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American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment
edited by Robert C. Kiste, fl. 1978 and Mac Marshall, 1943- (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1999, originally published 1999), 656 page(s)
American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself.
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edited by Robert C. Kiste, fl. 1978 and Mac Marshall, 1943- (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1999, originally published 1999), 656 page(s)
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American Anthropology in Micronesia: An Assessment evaluates how anthropological research in the Trust Territory has affected the Micronesian people, the U.S. colonial administration, and the discipline of anthropology itself.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Robert C. Kiste, fl. 1978, Mac Marshall, 1943-
Date Published / Released
1999
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Topic / Theme
Cultural change and history, Cultural adaptation, Cultural anthropology, Americans, Micronesians
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Copyright ©1999 by University of Hawaii Press
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Anuta: Polynesian Lifeways for the Twenty-First Century
written by Richard Feinberg (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2004, originally published 2004), 268 page(s)
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written by Richard Feinberg (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 2004, originally published 2004), 268 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Richard Feinberg
Author / Creator
Richard Feinberg
Date Published / Released
2004
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
Anutan, Field work for anthropology, Uncertainty, Domestic life, Marriage, Family descent, Kinship nomenclature, Clans, Communities, Chieftains, Family, Anutans
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Copyright © 2004 by Waveland Press
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The Ax Fight
written by Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 30 mins
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties wi...
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written by Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; directed by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-; produced by Timothy Asch, 1932-1994 and Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938- (Watertown, MA: Documentary Educational Resources (DER), 1975), 30 mins
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A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in...
A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. A fight broke out in Mishimishimabowei-teri on the second day of Chagnon and Asch's stay in this village in 1971. The conflict developed between the villagers of Mishimishimabowei-teri and their visitors from another village. The visitors had formerly been part of Mishimishimabowei-teri, and many still had ties with members of that village. They refused to work in their hosts' gardens, yet they demanded to be fed. The event lasted about half an hour, ten minutes of which were filmed. The film is constructed of four parts. The first consists of an unedited version of what the cameraman saw and the sound technician recorded. The apparent chaos of these first ten minutes is clarified in the second section, in which Chagnon explains the sequence of actions, the relationships between the actors, and how the filmmakers' interpretation of the events became coherent. The third section diagrams the lineages in the villages involved to illustrate the fight's relationship to long-standing patterns of conflict and alliance within the village. Finally, in an edited version of the fight, we see how the editors' hands shape the "reality" we view. The Ax Fight thus operates on several levels. It plunges the viewer into the problems of Yanomamo kinship, alliance, and village fission; of violence and conflict resolution. At the same time it raises questions about how anthropologists and filmmakers translate their experience into meaningful words and coherent, moving images.
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Date Written / Recorded
1971-02-28
Field of Study
Politics & Current Affairs
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Timothy Asch, 1932-1994, Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, Craig Johnson
Author / Creator
Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-, Timothy Asch, 1932-1994
Date Published / Released
1975
Publisher
Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
Speaker / Narrator
Napoleon A. Chagnon, 1938-
Topic / Theme
Yanomamö, Politics, Negotiation in government, Kin relationships, Violence, Cultural identity, Rural population, Tribal and national groups, Indigenous peoples, Ethnography, Yanomámi
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copyright © Documentary Educational Resources
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The Barabaig: East African Cattle Herders
written by George J. Klima (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1985, originally published 1970), 132 page(s)
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written by George J. Klima (Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, Inc., 1985, originally published 1970), 132 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
George J. Klima
Author / Creator
George J. Klima
Date Published / Released
1970, 1985
Publisher
Waveland Press, Inc.
Topic / Theme
Datooga, Cattle, Cultural views, Tribal and national groups, Agrarian life
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Copyright © 1985 by Waveland Press
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Chieftainship, Kinship, and the Kutu People, 1947
in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 19: Lozi Field Notes 1947, [Folder 1]) (1947) , 24 page(s)
Handwritten notes on lined paper containing information on chieftainship, Kutu people, wives, kinship, with the last several pages of notes crossed out.
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in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 19: Lozi Field Notes 1947, [Folder 1]) (1947) , 24 page(s)
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Handwritten notes on lined paper containing information on chieftainship, Kutu people, wives, kinship, with the last several pages of notes crossed out.
Date Written / Recorded
1947
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Author / Creator
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Topic / Theme
Tribal and national groups, Kinship nomenclature, Chieftains
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Material sourced from the Royal Anthropological Institute Archive. Copyright © 2016 by Royal Anthropological Institute
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Women of Fes: Ambiguities of Urban Life in Morocco
written by Rachel Newcomb, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 248 page(s)
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written by Rachel Newcomb, in Contemporary Ethnography (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009, originally published 2009), 248 page(s)
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Rachel Newcomb
Author / Creator
Rachel Newcomb
Date Published / Released
2009
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press
Series
Contemporary Ethnography
Topic / Theme
Moroccan, Women, Urban life, Gossip, Social reforms, Patriarchies, Kinship nomenclature, Singing, Communities, Ethnography, Moroccans
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Copyright © 2009 by University of Pennsylvania Press
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Cultural Identity and Ethnicity in the Pacific
edited by Lin Poyer, fl. 1990 and Jocelyn Linnekin, fl. 1990 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990, originally published 1990), 340 page(s)
Cultural Identity and Ethinicity in the Pacific contributes a cultural perspective to ongoing scholarly debates about the nature of ethinicity. By investigating the range of cultural identities found in the modern Pacific, the authors raise provocative questions about the applicability of ethnicity as a scholarly...
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edited by Lin Poyer, fl. 1990 and Jocelyn Linnekin, fl. 1990 (Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1990, originally published 1990), 340 page(s)
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Cultural Identity and Ethinicity in the Pacific contributes a cultural perspective to ongoing scholarly debates about the nature of ethinicity. By investigating the range of cultural identities found in the modern Pacific, the authors raise provocative questions about the applicability of ethnicity as a scholarly concept.
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Ethnography
Contributor
Lin Poyer, fl. 1990, Jocelyn Linnekin, fl. 1990
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Topic / Theme
Societal structure, Racial identity, Cultural identity, Race and culture, Revitalization and ethnogenesis, Pacific Islanders
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Copyright ©1990 by University of Hawaii Press
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Disappearing World, The Kalasha: Rites of Spring
directed by John Sheppard; produced by John Sheppard, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1990), 54 mins
The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic.
Joshi, their three day festival of song and dance, rituals and sacrifice and the re-telling of...
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directed by John Sheppard; produced by John Sheppard, in Disappearing World (London, England: Royal Anthropological Institute, 1990), 54 mins
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The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic.
Joshi, their three day festival of song and dance, rituals and sacrifice and the re-telling of legends celebrates the coming of spring and encourages chivalrous romance between the sexes. All this provides a colourful focus for...
The Kalasha are a tribal people, 3,000 strong, who live in the high valleys of the Hindu Kush mountains in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The Kalasha are unique as a pagan people in this Islamic Republic.
Joshi, their three day festival of song and dance, rituals and sacrifice and the re-telling of legends celebrates the coming of spring and encourages chivalrous romance between the sexes. All this provides a colourful focus for this film which explores the life and customs of the Kalasha. Before the menfolk depart to the high mountain pastures for the goats’ summer grazing they present the women with goats’ milk and bread that has been ritually purified. The women sing their thanks, praise and food and clamour for more. Whilst the men are away, the women stay in the narrow valleys, tending their tiny terraced fields of wheat, maize and millet. The Kalasha are worried that their way of life is under threat. The naively mortgaged land and walnut trees to their Chitrali Muslim neighbours, often in exchange for paltry loands. The Chitralis now covet the profits to be made from exploiting the cedar and holm oak which grow in the Kalasha valleys. The Pakistan government is aware of the problems and would like to safeguard the Kalashas’ existence as a flourishing minority culture and tourist industry. But a future as a ‘zoo people’ within a tourist park does not appeal to the Kalasha. They are happy to welcome tourists at their festivities and they appreciate interest in their customs, but they are pragmatic about its value to them.
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Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Documentary
Contributor
Peter Parkes, fl. 1990, John Sheppard
Author / Creator
John Sheppard, Peter Parkes, fl. 1990
Date Published / Released
1990
Publisher
Royal Anthropological Institute
Series
Disappearing World
Topic / Theme
Kalasha, Asian ethnic groups, Religious festivals, Kin groups, Elopement, Tribal and national groups, Indigenous peoples, Inuit
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Copyright © 1990 by the Royal Anthropological Institute
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Handwritten Field Notes
in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 8: Lozi Notes and Notebooks, [Folder 1]) (1940) , 12 page(s)
Date 11.3.42. Handwritten notes showing kinship relationships.
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in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box 8: Lozi Notes and Notebooks, [Folder 1]) (1940) , 12 page(s)
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Date 11.3.42. Handwritten notes showing kinship relationships.
Date Written / Recorded
1940
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Author / Creator
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Topic / Theme
Family organization, Family lineages, Lozi
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Material sourced from the Royal Anthropological Institute Archive. Copyright © 2016 by Royal Anthropological Institute
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Handwritten field notes about community kin relations
in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box K: Zulu Small Notebooks, [Folder 6]) (1936) , 45 page(s)
Forty-five pages of handwritten text. The front page is dated November 16, 1936. Most of the material contains notes on family and kin relations in a community.
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in Max Gluckman Papers, of Royal Anthropological Institute. Archives and Manuscripts (Box K: Zulu Small Notebooks, [Folder 6]) (1936) , 45 page(s)
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Forty-five pages of handwritten text. The front page is dated November 16, 1936. Most of the material contains notes on family and kin relations in a community.
Date Written / Recorded
1936
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Field notes
Contributor
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Author / Creator
Max Gluckman, 1911-1975
Topic / Theme
Family organization, Kin relationships
Copyright Message
Material sourced from the Royal Anthropological Institute Archive. Copyright © 2016 by Royal Anthropological Institute
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