Author : Edward Sapir
Publisher :
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 46,75 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Anthropological linguistics
ISBN :
Author : Rose Arny
Publisher :
Page : 1802 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
ISBN :
Author : Victor Witter Turner
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 11,34 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780252012495
Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative, literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and philosophers.
Author : Robert E. MacLaury
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 507 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9027291705
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the exploration of the different but interacting and complementary ways in which these various perspectives model the domain of color experience. By so doing, they significantly promote the emergence of a coherent field of the anthropology of color. As of February 2018, this e-book is freely available, thanks to the support of libraries working with Knowledge Unlatched.
Author : Alwin Fill
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,13 MB
Release : 2006-05-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1847140831
Thirty years ago a new linguistic paradigm was created when Einar Haugen combined language with ecology. For Haugen, 'the ecology of language' meant the study of the interrelations between languages in the human mind and in the multilingual community. Since then a special branch of linguistics, named Ecolinguistics, has developed in which the connection between language and ecology has been established in a variety of ways and using a multitude of methods and approaches. In addition to the original ecolinguistic topics of language interrelation, language endangerment and language pressure, Ecolinguistics Reader also gives due consideration to the themes of biological and linguistic diversity as well as the ecocritical aspect.
Author : David E. Ruppert
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 22,69 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Hualapai Indians
ISBN :
Author : Paul A. Erickson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 18,53 MB
Release : 2013-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442606614
In the latest edition of their popular overview text, Erickson and Murphy continue to provide a comprehensive, affordable, and accessible introduction to anthropological theory from antiquity to the present. A new section on twenty-first-century anthropological theory has been added, with more coverage given to postcolonialism, non-Western anthropology, and public anthropology. The book has also been redesigned to be more visually and pedagogically engaging. Used on its own, or paired with the companion volume Readings for a History of Anthropological Theory, Fourth Edition, this reader offers a flexible and highly useful resource for the undergraduate anthropology classroom. For additional resources, visit the "Teaching Theory" page at www.utpteachingculture.com.
Author : Thomas Biolsi
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 31,60 MB
Release : 2008-03-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1405182881
This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to this point. Surveys the full range of American Indian anthropology: from ecological and political-economic questions to topics concerning religion, language, and expressive culture Each chapter provides definitive coverage of its topic, as well as situating ethnographic and ethnohistorical data into larger frameworks Explores anthropology’s contribution to knowledge, its historic and ongoing complicities with colonialism, and its political and ethical obligations toward the people 'studied'
Author : Alice Shepherd
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,51 MB
Release : 2006-01-13
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0520098528
This volume represents a reconstruction of Proto-Wintun, the parent language of a group of California Indian languages. It includes a grammatical sketch of Proto-Wintun, cognate sets with reconstructions and an index to the reconstructions. The book fulfills a need for in-depth reconstructions of proto-languages for California Indian language families, both for theoretical purposes and deeper comparison with other proto- or pre-languages.
Author : Kathryn Klein
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0892363819
Housed in the former 16th-century convent of Santo Domingo church, now the Regional Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico, is an important collection of textiles representing the area’s indigenous cultures. The collection includes a wealth of exquisitely made traditional weavings, many that are now considered rare. The Unbroken Thread: Conserving the Textile Traditions of Oaxaca details a joint project of the Getty Conservation Institute and the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) of Mexico to conserve the collection and to document current use of textile traditions in daily life and ceremony. The book contains 145 color photographs of the valuable textiles in the collection, as well as images of local weavers and project participants at work. Subjects include anthropological research, ancient and present-day weaving techniques, analyses of natural dyestuffs, and discussions of the ethical and practical considerations involved in working in Latin America to conserve the materials and practices of living cultures.
