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  | | Routledge The Basics Series(1st Edition) Anthropology (T & F E) by Peter Metcalf Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-33120-3, ISBN: 0-415-33120-X "The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text ..." |
 | | Celebrations of Death(2nd Edition) The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington Paperback, 258 Pages, Published 1991 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-42375-5, ISBN: 0-521-42375-9 "This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the ..." |
 | | The Life of the Longhouse(Reprint) An Archaeology of Ethnicity by Peter Metcalf Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2012 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-107-40756-5, ISBN: 1-107-40756-7 "For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. In this book Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. ..." |
 | | They Lie, We Lie(1st Edition) Getting on with Anthropology by Peter Metcalf Paperback, 168 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge Kindle Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-415-26260-6, ISBN: 0-415-26260-7 "They Lie, We Lie is an attempt by an experienced fieldworker to engage recent critiques in ethnography, that is the writing of culture, made both from within anthropology and from such disciplines as cultural studies and post-colonial theory. This is necessary because there has been a polarization within anthropology between those who react dismissively to what Marshall Sahlins calls 'afterology' and those who find the critiques so crip ..." |
 | | The Life of the Longhouse(1st Edition) An Archaeology of Ethnicity by Peter Metcalf Hardcover, 358 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-11098-3, ISBN: 0-521-11098-X "For two centuries, travellers were amazed at the massive buildings found along the rivers that flow from the mountainous interior of Borneo. They concentrated hundreds of people under one roof, in the middle of empty rainforests. There was no practical necessity for this arrangement, and it remains a mystery. In this book Peter Metcalf provides an answer by showing the historical context, using both oral histories and colonial records. ..." |
 | | Where Are You Spirits(1st Edition) Style and Theme in Berawan Prayer by Peter Metcalf Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 1989 by Smithsonian ISBN-13: 978-0-87474-620-4, ISBN: 0-87474-620-5 "Book by Metcalf, Peter" |
 | | Anthropology(1st Edition) The Basics by Peter Metcalf, Karl Simms Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-33119-7, ISBN: 0-415-33119-6 "The ultimate guide for the student encountering anthropology for the first time, Anthropology: The Basics explains and explores key anthropological concepts including: what is anthropology? how can we distinguish cultural differences from physical ones? what is culture, anyway? how do anthropologists study culture? what are the key theories and approaches used today? How has the discipline changed over time? This student-friendly text ..." |
 | | They Lie, We Lie(1st Edition) Getting on with Anthropology by Peter Metcalf Hardcover, 168 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-415-26259-0, ISBN: 0-415-26259-3 "My situation is not unique in anthropology; think, for instance, of Raymond Firth's work on Tikopia. ... Consequently, in re-reading We, the Tikopia it comes as a surprise to find that early in the book Firth has a long section assessing the impact ..." |
 | | Returns to the Field Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology by Signe Howell, Aud Talle, Bruce M. Knauft, David Holmberg, Terence Turner, Howard Morphy, Peter Metcalf, Peter Vitebsky, Edvard Hviding, Alan Barnard, Frances Morphy Paperback, 286 Pages, Published 2011 by Indiana University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22348-7, ISBN: 0-253-22348-2 "Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number of times during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected to analytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have all undertaken multitemporal fieldwork repeated visits to the same place over periods ranging from 20 to 40 years among minority groups in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and Melanesia. Over the years of contact ..." |
 | | Waters of Potowmack by Paul C. Metcalf, Peter Metcalf Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 1982 by North Point Press ISBN-13: 978-0-86547-090-3, ISBN: 0-86547-090-1 "Waters of Potowmack is a documentary history of the Potomac River and its wide, fertile basin—the setting for much of early United States history. A collage of primary accounts, it extends from the first explorers and colonists, the building of the Capitol, and the incidents of the Civil War through our recent past.Waters of Potowmack records the firsthand impressions of the settlers and surveyors of this river basin, an area that inc ..." |
 | | Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asia(1st Edition) by Janet Hoskins, Jules De Raedt, Kenneth M. George, Peter Metcalf, Andrew Mcwilliam, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Allen R. Maxwell, Professor Janet Hoskins Hardcover, 308 Pages, Published 1996 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2574-3, ISBN: 0-8047-2574-8 "This book brings together comparative material on headhunting in a number of Southeast Asian societies, to examine the cultural contexts in which such practices occurred, and to relate them to colonial history, violence, and ritual. Over the last century, colonial conquest or 'pacification' has more or less effectively stopped the practice, but its rituals continue to be performed. Ethnographers of seven regions (the Philippine highland ..." |
 | | The Life of the Longhouse by Peter Metcalf Online Resource ISBN-13: 978-0-511-65746-7, ISBN: 0-511-65746-3 |
 | | Celebrations of Death The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Richard Huntington, Peter Metcalf ISBN-13: 978-1-316-34491-0, ISBN: 1-316-34491-6 |
 | | Symbol and Culture A Borneo Journey into Death : Berawan Eschatology from Its Rituals by Peter Metcalf 299 Pages ISBN-13: 978-0-8357-3322-9, ISBN: 0-8357-3322-X |
 | | Utah's Wasatch Range(2nd Edition) Four Season Refuge by Howie Garber, Peter Metcalf, Ralph Becker, Jim Matheson, Stephen Trimble, Andrew Mclean, Brooke Williams Hardcover, 219 Pages, Published 2013 by Mountain Trail Press ISBN-13: 978-0-615-85674-2, ISBN: 0-615-85674-8 "Utah's Wasatch Range: Four Season Refuge is a book of fine art photography with essays by 18 authors including Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker, Congressman Jim Matheson, Stephen Trimble, and Andrew McLean. The spirit of this collaboration is to protect the remaining natural areas and watershed of the Wasatch Mountains. Howie Garber has photographed the Wasatch for 25 years and received national and international awards for his images. ..." |
 | | Anthropology The Basics by Peter Metcalf Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-280-41398-8, ISBN: 1-280-41398-0 |
 | | The Basics Anthropology by Peter Metcalf 216 Pages, Published 2005 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-39253-9, ISBN: 0-203-39253-1 "A readable one is Lawrence James' The Rise and Fall of the British Empire (1994 ). The notion of function laid out here derives from the same set of essays by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown (1952) cited at the end of Chapter Three. The phrase from Eric ..." |
 | | They Lie, We Lie Getting on with Anthropology by Peter Metcalf Published 2003 ISBN-13: 978-1-134-50436-7, ISBN: 1-134-50436-5 |
 | | They Lie, We Lie Getting on with Anthropology by Peter Metcalf 168 Pages, Published 2001 by Routledge ISBN-13: 978-0-203-11669-2, ISBN: 0-203-11669-0 "This is necessary because there has been a polarization within anthropology between those who react dismissively to what Marshall Sahlins calls 'afterology' and those who find the critiques so crippling as to make it hard to get on with ..." |
 | | Celebrations of Death(2nd Edition) The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf, Richard Huntington Hardcover, 252 Pages, Published 1991 by Cambridge University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-521-41312-1, ISBN: 0-521-41312-5 "This revised edition of a cross-cultural study of rituals surrounding death has become a standard text in anthropology, sociology, and religion. Part of its fascination and success is that in understanding other people's death rituals we are able to gain a better understanding of our own. Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington refer to a wide variety of examples from different continents and epochs. They compare the great tombs of the ..." |
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