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ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Middle East & South Asia Folklore Newsletter
Author: The Middle East & South Asia Folklore Bulletin
Author: The Middle East & South Asia Folklore Newsletter
Author: Culture, Creation, and Procreation
Author: Monika BöckPublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 9781571819116
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
These 12 chapters discuss the constitution of kinship among different communities in South Asia and addressing the relationship between ideology and practice, cultural models, and individual strategies. Chapters center around three topics: community and person, gender and change, and shared knowledge and practice. The volume as a whole contributes to the on-going debate on models of well-being within kinship studies. Contributors include anthropologists from Europe, Asia, and the United States. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR
African Folklore
Author: Philip M. PeekPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135948739
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1256
Book Description
Written by an international team of experts, this is the first work of its kind to offer comprehensive coverage of folklore throughout the African continent. Over 300 entries provide in-depth examinations of individual African countries, ethnic groups, religious practices, artistic genres, and numerous other concepts related to folklore. Featuring original field photographs, a comprehensive index, and thorough cross-references, African Folklore: An Encyclopedia is an indispensable resource for any library's folklore or African studies collection. Also includes seven maps.
Gender, Genre, and Power in South Asian Expressive Traditions
Author: Arjun AppaduraiPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 1512821322
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004107458
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
During the last two decades, the number of anthropologists conducting research in the Middle East has increased considerably. Together they have produced an abundance of valuable studies, often based on prolonged periods of ethnographic fieldwork. "Cultural Anthropology of the Middle East. A Bibliography" offers a comprehensive survey of their results. The first volume, published in 1992, covered publications which appeared between 1965 and 1987. The second volume brings the bibliography further up to date, listing publications between 1988 and 1992, and adds some 260 titles which were published up through 1987. As in the first volume, the majority of the titles are annotated.
New Serial Titles
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 716
Book Description
A union list of serials commencing publication after Dec. 31, 1949.
Publications of the American Folklife Center
Author: The Department of State Bulletin
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ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
The official monthly record of United States foreign policy.