When published in Norway nearly thirty years ago, Ethnic Groups and Boundaries marked the transition to a new era of ethnic studies. Today this much-cited classic is regarded as the seminal volume from which stems much current anthropological thinking about ethnicity. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries opens with Barth's invaluable thirty-page essay that introduces readers to important theoretical issues in the analysis of ethnic groups. Following is a collection of seven essays--the results of a symposium involving a small group of Scandinavian social anthropologists--intended to illustrate the application of Barth's analytical viewpoints to different sides of the problems of polyethnic organization in various ethnographic areas, including Norway, Sudan, Ethiopia, Mexico, Afghanistan, and Laos.

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: Social Organization of Culture Differences

Fredrik Barth

Allen& Unwin

"One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropologyOCoBritish, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials. Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern fieldwork, Barth reveals the repressive tendencies that prevented Britain from developing a variety of anthropological practices until the late 1960s. Gingrich, meanwhile, articulates the development of German anthropology, paying particular attention to the Nazi period, of which surprisingly little analysis has been offered until now. Parkin then assesses the French tradition and, in particular, its separation of theory and ethnographic practice. Finally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the fault lines and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States."

One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology (Halle Lectures)

Robert Parkin

Andre Gingrich

Sydel Silverman

University of Chicago Press

'Analyzes the culture, particularly the ritual life, of a recently contacted aboriginal society--the Baktaman, a nation of 183 persons occupying a tract of mountain rain forest near the center of New Guinea.' - Front jacket blurb.

Ritual and knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea

Yale University Press

Nomads of South Persia

Waveland PRess

In this thorough analysis, Barth explores the features of and the economic, social, and political adaptations to the nomadic, pastoral existence of this tent-dwelling population: the drama of herding and migration; the idleness of a pastoral existence where the herds satisfy the basic needs of man; the freedom, or necessity, of movement through a vast, barren landscape.
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Nomads of South Persia: The Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Waveland Pr Inc.

Scale and social organization

Universitetsforl

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