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Recognizing Complexity in Bali
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2012
Along rivers in Bali, small groups of farmers meet regularly in water temples to manage their irrigation systems. They have done so for a thousand years. Over the centuries, water temple networks have expanded to manage the ecology of rice terraces at the scale of whole watersheds. Although each group...
Living House
An Anthropology of Architecture in South-East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2012
The Living House is a pioneering work by respected anthropologist Roxana Waterson that has become a classic in its field. It is first book of its kind to present a detailed picture of houses within the complex social and symbolic fabric of indigenous South-East Asian peoples.
The main focus...
The Orang Suku Laut of Riau, Indonesia
The inalienable gift of territory
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Land reform has been an indisputable part of Indonesian revolution. The consequent execution of development programmes for nation-building have provoked intense hostility over territorial rights. Global market forces in Indonesia have seen increasing flows of transnational investments, technology...
The Agency of Things in Medieval and Early Modern Art
Materials, Power and Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
This volume explores the late medieval and early modern periods from the perspective of objects. While the agency of things has been studied in anthropology and archaeology, it is an innovative approach for art historical investigations. Each contributor takes as a point of departure active things:...
Unbound
How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.
Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools...
by Michael Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Journeys through the Congo, Sierra Leone and Outback Australia in an inventive memoir by a Commonwealth Poetry Prize-winning ethnographer. The Accidental Anthropologist is a fascinating, impeccably written memoir, or more accurately, a series of fragments. Compelling and absorbing as well as intense...
Reel World
An Anthropology of Creation
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Reel World explores what happens to life when everything begins to look and feel like cinema. Drawing on years of fieldwork with Tamil filmmakers, artists, musicians, and craftsmen in the south Indian movie studios of "Kollywood," Anand Pandian examines how ordinary moments become elements...
The Unconquered
In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2011
The extraordinary true story of a journey into the deepest recesses of the Amazon to track one of the planet's last uncontacted indigenous tribes.
Even today there remain tribes in the far reaches of the Amazon rainforest that have avoided contact with modern civilization. Deliberately hiding...
The Chinese Fashion Industry
An Ethnographic Approach
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2017
This book explores how conditions for childbearing are changing in the 21st century under the impact of new biomedical technologies. Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs) - technologies that aim to prevent or promote the birth of particular kinds of children – are increasingly widespread across...
by Bronislaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
This is volume II of “Coral Gardens and Their Magic”, dealing with Kilivila terms related to gardening and agriculture. Kilivila is the language spoken on the Trobriand islands, a group of islands off the east cost of New Guinea. This volume will appeal to those with an interest in anthropology...
World Art
An Introduction to the Art in Artefacts
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
What do we mean by 'art'? As a category of objects, the concept belongs to a Western cultural tradition, originally European and now increasingly global, but how useful is it for understanding other traditions? To understand art as a universal human value, we need to look at how the concept was constructed...
National Museums
New Studies from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
National Museums is the first book to explore the national museum as a cultural institution in a range of contrasting national contexts. Composed of new studies of countries that rarely make a showing in the English-language studies of museums, this book reveals how these national museums have been...
Daughters of Allah
Among Moslem Women in Kurdistan
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
In 1957, Henny Harald Hansen, the first Danish female anthropologist, was invited to take part in an archaeological expedition to the site of the projected Dokan Dam on the Little Zab river in Northern Iraq. Although her responsibilities were originally ethnological, she became the guest first of...