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By Michael Roberts
June 01, 1995
Sri Lanka has been the meeting point of many ideologies and ways of being. This has spelt heterogeneity, syncretism and conflict. In drawing upon the practices of empirical research promoted by Western intellectual traditions, the author demonstrates the strengths of these practices through his ...
By Ben Burt
March 01, 1994
Burt studies the effects of the 19th century labour trade, colonial subjugation and the subsequent Christian conversion. He examines the anti-colonial Maasina Rule movement of the 1940s and finally illustrates the subsequent efforts of Kwara'ae leaders to regain their self-determination and to ...
By Jeff Pratt
June 03, 2016
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 weaknesses of theoretical writings on modern agriculture. What is revealed is a profound transformation in the rationality of farming, one which touches ...
By Maureen A. MacKenzie
April 01, 1998
Androgynous Objects explores the way meaning is encoded in material culture by focusing on the androgynous symbolism of the looped string bag, or bilum, of the Telefol people of Central New Guinea. The web of meanings 'woven' into the bag is shown to extend beyond women's lives and bodies. It is ...
By Gisli Pálsson
September 01, 1995
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Johanne Fabian
January 01, 1991
The development of the dialogical approach, the autobiographical perspective and the central role of text-interpretation are all seen as characteristics of post-modern ethnography, arising from the daily chores of field research. The breakthrough into time and history, away from the timeless ...
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By D. Gellner, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. Whelpton
November 24, 2016
With its systematic coverage of different groups, this book demonstrates how similar trends of ethnic formation are affecting all parts of Nepal. Yet, within the boundaries of a single culturally diverse state, very different forms of ethnicity have emerged. " This is a truly thematic collection ...
By Katarina Sjoberg
August 03, 2016
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By K. Elkholm Friedmann
July 21, 2016
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Justin Stagl
June 01, 1995
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Malcolm Crick
June 17, 2016
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By James Urry
February 29, 2016
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....