Bücher der Reihe Explorations in Anthropology

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines such topics as carnival in a rural town; a round of criticism; social problems in the repertoire of Los Llorones; the rivalry; a country poet; and old and new voices.

Tracing the development of caboclo societies and arguing that much of the discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society, this book aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia.

Examining child's play from a cross-cultural perspective, this book describes how pretence is socially mediated and linguistically constructed, how children make sense of their own play, how play relates to other imaginative genres in Huli life, and the relationship between play and cosmology.

In Pacific societies, local knowledge is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. This study offers insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.

Addresses the problem of social understanding and cultural translation from different theoretical as well as ethnographic perspectives. The contributors represent several different academic traditions and communities - Britain, Finland, France, Iceland, Israel, Japan, Norway, the former Soviet Union, and Sweden.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series and based on extensive fieldwork, this volume addresses a range of subjects of interest to peoples of the Pacific Island nations.

Focusing on the USA, this text analyzes portrayals of the "Free Market", its values and the people within it, as a way of teasing out its assumptions and contradictions. It also describes extensions and practical applications of the free market model in policy-making in the USA.

Specialists from the field of the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text examines parades and visual displays in Northern Ireland.

From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops an interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.

How do people make sense of their lives amid the social and cultural diversity of cities? This volume argues that a powerful and related set of methodologies can further our understanding of the intertwined processes of ethnicity and community, class and gender.

This study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe in Eastern Nepal. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the lives and rituals of the Lohorung.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.

Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, this text explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.

This study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities, and processes of cultural transformation.

Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

Aims to offer an up-to-date anthology of papers on hunter-gatherer research, with a comprehensive bibliography on the topic. The book is intended for students of social anthropology.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines urban migrants and rural lives in Peru.

A study of contemporary flamenco music as a multi-dimensional movement of popular culture. Although portrayed as an apolitical, frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have influenced the Franco regime. This text explores flamenco in its social, cultural and historical context.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

Offers a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft - the context of illness explanations; and an examination of theoretical issues in anthropology - postmodernism and dialogue.

Development' is clearly a contentious concept. It is common knowledge that there is frequently a troubling divide between what Western developers think development entails and how those people affected understand the ensuing processes.

Challenges many of our assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers perspectives that will inform the development of a political economy. In this book the importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and an analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of commodities emerges.

An anthropological study of Europe post-1989. The contributors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration, with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation.

Exploring modernity from an ethnographic perspective, the book focuses on Trinidad - a society which has suffered social rupture through slavery and indentured labour. It discusses mass consumption, and the use of goods and imported images to express and develop contradictions of modernity.

This text reviews the concepts of "nature", both as scientific devices and ideological constructs, and is organized around three themes: nature as a cultural construction; the cultural management of the environment; and relations between plants, animals and humans.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text builds upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres.

All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers, peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation. This is the thesis of a range of volumes which consider hunter-gatherer peoples in Africa, Asia, Australia and North America.

Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.

Talks about complexity and power of landscape. The authors - geographers, anthropologists and archaeologists - explore landscape as something subjective that alters through time and space and that is created by people through their experience and contact with the world around them.