Author: Andrew Gray
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: amazonian, peru, series, volume, arakmbut, community, spirituality, history, mythology
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 2004-02
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571818359
ISBN-13: 9781571818355

The Arakmbut are an indigenous people who live in the Madre de Dios region of thesoutheastern Peruvian rain forest. Since their first encounters with missionaries in the 1950s,they have shown resilience and a determination to affirm their identity in the face of many difficulties. During the last fifteen years, Arakmbut survival has been under threat from a goldrush that has attracted hundreds of colonists onto their territories. This trilogy of books traces the ways in which the Arakmbut overcome the dangers that surround them: their mythology and cultural strength; their social flexibility;

Author: Jacqueline Solway
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: history, anthropology, methodology, practice, egalitarianism, theory, politics
Number of Pages: 260
Published: 2006-03
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 1845451155
ISBN-13: 9781845451158

This collection of essays, written in honor of prominent anthropologist Richard B Lee, defines a range of persistent problems that deeply affect the majority of the world’s cultures. Lee remains at the forefront of anthropologists concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of indigenous rights, the impact of colonialism and post colonial state formation on local communities and cultures, how and why cultures change, what the history and politics of egalitarian societies reveal about issues of ’human nature’ or ’social evolution,’ and how various peoples a

Authors:Ewa Mazierska, Elzbieta Ostrowska,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: cinema, polish, women
Number of Pages: 244
Published: 2006-03
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571819487
ISBN-13: 9781571819482

Polish film has long enjoyed an outstanding reputation but its best known protagonists tend to be male. This book points to the important role of women as key characters in Polish films, such as the enduring female figure in Polish culture, the "Polish Mother," female characters in socialist realistic cinema, women depicted in the films of the Polish School, Solidarity heroines, and women in the films from the postcommunist period. Not less important for the success of Polish cinema are Polish women filmmakers, four of whom are presented in this volume: Wanda Jakubowska, Agnieszka Holland, Bar

Author: Ian H. Birchall
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: french, studies, monographs, berghahn, stalinism, sartre
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-04
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1571815422
ISBN-13: 9781571815422

Most critics of the political evolution of Jean-Paul Sartre have laid emphasis on his allegedly sympathetic attitude to Stalinist Communism. This defense of Sartre shows his increasing involvement in the politics of the Left. Though he always distrusted Stalinism, he was sometimes driven to ally himself with it because of the force of its argument.

Author: Vadime Elisseeff
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: commerce, culture, highways, roads, silk
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2001-01
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1571812229
ISBN-13: 9781571812223

Towards the middle of the 20th century, scholarly research revealed that the fabled Silk Roads, far from being mere trade routes, were cultural highways that played a pivotal role in linking east and west, intermittently bringing together nomads and city dwellers, pastoral peoples and farmers, merchants and monks, and soldiers and pilgrims. The notion of movement is therefore central to an understanding of the relations between peoples; it is also the factor of which specialists have, for various reasons, not taken sufficient account. It is in this context that the Silk Roads Project, initiate

Authors:S Yamashita, J S Eades, J Bosco,
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: asian, anthropologies, paper, asia, southeast, anthropology, east, making
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 2004-10-20
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1571812598
ISBN-13: 9781571812599

Because of the hegemony of institutions in North America and Europe in the international academic system, scholars from these regions often overlook the contributions of scholars in other regions to the development of their discipline. This seems to be especially true in the case of anthropology in Asia where the wider academic community often ignores the contributions of local scholars, especially if they are written in languages other than English. In order to help bridge the communications gap and to make the distinctive Asian contribution to the discipline better known, this path-breaking

Author: Helen M. Macbeth
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Keywords: food, anthropology, nutrition, change, continuity, preferences, taste
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1997-09
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 1571819584
ISBN-13: 9781571819581

Food preferences and tastes are among the fundamentals affecting human existence; the sociocultural, physiological and neurological factors involved have therefore been widely researched and are well documented. However, information and debate on these factors are scattered across the academic literature of different disciplines. In this volume cross-disciplinary perspectives are brought together by an international team of contributors that includes socialand biological anthropologists, ethologists and ethnologists, psychologists, neurologists and zoologists in order to provide access to the