Southwestern Indian Baskets: Their History and Their Makers

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Andrew Hunter Whiteford

Crafts & Hobbies

SAR Press

The Information Continuum creates a synthetic view of the evolution of communication among primates. King contends that the crucial element in the evolution of information acquisition and transfer is the acquired ability to donate information to others.

The Information Continuum: Evolution of Social Information Transfer in Monkeys, Apes, and Hominids

Politics & Social Sciences

Barbara J. King

Social Sciences

<p>Anthropologist are in a funk these days: other fields, such as history and literary studies, are having a heyday with concepts anthropologists developed but have since discredited, and postmodernists just jeer at what they actually do believe in. Ten essays suggest remedies such as throwing everything out and starting over, limiting their study to the American middle-class, and undertaking an "archaeology" (or perhaps psychoanalysis) of the discipline. Paper edition (unseen), $15.95. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.</p>

Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present (Advanced Seminar Series)

Lila Abu-Lughod

Paul Rabinow

Sherry B. Ortner

GRAHAM WATSON

Richard G. Fox

Arjun Appadurai

Jose F. Limon

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Joan Vincent

Anthropology

The Manchester Muslim diaspora features an intense local micro-politics of honor and shame, debated in the globalized language of world affairs and dramatically enacted through public performance. Pnina Werbner reveals that Manchester Pakistanis occupy a locally created public space that appropriates and combines traveling ideas and images from a variety of sources into meaningful moral allegories. Living in the diaspora requires them constantly to negotiate the boundaries of minority citizenship. For Brisish Muslims this process--usually peaceful--has lurched from one confrontation to another: from the Rushdie affair to the Gulf War to the post-September 11 crisis. Each crisis has signaled a more mature grasp by diasporic Muslims of what it means to be a Brisish citizen in a global world.

Imagined Diasporas among Manchester Muslims: The Public Performance of Pakistani Transnational Identity Politics (World Anthropology)

Pnina Werbner

Modern Indian Kingship: Tradition, Legitimacy & Power in Rajasthan (World Anthropology)

The book is addressed to those interested in the culture and politics of present day India, and to those generally concerned with theories of kingship and ritual and the complex fate of postcolonial nation states.

History

Marzia Balzani

Asia

This work is a significant contribution to the study of kingship and the ritual process, two longstanding areas of anthropological debate both within and beyond South Asia. It is part of the growing literature on the general anthropology of colonialism and the contemporary politics and culture of postcolonial nation states. This book asks why the descendants of the royal elite have continued to enact and sustain these royal rites and ceremonies. Why do kingly rituals possess power and meaning for those who participate in them? Why have the maharajas initiated new rites which they have performed on a large scale at critical moments of crisis?

New insights from the Tikal excavations and epigraphic breakthroughs suggest that a thriving marketplace existed in the center of the city, that foreigners comprised a significant element of its populace, and that differences in tomb form and contents signal the changing fortunes of Tikal's rulers. Essay topics include the timing of the foundation of the Tikal dynasty, the earliest experiments in socio-political complexity, the 6th-7th century hiatus in monument erection, the reassertion of central authority around A.D. 700, and the complex causality behind the collapse and depopulation during the 9th century. Featuring some of the premiere specialists in the field as well as innovative new scholars, this volume promises to shape Tikal's interpretations and research agenda for decades to come.

Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, & Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

Jeremy A. Sabloff

Archaeology

Addresses enduring themes in Maya archaeology. Explores questions of broad interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, including state formation, architecture and space, and the relationship between history and archaeology. North America: School for Advanced Research Press

Copan : The History of an Ancient Maya Kingdom (School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series)

William L. Fash

E. Wyllys Andrews

West Nile is best known as the home of Uganda's notoriously violent dictator, Idi Amin. But the area's association with violence goes back much further, through the colonial era, when the district was significantly under-developed in comparison with most of Uganda, and to a pre-colonial past characterised by slave-raiding and ivory poaching.This book examines the relationships between these pasts and the present, between violence, narrative and memory in the former West Nile district. It draws on archival research and ethnographic fieldwork in the district capital, Arua town, during the late 1990s, when a low-intensity conflict between the government and local rebels became embroiled in wars spilling over from nearby borders with Sudan and the DRC.The book contributes to current debates in political anthropology on issues such as border areas, the local state, and the nature of the 'post-colonial'. It will be of interest to historians, political scientists, literary and cultural critics, and others working on questions of violence, narrative and memory.

Inside West Nile: Violence, History, and Representation on an African Frontier (World Anthropology)

Mark Leopold

Africa

In the Places of the Spirits

This book represents the culmination of David Grant Noble's forty-year career as a fine arts photographer and writer. It features seventy-six duotone plates and five additional photos of the land, people, and deep past of the Southwest, most published here for the first time. Accompanying these beautiful images are personal reflections interwoven with historical and anthropological information. The moving passages reveal much about both the man and the magnificent land that inspires his artistry. The places we know, Noble writes, can be infused with memory and spirit, and landscapes can have soul. The stories contained may speak of creation, gods, mythic monsters, and heroes. They may hold narratives reminding us of triumphs and defeats, sorrows and joys. A place is more than a landform or an ecosystem; it has the capacity to evoke emotion, transmit knowledge and wisdom, and even show people how to live. These photographs and words portray the land s soul, the artist s vision. Through them, the ancient landscapes and peoples of the Southwest tell their tales, display their beauty, remind us that we are only the most recent of many who have lived and been inspired here.

Arts & Photography

David Grant Noble

Photography & Video

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