For many years anthropologists have speculated about primitive warfare, its place in a particular culture, its form, and its consequences on other tribes. This full-scale ethnography of the Dugum Dani centers on the issue of hostility between groups of human beings and the place and function of violence. Warfare, like rituals and kinship alliances, is part of a total culture, and for this reason Professor Heider has approached the Dani from a holistic point of view. Other aspects of Dani life and organization are shown in interrelationship with the institution of warfare, such as the social, ecological, and technological elements in the Dani way of life. Professor Heider examines particularly the role of warfare itself in terms of the particular needs, and lack of them. The first section of this book documents the Dani and their warfare and provides one of the most detailed accounts of tribal life available. The second section focuses on the material aspects of Dani culture, to explore the interrelationships of the material objects with the other aspects of Dani culture; this analysis is especially interesting since the Dani moved from a stone-age culture to steel tools during the period of study itself. Professor Heider also notes the distinctive aspects of Dani culture; the paucity of color, number, and other attribute terms, the near absence of art; their five-year post-partum sexual abstinence, and other traits that seem to suggest that the Dani have little interest in intellectual elaboration or sex, and that despite their warfare, they are not a particularly aggressive people. Including previously unpublished photographs and descriptions of tribal life and warfare, this book provides anthropologists with a full and vivid account of Dani culture and with new insights into the general problems of human aggression.

The Dugum Dani: A Papuan Culture in the Highlands of West New Guinea

History

Karl G. Heider

Australia & Oceania

Aldine Publishing Company

An introduction to cultural anthropology which uses ethnographic film, this concise text focuses on 14 cultures. These are used to illustrate concepts throughout the book, and are also the subject of the 21 film clips which accompany it. A "Focus Overview Box" highlights key facts about the culture. In addition, each chapter highlights one or more films, which are described in the "Seeing Anthropology" feature. This feature includes a case study of the culture of the film, and a set of questions which direct the reader/viewer to certain key elements in the film. A video including 10-minute clips from each film is packaged with the book.

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

Allyn&Bacon

Seeing Anthropolgy Cultural Anthro Thru Film [VHS]

Seeing Anthropology

Social Sciences

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthroplolgy Through Film) with Cd-rom 3rd Edition

Allyn & Bacon Inc.,U.S.

No ripped pages. A few pages with minor highlighting.

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film, 4th Edition

Pearson

Abs 102 Seeing Anthrpology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film (Rio Salado College) Fourth Edition

Pearson- custom edition

This is a book specifically written for the Santa Barbara Community College

Seeing Anthropology: Cultural Anthropology Through Film. Custom for SBCC

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