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  • How Societies Are Born

    Governance in West Central Africa before 1600

    de Jan Vansina ...
    Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?Jan Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact in How Societies Are Born. In ... Leer más

    $37.99 USD

  • Les Tribus Ba-Kuba et les Peuplades Apparentées

    Central Africa Belgian Congo Part I

    de Jan Vansina ...
    Series Libro 1 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Habitat, Economy and Society in the Central Africa Rain Forest

    de Jan Vansina ...
    Over 50 years ago, the renowned anthropologist Daryll Forde strongly advocated comparative anthropological studies. Professor Vansina argues that 50 years later, Forde's criticisms still apply despite both Forde's considerable intellectual legacy and an exponential increase in available information. Using the example of Central African peoples, Professor Vansina challenges the current scholarship ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Oral History

    An Interdisciplinary Anthology

    de Allan Nevins, Louis Starr, Ronald J. Grele, Alice Hoffman, Barbara Tuchman, William Cutler III, William Moss, Jan Vansina, Ruth Finnegan, David Lance, Saul Benison, Peter Friedlander, Amelia Fry, Lynwood Montell, Larry Danielson, Gary Okihiro, Sherna Gluck, Linda Shopes, Tamara Hareven, Alex Haley, Richard Dorson, Charles Joyner, Sidney Mintz, David Dunaway, Eugenia Meyer, Paul Thompson, Karen Hartewig, Daniel Voldman, Alessandro Portelli, Dora Schwarztein ...
    Series series American Association for State and Local History
    Oral History: An Interdisciplinary Anthology is a collection of classic articles by some of the best known proponents of oral history, demonstrating the basics of oral history, while also acting as a guidebook for how to use it in research. Added to this new edition is insight into how oral history is practiced on an international scale, making this book an indispensable resource for scholars of ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The Historian in Tropical Africa

    Studies Presented and Discussed at the Fourth International African Seminar at the University of Dakar, Senegal 1961

    Edición de R. Mauny, L. V. Thomas, Jan Vansina ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1964 these papers discuss the recovery and critical interpretation of oral traditions and written documents, problems of dating and analysis of material from archaeological sites, the use of linguistic evidence, and methods of historical reconstruction concerning techniques, art styles and changes in social organization. Consideration is also given to wider problems ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • The Tio Kingdom of The Middle Congo

    1880-1892

    Edición de Jan Vansina, R. Mauny, L. V. Thomas ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1973, this book reconstructs the political and economic organization and the social life of the Tio kingdom at the end of the 19th century by means of a critical synthesis of documentary and ethnographic data. Based on a detailed study of rich docuemntary sources and fieldwork, it analyses the persistent features of Tio social organization and political relations as well as ... Leer más

    $70.99 USD

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    de Christian Stahl ...
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  • Cannibals and Kings

    Origins of Cultures

    de Marvin Harris ...
    In this brilliant and profound study the distinguished American anthropologist Marvin Harris shows how the endless varieties of cultural behavior -- often so puzzling at first glance -- can be explained as adaptations to particular ecological conditions. His aim is to account for the evolution of cultural forms as Darwin accounted for the evolution of biological forms: to show how cultures adopt ... Leer más

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  • The Americas

    A Hemispheric History

    de Felipe Fernández-Armesto ...
    From food to the spread of political ideas, the landmass from northern Canada to the southern tip of Argentina is complexly bound together, yet these connections are generally ignored. In this groundbreaking and vividly rendered work, leading historian Felipe Fernández-Armesto tells, for the first time, the story of our hemisphere as a whole, showing why it is impossible to understand North, ... Leer más

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  • L'art de la Guerre

    de Sun Tzu ...
    L'art de la guerre est le premier traité de stratégie au monde. Rédigé vers le Ve siècle avant J.-C., il développe des thèses originales, qui s'inspirent de la philosophie chinoise ancienne. Considérant la guerre comme une réalité inévitable, il montre comment la réflexion peut mener à la victoire, comment l'analyse des faiblesses de l'ennemi peut fonder une tactique, si l'on sait les exploiter, ... Leer más

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  • The Ecology of Power

    Culture, Place and Personhood in the Southern Amazon, AD 1000–2000

    de Michael J. Heckenberger ...
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  • The Colonizer's Model of the World

    Geographical Diffusionism and Eurocentric History

    de J. M. Blaut ...
    This influential book challenges one of the most pervasive and powerful beliefs of our time--that Europe rose to modernity and world dominance due to unique qualities of race, environment, culture, mind, or spirit, and that progress for the rest of the world resulted from the diffusion of European civilization. J. M. Blaut persuasively argues that this doctrine is not grounded in the facts of ... Leer más

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