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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
May 15, 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 26, 1995
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Johanne Fabian
January 30, 1992
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 ...
Edited By D. Gellner, J. Pfaff-Czarnecka, J. Whelpton
November 25, 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 04, 2016
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By K. Elkholm Friedmann
July 28, 2016
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Justin Stagl
January 31, 2002
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Malcolm Crick
June 20, 2016
First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By James Urry
February 28, 2016
First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By J.K. Noyes
February 28, 2016
First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company....
By Elizabeth A. Ten Dyke
August 15, 2014
The collapse of the German Democratic Republic prompted the East Germans to confront their personal, cultural and international past. This study of the 'Wende' - the turn of events in 1989 - is based on ethnographic and anthropological research conducted in the early 1990s. Liz Ten Dyke has ...