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Cambridge University Press Language and Social Relations Structure Use and Social Significance 24 Studies in the Social and Cultural Foundations of Language Series Number 24
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Cambridge University Press A Plague of Sheep
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Cambridge University Press Medicine and Morality in Haiti The Contest for Healing Power 3 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 3
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Cambridge University Press Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity
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Cambridge University Press Border Identities
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Cambridge University Press Kinship in Neckarhausen 17001870
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Cambridge University Press Zoo Conservation Biology Ecology Biodiversity and Conservation
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Cambridge University Press Maternities and Modernities
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Cambridge University Press Kinship in Neckarhausen 17001870
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Cambridge University Press Border Identities
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to the Anthropology of Melanesia
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Cambridge University Press Kinship Networks and Exchange 12 Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences Series Number 12
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Cambridge University Press Property Relations
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Cambridge University Press Questioning Misfortune The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda 4 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press A Cognitive Theory of Cultural Meaning 9 Publications of the Society for Psychological Anthropology Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya
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Cambridge University Press Property Relations
Book SynopsisAnthropology traditionally treats property relationships as social relationships, emphasising that material objects carry cultural meanings. Rejecting liberal economic and Marxist views on property, the contributors to this volume renew the anthropological perspective, applying it to a range of ethnographic cases.Table of ContentsList of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: the embeddedness of property C. M. Hann; 2. 'Sharing is not a form of exchange': an analysis of property-sharing in immediate-return hunter-gatherer societies James Woodburn; 3. Property as a way of knowing on Evenki lands in Arctic Siberia David G. Anderson; 4. Property and social relations in Melanesian anthropology James G. Carrier; 5. The mystery of property: inheritance and industrialization in England and Japan Alan MacFarlane; 6. An unsettled frontier: property, blood and US federal policy Paula L. Wagoner; 7. Property values: ownership, legitimacy and land markets in Northern Cyprus Julie Scott; 8. Property and power in Transylvania's decollectivization Katherine Verdery; 9. Property rights, regulation and environmental protection: some Anglo-Romanian contrasts William Howarth; 10. Dowry and the rights of women to property Jack Goody; 11. Divisions of interest and languages of ownership Marilyn Strathern; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press At Home in the Street
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Cambridge University Press Words at Work and Play Three Decades in Family and Community Life
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Cambridge University Press The Agency of Children
Book SynopsisDavid Oswell uses the idea of children's agency to survey the main issues in childhood studies, including family, schooling, crime, health, consumer culture, work and human rights. He traces the transformation of children and childhood across two centuries and places children's agency in the context of leading theoretical approaches.Trade Review'This book offers a lucid and authoritative reconceptualisation of agency and probes crucial issues surrounding contemporary childhood and childhood studies. A text to think with - and act on.' Kirsten Drotner, University of Southern Denmark'An insightful and very welcome addition to the field, The Agency of Children offers a fresh and distinctive approach to childhood studies. Harmonising past and present with his own clear voice, Oswell develops an original commentary that is a must-read for all who seek to understand children and childhood in contemporary times.' Mary Jane Kehily, The Open University'A hugely significant reworking of the concept of agency with respect to children and childhood. Essential reading for all involved in the field.' Valerie Walkerdine, Distinguished Research Professor, Cardiff UniversityTable of ContentsPart I. Introduction: 1. Introduction; 2. Agency after Ariès: sentiments, natures and spaces; Part II. Social Theories of Children and Childhood: 3. Modern social theories: agency and structure; 4. Partial and situated agency; 5. Subjectivity, experience and post-social assemblages; Part III. Spaces of Experience, Experimentation and Power: 6. Family and household; 7. School and education; 8. Crime and criminality; 9. Health and medicine; 10. Play and consumer culture; 11. Political economies of labour; 12. Rights and political participation; Part IV. Conclusions: 13. Conclusions.
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Cambridge University Press Global South Asians Introducing the modern Diaspora 1
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Cambridge University Press Kinship Law and the Unexpected
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Cambridge University Press Honor and Grace in Anthropology
Book SynopsisThis collection of essays develops a line of thought in anthropology which was opened in the 1960s by the editors (and some of the same contributors) in Honor and Shame: The Values of a Mediterranean Society. The essays, half of them historical and half contemporary, deal with different aspects of honour and grace, and the strategies and transactions by which they can be obtained.Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1. Introduction J. G. Peristiany and Julian Pitt-Rivers; 2. Royalty and ritual in the Middle Ages: coronation and funerary rites in France Catherine Lafages; 3. The court surrounds the King: Louis XIV, the Palatine Princess, and Saint-Simon Emmanuel Leroy Ladurie; 4. Rites as acts of institution Pierre Bourdieu; 5. Religion, world views, social classes, and honor during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain Julio Caro Baroja; 6. The Sophron - a secular saint? Wisdom and the wise in a Cypriot community J. G. Peristiany; 7. The Greek hero J. K. Campbell; 8. Name, blood, and miracles: the claims to renown in traditional Sicily Maria Pia Di Bella; 9. From the death of men to the peace of God: violence and peace-making in the Rif Raymond Jamous; 10. Indarra: some reflections on a Basque concept Sandra Ott; 11. Postscript: the place of grace in anthropology Julian Pitt-Rivers; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatic Women and Body Politics 5 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Bodies and Persons
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Cambridge University Press Questions of Competence
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Cambridge University Press The Archaeology of the Caribbean
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Cambridge University Press Mourning in Late Imperial China
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Cambridge University Press Varieties of Javanese Religion An Anthropological Account 111 Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology Series Number 111
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Cambridge University Press Cannibalism and the Colonial World By Francis Barker published June 2004
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Cambridge University Press Pragmatic Women and Body Politics 5 Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to Theory in Anthropology
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Cambridge University Press Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
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Cambridge University Press Accounting for Tastes Australian Everyday Cultures
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Cambridge University Press Streetlife China
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Cambridge University Press Worlds of Japanese Popular Culture Gender Shifting Boundaries and Global Cultures Contemporary Japanese Society
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Cambridge University Press Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots
Book SynopsisThere is growing interest 'therapeutic narratives', stories which help to explain why people need to create stories with a specific narrative form. This ethnography of a hospital practice of occupational therapy describes how participants transform ordinary clinical interchange into a standardized story-line.Trade Review'Mattingly has clearly moved the conversation about narrative in clinical settings forward. Her accounts and analyses are often so subtle and sensitive that the text moves us in ways that go beyond 'purely' academic writing to experiences that enrich our lives as well as our understandings. Surely this is the most important work we can do in this field.' Literature and Medicine'Poised within the narrative turn in contemporary ethnography but also against its dominant assumptions, Mattingly … argues that such experiences have a narrative or dramatic form prior to and independent of the explicit stories that might later be told … Mattingly's position amounts to something like a Copernican revolution … The dramatic element in therapeutic emplotment is linked to the temporality of human existence, which lends an element of surprise, as neither the occupational therapist nor the patient can know whether they story will end in the way they envision it.' Medical Anthropology Quarterly'Cheryl Mattingly has produced a little masterpiece. Her book brings anthropological theory to bear in a most subtle and knowledgeable way on how occupational therapists help patients who are so severely disabled that they are no longer able to live their lives with the ordinariness and banality to which we all become accustomed. Her focus is principally upon how therapist and patient together create a new and workable life narrative that restores meaning and order to a shattered life. She manages this task with a combination of anthropological astuteness and human compassion that is gripping. And along the way she succeeds in shedding fresh light on such ancient riddles as how life imitates (narrative) art while such arty remains in some respects an imitation of life. This is a book not just for the medical anthropologist or the occupational therapist but for human scientists at large!' Jerome Bruner'Mattingly provides the richest discussion to date of the relevance of narrative theory for many of the most crucial issues of contemporary, studies of culture. Plot, motive, desire, sufferance, reversal and transformation are all found to be features of therapeutic 'rituals of the everyday' and by extension of the achievement of 'significant experience' in the most ordinary social routines. Exquisite reflections on philosophical and literary texts, juxtaposed with captivating stories from the clinic this is a work of maturity and great importance.' Byron Good and Mary-Jo DelVecchio GoodTable of Contents1. Finding narrative in clinical practice; 2. The mimetic question; 3. The checkers game: clinical actions in quest of a narrative; 4. Therapeutic plots; 5. The self in narrative suspense: therapeutic plots and life plots; 6. Some moments are more narrative than others; 7. Therapeutic plots, healing rituals, and the creation of significant experience.
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Cambridge University Press Language and Solitude
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Cambridge University Press Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
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Cambridge University Press Rebellion Community and Custom in Early Modern Germany
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Cambridge University Press Critical Comparisons in Politics and Culture
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Cambridge University Press Carnival Canboulay and Calypso Traditions in the Making
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Cambridge University Press Living and Working with the New Medical Technologies
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Cambridge University Press Biocultural Approaches to the Emotions
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Cambridge University Press Cultures of Relatedness
Book SynopsisAnthropologists discuss changing ideas of relatedness, transformed by radical changes in marriage arrangements, gender relations and new reproductive technologies. We can no longer assume that fundamental social relationships are grounded in 'biology' or 'nature', and this brings into question received wisdom at the heart of the study of kinship.Trade Review'In Cultures of Relatedness, kinship study takes flight once again, soars to new heights, and offers us fresh perspectives on a topic that has long been integral to anthropology.' EthnosTable of ContentsList of illustrations; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: cultures of relatedness Janet Carsten; 2. Chinese patriliny and the cycles of yang and laiwang Charles Stafford; 3. Identity and substance: the broadening bases of relatedness among the Nuer of southern Sudan Sharon Elaine Hutchinson; 4. Sentiment and substance in North Indian forms of relatedness Helen Lambert; 5. Kindreds and descent groups: new perspectives from Madagascar Rita Astuti; 6. How Karembola men become mothers Karen Middleton; 7. 'He used to be my relative': exploring the bases of relatedness among Iñupiat of northern Alaska Barbara Bodenhorn; 8. Including our own Jeanette Edwards and Marilyn Strathern; 9. Figures of relations: reconnecting kinship studies and museum collections Mary Bouquet; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Environmental Politics in Japan
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Cambridge University Press Ethnoarchaeology in Action Cambridge World Archaeology
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