Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta Neil L. Whitehead
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Histories and Historicities in Amazonia
Anthropologist Neil L. Whitehead presents a collection of recent fieldwork and the latest theoretical perspectives that illuminate how a range of Native communities in the Amazon …
Of Cannibals and Kings
Of Cannibals and Kings collects the very earliest accounts of the native peoples of the Americas, including selections from the descriptions of Columbus’s first two voyages; …
Human No More
Turning an anthropological eye toward cyberspace, Human No More explores how conditions of the online world shape identity, place, culture, and death within virtual …
Ethnopornography
This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography—the eroticized observation of the …
Hans Staden's True History
In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured by the Tupinambá, an indigenous …
Building A Community of Citizens
This book explores the condition of American civil society, evaluates the forces—political, social, demographic, and global—that are operating upon it, and provides critical …
Beyond the Visible and the Material
The contributors to this volume explore the legacy of Peter Rivière, recently-retired Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oxford, in the development of the anthropology …
Terror and Violence
What is terror? What are its roots and its results -- and what part does it play in human experience and history? This volume offers a number of timely and original anthropological …
Anthropologies of Guayana
Unlike better-known regions of the Amazon, Guayana, broad cultural region that includes the countries of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana, as well as parts of eastern Venezuela …
Virtual War and Magical Death
Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which …
Violence
Can we understand violence not as evidence of cultural rupture but as a form of cultural expression itself? Ten prominent scholars engage this question across geographies as …
Chiefdoms and Chieftaincy in the Americas
The essays in this work present geographically and chronologically diverse case studies which highlight the dynamics of the temporary chieftancy and the development of permanent, …