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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
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Acta ethnologica et linguistica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
Acta ethnologica et linguistica
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
Ideas and Actions
Author: Agehanada Bharati
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110805871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110805871
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Western Mesoamerican Calendars and Writing Systems
Author: Mikkel Bøg Clemmensen
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1803274867
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Mesoamerica is one of the few places to witness the independent invention of writing. Bringing together new research, papers discuss the writing systems of Teotihuacan, Mixteca Baja, the Epiclassic period and Aztec writing of the Postclassic. These writing systems represent more than a millennium of written records and literacy in Mesoamerica.
Angola in the Black Cultural Expressions of Brazil
Author: Gerhard Kubik
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 1937306119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance forms as the products of people living in various African cultures which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African musical cultures that have existed in the period between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of "retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.
Publisher: Diasporic Africa Press
ISBN: 1937306119
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 78
Book Description
The transplantation of African musical cultures to the Americas was a multi-track and multi-time process. In the past many historical studies of African diaspora music, dance and other aspects of expressive culture concentrated on events in the Americas. What happened before the American trauma and simultaneously in Africa was often looked at unhistorically. In this book, world-renowned ethnomusicologist Gerhard Kubik considers African music and dance forms as the products of people living in various African cultures which have changed continuously in history, absorbing and processing elements from inside and outside the continent, creating new styles and fashions all the time. African diaspora music then appears as a consequent and creative extension overseas of African musical cultures that have existed in the period between the sixteenth and the twentieth century. From this perspective African diaspora music cannot be described adequately in terms of "retentions" and "survivals," as if African cultures in the Americas were doomed from the outset and perhaps only by some act of mercy permitted to "retain" certain elements. Using field research and documentary sources, Kubik tracks down some aspects of the Angolan dimension in the panorama of African music and dance cultures in Brazil, and also addresses methodology applicable in the wider context of African diaspora cultural studies.
The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances
Author: Richard Rudgley
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466886005
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to Queen Victoria, humans have abused all sorts of drugs in the name of religion, tradition, and recreation, including such "controlled substances" as chocolate, lettuce, and toads. From glue-sniffing to LSD to kava, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances provides the first reliable, comprehensive exploration of this fascinating and controversial topic. With over one hundred entries, acclaimed author Richard Rudgley covers not only the chemical and botanical background of each substance, but its physiological and psychological effect on the user. Of particular value is Rudgley's emphasis on the historical and cultural role of these mind-altering substances. Impeccably researched and hugely entertaining, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances will appeal to anyone interested in one of the most misunderstood and yet also most widespread of human activities - the chemical quest for an altered state of consciousness.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1466886005
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 399
Book Description
For all those who might like to believe that drug use has been relegated to the suburban rec rooms and ghetto crack houses of the late twentieth century, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances offers shocking, yet thoroughly enlightening evidence to the contrary. In fact, from Neolithic man to Queen Victoria, humans have abused all sorts of drugs in the name of religion, tradition, and recreation, including such "controlled substances" as chocolate, lettuce, and toads. From glue-sniffing to LSD to kava, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances provides the first reliable, comprehensive exploration of this fascinating and controversial topic. With over one hundred entries, acclaimed author Richard Rudgley covers not only the chemical and botanical background of each substance, but its physiological and psychological effect on the user. Of particular value is Rudgley's emphasis on the historical and cultural role of these mind-altering substances. Impeccably researched and hugely entertaining, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Substances will appeal to anyone interested in one of the most misunderstood and yet also most widespread of human activities - the chemical quest for an altered state of consciousness.
The Burial Record of Prehistoric Liangshan in Southwest China
Author: Anke Hein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319423843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This book proposes a new model and scheme of analysis for complex burial material and applies it to the prehistoric archaeological record of the Liangshan region in Southwest China that other archaeologists have commonly given a wide berth, regarding it as too patchy, too inhomogeneous, and overall too unwieldy to work with. The model treats burials as composite objects, considering the various elements separately in their respective life histories. The application of this approach to the rich and diverse archaeological record of the Liangshan region serves as a test of this new form of analysis. This volume thus pursues two main aims: to advance the understanding of the archaeology of the immediate study area which has been little examined, and to present and test a new scheme of analysis that can be applied to other bodies of material.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319423843
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 537
Book Description
This book proposes a new model and scheme of analysis for complex burial material and applies it to the prehistoric archaeological record of the Liangshan region in Southwest China that other archaeologists have commonly given a wide berth, regarding it as too patchy, too inhomogeneous, and overall too unwieldy to work with. The model treats burials as composite objects, considering the various elements separately in their respective life histories. The application of this approach to the rich and diverse archaeological record of the Liangshan region serves as a test of this new form of analysis. This volume thus pursues two main aims: to advance the understanding of the archaeology of the immediate study area which has been little examined, and to present and test a new scheme of analysis that can be applied to other bodies of material.
The Nuer Conquest
Author: Raymond Case Kelly
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472080564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472080564
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A study of Nuer expansionism with implications for research into the relationship between social and material causes of change
Time and Sacrifice in the Aztec Cosmos
Author: Kay Almere Read
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253113917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253113917
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This introduction to the imaginative world of the Mexica (or Aztec) explores sacrifice in the richly textured life of 16th-century Mexico. Kay Almere Read describes a universe in which every object was timed by a given lifespan and in which sacrifice was the mechanism by which time functioned. This book makes a convincing case for what sacrifice meant religiously and for how it came to be that human sacrifice of staggering proportions could be accepted, matter-of-factly, by the Mexica people.