Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kwakiutl Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kwakiutl Culture as Reflected in Mythology
Author: Franz BoasPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kwakiutl Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Kwakiutl Culture as Reflected in Mythology ;New York, 1935
Author: Franz BoasKwakiutl culture as reflected in mythology
Author: Kwakiutl culture
Author: Franz BoasKwakiutl Values as Reflected in Mythology
Author: James W. BoschPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian mythology
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Culture/Power/History
Author: Nicholas B. DirksPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691228000
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 635
Book Description
The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. Organized around these three concepts, Culture/ Power/History brings together both classic and new essays that address Foucault's "new economy of power relations" in a number of different, contestatory directions. Representing innovative work from various disciplines and sites of study, from taxidermy to Madonna, the book seeks to affirm the creative possibilities available in a time marked by growing uncertainty about established disciplinary forms of knowledge and by the increasing fluidity of the boundaries between them. The book is introduced by a major synthetic essay by the editors, which calls attention to the most significant issues enlivening theoretical discourse today. The editors seek not only to encourage scholars to reflect anew on the course of social theory, but also to orient newcomers to this area of inquiry. The essays are contributed by Linda Alcoff ("Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism"), Sally Alexander ("Women, Class, and Sexual Differences in the 1830s and 1840s"), Tony Bennett ("The Exhibitionary Complex"), Pierre Bourdieu ("Structures, Habitus, Power"), Nicholas B. Dirks ("Ritual and Resistance"), Geoff Eley ("Nations, Publics, and Political Cultures"), Michel Foucault (Two Lectures), Henry Louis Gates, Jr. ("Authority, [White] Power and the [Black] Critic"), Stephen Greenblatt ("The Circulation of Social Energy"), Ranajit Guha ("The Prose of Counter-Insurgency"), Stuart Hall ("Cultural Studies: Two Paradigms"), Susan Harding ("The Born-Again Telescandals"), Donna Haraway ("Teddy Bear Patriarchy"), Dick Hebdige ("After the Masses"), Susan McClary ("Living to Tell: Madonna's Resurrection of the Fleshly"), Sherry B. Ortner ("Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties"), Marshall Sahlins ("Cosmologies of Capitalism"), Elizabeth G. Traube ("Secrets of Success in Postmodern Society"), Raymond Williams (selections from Marxism and Literature), and Judith Williamson ("Family, Education, Photography").
Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Dr Alan BarnardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134450915
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1058
Book Description
This Encyclopedia provides description and analysis of the terms, concepts and issues of social and cultural anthropology. International in authorship and coverage, this accessible work is fully indexed and cross-referenced.
The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Alan BarnardPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135236402
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 2036
Book Description
Written by leading scholars in the field, this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography, it includes 275 substantial entries, over 300 short biographies of important figures in anthropology, and nearly 600 glossary items. The fully revised and expanded second edition reflects major changes in anthropology in the past decade.
Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Author: Alan BarnardPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415099967
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
Providing a guide to the ideas, arguments and history of the discipline, this volume discusses human social and cultural life in all its diversity and difference. Theory, ethnography and history are combined in over 230 entries on topics
Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians
Author: Robert Harry LowiePublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803279445
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Beginning in 1907, the anthropologist Robert H. Lowie visited the Crow Indians at their reservation in Montana. He listened to tales that for many generations had been told around campfires in winter. Vivid tales of Old-Man-Coyote in his various guises; heroic accounts of Lodge-Boy and the Thunderbirds; supernatural stories about Raven-Face and the Spurned Lover; and other tales involving the Bear-Woman, the Offended Turtle, the Skeptical Husband--all these were recorded by Lowie. They were originally published in 1918 in an Anthropological Paper by the American Museum of Natural History. Myths and Traditions of the Crow Indians is now reprinted with a new introduction by Peter Nabokov. These concretely detailed accounts served the Crow Indians as entertainers, moral lessons, cultural records, and guides to the workings of the universe.