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  1. Transcultural Encounters in the Himalayan Borderlands : Kalimpong as a “Contact Zone"
    Author: Viehbeck, Markus
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters:... more

     

    This collaborative study investigates the hill station of Kalimpong and the larger Eastern Himalayan borderlands as a paradigmatic case of a “contact zone.” In the colonial and early post-colonial era, this space enabled a variety of encounters: between (British) India, Tibet, and China, but also Nepal and Bhutan; between Christian mission and Himalayan religions; between global flows of money and information and local markets and practices. Using a plethora of local and global historical sources, the contributing essays follow the pathways of people from diverse cultural backgrounds and investigate the new forms of knowledge and practice that resulted from their encounters and their shifting power relations. The volume provides not only a nuanced historiography of Kalimpong and its adjacent areas, but also a conceptual model for studying transcultural processes in borderland spaces and their colonial and post-colonial dynamics.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9783946054573; 9783946054580; 9783946054566
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: kalimpong; transkulturality; himalayas; Buddhism; Darjeeling; India; Lepcha people; Tibet; Tibetan people
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (360 p.)
  2. Studies in Historical Documents from Nepal and India
    Author: Cubelic, Simon; Michaels, Axel; Zotter, Astrid
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP), Heidelberg

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology more

     

    study of religion|indology|anthropology|history|tibetology

     
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    ISBN: 9783946054719; 9783946054702
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    Subjects: Asian history; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: study of religion; indology; anthropology; history; tibetology; Nepal
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (538 p.)
  3. Registers of Communication
    Contributor: Agha, Asif (Publisher); Frog (Publisher)
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this... more

     

    In any society, communicative activities are organized into models of conduct that differentiate specific social practices from each other and enable people to communicate with each other in ways distinctive to those practices. The articles in this volume investigate a series of locale-specific models of communicative conduct, or registers of communication, through which persons organize their participation in varied social practices, including practices of politics, religion, schooling, migration, trade, media, verbal art, and ceremonial ritual. Drawing on research traditions on both sides of the Atlantic, the authors of these articles bring together insights from a variety of scholarly disciplines, including linguistics, anthropology, folklore, literary studies, and philology. They describe register models associated with a great many forms of interpersonal behavior, and, through their own multi-year and multi-disciplinary collaborative efforts, bring register phenomena into focus as features of social life in the lived experience of people in societies around the world.

     
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  4. The Logic of Invention
    Author: Wagner, Roy
    Published: 20171101
    Publisher:  HAU Books

    In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible,... more

     

    In this long-awaited sequel to The Invention of Culture, Roy Wagner tackles the logic and motives that underlie cultural invention. Could there be a single, logical factor that makes the invention of the distinction between self and other possible, much as specific human genes allow for language?

     

    Wagner explores what he calls “the reciprocity of perspectives” through a journey between Euro-American bodies of knowledge and his in-depth knowledge of Melanesian modes of thought. This logic grounds variants of the subject/object transformation, as Wagner works through examples such as the figure-ground reversal in Gestalt psychology, Lacan’s theory of the mirror-stage formation of the Ego, and even the self-recursive structure of the aphorism and the joke. Juxtaposing Wittgenstein’s and Leibniz’s philosophy with Melanesian social logic, Wagner explores the cosmological dimensions of the ways in which different societies develop models of self and the subject/object distinction.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Anthropology
  5. The Promise of Prosperity
    Contributor: Bovensiepen, Judith (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders,... more

     

    For the people of Timor-Leste, independence promised a fundamental transformation from foreign occupation to self-rule, from brutality to respect for basic rights, and from poverty to prosperity. In the eyes of the country’s political leaders, revenue from the country’s oil and gas reserves is the means by which that transformation could be effected. Over the past decade, they have formulated ambitious plans for state-led development projects and rapid economic growth. Paradoxically, these modernist visions are simultaneously informed by and contradict ideas stemming from custom, religion, accountability and responsibility to future generations. This book explores how the promise of prosperity informs policy and how policy debates shape expectations about the future in one of the world’s newest and poorest nation-states.

     
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    Contributor: Bovensiepen, Judith (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Subjects: Developing countries; Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Timor-Leste; Social Policy; Economic Development; Oil
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (268 p.)
  6. Indigenous Efflorescence
    Contributor: Roche , Gerald (Publisher); Maruyama, Hiroshi (Publisher); Virdi Kroik, Åsa (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    Indigenous efflorescence refers to the surprising economic prosperity, demographic increase and cultural renaissance currently found amongst many Indigenous communities around the world. This book moves beyond a more familiar focus on... more

     

    Indigenous efflorescence refers to the surprising economic prosperity, demographic increase and cultural renaissance currently found amongst many Indigenous communities around the world. This book moves beyond a more familiar focus on ‘revitalisation’ to situate these developments within their broader political and economic contexts. The materials in this volume also examine the everyday practices and subjectivities of Indigenous efflorescence and how these exist in tension with ongoing colonisation of Indigenous lands, and the destabilising impacts of global neoliberal capitalism. Contributions to this volume include both research articles and shorter case studies, and are drawn from amongst the Ainu and Sami (Saami/Sámi) peoples (in Ainu Mosir in northern Japan, and Sapmi in northern Europe, respectively). This volume will be of use to scholars working on contemporary Indigenous issues, as well as to Indigenous peoples engaged in linguistic and cultural revitalisation, and other aspects of Indigenous efflorescence.

     
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    Contributor: Roche , Gerald (Publisher); Maruyama, Hiroshi (Publisher); Virdi Kroik, Åsa (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Indigenous; Revitalisation; Anthropology,
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (264 p.)
  7. Global Debates, Local Dilemmas
    Author: Minh Hang, Tran
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    "The practice of sex-selective abortion is on the rise globally, stirring debates about gender inequality, medical ethics and reproductive autonomy. This book is the first ethnography to document practices of sex selection in Viet Nam. It shows how... more

     

    "The practice of sex-selective abortion is on the rise globally, stirring debates about gender inequality, medical ethics and reproductive autonomy. This book is the first ethnography to document practices of sex selection in Viet Nam. It shows how and why abortions are used to select the sex of children and how Vietnamese individuals and health professionals are implicated in this illicit and controversial practice. Telling the stories of women who have undergone sex-selective abortions, it traces their passage through sex determination and abortion decision-making phases, and investigates their experiences during and after their sex-selective abortions. It describes the turmoil experienced by individuals who undergo such abortions and explores their interactions with the spectrum of social actors and health institutions that facilitate practices of sex selection.

    As the first ethnographic study on sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam, this book delves into socially sensitive terrain and sheds light on personally fraught individual experiences of reproductive agency. It documents societal responses to sex-selective abortions in Viet Nam and identifies gaps in the state’s capacity to regulate reproductive desire in a marketised economy. A resource for researchers, it contributes to ongoing debates on sex selection and provides a framework for developing relevant social policies, interventions and support services.

    ‘This pioneering study offers a nuanced and sensitive account of sex-selective abortion as human experience. Through thought provoking case studies, the book provides rare ethnographic documentation of the complex quandaries that arise as selective reproductive technologies are routinised across the globe.’

    — Tine M. Gammeltoft, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen"

     
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    Subjects: Vietnam; Ethical issues: abortion & birth control; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Medical anthropology
    Other subjects: Anthropology; Abortion; Sex-selection; Social Policy; Health Policy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (232 p.)
  8. Expressions of Austronesian Thought and Emotions
    Author: J. Fox, James
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions. more

     

    This collection of papers is the seventh volume in the Comparative Austronesian series. The papers in this volume focus on societies from Sumatra to Melanesia and examine the expression and patterning of Austronesian thought and emotions.

     
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    Subjects: South East Asia; Australasia, Oceania & other land areas; Sociolinguistics; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: austronesian; asia pacific; anthropology; Emotion; Empathy; Ethnography; Iban people; Kinship; Tetum language; Toraja
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (210 p.)
  9. The Spectral Arctic : A History of dreams and ghosts in polar exploration
    Author: McCorristine, Shane
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith.... more

     

    Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.

     
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  10. Storied and Supernatural Places : Studies in Spatial and Social Dimensions of Folklore and Sagas
    Contributor: Valk, Ülo (Publisher); Sävborg, Daniel (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    "This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in... more

     

    "This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas.

     

    The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds, hill forts, and other tradition dominants in the micro-geography of the Nordic and Baltic countries, both retrospectively and from synchronous perspectives. The supernaturalisation of places appears as a socially embedded set of practices that involves storytelling and ritual behaviour. Articles show, how places accumulate meanings as they are layered by stories and how this shared knowledge about environments can actualise in personal experiences.

     

    Articles in the second section “Regional Variation, Environment and Spatial Dimensions” address ecotypes, milieu-morphological adaptation in Nordic and Baltic-Finnic folklores, and the active role of tradition bearers in shaping beliefs about nature as well as attitudes towards the environment. The meaning of places and spatial distance as the marker of otherness and sacrality in Old Norse sagas is also discussed here.

     

    The third section of the book “Traditions and Histories Reconsidered” addresses major developments within the European social histories and mentalities. It scrutinizes the history of folkloristics, its geopolitical dimensions and its connection with nation building, as well as looking at constructions of the concepts Baltic, Nordic and Celtic. It also sheds light on the social base of folklore and examines vernacular views toward legendry and the supernatural."

     
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    Contributor: Valk, Ülo (Publisher); Sävborg, Daniel (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522229175; 9789522229946; 9789522229939
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    Subjects: Cultural studies; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Nordic and Baltic-Finnic folklore; place-lore; legends; Old Norse literature; the supernatural; history of folkloristics; Dowsing
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (284 p.)
  11. Where is the Field? : The Experience of Migration Viewed through the Prism of Ethnographic Fieldwork
    Contributor: Hirvi, Laura (Publisher); Snellman, Hanna (Publisher)
    Published: 2012
    Publisher:  Finnish Literature Society / SKS, Helsinki

    The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the ‘field’ seems to present a particular... more

     

    The book sheds light on the experiences of immigrants in different parts of the world and other insightful reflections on the art of carrying out fieldwork in the present day, when the task of locating the ‘field’ seems to present a particular challenge for researchers. This book is of interest to experienced ethnographers working in the discipline of migration studies and also to scholars conducting ethnographic research in other fields.

     
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    Contributor: Hirvi, Laura (Publisher); Snellman, Hanna (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9789522223883; 9789522227621; 9789522227614
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: social anthropology; ethnology; ethnography; methods of research; methodology; field work; Finland; Italy
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (221 p.)
  12. Focality and Extension in Kinship : Essays in Memory of Harold W. Scheffler
    Contributor: Shapiro, Warren (Publisher)
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  ANU Press

    When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents,... more

     

    When we think of kinship, we usually think of ties between people based upon blood or marriage. But we also have other ways—nowadays called ‘performative’—of establishing kinship, or hinting at kinship: many Christians have, in addition to parents, godparents; members of a trade union may refer to each other as ‘brother’ or ‘sister’. Similar performative ties are even more common among the so-called ‘tribal’ peoples that anthropologists have studied and, especially in recent years, they have received considerable attention from scholars in this field. However, these scholars tend to argue that performative kinship in the Tribal World is semantically on a par with kinship established through procreation and marriage. Harold Scheffler, long-time Professor of Anthropology at Yale University, has argued, by contrast, that procreative ties are everywhere semantically central, i.e. focal, that they provide bases from which other kinship ties are extended. Most of the essays in this volume illustrate the validity of Scheffler’s position, though two contest it, and one exemplifies the soundness of a similarly universalistic stance in gender behaviour. This book will be of interest to everyone concerned with current controversy in kinship and gender studies, as well as those who would know what anthropologists have to say about human nature.

     
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    Contributor: Shapiro, Warren (Publisher)
    Language: English
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    Subjects: Gender studies, gender groups; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: kinship; gender; anthropology; harold scheffler; Ethnography; Family; Genealogy; Parallel and cross cousins
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (428 p.)
  13. After Ethnos
    Author: Rees, Tobias
    Published: 2018
    Publisher:  Duke University Press

    For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given... more

     

    For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography—as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being—has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography—and the human from society and culture—and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.

     
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social
  14. Unequal Lives : Gender, Race and Class in the Western Pacific
    Contributor: Alexeyeff, Kalissa (Publisher); Bainton, Nicholas A. (Publisher); Cox, John (Publisher); McDougall, Debra (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  ANU Press, Canberra

    As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on... more

     

    As we move further into the twenty-first century, we are witnessing both the global extensification and local intensification of inequality. Unequal Lives deals with the particular dilemmas of inequality in the Western Pacific. The authors focus on four dimensions of inequality: the familiar triad of gender, race and class, and the often-neglected dimension of generation. Grounded in meticulous long-term ethnographic enquiry and deep awareness of the historical contingency of these configurations of inequality, this volume illustrates the multidimensional, multiscale and epistemic nature of contemporary inequality. This collection is a major contribution to academic and political debates about the perverse effects of inequality, which now ranks among the greatest challenges of our time. The inspiration for this volume derives from the breadth and depth of Martha Macintyre's remarkable scholarship. The contributors celebrate Macintyre’s groundbreaking work, which exemplifies the explanatory power, ethical force and pragmatism that ensures the relevance of anthropological research to the lives of others and to understanding the global condition.

     
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    Contributor: Alexeyeff, Kalissa (Publisher); Bainton, Nicholas A. (Publisher); Cox, John (Publisher); McDougall, Debra (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781760464110
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    Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; Social issues & processes; Ethical issues & debates; Social groups; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Inequality; Martha Macintyre; Melanesia; Gender; Race; Class; Western Pacific
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (580 p.)
  15. Like Fire : The Paliau Movement and Millenarianism in Melanesia
    Author: French Smith, Michael; Schwartz, Theodore
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  ANU Press, Canberra

    Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a... more

     

    Like Fire chronicles an indigenous movement for radical change in Papua New Guinea from 1946 to the present. The movement's founder, Paliau Maloat, promoted a program for step-by-step social change in which many of his followers also found hope for a miraculous millenarian transformation. Drawing on data collected over several decades, Theodore Schwartz and Michael French Smith describe the movement’s history, Paliau’s transformation from secular reformer and politician to Melanesian Jesus, and the development of the current incarnation of the movement as Wind Nation, a fully millenarian endeavour. Their analysis casts doubt on common ways of understanding a characteristically Melanesian form of millenarianism, the cargo cult, and questions widely accepted ways of interpreting millenarianism in general. They show that to understand the human proclivity for millenarianism we must scrutinise more closely two near-universal human tendencies: difficulty accepting the role of chance or impersonal forces in shaping events (that is, the tendency to personify causation), and a tendency to imagine that one or one’s group is the focus of the malign or benign attention of purposeful entities, from the local to the cosmic. Schwartz and Smith discuss the prevalence of millenarianism and warn against romanticising it, because the millenarian mind can subvert rationality and nourish rage and fear even as it seeks transcendence.

     
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    ISBN: 9781760464257
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    Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Political activism
    Other subjects: Papua New Guinea; Millenarianism; Cargo Cults; religion; Margaret Mead
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (560 p.)
  16. Indigenous Australian Youth Futures : Living the Social Determinants of Health
    Contributor: Burbank, Victoria (Publisher); Chenhall, Richard (Publisher); Senior, Kate (Publisher)
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  ANU Press, Canberra

    Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed.... more

     

    Adolescents are at a critical life stage where they will soon be able to contribute to the wellbeing of humankind, or do it great harm. Consequently, it is vital that the challenges and possibilities of adolescence be well understood and addressed. In Australia, such understanding is urgently needed with respect to Aboriginal adolescents. Not only must they adjust to their changing bodies and minds, but they must negotiate these changes within a context usually characterised by racism and poverty. They must also do this within intercultural environments that include the disparate and sometimes incompatible beliefs and practices of their multicultural populations. The chapters in this collection address these challenges to Aboriginal adolescents in the Northern Territory and the intercultural contexts in which they take place. Their discussions include the adolescents' experiences with health and health care, education, and the criminal justice system. They also address their hopes, dreams, plans and politics, engagement with social media, food preferences and nutrition, engagement with language, family, and changing mores affecting sexual behaviour and marriage. The book aims to provide readers with a greater understanding of the day-to-day lives of Aboriginal adolescents, and some of the adults who care for or neglect them. It seeks to provide readers with a better understanding of the circumstances, processes and factors that affect adolescent health, wellbeing and future prospects in their intercultural environments, and glimpse the multiplicity of these circumstances, processes and factors and the complexity of their interaction.

     
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    Contributor: Burbank, Victoria (Publisher); Chenhall, Richard (Publisher); Senior, Kate (Publisher)
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781760464455
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    Subjects: Social theory; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Social services & welfare, criminology
    Other subjects: Indigenous Youth; Social Health Determinants; Northern Territory; Aboriginal Adolescents; Don Dale Prison
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (238 p.)
  17. Esthétique et recyclages culturels : Explorations de la culture contemporaine
    Author: Klucinskas, Jean; Moser, Walter
    Published: 2004
    Publisher:  University of Ottawa Press / Les Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa

    artists - designers - cultural production - recycling - aesthetic experience De nos jours, artistes et créateurs de toutes orientations, et dans différents champs de production culturelle, ont de plus en plus recours à des procédés impliquant le... more

     

    artists - designers - cultural production - recycling - aesthetic experience De nos jours, artistes et créateurs de toutes orientations, et dans différents champs de production culturelle, ont de plus en plus recours à des procédés impliquant le traitement de matériaux qui sont déjà disponibles dans l’espace culturel : ils créent en recyclant. Grâce aux nouvelles technologies de reproduction des œuvres et de traitement de données, cette modalité de production s’affirme comme une dominante de la culture contemporaine. Comment en rendre compte esthétiquement ? Quel est son impact sur notre expérience esthétique ? En quoi nous oblige-t-elle à repenser concepts et compréhension dans le domaine de l’esthétique. Dans ce livre, un groupe international de dix-huit chercheurs se penche sur cette interface entre esthétique et recyclage culturel et propose des éléments de réponse à ces questions. Ce livre est issu d’un colloque international qui eut lieu en 2001 à Montréal.

     
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    Language: French
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    ISBN: 9782760305854
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: expérience esthétique; artists; aesthetic experience; recycling; cultural production; artistes; créateurs; production culturelle; recyclages; designers
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (272 p.)
  18. Suburban Urbanities
    Author: Vaughan, Laura
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  UCL Press

    Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban... more

     

    Suburban space has traditionally been understood as a formless remnant of physical city expansion, without a dynamic or logic of its own. Suburban Urbanities challenges this view by defining the suburb as a temporally evolving feature of urban growth. Anchored in the architectural research discipline of space syntax, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of urban change, touching on the history of the suburb as well as its current development challenges, with a particular focus on suburban centres. Studies of the high street as a centre for social, economic and cultural exchange provide evidence for its critical role in sustaining local centres over time. Contributors from the architecture, urban design, geography, history and anthropology disciplines examine cases spanning Europe and around the Mediterranean.

    By linking large-scale city mapping, urban design scale expositions of high street activity and local-scale ethnographies, the book underscores the need to consider suburban space on its own terms as a specific and complex field of social practice.

     
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    ISBN: 9781910634141; 9781910634134; 9781910634158
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: suburbs; urban studies; planning; architecture; Built environment; Islington; London; Space syntax; Surbiton; Upper Street
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (374 p.)
  19. Mana Māori. The Power of New Zealand’s First Inhabitants
    Author: Wonu Veys, Fanny
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Leiden University Press

    This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and... more

     

    This book takes you on a journey exploring the histories of the country's first Polynesian discoverers, its encounters with Europeans and the subsequent settling by Westerners. Particular attention will be paid to the Dutch explorer Abel Tasman and the Dutch immigration wave of the 1950s. Through a discussion of the meeting house and meeting grounds, the relationships Maori maintain to the land will be considered. The vital role of the Treaty of Waitangi (1840) and its present-day repercussions will be looked at. Finally the role of taonga or cultural treasures embodying the ancestral identity of a Maori kin group in relation to particular lands and resources will be explained.

     
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    Format: Online
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    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: maori ethnography; new zealand; popular science; Meeting house; National Museum of Ethnology (Netherlands); Netherlands; Taonga
  20. Moral Ecology of a Forest : The Nature Industry and Maya Post-Conservation
    Author: Martínez-Reyes, José E.
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of Arizona Press

    Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in... more

     

    Forests are alive, filled with rich, biologically complex life forms and the interrelationships of multiple species and materials. Vulnerable to a host of changing conditions in this global era, forests are in peril as never before. New markets in carbon and environmental services attract speculators. In the name of conservation, such speculators attempt to undermine local land control in these desirable areas.

    Moral Ecology of a Forest provides an ethnographic account of conservation politics, particularly the conflict between Western conservation and Mayan ontological ecology. The difficult interactions of the Maya of central Quintana Roo, Mexico, for example, or the Mayan communities of the Sain Ka’an Biosphere, demonstrate the clashing interests with Western biodiversity conservation initiatives. The conflicts within the forest of Quintana Roo represent the outcome of nature in this global era, where the forces of land grabbing, conservation promotion and organizations, and capitalism vie for control of forests and land.

    Forests pose living questions. In addition to the ever-thrilling biology of interdependent species, forests raise questions in the sphere of political economy, and thus raise cultural and moral questions. The economic aspects focus on the power dynamics and ideological perspectives over who controls, uses, exploits, or preserves those life forms and landscapes. The cultural and moral issues focus on the symbolic meanings, forms of knowledge, and obligations that people of different backgrounds, ethnicities, and classes have constructed in relation to their lands. The Maya Forest of Quintana Roo is a historically disputed place in which these three questions come together.

     
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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    Subjects: Society & culture: general; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography
    Other subjects: Social Science; Social Science; Anthropology; Cultural & Social
  21. The Nature of the Spectacle : On Images, Money, and Conserving Capitalism
    Author: Igoe, Jim
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  University of Arizona Press

    Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change. These crises are interconnected ecologically, economically, and... more

     

    Today crisis appears to be the normal order of things. We seem to be turning in widening gyres of economic failure, species extinction, resource scarcity, war, and climate change. These crises are interconnected ecologically, economically, and politically. Just as importantly, they are connected—and disconnected—in our imaginations. Public imaginations are possibly the most important stage on which crises are played out, for these views determine how the problems are perceived and what solutions are offered.

    In The Nature of Spectacle, Jim Igoe embarks on multifaceted explorations of how we imagine nature and how nature shapes our imaginations. The book traces spectacular productions of imagined nature across time and space—from African nature tourism to transnational policy events to green consumer appeals in which the push of a virtual button appears to initiate a chain of events resulting in the protection of polar bears in the Arctic or jaguars in the Amazon rainforest. These explorations illuminate the often surprising intersections of consumerism, entertainment, and environmental policy. They show how these intersections figure in a strengthening and problematic policy consensus in which economic growth and ecosystem health are cast as mutually necessitating conditions. They also take seriously the potential of these intersections and how they may facilitate other alignments and imaginings that may become the basis of alternatives to our current socioecological predicaments.

     
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  22. Meeting Ethnography : Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
    Contributor: Sandler, Jen (Publisher); Thedvall, Renita (Publisher)
    Published: 2017
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized... more

     

    This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how might—ethnographers study meetings as objects, and how might they best conduct research in meetings as particular elements of their field sites? Through contributions from an international group of ethnographers who have conducted “meeting ethnography” in diverse field sites, this volume offers both theoretical insight and methodological guidance into the study of this most ubiquitous ritual.

     
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  23. Chapter 8 Anticipatory nostalgia and nomadic temporality : A case study of chronocracy in the crypto-colony
    Author: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781350125865; 9781003087199
    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: Anthropology, Chronopolitics, Time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (29 p.)
  24. Fencing in AIDS : Gender, Vulnerability, and Care in Papua New Guinea (Edition 1)
    Author: Wardlow, Holly
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  University of California Press

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea,... more

     

    A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.

     

    In this vitally important book, medical anthropologist Holly Wardlow takes readers through a ten-year history of the AIDS epidemic in Tari, Papua New Guinea, focusing on the political and economic factors that make women vulnerable to HIV and on their experiences with antiretroviral therapy. Alive with the women’s stories about being trafficked to gold mines, resisting polygynous marriages, and struggling to be perceived as morally upright, Fencing in AIDS demonstrates that being female shapes every aspect of the AIDS epidemic. Offering crucial insights into the anthropologies of mining, ethics, and gender, this is essential reading for scholars and professionals addressing the global AIDS crisis today.

     
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  25. Chapter Introduction : The time of anthropology: studies of contemporary chronopolitics and chronocracy
    Author: Kirtsoglou, Elisabeth; Simpson, Bob
    Published: 2021
    Publisher:  Taylor & Francis

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped.... more

     

    The Time of Anthropology provides a series of compelling anthropological case studies that explore the different temporalities at play in the scientific discourses, governmental techniques and policy practices through which modern life is shaped. Together they constitute a novel analysis of contemporary chronopolitics. The contributions focus on state power, citizenship, and ecologies of time to reveal the scalar properties of chronopolitics as it shifts between everyday lived realities and the macro-institutional work of nation states. The collection charts important new directions for chronopolitical thinking in the future of anthropological research.

     
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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9781350125865; 9781003087199
    Parent title: The Time of Anthropology
    Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; Anthropology
    Other subjects: Anthropology, Chronopolitics, Time
    Scope: 1 electronic resource (31 p.)