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The Modern Anthropology of India
The Modern Anthropology of India is an accessible textbook providing a critical overview of the ethnographic work done in India since 1947. It assesses the history of research in each region and serves as a practical and comprehensive guide to the main themes dealt with by ethnographers. It highlights key analytical concepts and paradigms that came to be of relevance in particular regions in the recent history of research in India, and which possibly gained a pan-Indian or even trans-Indian significance. Structured according to the states of the Indian union, contributors raise several key questions, including: What themes were ethnographers interested in? What are the significant ethnograph...
The Creation of Inequality
Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.
A Mountain Oasis
In A Mountain Oasis, Susan York presents a richly illustrated socio-economic study of village life in Pakistan’s Yasin Valley, undertaken during one year spent living with a local family. It documents this dynamic agro-pastoral society at a time when few researchers were recording developments in these far-flung and difficult to reach mountain oases of the Hindukush. It is a record of a time when development interventions were in their beginnings, and before this area in Gilgit-Baltistan entered a crucial period of transformation. It provides solid comparative reference material for future research on this region, which is continuing to undergo challenging and complex changes.
Recent Research on Ladakh 4 & 5
The International Association for Ladakh Studies (IALS) was formed to provide contacts between all who are interested in the study of Ladakh to organise colloquia and to publish the proceedings and to issue a newsletter Ladakh Studies.
Viewpoints
Early in its history, anthropology was a visual as well as verbal discipline. But as time passed, visually oriented professionals became a minority among their colleagues, and most anthropologists used written words rather than audiovisual modes as their professional means of communication. Today, however, contemporary electronic and interactive media once more place visual anthropologists and anthropologically oriented artists within the mainstream. Digital media, small-sized and easy-to-use equipment, and the Internet, with its interactive and public forum websites, democratize roles once relegated to highly trained professionals alone. However, having access to a good set of tools does no...
Paideuma
Mitteilungen zur Kulturkunde.
Disappearing Peoples?
South and Central Asia is a region of extraordinary cultural and environmental diversity and home to nearly one-quarter of the earth's population. Among these diverse peoples are some whose ways of life are threatened by the accelerating assault of forces of change including environmental degradation, population growth, land loss, warfare, disease, and the penetration of global markets. This volume examines twelve Asian groups whose way of life is endangered. Some are "indigenous" peoples, some are not; each group represents a unique answer to the question of how to survive and thrive on the planet earth, and illustrates both the threats and the responses of peoples caught up in the struggle...
Burushaski-Texte aus Hispar
Das mittelalterliche Wehrdorf Hispar, dem diese Monographie gewidmet ist, liegt auf einem Schwemmfacher in 3100 m Hohe zwischen zwei gewaltigen Gletschern, umgeben von den bis 7000 Metern emporragenden Gipfeln des Karakorums, im kulturellen und geologischen Grenzbereich zwischen Zentral und Sudasien. Aufgrund der Abgeschiedenheit und Unzuganglichkeit hat sich hier bis heute ein archaisches Weltbild erhalten, das in der rund 100 km sudlich und 2000 Meter tiefer gelegenen Provinzstadt Gilgit langst in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Die Bewohner von Hispar sind seit etwa 300 Jahren Anhanger des Zwolferschiismus, ihre Sprache ist der NagerDialekt des geheimnisvollen Burushaski, dem eine Verwandtscha...
