Resplendent Sites, Discordant Voices

Malcolm Crick

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• First Published in 1994. Studies in Anthropology and History is a series that will develop new theoretical perspectives, and combine comparative and e... Lees meer

The Textual Life of Savants

Gisli Pálsson

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History | nr. 18
• First Published in 1995. This book focuses on the role and significance of texts and textualism for anthropology and ethnography and, more specificall... Lees meer

Before Social Anthropology

James Urry

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• First Published in 1993. From the 1930s, British anthropology was dominated by social anthropologists, an achievement of the two founding fathers, Bro... Lees meer

Time and the Work of Anthropology

Johanne Fabian

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristi... Lees meer

Across the Great Divide

Bronwen Douglas

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History | nr. 24
• Across the Great Divide tracks a Pacific historian's fruitful, ambivalent engagements with History and Anthropology, anticipating experiments in each ... Lees meer

Catastrophe and Creation

K Elkholm Friedmann

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History | nr. 5
• First Published in 1992. This is a study of what happened to Kongo society and culture at the turn of the 20th century, when the area was penetrated, ... Lees meer

Rationality of Rural Life

Jeff Pratt

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• This monograph analyzes the developments in rural life in detail and at the same time places them in a wider context, exploring the strengths and weak... Lees meer

A History of Curiosity

Justin Stagl

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a critical-historical persp... Lees meer

Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• With its systematic coverage of different groups, this book demonstrates how similar trends of ethnic formation are affecting all parts of Nepal. Yet,... Lees meer

Dresden

Elizabeth A Ten Dyke

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of th... Lees meer

Dresden

Elizabeth A Ten Dyke

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of th... Lees meer

The Return of Ainu

Katarina Sjoberg

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History | nr. 9
• First Published in 1993. This book is the outcome of a project called Intercultural Relations in Japan with Special Reference to the Integration of th... Lees meer

Unstructuring Chinese Society

Allen Chun

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• Unstructuring Chinese Society is a culmination of long term field work and archival research that challenges existing theories of social organisation ... Lees meer

Colonial Space

J K Noyes

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Anthropology and History
• First Published in 1992. This book is about space of a colony and how it was produced. It began as a study of the literature of the German colony of S... Lees meer