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The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier's Work in Context

By: Laurent Dousset,Serge Tcherkézoff

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The Scope of Anthropology

Maurice Godelier's Work in Context

By: Laurent Dousset,Serge Tcherkézoff

Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier's work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature-culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the Christianization of indigenous peoples, these chapters demonstrate both the diversity of anthropological topics and the opportunity for constructive dialogue around shared methodological and theoretical models.

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Berghahn Books

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0857453319

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9780857453310

Kinship, Ecology and History

Renewal of Conjunctures

By: Laurent Dousset,Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret

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Kinship, Ecology and History

Renewal of Conjunctures

By: Laurent Dousset,Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret

The analysis of kinship plays a major role in social anthropology. However, the intellectual triumph of structuralism has transformed this analysis into an ivory tower and the methodological hegemony of functionalism inhibits any historical authority. Kinship, Ecology and History informs the reader of these old, yet long-lasting issues. By presenting new, original perspectives, this book reinvents the manner in which we can study kinship. It also examines ecology and history as a conjectural reflection, which make up the foundations on which human kinship can be reflected upon. Whether human kinship is understood in the form of systematics models or as articulated practices, it has to be conceived as a strategic means for modes of action and of transformation of life in society. The three case studies presented in this book give body to new issues. They deconstruct the existing models in order to re-establish kinship as a condition and consequence of social evolution.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1786304449

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9781786304445

Cataclysms

An Environmental History of Humanity

By: Laurent Testot

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Cataclysms

An Environmental History of Humanity

By: Laurent Testot

Humanity is by many measures the biggest success story in the animal kingdom; but what are the costs of this triumph? Over its three million years of existence, the human species has continuously modified nature and drained its resources. In Cataclysms, Laurent Testot provides the full tally, offering a comprehensive environmental history of humanity’s unmatched and perhaps irreversible influence on the world. Testot explores the interconnected histories of human evolution and planetary deterioration, arguing that our development from naked apes to Homo sapiens has entailed wide-scale environmental harm. Testot makes the case that humans have usually been catastrophic for the planet, “hyperpredators” responsible for mass extinctions, deforestation, global warming, ocean acidification, and unchecked pollution, as well as the slaughter of our own species. Organized chronologically around seven technological revolutions, Cataclysms unspools the intertwined saga of humanity and our environment, from our shy beginnings in Africa to today’s domination of the planet, revealing how we have blown past any limits along the way—whether by exploding our own population numbers, domesticating countless other species, or harnessing energy from fossils. Testot’s book, while sweeping, is light and approachable, telling the stories—sometimes rambunctious, sometimes appalling—of how a glorified monkey transformed its own environment beyond all recognition. In order to begin reversing our environmental disaster, we must have a better understanding of our own past and the incalculable environmental costs incurred at every stage of human innovation. Cataclysms offers that understanding and the hope that we can now begin to reform our relationship to the Earth.

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University of Chicago Press

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022660926X

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9780226609263

Kinship, Ecology and History

Renewal of Conjunctures

By: Laurent Dousset,Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret

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Renewal of Conjunctures

By: Laurent Dousset,Sejin Park,Georges Guille-Escuret

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Ded Seremoni long Malekula (b/w)

By: Laurent Dousset,Alice Servy,Marcellin Abong

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Ded Seremoni long Malekula (b/w)

By: Laurent Dousset,Alice Servy,Marcellin Abong

THE FUNERARY RITUAL that took place in September 1974 in a village called Lendombwey, in the centre-south of Malekula in Vanuatu, was exceptional for the number of defunct men to which it was destined and for the quality of the artefacts that were prepared for that occasion, and particularly the seven mortuary effigies called Rambaramp. Organized by one of the Small Nambas groups, the Mbotgote, it was with great probability the last such ritual organized on the island of Malekula, and hence among the last Rambaramp crafted in situation. These objects, which are of great cultural and anthropological significance, are still today among the most cherished worldwide by museums. The exhibition "Funerals in Malekula, Georges Liotard (1974)", organized by the Vanuatu Cultural Centre and the Centre for Research and Documentation on Oceania in July 2012 retraces the important stages of this ritual and presents the artefacts that were crafted for that occasion.

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Lulu.com

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1326422537

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The Scope of Anthropology

The Scope of Anthropology

Kinship, Ecology and History

Kinship, Ecology and History

Cataclysms

Cataclysms

Kinship, Ecology and History

Kinship, Ecology and History

Ded Seremoni long Malekula (b/w)

Ded Seremoni long Malekula (b/w)

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