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NON-HUMANS IN AMERINDIAN SOUTH AMERICA<\/a>
\nEthnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
\nEdited by Juan Javier Rivera And\u00eda<\/p>\nVolume 37, EASA Series <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.<\/p>\n
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INDIGENEITY AND THE SACRED<\/a>
\nIndigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
\nEdited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner<\/p>\nVolume 22, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches.\u00a0Indigeneity and the Sacred<\/em>\u00a0explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.<\/p>\nRead Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n![\"Edges,](\"https:\/\/www.berghahnbooks.com\/covers\/HenfreyEdges.jpg\")
EDGES, FRINGES, FRONTIERS<\/a>
\nIntegral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
\nThomas B. Henfrey<\/p>\nVolume 23, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes<\/em> examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.<\/p>\nRead Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Edges, Fringes, Frontiers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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AN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS DIASPORA<\/a>
\nWarlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
\nPaul Burke<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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ANIMISM BEYOND THE SOUL<\/a>
\nOntology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
\nEdited by Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard<\/p>\nVolume 6, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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TREES, KNOTS, AND OUTRIGGERS<\/a>
\nEnvironmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
\nFrederick H. Damon<\/p>\nVolume 21, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Trees, Knots and Outriggers<\/em> (Kaynen Muyuw)<\/em> is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia. Damon details the intricacies of indigenous knowledge and practice in his sweeping synthesis of symbolic and structuralist anthropology with recent developments in historical ecology. This book is a long conversation between the author\u2019s many Papua New Guinea informants, teachers and friends, and scientists in Australia, Europe and the United States, in which a spirit of adventure and discovery is palpable.<\/p>\nRead Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\nRelated Link:\u00a0This book is accompanied by a large online repository of images: <\/em>https:\/\/pages.shanti.virginia.edu\/Trees_Knots__Outriggers\/<\/a><\/h5>\n <\/p>\n
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THE IMBALANCE OF POWER<\/a>
\nLeadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
\nMarc Brightman<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American \u2018state of nature\u2019 operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power<\/em> demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of \u2018simple\u2019 political units with \u2018egalitarian\u2019 political ideologies and \u2018harmonious\u2019 relationships with nature.<\/p>\nRead Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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INDIGENIST MOBILIZATION<\/a>
\nConfronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
\nLuisa Steur<\/p>\nVolume 20, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Indigenist Mobilization<\/em>\u00a0explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.<\/p>\nRead Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Research and Activism in, on, and Beyond a Capitalist World System<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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BEING AND BECOMING<\/a>
\nEmbodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
\nRamsey Elkholy
\nForeword by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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THE FOREST PEOPLE WITHOUT A FOREST<\/a>
\nDevelopment Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
\nGlory M. Lueong<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
This book examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Often referred to as \u2018forest people\u2019, the Baka have witnessed many recent development interventions that include competing and contradictory policies such as \u2018civilize\u2019, assimilate and integrate the Baka into \u2018full citizenship\u2019, conserve the forest and wildlife resources, and preserve indigenous cultures at the verge of extinction.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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BIOMEDICAL ENTANGLEMENTS<\/a>
\nConceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
\nFranziska A. Herbst<\/p>\nVolume 5, Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Biomedical Entanglements<\/em> is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population\u2019s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the \u2018biomedical\u2019 is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.<\/p>\nRead Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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LEAVING FOOTPRINTS IN THE TAIGA<\/a>
\nLuck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
\nDonatas Brandi\u0161auskas<\/p>\nNEW SERIES: <\/strong>Volume 1, Studies in the Circumpolar North<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandi\u0161auskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. \u201cCatching luck\u201d is one such strategy that plays a central role in Orochen cosmology — luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. Brandi\u0161auskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to \u201ccatch luck\u201d (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Luck, Spirits and Places<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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LIVING ON THIN ICE<\/a>
\nThe Gwich’in Natives of Alaska
\nSteven C. Dinero<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cThe book is an excellent presentation of multidisciplinary methods focused steadily on the people and on their perceptions of what is going on. Most interesting for the future is that the internet may be the way to keep members of the Gwich\u2019in diaspora connected to the village and their \u2018Gwich\u2019inness\u2019\u2026Highly Recommended. .All academic levels\/libraries.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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OWNERSHIP AND NURTURE<\/a>
\nStudies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
\nEdited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto, and Vanessa Grotti
\nForeword by James Leach<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture<\/em> sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general.<\/p>\nRead Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Altering Ownership in Amazonia<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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\nIdentity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
\nMichaela Pelican<\/p>\nVolume 11, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups \u2013 Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa \u2013 provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital contribution to the study of ethnicity, conflict, and social change in the anthropology of Africa.<\/p>\n
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LIFE AS A HUNT<\/a>
\nThresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
\nStuart A. Marks<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
\u201cFew academic books display such depth as does this one, but then few anthropologists devote over five decades to the same communities and issues. Anthropologist Marks first worked among Zambia’s Valley Bisa people in 1966, returning frequently for further research. The result is a masterwork of description, interpretation, and self-reflection.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\nRead Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Volume 10\/2017, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)<\/p>\n
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ISSN: 1361-7362 (Print)
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- Girls, Education, and Social Responsibility<\/a>\u00a0(Vol. 11, Issue 2)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Locating Tween Girls<\/a>\u00a0(Volume 11, Issue 1)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- The Girl in the Text: Representations, Positions, and Perspectives<\/a>\u00a0(Vol. 10, Issue 3)<\/strong><\/li>\n
- Technologies of Nonviolence: Reimagining Mobile and Social Media Practices in the Lives of Girls and Young Women<\/a>\u00a0(Vol. 10, Issue 2)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n
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NON-HUMANS IN AMERINDIAN SOUTH AMERICA<\/a>
\nEthnographies of Indigenous Cosmologies, Rituals and Songs
\nEdited by Juan Javier Rivera And\u00eda<\/p>\nVolume 37, EASA Series <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Drawing on fieldwork from diverse Amerindian societies, and presenting ethnographies of non-human entities emerging in ritual, oral tradition, cosmology, shamanism and music, this book offers new insights into the indigenous constitutions of humanity, personhood, and environment characteristic of the South American highlands and lowlands.<\/p>\n
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INDIGENEITY AND THE SACRED<\/a>
\nIndigenous Revival and the Conservation of Sacred Natural Sites in the Americas
\nEdited by Fausto Sarmiento and Sarah Hitchner<\/p>\nVolume 22, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
This book presents current research in the political ecology of indigenous revival and its role in nature conservation in critical areas in the Americas. An important contribution to evolving studies on conservation of sacred natural sites (SNS), the book elucidates the complexity of development scenarios within cultural landscapes related to the appropriation of religion, environmental change in indigenous territories, and new conservation management approaches.\u00a0Indigeneity and the Sacred<\/em>\u00a0explores how these struggles for land, rights, and political power are embedded within physical landscapes, and how indigenous identity is reconstituted as globalizing forces simultaneously threaten and promote the notion of indigeneity.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
EDGES, FRINGES, FRONTIERS<\/a>
\nIntegral Ecology, Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainability in Guyana
\nThomas B. Henfrey<\/p>\nVolume 23, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Based on an ethnographic account of subsistence use of Amazonian forests by Wapishana people in Guyana, Edges, Frontiers, Fringes<\/em> examines the social, cultural and behavioral bases for sustainability and resilience in indigenous resource use.<\/p>\n
Read Chapter 1.<\/strong>\u00a0Edges, Fringes, Frontiers<\/a><\/p>\n
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AN AUSTRALIAN INDIGENOUS DIASPORA<\/a>
\nWarlpiri Matriarchs and the Refashioning of Tradition
\nPaul Burke<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This book is a multi-sited ethnography of the migration of a minority of the aboriginal Warlpiri away from their traditional homeland to distant towns and cities. It follows a number of Warlpiri matriarchs into their new locations, exploring how they sustain their independent lives and examining their changing relationship with the traditional culture they represent.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
ANIMISM BEYOND THE SOUL<\/a>
\nOntology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
\nEdited by Katherine Swancutt and Mireille Mazard<\/p>\nVolume 6, Studies in Social Analysis<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Anthropological Knowledge Making, the Reflexive Feedback Loop, and Conceptualizations of the Soul<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
TREES, KNOTS, AND OUTRIGGERS<\/a>
\nEnvironmental Knowledge in the Northeast Kula Ring
\nFrederick H. Damon<\/p>\nVolume 21, Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Trees, Knots and Outriggers<\/em> (Kaynen Muyuw)<\/em> is the culmination of twenty-five years of work by Frederick H. Damon and his attention to cultural adaptations to the environment in Melanesia. Damon details the intricacies of indigenous knowledge and practice in his sweeping synthesis of symbolic and structuralist anthropology with recent developments in historical ecology. This book is a long conversation between the author\u2019s many Papua New Guinea informants, teachers and friends, and scientists in Australia, Europe and the United States, in which a spirit of adventure and discovery is palpable.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
Related Link:\u00a0This book is accompanied by a large online repository of images: <\/em>https:\/\/pages.shanti.virginia.edu\/Trees_Knots__Outriggers\/<\/a><\/h5>\n
<\/p>\n
THE IMBALANCE OF POWER<\/a>
\nLeadership, Masculinity and Wealth in the Amazon
\nMarc Brightman<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American \u2018state of nature\u2019 operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power<\/em> demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of \u2018simple\u2019 political units with \u2018egalitarian\u2019 political ideologies and \u2018harmonious\u2019 relationships with nature.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
INDIGENIST MOBILIZATION<\/a>
\nConfronting Electoral Communism and Precarious Livelihoods in Post-Reform Kerala
\nLuisa Steur<\/p>\nVolume 20, Dislocations<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Indigenist Mobilization<\/em>\u00a0explores the history of the dynamics between the Communist party in Kerala and indigenist activists, and the subtle ways in which global capitalist restructuring leads to a resonance of indigenist visions in the changed the everyday working lives and future aspirations of subaltern groups in Kerala.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0Research and Activism in, on, and Beyond a Capitalist World System<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
BEING AND BECOMING<\/a>
\nEmbodiment and Experience among the Orang Rimba of Sumatra
\nRamsey Elkholy
\nForeword by Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
In a unique methodological contribution, Ramsey Elkholy adopts a set of body-centered approaches that reflect and capture the day-to-day, moment-to-moment ways in which the hunters and gatherers of Orang Rimba, Sumatra, engage with the world.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
THE FOREST PEOPLE WITHOUT A FOREST<\/a>
\nDevelopment Paradoxes, Belonging and Participation of the Baka in East Cameroon
\nGlory M. Lueong<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
This book examines how the Baka, who live in Eastern Cameroon, assert forms of belonging in order to participate in development interventions, and how community life is shaped and reshaped through these interventions. Often referred to as \u2018forest people\u2019, the Baka have witnessed many recent development interventions that include competing and contradictory policies such as \u2018civilize\u2019, assimilate and integrate the Baka into \u2018full citizenship\u2019, conserve the forest and wildlife resources, and preserve indigenous cultures at the verge of extinction.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
BIOMEDICAL ENTANGLEMENTS<\/a>
\nConceptions of Personhood in a Papua New Guinea Society
\nFranziska A. Herbst<\/p>\nVolume 5, Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Biomedical Entanglements<\/em> is an ethnographic study of the Giri people of Papua New Guinea, focusing on the indigenous population\u2019s interaction with modern medicine. In her fieldwork, Franziska A. Herbst follows the Giri people as they circulate within and around ethnographic sites that include a rural health center and an urban hospital. The study bridges medical anthropology and global health, exploring how the \u2018biomedical\u2019 is imbued with social meaning and how biomedicine affects Giri ways of life.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
LEAVING FOOTPRINTS IN THE TAIGA<\/a>
\nLuck, Spirits and Ambivalence among the Siberian Orochen Reindeer Herders and Hunters
\nDonatas Brandi\u0161auskas<\/p>\nNEW SERIES: <\/strong>Volume 1, Studies in the Circumpolar North<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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Nowhere have recent environmental and social changes been more pronounced than in post-Soviet Siberia. Donatas Brandi\u0161auskas probes the strategies that Orochen reindeer herders of southeastern Siberia have developed to navigate these changes. \u201cCatching luck\u201d is one such strategy that plays a central role in Orochen cosmology — luck implies a vernacular theory of causality based on active interactions of humans, non-humans, material objects, and places. Brandi\u0161auskas describes in rich details the skills, knowledge, ritual practices, storytelling, and movements that enable the Orochen to \u201ccatch luck\u201d (or not, sometimes), to navigate times of change and upheaval.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Luck, Spirits and Places<\/a><\/p>\n
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LIVING ON THIN ICE<\/a>
\nThe Gwich’in Natives of Alaska
\nSteven C. Dinero<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe book is an excellent presentation of multidisciplinary methods focused steadily on the people and on their perceptions of what is going on. Most interesting for the future is that the internet may be the way to keep members of the Gwich\u2019in diaspora connected to the village and their \u2018Gwich\u2019inness\u2019\u2026Highly Recommended. .All academic levels\/libraries.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n
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OWNERSHIP AND NURTURE<\/a>
\nStudies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
\nEdited by Marc Brightman, Carlos Fausto, and Vanessa Grotti
\nForeword by James Leach<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture<\/em> sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general.<\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0Altering Ownership in Amazonia<\/a><\/p>\n
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New in Paperback<\/em><\/p>\nMASKS AND STAFFS<\/a>
\nIdentity Politics in the Cameroon Grassfields
\nMichaela Pelican<\/p>\nVolume 11, Integration and Conflict Studies<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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The Cameroon Grassfields, home to three ethnic groups \u2013 Grassfields societies, Mbororo, and Hausa \u2013 provide a valuable case study for the anthropological examination of identity politics and interethnic relations. In the midst of the political liberalization of Cameroon in the late 1990s and 2000s, local responses to political and legal changes took the form of a series of performative and discursive expressions of ethnicity. Confrontational encounters stimulated by economic and political rivalry, as well as socially integrative processes, transformed collective self-understanding in Cameroon in conjunction with recent global discourses on human, minority, and indigenous rights. The book provides a vital contribution to the study of ethnicity, conflict, and social change in the anthropology of Africa.<\/p>\n
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LIFE AS A HUNT<\/a>
\nThresholds of Identities and Illusions on an African Landscape
\nStuart A. Marks<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cFew academic books display such depth as does this one, but then few anthropologists devote over five decades to the same communities and issues. Anthropologist Marks first worked among Zambia’s Valley Bisa people in 1966, returning frequently for further research. The result is a masterwork of description, interpretation, and self-reflection.\u201d<\/em> \u00b7 Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n
Read Introduction:<\/strong>\u00a0On Poaching an Elephant: Calling the Shots and Following the Ricochets<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a>Girlhood Studies<\/a><\/p>\nAn Interdisciplinary Journal<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nEditor-in-Chief: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University<\/p>\n
ISSN: 1938-8209 (Print)
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ISSN: 1361-7362 (Print)
\nISSN: 1476-6787 (Online)<\/p>\nVolume 16\/2017, 3 issues p.a. (spring, summer, winter)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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- Locating Tween Girls<\/a>\u00a0(Volume 11, Issue 1)<\/strong><\/li>\n