ANU Press, 2019. — 214 p. This biographical study of an unusual southern policeman explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. Khun Phan (1898–2006), known as Lion Lawman, sometimes used rather too much lethal force in carrying out his orders. He was the most...
ANU Press, 2019. — 214 p. This biographical study of an unusual southern policeman explores the relationship between religion and power in Thailand during the early twentieth century when parts of the country were remote and banditry was rife. Khun Phan (1898–2006), known as Lion Lawman, sometimes used rather too much lethal force in carrying out his orders. He was the most...
London: British Museum, 1989. — 296 p. The traditional costumes of the Palestinian villagers and bedouin are of exceptional beauty and diversity, especially the festive costumes of the women with their lavish silk embroidery and patchwork, and their dramatic headdresses encrusted with coins. This book surveys male and female fashions from the nineteenth century to the present...
Cengage Learning Asia, 2010. — 172 p. China’s Ethnic Groups and Religions provides a historical background on the ethnic groups of China. The book explains how the central government categorizes ethnic groups and minorities. Furthermore, the book explains how the granting of autonomous governing status to certain ethnic groups in China is done with the sole aim of achieving...
London: Reaktion Books, 2018. — 272 p. The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history. In this powerful and complex empire, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of people from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and background together, defining identity and serving symbolic functions in the social,...
London: Reaktion Books, 2018. — 272 p. Bountiful Empire: The Story of Ottoman Cuisine The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history. In this powerful and complex empire, the production and consumption of food reflected the lives of people from sultans to soldiers. Food bound people of different classes and background together, defining...
Berghahn Books, 2016. — 294 p. For the Orang Rimba of Sumatra – and tropical foragers in general – life in the forest engenders a kind of "connectedness" that is contingent not only on harmonious relations between people, but also between people and the non-human environment, including those supernatural agencies of the forest that people depend on for their spiritual and...
Bielefeld: Horst Vessel Werlag, 2005. — 154 s. Vorwort Ethnologie der Sexualität. Eine Einführung Vom fragmentierten Körper zur ganzheitlichen Person. Beschneidung, Sexualität und Islam in Bima (Indonesien) Liebe, Ehe und Sexualität bei den Wampar in Papua-Neuguinea Die Bedeutung von biologischer Reife für die Bewertung von Sexualität. Ein Beispiel aus Südindien, Tamil Nadu...
Springer, 2019. — 318 p. This book provides comprehensive information on enlargement of methodological and empirical choices in a multidisciplinary perspective by breaking down the monopoly of possessing tribal studies in the confinement of conventional disciplinary boundaries. Focusing on anyone of the core themes of history, archaeology or anthropology, the chapters are...
Publication details not specified. — 109 p. Collins William. Chams of Cambodia (In English) Early History. Language. Early History of Champa. Indianisation and Islamisation. Vietnamese 'nam tien' against the Chams, tenth to nineteenth centuries. The Fall of Vijaya, 1471. Conversion to Islam and the First Migration. The Cham-Malay Community in Cambodia. The Second Migration to...
ABC-CLIO, 2018. — 392 p. The Kurds: An Encyclopedia of Life, Culture, and Society provides an insightful examination the Kurds - from their historical beginning to today - through thematic and country-specific essays as well as important primary documents that allow for a greater understanding of the diversity and pluralism of the region. This single-volume work looks at the...
New Delhi: Time Books International K-27, 1979. Penelope Chetwode, the daughter of a British military commander during the British occupation, recounts her re-visit to the Kullu Valley. She makes her way from Shimla to Rhotang Pass, on the back of a donkey. She covers many different aspects of Kullu society, relating vivid flashbacks to the time in Kullu before partition, and...
Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge. Vol 7(1). January 2008, pp. 56-61 Handloom weaving and handicraft are the cultural heritage of the Himachali people and an indispensable part of the lives of Kulluites. The activity of preparing a vide range of handloom and handicraft products was originated to suffice local needs but it gradually took a turn towards commercialization....
Ph.D.. University of London: London School of Economics and Political Science. 1993. This thesis is an ethnographic study of the social organisation of a Central Himalayan village. Fieldwork was carried out between 1989-1991 in Almora district of the Kumaon region in the hills of Uttar Pradesh, India. Kumaoni villagers conceptually organise their social world on segmentary...
Delhi: Isha Books, 2006. — 327 p. — ISBN13: 9788182053595. This encyclopaedia work in five volumes covers all related and relevant information about the scheduled tribes in India. The comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrator, policy makers, govt. official and the others.
Delhi: Isha Books, 2006. — 299 p. — ISBN13: 9788182053588. This encyclopaedia work in five volumes covers all related and relevant information about the scheduled tribes in India. The comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrator, policy makers, govt. official and the others.
Delhi: Isha Books, 2006. — 291 p. — ISBN13: 9788182050587. This encyclopaedia work in five volumes covers all related and relevant information about the scheduled tribes in India. The comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrator, policy makers, govt. official and the others.
Delhi: Isha Books, 2006. — 291 p. — ISBN13: 9788182050549. This encyclopaedia work in five volumes covers all related and relevant information about the scheduled tribes in India. The comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrator, policy makers, govt. official and the others.
Delhi: Isha Books, 2006. — 327 p. — ISBN13: 9788182050532. This encyclopaedia work in five volumes covers all related and relevant information about the scheduled tribes in India. The comprehensive, exclusive and exhaustive work will be an invaluable reference tool for scholars, researchers, planners, administrator, policy makers, govt. official and the others.
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Canberra: Australian National University, 1991. — xii, 320 p.: ill. This thesis is a study of the socio-economic organization and change of the Ersari Turkmen, a little known people of Northern Afghanistan. They live in Afghan Turkistan, a region which is ethnically very mixed and where members of many different...
A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. — Canberra: Australian National University, 1991. — xii, 320 p.: ill. This thesis is a study of the socio-economic organization and change of the Ersari Turkmen, a little known people of Northern Afghanistan. They live in Afghan Turkistan, a region which is ethnically very mixed and where members of many different...
Editör: Murat Yılmaz. — Ankara: Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararası Türk-Kazak Üniversitesi, 2014. — xvi, 199 s.: foto. — (Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararası Türk-Kazak Üniversitesi inceleme-araştırma dizisi; yayın no: 21). — ISBN: 9789944237260. 1877-1878 Osmanlı-Rus Savaşı ve Ekim 1917 Devrimi’ni takiben Ahıska’dan Türkiye’ye kaçan Ahıska Türkleri dışında, Türkiye’de birçok insan,...
University of Hawaii Press, 2016. — 332 p. Feasting has long played a crucial role in the social, political, and economic dynamics of village life. It is far more than a gustatory and social diversion from daily work routines: alliances are brokered by feasts; debts are created and political battles waged. Feasts create enormous pressure to increase the production of food and...
Duke University Press, 1999. — 368 p. Those who herd in the vast grassland region of Inner Asia face a precarious situation as they struggle to respond to the momentous political and economic changes of recent years. In The End of Nomadism? Caroline Humphrey and David Sneath confront the romantic, ahistorical myth of the wandering nomad by revealing the complex lives and the...
University of Hawaii Press, 1999. — 488 p. As early as the first millennium A.D., the Philippine archipelago formed the easternmost edge of a vast network of Chinese, Southeast Asian, Indian, and Arab traders. Items procured through maritime trade became key symbols of social prestige and political power for the Philippine chiefly elite. Raiding, Trading, and Feasting presents...