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War and survival in Sudan's frontierlands : voices from the Blue Nile
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ISBN: 128114567X 9786611145675 0191538337 1435605306 9781435605305 9780191538339 9781281145673 6611145672 019929867X 9780199298679 1383044309 Year: 2023 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Wendy James presents a case study of how the Uduk-speaking people, originally from the Blue Nile region between the 'north' and the 'south' of Sudan, have been caught up in and displaced by a generation of civil war.

Marcel Mauss : a centenary tribute
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ISBN: 1571817034 1571817050 1789205697 9781571817051 Year: 1999 Volume: 1 Publisher: New York, NY : Berghahn books,

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Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and one-time teacher of Claude Levi-Strauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's work have been translated into English, but of these, some, as for instance his "Essay on the Gift," have proved of key significance for the development of anthropology internationally. Recently and starting in France, the interest in Mauss's work has increased noticeably as witnessed by several reassessments of its relevance to current social theory. This collection of original essays is the first to introduce the English-language reader to the current re-evaluation of his ideas in continental Europe. Themes include the post-structuralist appraisal of "exchange", the anthropology of the body, practical techniques, gesture systems, the notions of substance, materiality, and the social person. There are fresh insights into comparative politics and history, modern forms of charity, and new readings of some political and historical aspects of Mauss's work that bear on the analysis of regions such as Africa and the Middle East, relatively neglected by the Durkheimian school and by structuralism. This volume is a timely tribute to mark the centenary of Mauss' early work and confirms the continuing relevance of his ideas.

Anthropologists in a wider world : essays on field research
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ISBN: 1571818006 1571817999 9781571818003 Year: 2000 Volume: 7 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Berghahn Books

The pursuit of certainty : religious and cultural formulations
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ISBN: 0203459458 1134840888 1280057602 0203450841 9780203450840 9780415107907 0415107903 9780415107914 0415107911 9786610057603 6610057605 0415107903 0415107911 9781134840885 9781134840830 1134840837 9781134840878 113484087X Year: 1995 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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An exploration of the effect of anthropology's inherited tradition of tolerance and cross-cultural understanding has on the new pursuits of truth.

The philosophy of enchantment : studies in folktale, cultural criticism, and anthropology.
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ISBN: 1280753366 0191569062 1429421711 9780191569067 9781280753367 9781429421713 9786610753369 6610753369 9780199262533 0199262535 0199262535 Year: 2005 Publisher: Oxford Clarendon

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This is the long-awaited publication of a set of writings by the British philosopher, historian, and archaeologist R.G. Collingwood (1889-1943) on critical, anthropological, and cultural themes only hinted at in his previously available work. At the core are six essays on folktale and magic in which Collingwood applies the principles of his philosophy of history to problems in the long-term evolution of human society and culture. The volume opens with three substantial introductory essays by the editors, authorities in their various fields, who provide their explanatory and contextual notes to guide the reader through the texts. The Philosophy of Enchantment highlights the broad range of Collingwood's intellectual engagements, their integration, and their relevance to current areas of debate in the fields of philosophy, cultural studies, social and literary history, and anthropology.


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Juan Maria Schuver's travels in North East Africa, 1880-1883
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ISBN: 1283247763 9786613247766 1409433706 Year: 1996 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] Hakluyt Society

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Human Origins
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ISBN: 1785334263 9781785333781 9781785334269 178533378X 9781785333798 Year: 2016 Publisher: New York Oxford

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Human Origins brings together new thinking by social anthropologists and other scholars on the evolution of human culture and society. No other discipline has more relevant expertise to consider the emergence of humans as the symbolic species. Yet, social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. These contributions explore why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.--

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