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An examination of the phenomenon of time and to what extent our awareness of it is culturally conditioned. The writer provides a detailed analysis of theories put forward by such thinkers as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Geertz, Piaget, Husserl and Bourdieu.

The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques and aesthetics of healing in Sri Lanka cannot be reduced to Western psychoanalytic or psychotherapeutic terms.

Explores the Yafar society, a forest people living by shifting cultivation, hunting and gathering. This book examines various aspects of a society whose material and nutritional relations with their rainforest environment are mediated by a sociocultural system based on a negotiated relationship with natural forces, and harmony between the sexes.

Studies the Hahalis Welfare Society, a Bougainville movement which worked for many years to maintain and reform traditional practices, and to retain a degree of autonomy in a world of rapid political change and economic dependency. This extended ethnography of Buka will be useful to Melanesian specialists.

An account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism. It is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian newspapers and recent fieldwork in Malaysia and Indonesia.

The creation of a huge artificial lake in Western Canada led to the flooding of prime hunting and trapping territory of the Sekani Indians, thus depriving them of their traditional occupations and livelihood. This study examines the resulting social distress.

A study of the Dhan-Gadi Aboriginal people of New South Wales, Australia. Combining the skills of a social historian with the detailed observation of a social anthropologist, the author brings alive the contours of crude racism and the more subtle expressions of paternalism, bureaucratic social control and educational and economic marginalization.

Tracing the development of caboclo societies and arguing that much of the discussion of 'sustainable development' fails to recognize the important legacy of historical caboclo society, this book aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo society. It is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia.

Based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, this book demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective.

Examining child's play from a cross-cultural perspective, this book describes how pretence is socially mediated and linguistically constructed, how children make sense of their own play, how play relates to other imaginative genres in Huli life, and the relationship between play and cosmology.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity, religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion - in this case Pentecostalism - cannot be understood simply as a means of spiritual compensation for the economically disadvantaged.

This text examines the strategies and struggles of the professionals who are responsible for marketing ready-made food products for a Norwegian food manufacturer. This setting provides the empirical focus for the analysis of the key tensions and contradictions which are to be found in modernity.

This study of gender and sexual diversity in the Southern Philippines addresses general questions about the relationship between the making of gender and sexualities, the politics of national and ethnic identities, and processes of cultural transformation.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines such topics as carnival in a rural town; a round of criticism; social problems in the repertoire of Los Llorones; the rivalry; a country poet; and old and new voices.

A study of contemporary flamenco music as a multi-dimensional movement of popular culture. Although portrayed as an apolitical, frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have influenced the Franco regime. This text explores flamenco in its social, cultural and historical context.

Aiming to debunk popular myths of expertise and authority which surround the medical establishment, this text describes student's "official" activities (that is, what they need to do to qualify) as well as their "unofficial" ones (such as their social life in the bar).

Specialists from the field of the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them.

This study explores the world-view of the Lohorung Rai, a hill tribe in Eastern Nepal. By examining Lohorung concepts and their discourse on self and emotion, this book explores the way in which ancestral influence dominates the lives and rituals of the Lohorung.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this text examines parades and visual displays in Northern Ireland.

Through a comparison of two very different groups, the Aboriginal people and the white cattle farmers in Far North Queensland, this text explores how the human-environmental relationship is culturally constructed.

Offers a medical anthropological exploration of traditional explanations of illness and misfortune; a detailed ethnography of traditional African cosmology and witchcraft - the context of illness explanations; and an examination of theoretical issues in anthropology - postmodernism and dialogue.

Exploring modernity from an ethnographic perspective, the book focuses on Trinidad - a society which has suffered social rupture through slavery and indentured labour. It discusses mass consumption, and the use of goods and imported images to express and develop contradictions of modernity.

Challenges many of our assumptions about the direction of contemporary capitalism and offers perspectives that will inform the development of a political economy. In this book the importance of factors such as profitability and globalization is highlighted, and an analysis of the contradictions and ironies of the world of commodities emerges.

From a description of the counting system of Iqwaye people of Papua New Guinea, the author develops an interpretation of the Iqwaye kinship system and cosmology, culminating in a critique of western assumptions about the development of rational thought.

Challenges dominant parameters of literacy by comparing the oral tradition of the Tamils in South India with the Western culture of printed text. The author examines the reasons for the differences between the Indian and Western textual traditions, and describes how text lives through the performing arts of words, sound and imagery.

The last of the Andean civilizations, Inca society was the product of complex historical and social processes of class and state formation. This study examines the contradictions, tensions and conflicts these processes engendered and explores the involvement of Europeans in Andean life after the 1530s as it resulted in new forms of exploitation.

As part of the "Explorations in Anthropology" series, this volume examines urban migrants and rural lives in Peru.

This volume discusses such topics as: successes and contradictions in "multiracial" Brazilian football; the political role of football for Palestinians in Jordan; and football and violence in war-torn Africa - soccer and social rehabilitation in Sierra Leone.

In Pacific societies, local knowledge is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. This study offers insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.

In Pacific societies, local knowledge is rapidly disappearing. With the extinction of languages, the ability to observe and interpret the world from varying perspectives is also being lost. This study offers insights into the complexity of Pacific peoples' responses to the process of globalization.