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Book Ethnohistorische Wege und Lehrjahre eines Philosophen

Download or read book Ethnohistorische Wege und Lehrjahre eines Philosophen written by Dittmar Schorkowitz and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1995 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lawrence Krader wurde am 9.12.1919 in New York geboren, wo er bis Kriegsausbruch Philosophie und Ethnologie studierte. Seiner Dissertation im Jahre 1954 folgte zunächst eine Professur für Anthropologie und ein Direktorat des Nomadism Program an der Universität Syracuse, dann die Leitung des China Population Program beim Bureau of Census der Vereinigten Staaten, die Präsidentschaft der Anthropological Society of Washington und die ordentliche Professur an der American University (Washington, DC) 1958-1963. Er war Repräsentant für Ethnologie und Anthropologie im Social Science Council und Human Science Council (UNESCO), Leiter der Anthropologischen Sektion der Abteilung für Soziologie und Anthropologie am City College in New York, Vorsitzender der Abteilung für Soziologie und Anthropologie an der Universität Waterloo (Canada), Mitglied des Committee on Foreign Relations an der National Academy of Sciences und des Committee on Ecology beim National Research Council (Washington, DC) und von 1964 bis 1978 Secretary General der International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Im Jahre 1972 folgte L. Krader einem Ruf nach Berlin und wurde Ordinarius am Institut für Ethnologie an der Freien Universität, dem er bis 1982 als Direktor vorstand.

Book Before Boas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Han F. Vermeulen
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2015-07-01
  • ISBN : 080325542X
  • Pages : 746 pages

Download or read book Before Boas written by Han F. Vermeulen and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extensive study of the emergence of ethnology and ethnography, and how theories in Europe and Russia during the eighteenth century experienced a paradigm shift with the work of Franz Boas starting in 1886"--

Book Improvising the Voice of the Ancestors

Download or read book Improvising the Voice of the Ancestors written by Mustafa Coskun and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural heritage and national identity have been significant themes in debates concerning Central Asia following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, not only in academic circles, but more importantly among the general public in the newly independent Central Asian states. Inspired by insights from a popular form of traditional cultural performance in Kyrgyzstan, this book goes beyond cultural revival discourse to explore these themes from a historically informed anthropological perspective. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork and archival research in Kyrgyzstan, this historical ethnography analyses the ways in which political elite in Central Asia attempts to exercise power over its citizens through cultural production from early twentieth century to the present.

Book The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture

Download or read book The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Music and Culture written by Janet Sturman and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 6234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Music and Culture presents key concepts in the study of music in its cultural context and provides an introduction to the discipline of ethnomusicology, its methods, concerns, and its contributions to knowledge and understanding of the world's musical cultures, styles, and practices. The diverse voices of contributors to this encyclopedia confirm ethnomusicology's fundamental ethos of inclusion and respect for diversity. Combined, the multiplicity of topics and approaches are presented in an easy-to-search A-Z format and offer a fresh perspective on the field and the subject of music in culture. Key features include: Approximately 730 signed articles, authored by prominent scholars, are arranged A-to-Z and published in a choice of print or electronic editions Pedagogical elements include Further Readings and Cross References to conclude each article and a Reader’s Guide in the front matter organizing entries by broad topical or thematic areas Back matter includes an annotated Resource Guide to further research (journals, books, and associations), an appendix listing notable archives, libraries, and museums, and a detailed Index The Index, Reader’s Guide themes, and Cross References combine for thorough search-and-browse capabilities in the electronic edition

Book Reader s Guide to the History of Science

Download or read book Reader s Guide to the History of Science written by Arne Hessenbruch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.

Book The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory  Volume 1  A Contested Canon

Download or read book The Cambridge Handbook of Social Theory Volume 1 A Contested Canon written by Peter Kivisto and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 1058 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious two-volume handbook of social theory consists of forty original contributions. The researchers take stock of the state of social theory and its relationship to the canon, exploring such topics as the nature, purpose, and meaning of social theory; the significance of the classics; the impact of specific individual and theory schools; and more. Both volumes reflect a mixture of what intellectual historian Morton White distinguished as the 'annalist of ideas' and the 'analyst of ideas,' locating theoretical thought within the larger socio-historical context that shaped it - within the terrain of the sociology of knowledge. Exploring the contemporary relevance of theories in a manner that is historically situated and sensitive, this impressive and comprehensive set will likely stand the test of time.

Book Tumen Jalafun Jecen Aku

    Book Details:
  • Author : Giovanni Stary
  • Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9783447053785
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Tumen Jalafun Jecen Aku written by Giovanni Stary and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2006 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A. Pozzi, Imperturbable and very Patient H. Chan, The Dating of the Founding of the Jurchen-Jin State: Historical Revisions and Political Expediencies N. Di Cosmo, A Note on the Authorship of Dzengseo's Beyei cooha bade yabuha babe ejehe bithe L. Gorelova, Information Structures in the Manchu Language J. Janhunen, From Manchuria to Amdo Qinghai: On the Ethnic Implications of the Tuyuhun Migration D. Kane, Khitan and Jurchen G. Kara, Solon Ewenki in Mongolian Script K. Maezono, Onomatopoetika im Mandschu und im Japanischen J. Miyawaki-Okada, What 'Manju' Was in the Beginning and When It Grew into a Place-name T. Nakami, The Manchu Bannerman Jinliang's Search for Manchu-Qing Historical Sources H. Okada, The Manchu Documents in the Higuchi Ichiyo-Collection on the Takadaya Kahee Incident and the Release of Captain V.M. Golovnin T. A. Pang, N.N. Krotkov's Questionnaire to Balishan Concerning Sibe-Solon Shamanism J. Reckel, Yu-Kye - Ein koreanischer Verbannter am Tumen im Jahre 1650/51 T. Tsumagari, Morphological status of the Manchu case markers: particle or suffix? V. Veit, A Set of 17th to 19th Century Manchu-Mongolian Patents for Hereditary Ranks and Honorary Titles A. Vovin, Why Manchu and Jurchen Look So Non-Tungusic?

Book Performing Environmentalisms

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Holmes McDowell
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2021-09-14
  • ISBN : 0252052978
  • Pages : 404 pages

Download or read book Performing Environmentalisms written by John Holmes McDowell and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performing Environmentalisms examines the existential challenge of the twenty-first century: improving the prospects for maintaining life on our planet. The contributors focus on the strategic use of traditional artistic expression--storytelling and songs, crafted objects, and ceremonies and rituals--performed during the social turmoil provoked by environmental degradation and ecological collapse. Highlighting alternative visions of what it means to be human, the authors place performance at the center of people's responses to the crises. Such expression reinforces the agency of human beings as they work, independently and together, to address ecological dilemmas. The essays add these people's critical perspectives--gained through intimate struggle with life-altering force--to the global dialogue surrounding humanity's response to climate change, threats to biocultural diversity, and environmental catastrophe. Interdisciplinary in approach and wide-ranging in scope, Performing Environmentalisms is an engaging look at the merger of cultural expression and environmental action on the front lines of today's global emergency. Contributors: Aaron S. Allen, Eduardo S. Brondizio, Assefa Tefera Dibaba, Rebecca Dirksen, Mary Hufford, John Holmes McDowell, Mark Pedelty, Jennifer C. Post, Chie Sakakibara, Jeff Todd Titon, Rory Turner, Lois Wilcken

Book Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg

Download or read book Creolizing Rosa Luxemburg written by Jane Anna Gordon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rosa Luxemburg is unquestionably the most important historical European woman Marxist theorist. Significantly, for the purpose of creolizing the canon, she considered her continent and the globe from an Eastern Europe that was in constant flux and turmoil. From this relatively peripheral location, she was far less parochial than many of her more centrally located interlocutors and peers. Indeed, Luxemburg’s work touched on all the burning issues of her time and ours, from analysis of concrete revolutionary struggles, such as those in Poland and Russia, to showing through her analysis of primitive accumulation that anti-capitalist and anti-colonial struggles had to be intertwined, to considerations of state sovereignty, democracy, feminism, and racism. She thereby offered reflections that can usefully be taken up and reworked by writers facing continuous and new challenges to undo relations of exploitation through radical economic and social transformation Luxemburg touches on all aspects of what constitutes revolution in her work; the authors of this volume show us that, by creolizing Luxemburg, we can open up new paths of understanding the complexities of revolution.

Book Marx at the Margins

Download or read book Marx at the Margins written by Kevin B. Anderson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-02-12 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive but neglected texts by Marx that cast what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents us with a Marx quite at odds with conventional interpretations. Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development, including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well. Through highly informed readings of work ranging from Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond. For this expanded edition, Anderson has written a new preface that discusses the additional 1879–82 notebook material, as well as the influence of the Russian-American philosopher Raya Dunayevskaya on his thinking.

Book Plural World Interpretations

Download or read book Plural World Interpretations written by Anett C. Oelschlaegel and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2016 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Virginia Danielson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expert writers present the major traditions of North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia, together with personal accounts of performers, composers, teachers, and ceremonies. A special feature of this volume is the inclusion of dozens of brief snap-shot essays that offer "lifestories" of typical musicmakers and their art, as well as first-person descriptions of specific music performances and events. Also includes maps and music examples.

Book Selected Manchu Studies

Download or read book Selected Manchu Studies written by Giovanni Stary and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-10 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Selected Manchu Studies".

Book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music

Download or read book The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music written by Ruth M. Stone and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 3969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music is a ten-volume reference work, organized geographically by continent to represent the musics of the world in nine volumes. The tenth volume houses reference tools and descriptive information about the encyclopedia’s structure, criteria for inclusion and other information specific to the field of ethnomusicology. An award-winning reference, its contributions are from top researchers around the world who were active in fieldwork and from key institutions with programs in ethnomusicology. GEWM has become a familiar acronym, and it remains highly revered for its scholarship, uncontested in being the sole encompassing reference work with a broad survey of world music. More than 9,000 pages, with musical illustrations, photographs and drawings, it is accompanied by 300+ audio examples.

Book Karl Marx

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kevin B. Anderson
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-05-15
  • ISBN : 1351924311
  • Pages : 630 pages

Download or read book Karl Marx written by Kevin B. Anderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marx's approach to analyzing society and especially his critique of capitalist society, continues to influence the work of a large number of scholars world-wide. Unfortunately, there are relatively few clear accounts of what this approach is and how to put it to use. And, despite the many attempts to use Marx's method to study a variety of subjects, there are relatively few that can serve as useful models. In the present volume, the internationally renowned Marxist scholar, Bertell Ollman, and the social theorist Kevin B. Anderson, have brought together a sampling of the best writings of the past hundred years that illustrate and critique Marx's method as well as explain what it is and how to put it to work. Anyone wishing to understand better Marx's dialectical method (along, of course, with the theories created with its help), or to revise this method or to criticize it, or to use it in their own work will find this collection invaluable.

Book Muslim Turkistan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bruce Privratsky
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2013-11-19
  • ISBN : 1136838244
  • Pages : 356 pages

Download or read book Muslim Turkistan written by Bruce Privratsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ethnography of Muslim life among the Kazaks of Central Asia describes the sacralisation of land and ethnic identity, local understanding of Islamic purity, the Kazak ancestor cult and domestic spirituality, and pilgrimage to the tombs of Sufi saints.

Book Managing Frontiers in Qing China

Download or read book Managing Frontiers in Qing China written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Managing Frontiers in Qing China, historians and anthropologists explore China's imperial expansion in Inner Asia, focusing on early Qing empire-building in Mongolia, Xinjiang, Tibet, and beyond – Central Asian perspectives and comparisons to Russia's Asian empire are included. Taking an institutional-historical and historical-anthropological approach, the essays engage with two Qing agencies well-known for their governance of non-Han groups: the Lifanyuan and Libu. This volume offers a comprehensive overview of the Lifanyuan and Libu, revising and assessing the state of affairs in the under-researched field of these two institutions. The contributors explore the imperial policies towards and the shifting classifications of minority groups in the Qing Empire, explicitly pairing and comparing the Lifanyuan and Libu as in some sense cognate agencies. This text offers insight into how China's past has continued to inform its modern policies, as well as the geopolitical make-up of East Asia and beyond. Contributors include: Uradyn E. Bulag, Chia Ning, Pamela Kyle Crossley, Nicola DiCosmo, Dorothea Heuschert-Laage, Laura Hostetler, Fabienne Jagou, Mei-hua Lan, Dittmar Schorkowitz, Song Tong, Michael Weiers,Ye Baichuan, Yuan Jian, Zhang Yongjiang.