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As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthropologists throughout the world. The case studies include evidence from Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Oceania, and they reflect the important shift from a concern with what law is to what law does.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kunst - Malerei, Note: 1,0, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (ZEGK-Institut fur Europaische Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Kunstgeschichte und Psychoanalyse, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Einleitung Es ist die Quintessenz der Kunstgeschichte genau hinzusehen, was in einem Gemalde verborgen ist, welche Details, Symbole oder Allegorien es enthalt. Doch ebenso ist es ein weitverbreitetes Problem der Kunsthistoriker, sich des unvoreingenommenen Blickes durch das Lesen & Recherchieren zu einem Werk selbst zu berauben oder schlicht anhand des...

The Zapotec observe that 'a bad compromise is better than a good fight'. Why? This study of the legal system of the Zapotec village of Talea suggests that compromise and, more generally, harmony are strategies used by colonized groups to protect themselves from encroaching powerholders or strategies the colonizers use to defend themselves against organized subordinates. Harmony models are present, despite great organizational and cultural differences, in many parts of the world. However, the basic components of harmony ideology are the same everywhere: an emphasis on conciliation, recognition...

Over the past few centuries, as Western civilization has enjoyed an expansive and flexible geographic domain, Westerners have observed other cultures with little interest in a return gaze. In turn, these other civilizations have been similarly disinclined when they have held sway. Clearly, though, an external frame of reference outstrips introspection--we cannot see ourselves as others see us. Unprecedented in its scope, What the Rest Think of the West provides a rich historical look through the eyes of outsiders as they survey and scrutinize the politics, science, technology,...

The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change.

• Brings a unique critical approach to the problem of energy and its complexity
• Presents the topic as both a human and a technological problem, differentiating long-term perspectives from short term fixes
• Includes coverage of the politics of energy, the protection of future generations, the avoidance of...

Naked Science is about contested domains and includes different science cultures: physics, molecular biology, primatology, immunology, ecology, medical environmental, mathematical and navigational domains. While the volume rests on the assumption that science is not autonomous, the book is distinguished by its global perspective. Examining knowledge systems within a planetary frame forces thinking about boundaries that silence or affect knowledge-building. Consideration of ethnoscience and technoscience research within a common framework is overdue...

In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.

• Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples--especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West
• Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to...

Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of the history of legal anthropology and at the same time urges anthropologists, lawyers, and activists to recognize the centrality of law in social change. Nader traces the evolution of the plaintiff's role in the United States in the second half of the twentieth century and passionately argues that the atrophy of the plaintiff's power during...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kunst - Kunstgeschichte, Note: 1,3, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg (ZEGK - Institut fur Europaische Kunstgeschichte), Veranstaltung: Darstellungen der Passion Christi im Mittelalter, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Hans Holbeins -Graue Passion- nimmt in dessen OEuvre wie auch im Vergleich mit der Kunst seiner Zeitgenossen eine Sonderrolle ein. Die spatgotische Bilderfolge erzahlt auf zwolf meisterlich gestalteten Tafeln die Leidensgeschichte Christi von dessen Gebet am Olberg bis zu seiner Auferstehung. Bestehend aus sechs Halbgrisaillen und...

The Energy Reader presents a series of readings that examine the energy problem from an anthropological perspective and look at energy holistically, including social and cultural components and long term implications for global and social environmental change.

• Brings a unique critical approach to the problem of energy and its complexity
• Presents the topic as both a human and a technological problem, differentiating long-term perspectives from short term fixes
• Includes coverage of the politics of energy, the protection of future generations, the avoidance of...

Analyzing the workings of boundary maintenance in the areas of anthropology, energy, gender, and law, Nader contrasts dominant trends in academia with work that pushes the boundaries of acceptable methods and theories. Although the selections illustrate the history of one anthropologist's work over half a century, the wider intent is to label a field as contrarian to reveal unwritten rules that sometimes hinder transformative thinking and to stimulate boundary crossing in others.

In Culture and Dignity - Dialogues between the Middle East and the West, renowned cultural anthropologist Laura Nader examines the historical and ethnographic roots of the complex relationship between the East and the West, revealing how cultural differences can lead to violence or a more peaceful co-existence.

• Outlines an anthropology for the 21st century that focuses on the myriad connections between peoples--especially the critical intercultural dialogues between the cultures of the East and the West
• Takes an historical and ethnographic approach to...