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Category: Anthropology
Field Ethnography A Manual for Doing Cultural Anthropology
Crossing Currents Continuity and Change in Latin America
Very accessible and perceptive, it covers a wide range of topics — beginning with a general overview of Latin America (observations about size of land mass, geography, population size and growth rates) and then highlighting some of the cultural characteristics that permit us to talk about ‘Latin America’ — balancing the incredible cultural diversity with some of the overriding features that give at least the appearance of ‘similarity’..
Peasants
This book explores different approaches to peasant studies; the origins of peasantry; major agricultural adaptations; social organizations; aspects of religion and ideology; peasant movements; the peasant’s relation to markets and non-peasant groups; and their problems in the modern world.9780136597070 Provides a comprehensive treatment of technical problems of distributed database systems from a holistic viewpoint. KEYTOPICS: Explores the development of distributed database management systems–focusi.
The House of Lim A Study of a Chinese Family
Fundamentals of Human Ecology
Sex, Gender, and Kinship A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Responding to a growing interest in the nature and place of family in society, this text looks at gender, families, family relationships and the role of larger kin groups from a cross-cultural perspective. It draws upon ethnographic accounts and cross-cultural studies to determine and illustrate possible characteristics and outcomes, highlight options that occur more or less frequently, and—where possible—to account for choices made..
Stages of Human Evolution
Of all the subjects that have provoked the play of human curiosity, few equal our concern with our own prehistoric origins. At the same, time, few subjects have been the target for so much unprofessional speculation. Although the present work does not reduce the quantity of speculations (quite the reverse), it is my hope that they can, technically at least, bear the label of professional speculations..
Doing Historical Archaeology Exercises Using Documentary, Oral, and Material Evidence
Religion and Magic in the Life of Traditional Peoples
Addressing the question: ‘What does religion do for people?’, this text offers a general, comparative review of the religions of traditional societies — of their character and the variations among them. It covers mystical power and its sources; animals and plants in religion; supernatural beings; wizardry; illness and healing; death and the afterlife;, festivals; and more. For sociologists, anthropologists, and all those interested in religion and magic..