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  • REDEFINING NATURE
    ROY ELLEN
    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'. Ind...

    $1,160.00

  • KINSHIP, POPULATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION IN THE 'NEW INDONESIA'
    ROY ELLEN
    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 exhibite...

    $1,200.00

  • INDIGENOUS ENVIROMENTAL KNOWLEDGE AND ITS TRANSFORMATIONS
    BICKER, ALAN / ELLEN, ROY / PARKES, PETER
    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...

    $1,380.00

  • PELICAN GUIDE TO THE LOUISIANA CAPITOL
    ELLEN ROY JOLLY / JAMES CALHOUN
    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 de...

    $229.00