the princely states. Her well written opus thus serves as a point of departure for an, ultimately, new writing of South Asia's history.' Internationales AsienfoumTable of ContentsList of illustrations; General editor's preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Map; 1. Introduction: Indian princes and British imperialism; 2. Princely states prior to 1800; 3. The British construction of indirect rule; 4. The theory and experience of indirect rule in colonial India; 5. Princes as men, women, rulers, patrons and Oriental stereotypes; 6. Princely states: administrative and economic structures; 7. Princely states: society and politics; 8. Federation or integration?; Epilogue; Bibliographical essay; Glossary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Untouchable as Himself
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Cambridge University Press Structural Models in Anthropology 46 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 46
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Cambridge University Press Structuralist Interpretation of Biblical Myth
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Cambridge University Press The Category of the Person
Book SynopsisThe concept that people have of themselves as a 'person' is one of the most intimate notions that they hold. Yet the way in which the category of the person is conceived varies over time and space. In this volume, anthropologists, philosophers, and historians examine the notion of the person in different cultures, past and present. Taking as their starting point a lecture on the person as a category of the human mind, given by Marcel Mauss in 1938, the contributors critically assess Mauss's speculation that notions of the person, rather than being primarily philosophical or psychological, have a complex social and ideological origin. Discussing societies ranging from ancient Greece, India, and China to modern Africa and Papua New Guinea, they provide fascinating descriptions of how these different cultures define the person. But they also raise deeper theoretical issues: What is universally constant and what is culturally variable in people's thinking about the person? How can these vTable of ContentsPreface; 1. A category of the human mind: the notion of person; the notion of self Marcel Mauss (translated by W.D. Halls); 2. The category of the person: a reading of Mauss's last essay N. J. Allen; 3. Categories, concepts or predicaments? Remarks on Mauss's use of philosophical terminology Steven Collins; 4. Marcel Mauss and the quest for the person in Greek biography and autobiography A. Momigliano; 5. A modified view of our origins: the Christian beginnings of modern individualism Louis Dumont; 6. Person and individual: some anthropological reflections J. S. La Fontaine; 7. Self: public, provate. Some African representations Godfrey Lienhardt; 8. Between the earth and heaven: conceptions of the self in China Mark Elvin; 9. Purity and power among the Brahmans of Kashmir Alexis Sanderson; 10. Of masks and men Martin Hollis; 11. An alternative social history of the self Michael Carrithers; 12 The person Charles Taylor; Conclusion; Steven Lukes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Female Power and Male Dominance On the Origins of Sexual Inequality
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Cambridge University Press Hunter and Habitat in the Central Kalahari Desert
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Cambridge University Press Sexual Meanings
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Cambridge University Press Politics and History in Band Societies
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Cambridge University Press Anthropologists at Home in North America
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Cambridge University Press The Heart Grown Bitter
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Cambridge University Press Literacy in Theory and Practice
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Cambridge University Press Law and Economic Organization A Comparative Study of Preindustrial Studies
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Cambridge University Press Production and Reproduction A Comparative Study of the Domestic Domain
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