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  • Ritual

    by Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series The International Library of Essays in Anthropology
    This volume consists of a number of carefully-selected readings that represent a wide range of discussions and theorizing about ritual. The selection encompasses definitional questions, issues of interpretation, meaning, and function, and a roster of ethnographic and analytical topics, covering classic themes such as ancestor worship and sacrifice, initiation, gender, healing, social change, and ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Expressive Genres and Historical Change

    Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Taiwan

    by Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    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. Research from New Guinea, Indonesia and Taiwan is used to assess how historical changes modify these forms of expression to adjust to the social and political needs of the moment. The volume is unique in exploring ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Peace-Making and the Imagination

    Papua New Guinea Perspectives

    by Andrew Strathern, Pamela J Stewart ...
    A compelling new book that presents a thoughtful and creative approach to transforming violent discordances, this work examines the intractable issues of revenge and restitution in a conflict context. It argues that in communities where violence must be paid for through compensation, violent conflict can be contained. With primary reference to the Highlands of Papua New Guinea and comparisons to ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kinship in Action

    Self and Group

    by 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 productive ways for cross ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Ritual: Key Concepts in Religion

    by Professor Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Key Concepts in Religion
    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 change over time? Such ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Remaking the World

    Myth, Mining, and Ritual Change Among the Duna of Papua New Guinea

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Smithsonian Series in Ethnographic Inquiry
    Drawing on both their own fieldwork from 1991 to 1999 and older written sources, Stewart and Strathern explore how the Duna have remade their rituals and associated myths in response to the outside influences of government, Christianity, and large-scale economic development, specifically mining and oil prospecting. The authors provide in-depth ethnographic materials on the Duna and present many ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sacred Revenge in Oceania

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Elements in Religion and Violence
    Revenge is an important motivation in human affairs relating to conflict and violence, and it is a notable feature in many societies within Oceania, where revenge is traditionally a sacred duty to the dead whose spirits demand it. Revenge instantiates a norm of reciprocity in the cosmos, ensuring a balance between violent and peaceful sequences of ritual action. Revenge further remains an ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Language and Culture in Dialogue

    by 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. A traditional linguistic approach to a focus on language is illuminated by their anthropological emphasis on the embodiment of relationships and experience. ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Sustainability, Conservation, and Creativity

    Ethnographic Learning from Small-scale Practices

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Environment and Sustainability
    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."Sustainability" has become an increasingly popular term as a signal of concerns with long-term environmental consequences of human actions. Sustainability as a goal has started to replace ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • The Ashgate Research Companion to Anthropology

    by Andrew J. Strathern ...
    This companion provides an indispensable overview of contemporary and classical issues in social and cultural anthropology. Although anthropology has expanded greatly over time in terms of the diversity of topics in which its practitioners engage, many of the broad themes and topics at the heart of anthropological thought remain perennially vital, such as understanding order and change, diversity ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Landscape, Memory and History

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew Strathern ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a ... Read more

    $33.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Breaking the Frames

    Anthropological Conundrums

    by Pamela J. Stewart, Andrew J. Strathern ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    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 approaches (-isms) ... Read more

    $53.99 USD