Ibss: Anthropology: 1978
Ibss: Anthropology: 1978

Author: International Committee for Social Science Information and Documentation

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1990-12-31

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780422809306

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First published in 1981. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985
Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985

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Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

Published: 1986-01-01

Total Pages: 950

ISBN-13: 9027279381

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This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.

Who Owns the Stock?
Who Owns the Stock?

Author: Anatoly M. Khazanov

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2012-08-01

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 085745336X

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The issue of collective and multiple property rights in animals, such as cattle, camels or reindeers, among pastoralists has never been a subject of special cross-cultural and comparative study. Focusing on pastoralist societies in East and West Africa, the Far North and Siberia, and the Eurasian steppes, this volume addresses the issue of property rights and the changes these societies have undergone due to the direct or indirect influence of modernization and globalization processes. The contributors also investigate the interplay of older sets of rights and modern marketing policies; political, ecological and economic effects of collectivization and de-collectivization; the existence of collective and private property in the Soviet Union and its successor states; state taxation and destocking measures in African dry lands; and the effects of quarantine, as well as import and export regulations. The rich and well-researched ethnographic, historical, and economic data in these chapters provides new theoretical insights into the matter of property rights in animals.

Bodies of Evidence
Bodies of Evidence

Author: Jane Draycott

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1351573373

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Dedicating objects to the divine was a central component of both Greek and Roman religion. Some of the most conspicuous offerings were shaped like parts of the internal or external human body: so-calledanatomical votives. These archaeological artefacts capture the modern imagination, recalling vividly the physical and fragile bodies of the past whilst posing interpretative challenges in the present. This volume scrutinises this distinctive dedicatory phenomenon, bringing together for the first time a range of methodologically diverse approaches which challenge traditional assumptions and simple categorisations. The chapters presented here ask new questions about what constitutes an anatomical votive, how they were used and manipulated in cultural, cultic and curative contexts and the complex role of anatomical votives in negotiations between humans and gods, the body and its disparate parts, divine and medical healing, ancient assemblages and modern collections and collectors. In seeking to re-contextualise and re-conceptualise anatomical votives this volume uniquely juxtaposes the medical with the religious, the social with the conceptual, the idea of the body in fragments with the body whole and the museum with the sanctuary, crossing the boundaries between studies of ancient religion, medicine, the body and the reception of antiquity.