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HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory Of Humans, Pigs, and Souls – An Essay on the
Book SynopsisFor the Yagwoia-Angan people of Papua New Guinea, womba is a malignant power with the potential to afflict any soul with cravings for pig meat and human flesh. Drawing on long-term research among the Yagwoia, and in an analysis informed by phenomenology and psychoanalysis, Jadran Mimica explores the womba complex in its local cultural-existential determinations and regional permutations. He attends to the lived experience of this complex in relation to the wider context of mortuary practices, feasting, historical cannibalism, and sorcery. His account of womba illuminates the moral meanings of Yagwoia selfhood and associated senses of subjectivity and agency. Mimica concludes by reflecting on the recent escalation of concerns with witchcraft and sorcery in Papua New Guinea, specifically in relation to a new wave of Christian evangelism occurring in partnership with the state. Trade Review"Complex spatial and temporal settings define this creative work. . . . Mimica stands out for his linguistic competence and his intense focus on subjectivity. His close reading will likely gain in stature as the region becomes subject to comparative, transformational analysis, a circumstance Mimica’s intense description facilitates. . . . Mimica’s erudition rises on every page." * Pacific Affairs *“For Jadran Mimica, a lecturer at the University of Sydney, womba affliction has its origin in local ideas of kinship, which involve people consuming one another’s bodies and energies to make other bodies and energies. Pork offers a substitute for human flesh, but womba can also be seen in infancy, when the baby is parasitic on its mother in the womb and then at her breast. This ‘appetitive passion’ used to take many forms in Yagwoia culture, including endo and exocannibalism, necrophagy, seminal nurture (institutionalised homosexuality) and the consumption of raw or putrid flesh, both human and pig. Eating and being eaten is what makes the world go round.” * London Review of Books *"This book is original in its subject matter and provides rich and detailed analyses of how morality and selfhood are actualized in the Yagwoia lifeworld." * Anthropos *"This book is an embarrassment of riches both ethnographic and theoretical. The depth and scope of Mimica's ambition are rare. His inimitable writing style carries the reader forward headlong, at times breathlessly. His choice and treatment of topics—Christianity, shamanism, mind, personhood, and subjectivity—are very much of the moment. The presentation and analysis of Yagwoia men's dreams demonstrates why psychoanalysis, skilfully deployed, remains indispensable in ethnography, especially the notion that the outsider, self-aware, steeped in knowledge of and sympathy for the other, is often well-equipped to represent the other's subjectivity. Mimica's fine-grained portraits of individual Yagwoia and their milieux, created over many years, add to the authority of his insights into the Yagwoia life-world." -- Gillian Gillison, author of Between culture and fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands mythology"This is a remarkable text. It is evident that we are in the hands of both a major intellect and a masterful ethnographer. The work is a powerful one." -- Michael Lambek, author of The Ethical Condition: Essays on Action, Person, and Value
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Scottish Universities Press The vow of stability
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Book Publishing Pros Psychedelics A to Z
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Trans Pacific Press Traditional Neighbors Different Modernities
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Trans Pacific Press Affectus
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Sydney University Press Thirty Years in the South Seas
Book SynopsisIn this 900-page work, Parkinson drew together and expanded on the scientific and popular papers he had been publishing since 1887, creating in the process a landmark ethnography of the Bismarck Archipelago.
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Widows of Japan: An Anthropological Perspective
Book SynopsisThis book presents a wide-ranging study of widows in Japan, filtered through the dramatic and complex intersection of women with death. These experiences are portrayed as intensely personal and yet foreshadow momentous societal ramifications.The work represents years of research, numerous personal interviews conducted throughout Japan, and reflects not only historical and current perspectives, but also the diverse voices of the widows who participated in the research. These widows provide a point of focus for a multi-level analysis through the exploration of the inner-workings of the state, the family, and the social relations of gender.The lives of widows are examined as they are shaped by kinship and gender ideologies, class, transformations in language, and, most dramatically, war.
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Others: The Evolution of Human Sociality
Book SynopsisAs the sequel to Groups (2013) and Institutions (2017), Others is the third work produced by a collaborative research project involving primatologists and anthropologists on the evolutionary historical foundations of human sociality. This book presents cutting edge research into the meaning of "the other" and the dynamic process of "othering".Each of the eighteen chapters examines various aspects of "others" via the researchers' specialties, with subject matter ranging from the disappearance of the alpha male in a chimpanzees group to the way the other is produced amongst Canadian Inuit through their relationship with wild animals. What is generated is a unique collection of essays that is both grounded in empirical evidence and strengthened by its intricate engagement with the depth and breadth of theoretical work on the topic of "the other", as it furthers our understanding of the nature of human sociality.Table of Contents Figures Photographs Tables Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction--Finding ""Others"" from an Evolutionary Perspective: The Search for the Evolutionary Historical Foundations of Human Sociality Kaori Kawai Part I: Aspects of Others: Emergence, Formation and Transformation 1 Approving Others and Incomprehensible Others in Primate Society Suehisa Kuroda 2 Are Animals ""Others"" or Are There ""Others"" to Animals? Michio Nakamura 3 When Others Appear Toru Soga 4 ""The Other Who Can Refuse"": A Precondition for Transition to Human Society K?ji Kitamura 5 Empathy and Social Evolution: The Human History of Understanding Others Hitoshige Hayaki Part II: Others and Other Groups: How to Interact with the Counterpart 6 Who Is the Alpha Male? The Appearance of the ""Other"" in Chimpanzee Society Hitonaru Nishie 7 Encountering the ""Other"": How Chimpanzees Face Indeterminacy Noriko Itoh 8 When Pricking Up One's Ears for the Voices of Strangers: Others in Chimpanzee Society Shunkichi Hanamura 9 The Origins of ""Consideration for One's Enemy"": What Kind of Others Are Neighboring Groups to the Dodoth? Kaori Kawai Part III: The Representation and Ontology of Others in Humankind 10 The Ontology of the Other: The Evolutionary Basis of Human Sociality and Ethics in the Formation and Continuation of Inuit Society Keiichi Omura 11 Ancestral Spirits, Witchcraft and Phases of the Other in Everyday Life: The Case of the Bemba People of Zambia Yuko Sugiyama 12 The ""Face"" and the Other: Muslim Women Behind the Veil Ryoko Nishii 13 Morality and Instrumentality: A Practical Approach to Theorizing the Other Masakazu Tanaka Part IV: The Expanding Horizons of the Theory of Others 14 The Spirit as the Other: From the Iban Ethnography Motomitsu Uchibori 15 A History of the Distance Between Humans and Wildlife Gen Yamakoshi 16 Toward the Environmental Others: An Ethological Essay on Equilibrium and Coexistence Kaoru Adachi 17 Society as a ""Story"": Work Sharing, Cooperative Breeding and the Evolution of Otherness Y?ji Takenoshita 18 The Turing Test in the Wild: When Non Human ""Things"" Become Others Ikuya Tokoro Epilogue--Future Agenda, Others as an Affliction: Tripartite Relationships and the Tetrahedral Model Takeo Funabiki Notes Bibliography Index
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Groups: The Evolution of Human Sociality
Book SynopsisGroups: The Evolution of Human Sociality is the product of a collaborative project based at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Researchers primarily involved in three fields—primate sociology and ecology, ecological anthropology, and socio-cultural anthropology—came together to discuss the shape and variations of groups as sympatric entities, and the evolutionary historical foundations that have led to the orientation of groups in present-day human society. To that end, the book turns to non-human primates for comparative purposes to consider the nature of the evolutionary historical foundations of sociality. In place of the past objective of ""reconstructing"" the ecology and society of early humans, the book's contributions instead re-identify the creation and evolution of that which is social and challenge the prevailing theory of groups in socio-cultural anthropology. Specialists on research into human beings and those studying non-human primates develop the debate about groups in the context of their own areas of expertise, at times in ways that extend beyond the boundaries of their fields.Table of Contents Figures Tables Photographs Contributors Introduction—In Pursuit of an Evolutionary Foundation for Human Society (Kaori Kawai) Part I: The Evolution of Sociality Part II: The Organization of Social Groups Part III: The Formation and the Development of "We" Consciousness Part IV: Towards a New Theory of Groups Conclusion—From "Groups" to "Institutions": Summary and Prospects Epilogue—The Legacy of Hitoshi Imamura: The Macro lies in the Micro (Ryoko Nishii) Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
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Kyoto University Press and Trans Pacific Press Institutions: The Evolution of Human Sociality
Book SynopsisAs the sequel to Groups: The Evolution of Human Sociality (2013), this book has broadened the discussion to examine the actions of people, apes, and monkeys in terms of 'what they do' by forming groups or in-groups. In Institutions, the shared processes and practices that facilitate coexistence in groups are examined from an evolutionary historical perspective. Contributors include researchers from the field of anthropology, including sociological primatology, ecological anthropology, and sociocultural anthropology. The chapters examine institutions from a diverse range of perspectives, including: encountering death, children's games, conflict and peace, cattle rustling, and mathematical proofs. In terms of non-human primates, this study focuses on 'pre-institutional' phenomena, such as relations established through 'call and response' patterns and food sharing, and it forms arguments as to whether the concept of institutions can be applied to these settings. As the chapters in this volume establish, the argument that language is a prerequisite for the establishment of institutions has indeed been surpassed.Table of Contents Figures Photographs Contributors Introduction—From "Groups" to "Institutions": In Pursuit of an Evolutionary Foundation for Human Society and Sociality (Kaori Kawai) Part I: The Mechanism of the Formation of Institutions Part II: Concrete Phases of the Emergence of Institutions Part III: Theory for the Evolution of Institutions Part IV: The Expansion of Institution Theory Notes Bibliography Name Index Subject Index
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The Blackburn Press Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature
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Counter-Currents Publishing Some Thoughts on Hitler and Other Essays
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Advanced Reasoning Forum Diccionario de Gestos Dominicanos
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Acton Institute The Humane Economist: A Wilhelm Röpke Reader
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Library Press at UF Impact of Materials on Society
Book SynopsisThis textbook supports the Impact of Materials on Society course and teaching materials, developed with the Materials Research Society. The textbook, which is freely available online (https://ufl.pb.unizin.org/imos/) and for purchase in print-on-demand format, offers an exploration into materials and the relationship with technologies and social structures. The textbook was developed by an interdisciplinary team from Engineering and Liberal Arts and Sciences, including anthropologists, sociologists, historians, media studies experts, Classicists, and more. Chapters include coverage of clay, ceramics, concrete, copper and bronze, gold and silver, steel, aluminum, polymers, and writing materials. Supplemental materials, including lecture slides, assignments, and exams, may be accessed in a companion volume.
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Albatross Publishers The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
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Albatross Publishers Patterns of Culture
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Solution Tree Change Starts with Me: Talking about Race in the
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Newfound Press Ethnocentrism in Its Many Guises: Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings, No. 46
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Amarna Books and Media On the Slopes of Eden
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Universitas Press The Tale of the Living Vampyre
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BoD - Books on Demand Anahuac
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BoD - Books on Demand Les anciennes civilisations de lInde
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BoD - Books on Demand Beacon Lights of History
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BoD - Books on Demand Ethnology of the British Islands
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BoD - Books on Demand Paroles de Sagesse Un chemin pour lhumanité
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BoD - Books on Demand Décoder le Japon
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Prodinnova Moeurs et coutumes des Mélanésiens
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Prodinnova Une théorie scientifique de la culture
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Prodinnova Les dynamiques de lévolution culturelle
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ÉDITIONS AUTANT ÉCRIRE Démocratisation de la paix en côte divoire
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp HISPANITAS Numéro 3 Décembre 2023
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Vorwärts zurück nach Schilda
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Reciprocity in Human Societies: From Ancient Times to the Modern Welfare State
Book SynopsisPresenting new insights into reciprocity, this book combines Marcel Mauss’s well-known gift theory with Barrington Moore’s idea of mutual obligations linking rulers and the ruled. Teasing out the interrelatedness of these approaches, Reciprocity in Human Societies suggests that evolutionary psychology reveals a human tendency for reciprocity and collaboration, not only in a mutually cooperative way but also through increasing retributive moral emotions. The book discusses various historical societies and the different models of the current welfare state—Nordic (social democratic), conservative, and liberal— and the repercussions of the neoliberal policies of tax havens, tax cuts, and austerity with a cross-disciplinary approach that bridges evolutionary psychology, sociology, and social anthropology with history.Trade Review“The book has many merits, and it can be warmly recommended to all researchers, teachers and students in wide fields of related research. Kujala and Danielsbacka clearly provide new insights into reciprocity by … shedding light on the questions of why and how reciprocity has played an important role in premodern and contemporary societies and will continue to do so in the future.” (Hans Hämäläinen, Finnish Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 53, 2018)Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. Inca and Maya Reciprocity.- 3. The Indian Gift and Village Servants.- 4. Moral Obligations in Early Modern Japan.- 5. Gift Exchange and Reciprocity in the Nordic Countries.- 6. Reciprocity in the French Army in the First World War and in the Finnish Army in 1941-44.- 7. The Modern Welfare State.- 8. Inequality in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries.- 9. Reciprocity Past and Present.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG The Urban Gardens of Havana: Seeking
Book SynopsisThis book relates stories of everyday life revolving around small-scale urban gardens in Central Havana and focusing particularly on that of Marcelo, a seventy-four-year-old revolutionary and gardener. The urban gardens are contested spaces: though monitored and controlled by Cuban state institutions, they also offer possibilities of crafting life in resistance. The experiences the authors narrate are not ‘thick descriptions,’ linked to larger political issues, but rather rhizomatic observations that highlight the relationships between humans and non-humans within the nature-culture debate. Using these experiences, the authors argue that ‘the political’ reaches beyond the affairs of state and governance and should be seen as an all-encompassing part of life. The authors thereby invite the social sciences to focus on the microscopic and the day-to-day to illuminate how the political affairs of lives can be imagined differently. Trade Review“The Urban Gardens of Havana offers an insightful, detailed, theoretically rigorous and imaginative account of the relationships between urban farmers, the state and nonhuman entities in Cuba … .” (Sahib Singh, LSE Review of Books, blogs.lse.ac.uk, November 8, 2019)Table of ContentsPrologue: Whose Planet is it Anyway?Chapter 1. Introduction: Step into my GardenAnthropological GardeningThe Map into the GardenChapter 2. Intervening, Correcting, RewardingHow It All BeganRevolutionary Fruits and Ideologized VegetalbesState CommunismThe Prettiest Garden in TownState Control of Society or Social Control of the State?ConclusionChapter 3. The GardenThe Politics of the GardenSmall, Big, Wide and Narrow: The Urban Gardens of HavanaIntimate ExperiencesNon-human PerformancesThe Human-Non-human RelationshipCaring Collaborations with PlantsChildren of the GardenlandA House is Not a HomeReverberating GardentsTangling Them TogetherChapter 4. Living in a Non-human's WorldThe Nature We Live ByBecoming the Garden(er)Freedom and Some Gentle ResistanceThe Intimate Quality of BeingBodily LearningGently, Contested, Entangled Freedoms?Stories of FreedomEntangling Concluding RemarksChapter 5. Conclusion: Finally, How Does Everything Grow Together?
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume
Book SynopsisThis book is an ethnohistorical reconstruction of the establishment in New Zealand of a rare case of Maori home-rule over their traditional domain, backed by a special statute and investigated by a Crown commission the majority of whom were Tūhoe leaders. However, by 1913 Tūhoe home-rule over this vast domain was being subverted by the Crown, which by 1926 had obtained three-quarters of their reserve. By the 1950s this vast area had become the rugged Urewera National Park, isolating over 200 small blocks retained by stubborn Tūhoe "non-sellers". After a century of resistance, in 2014 the Tūhoe finally regained statutory control over their ancestral domain and a detailed apology from the Crown.Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction1. A Brief Historical Overview2. Ngāi Tūhoe and Te Urewera3. Historical Background of the Urewera District Native Reserve4. A Preview of the Following ChaptersPart I: Tūhoe hapū and the Establishment of the Urewera District Native ReserveChapter 2:The Tūhoe rohe pōtae and the Urewera District Native Reserve Commission 1. The general procedures and findings of the commission2. The legitimacy of the Commission among Tūhoe Chapter 3: Difficulties of the commission defining Urewera blocks by hapū1. Introduction2. Changes in identification of Urewera hapū 1896-19073. Procedural precedents and compromises in the Te Waipotiki case4. Establishing a system for assignment of relative shares5. The resolution to expedite hearings and merge claims6. The aborted plan for radical block amalgamationsChapter 4: The Tamaikoha hapū branch: internal social organization1. Introduction: the Tamaikoha kāwai or hapū branch2. Sibling groups and surnames3. Spouses, mothers, marriages, and land rights 4. Difficulties determining hapū affiliations of the Tamaikoha hapū branchChapter 5: The Tamaikoha hapū branch: hapū affiliations1. Introduction2. Potential and active hapū affiliations3. Ngāi Tokotuai hapū and claims to Tauwhare Manuka and Pukepohatu blocks4. Te Urewera hapū and the claims to Whaitiripapa block5. Ngāti Tāwhaki hapū and the claims to Tarapounamu-Matawhero block6. Further awards without formal claims7. Block committee appointments8. ConclusionChapter 6: Tūhoe hapū organization and the amalgamation plan1. Introduction2. The Ōhāua te Rangi amalgamation3. The Parekohe amalgamation4. ConclusionPart II: Kinship and power in Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana 1899-1913Chapter 7: The Ruatāhuna-Waikaremoana migrant marriage alliance by 18981. Introduction2. The migrant marriage alliance between Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana areas3. Kinship, affinity, and political activities of marriage alliance leaders4. ConclusionChapter 8: Confrontations over Waikaremoana and Ruatāhuna 1899-19071. Introduction2. Investigation of the Waikaremoana block 1899 - 19073. Investigation of the Ruatāhuna block 1899-19074. ConclusionChapter 9: The Ruatāhuna Partition, 19121. Introduction2. Manawarū: the 'internal boundary dispute'3. Numia Kererū builds his case4. ConclusionChapter 10: Some Plausible Explanations1. Introduction2. Behind the scenes of the Ruatāhuna and Waikaremoana hearings 1900-19033. The emergence of Numia Kererū's strategy 1903-19074. Arranging succession to Te Whenuanui II's title5. ConclusionPart III: Conclusion Chapter 11: A Contemporary Retrospect: Getting to Know Ngāi Tūhoe1. 'Kaupois' lost in Te Urewera2. Tatau pounamu?: belatedly understanding some marriages 1890s - 1950s3. The 1983 Tekaumārua at Ōhāua
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Design Ethnography: Epistemology and Methodology
Book SynopsisThis open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire project-specific knowledge, which happens mostly intuitively in practice. When this knowledge becomes the subject of reflection and explication, it strengthens the discipline of design and makes it more open to interdisciplinary dialogue. Through the use of the ethnographic method in design, this book shows how design researchers can question the certainties of the everyday world, deconstruct reality into singular aesthetic and semantic phenomena, and reconfigure them into new contexts of signification. It shows that design ethnography is a process in which the epistemic and creative elements flow into one another in iterative loops. The goal of design ethnography is not to colonize the discipline of design with a positivist and objectivist scientific ethos, but rather to reinforce and reflect upon the explorative and searching methods that are inherent to it. This innovative book is of interest to design researchers and professionals, including graphic artists, ethnographers, visual anthropologists and others involved with creative arts/media. Table of ContentsChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. The Blind Spot.- Chapter 3. The Everyday World and Intersubjectivity.- Chapter 4. Design Research: Immersion and Intervention.- Chapter 5. Methods and Aspects of Field Research.- Chapter 6. Analysis.- Chapter 7. Representation and reporting.- Chapter 8. Epilogue.
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Springer Unsung Stories of Black Womens Activism in the UK
Book SynopsisWe are Descendants of the Windrush Generation.- The Legacy of Black Women's Activism.- Cultural Expressions of Resilience.- Ancestral Journeys and Diasporic Connections.- Loving Body, Skin and Hair.- Sowing Seeds of Success.- The Politics of Sisterhood.- Reflections.- References.
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Springer The Fear of Erring
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- Losing Sight.- Mistrust.- The Heat Is On.- Ignorance.- Can't Calm Down.- Imagination.- In Another World.- Final Remarks.
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Palgrave Macmillan Maasai Childhood
Book SynopsisPart I: Chapter 1: Childhood and Parenting Complex.- Chapter 2: Pastoralism and Pastoralist Children in East Africa.- Part II: Chapter 3: Birth and Early Childcare in Maasai Society.- Chapter 4: The Spheres of Life and Daily Activities of Maasai Children.- Chapter 5: Childhood Play in Maasai Society.- Part III: Chapter 6: Boys' Ways of Learning, Developmental Trajectories, and Life Histories.- Chapter 7: Girls' Ways of Learning, Developmental Trajectories, and Life Histories.- Chapter 8: Reframing the Past and Future of Pastoralist Childhood.
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Palgrave Macmillan Parallel Lives
Book SynopsisChapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Three property and political regimes.- Chapter 3. The villagers before WWII.- Chapter 4. Lives under state socialism.- Chapter 5. Contrasting the first with the second biological generation.- Chapter 6. Toward a European Union village.- Chapter 7. Contrasting the second with the third biological generation.- Chapter 8. Conclusions.
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Palgrave Macmillan Anthropologys Philosophy
Book SynopsisIntroduction.- 1: Human Properties.- 2: Personal Experience.- 3: Social Inquiry.- 4: Accommodating Otherness.- 5: Afterword.
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