Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 41,95 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136538089
Recognized as a major work when first published, this title has, over the years, become a classic. Forming the basis of modern social anthropology, We the Tikiopia stands in the forefront of its literature. The book is an excellent example of fieldwork analysis of a primitive society; a complete account of the working of a primitive kinship system; and an exhaustive and sophisticated study of Polynesian social institutions. First published in 1936.
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher :
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 45,84 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Music
ISBN :
This book shows how the poetry and music of a Polynesian people, the Tikopia, can have an intimate relation with their social life.
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780415128964
Treats religion as a human art, capable of great intellectual and artistic achievements.
Author : Jared Diamond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 11,2 MB
Release : 2013-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0141976969
From the author of Guns, Germs and Steel, Jared Diamond's Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive is a visionary study of the mysterious downfall of past civilizations. Now in a revised edition with a new afterword, Jared Diamond's Collapse uncovers the secret behind why some societies flourish, while others founder - and what this means for our future. What happened to the people who made the forlorn long-abandoned statues of Easter Island? What happened to the architects of the crumbling Maya pyramids? Will we go the same way, our skyscrapers one day standing derelict and overgrown like the temples at Angkor Wat? Bringing together new evidence from a startling range of sources and piecing together the myriad influences, from climate to culture, that make societies self-destruct, Jared Diamond's Collapse also shows how - unlike our ancestors - we can benefit from our knowledge of the past and learn to be survivors. 'A grand sweep from a master storyteller of the human race' - Daily Mail 'Riveting, superb, terrifying' - Observer 'Gripping ... the book fulfils its huge ambition, and Diamond is the only man who could have written it' - Economis 'This book shines like all Diamond's work' - Sunday Times
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 23,32 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Economic anthropology
ISBN : 9780393007749
"Primitive Polynesian Economy is one of the first serious attempts to apply the concepts of modern economic theory to the institutions of a primitive community, studied by anthropological field methods. In the small Polynesian island of Tikopia, Raymond Firth was able in the course of a year to observe and analyze in remarkable detail the economic transactions of the thirteen hundred inhabitants of a primitive peasant economy of agriculturalists and fishermen. For the second edition, he has written a new chapter discussing the changes that have taken place since the book was first published.
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 36,97 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780415330190
The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. It concentrates on transactions that both express and influence social relationships and values. Covering a wide geographic area there are specific studies on societies in Equatorial Africa, Colombia, South India and the Balkans. First published in 1967.
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Wellington, N.Z. : Polynesian Society
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,64 MB
Release : 1961
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Author : Raymond Firth
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 26,75 MB
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 1000324516
In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years. All these essays relate in different ways to his continuing interest in the study of social process, especially in the significance within a social context of individual choice and decision. Although some specialist studies are included, e.g. the group of papers dealing with the Polynesian island of Tikopia, the main themes of the book are broad ones and there are important general essays on such topics as social change; social structure and organization; modern society in relation to scientific and technological progress; and the study of values, mysticism, and religion by anthropologists. There is also a hitherto unpublished chapter on anthropology as a developing science.
Author : Donald R. DeGlopper
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,2 MB
Release : 1995-10-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780791426906
An anthropological study of the social organization and local history in Lukang, a city in Taiwan.
Author : David Lewis
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 33,90 MB
Release : 1994-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824815820
This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.
