economic change

This dissertation is an ethnographic study of cultural and economic change in Auhelawa, a rural, indigenous society of southern Normanby Island (Milne Bay Province), Papua New Guinea. After a century of Australian colonial administration and postcolonial economic and social chan…

This dissertation explores the relationship between empire-building and economic change during the formative process of the Qin Empire. It employs transmitted and excavated textual materials as well as archaeological evidence to reconstruct institutions and practices of surplus …

This dissertation examines processes of political and cultural transformation in the Gebla, the region of southwest Mauritania that lies along the right bank of the Senegal river. Its focus is the nineteenth century, a time of political upheaval, economic change and imperialism …

Today, crafts in Arab-Islamic society are experiencing a crisis of survival. Due to changes in social attitudes and in economic resources of many countries in the area, crafts traditions are competing with machine-made products. This investigation focused on the effect of social…