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  • Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. ...
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    42,17 €

  • Language and Culture in Dialogue
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    In this book, Andrew J. Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart delineate the relationship between 'language in particular' and 'culture in general' by focusing on language as both social practice and a means of classifying and interpreting the world. ...
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    83,17 €

  • Expressive Genres and Historical Change
    Andrew Strathern
    This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. The contributors have all carried out first-hand fieldwork, often over a period of many years, and they bring their experience to bear on both the aesthetic and the ...
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    79,83 €

  • Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    By examining how small communities have dealt with forces of change and have sought to maintain themselves over time, this book offers pointers and lessons for conservation practices at all levels of society. ...
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    97,10 €

  • Sacred Revenge in Oceania
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
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    27,40 €

  • Kinship in Action
    Andrew Strathern
    For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology ...
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    356,05 €

  • Breaking the Frames
    Andrew J. Strathern / Andrew JStrathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
    This book argues that the breaking and re-making of frames of analysis underlie the history of theorizing in anthropology. Pamela J. Stewart and Andrew J. Strathern note that this mode of analysis risks fabricating over-essentialized dichotomies between viewpoints. The authors advocate  a mindful, nuanced, people-centered approach to all theorizing-one that avoids total system ...
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    71,56 €

  • Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with force...
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    48,26 €

  • Remaking the World
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    43,96 €

  • Working in the Field
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    How are ethnographic knowledge and anthropological theory created out of field experiences? Working in the Field explores emplacement and experience-centered narratives as the modes in working in places brings anthropology to life. Stewart and Strathern show how first impressions of an area carry depths of meanings which can gradually be unpacked in later analysis and how the f...
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    65,88 €

  • Ritual
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they chang...
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    46,16 €

  • Ritual
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela Stewart
    Ritual has emerged as a major focus of academic interest. As a concept, the idea of ritual integrates the study of behavior both within and beyond the domain of religion. Ritual can be both secular and religious in character. There is renewed interest in questions such as: Why do rituals exist at all? What has been, and continues to be, their place in society? How do they chang...
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    174,32 €

  • Kinship in Action
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J Stewart
    For courses in Social Organization, Kinship, and Cultural Ecology.Kinship has made a come-back in Anthropology.  Not only is there a line of noted, general, introductory works and readers in the topic, but theoretical discussions have been stimulated both by technological changes in mechanisms of reproduction and by reconsiderations of how to define kinship in the most producti...
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    89,59 €

  • Inequality in New Guinea Highlands Societies
    Andrew Strathern
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    54,56 €

  • Expressive Genres and Historical Change
    Andrew Strathern
    This collection of essays, edited by leading scholars in the field, focuses on how expressive genres such as music, dance and poetry are of enduring significance to social organization. The contributors have all carried out first-hand fieldwork, often over a period of many years, and they bring their experience to bear on both the aesthetic and the analytical aspects of their m...
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    301,67 €

  • Empowering the Past, Confronting the Future
    Andrew J. Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart
    How have the Aluni Valley Duna people of Papua New Guinea responded to the challenges of colonial and post-colonial changes that have entered their lifeworld since the middle of the Twentieth-Century? Living in a corner of the world influenced by mining companies but relatively neglected in terms of government-sponsored development, these people have dealt creatively with force...
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    66,70 €

  • Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors, and Gossip
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    38,40 €

  • Witchcraft, Sorcery, Rumors and Gossip
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    86,23 €

  • Violence
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela Stewart
    This book provides a wide ranging introduction to the meaning and context of violence. The authors build upon David Riches’s concept of 'the triangle of violence' which examines the relationship between performers, victims and witnesses and his proposition that violence is marked by contests regarding its legitimacy as a social act. Adopting an approach which looks at the negot...
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    155,85 €

  • Gender, Song, and Sensibility
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    121,56 €

  • Humors and Substances
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    122,10 €

  • Python’s Back
    Andrew Strathern / Pamela J. Stewart / Pamela JStewart
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    121,97 €

  • The Rope of Moka
    Andrew Strathern
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    54,04 €