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Male and Female and the Afro-Curaçaoan Household
The subject of the present study concerns the relationships between men and women and the composition of household groups among the lower Afro-American strata of the society of Curaçao. The material on which it is based ...
From Hospitality to Grace : A Julian Pitt-Rivers Omnibus
he Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. ...
Difficult Folk? : A Political History of Social Anthropology
How should we tell the histories of academic disciplines? All too often, the political and institutional dimensions of knowledge production are lost beneath the intellectual debates. This book redresses the balance. Written ...
Valuing heritage through the fetish
‘I’m going on a crusade this Monday,’ said the family father and
Christian priest with whom I lived, while we explored a former Danish fort in
the present-day coastal village of Keta in Ghana. His straightforward ...
Across Anthropology : Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial
"How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They ...
Sharing heritage through friction
With these introductory words, the two coordinators of the
Trankebar Initiative and the Ghana Initiative explained the National Museum
of Denmark’s engagements in what the former Director referred to as ‘the hot
colonies’. ...
An Anthropology of Landscape
An Anthropology of Landscape tells the fascinating story of a heathland landscape in south-west England and the way different individuals and groups engage with it. Based on a long-term anthropological study, the book ...
Human Remains in Society : Curation and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Genocide and Mass-violence
Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. ...
Qualifying heritage through postcolonial moments
‘With the exhibition in the main building the aim was to show
similarities as well as differences between the African enslaved workers and
the Danish masters, and this was done by telling stories about the working ...
Reading Prehistoric Human Tracks : Methods & Material
This Open Access book explains that after long periods of prehistoric research in which the importance of the archaeological as well as the natural context of rock art has been constantly underestimated, research has now ...