Nomadic art of the eastern Eurasian steppes: the Eugene V. Thaw and other New York collections…
by Bunker, Emma C., Metropolitan Museum of Art, Exhibition Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes - the Eugene V. Thaw and other New York Collections, New York, NY, Exhibition "Nomadic Art of the Eastern Eurasian Steppes: The Eugene V. Thaw and Other New York Collections", New York, NY
This unique volume aims to break down the lingering linguistic boundaries that continue to divide up the circumpolar world, to move beyond ethnographic 'thick description' to integrate the study of northern Eurasian hunting and herding societies more effectively by encouraging i…
Articles, comparison of the impact of development projects on population dynamics and rural development trends in Sudan and other African countries - discusses rural urban disparity, social implications of internal migration and deliberate rural population geographic distributio…
"The third book in Morris Berman's trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work. Here, in a discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, o…
"The third book in Morris Berman's trilogy on the evolution of human consciousness, Wandering God continues his earlier work. Here, in a discussion of our hunter-gatherer ancestry and the "paradoxical" mode of perception that it involved, Berman shows how a sense of alertness, o…
This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on in…
This volume is devoted to aspects of space that have thus far been largely unexplored. How space is perceived and cognised has been discussed from different stances, but there are few analyses of nomadic approaches to spatiality. Nor is there a sufficient number of studies on in…
Based on 16 years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity and violence.
Based on 16 years of fieldwork among the pastoral Turkana people, McCabe examines how individuals use the land and make decisions about mobility, livestock and the use of natural resources in an environment characterized by aridity, unpredictability, insecurity and violence.