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Shamanic Worlds

Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

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Shamanic Worlds

Rituals and Lore of Siberia and Central Asia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

The ancient heartland of shamanism is no longer forbidden territory - to travelers or to the spirits. But the spirits never left the vastnesses of Siberia and Central Asia, as these writings reveal. Russian and native experts, and an American cultural anthropologist who has done fieldwork in the region, introduce us to shamans as the poets, therapists, healers, and even leaders of their communities. Among the special features of this collection are remarkable transcriptions of shamanic exhortations and a pathbreaking study of shamanic tales and rituals.

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Routledge

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1315487314

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9781315487311

Shamanism

Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

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Shamanism

Soviet Studies of Traditional Religion in Siberia and Central Asia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Addresses the most important theoretical and practical problems underlying public budgeting. This anthology is organized topically rather than historically, with an effort to delineate the issues needed to understand some of the controversies in the field. It describes what public budgeting is, where it comes from, and what it is for.

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257

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Routledge

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1315487233

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9781315487236

The Tenacity of Ethnicity

A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

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The Tenacity of Ethnicity

A Siberian Saga in Global Perspective

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although First Nations, indigenous peoples, have often been victims of expansionist state-building, Balzer shows that processes of acquiring ethnic identity can involve transcending victimhood. She brings Khanty views of their history and current life into focus, revealing multiple levels of cultural activism. She argues that anthropological theory and practice can derive from indigenous insights, and should help indigenous peoples. Balzer brings to life the saga of the Khanty over several centuries. She analyzes trends in Siberian ethnic interaction that strongly affected minority lives: colonization, Christianization, revitalization, Sovietization, and regionalization. These processes incorporate suprastate and state politics, including recent devastations stemming from the energy industry's land thefts. Balzer documents changes that might seem to foreshadow the demise of indigenous ethnicity. Yet the final chapters reveal ways some Khanty have preserved cultural values and dignity in crisis. Khanty identity has varied with the politics of individuals, groups, and generations. It has been shaped by recent grass-roots mobilization, ecological activism, and religious revival, as well as older historical memory, language-based solidarity, and loyalty to a homeland. The Tenacity of Ethnicity demonstrates how at each historical turn, Siberian experiences shed new light on old debates concerning colonialism, conversion, revitalization, ethnicity, and nationalism. This volume will be important for political scientists, historians, and regional specialists, as well as anthropologists and sociologists.

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343

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Princeton University Press

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0691228116

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9780691228112

Russian Traditional Culture

Religion, Gender and Customary Law

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer,Ronald Radzai

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Russian Traditional Culture

Religion, Gender and Customary Law

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer,Ronald Radzai

The resurgence of national and historical awareness among the people of what was once the USSR has been nowhere stronger than among the Russians themselves. Some of the larger projects of rediscovery amount to a reinterpretation of traditional culture. This carefully annotated collection of recent studies of Russian folk religion, village organization and family life, including the rituals associated with childbirth, special attention to women's roles and to the specificity of Siberia in Russian culture, will be a revelation to a wide array of readers. It is intended for use not only in anthropology departments but more widely interdisciplinary courses in Russian studies, peasant studies and women's studies.

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402

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Routledge

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1315288435

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9781315288437

Safer Childbirth?

A critical history of maternity care

By: Marjorie Tew

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Safer Childbirth?

A critical history of maternity care

By: Marjorie Tew

In all industrialized countries, the last fifty years have seen both a momentaus improvement in the safety of childbirth and the completion of a momentaus revolution in maternity care, with the philosophy and methods of the obstetric profession triumphant. This book tells the story of how these changes came about. lt is a story urgently in need of telling, for the subject is one about which there is almost universal misunderstanding. Far from being a record of conquering idealism, the realization of an advance in human welfare through the application of scientific knowledge to improve the natural process of birth by an altruistic profession with good reason to believe in the rightness of its methods, it turns out to be a record of the successful denial and concealment of extensive and unanimous evidence that obstetric inter vention only rarely improves the natural process. The evidence is found in the impartial statistical analyses of the actual results of care, which show consistently that birth is the safer, the less its process is interfered with. The findings of statistics are in complete accord with the expectations of biology and are in turn impressively supported by the observations of critical obstetricians, evaluating parti cular practices. Who should teil the story and present the accumulated evidence? lt might be difficult for any obstetrician to cast aside his or her loyalty to the profession and provide a dispassionate account of the whole picture.

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326

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Springer

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1489929754

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Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia

Native Anthropology from Russia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

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Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia

Native Anthropology from Russia

By: Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer

This collection of studies uses the processes of analysis and self-analysis to examine the social, political and spiritual forces at work in the post-Soviet world. The text includes discussions of ethnohistory, political anthropology and ethnic conflict, and symbolic anthropology.

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370

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Routledge

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1315482231

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Insect Molecular Genetics

An Introduction to Principles and Applications

By: Marjorie A. Hoy

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Insect Molecular Genetics

An Introduction to Principles and Applications

By: Marjorie A. Hoy

Developed as an introduction to new molecular genetic techniques, Insect Molecular Genetics also provides literature, terminology, and additional sources of information to students, researchers, and professional entomologists. Although most molecular genetics studies have employed Drosophila, this book applies the same techniques to other insects, including pest insects of economic importance. As a text, as a reference, as a primer, and as a review of a vast and growing literature, Insect Molecular Genetics is a valuable addition to the libraries of entomologists, geneticists, and molecular biologists. - Features offered by this unique reference source: Detailed illustrations - Suggested readings at the end of each chapter - Glossary of molecular genetic terms

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Elsevier

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1483293718

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9781483293714

For the Love of Children

A Story of the Poor Children of Sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes

By: Marjorie P. Dunn

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For the Love of Children

A Story of the Poor Children of Sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes

By: Marjorie P. Dunn

A story of the poor children of Sheffield and of Fulwood Cottage Homes" --Cover.

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Shamanic Worlds

Shamanic Worlds

Shamanism

Shamanism

The Tenacity of Ethnicity

The Tenacity of Ethnicity

Russian Traditional Culture

Russian Traditional Culture

Safer Childbirth?

Safer Childbirth?

Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia

Culture Incarnate: Native Anthropology from Russia

Insect Molecular Genetics

Insect Molecular Genetics

For the Love of Children

For the Love of Children

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