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Nomadic Pathway in Social Evolution
ISBN: 9783844316810 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At present there are many theories which interpret characteristic features of nomadic pastoralists differently. Could nomads overcome the threshold of statehood independently and if yes, how such societies should be defined? Why the economic basis of nomadism has changed so slightly in millennia while the political organization is changing constantly from acephalous tribes and chiefdoms to "nomadic empires"? What do nomadic sociopolitical institutions have and do not have in common with such notions typical for sedentary agricultural societies as the state, class, property, civilization?
At present there are many theories which interpret characteristic features of nomadic pastoralists differently. Could nomads overcome the threshold of...
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Swedish Ventures in Cameroon, 1883-1923: Trade and Travel, People and Politics
ISBN: 9781571817259 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, two Swedes, Knutson and Waldau, were living on the upper slopes of the Cameroon Mountain. Very little is known about their activities. One, Knutson, wrote a long memoir of his time in Cameroon (1883-1895) which is published here for the first time. It gives fascinating insights into everyday life in Cameroon and into the multifaceted relationships among the various Europeans, and between them and the Africans, at the end of the 19th century; we... The 1880s were a critical time in Cameroon. A German warship arrived in the Douala estuary and proclaimed Cameroon a protectorate. At that time, t... |
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Meanings that residents in Budiriro attach to the cholera illness
ISBN: 9783844319064 / Angielski / Miękka / 56 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study focuses on the meanings that residents in Budiriro attached on cholera illness and the appropriateness of cholera interventions by various institutions. It sought to find out the varied meanings that were attached by residents who were affected and infected by cholera. Since the cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe epitomized the zenith of the economic meltdown, various humanitarian organizations chipped in to help contain the outbreak. The study then sought to capture the various cholera responses that residents showed in the face of cholera and the interventions that were administered in...
This study focuses on the meanings that residents in Budiriro attached on cholera illness and the appropriateness of cholera interventions by various ...
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219,18 |
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Biocultural Diversity and Natural Resources Management in Ghana
ISBN: 9783844332018 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Ghana, discourses in the drive for an appropriate, effective and more sustainable natural resource management remains a challenge to both research and policy. Existing policies and debates have ignore or undervalue the vital and intricate relationship between community people and their natural environment which shape and define the traditional cosmology of indigenous people and influence their worlviews and the way natural resources are managed. Although some attempts have been made to integrate both formal and informal management sytems and practices, they fail to properly...
In Ghana, discourses in the drive for an appropriate, effective and more sustainable natural resource management remains a challenge to both resear...
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263,91 |
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Domestic workers' coping strategies in Zimbabwe
ISBN: 9783844319071 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The study focused at how domestic workers in a low density suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe copied with work-related challenges.It established a plethora of challenges that these domestic workers faced at their workplaces, and how they consequently responded to them both individually and collectively. The study therefore envisaged that domestic workers are not passive but they are active agents who always strategise to mitigate their deplorable work conditions.
The study focused at how domestic workers in a low density suburb in Harare, Zimbabwe copied with work-related challenges.It established a plethora of...
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219,18 |
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Crime in Alice Walker's Works
ISBN: 9783844301540 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The book explores the portrayal of crime in Alice Walker's works. It argues that in considering black crime in America especially vis-a-vis crime in general, there are considerations deriving their force from American history, in particular the slave history in America. The definition of morality and crime in the United States of America is a product of the Puritan values of its founding fathers and is therefore, skewed against black people whose enslavement they had to justify with plethora of negative stereotypes for centuries. So insidious are these stereotypes that even the best African...
The book explores the portrayal of crime in Alice Walker's works. It argues that in considering black crime in America especially vis-a-vis crime in g...
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Making a Difference in the Lives of Bilingual/Bicultural Children
ISBN: 9780820448923 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As the conservative political mood of our nation eliminates programs for the increasing numbers of bilingual children, educators are nevertheless expected to teach linguistically and culturally diverse learners with limited background knowledge and resources. This edited volume challenges -mainstream- educators to critically examine how to best meet the needs of bilingual/bicultural children in contemporary America."
As the conservative political mood of our nation eliminates programs for the increasing numbers of bilingual children, educators are nevertheless expe...
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Alternatives of Social Evolution
ISBN: 9783844324334 / Angielski / Miękka / 492 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The present volume is an attempt of an international research team to make a complex study in the social evolution processes in prehistory in their spatial and temporal variations. The authors hope that their survey can and should also promote a better understanding of the evolution from prehistoric bands to complex states and pre-industrial empires. The volume consists of five parts and 27 chapters. The first part includes theoretical studies of non- linear evolution. Articles on the alternative pathways of the prehistoric societies' evolution form the volume's second part. The evolutionary...
The present volume is an attempt of an international research team to make a complex study in the social evolution processes in prehistory in their sp...
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Prophet Margins: The Medieval Vatic Impulse and Social Stability
ISBN: 9780820471075 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the future so much as diagnosing the present. This exciting collection of nine essays examines the range of social and political implications that inflects poetic discourse, from the Old English and Latin texts of the Anglo-Saxon world to the Scotland and England of the Renaissance. Whether saints lives, Germanic heroic epics, chronicles, or satiric poems, the works discussed in this book retain their verbal power, if not their political influence,...
While poets have traditionally inhabited cultural margins, prophets have brought poetic language to the center of cultural debate, not foretelling the...
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(Re)Thinking the Little Ancestor: New Perspectives on the Archaeology of Infancy and Childhood
ISBN: 9781407308456 / Angielski / Miękka / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society the Study of Childhood in the Past (SSCIP) emerged. Contents: 1) The Osteology of Infancy and Childhood: Misconceptions and potential (Mary Lewis); 2) Subadult or Subaltern? Children as serial categories (Frederik Fahlander); 3) Etruscan Infants: Childrens cemeteries at Tarquinia, Italy, as indicators of an age of transition (Marshall J. Becker); 4) Thrown Out with the Bathwater or Properly Buried? Neonate and infant skeletons in a settlement context on the...
Updated papers presented at the infancy and childhood conference at the University of Kent in 2005. From this conference the new Society the Study of ...
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308,70 |
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Zakat Discourse in Indonesia
ISBN: 9783844313031 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Zakat as one of five pillars of Islam has always become a main issue when we are talking about the empowerment of Muslims economic lives. Besides its principal objective which is to elevate the spirit of human beings above the love of material acquisition, zakat has strategic roles in solving poverty problems. Therefore, as the majority of East Lombok people are Muslims and are living below the prosperous level, the East Lombok government enacted zakat regional regulation. The regulation was at first applied to civil servants, including teachers by deducting 2.5% of their monthly...
Zakat as one of five pillars of Islam has always become a main issue when we are talking about the empowerment of Muslims economic lives. Besides it...
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Reducing Hate Crimes and Violence Among American Youth: Creating Transformational Agency Through Critical Praxis
ISBN: 9780820452807 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As hate crimes and violence continue to hurt the innocent, our society has looked little beyond retribution and punishment for the perpetrators. This book breaks new ground by looking at the ways in which educators and school boards can work to develop transformational agency for those students most at risk. By developing alternative schools that foster strong relationships through supportive communities, disaffected youth can find hope and trust within themselves as they continue their educational and social development. Undergirded with critical and border pedagogy, alternative schools...
As hate crimes and violence continue to hurt the innocent, our society has looked little beyond retribution and punishment for the perpetrators. This ...
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Becoming Cosmetologists
ISBN: 9783838316956 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. Specifically, I analyze the ways they are socialized through and to professional language use and identity. Data for this project include audio- and video-taped participant observations of students' talk and interaction during two weekly theory classes, daily "floorwork" involving hair styling practice on mannequins and live models, local hair care conventions, and, lastly, fieldtrips to local salons. Using ethnographic modes of inquiry and discourse analysis, this dissertation broadens the spectrum of...
This study examines language socialization among African American cosmetology students. Specifically, I analyze the ways they are socialized through a...
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Indigo Textile Dyeing in Some Selected Yoruba Towns in Nigeria
ISBN: 9783838338767 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY is based on the technology behind the indigo textile dyeing in some selected towns in South-western Nigeria from the anthropological perspective. It furthers compared the processes of the technology and identified the factors responsible for the sustainability of indigenous indigo textile dyeing in the face of foreign technology with a view to extracting information on indigenous technology of textile dyeing as a means of reviving the dwindling interest in the indigenous art of dyeing. It highlighted the...
INDIGO TEXTILE DYEING IN SOME SELECTED YORUBA TOWNS IN NIGERIA: A COMPARATIVE STUDY is based on the technology behind the indigo textile dyeing in som...
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Maori and Rugby
ISBN: 9783843373982 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The constitution of the physical body of the Maori person is very much central to the analyses, based on the cultural, social and ontological understanding of the natives. On New Zealand, the natives expresses themselves, almost "talk" with their bodies, just like if they were producing knowledge, language, hierarchy and social relations. The Maori body is the basic method of differentiation between them and the others, whether they are foreign or only members of different whanaus." Gyorgy Henyei Neto
"The constitution of the physical body of the Maori person is very much central to the analyses, based on the cultural, social and ontological underst...
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Social and Health Tribulations Faced by Tribal Population
ISBN: 9783843374750 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The cumulative impression of observations and insights from Shekhawati region of Rajasthan with regard to socio-economic condition of tribal communities especially the comparison between temporary and permanent nomad camps is presented. Two common elements emerged from impression of different tribal groups from different occupations or economic groups: first, each group is affected by urbanization; second, as a result of changing work scenario - from agriculture and cottage industries to mass production and service industries, the value of typical tribal occupations is on the...
The cumulative impression of observations and insights from Shekhawati region of Rajasthan with regard to socio-economic condition of tribal commun...
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If Rain Doesn't Come: Anthropological Study of Drought and Human Ecology in Western Rajasthan
ISBN: 9788173041846 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Taboo, Truth and Religion
ISBN: 9781571817112 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based on a thorough study of Steiner's unpublished papers, this edition for the first time places the book in its context and offers a new reading of the text. More than just a critique of existing taboo theories, as it has often been seen, this study offers a profound analysis of danger behavior and pollution in "non-civilized" societies. This provided an important starting-point for Mary Douglas' Purity and Danger. A key aspect of Steiner's... Franz Steiner's study of Taboo is internationally recognized as a classic in its field. In a newly researched introductory chapter, based o... |
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Political Systems and the Distribution of Power
ISBN: 9780415511308 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This political anthropology volume provides a study of power, examining the manipulation of political relations and looking at the task of elaborating a classification of governmental systems that will throw light on the important problems for research.
This political anthropology volume provides a study of power, examining the manipulation of political relations and looking at the task of elaborating...
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288,33 |
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Latin America and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation
ISBN: 9780415512923 / Angielski / Miękka / 210 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Renowned author Jose Mauricio Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilisation and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America."
Renowned author Jose Mauricio Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilisation and offers a general theoretical app...
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