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APPROACHING
AUSTRALIA
Papers from the Harvard Australian Studies Symposium
EDITED BY HAROLD BOLITHO AND CHRIS WALLACE-CRABBE
These papers, each by a notable Australian scholar, offer several
approaches to the Australian experience, past, present, and
future. The authors hail from different disciplines, but what
they have in common is their familiarity with the United States
and their experience in interpreting their homeland to an
American audience. As they discuss poetry and politics,
nationalism and feminism, Aboriginal society and urbanization,
they also explore a common theme: the emergence of a distinctive
Australian entity, and the contribution to it of the United
States.
Harvard Committee on Australian Studies
February 1999
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THE
BOG MAN AND THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF PEOPLE
DON BROTHWELL
"[A] mesmerizing study of bog bodies...Brothwell's detective
story centers on the respectful investigation of Lindow Man, the
2,000 year-old corpse reclaimed in 1984 from a Cheshire peat
bog...Frankly, I couldn't put [this book] down."
BYZANTIUM
ROWENA LOVERANCE
The earthly empire of Byzantium--Christian in religion and
Hellenic in culture--dominated the political and religious
history of Europe for over a thousand years. The Byzantines
regarded their earthly empire as a reflection of God's empire in
heaven, and this ideology was manifested in their politics,
religion, and art. In this introduction to the history of
Byzantium, from the fourth to the fourteenth century, Rowena
Loverance draws on the British Museum's rich collections of
spectacular Byzantine silver, ivories, jewelry, and icons, as
well as pieces from the empire's Persian and Germanic neighbors.
THE
CHANNELING ZONE
American Spirituality in an Anxious Age
MICHAEL F. BROWN
Brown explores the scope and substance of the practice called
channeling as a window on the persistent New Age movement. He
offers a lively firsthand assessment of the hopes, fears, and
obsessions of the thousands of Americans who have abandoned
mainstream religions in search of direct and improvisational
contact with spiritual beings.
THE
CHOSEN PRIMATE
Human Nature and Cultural Diversity
ADAM KUPER
"Few other anthropologists have a breadth of experience
comparable to Adam Kuper's...The book deserves to be read not
only by newcomers to anthropology but by all who are concerned
about its fragmentation."
THE
CORINTHIAN, ATTIC, AND LAKONIAN POTTERY FROM SARDIS
JUDITH SNYDER SCHAEFFER, NANCY H. RAMAGE, AND CRAWFORD H.
GREENEWALT, JR.
This collaborative work consists of three generously illustrated
sections presenting the ceramic finds excavated at Sardis, but
produced in the mainland Greek centers of Corinth, Athens, and
Sparta. The authors' study of this material from the
Harvard-Cornell excavations at Sardis offers new evidence of the
taste for specific Greek wares and shapes in Anatolia before the
time of Alexander the Great.
THE
CRAFT OF ZEUS
Myths of Weaving and Fabric
JOHN SCHEID AND JESPER SVENBRO
Translated by Carol Volk
In this dazzling commentary on Greek and Roman myth and society,
weaving emerges as a metaphor rich with possibility. From rituals
symbolizing the cohesion of society to those proposed by oracles
as a means of propitiating fortune; from the erotic and marital
significance of weaving and the woven robe to the use of weaving
as a figure for language and the fabric of the text, this lively
book defines the logic of one of the central concepts in Greek
and Roman thought.
A
CRITIQUE OF POSTCOLONIAL REASON
Toward a History of the Vanishing Present
GAYATRI CHAKRAVORTY SPIVAK
Are the "culture wars" over? When did they begin? What
is their relationship to gender struggle and the dynamics of
class? In her first full treatment of postcolonial studies, a
field that she helped define, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of
the world's foremost literary theorists, poses these questions
from within the postcolonial enclave.
CROSSINGS
Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives
EDITED BY MARCELO M. SUÁREZ-OROZCO
Arguably few other social phenomena are likely to impact the
future character of American society as much as the ongoing wave
of "new immigration." Who are the new immigrants? What
do they want? How are they changing American society? This
cross-disciplinary book brings together twelve essays by the
leading scholars of the most significant aspect of the new
immigration: Mexican immigration to the United States.
CULTURE
The Anthropologists' Account
ADAM KUPER
Culture clarifies a crucial chapter in recent intellectual
history. Adam Kuper makes the case against cultural determinism
and argues that political and economic forces, social
institutions, and biological processes must take their place in
any complete explanation of why people think and behave as they
do.
DINOSAURS,
SPITFIRES, AND SEA DRAGONS
CHRISTOPHER McGOWAN
"Dinosaurs are so popular that we often neglect the even
more fascinating reptiles of their time that evolved in the most
unreptilian habitats of sea (ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and their
allies) and air (pterosaurs). McGowan, world's leading expert on
ichthyosaurs, and a fine writer as well, tells their wonderful
story better than ever before--and doesn't neglect the more
conventional dinosaurs either."
THE
DISCOVERY OF THE GREEK BRONZE AGE
J. LESLEY FITTON
J. Lesley Fitton traces an exciting tale of archaeological
discovery and weaves it into an engaging, in-depth portrait of
Greek Bronze Age civilizations, from their dawning on the
Cycladic Isles in the third millennium B.C.
and their flowering in Minoan Crete and the Mycenaean centers to
their mysterious disappearance in the twelfth century B.C.
EGYPTIAN
LIFE
MIRIAM STEAD
Contrary to the popular view that they were a people obsessed
with religion and death, the ancient Egyptians were in fact very
much concerned with the enjoyment of life--so much so that they
desired their civilized, often exuberant existence to be
continued for ever in the afterlife. Thus they equipped their
tombs with all the trappings of life on earth and decorated the
walls with colorful scenes depicting their many activities,
pleasures and pastimes. With the aid of a wealth of illustrations
from the British Museum's rich Egyptian collections, Miriam Stead
combines the evidence from the tombs with that of excavation and
written sources to recreate a remarkably vivid and wide-ranging
picture of life in ancient Egypt.
EGYPTIAN
MUMMIES
CAROL ANDREWS
Thirty centuries ago most of the mummified bodies now lying
linen-wrapped in the British Museum were alive in ancient Egypt.
Why did the Egyptians try to preserve their dead for eternity?
How did they achieve it? Carol Andrews answers these questions in
a fully illustrated survey of the techniques of mummification,
the religious beliefs which lay behind the practice, the ornate
coffins and elaborate tombs which housed the bodies and the grave
goods which accompanied them. She explains how animals also came
to be embalmed and relates the curious role assumed by Egyptian
mummies in European culture and mythology.
ENCHANTING
POWERS
Music in the World's Religions
EDITED BY LAWRENCE E. SULLIVAN
The Confucian Sacrificial Ceremony, the Choctaw ball game, the
"drum history" of the Dagbamba, the chanting of the
Qur'an--these are some of the topics addressed in this collection
of essays by eminent musicologists, anthropologists, historians,
and religionists as they consider the intersection of musics and
religions in different world cultures.
ENIGMA
VARIATIONS
RICHARD PRICE AND SALLY PRICE
In a steamy colonial city, an eccentric Frenchman offers for sale
an extraordinary collection of primitive art. The two
anthropologists called in to appraise the pieces for the national
museum quickly find themselves in a world where the boundaries of
authenticity and deception blur in the tropical heat.
FIELDWORK
IN FAMILIAR PLACES
Morality, Culture, and Philosophy
MICHELE M. MOODY-ADAMS
The persistence of deep moral disagreements has created
widespread skepticism about the objectivity of morality. Moral
relativism, moral pessimism, and the denigration of ethics in
comparison with science are the results. Michele Moody-Adams
scrutinizes the anthropological evidence commonly used to support
moral relativism, and finds that the internal complexity of
cultures will always thwart efforts to confine moral judgments to
a single culture.
FIRST
PEOPLES, FIRST CONTACTS
Native Peoples of North America
J. C. H. KING
From the big-game hunters who appeared on the continent as far
back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters
today, the Native peoples of North America produced a remarkable
culture that has survived in the face of almost inconceivable
trials.
FOSSILS
The Key to the Past
RICHARD FORTEY
"In this attractive, well-illustrated book, Richard Fortey
traces a more or less chronological progression from early
Precambrian life through the vertebrates, including hominids,
giving due credit to the great diversity and abundance of
invertebrate fossils. Fortey also explains the essential
biological, taxonomic and geological concepts that underlie
paleontology...This book offers an excellent introduction to
paleontology, pulling together in a concise manner the multiple
facets that make contemporary paleontology a dynamic and exciting
field of study."
THE
GOOD PARSI
The Fate of a Colonial Elite in a Postcolonial Society
T. M. LUHRMANN
During the Raj, one group stands out as having prospered because
of British rule: the Parsis. The Zoroastrian people adopted the
manners, dress, and aspirations of their British colonizers, and
were rewarded with high-level financial, mercantile, and
bureaucratic posts. Indian independence, however, ushered in
their decline. Tanya Luhrmann's analysis of the Parsis brings
startling insights to a wide range of communal and individual
identity crises and what could be called "identity
politics" of this century.
GROOMING,
GOSSIP, AND THE EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE
ROBIN DUNBAR
What Robin Dunbar suggests--and his research, whether in the
realm of primatology or in that of gossip, confirms--is that
humans developed language to serve the purpose that grooming
served, but far more efficiently. From the nit-picking of
chimpanzees to our chats at coffee break, from neuroscience to
paleoanthropology, Grooming, Gossip, and the Evolution of
Language offers a provocative view of what makes us human.
HASIDIC
PEOPLE
A Place in the New World
JEROME R. MINTZ
"Readers are escorted through New York's Hasidic
community...They not only meet the residents but also learn why
they are there, how they live and work and pray, and discover
something of their internal politics...This rich ethnography
offers detailed insights into a dynamic movement and a volatile
community, and its charismatic and demanding leadership."
HIERARCHY
IN THE FOREST
The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior
CHRISTOPHER BOEHM
The political flexibility of our species is formidable: we can be
quite egalitarian, we can be quite despotic. Hierarchy in the
Forest traces the roots of these contradictory traits in
chimpanzee, bonobo, gorilla, and early human societies.
Anthropologist Christopher Boehm looks at the loose group
structures of hunter-gatherers, then at tribal segmentation, and
finally at present-day governments to see how these conflicting
tendencies are reflected. He postulates that egalitarianism is in
effect a hierarchy in which the weak combine forces to dominate
the strong.
A
HISTORY OF THE FAMILY
EDITED BY ANDRÉ BURGUIÈRE, CHRISTIANE KLAPISCH-ZUBER, MARTINE
SEGALEN, AND FRANÇOISE ZONABEND
This monumental two-volume work brings together experts from
every discipline to reveal what each epoch can tell us about the
family.
VOLUME I: DISTANT WORLDS, ANCIENT WORLDS
Translated by Sarah Hanbury-Tenison, Rosemary Morris, and Andrew
Wilson
Introduction by Claude Lévi-Strauss and Georges Duby
VOLUME II: THE IMPACT OF MODERNITY
Translated by Sarah Hanbury-Tenison
Introduction by Jack Goody
IDENTITY
AND AGENCY IN CULTURAL WORLDS
DOROTHY HOLLAND, WILLIAM LACHICOTTE, DEBRA SKINNER, CAROLE CAIN
Synthesizing theoretical contributions by Vygotsky, Bakhtin and
Bourdieu, Holland and her co-authors examine the processes by
which people are constituted as agents as well as subjects of
culturally constructed, socially imposed worlds. They develop a
theory of self-formation in which identities become the pivot
between discipline and agency: turning from experiencing one's
scripted social positions to making one's way into cultural
worlds as a knowledgeable and committed participant. themselves,
creating their cultural worlds anew.
KEEPING
TOGETHER IN TIME
Dance and Drill in Human History
WILLIAM H. McNEILL
One of the most widely read and respected historians in America
pursues the possibility that coordinated rhythmic movement--and
the shared feelings it evokes--has been a powerful force in
holding human groups together. As he has done for historical
phenomena as diverse as warfare, plague, and the pursuit of
power, William McNeill brings a dazzling breadth and depth of
knowledge to his study.
MAGIC
IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
FRITZ GRAF
Translated by Franklin Philip
Ancient Greeks and Romans often turned to magic to achieve
personal goals. Magical rites were seen as a route for direct
access to the gods, for material gains as well as for spiritual
satisfaction. In this fascinating survey of magical beliefs and
practices from the sixth century BCE through late antiquity,
Fritz Graf sheds new light on ancient religion.
MINDFUL
OF FAMINE
Religious Climatology of the Warao Indians
JOHANNES WILBERT
For the Warao of the Venezuelan Orinoco Delta, survival under
extreme ecological conditions requires exceptional adaptive
agility. Johannes Wilbert presents the Warao's response to this
climatological challenge, deftly weaving the strands of
geographic, atmospheric, biological, and cultural lore and
learning into a rich tapestry of environmental wisdom.
MUSLIM
CHINESE
Ethnic Nationalism in the People's Republic, Second Edition
DRU C. GLADNEY
This second edition of Dru Gladney's critically acclaimed study
of the Muslim population in China includes a new preface by the
author, as well as a valuable addendum to the bibliography,
already hailed as one of the most extensive listing of modern
sources on the Sino-Muslims.
THE
NARIOKOTOME HOMO ERECTUS SKELETON
EDITED BY ALAN WALKER AND RICHARD LEAKEY
On the slopes of the Nariokotome sand river in Kenya, sifting
through sediments more than a million years old, Kamoya Kimeu
uncovered a small piece of a skull. Piece followed piece--facial
bones, teeth, vertebrae--and little by little paleontologists put
together the most complete early hominid ever discovered, a Homo
erectus skeleton christened the Nariokotome boy. This phenomenal
find, a milestone in the history of paleoanthropology, is fully
documented in this remarkable book. Beautifully illustrated and
richly descriptive, The Nariokotome Homo Erectus Skeleton
takes us into the field and the laboratory, and into the far
reaches of prehistory, to show us what the fossilized remains of
a young boy can tell us about our beginnings.
THE
NAVAHO
CLYDE KLUCKHOHN AND DOROTHEA LEIGHTON
"This collaboration between an anthropologist and a
medic-psychiatrist has been a fortunate one. Professor Kluckhohn
and Dr. Leighton have tried, as social scientists, to show the
Navaho points of view, and then show how the Army, the
missionary, the trader, the Indian Bureau, the white rancher or
farmer surrounded the Navaho with new standards of ethical
judgment and social procedure. The result was to frustrate much
in the Navaho that had produced a sense of security and
well-being."
PERSUASIONS
OF THE WITCH'S CRAFT
Ritual Magic in Contemporary England
T. M. LUHRMANN
To find out why reasonable people are drawn to the seemingly
bizarre practices of magic and witchcraft, Tanya Luhrmann
immersed herself in the secret lives of Londoners who call
themselves magicians. She came to know them as friends and equals
and was initiated into various covens and magical groups. She
explains the process through which once-skeptical
individuals--educated, middle-class people, frequently of high
intelligence--become committed to the ideas behind witchcraft and
find magical ritual so compellingly persuasive. This intriguing
book draws some disturbing conclusions about the ambivalence of
belief within modern urban society.
PILGRIMAGE
Past and Present in the World Religions
SIMON COLEMAN AND JOHN ELSNER
From the Great Panathenaea of ancient Greece to the hajj
of today, people of all religions and cultures have made sacred
journeys to confirm their faith and their part in a larger
identity. This book is a fascinating guide through the vast and
varied cultural territory such pilgrimages have covered across
the ages. This is the first book to look at the phenomenon and
experience of pilgrimage through the multiple lenses of history,
religion, sociology, anthropology, and art history.
THE
PREDICAMENT OF CULTURE
Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
JAMES CLIFFORD
The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of
the West in its changing relations with other societies.
Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel
writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford
shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be
contingent fictions, now actively contested in postcolonial
contexts. In discussions of ethnography, surrealism, museums, and
emergent tribal arts, Clifford probes the late twentieth-century
predicament of living simultaneously within, between, and after
culture.
ROUTES
Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
JAMES CLIFFORD
When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an
anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of
Culture, James Clifford offers a new view of anthropology. It
is, he says, a moving picture of a world that reveals itself en
route, in the airport lounge and the parking lot as much as in
the marketplace and the museum. In this collage of essays,
meditations, poems, and travel reports, Clifford takes travel and
its difficult companion--translation--as openings into a complex
modernity.
TIMEWALKERS
The Prehistory of Global Colonization
CLIVE GAMBLE
Gamble reconsiders the remarkable record of geographical
expansion that began with the early hominids of sub-Saharan
Africa. Through this astonishing dispersal of humans, which
exceeds that of all other mammals, he traces calculated responses
to variations in climate and environment.
THE
USES OF TRADITION
Jewish Continuity in the Modern Era
EDITED BY JACK WERTHEIMER
How have modern Jews appropriated traditional aspects of their
culture and religion to sustain them in the modern world?
Twenty-one distinguished scholars address this question by
drawing on a range of disciplines: social and cultural history,
ethnography, folklore, sociology, educational theory, and
rabbinics. They examine Jewish communities from Russia to North
Africa, from Israel to the United States.
A
VIEW TO A DEATH IN THE MORNING
Hunting and Nature Through History
MATT CARTMILL
"[Cartmill] has produced a stunning survey of society's
attitudes toward hunting from classical literature through,
inevitably, the greatest antihunting event of all time, the
release of Walt Disney's Bambi...What [this book] does,
with a breadth of literary scholarship and analysis that is most
unusual in academic science, is trace society's ambivalence and
polarization about hunting from classical Greece...through
Rome...and on to the present day...Cartmill's consistent
theme--which ties each era, each society, each viewpoint,
together in a satisfying text--is his focus on a society's
understanding of the relationship between human beings and nature
itself."
VILLAGE
IN THE VAUCLUSE
LAURENCE WYLIE
Laurence Wylie's remarkably warm and human account of life in the
rural French village he calls Peyrane vividly depicts the
villagers themselves within the framework of a systematic
description of their culture. Since 1950, when Wylie began his
study of Peyrane, to which he has returned on many occasions
since, France has become a primarily industrial nation--and
French village life has changed in many ways. The third edition
of this book includes a fascinating new chapter based on Wylie's
observations of Peyrane since 1970, with discussions of the
Peyranais' gradual assimilation into the outside world they once
staunchly resisted, the flux of the village population, and the
general transformation in the character of French rural
communities.
THE
WOMAN IN THE SURGEON'S BODY
JOAN CASSELL
Surgery is the most martial and masculine of medical specialties.
What, then, if the surgeon is a woman? Anthropologist Joan
Cassell enters this closely guarded arena to explore the work and
lives of women practicing their craft in what is largely a man's
world. Cassell observed thirty-three surgeons in five North
American cities over the course of three years.
THE
WOMAN THAT NEVER EVOLVED
With a New Preface
SARAH BLAFFER HRDY
Hailed as a ground-breaking synthesis of feminism and
evolutionary theory when first published, The Woman That Never
Evolved is a bold and refreshing answer to contemporary
versions of social Darwinism that shoehorn female nature into
narrow stereotypes. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy, a leader in modern
primatology, argues that evolutionary theorists' emphasis on
sexual competition among males for access to females overlooks
selection pressures on females themselves. In a vivid account of
what female primates themselves actually do to secure their own
reproductive advantage, she demolishes myths about sexually
passive, "coy," compliant, exclusively nurturing
females. Her lucid and compelling account of the great range of
behaviors in many species of primates expands the concept of
female nature to include the full range of selection pressures on
females, and reminds us of the true complexity and dynamism of
the evolutionary story.