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The Cultural Analysis of Kinship
In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider rocked the anthropological world with his announcement that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides a critical assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his contributions to kinship studies and the implications of his work for cultural relativism. Schneider's deconstruction of kinship as a cultural system sounded the death knell for a certain kind of kinship study. At the same time, it laid the groundwork for the re-emergence of kinship studies as a centerpiece of anthropological theory and practice. Now a mainstay of cultural studies, Schneider's conception of cultural relativism revolutionized thinki...
Ecstasy, Ritual, and Alternate Reality
A cross-disciplinary exploration of comparative religion that offers a “unified field theory” of religion as human behavior. In this book, anthropologist and spiritual explorer Felicitas Goodman examines ritual, the religious trance, alternate reality, ethics and moral code, and the named category designating religion. The analysis is divided into two sections. The first reviews species-wide human traits that form the basis for religious behavior. Goodman, in speculative examination, traces the origins of religion to the dawn of human history, when religious ritual was accompanied by gesture rather than full-fledged modern speech. Ritual is seen as being the expression of the vastness of...
Game of Love
The Game of Love tells the story of freedom struggles of Sikhs throughout history. In the fifteenth century, the first Sikh Guru, Guru Nanak started the revolution of standing up against tyranny and oppression. Sikhs have carried on this tradition to the present day. In the post 9/11 world, the word of the Tenth Guru, Guru Gobind Singh resonate, "When all peaceful means have been exhausted it is just to draw the sword." The Game of Love describes the tears, torture and sacrifices of Sikhs. The readers will decide if these warriors are termed freedom fighters, insurgents, militants, revolutionaries or Saints. This edition is updated with new content and design.
Reflections on 1984
In 1984 the Indian Government attacked the holiest shrine of the Sikhs in Amritsar, commonly known as the Golden Temple (Harmander Sahib) on the pre-text of flushing out terrorists. 30 years later this attack on the faith & nationhood of the Sikhs still brings up painful memories of murder, terrorism and genocide. In light of newly disclosed documents by the British Government, many questions remain unanswered for the Sikh community about the events prior to and after Operation Blue Star (the Indian Army s attack on the Sikh s holiest shrine in Amritsar). The aim of the book is to explore the events leading up to 1984 and to analyse the pursuit of truth, justice and liberty, for Sikhs in India and the diaspora. The book follows a narrative which is historical and topical, bringing current issues of Sikhs and Punjabi's into the discussion. There is also a focus on Sikhs in the diaspora and current Sikh agitations for justice.
A Hopi Social History
“Incorporate[s] a multitude of theoretical approaches about Hopi sociological life . . . Ranging from prehistoric times until contemporary times.” —Indigenous Nations Studies Journal All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi Social History explores these basic questions in a unique way. The discussion is constructed around a historically ordered series of case studies from a single sociocultural system (the Hopi) in order to unders...
Kinship and Urbanization
Case study illustrating urbanization and social structure in two middle class neighbourhoods (composed of families who previously experienced rural migration) in the meerut urban area in North India - studies the social and cultural anthropology of the urbanizing migrant community, and concludes that, while there is a pattern of gradual social change, there is little support for the notion that the Indian family is disintegrating. Bibliography pp. 208 to 216, diagrams and statistical tables.
The Right Kind of Revolution
After World War II, a powerful conviction took hold among American intellectuals and policymakers: that the United States could profoundly accelerate and ultimately direct the development of the decolonizing world, serving as a modernizing force around the globe. By accelerating economic growth, promoting agricultural expansion, and encouraging the rise of enlightened elites, they hoped to link development with security, preventing revolutions and rapidly creating liberal, capitalist states. In The Right Kind of Revolution, Michael E. Latham explores the role of modernization and development in U.S. foreign policy from the early Cold War through the present. The modernization project rarely ...
Special Issue
In this latest edition of this highly successful research series, chapters explore expert witnessing in asylum cases. Topics include: judicial ethnocentrism, political asylum, race identity and cultural defense.
Handbook of Archaeological Methods
The Handbook of Archaeological Methods comprises 37 articles by leading archaeologists on the key methods used by archaeologists in the field, in analysis, in theory building, and in managing cultural resources. The book is destined to become the key reference work for archaeologists and their advanced students on contemporary archaeological methods.
