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Land Rights of the Indigenous Peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
ISBN: 9788790730291 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Little is know about the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (CHT), an area of approximately 5,089 square miles in southeastern Bangladesh. It is inhabited by indigenous peoples, including the Bawm, Sak, Chakma, Khumi Khyang, Marma, Mru, Lushai, Uchay (also called Mrung, Brong, Hill Tripura), Pankho, Tanchangya and Tripura (Tipra), numbering over half a million. Originally inhabited exclusively by indigenous peoples, the Hill Tracts has been impacted by national projects and programs with dire consequences.
This book describes the struggle of the indigenous peoples of the Chittagong Hill... Little is know about the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh (CHT), an area of approximately 5,089 square miles in southeastern Bangladesh. It is inh...
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Heading Towards Extinction? Indigenous Rights in Africa: The Case of the TWA of the Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo
ISBN: 9788790730314 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Heading Towards Extinction documents and discusses the case of the Twa, so-called -pygmy- people, of the Kahuzi- Biega forests, South Kivu Province in Eastern Congo. Their case is presented in the African context as well as in the context of emerging and established international norms and principles of indigenous peoples' rights. Heading Towards Extinction? is a plea for recognition of the legal rights that the Twa are entitled to as an indigenous people. The book calls for the reform of the assimilationist approach taken by the Congolese government, as well as the agencies... Heading Towards Extinction documents and discusses the case of the Twa, so-called -pygmy- people, of the Kahuzi- Biega forests, South Kivu ... |
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Racism Against Indigenous Peoples
ISBN: 9788790730468 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Racism Against Indigenous Peoples documents and analyzes the many forms of racism that indigenous peoples all over the world are still facing at the beginning of the new millennium.
Although many national constitutions prohibit racial discrimination, indigenous peoples are facing pervasive racial discrimination in their daily lives, which has far-reaching consequences for their well-being and human rights situation. The various chapters in the book, covering all the regions of the world, analyze the existence of racism and racial discrimination against indigenous peoples under national laws... Racism Against Indigenous Peoples documents and analyzes the many forms of racism that indigenous peoples all over the world are still facing at the b...
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The Indigenous World 2000/2001
ISBN: 9788790730482 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indigenous World 2000-2001 details the most crucial developments that have recently affected indigenous peoples in the different regions of the world. With contributions from indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists, the book provides an overview of the current situation and crucial developments that have occurred globally. Included are reports on developments in China, North America, Laos, Vietnam, New Zealand, and a number of Pacific Islands which were not included in last year's volume.
The Indigenous World 2000-2001 includes a report describing the debate at the sixth... The Indigenous World 2000-2001 details the most crucial developments that have recently affected indigenous peoples in the different regions of the wo...
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Towards a New Millennium: Ten Years of the Indigenous Movement in Russia
ISBN: 9788790730529 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, indigenous peoples in Russia started to organize and a movement emerged that has achieved many developments. The indigenous umbrella organization in Russia, the Russian Association of Indigenous Peoples of the North (RAIPON), celebrated its tenth anniversary in 2000, an occasion for looking back at its work during its 10-year history and at the same time looking forward to the new millennium. Many leaders of indigenous peoples of the North gathered in Moscow for the anniversary celebration and met with people from all over the world, who were invited to...
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, indigenous peoples in Russia started to organize and a movement emerged that has achieved many developments. T...
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Indigenous Peoples in Isolation in the Peruvian Amazon
ISBN: 9788790730772 / Angielski / Miękka / 247 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this important work, Beatriz Huertas Castillo offers an objective yet human vision of the current situation of the indigenous groups in isolation in Peru. Drawing on extensive fieldwork, and interviews with people living in areas neighboring these isolated groups, she presents solid evidence of their existence, their geographic areas of migration, their cultural and linguistic diversity and their considerable numbers. She also provides a thorough review of various bibliographic sources, compiling into just one book the relevant observations and details that are to be found scattered...
In this important work, Beatriz Huertas Castillo offers an objective yet human vision of the current situation of the indigenous groups in isolation i...
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Development and Ethnocide: Colonial Practices in the Andaman Islands
ISBN: 9788791563041 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is a comparative analysis of three indigenous groups of Andaman Islanders with diverse historical experiences of colonialism and "development." It examines the links between colonialism and development under British and Indian administrations, and analyzes how the various indigenous groups have responded in different ways to colonization. emphasizing particularly the dynamics of power and gender. In conclusion, the situation of the Jarawa (known as a people avoiding contact) is reviewed. The volume describes how civil society organizations and scholars advocate for the Jarawas'...
This volume is a comparative analysis of three indigenous groups of Andaman Islanders with diverse historical experiences of colonialism and "developm...
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Frontier Encounters: Indigenous Communities and Settlers in Asia and Latin America
ISBN: 9788791563157 / Angielski / Miękka / 554 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontiers, have forced indigenous peoples and settlers into an uneasy co-existence. Presenting material from various Asian and Latin American countries, Frontier Encounters examines factors that make for conflict and accommodation, studies the role of policy frames, and looks at promising mitigation strategies. The range of topics covered by the articles includes the texture of everyday-relations at the settlement frontier and the reconfiguration of... Poverty and the maldistribution of land in core areas of developing countries, together with state schemes for the colonization of unruly frontier... |
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Values and Attitudes Across Nations and Time
ISBN: 9789004112193 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Values and Attitudes across Nations and Time contributes to an ever-growing body of work focussing on the elucidation of variations in values and attitudes throughout the world - not only what they actually are, but also strategies for their detection, description and classification. Researchers in the field seek to identify both similarities and differences. In this work, quantitative and qualitative views and methods are explored by nine well-known authors: Masamichi Sasaki, current President of the International Institute of Sociology; Theodore Caplow of the University of Virginia;...
Values and Attitudes across Nations and Time contributes to an ever-growing body of work focussing on the elucidation of variations in values a...
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The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates
ISBN: 9789004116405 / Angielski / Twarda / 279 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates provides a historical and comparative overview describing the regulation of the use of alcohol and drugs (opiates) in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. It explains the conditions and causes of the various regulatory regimes, such as the economic benefits reaped from the colonial opium trade and the role that duties on alcohol played in state formation. Moreover, it explores the consequences of different regulatory regimes, e.g. the shift in the supply of...
The Control of Fuddle and Flash: A Sociological History of the Regulation of Alcohol and Opiates provides a historical and comparative overview...
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Conflict and Consensus: A study of values and attitudes in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland
ISBN: 9789004145849 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study uses a wide range of survey data to examine present-day differences in identity and political allegiance between Catholics and Protestants on the island of Ireland but also to show the extensive cultural similarities that cut across the Catholic-Protestant divide.
This study uses a wide range of survey data to examine present-day differences in identity and political allegiance between Catholics and Protestants ...
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Russia between East and West: Scholarly Debates on Eurasianism
ISBN: 9789004154155 / Angielski / Miękka / 198 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Throughout most of Russian history, two views of who the Russians are have dominated the minds of Russian intellectuals. Westerners assumed that Russia was part of the West, whilst Slavophiles saw Russia as part of a Slavic civilization. At present, it is Eurasianism that has emerged as the paradigm that has made attempts to place Russia in a broad civilizational context and it has recently become the only viable doctrine that is able to provide the very ideological justification for Russia's existence as a multiethnic state. Eurasians assert that Russia is a civilization in its own right, a...
Throughout most of Russian history, two views of who the Russians are have dominated the minds of Russian intellectuals. Westerners assumed that Russi...
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Time and Memory
ISBN: 9789004154278 / Angielski / Twarda / 321 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Time and Memory" comprises essays that deal with the nature of memory as a medium that reflects the passage of time, as a tool for the manipulation of time, and as a reflection of the creative and destructive impulse.
"Time and Memory" comprises essays that deal with the nature of memory as a medium that reflects the passage of time, as a tool for the manipulation o...
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Peace and Conflict in Ladakh: The Construction of a Fragile Web of Order
ISBN: 9789004155961 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthropological study of Ladakh analyses the means by which small communities create spaces of order amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity. In doing so it also filling a conspicuous gap in the secondary literature on Tibetan law.
This anthropological study of Ladakh analyses the means by which small communities create spaces of order amidst the heterogeneous forces of modernity...
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Knowing Animals
ISBN: 9789004157736 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh and challenging because its practitioners consider humans as animals amongst other animals, while refusing to do so from an exclusively or necessarily biological point of view. Knowing Animals showcases original explorations of the 'animal turn' by new and eminent scholars in philosophy, literary criticism, art history and cultural studies. The essays collected here describe a lively bestiary of cultural organisms, whose flesh is (at...
In recent decades the humanities and social sciences have undergone an 'animal turn', an efflorescence of interdisciplinary scholarship which is fresh...
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Measuring and Mapping Cultures: 25 Years of Comparative Value Surveys
ISBN: 9789004158207 / Angielski / Miękka / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigations of value orientations on a global scale. This volume builds on these surveys, which now cover a time period of a quarter of a century. Two chapters discuss basic theoretical and methodological issues of value research, while four chapters focus on contemporary processes of value change: cultural globalization, individualization, secularization and democratization. These analyses of the data from the value surveys give new life to social science classics such as Tocqueville, Durkheim, Marx and Weber. The...
In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigations of value orientations on a global scale. This volume builds on the...
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Homo Faber: Technology and Culture in India, China and the West from 1500 to the Preent Day
ISBN: 9789024722839 / Angielski / Twarda / 275 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Gesammelte Aufsätze: I Das Problem Der Sozialen Wirklichkeit
ISBN: 9789024751167 / Angielski / Miękka / 426 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Im vorliegenden Band ist eine Reihe von Aufsatzen zusam- mengefasst, in denen Alfred Schutz sich bei der Behandlung ver- schiedener Fragen immer wieder einem der wichtigsten philoso- phischen Probleme zuwendet: dem Problem der Sozialitat. Der Grossteil dieser Aufsatze ist bereits anderenorts erschienen: doch sind sie weit verstreut und oft schwer zuganglich. Alfred Schutz hatte Maurice Natanson, seinen Schuler und Freund, als Heraus- geber der zahlreichen Schriften, die seit seiner Ankunft in den Vereinigten Staaten Anfang des 2. Weltkriegs entstanden sind, vorgesehen. Er konnte die...
Im vorliegenden Band ist eine Reihe von Aufsatzen zusam- mengefasst, in denen Alfred Schutz sich bei der Behandlung ver- schiedener Fragen immer wiede...
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The Impact of Modern Scientific Ideas on Society
ISBN: 9789027712387 / Angielski / Twarda / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Commemoration of Einstein Papers presented at the UNESCO Symposium, Munich-Ulm, 18-20 Sept. 1978, and the Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of UNESCO's Celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Einstein's Birth, held in Paris, May 1979
In Commemoration of Einstein Papers presented at the UNESCO Symposium, Munich-Ulm, 18-20 Sept. 1978, and the Addresses Delivered on the Occasion of UN...
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Thinking about Society: Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9789027720689 / Angielski / Twarda / 523 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it...
I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Mal...
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