Island Of Anthropology
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Nest In The Wind
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Author : Martha C. Ward
language : en
Publisher: Waveland Press
Release Date : 2004-10-21
Nest In The Wind written by Martha C. Ward and has been published by Waveland Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-21 with Social Science categories.
During her first visit to the beautiful island of Pohnpei in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, anthropologist Martha Ward discovered people who grew quarter-ton yams in secret and ritually shared a powerful drink called kava. She managed a medical research project, ate dog, became pregnant, and responded to spells placed on her. Thirty years later she returned to Pohnpei to learn what had happened there since her first visit. Were islanders still relaxed and casual about sex? Were they still obsessed with titles and social rank? Was the island still lush and beautiful? Had the inhabitants remained healthy? This second edition of Wards best-selling account is a rare, longitudinal study that tracks people, processes, and a place through decades of change. It is also an intimate record of doing fieldwork that immerses readers in the sights, smells, tastes, sounds, and the sensory richness of Pohnpei. Ward addresses the ageless ethnographic questions about family life, politics, religion, traditional medicine, magic, and death together with contemporary concerns about postcolonial survival, the discontinuities of culture, and adaptation to the demands of a global age. Her insightful discoveries illuminate the evolution of a culture possibly distant from yet important to people living in other parts of the world.
Global Culture Island Identity
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Author : Karen Fog Olwig
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-10-05
Global Culture Island Identity written by Karen Fog Olwig and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-05 with Social Science categories.
Looking at the development of cultural identity in the global context, this text uses the approach of historical anthropology. It examines the way in which the West Indian Community of Nevis, has, since the 1600s, incorporated both African and European cultural elements into the framework of social life, to create an Afro-Caribbean culture that was distinctive and yet geographically unbounded - a "global culture". The book takes as its point of departure the processes of cultural interaction and reflectivity. It argues that the study of cultural continuity should be guided by the notion of cultural complexity involving the continuous constitution, development and assertion of culture. It emphasizes the interplay between local and global cultures, and examines the importance of cultural display for peoples who have experienced the process of socioeconomic marginalization in the Western world.
The Anthropology Of Kodiak Island
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Author : Aleš Hrdlička
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
The Anthropology Of Kodiak Island written by Aleš Hrdlička and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with categories.
The Archaeology Of Islands
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Author : Paul Rainbird
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-09
The Archaeology Of Islands written by Paul Rainbird and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-09 with Social Science categories.
Archaeologists have traditionally considered islands as distinct physical and social entities. In this book, Paul Rainbird discusses the historical construction of this characterization and questions the basis for such an understanding of island archaeology. Through a series of case studies of prehistoric archaeology in the Mediterranean, Pacific, Baltic, and Atlantic seas and oceans, he argues for a decentering of the land in favor of an emphasis on the archaeology of the sea and, ultimately, a new perspective on the making of maritime communities. The archaeology of islands is thus unshackled from approaches that highlight boundedness and isolation, and replaced with a new set of principles - that boundaries are fuzzy, islanders are distinctive in their expectation of contacts with people from over the seas, and that island life can tell us much about maritime communities. Debating islands, thus, brings to the fore issues of identity and community and a concern with Western construction of other peoples.
Island In The Stream
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Author : Michael Lambek
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Island In The Stream written by Michael Lambek and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with SOCIAL SCIENCE categories.
Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial backwater to a full d?partement of the French state. In a highly unusual postcolonial trajectory, citizens of Mayotte demanded this incorporation within France rather than joining the independent republic of the Comoros. The Malagasy-speaking Muslim villagers Michael Lambek encountered in 1975 practiced subsistence cultivation and lived without roads, schools, electricity, or running water; today they are educated citizens of the EU who travel regularly to metropolitan France and beyond. Offering a series of ethnographic slices of life across time, Island in the Stream highlights community members' ethical engagement in their own history as they looked to the future, acknowledged the past, and engaged and transformed local forms of sociality, exchange, and ritual performance. This is a unique account of the changing horizons and historical consciousness of an African community and an intimate portrait of the inhabitants and their concerns, as well as a glimpse into the changing perspective of the ethnographer.
Greek Island Life
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Author : Margaret E. Kenna
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2001
Greek Island Life written by Margaret E. Kenna and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Anafi (Greece) categories.
This book gives a vivid and engaging account of anthropological exploration on a remote Greek island in the 1960s and is based on letters, progress reports, field notes and diary entries made at the time. These allow the reader to experience the bewildering early weeks of fieldwork in the Spring of 1966, the writer's first impressions, mistakes and understandings, and her attempts to make sense of what was going on during the sixteen months she spent on the island. The reader can also share in the emerging understanding resulting from long-term association and familiarity, gaining a sense of how months of work can be summed up in a short phrase or single sentence in later writings. Since the 1960s the author has returned to the island many times, and her later impressions and understandings are integrated in this book adding richness and depth to the material. This enables the reader, together with the author, to look back on those months from a viewpoint in the 90s.The islanders who regarded themselves as far from God in the sixties are now struggling to make a living from tourism, marketing their island as one of the unspoilt places in Greece. This is not only a dynamic and important reflexive account for the anthropologist, but an engaging and thoroughly enjoyable read for anyone interested in Greece or travel writing. Readers with an interest in modern history, sociology or Greek studies will also appreciate the depth and quality of Kenna's research as well as her accessible writing style.
A Greek Island Cosmos
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Author : Roger Just
language : en
Publisher: James Currey
Release Date : 2000
A Greek Island Cosmos written by Roger Just and has been published by James Currey this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Collections categories.
This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater. Meganisi is one of the smallest and most remote of the Greek Ionian islands. From another point of view, it is the centre of the world, and its sailors travel literally from China to Peru while its migrants maintain familial connections from Johannesburg to Montreal. The villages of Meganisi are tightly-knit communities and this detailed ethnographic study explores the basis on which the islanders' solidarity and sense of identity are constructed andreconstructed despite population mobility and economic change: the values, sentiments and structures of kinship and family. Series Editors: Wendy James & N.J. Allen
The Ethnographic Experiment
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Author : Edvard Hviding
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2014-06-30
The Ethnographic Experiment written by Edvard Hviding and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Social Science categories.
In 1908, Arthur Maurice Hocart and William Halse Rivers Rivers conducted fieldwork in the Solomon Islands and elsewhere in Island Melanesia that served as the turning point in the development of modern anthropology. The work of these two anthropological pioneers on the small island of Simbo brought about the development of participant observation as a methodological hallmark of social anthropology. This would have implications for Rivers' later work in psychiatry and psychology, and Hocart's work as a comparativist, for which both would largely be remembered despite the novelty of that independent fieldwork on remote Pacific islands in the early years of the 20th Century. Contributors to this volume-who have all carried out fieldwork in those Melanesian locations where Hocart and Rivers worked-give a critical examination of the research that took place in 1908, situating those efforts in the broadest possible contexts of colonial history, imperialism, the history of ideas and scholarly practice within and beyond anthropology.
The Muslim Tribes Of Lakshadweep Islands
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Author : Makhan Jha
language : en
Publisher: M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd.
Release Date : 1997
The Muslim Tribes Of Lakshadweep Islands written by Makhan Jha and has been published by M.D. Publications Pvt. Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Social Science categories.
This volume, thus, will be highly useful not only to the planners and administrators engaged in the development of islands, but also to the cultural analysis interested in the study of island ecology and cultural perceptions. This book, for the first time, provides first-hand informations about the social structure, specially the matrilineal family organization, caste structure and hierarchy of the islanders, the history of colonization etc. which will be highly relevant to the students and teachers of anthropology
Moala
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Author : Marshall David Sahlins
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
Moala written by Marshall David Sahlins and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with Anthropology categories.