Hakutulokset: cultural anthropology
yhteensä 46 hakutulosta
Varieties of Javanese Religion
Java is famous for its combination of diverse cultural forms and religious beliefs. Andrew Beatty considers Javanese solutions to the problem of cultural difference, and explores …
Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet
Based both on extensive fieldwork and detailed study of local records, O'Neill offers a different perspective to the traditional image of northern Iberian mountain settlements.
Quiet Days in Burgundy
This ethnographic study of political life in the department of the Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The author, a French …
The Roads of Chinese Childhood
Children in the Taiwanese fishing community of Angang have their attention drawn, consciously and unconsciously, to various forms of identification through their participation in …
The Cultural Relations of Classification
Ethnobiology is concerned with the social and cultural transformation of biological knowledge. Roy Ellen, who has worked among the Nuaulu people of eastern Indonesia for more than …
Fifteen Generations of Bretons
This study traces the effects of economic changes on a community of Breton peasants followed over fifteen generations.
Religion and Custom in a Muslim Society
Among the Berti of Northern Darfur (Sudan), as among many Muslim societies, the formal religious practices are predominantly the concern of men, while local, unorthodox customary …
Age Class Systems
This study of age class systems provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems.
From Blessing to Violence
Structural Models in Anthropology
Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology.