Ethnography kategória termékei

Udvarhelyszéki mozaik - An Udvarhely County Mosaic

Első ránézésre egy gyönyörű fotóalbumot vehet kézbe az olvasó, amely udvarhelyi pillanatokat örökít meg. Ha jobban belelapozunk, akkor eg...

The Csángó

The World Until Yesterday - What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we l...

Integrating Minorities: Traditonal Communities and Modernization

The present volume is dedicated to those ethnic groups and traditional communities of Eastern and Central Europe which have not been inte...

The Book of Hungarikums

When thinking of Hungary, such treasures might spring to mind as ground paprika from Kalocsa, Herend porcelain, or Hungarian operettas .....

Anarcho-Indigenism - Conversations on Land and Freedom

Explores the possibilities that indigenous thought and traditions have for emancipatory, decolonial, feminist societies beyond the state

Social Organization of the Mongol-Turkie Pastoral Nomads

Europa et Hungaria: Congressus ethnographicus in Hungaria

Dresdner Maya Codex

Weltneuheit! Reproduktion des berühmten Dresdener Codices, 14 Seiten originalgetreu nachgezeichnet. Im Original fehlende Stellen sind ges...

Darkening Blackness - Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia...

Dreams and Nightmares - Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X, and the Struggle for Black Equality in America

Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X have come to symbolize the two primary strands of black political thought during the civil rights mo...

Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes

In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, an...

The Unlikely Peace at Cuchumaquic: The Parallel Lives of People as Plants: Keeping the Seeds Alive

Martín Prechtel's experiences growing up on a Pueblo Indian reservation, his years of apprenticing to a Guatemalan shaman, and his flight...

Quiet Street: On American Privilege

"A bold and moving exploration of the American elite that exposes how the ruling class-even when well-intentioned-perpetuates cycles of w...

Ways of Dwelling - Crisis - Craft - Creativity

This volume offers a selection of articles developed from the SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) congress 2017 in Gö...

Edward S. Curtis: The North American Indian

At the turn of the century, the American photographer Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a m...

Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene - The New Nature

"A Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene leads the reader through a series of sites, observations, thought experiments, and genre-stretc...

Dreaming Big in Post-War Greece - Neighborhood, Life Style, and Everyday Practices in the City of Thessaloniki

In post-war Greece, Western Allies, the country's conservative political elite and parts of the middle class share a dream of consolidati...

The Works of Li Qingzhao - China's Foremost Woman Poet

Previous translations and descriptions of Li Qingzhao are molded by an image of her as lonely wife and bereft widow formed by centuries o...

Decolonizing African Studies - Knowledge Production, Agency, and Voice

Plurinational Afrobolivianity - Afro-Indigenous Articulations and Interethnic Relations in the Yungas of Bolivia

In Bolivia's plurinational conjuncture, novel political articulations, legal reform, and processes of collective identification converge ...

Darkening Blackness - Race, Gender, Class, and Pessimism in 21st-Century Black Thought

The concept of Afropessimism does not refer to Black people, but rather to the likelihood of white society overcoming its own negrophobia...

Wayang Indonesia - Die phantastische Welt des Indonesischen Figurentheaters

"Wayang" bezeichnet das indonesische Stabpuppen-Theater und davon abgeleitete Formen des Volkstheaters. Das Buch gibt nicht nur eine neue...

Glyphosate and the Swirl - An Agroindustrial Chemical on the Move

Vincanne Adams takes the complex chemical glyphosate—the active ingredient in Roundup and pervasive agricultural herbicide—to explore the...

Dogon Masks in Motion

The Dogon people of Mali, West Africa, never cease to fascinate. With the spectacular scenery and picturesque villages that dominate the ...

Thinking Like a Climate - Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change

Drawing on ethnographic research with policy makers, politicians, activists, scholars, and the public in Manchester, England, Hannah Knox...

West New Guinea. West Papua - A Photo Album

Indonesia's easternmost landfall, is also its final hidden gemstone; from the depths of its oceans, to its rich mangroves, lowland and mo...

Portraits of Papua New Guinea

Portraits of Papua New Guinea is a collection of over 200 pictures of its natives taken between 1997 to 2016. Each photograph tells a uni...

Exceptional Experiences - Engaging with Jolting Events in Art and Fieldwork

"Looking at encounters that can puncture or jolt us, this volume uses art as a lens through which to register and understand exceptional ...

Contours of South Asian Social Anthropology - Connecting India and Nepal

This book presents a conceptual and methodological framework to understand South Asia by engaging with the practices of sociology and soc...

The World of the Khwe Bushmen in Southern Africa / Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute im südlichen Afrika - A self-portrait in their own language - Eine Selbstdarstellung in ihrer eigenen Sprache

Dieser Band ist Teil der Enzyklopädie »Die Welt der Kxoé-Buschleute« des Afrikanisten Oswin Köhler. Darin werden Originalquellen mit Über...

The Csángó

Language Use, Attitudes, Strategies - Linguistic Identity and Ethnicity in the Moldavian Csángó Villages

Moldavian Csángós have been one of the most traditional ethnic groups of the Eastern European countries. This is due to the archaic eleme...

Udvarhelyszéki mozaik - An Udvarhely County Mosaic

Első ránézésre egy gyönyörű fotóalbumot vehet kézbe az olvasó, amely udvarhelyi pillanatokat örökít meg. Ha jobban belelapozunk, akkor eg...

Birds through Indigenous Eyes - Native Perspectives on Birds of the Eastern Woodlands

"An intimate and personal account of the profound role birds play in Native American life and spirituality. For many hours over a period ...

Becoming Little Shell - A Landless Indian's Journey Home

“Nothing less than the history of a people in the form of an absorbing and emotionally searing memoir.”—David Treuer, author of The Heart...

We Now Belong to Ourselves - J.L. Edmonds, The Black Press, and Black Citizenship in America

At the turn of the twentieth century, the Black press provided a blueprint to help Black Americans transition from slavery and find oppor...

Devil's Contract - The History of the Faustian Bargain

A devilishly fascinating tour of the Faustian bargain through the ages, from brimstone to blues and beyond ... From ancient times to the ...

Wembley Speaks - A Year in the Life of a London Suburb

Wembley Speaks is a cross between oral history and grassroots sociology: an authentic picture of a London suburb based on what its reside...

Who We Are - Four Questions for a Life and for a Nation

Tempted to Taste It

Take your home cooking to the next level with vegan and non-vegan recipes using simple ingredients that make bold impressions.

Popular Devotion and Citizenship in Bolivia - Folkloric Confraternities and the Habits of Democracy at the Festival of the Virgin of Urkupiña

With a wealth of citizen organizations representing the interests of their constituents, Bolivians are known for their vivid engagement w...

What Does It Mean to Be Kazakhstani? - Power, Identity and Nation-Building

In early 2022, protests rocked Kazakhstan. Initially peaceful demonstrations soon turned violent after brutal government crackdowns, leav...

Wealth and Hierarchy in the Intermediate Area - A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 10th and 11th October 1987

A Nation within a Nation - Dependency and the Cree

Aboriginal Peoples - Towards Self-government

Black Arsenal

A celebration in essays and photography of the contribution of Arsenal football club to Black British cultural history

La chance - Uncertainty, Knowledge Production and Gameplay among University Graduates in Bamako, Mali

The concept of la chance accounts for everyday knowledge production in uncertain contexts in Bamako, Mali, where university graduates con...

Tibetan Memoies - Stories from Exile and Dreams Deferred

This is the first book to present the stories and portraits of ordinary Tibetan women and men in exile, in their own words. It includes g...

Beothuk - How Story Made a People (Almost) Disappear

Narratives about the disappearance of the Beothuk are entrenched in historical accounts and the popular imagination. Only with the integr...

Pakistan's Development - Social Goals and Private Incentives

In the 1950s Pakistan was generally considered to be a country that would remain among the poorest in the world, but economic development...

Our History Is the Future - Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

Awards: One Book South Dakota Common Read, South Dakota Humanities Council, 2022. PEN Oakland/Josephine Miles Literary Award, PEN America...

Responses to 7 October: Universities

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Universities, focuses on the heartland of contemporary antisemitic thinking, whi...

Responses to 7 October: Law and Society

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Law and Society, begins with a legal, and a genocide studies critique of the cla...

Responses to 7 October: Antisemitic Discourse

One of three volumes responding to the 7 October attack, Antisemitic Discourse, focuses on the ideology that motivated it and the antisem...

André Leroi-Gourhan on Technology - A Selection of Writings from the 1930s to the 1960s

A selection of Leroi-Gourhan's most important texts--many translated into English for the first time. André Leroi-Gourhan is undoubtedly ...

Chasing Traces - History and Ethnography in the Uplands of Socialist Asia

Indigenous Intellectual Property - An Interrupted Intergenerational Conversation

This book examines Indigenous intellectual property as a legal matter rooted in and operating within distinct Indigenous legal frameworks.

Cookstove Chronicles - Social Life of a Women's Technology in India

Cookstove Chronicles examines India's handcrafted, wood-burning cooking stoves, the rural women who use them, and outsiders who try to im...

Savages and Citizens - How Indigeneity Shapes the State

This book takes the provocative view that Indigenous people have been fundamental to how contemporary state sovereignty was imagined, the...