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A defining force in world history, nationalism remains an inescapable feature of the modern condition. It has underpinned the emergence of many states, and the conflict it has often generated has …

geschrieben von Ernest Gellner (Autor)

This book examines the effects of alcohol on gender relations in traditional Europe, focussing on England, France, and Italy in the late medieval and early modern periods, roughly 1300 to 1700. While …

geschrieben von A. Lynn Martin (Autor)

Here collected for the first time in one volume, are twenty accounts of humans eating humans - true stories that separate fact from fiction, exploring human depravity and the fight for survival.In …

geschrieben von Joseph Cummins (Herausgeber)

Paul Stoller is professor of anthropology at West Chester University. He is the author of a number of books, most recently Sensuous Scholarship and Jaguar: A Story of Africans in America, the latter …

In February 1999 the tragic New York City police shooting of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed street vendor from Guinea, brought into focus the existence of West African merchants in urban America. In "Money …

geschrieben von Paul Stoller (Autor)

The author of "Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century" brings James Baldwin's classic "The Fire Next Time" into the post-Katrina era in this meditation on race …

geschrieben von Randall Kenan (Autor)

Hauptseminararbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,6, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 63 Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, …

geschrieben von Elke H. Speidel (Autor)

This book makes a significant contribution to current anthropological …

Preface and acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The Berti and Islam; 2. Men and women; 3. Milk and water; 4. Village and wilderness; 5. Custom and religion; 6. Life cycle; 7. Circumcision; 8. Blood and …

geschrieben von Ladislav Holy (Autor)

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Europäische Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Ethnographien lesen - ethnographisch …

geschrieben von Stefan Bechstein (Autor)

Mickey Weems applies overtly interdisciplinary interpretation to a subject that demands such a breakdown of intellectual boundaries. This is an ethnography that documents the folk nature of popular …

geschrieben von Mickey Weems (Autor)

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high …

geschrieben von Thomas Malory (Autor)