Diese Einführung in die Europäische Ethnologie - eine neue Forschungsdisziplin zwischen den traditionellen Perspektiven der Volkskunde einerseits und der Völkerkunde andererseits - bietet einen komprimierten Überblick über die Geschichte dieser Wissenschaft, vermittelt und disku…
"Activating the past explores critical historical events and transformations associated with embodied memories in the Black Atlantic world. The assembled case-studies disclose hidden historical references to local and regional encounters with Atlantic modernity, focusing on reli…
"In Praise of Historical Anthropology is based on a fundamental conviction: the study of society cannot be undertaken without considering the weight of history and separations between disciplines in academics need to be bridged for the benefit of knowledge. Anthropology cannot b…
Los Qaraqara y los Charka, dos grandes señoríos aymaras del centro-sur andino, ocupaban una región estratégica, tanto para los Inka como para los españoles, donde se desenvolvieron los grandes centros minero-religiosos de Porco y Potosí. Este libro ofrece nuevas fuentes document…
Dieser "Profile"--Band beleuchtet das Phänomen des Rassismus in seinen gesellschaftlichen, kulturellen und politischen Kontexten. Aus dem Inhalt: - Definitionsprobleme und Theorien - Vorläufer des modernen Rassismus - Entstehung des Rassendiskurses im 18./19. Jahrhundert - Rasse…
This ethnography--translated from the Portuguese-- describes the first encounters between the Wari' Indians and whites, and is the only monographic study to date about the process of contacting a previously isolated indigenous group in the South American.
"In 1956, in the Brazilian state of Rondonia, a group of Wari' Indians had their first peaceful contact with whites: Protestant missionaries and officers from the national Indian Protection Service. On returning to their villages, the Wari' announced, 'We touched their bodies!' …
"As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders, who circulated porcelain, silk, glass beads, and other luxury goods throughout the South China Sea and through …
As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured through maritime trade became key symbols of social prestige and political power for the Philippi…
Introduction. Exploding historyThe seasonality of lifeThe Mo'orean iconoclasmPomare's iconoclasm as seasonal sacrificeMore distant emulationsRe-consecrating the worldRe-binding societiesNew tabus and ancient pleasuresHistory, habitus and seasonality.
