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VA15-47

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology(文景書局)

SAGE文化人類學手冊

ISBN: 9781529703870　Year: 2021 　Price: GBP 120.00

Author: Lene Pedersen

A b s t r a c t

The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is the first instalment of The SAGE Handbook of the Social Sciences series and encompasses major specialities as well as key interdisciplinary themes relevant to the field. Globally, societies are facing major upheaval and change, and the social sciences are fundamental to the analysis of these issues, as well as the development of strategies for addressing them. This handbook provides a rich overview of the discipline and has a future focus whilst using international theories and examples throughout. The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Anthropology is an essential resource for social scientists globally and contains a rich body of chapters on all major topics relevant to the field, whilst also presenting a possible road map for the future of the field.

Part 1: Foundations
Part 2: Focal Areas
Part 3: Urgent Issues
Part 4: Short Essays: Contemporary Critical Dynamics

VA15-46

Oral History Reimagined: Emerging Research and Opportunities(文景書局)

ISBN: 9781799834205　Year: 2020 　Price: US$ 160.00

Author: Sam Pack

A b s t r a c t

Oral History Reimagined: Emerging Research and Opportunities demonstrates the potential of the life history to serve as a new way of writing vulnerably about the “other” by refusing to hide the authors by sharing equal billing in a dialogic encounter with their informants in order to produce an ethnographic narrative that is multivocal, conversational, and co-constructed. The book examines the idea that a reflexive ethnography in the form of a reciprocal exchange between researchers and informants constitutes the logical extension of reflexivity in anthropological research. The book’s ultimate goal is a balance that dissolves the distinction between the ethnographer as theorizing being and the informant as passive data, that reduces the gap between subject and object, and that presents both ethnographer and informant as having active voices. Featuring topics on life histories, reflexive ethnography, and narrative structure of autoethnography, it is ideally designed for anthropologists, ethnographers, historians, policymakers, academicians, researchers, and students.

Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
‧Autoethnography
‧Dialogue
‧Ethnographic Self
‧Ethnographic Techniques
‧Family Dynamics
‧Life Histories
‧Narrative Structure
‧Process and Producer
‧Reflexive Ethnography
‧Role of Anthropologist
‧Ventriloquist Effect

VA15-45

Self-Organization of the Human Mind and the Transition From Paleolithic to Behavioral Modernity(文景書局)

ISBN: 9781799817062　Year: 2020 　Price: US$ 270.00

Author: Yury N. Kovalyov

A b s t r a c t

There is no common understanding of the concept of the human mind, its changes in different historical epochs, forecasts for development, or its influence on the phenomena of art and culture. The connection between the evolution of the mind, anatomical changes, and social organization are not clear. Through the theory of self-organization of complex systems, the essence of cultural changes in different historical periods and solutions to practical questions in the theory of art and design are better understood.

Self-Organization of the Human Mind and the Transition From Paleolithic to Behavioral Modernity is a critical scholarly resource that examines the development of human consciousness as a realization of the laws of self-organization or complex systems. The theory of self-organization of complex systems uses the mathematical apparatus of the wave model of S-space. The book also conducts a comparison of theoretical assumptions with specific cultural phenomena that are manifestations of the evolution of the mind. Featuring a range of topics such as behavior, rationality, and culture, this book is essential for archaeologists, academicians, anthropologists, researchers, sociologists, professionals, and students.

Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
‧Art
‧Behavior
‧Culture
‧Eneolith
‧Human Evolution
‧Human Mind
‧Neolithic
‧Occam’s Razor
‧Paleolithic
‧Rationality
‧Renaissance

VA15-44

Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology(文景書局)

ISBN: 9781799810599　Year: 2020 　Price: US$ 215.00

Author: Enrico Proietti

A b s t r a c t

Communicating archaeological heritage at the institutional level reflects on the current status of archeology, and a lack of communication between archaeologists and the general public only serves to widen the gap of understanding. As holders of this specific scientific expertise, effective openness and communication is essential to understanding how a durable future can be built through comprehension of the past and the importance of heritage sites and collections.

Developing Effective Communication Skills in Archaeology is an essential research publication that examines archeology as a method for present researchers to interact and communicate with the past, and as a methods for identifying the overall trends in the needs of humanity as a whole. Presenting a vast range of topics such as digital transformation, artificial intelligence, and heritage awareness, this book is essential for archaeologists, journalists, heritage managers, sociologists, educators, anthropologists, museum curators, historians, communication specialists, industry professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

Topics Covered
The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:
‧Archaeology
‧Archeological Heritage
‧Artificial Intelligence
‧Cinema
‧Digital Transformation
‧Education
‧Heritage Awareness
‧Mixed Reality
‧Museum Curation
‧Sociology

VA15-43

Human-Animal Studies, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

人類-動物研究

ISBN: 9781138810914　Year: 2018 　Price: GBP 1300.00

Author: McHugh, Susan

A b s t r a c t

Human-Animal Studies is a burgeoning multidisciplinary enterprise. Human-Animal Studies places the relationships humans have with other animals, and the relations other animals have with humans, at the centre of scholarly enquiry, artistic practice, and political critique. It draws from, and engages with, subjects across the social sciences, the humanities, and beyond, including anthropology, archaeology, art, biological sciences, cultural studies, environmental studies, ethology, geography, gender studies, history, literary studies, philosophy, religious studies, science and technology studies, sociology, and visual culture.

As research in and around Human-Animal Studies blossoms as never before, this new four-volume collection from Routledge’s Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences series meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature. Edited by two leading scholars, the collection gathers foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions. In particular, the editors have fully incorporated masterworks from South America, Asia, and Africa to capture a truly global diversity of perspectives.

With a full index, together with a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the collected material in its historical and intellectual context, Human-Animal Studies is an essential work of reference. The collection will be particularly useful as an essential database allowing scattered and often fugitive material to be easily located. It will also be welcomed by scholars and students as a crucial tool permitting rapid access to less familiar—and sometimes overlooked—texts.

GA15-1

Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens(文景書局)

後人類主義

ISBN: 9780028664477　Year: 2018 　Price: US$ 231.00

Author: Bess, Michael

A b s t r a c t

Posthumanism: The Future of Homo Sapiens will provide an introduction to a vast array of scholarly perspectives on emergent technologies and biotechnologies used to modify or augment the capabilities of human beings. The handbook covers the fundamental aspects of how bioenhancement will become feasible, what shape these technologies are likely to take, and what sorts of concrete consequences they will have for people’s lives. This volume strives for both intellectual clarity and a genuinely accessible voice, always emphasizing the practical and moral implications of bioenhancement technologies. Posthumanism takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, integrating science and technology as well as the arts, humanities, religious perspectives, and ethics.

VA15-38

Environmental Anthropology, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

環境人類學

ISBN: 9780415708678　Year: 2016 　Price: GBP 1150.00

Author: Kopnina, Helen

A b s t r a c t

As environmental anthropology flourishes as never before, this new four-volume set from Routledge meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of academic and practical literature. Edited by a leading scholar, the collection assembles foundational and canonical work, together with innovative and cutting-edge applications and interventions.

Fully indexed and introduced by Helen Kopnina, the four volumes provide a one-stop resource for all interested researchers, teachers, and advanced students who wish to understand how this thriving subdiscipline has emerged, and where it is today.

VOLUME I: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
VOLUME II: CENTRAL THEORIES WITHIN ENVIRONMENTAL ANTHROPOLOGY
VOLUME III: METHODOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY OF CONTEMPORARY ISSUES
VOLUME IV: INTERDISCIPLINARY LINKS

VA15-36

The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9781452258218　Year: 2015 　Price: GBP 365.00

Author: Shujaa, Mwalimu J.

A b s t r a c t

The SAGE Encyclopedia of African Cultural Heritage in North America provides an accessible ready reference on the retention and continuity of African culture within the United States. Our conceptual framework holds, first, that culture is a form of self-knowledge and knowledge about self in the world as transmitted from one person to another. Second, that African people continuously create their own cultural history as they move through time and space. Third, that African descended people living outside of Africa are also contributors to and participate in the creation of African cultural history. Entries focus on illuminating Africanisms (cultural retentions traceable to an African origin) and cultural continuities (ongoing practices and processes through which African culture continues to be created and formed). Thus, the focus is more culturally specific and less concerned with the broader transatlantic demographic, political and geographic issues that are the focus of similar recent reference works. We also focus less on biographies of individuals and political and economic ties and more on processes and manifestations of African cultural heritage and continuity.

Key features include:
‧350 signed entries, each concluding with Cross-references and Further Readings
‧150 figures and photos
‧Front matter consisting of an Introduction and a Reader’s Guide organizing entries thematically to more easily guide users to related entries
‧Signed articles concluding with cross-references

VA15-35

Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9781412999632　Year: 2013 　Price: GBP 360.00

Author: McGee, R. Jon

A b s t r a c t

Social and cultural anthropology and archaeology are rich subjects with deep connections in the social and physical sciences. Over the past 150 years, the subject matter and different theoretical perspectives have expanded so greatly that no single individual can command all of it. Consequently, both advanced students and professionals may be confronted with theoretical positions and names of theorists with whom they are only partially familiar, if they have heard of them at all. Students, in particular, are likely to turn to the web to find quick background information on theorists and theories. However, most web-based information is inaccurate and/or lacks depth. Students and professionals need a source to provide a quick overview of a particular theory and theorist with just the basics—the “who, what, where, how, and why”. In response, SAGE Reference is publishing the two-volume Theory in Social and Cultural Anthropology: An Encyclopedia.

Features & Benefits:
‧Two volumes containing approximately 335 signed entries provide users with the most authoritative and thorough reference resource available on anthropology theory, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage.
‧To ease navigation between and among related entries, a Reader's Guide groups entries thematically and each entry is followed by Cross-References.
‧An appendix with a Chronology of Anthropology Theory allows students to easily chart directions and trends in thought and theory from early times to the present.
‧Suggestions for Further Reading at the end of each entry and a Master Bibliography at the end guide readers to sources for more detailed research and discussion.

VA15-34

Autoethnography, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780857027856　Year: 2013 　Price: GBP 710.00

Author: Sikes, Pat

A b s t r a c t

From the 1980s onwards, there has been what has frequently been described as an auto/biographical turn in the social sciences and also in the arts and humanities. Changes in conceptions of self, society and identity, post-modern, post-structural and post-colonial influences and sensibilities to name but a few have all played their part in focusing attention on to, and valorising the perceptions and experiences of the individual. Now, at a time of exciting development for the subject, this new four-volume set seeks to capture the important articles that have come out of the field over the past decades.

Framed by a newly-written introductory chapter, the collection includes work that spans disciplinary boundaries, bringing together a comprehensive resource taht will prove invaluable to scholars in the field.

VA15-33

Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

人類演化百科全書

ISBN: 9781405155106　Year: 2011 　Price: US$ 748.75

Author: Wood, Bernard

A b s t r a c t

This comprehensive A to Z encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of important scientific terms related to improving our understanding of how we evolved. Specifically, the 5,000 entries cover evidence and methods used to investigate the relationships among the living great apes, evidence about what makes the behavior of modern humans distinctive, and evidence about the evolutionary history of that distinctiveness, as well as information about modern methods used to trace the recent evolutionary history of modern human populations. This text provides a resource for everyone studying the emergence of Homo sapiens.

VA15-32

Ethnography in Context, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

民族誌

ISBN: 9781848600881　Year: 2011 　Price: GBP 675.00

Author: Hobbs, Dick

A b s t r a c t

Ethnography is an extremely broad church, and the range of methodological stances adopted by ethnographers extends across theoretical, political and technological divides. As a method it is intense and often makes considerable personal demands on the researcher, but as an academic product, the ethnography can be a vivid document with human resonance impossible to recreate by the application of any other methodology.
This collection emphasises something of the range of possibilities focusing on Ethnography in different settings. Implicit in the text is the very specific problems encountered by ethnographers engaging with these very specific fields.
Volume One: The Urban Condition addresses attempts by ethnographers to describe and understand urban life.
Volume Two: Work covers a range of employment experiences and highlights issues surrounding the ethnographic penetration of the work environment and the cultures that lay hidden within them.
Volume Three: Body, Sport and Leisure considers the sociologies of health, sport and the body.
Volume Four: Deviance features the move towards more contemporary forms of transgression in Ethnography itself.

VA15-31

21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

21世紀人類學

ISBN: 9781412957380　Year: 2010 　Price: GBP 360.00

Author: Birx, H. James

A b s t r a c t

21st Century Anthropology represents the most up-to-date, comprehensive examination of ongoing research in the five major areas of this academic discipline: biological anthropology, archaeology, sociocultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. This groundbreaking reference handbook is a must-have resource for students, educators, scholars, researchers, libraries, professional institutions, and interested readers.

Key Features
．Includes more than 100 distinct chapters on a wide spectrum of topics in modern anthropology, each with citations, references, and further readings
．Surveys special topics in modern anthropology that overlap with geology, paleontology, biology, sociology, psychology, history, evolution theory, and natural philosophy
．Presents contributions written by leading international authorities and academic experts in the sciences and humanities
．Examines cutting-edge research areas as they relate to anthropology: computers, DNA and genetic engineering, environmental issues, forensic anthropology, gangs, human rights and dignity, infectious diseases, mass media, primate extinction and conservation, terrorism, twin studies, and violence and warfare
．Covers the basic concepts and perspectives in modern anthropological research, including cross-cultural studies and new areas of scientific inquiry

VA15-27

Cultural Anthropology, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

文化人類學

ISBN: 9781412947336　Year: 2010 　Price: GBP 675.00

Author: Fortun, Kim

A b s t r a c t

This Major Work is an authoritative overview of Cultural Anthropology in four volumes;

i) Moorings: include articles -- by cultural anthropologists and others -- that have had a particularly forceful impact on the anthropological imagination in the last fifty years;

ii) Modernities: explores the many ways cultural anthropologists have examined, critiqued and been part of modernist projects articles will work through topics such as nationalism, citizenship, human rights, etc.;

iii) Emergence, explore anthropological work that has focused on the re-making of society and culture in the wake of massive change such as "globalization";

v) Engagements, examines engagements between anthropologists in different national and culltural contexts, engagements with other disciplines and engagements with the public sphere

VA15-28

Representing Ethnography, 4-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

論民族誌

ISBN: 9781412945981　Year: 2008 　Price: GBP 675.00

Author: Atkinson, Paul

A b s t r a c t

Qualitative research, especially ethnography, has seen a paradigm shift since 1968. This so-called 'Third Moment' was concerned with the critical issue of the textual representation of ethnographic work. There was a call for a turn towards texts that mirrored the messiness of social life, that were faithful to the many voices of social worlds, in which the artfulness of ethnographic writing was manifest and in which the ethnographer was visibly present in the text.

Representing Ethnography brings together into one set all the important material on this 'rhetorical turn' in qualitative research. Many of the critiques of the rhetorical turn are particularly hard to obtain and have never been gathered together in an accessible way.

Volume I focuses on the contexts and controversies of this type of discourse.

Volume II covers the reading of qualitative research in a range of disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology and history, and gives classic examples of the ways in which text can be read.

Volume III examines the rhetorical turn in terms of analysis and voice.

Volume IV showcases how ethnographic realities are represented to give readers a good coverage of all the possibilities.

VA15-26

Culture and Customs of the United States, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

美國文化與風俗

ISBN: 9780313338755　Year: 2007 　Price: GBP 65.95

Author: Shearer, Benjamin F.

A b s t r a c t

Volume 1: Customs and Society
�h - The Land, the People, the Past, the Present
�h - Relgion and Thought
�h - Gender, Marriage, Family, and Education
�h - Holidays and Leisure

Volume 2: Culture
�h - Cuisine and Fashion
�h - Literature
�h - Media and Cinema
�h - Performing Arts
�h - Art, Architecture, and Housing

VA15-24

Fields of Conflict: Battlefield Archaeology from the Roman Empire to the Korean War, 2-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780275993153　Year: 2007 　Price: GBP 120.95

Author: Scott, Douglas

A b s t r a c t

To the world, battlefields represent sites of international conflict, places where the course of history is decided. On a national level, battlefields are places of pride and community identity, where the sacrifice and the courage of those who fought take on mythic status. Battlefield archaeology is a crucial tool for understanding how battles are fought and won, often revealing shocking conclusions at odds with the documentary record. Nothing shows the effects of strategies and tactics better than the evidence in the ground-physical evidence shows whether battle plans succeeded or failed and the effectiveness of planning versus luck.

The editors of Fields of Conflict explore the ways in which battlefield archaeology clarifies our understanding of military tactics and strategy as they have evolved over the last 2000 years. In two volumes, they not only reveal new interpretations of classic battles, but show clearly how archaeology can be used regardless of geographic or temporal location, making this an ideal book for general reader and professional archaeologist or soldier alike. First showing the reader how to identify a battlefield from earthworks and particular artifacts, the authors then foster a new understanding of warfare by examining some of the best preserved battlefields in the world. From the ancient world, through the Middle Ages to World Wars I and II and the Korean war, the analysis of what gets left behind at the close of epic struggles shows all too painfully how men fought and died, and how decisions made by commanders shaped history even today. Yet more than history, battlefield archaeology can be deeply meaningful to relatives of soldiers today, who seek to know where their missing loved ones fought, died, and were possibly buried. While military archaeology has always been popular, this set is the first attempt to create a cohesive chronological interpretation for future study and understanding.

VA15-15

Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 5-Vols/Set.(文景書局)

人類學百科

ISBN: 9780761930297　Year: 2005 　Price: GBP 1045.00

Author: Birx, H. James

A b s t r a c t

This five-volume Encyclopedia of Anthropology is a unique collection of over 1200 entries that focuses on topics in physical anthropology, archaeology, cultural anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. The contributions are authored by over 300 internationally renowned experts, professors, and scholars from some of the most distinguished museums, universities, and institutes in the world.

Special attention is given to: human evolution, primate behavior, genetics, ancient civilizations,
sociocultural theories, and the value of human language for symbolic communication. This groundbreaking Encyclopedia will be a must-have reference work for any library with collections in anthropology, as well as the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. It will provide students, educators, and a wide array of interested readers with a greater understanding of and deeper appreciation for those facts, concepts, methods, hypotheses, and perspectives that make up modern anthropology and related disciplines.

VA15-14

Companion to the Anthropology of Japan, A.(文景書局)

日本人類學入門

ISBN: 9780631229551　Year: 2005 　Price: US$ 238.00

Author: Robertson, Jennifer

A b s t r a c t

This book is an unprecedented collection of original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan.

* Resists stale and misleading stereotypes, by presenting new perspectives on Japanese culture and society
* Makes Japanese society accessible to readers unfamiliar with the country
* Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology in the Japanese academy; eugenics and nation building; majority and minority cultures; genders and sexualities; and fashion and food cultures

Contents
Synopses of Contents
Notes on Contributors
Part I: Introduction
Part II: Cultures, Histories, and Identities
Part III: Geographies and Boundaries, Spaces and Sentiments
Part IV: Socialization, Assimilation, and Identification
Part V: Body, Blood, Self, and Nation
Part VI: Religion and Science, Beliefs and Bioethics
Index

VA15-9-9i

Coming into being Among the Australian Aborigines: The Procreative Beliefs of the Australian Aborigines.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330589　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 240.00

Author: Montagu, Ashley

A b s t r a c t

This volume brings together all the evidence bearing upon the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines and subjects it to a scientific examination in the light of biological, social and psychological research.

1. Introduction
2. The Arunta, the type pattern of Australian culture
3. The procreative beliefs of the Central Australian Aborigines
4. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Northern Australia
5. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of North-Eastern Australia, Queensland, and Cape York Peninsula
6. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of North-Western Australia
7. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Western Australia
8. The procreative beliefs of the native tribes of Southern, South-Eastern, and Eastern Australia
9. A summary account of the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines
10. The critical theories relating to the procreative beliefs of the Australian Aborigines
11. Phallic ceremonies and so-called phallic worship
12. Subincision and its alleged relationship to procreation
13. Maternity and paternity in Australia
14. Nescience, science, and psychoanalysis
15. Tradition, experience, and belief

VA15-9-9h

Rautahi: The Maoris of New Zealand.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330572　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 200.00

Author: Metge, Joan

A b s t r a c t

A comprehensive study of the Maori in New Zealand, this book covers Maori history and culture, language and art and includes chapters on the following:
· Basic concepts in Maori culture
· Land
· Kinship
· Education
· Association
· Leadership & social control
· The Marae
· Hui
· Maori and Pakeha
· Maori spelling and pronunciation
There is an extensive glossary, bibliography and index.

VA15-9-9g

Diary in the Strictest Sense of the Term, A.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330565　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 270.00

Author: Malinowski, Bronislaw

A b s t r a c t

The volume presents the diary of one of the great anthropologists at a crucial time in his career. Malinowski's major works grew out of his findings on field trips to New Guinea and North Melanesia from 1914-1918. His journals cover a considerable part of that period of pioneer research.
The diary contains observations of native life and customs and vivid descriptions of landscapes. Many entries reveal his approach to his work and the sources of his thought. In his introduction, Raymond Firth discusses the significance of the notebooks which formed the basis for this volume.

VA15-9-9f

Migrations, Myth and Magic from the Gilbert Islands: Early Writings of Sir Arthur Grimble.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330558　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 200.00

Author: Grimble, Rosemary

A b s t r a c t

This book is a collection of Arthur Grimble's field notes and early writings, brought together in book form with linking pieces and a large number of illustrations. There are chapters on cannibalism and head hunting, on astronomy and on many aspects of the lives of the Gilbertese people from birth to death.

VA15-9-9e

Sorcerers of Dobu: The Social Anthropology of the Dobu Islanders of the Western Pacific.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330541　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 180.00

Author: Fortune, R. F.

A b s t r a c t

Ever since its first publication in 1932, Sorcerers of Dobu has been recognized as one of the great triumphs of anthropological research and interpretation in the field of ethnography. A rich source of information on primitive psychology, the book presents sociological analysis of the complex tribal organisation of the Dobuans.

VA15-9-9d

Mambu: A Melanesian Millenium.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330534　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 49.99

Author: Burridge, K. O. L.

A b s t r a c t

Mambu is the name of a native of New Guinea who led what has become known as a 'Cargo' cult. These cults, common in Melanesia, are partly religious, political and economic in nature. Participants in the cult engage in exotic rites, the purpose of which is to gain possession of European manufactured goods, such as knives, medicines, razor blades, tinned foods etc.
The volume discusses why these cults occur and examines a way of life of a New Guinea people and their reactions to European penetration and achievement.

VA15-9-9c

Chimbu, The: A Study of Change in the New Guinea Highlands.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330527　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 89.99

Author: Brown, Paula

A b s t r a c t

In 1933 an Australian expedition discovered in the New Guinea Highlands a people who had for thousands of years been living isolated from the civilized world, the Chimbu. Never before was the westernization of an isolated people so thoroughly examined. This volume illustrates, contrary to widely held preconceptions about the nature of primitive societies, that the Chimbu have always been an adaptable people, whose concern for the present and for change has surpassed their attachment to tradition and the past.

1. Introduction
2. The Chimbu View of Past and Future
3. The Kinds of Variation and Change
4. Chimbu Pre-History
5. Chimbu's First Contact with Europeans
6. Domestic and Local Groups
7. Groups and Segments
8. Big Men and Small
9. Cycles and Transactions
10. Strife
11. Warfare
12. The Process of Change
13. The Forces of Change
14. Material and Technological Change
15. Economic Change
16. Local Leadership and Activities
17. Conflict Today
18. Kondom's Kingdom
19. Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose

VA15-9-9b

Under the Ivi Tree: Society and Economic Growth in Rural Fiji.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330510　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 170.00

Author: Belshaw, Cyril S.

A b s t r a c t

This study concerns the differentials of economic growth among the Fijian people. It brings together relevant factors drawn from social, cultural, economic and political analysis. As a case study in economic growth, it portrays the interplay between individuals and the social and economic conditions which surround them, and demonstrates the limitations of the institutions within which they function. Controversial points of interpretation are discussed and supported with documentation gathered from field-work.

VA15-9-9a

Great Village, The: The Economic and Social Welfare of Hanuabada.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330503　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 170.00

Author: Belshaw, Cyril S.

A b s t r a c t

This book is the first systematic study of the urban Papuan and analyses, among other things, the family, household budgets, the proliferation of ceremonial and the re-birth of sorcery. The study can be compared, from the point of view of methods and research problems, with the increasing number of accounts of the urbanization of traditional societies, particularly in Africa. Hanuabada is not, however, 'de-tribalized' and it has maintained its boundaries intact against overwhelming immigration.

1. Hanuabada and the problem of welfare
2. Basic residence and relationship pattern
3. Social relations in production and ownership
4. Demography and health
5. Income
6. Budgets
7. The material level of living
8. Trade
9. 'Private' ceremonial exchange marriage
10. 'Public' ceremonies and feasting
11. Marital relations
12. From birth to adolescence
13. Religion
14. Sorcery and its implications
15. The body politic
16. Race relations
17. The conditions of welfare

VA15-9-8d

Caste and Kinship in Kangra.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330497　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 180.00

Author: Parry, Jonathan P.

A b s t r a c t

This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes.
The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of caste ranking; the way in which 'traditional' family structures adapt to a diversification of the economy and the debate about the 'instability' of regimes of generalized exchange.

VA15-9-8c

Western India in the Nineteenth Century.(文景書局)

ISBN: 9780415330480　Year: 2004 　Price: GBP 170.00

Author: Kumar, Ravinder

A b s t r a c t

Hinduism flourished in the districts around Poona in Bombay to a far greater extent than in the rest of India, hence the problems facing the British administrators of Maharashtra were quite different from those confronting them in other parts of India. The solutions they proposed and the policies which emerged determined the social changes which took place in the Maharashtra in the nineteenth century.
This book analyses these changes by focussing on the rise of new social groups and the dissemination of new values and shows how these social groups and values interacted with the traditional order in Maharashtra to create a stable regional society.


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