"The 'spy-glass of Anthropology,' Zora Neale Hurston's telling metaphor for anthropological training under Franz Boaz during her Barnard years, is the most quoted and least interpreted image in a body of work remarkable for its rich configuration." --The Author
Dassanowsky,Robert (Author) and Lehman,Jeffrey (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Detroit: Gale Group
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
3 vols., Essays on approximately 150 culture groups of the U.S., from Acadians to Yupiats, covering their history, acculturation and assimilation, family and community dynamics, language and religion. Contents: v. 1. Acadians-Garifuna Americans -- v. 2. Georgian Americans-Ojibwa -- v. 3. Oneidas-Yupiat;
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
183 P., To the extent that ideologies are historically necessary they have a validity which is 'psychological'; they 'organise' human masses, and create the terrain on which men move, acquire consciousness of their position, struggle, etc. To the extent that they are arbitrary they only create individual 'movements.
Since July 4, 1991, a new constitution has allowed Colombians to exercise their citizenship by displaying cultural diversity rather than by concealing it as required by the previous political charter. Paradoxically, invisibility continues not only to impede full ethnic inclusion of Afro-Colombians but to aggravate ethnic asymmetries that, in turn, erode nonviolent coexistence among the black and Indian people who have shared portions of the Baudo River valley (Department of Choco) for at least 150 years.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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247 p., Related black communities claim different ethnoracial identities based in laws. Anthropologists widely agree that identities - even ethnic and racial ones - are socially constructed. This book shows how law can successfully serve as the impetus for the transformation of cultural practices and collective identity.
Lindoso,Dirceu (Author) and Cavalcanti,Bruno César (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Maceió, AL Brazil: EDUFAL
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
234 p., Contents: Lições de etnologia geral : introdução ao estudo de seus princípios -- O Andarilho e a Mãe-de-Santo : o negro na obra de Arthur Ramos -- Na Aldeia de la-ti-lhá : etnografia dos índios Tapuias do Nordeste. Other Titles: Dois estudios de etnologia brasileira
Borneman praises Evelyn Blackwood for using ethnographic evidence from Indonesia and the Caribbean to enter into debates on matrifocality and marriage. Borenman is less convinced, however, about the significance or her general advocacy claim about gender