Washington, D.C.: Society for Psychological Anthropology, 1983. — 108 p. Editors' Preface. Cannibals, Tricksters, and Witches: Anthropophagic Images Among Bimin-Kuskusmin. Cannibalism Among Women in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Human Leopards and Crocodiles: Political Meanings of Categorical Anomalies. Cannibalism and Arapesh Cosmology: A Wartime Incident with the...
Senior Project Social Sciences Department College of Liberal Arts California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, 2012. — 37 p. Research Proposal Annotated Bibliography Ancestral Cannibalism Indigenous Cannibalism Survival Cannibalism Unforgivable Cannibalism Discussion
Utica, N.Y: T.J. Griffiths, 1886. — 57 p. In giving himself to general reading relating to the origin and history of the human family, the writer of the following images was impressed with the frequent allusion to man-eating among many of the peoples of the world; and although in itself it is an unattractive subject, and perhaps to some repellant; for his own amusement, and it...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 584 p. Have humans always waged war? Is warring an ancient evolutionary adaptation or a relatively recent behavior - and what does that tell us about human nature? In War, Peace, and Human Nature , editor Douglas P. Fry brings together leading experts in such fields as evolutionary biology, archaeology, anthropology, and primatology to answer...
Praeger Publishers, 1972. — 304 p. For centuries, hallucinogens have been of great significance in the ideology and religious practices of primitive societies. In fact, the use of psychotropic plants to achieve states of religious ecstasy goes back almost to the beginning of human culture. Furthermore, the content of the psychedelic experience in the West today has been found...
Routledge, 2016. — 520 p. With the increase of digital and networked media in everyday life, researchers have increasingly turned their gaze to the symbolic and cultural elements of technologies. From studying online game communities, locative and social media to YouTube and mobile media, ethnographic approaches to digital and networked media have helped to elucidate the...
Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996 — 320 p. — ISBN10: 047209579X; ISBN13: 978-0472095797. Time is the subject of several rather different conversations. Some of them, such as that of the cosmologists and theoretical physicists, are nearly impenetrable to nonspecialists; others have an easy popular appeal. In this volume, editors Diane Owen Hughes and Thomas R....
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 448 p. Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an important role in all societies. The sense of a common ethnicity remains a major focus of...
LA: SAGE Publications, 2008. — 207 p. Introduction to the Second Edition. Arguments . Anthropology and Ethnicity. 2From Tribes to Ethnic Groups. Myths of Pluralism. Ethnicity Etcetera. Categorization and Power. Ideologies of Identification. Explorations . Majority Ethnicity. The ‘Cultural Stuff’. Violence, Language and Politics. Nations and Nationalisms. Rethinking Ethnicity ....
Routledge, 2002. — 200 p. Many societies have a concept of and a word for the dragon, even though the creature never existed. Why? Jones, professor of anthropology at the University of Central Florida, thinks the concept derives from the experience of ancestral humans and prehumans with three kinds of predator: "Over millennia," he writes, "the raptor, big cat, and serpent...
Eland Books, 2013. — 206 p. Norman Lewis's stunning examination of the disturbing cultural and environmental devastation wrought in the name of religious salvationAcclaimed travel essayist Norman Lewis spent his life traversing the globe and offering thoughtful commentary on the cultures he visited. In The Missionaries , he turns his critical lens on those missionaries who...
Picador, 1989. — 256 p. Based on his experiences with missionaries in Southeast Asia and Central and Latin America, Lewis has written a scathing account of how some missionary sects deal with indigenous peoples in their bid for the conquest of souls. He cites the creation of fear and the establishment of dependency upon goods which, without becoming wage-earners, the Indians...
Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the MPhil Degree in Biological Anthropology University of Cambridge, UK, 2001. — 37 p. What is cannibalism? Criteria for cannibalism Mythology and Religion The historical record Cannibalism in India Cannibalism in Africa Cannibalism in New Guinea Cannibalism on the Fiji Islands Cannibalism in New Zealand Cannibalism in South America and...
The Free press, 1948. — 344 p. Magic, science and religion Myth in primitive psychology Baloma: the spirits of the dead in Trobraind islands The problem of meaning in primitive languages An anthropological analysis of war
London: Bernard Quaritch, 1876. – 507 p. Mr. Morgan’s Conjectural Solution of the Origin of the classificatory system of relationship. Mr. Morgan first impression as to the Iroquois relationships. Origin of his work on the Classificatory System of Relationships.—Its contents.—Objects of his inquiry. — His conjectural solution and series of stages in social development involved...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 496 p. The Native American on a horse is an archetypal Hollywood image, but though such equestrian-focused societies were a relatively short-lived consequence of European expansion overseas, they were not restricted to North America's Plains. "Horse Nations" provides the first wide-ranging and up-to-date synthesis of the impact of the horse on...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2008. — 341 p. — (Ancient World: Comparative Histories) This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists, who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of premodern societies. Presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery Provides cross-cultural comparison of ancient...
University of Chicago Press, 2013. — 120 p. In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the...
Westview Press, 2004. — 193 p. — ISBN: 0-8133-4108-6; ISBN: 0-8133-3814-X (pbk.: alk, paper). Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, "Pastoralists" is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life....
Vermont: Healing Arts Press, 2001. — 208 p. What are plant hallucinogens? The plant kingdom Phytochemical research on sacred plants Geography of usage and botanical range Plant lexicon Who uses hallucinogenic plants? Overview of plant use The most important hallucinogenic plants Mainstay of the heavens amanita (fly agaric) The hexing herbs atropa (deadly nightshade) hyoscyamus...
Duke University Press, 2014. — 346 p. This important collection makes a compelling argument for the importance of theory in Native studies. Within the field, there has been understandable suspicion of theory stemming both from concerns about urgent political issues needing to take precedence over theoretical speculations and from hostility toward theory as an inherently...
Reaktion Books Ltd. & University of Chicago Press, 2005. — 186 p. It is widely assumed that indigenous cultures are under threat: they are rooted in landscapes that have undergone radical transformations, and the opposing forces of business corporations and ruling political powers only seem to grow stronger. Yet Jeff Sissons argues here in "First Peoples" that, far from...
Basil Blackwell, 1988. — 312 p. Preface Note to Maps Maps Introduction Are nations modern? 'Modernists* and 'primordialists' Ethnie, myths and symbols The durability of ethnic communities Ethnic communities in pre-modern eras Foundations of ethnic community The dimensions of ethnie Some bases of ethnic formation Structure and persistence of ethnie Ethnic and ethnicism in...
Routledge, 2016. — 526 p. This collection provides an in-depth and up-to-date examination of the concept of Intangible Cultural Heritage and the issues surrounding its value to society. Critically engaging with the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage , the book also discusses local-level conceptualizations of living cultural...
New York: Stein and Day, 1975. — 250 p. List of llustrations. Acknowlegements. Introduction: Flesh, Blood and Spirit. Eating people is wrong. The centuries of hunger. The red elixir. Blood for the gods. The nonconformists. Werevolves and Vampires. Who's for dinner? Survival kits. Postscript. Bibliography. Index.
Cornell University Press, 1991. — 223 p. In "The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure", Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure. "The Ritual Process" has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were...
Kessinger Publishing, 2010. — 308 p. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have...
Springer, 2017. — 276 p. This volume illuminates how creative representations remain sites of ongoing struggles to engage with animals in indigenous epistemologies. Traditionally imagined in relation to spiritual realms and the occult, animals have always been more than primitive symbols of human relations. Whether as animist gods, familiars, conduits to ancestors, totems,...
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