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Social scientists, a rehabilitation researcher, a folklorist, a political commentator, and other contributors survey some of the differences in European culture and discuss the complex topic of national identity in Europe. This volume forms a fascinating mosaic of European diversity, revealing idiosyncrasies such as that it is rude to interrupt in Sweden, that acting normal is quite silly enough in the Netherlands, how Poles banter about heroes, how...
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Esta obra presenta el análisis de un evento comunicativo en el cual se emplea una lengua ritual (lengua del yagé). Los temas tratados por el autor en este libro son el estudio de una lengua ritual en la perspectiva de la etnografía del habla y la comunicación, tomando los aportes teóricos de los sociolingüistas norteamericanos Dell Hymes y Joel Sherzer, la descripción de la lengua ritual del yagé y el estudio de la relación entre lengua,...
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The Highland Clearances generally refers to the eviction of indigenous Gaelic-speaking people of the Scottish Highlands and Islands-roughly between 1790 and 1855-to make way for more profitable cattle and sheep farms and, later, sporting estates. The blunt result of these evictions was that of a culture fundamentally altered if not destroyed. Many Highlanders emigrated to Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. A number of histories,...
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En la antropología, el término "tecnología" no está restringido exclusivamente al dominio de lo científico-industrial. Por el contrario, su uso puede referirse a contextos artísticos, corporales, sociales, conceptuales, estéticos, imaginarios, rituales y espirituales. Este libro hace una revisión de las nociones de tecnología y materialidad en los "márgenes", es decir, en los linderos que entrecruzan las relaciones entre humanos y no humanos.
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Each year, tens of thousands of people flock to Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina, and to more than two hundred other locations across the country to attend Scottish Highland Games and Gatherings. There, kilt-wearing participants compete in athletics, Highland dancing, and bagpiping, while others join clan societies in celebration of a Scottish heritage. As Celeste Ray notes, however, the Scottish affiliation that Americans claim today is a Highland...
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Traces the contemporary ethnic experiences of Japanese Americans
As one of the oldest groups of Asian Americans in the United States, most Japanese Americans are culturally assimilated and well-integrated in mainstream American society. However, they continue to be racialized as culturally "Japanese" foreigners simply because of their Asian appearance in a multicultural America where racial minorities are expected to remain ethnically distinct. Different...
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Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and nationhood.
Using the question 'What is ethnicity?' as his starting point, Eriksen examines the interplay between ideology and ethnicity, how the Internet...
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Reconfiguraciones políticas de la etnicidad en Colombia es una colección de libros que convocó a un representativo número de investigadores para analizar las transformaciones sociopolíticas de los grupos étnicos colombianos con posterioridad a la emisión de la Constitución de 1991. La reforma consagró algunos de sus derechos fundamentales, al tiempo que aclimató la política neoliberal que, al hacer descansar la economía en la extracción...
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El año 2010, enmarcado por los festejos de la Independencia mexicana a cargo del sexenio panista, presentó el aliciente reflexivo acerca de la tensión política y social que existe entre el Estado-nación y la diversidad étnica. De modo que los ejes punzantes tienen que ver con la continuidad narrativa de una relación de dominación que se perpetúa y celebra a sí misma. En ese sentido, cobra relevancia el análisis y la práctica respecto de...
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El chamanismo no ha desaparecido de las sociedades contemporáneas, sino que continua vigente palpitando en múltiples discursos. Hay chamanismo en las poéticas de las mujeres indígenas del Abya Yala, en las energías femeninas y masculinas de la espiritualidad japonesa, en los rituales de los taitas cofanes, en las nuevas epistemologías de la psicología, en la pedagogía del cuidado del territorio, en las representaciones del jaguar, en las tradiciones...
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Esta obra aborda un tema mapuche que desde el siglo XV ha sorprendido a la élite militar, religiosa y política de los colonizadores: cómo entender una sociedad en la que las personas hacen gala y ostentación de su individualidad, de sus nombres propios como Caupolicán, Magnin o Coñuepán. Si en el mundo hispano-criollo el sujeto desaparecía bajo el peso de las instituciones estatales, en el mundo mapuche las instituciones dependían de los...
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Peter Watson's hugely ambitious and stimulating history of ideas from deep antiquity to the present day—from the invention of writing, mathematics, science, and philosophy to the rise of such concepts as the law, sacrifice, democracy, and the soul—offers an illuminated path to a greater understanding of our world and ourselves.
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Léopold Sédar Senghor a toujours cherché à exprimer quelle philosophie se lit dans les arts plastiques, les chants et les danses africains. C'est cette attitude de déchiffrage qui est la vérité de sa philosophie. Afin de relire Senghor aujourd'hui, il ne faut pas se donner la Négritude trop vite, affronter tout de suite les formules trop bien connues à quoi on résume sa pensée. Il faut savoir d'abord retrouver l'attitude première, la posture...
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Consuming Ocean Island tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. As mining stripped away the island's surface, the land was rendered uninhabitable, and the indigenous Banabans were relocated to Rabi Island in Fiji. Katerina Martina Teaiwa tells the story of this human and ecological calamity by weaving together memories,...
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Le but de cette étude n'est point d'élaborer un traité systématique de la Philosophie du Retour, mais de montrer, à travers les œuvres de certains chercheurs africains, comment elle émerge et se constitue comme une topique, une épistémologie, dignes d'intérêt. L'ensemble des œuvres sur lesquelles nous nous sommes penché forment une sorte de "Mosaïque du Retour" qui laisse voir des traits variés d'une Pensée des genèses orientée vers...
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Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson Prize, and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures. In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In...
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Looking beyond broad theories of globalization, this volume examines the specific effects of globalizing forces on the southern United States. Eighteen essays approach globalization from a variety of perspectives, addressing such topics as relations between global and local communities; immigration, particularly of Latinos and Asians; local industry in a time of globalization; power and confrontation between rural and urban worlds; race, ethnicity,...
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Puerto Ricans maintain a vibrant identity that bridges two very different places--the island of Puerto Rico and the U.S. mainland. Whether they live on the island, in the States, or divide time between the two, most imagine Puerto Rico as a separate nation and view themselves primarily as Puerto Rican. At the same time, Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917, and Puerto Rico has been a U.S. commonwealth since 1952.
Jorge Duany uses previously...
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The pioneering sociologist and author of The Seven Day Circle continues his analysis of time with this fascinating look at history as social construct.
Who were the first people to inhabit North America? Does the West Bank belong to the Arabs or the Jews? Why are racists so obsessed with origins? Is a seventh cousin still a cousin? Why do some societies name their children after dead ancestors?
As Eviatar Zerubavel demonstrates in Time Maps, we...
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Anthropologists George and Sharon Gmelch have been studying the quasi-nomadic people known as Travellers since their fieldwork in the early 1970s, when they lived among Travellers and went on the road in their own horse-drawn wagon. In 2011, they returned to seek out families they had known decades before-shadowed by a film crew and taking with them hundreds of old photographs showing the Travellers' former way of life. Many of these images are included...
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