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• Land, people, and history
• Thoughts and religions
• Folklore and literature
• Media and cinema
• Performing arts
• Visual arts
• Architecture
• Gender, courtship, and marriage
• Festivals, fun, and leisure.

This is a comprehensive study of one of the world's most culturally diverse nations. Swirling with both Western and Eastern traditions and sitting on the edge of the war in the Middle East, Turkey is one of the world's cultural and political hotspots. With exhaustive coverage on one of the world's most diverse and exciting countries, "Culture and Customs of Turkey" is essential reading for schools and general readers. Illustrative accounts of past traditions help readers to understand contemporary culture today, covering such customs as religious beliefs, folklore, gender issues, art, performing arts, cuisine, and festivals. Readers will learn how Turkey has become culturally rich and diverse, mixing Western and Eastern traditions to form a unique bridge between Europe and Asia.
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• Chapter 1.
• What Is the Agricultural Revolution?
• Chapter 2.
• From hunters-gatherers to farmers in the Near East: archaeological background
• Chapter 3.
• Models that describe and explain the agricultural revolution, including plant domestication
• Chapter 4. -- The plant formations of the Fertile Crescent and the wild progenitors of the domesticated founder crops
• Chapter 5. -- The difference between wild and domesticated plants
• Chapter 6.
• Traditional versus modern agriculture: stability vs. maximization
• Chapter 7. -- The differences between plant domestication and crop evolution under traditional and modern farming systems
• Chapter 8. -- The differences between cereal and legume crops in the Near East
• Chapter 9. -- The choice of plant species for domestication: agronomic and dietary considerations
• Chapter 10.
• Where and when did near eastern plant domestication occur?
• Chapter 11.
• Domestication of fruit trees in the Near East
• Chapter 12.
• Plant evolution under domestication
• Chapter 13. -- A global view of plant domestication in other world regions: Asia, Africa and America
• Chapter 14.
• Animal domestication in the Near East by Gila Kahila Bar-Gal
• Chapter 15.
• Plant domestication and early Near Eastern agriculture: summary and conclusions.

"The Agricultural Revolution - including the domestication of plants and animals in the Near East -- that occurred 10,500 years ago ended millions of years of human existence in small, mobile, egalitarian communities of hunters-gatherers. This Neolithic transformation led to the formation of sedentary communities that produced crops such as wheat, barley, peas, lentils, chickpeas and flax and domesticated range of livestock, including goats, sheep, cattle and pigs. All of these plants and animals still play a major role in the contemporary global economy and nutrition. This agricultural revolution also stimulated the later development of the first urban centres. This volume examines the origins and development of plant domestication in the Ancient Near East, along with various aspects of the new Man-Nature relationship that characterizes food-producing societies. It demonstrates how the rapid, geographically localized, knowledge-based domestication of plants was a human initiative that eventually gave rise to Western civilizations and the modern human condition"-- Provided by publisher.

• L'irruption des Gilets jaunes
• L'effondrement d'un modèle de représentation
• Un territoire délaissé
• De Nuit debout aux Gilets jaunes
• Le besoin de s'assembler
• Les mots des autres
• Premières gammes
• Bribes d'enfance
• Rencontres fondatrices
• Une amitié
• Moi en mai
• Avant mai...
• La classe
• Enfin mai...
• Dans la rue
• Au nom de la base
• Il peut se passer plein de choses, on ne sait pas trop comment ça va tourner...
• La grève
• Automne du mouvement
• Que faire ?
• Aventures dialectiques
• Paris-Vincennes
• Militant de base
• Initiation anthropologique
• Chez les Rouergats
• Un boycott
• Inventer une revue
• Gramsci et l'eurocommunisme
• Ce qui se dit dans les cellules
• Le rêve éthiopien
• Partir
• Une mission exploratoire
• Découverte du terrain
• La démocratie des Ochollo
• Donner pour le prestige
• La parole, la loi, le vrai
• Dans la montagne
• Une fête manquée
• La révolution en marche
• Retour à Ochollo
• Ailleurs près de chez soi
• L'atterrissage
• Visite à mon directeur
• Ailleurs... mais pas loin
• La passion de l'ethnographie
• La politique au ras du sol
• Retour du refoulé
• Les éligibles
• Choses vues
• Écrire la politique : portraits et symboles
• Le monde tel qu'il est
• Au coeur de la machine Europe
• De l'un au multiple
• Babel et l'altérité
• L'interdépenclance, une réalité.

""Je suis en train d'écrire un texte qui intègre des aspects de mon expérience d'anthropologue politique - et qui trouve son origine dans un autre grand mouvement social, celui de Mai 68, auquel j'ai activement participé - quand les Gilets jaunes font irruption dans la vie politique. Au coeur de cette réflexion a surgi - incontournable - le fait que les humains, qu'on a dits si souvent enclins à obéir, à se soumettre, à plébisciter l'autorité et l'homme providentiel, manifestent une inclination puissante à s'assembler, non seulement pour débattre, mais aussi pour agir. L'anthropologie du temps présent offre de précieux instruments pour appréhender les tensions et les soubresauts qui se font jour un peu partout aujourd'hui. Je relate dans ce livre la manière dont s'est imposée l'urgence de porter un regard différent sur le pouvoir et les lieux d'où s'énonce une parole citoyenne." Une anthropologie de la politique pour comprendre ce qu'est la prise de parole publique, émergence d'une expression démocratique."--Page 4 of cover.

• Preface to the English edition
• Preface to the French edition
• List of abbreviations
• A note on French elections
• Map of the department of the Yonne
• 1. Who is eligible?
• 2. Dynasties
• 3. Ups and downs in politics
• 4. The new deal: decentralisation
• 5. Parachuting in
• 6. The communist party and real life
• 7. Deputy and mayor
• Conclusion
• Notes.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

This ethnographic study of political life in the department of the Yonne, in the Burgundy region, explores a still richly Balzacian provincial world. The author, a French anthropologist, has extensive field experience in Ethiopia. Deploying the insights and methods of social anthropology by drawing on local history, interviews and participant observation, Abeles describes politicians at every level, from municipal officers to Members of Parliament and Ministers. He provides a clear picture of the process of 'decentralization' initiated by the Socialist government in 1982, and undermines the simplistic notion of 'centralist France'. This book, which develops a fresh perspective on political life in France, past and present, illustrates more generally an exciting approach to modern political phenomena, from the point of view of anthropology.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)