The American Beaver and His Works

The American Beaver and His Works
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher: Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott
Total Pages: 394
Release: 1868
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

Howes M802 "Probably the first study of the behavior of a single animal in the mordern sense and certainly the first American work in comparative psychology."--Gach. "..long regarded as a classic on the subject." DAB, Vol. XIII, 185.

Ancient Society

Ancient Society
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 598
Release: 1909
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN:

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines

Houses and House-Life of the American Aborigines
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 490
Release: 2024-02-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3387314922

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan

The Library of Lewis Henry Morgan
Author: Thomas R. Trautmann
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1994
Genre: Anthropologists
ISBN: 9780871698469

The Indian Journals, 1859-62

The Indian Journals, 1859-62
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780486275994

Anthropologist's researches among the Indians of Kansas and Nebraska—kinship systems, social organization, climate, flora and fauna, natural resources, more. 20 illus.

League of the Iroquois

League of the Iroquois
Author: Lewis Henry Morgan
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2004
Genre: Iroquois Indians
ISBN: 9781882903115

The Ritual Process

The Ritual Process
Author: Victor Turner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351474901

In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. He extends Van Gennep's notion of the "liminal phase" of rites of passage to a more general level, and applies it to gain understanding of a wide range of social phenomena. Once thought to be the "vestigial" organs of social conservatism, rituals are now seen as arenas in which social change may emerge and be absorbed into social practice.As Roger Abrahams writes in his foreword to the revised edition: "Turner argued from specific field data. His special eloquence resided in his ability to lay open a sub-Saharan African system of belief and practice in terms that took the reader beyond the exotic features of the group among whom he carried out his fieldwork, translating his experience into the terms of contemporary Western perceptions. Reflecting Turner's range of intellectual interests, the book emerged as exceptional and eccentric in many ways: yet it achieved its place within the intellectual world because it so successfully synthesized continental theory with the practices of ethnographic reports."

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice

Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Author: Jean Lave
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2011-04-30
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0226470725

In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the art of sustained fieldwork and an insightful overview of thirty years of changes in the empirical and theoretical facets of ethnographic practice. Examining the issues she confronted in her own work, Lave shows how the critical questions raised by ethnographic research erode conventional assumptions, altering the direction of the work that follows. As ethnography takes on increasing significance to an ever widening field of thinkers on topics from education to ecology, this erudite but accessible book will be essential to anyone tackling the question of what it means to undertake critical and conceptually challenging fieldwork. Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice explains how to seriously explore what it means to be human in a complex world—and why it is so important.