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Interpretation of Caste
by Declan Quigley  Publisher Comments This book provides a radical alternative to prevailing theories of caste which either build on indigenous rationalizations of the Brahman's supremacy or reduce hierarchy to material factors. Drawing on a wide range of historical and ethnographic sources...
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Above the Clouds: Status Culture of the Modern Japanese Nobility
by Takie Sugiyama Lebra Publisher Comments This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period, the kazoku ranked directly below the emperor and his...
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Ritualized Homosexuality in Melanesia
by Gilbert H Herdt Publisher Comments This book contains the work of seven leading anthropologists on the subject of ritualized homosexuality, and it marks the first time that anthropologists have systematically studied cross-cultural variations in homosexual behavior in a non-Western...
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Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City: An Anthropological Account
by William R Jankowiak Publisher Comments The first contemporary enthnographic account of urban life in China, "Sex, Death, and Hierarchy in a Chinese City" studies both public and private life, including such aspects as religious belief, gender images, family life, and sexual attraction....
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In Ones Own Shadow an Ethnographic Accou
by Xin Liu Publisher Comments An evocative ethnographic account of life in Zhaojiahe, a comparatively poor village in northern China, in the post-Mao era....
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Pastoral Deities in Western India
by Gunther Sontheimer Publisher Comments This translation of a groundbreaking book by the internationally renowned German ethonographer Gunther-Dietz Sontheimer describes the religious system of a pastoralist area which includes parts of three linguistic regions: Maharashtra, Karnataka, and...
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Beyond the Green Myth: Borneo's Hunter-Gatherers in the Twenty-First Century
by Peter Sercombe Synopsis This is the first comprehensive picture of the nomadic and formerly nomadic hunting-gathering groups of the Borneo tropical rain forest, totaling about 20,000 people....
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Sinhala Village in a Time of Trouble Sri
by Jonathan Spencer Publisher Comments In this illuminating study of a village in southern, central Sri Lanka, Spencer examines how the interrelationship of political, religious, and economic life shapes the community by tracing the village through an election campaign year. He reveals how...
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Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan: Country Studies
by Glenn Curtis Publisher Comments Edited by Glenn E. Curtis. 4th of a six-volume subseries covering all the post-Soviet States. Brings new information about a region of enhanced relevance in the world's economy and geopolitical structure. Provides a context for the current evaluations...
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Friends, Brothers, & Informants: Fieldwork Memoirs of Banaras
by Nita Kumar Publisher Comments Why was Banaras such a mystery to me when I arrived in 1981? Was it ironically because I was an Indian and expected to have a privileged insight into it? In this unusually personal, evocative account of her fieldwork experiences, Kumar tackles the...
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No Five Fingers Are Alike: Cognitive Amplifiers in Social Context
by Joseph Berland Publisher Comments This book, based on three years of participant research among rural Pakistani groups, provides the first detailed description in print of Asian gypsies....
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Himalayan households :Tamang demography and domestic processes
by Tom Fricke Publisher Comments Throughout the Nepal Himalaya socioeconomic changes are transforming the lives of remote agro-pastroal peoples, bringing them into new relationships with once-distant elites. Himalayan Households is a comprehensive study of the cultural ecology...
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Ngatik Massacre: History & Identity on a Micronesian Atoll
by Lin Poyer Publisher Comments This book is both an ethnohistory -- using written and oraccounts to uncover the circumstances surrounding the 1837 massacre of Ngatik's aboriginal population and its aftermath -- and a reevaluation of the concept of ethnicity, examining the cultural and...
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Myth of Population Control: Family, Caste & Class in an Indian Village
by M Mamdani
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Doing Java: An Anthropological Detective Story
by Neils Mulder
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Family Life in a Northern Thai Village: A Study in the Structural Significance of Women
by Sulamith Hei Potter
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Women and the Family in Rural Taiwan
by Margery Wolf
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On the Margins of Tibet: Cultural Survival on the Sino-Tibetan Frontier (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)
by Ashild Kolas
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For Harmony and Strength
by Thomas P Rohlen
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Solo in the New Order: Language & Hierarchy in an Indonesian City
by James T Siegel
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