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Cambridge University Press Prey Into Hunter
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Cambridge University Press Human Motives and Cultural Models 1 Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Series Number 1
Book SynopsisA full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modelled on animal behaviour, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The result has been insufficient appreciation of the role of culture in human motivation and a truncated view of culture as disembodied knowledge. In this volume, anthropologists have attempted a different approach, seeking to integrate knowledge, desire, and action in a single explanatory framework. This research builds upon recent work in cognitive anthropology on cultural models, that is, shared cognitive schemas through which human realities are constructed and interpreted, while also drawing upon insights from developmental psychology, psychoanalytic theory, and social theory. Most of the research described here was conducted in the United StateTrade Review'This useful, at times exciting, collection revives the integrationist vision of culture of Weber, Benedict and geertz …' David Lipset, Current Anthropology' … a major contribution to psychological anthropology … sure to be a significant reference point for anthropological theory for some time to come.' American AnthropologistTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; 1. Models and motives Claudia Strauss; Part I. Cultural Models as Motives: 2. Schemas and motivation Roy G. D'Andrade; 3. Ghost busters in anthropology Richard A. Shweder; Part II. How Do Cultural Models Become Motives?: 4. How cultural systems become desire: a case study of American romance Dorothy C. Holland; 5. The motivational force of self-understanding: evidence from wives' inner conflicts Naomi Quinn; 6. The directive force of morality tales in a Mexican community Holly F. Mathews; 7. Learning to be an American parent: how cultural models gain directive force Sara Harkness, Charles M. Super and Constance H. Keefer; Part III. Cultural Models as Motives Reconsidered: 8. Motivated models Catherine Lutz; 9. What makes Tony run? Schemas as motives reconsidered Claudia Strauss; 10. Afterword Roy G. D'Andrade; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Celebrations of Death
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Cambridge University Press Medicine Rationality and Experience
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Cambridge University Press After Nature
Book SynopsisAfter Nature is a timely account of fundamental constructs in English kinship at a moment when advances in reproductive technologies are raising questions about the natural basis of kinship relations.Trade Review' … her social critique, her commitment to environmental issues, and above all, her readiness to tackle all-encompassing and provocative themes, makes her book very stimulating reading.' The Times Literary Supplement'This is an innovatory work - a cultural account of kinship in England has not previously been attempted. Undoubtedly a tour de force …' Sociology of Health and IllnessTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface: making explicit; 1. Individuality and diversity; 2. Analogies for a plural culture; 3. The progress of polite society; 4. Greenhouse effect; Recapitulation: nostalgia from a postplural world; Footnotes; References.
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Cambridge University Press Rituals of Royalty
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Cambridge University Press South Coast New Guinea Cultures History Comparison Dialectic 89 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 89
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Cambridge University Press The Cultural Relations of Classification An Analysis of Nuaulu Animal Categories from Central Seram 91 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 91
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Cambridge University Press Culture and Human Development The Selected Papers of John Whiting 6 Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Rethinking Religion
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Cambridge University Press The Anthropology of Numbers Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 70
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Cambridge University Press Chiefdoms Power Economy And Ideology School of American Research Advanced Seminars
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Cambridge University Press Undermining the Japanese Miracle
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Cambridge University Press Social Intelligence and Interaction
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Cambridge University Press The Development of Cognitive Anthropology
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Cambridge University Press From Madrid to Purgatory
Book SynopsisThis is the first full-length study of Spanish attitudes towards death and the afterlife during the peak years of the Counter-Reformation. It includes detailed accounts of the ways in which the 'good' deaths of King Philip II and Saint Teresa of Avila were interpreted by contemporaries.Trade Review'This is a finely researched, lucidly written and carefully nuanced study.' Henry Kamen, The Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsPrologue: death and the sun; Part I. Eager for Heaven: Death and Testamentary Discourse in Madrid, 1520–1599: 1. Wills and the history of death in Madrid; 2. Approaching the divine tribunal; 3. Relinquishing one's body; 4. Impressing God and neighbor; 5. Planning for the soul's journey; 6. Aiding the needy, aiding oneself; 7. Conclusion; Part II. The King's Dissolving Body: Philip II and the Royal Paradigm of Death: 1. King Philip and his palace of death; 2. The king's many requiems; 3. Drawing lessons from the king's death; 4. Defending the faith through ritual; 5. Death, the Spanish monarchy, and the myth of sacredness; 6. Conclusion; Part III. The Saint's Heavenly Corpse: Teresa of Avila and the Ultimate Paradigm of Death: 1. From Alba to Heaven; 2. Come sweet death, come swift dying; 3. Imperishable flesh, incomparable wonder; 4. Earthbound no longer; 5. Saint Teresa's apparitions; 6. Conclusion; Epilogue: in death as in life: from the daily rounds of Hell to the vestibule of Heaven.
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Cambridge University Press The Roads of Chinese Childhood
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Cambridge University Press French Bourgeois Culture
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Cambridge University Press Animal to Edible
Book SynopsisWhy do we find it necessary to slaughter living animals in order to enjoy their flesh? And why does this act offend our sensibilities, without necessarily making us into vegetarians? We no longer tolerate sacrifices, public butchering during festivals, butchers operating openly in the middle of our cities. Today, animals are killed in invisible abattoirs, set a good distance from our normal activities. This recent separation between the slaughter-house and the butcher's establishment is somehow essential to the modern meat diet. In her study of abattoirs in south-west France, NoÃlie Vialles brings to light a complex system of avoidances. Her analysis reveals that beyond the specific denial of the work of the abattoirs lies a whole system of symbolic representations of blood, human beings and animals, a symbolic code that determines the way in which we prepare domestic animals for the table.Trade Review"...a truly fascinating piece of history and ethnography....This book is not for the faint of heart, but it is an excellent work on a subject which has much more to it than meets the eye." Richard Lobban, AnthrozoösTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. A place that is no-place; 2. Flaying the animal: the disjunctions involved; 3. Flaying the animal: the patient metamorphosis; 4. The shedding of blood; 5. Men and animals; Conclusion.
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Cambridge University Press Spirit Possession and Personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg 94 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 94
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Cambridge University Press The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya 84 African Studies Series Number 84
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Cambridge University Press A Death in the Tiwi Islands
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Cambridge University Press Education and Identity in Rural France The Politics of Schooling 98 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 98
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Cambridge University Press Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt
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Cambridge University Press Growing Up Fatherless in Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press ceremoniesofpossessionineuropesconquestofthenewworld14921640
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Cambridge University Press Climate Affluence and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Language Migration and Identity
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Cambridge University Press Baptism and Change in the Early Middle Ages c.200c.1150
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Cambridge University Press From Madrid to Purgatory
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Cambridge University Press DeIndustrialization SocialCultural And Political Aspects 10 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 10
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Cambridge University Press Identity through History
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Cambridge University Press Schizophrenia Culture and Subjectivity
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Cambridge University Press Uncovering Labour in Information Revolutions 17502000 Volume 11 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 11
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Cambridge University Press Psychological Anthrop Reconsid
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Cambridge University Press Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press The Gift of Generations
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Cambridge University Press Studying Gender in Classical Antiquity
Book SynopsisInvestigates the ideals, practices and performance of gender in the ancient classical world, exploring archaeological, visual and written sources. Essential reading for gender specialists from a wide range of disciplines and an ideal introduction for undergraduate and postgraduate readers studying gender in the past.Trade Review'Foxhall, a prominent archaeologist and scholar on gender in antiquity, offers a fine overview of gender in classical Greece and Rome.' Choice'… well written, entertaining, and informative, and the author is clear and concise.' Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of Contents1. Gender and the study of classical antiquity; 2. Households; 3. Demography; 4. Bodies; 5. Wealth; 6. Space; 7. Religion; 8. Conclusions; Bibliographic essay.
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Cambridge University Press Psychological Anthropology Reconsidered 8 Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle 101 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 101
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Cambridge University Press Trials of Nation Making
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Cambridge University Press Religion in Context
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Worlds Ancient Languages
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Cambridge University Press Overlooking Nazareth The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee 105 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 105
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Cambridge University Press Misreading the African Landscape
Book SynopsisAfrican forest landscapes are often considered as degraded. However, this fascinating 1996 study reveals how inhabitants have enriched their land when scientists believe they have damaged it. It provides a framework for ecological anthropology, and a challenge to old assumptions about the African landscape.Trade Review'This is a bold and important book, an analytical tour de force. It mounts a forceful attack against the received wisdom on deforestation and the spread of the desert.' Wendy James and Richard P. Werbner Amaury Talbot Prize 1997'Misreading the African Landscape is a powerful and ambitious book which offers a compelling new paradigm of research method and management philosophy.' Journal of African History'Misreading the African Landscape is a powerful and ambitious book which offers a compelling new paradigm of research method and management philosophy … No doubt Fairhead and Leach seek to inspire an audience of social scientists and policy specialists - they doubtlessly will do so. Yet, more than anyone, I hope historians will be the ones responding to this superb example of environmental research.''James Fairhead and Melissa Leach provide a splendid example of the new genre in a thoroughly researched and well-presented case study of the 'islands' of Kissidougou.'Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Convictions of forest loss in policy and ecological science; 2. Forest gain: historical evidence of vegetation change; 3. Settling a landscape: forest islands in regional social and political history; 4. Ecology and society in a Kuranko village; 5. Ecology and society in a Kissi village; 6. Enriching a landscape: working with ecology and deflecting successions; 7. Accounting for forest gain: local land use, regional political economy and demography; 8. Reading forest history backwards: a century of environmental policy; 9. Sustaining reversed histories: the continual production of views of forest loss; 10. Towards a new forest-savanna ecology and history.
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Cambridge University Press Religion in Context
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Cambridge University Press Managing Existence in Naples Morality Action and Structure 104 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 104
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Cambridge University Press Trials of Nation Making
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