Araucanian Culture in Transition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Araucanian Culture in Transition write by Mischa Titiev. This book was released on 1951-01-01. Araucanian Culture in Transition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience
The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience write by Jacob J. Sauer. This book was released on 2014-09-13. The Archaeology and Ethnohistory of Araucanian Resilience available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume examines the processes and patterns of Araucanian cultural development and resistance to foreign influences and control through the combined study of historical and ethnographic records complemented by archaeological investigation in south-central Chile. This examination is done through the lens of Resilience Theory, which has the potential to offer an interpretive framework for analyzing Araucanian culture through time and space. Resilience Theory describes “the capacity of a system to absorb disturbances and reorganize while undergoing change so as to still retain the same function.” The Araucanians incorporated certain Spanish material culture into their own, rejected others, and strategically restructured aspects of their political, economic, social, and ideological institutions in order to remain independent for over 350 years.
Process and Pattern in Culture
Process and Pattern in Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Process and Pattern in Culture write by Robert A. Manners. This book was released on 2017-07-12. Process and Pattern in Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors any restrictions as to subject matter. On the contrary, each author was urged to write on an anthropological topic of greatest current interest to himself. Many of the essays could be placed just as handily within a division other than the one to which they have arbitrarily been assigned in the book. This kind of interchangeability may reflect, in some measure, the interrelatedness of Steward's contributions to anthropological theory. The broad relevance of all the selections to Steward's work could reflect also the extent to which his interests continue to be reflected in the work of anthropologists influenced by him. It could also reflect a parallelism of theoretical concerns within the profession that stem from the cultural ambience that produced Steward himself. Parallelisms and convergence are aspects of the kind of cultural determinism which has claimed Steward's attention during the many years that he fought a fairly lonely battle to establish the respectability of evolutionism in anthropology. Now that respectability has been achieved--with an almost bandwagon fervor--it is clear that Steward, as much as anyone else in anthropology, was "responsible" for the change. The essays in this collection are at once a vindication of his patience, an evidence of the high status he enjoys among anthropologists, and a testimony to the impact of his unusual creativity on his colleagues.
The Politics of Reproductive Ritual
The Politics of Reproductive Ritual - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Reproductive Ritual write by Jeffery M. Paige. This book was released on 2023-04-28. The Politics of Reproductive Ritual available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A welcome addition. They argue that rituals of reproduction in preindustrial societies are essentially political. In these societies, they say, men need to control the reproductive power of women in order to establish political power; where there is no law or central government, ritual is used as a way of gaining control. The type of ritual will vary, they conclude, according to the economic base of the society. . . .for those whoa re interested in the subject, this book is indispensable. Its thesis is challenging and the documentation is excellent. Paige and Paige have mad ean essential contribution to a long debate, and their theory is sure to stir new and lively controversy." --Science Digest This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1981.
The Embattled Lyric
The Embattled Lyric - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Embattled Lyric write by Nathaniel Tarn. This book was released on 2007. The Embattled Lyric available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book has two main subjects which are interwoven: the attitudes of selected poets (including Neruda, Rilke, Breton, Celan, and Artaud) to the "primitive" and the “archaic,” studied from an anthropologist's viewpoint; and a model of the processes whereby poetry is produced and received, built on the author’s successful careers as both poet and anthropologist. The book includes detailed biographical information about how Tarn went from being a French to an English to an American poet. It also reveals the effect of a double career and of these moves on a unique body of poetry and theoretical work. An extremely substantial interview, serving also as an introduction to, and discussion of, the essays, demonstrates that there is nothing like this work to be found elsewhere.
