Author: American Ethnological Society, New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Cultural Stability and Cultural Change. Proceedings of the 1957 Annual Spring Meeting of The...
Author: American Ethnological Society, New YorkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology
Author: David G. MandelbaumPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520376323
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
Structural Stability and Culture Change in a Mexican-American Community
Author: Barbara June MacklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Negotiators of Change
Author: Nancy ShoemakerPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0415909929
Category : Indian women
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Elements of Controversy
Author: Barton C. HackerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520083233
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics. Unforgettable congressional hearings in 1978 revealed that fallout from American nuclear weapons testing in the 1950s had overexposed hundreds of soldiers and other citizens to radiation. Faith in governmental integrity was shaken, and many people have assumed that such overexposure caused great damage. Yet important questions remain--the most controversial being: did the radiation overexposure in fact cause the cancers and birth defects for which it has been blamed? Elements of Controversy is the result of a decade of exhaustive research in AEC documentary records and the full clinical and epidemiological literature on radiation effects. More concerned with uncovering the historical story than with assigning blame, Barton Hacker concludes that every precaution was taken by the AEC to avoid harming test participants or bystanders. And, he points out, the biomedical literature suggests that these precautions worked. Yet top officials in Washington--for whom the success of nuclear weapons was of overriding importance--had asserted that testing involved no risks at all. Discrepancies between unverifiable government claims and the revelations that some actual risk was present explain the origins and angry persistence of the controversies, Hacker argues. The Department of Energy delayed publication of Hacker's study for five years, and while his controversial book is sure to draw objections from both sides of the radiation-hazard debates, it will provide a much-needed guide to understanding their polemics.
Iroquois Journey
Author: William N. FentonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803213964
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
William N Fenton (1908-2005), was a scholar who shaped Iroquois studies and modern anthropology in America. This memoir takes us from his ancestors' lives in the Conewango Valley in western New York to his education at Yale. It is also a testament to the importance of anthropology and a reminder of how much the field has changed over the years.
Peasants, Politics and Revolution
Author: Joel S. MigdalPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400868769
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
During the last quarter century, peasant participation in politics has increased markedly in parts of Latin America and Asia. Why the poor and vulnerable peasant population has chosen to leave the confines of the village for political activity and at times for sustained revolution is the question this book explores. The author draws on informal interviews and observation of peasants in Mexico and India and on fifty-one community studies of peasants in Asia and Latin America compiled by ethnographers in the last forty years. He suggests that severe economic crises have driven peasants to roles in the larger economy outside the village, where they are initially attracted to politics by material incentives. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Beyond Primitivism
Author: Jacob Kẹhinde OluponaPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415273206
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
At a time when local traditions across the world are forcibly colliding with global culture, Beyond Primitivism explores the future of indigenous religions as they encounter modernity and globalisation.
Seventeenth-Century America
Author: James Morton SmithPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839817
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
In this series of provocative essays, nine specialists in early American history examine some of the more important aspects of the seventeenth-century colonial experience, presenting an impressive sampling of modern historical research on such topics as colonists and Indians, people and society, church and state, and history and historians. Originally published 1959. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
A Narrative of the Life of Mrs. Mary Jemison
Author: James Everett SeaverPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806127170
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Tells the story of Mary Jemison who was adopted by a Seneca family in 1758 after her parents were killed