Author: Manuel Alcántara SáezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political stability
Languages : es
Pages : 232
Book Description
Gobernabilidad, crisis y cambio
Author: Manuel Alcántara SáezPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political stability
Languages : es
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Penny Universities
Author: Aytoun EllisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coffee drinks
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Traces the development of coffee-houses and their gradual evolution into the typical English institution, the club.
Technology and War
Author: Martin Van CreveldPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439143978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
In this impressive work, van Creveld considers man's use of technology over the past 4,000 years and its impact on military organization, weaponary, logistics, intelligence, communications, transportation, and command. This revised paperback edition has been updated to include an account of the range of technology in the recent Gulf War.
The Burdens of Empire
Author: Anthony PagdenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198275
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
The entire course of modern Western history has been shaped by the rise and fall of the great European empires. The Burdens of Empire examines different aspects of this long history, focusing on how political theorists, jurists, historians and others sought to explain what an empire is and to justify its very existence.
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136661271
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements with fresh readings of major figures and approaches, the work develops a larger vantage point for considering the dispersing influence of practice theories, postmodernism, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern/post-positive feminism, and multicultural criticisms.
Watunna
Author: Marc de CivrieuxPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292715899
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Originally published in Spanish in 1970, Watunna is the epic history and creation stories of the Makiritare, or Yekuana, people living along the northern bank of the Upper Orinoco River of Venezuela, a region of mountains and virgin forest virtually unexplored even to the present. The first English edition of this book was published in 1980 to rave reviews. This edition contains a new foreword by David Guss, as well as Mediata, a detailed myth that recounts the origins of shamanism.
From Primitive to Postcolonial in Melanesia and Anthropology
Author: Bruce M. KnauftPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472066872
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
A prominent scholar surveys the special place of Melanesia in our understanding of human cultural variation
Shamanism, History, and the State
Author: Nicholas ThomasPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472084012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Nine case studies of shamanic practice in widely different cultures
The Land-without-Evil
Author: Hélène ClastresPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 9780252063510
Category : Chiefdoms
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Fr Cary-Elwes S.J. and the Alleluia Indians
Author: Audrey Butt ColsonPublisher: Amerindian Research Unit University of Guyana
ISBN: 9789766240103
Category : Acawai Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description