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  • Pelican Guide to the Louisiana Capitol

    Series series Pelican Guides
    The most beautiful of America's fifty statehouses, the Louisiana capitol in Baton Rouge ranks second behind the New Orleans Superdome as the state's leading tourist attraction-and this comprehensive guidebook shows why.Constructed in 1932 under the reign of Huey Long at a cost of only $5 million, the thirty-four-story tower houses some of the most impressive examples of art deco architecture in ... Leer más

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  • Redefining Nature

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    Edición de Roy Ellen, Katsuyoshi Fukui ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    How can anthropology improve our understanding of the interrelationship between nature and culture?- What can anthropology contribute to practical debates which depend on particular definitions of nature, such as that concerning sustainable development?Humankind has evolved over several million years by living in and utilizing 'nature' and by assimilating it into 'culture'. Indeed, the ... Leer más

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  • Kinship, population and social reproduction in the 'new Indonesia'

    A study of Nuaulu cultural resilience

    de Roy Ellen ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    Nuaulu people on the Indonesian island of Seram have displayed remarkable linguistic and cultural resilience over a period of 50 years. In 1970 their language and traditional culture was widely considered ‘endangered.’ Despite this, Nuaulu have not only maintained their animist identity and shown a robust ability to reproduce 'traditional' ritual performances, but have exhibited both population ... Leer más

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  • Modern Crises and Traditional Strategies

    Local Ecological Knowledge in Island Southeast Asia

    Edición de Roy Ellen ...
    Series Libro 6 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
    The 1990s have seen a growing interest in the role of local ecological knowledge in the context of sustainable development, and particularly in providing a set of responses to which populations may resort in times of political, economic and environmental instability. The period 1996-2003 in island southeast Asia represents a critical test case for understanding how this might work. The key issues ... Leer más

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  • Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology

    A Critical Synthesis

    Series Libro 26 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations. Yet, what is understood by the phrase and how it might best be studied is highly contested. This book brings together contributions ... Leer más

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  • Nature Wars

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    de Roy Ellen ...
    Series Libro 27 - Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology
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  • Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations

    Critical Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes ...
    Series series Studies in Environmental Anthropology
    The first concerted critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localised contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures. In particular they explore the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global ... Leer más

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