Literature in Malay by the Chinese of Indonesia: A provisional annotated bibliography (Etudes insulindiennes-Archipel)

Salmon, Claudine

Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme

Célébrer le pouvoir: Dasaĩ, une fête royale au Népal (Chemins de l'ethnologie) (French Edition)

History

Krauskopff, Gisèle

Asia

Affect and Social Behavior (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Affect and social behavior (Studies in emotion and social interaction)

Rudolf M. Braun

This 1991 book addresses the question of stability and change in our concepts of ourselves. The self is described as part of an ecological system, seen as a conjunction of other people, environments and objects. These serve as the sources and settings, instruments and symbols of social experience. The external elements of the ecological system are reflected in self-related cognitions: so long as the ecology of the self is stable, the self-concept will likewise achieve stability. Self-concept change, therefore, can be studied from the point of view of change in the relationship between person and environment. Using a multi-method, multi-study approach, Stefan Hormuth takes relocation as his paradigm for assessing the meaning of the physical environment for the self-concept and everyday social behaviour. This book presents results from an original and important research programme which is innovative both theoretically and methodologically.

The ecology of the self: Relocation and self-concept change (European monographs in social psychology)

Reference

Hormuth, Stefan E.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Industrialisation and Everyday Life

Industrialisation and everyday life

Braun, Rudolf

In this detailed study Simha Arom takes a new and original approach to the understanding of the complex and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm that characterise African music. Considering in particular the harp, sanza, xylophone and percussion music of Central Africa, Simha Arom develops a rigorous method for the analysis of the music and for the recording and deciphering of the many strands of polyphony and polyrhythm. Through a systematic breakdown of the many layers of apparently improvised rhythm he reveals the essential structure which underlies this rich and complex music. Inspired also by linguistic techniques, Professor Arom regards the music very much as a grammatical system.

African polyphony and polyrhythm: Musical structure and methodology

Arts & Photography

Arom, Simha

Music

The Social Psychology of Minority Influence (European Monographs in Social Psychology)

This book, first published in 1987, looks at the processes and spread of social innovation: the mechanisms of this innovation are rooted in the conflict that minorities are capable of creating in others and introducing into the social system. These innovations give rise to rejection, discrimination and denial of the minority group. However, minority ideas take root and gradually new norms replace the old ones. Despite the denial, therefore, the marginal standpoint of minority groups can have an impact on the belief systems and behaviour patterns of other individuals. This book proposes a psychosociological explanation of these individual and collective phenomena by articulating the underlying identification games and cognitive activities. It throws fresh light not only on minority influence, but also on major themes of social psychology, especially theories of intergroup conflict, persuasion and attitude change. Based upon a series of experiments which have been developed and refined for the 1991 English edition, this is a rigourous and valuable contribution to the study of minority influence on social processes.

The social psychology of minority influence (European monographs in social psychology)

Mugny, Gabriel

Gestures and Speech: Psychological Investigations (Studies in Emotion and Social Interaction)

Why do people gesture while speaking?  What role does this activity play in verbal exchanges?  Which kind of relationship does it exhibit between the verbal and the gestural domains?  This book attempts to answer these questions by surveying research on gestures done from various perspectives: psycho- and sociolinguistics, ethology, social, cognitive, and developmental psychology, and neuropsychology.  This large coverage makes it unique in the field.  Furthermore, the delineation of several approaches to the topic yields a clearer picture of their respective contributions than a commitment to a single view.

Gestures and speech: Psychological investigations (Studies in emotion and social interaction)

Feyereisen, Pierre

Against capitalism (Studies in Marxism and social theory)

Business & Money

Schweickart, David

Economics

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