Ethnicity, Belonging and Biography

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 16
• The subjects of ethnicity and collective belonging have enjoyed high priority on the agenda of social science research over the last 20 years. Neverth... Lees meer

Language, Discourse and Participation: Studies in Donor-Driven Development in Tanzania

Irmi Maral-Hanak

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 20
• This study presents challenging findings on language choice and discourse formation in participatory development co-operation. Situated in the framewo... Lees meer

Social Matter(s)

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 23
• This book is inspired by material culture studies. Essays center on the idea that matter and materiality are integral dimensions of social life. The d... Lees meer

Heimatkunde

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft
• An integrative Heimatkunde - defined as the holistic study of localities and regions - has been a core interest in Ullrich (aka Ulli) Kockel's researc... Lees meer

Out of Slavery

Wim Hoogbergen

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 6
• Out of Slavery begins around 1770 when Ma Uwa and her daughter were brought to Suriname as slaves from Africa. In his book, the author follows the his... Lees meer

Visions of a Better World

Bea Vidacs

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 21
• Examining the social and political significance of football in Cameroon, author Bea Vidacs's anthropological study goes beyond sports. Encompassing th... Lees meer

Writing in the Field

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 24
• This festschrift is situated within the contexts of the 'Writing Culture' debate, the 'Rhetoric Culture' project, and the legacy of anthropologist Ste... Lees meer

Parts and Wholes

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 27
• This festschrift for Josephus D.M. Platenkamp brings some central concerns of anthropology into focus: social morphology, exchange, cosmology, history... Lees meer

Founders of the Anthropology of Work

Gerd Spittler

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 14
• Work is vital for most individuals and for every society. Yet it leads a Cinderella-like existence within social anthropology. Even today we can learn... Lees meer

Bargaining in the Development Market-Place

Elizabeth Challinor

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 15
• The process of ethnographically detailing how individuals encounter institutions is a complicated task. Few are those accounts that manage to clearly ... Lees meer

Marginalised and Endangered Worldviews

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 26
• "The study of worldviews marginalized by mainstream modernity is an eminently important undertaking. It helps us better recognise, cherish and keep th... Lees meer

Constructing the Kwanja of Adamawa (Cameroon)

Quentin Gausset

• Paperback | Engels | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft | nr. 18
• The Kwanja are a small ethnic group of 10,000 people living in Adamawa, Cameroon. The present monograph describes their bilineal kinship system, polit... Lees meer

Tausch.Beziehungen - Sozialanthropologische Perspektiven / Exchange.Relations - Perspectives from Social Anthropology

• Paperback | Duits | Ethnologie: Forschung Und Wissenschaft
• Tauschbeziehungen sind in ihren vielfältigen Formen zentral in der sozialanthropologischen Forschung. Die Autor: innen der 26 Buchbeiträge zeigen auf,... Lees meer