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The Heat of the Hearth: The Process of Kinship in a Malay Fishing Community (Oxford Studies in Social & Cultural Anthropology)
by Janet Carsten  Publisher Comments Janet Carsten offers an original and very personal investigation of the nature of kinship in Malaysia, based upon her own experience as a foster daughter in a family on the island of Langkawi. She shows that Malay kinship is a process, not a state: it is...
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Cambridge anthropologist Piers Vitebsky, the first westerner to live with the Eveny of Siberia since the Russian revolution, brings readers an extraordinary case of survival in one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. of photos....
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South Asian Commun Catalysts Chang
by Sofia Chandra Gool Publisher Comments This book draws on the strengths that characterize communities and shows how these strengths can be put to use in improving education. Inspired by the South Asian communities with whom she worked, the author considers also Black African and dual heritage...
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Our Women Are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush
by Wynne Maggi Publisher Comments An exploration of the lives of women among the Kalasha, a tiny, vibrant community in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province...
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Immortal Wishes-PB
by Ell Schattschneider Publisher Comments Immortal Wishes is a powerful ethnographic rendering of religious experiences of landscape, healing, and self-fashioning on a northern Japanese sacred mountain. Working at the intersection of anthropology, religion, and Japan studies, Ellen...
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Biographical Objects: How Things Tell the Stories of Peoples' Lives
by Janet Hoskins Publisher Comments In this innovative study, six women and men from Eastern Indonesia narrate their own lives by talking about their possessions--domestic objects used to construct a coherent identity through a process of identification and "self-historicizing." Janet...
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Peasant Moorings: Village Ties & Mobility Rationales in South India
by Jean Luc Racine Publisher Comments Most migration studies focus on the growing phenomenon of rural-urban migration. This unusual volume explores an equally significant, but less noticed, phenomenon, namely that the existence of a large and increasing urban population has not yet prevented...
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Ainu
by William (edt) Fitzhugh Synopsis In this collection some 55 scholars write about the ethnicity, theories of origin, history, economies, art, religious beliefs, mythology, and other aspects of the culture of the Ainu, the indigenous people of Japan, now principally found in Hokkaido and...
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Desiring China: Experiments in Neoliberalism, Sexuality, and Public Culture (07 Edition)
by Rofel Synopsis Through window displays, newspapers, soap operas, gay bars, and other public culture venues, Chinese citizens are negotiating what it means to be cosmopolitan citizens of the world, with appropriate needs, aspirations, and longings. Lisa Rofel argues...
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Riska, Memories of a Dayak Girlhood
by Riska Orpa Sari Publisher Comments Books by Western specialists have compiled many observations and facts about the "headhunters of Borneo", but the culture has never before been described from the inside, by an indigenous person born and reared in the rain forest listening to the stories...
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Mullahs on the Mainframe: Islam and Modernity Among the Daudi Bohras
by Jonah Blank Publisher Comments conversion in...
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Taming the Wind of Desire: Psychology, Medicine, and Aesthetics in Malay Shamanistic Performance (Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care)
by Carol Laderman Publisher Comments Charged with restoring harmony and relieving pain, the Malay shaman places his patients in trance and encourages them to express their talents, drives, personality traits--the "Inner Winds" of Malay medical lore--in a kind of performance. These healing...
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Tanners of Taiwan: Life Strategies and National Culture (Westview Case Studies in Anthropology)
by Scott Simon Publisher Comments Tanners of Taiwan is an ethnography of identity construction set in the leather-tanning communities of Southern Taiwan. Through life history analysis and ethnographic observation, Simon examines what it means to be Chinese - or alternatively Taiwanese...
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Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
by James Clifford Publisher Comments Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878-1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its...
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Harukos World
by Gail Lee Bernstein Publisher Comments In Japan as in the United States, family farming is on the wane, increasingly rejected by the younger generation in favor of more promising economic pursuits and more sophisticated comforts. Yet for centuries past, the village and the family farm have...
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For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors: The Chinese Tradition of Paper Offerings
by Janet Lee Scott Book News Annotation Scott (East Asian research, Harvard U.) has been conducting field research on the venerable tradition of ritual paper offerings for many years in Hong Kong. Noting that the 1997 transition to mainland control has actually strengthened appreciation of...
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Public Faces, Private Lives: Community and Individuality in South India
by Mattison Mines Publisher Comments Individuality is often viewed as an exclusively Western value. In non-Western societies, collective identities seem to eclipse those of individuals. These generalities, however, have overlooked the importance of personal uniqueness, volition, and...
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Fieldwork Connections: The Fabric of Ethnographic Collaboration in China and America
by Bamo Ayi Publisher Comments Fieldwork Connections tells the story of the intertwined research histories of three anthropologists working in Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture, Sichuan, China in the late twentieth century. Chapters are written alternately by a male American...
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Religion Against the Self: An Ethnography of Tamil Rituals
by Isabelle Nabokov Publisher Comments This book provides a holistic description of Hinduism, showing how different types of Hinduism form a "total" or systematic cosmology and repeat crucial values through different symbols. Looking at Tamil religious practices, Isabelle Nabokov reveals that...
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The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity
by Fg Bailey Synopsis In The Civility Of Indifference, Bailey documents a case of ethnic strife that threatened the village forty years ago but did not consume it in bloodshed. The restraint, he suggests, reflected not compassion but a sense of inevitability....
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