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• Que faire de la "description dense" de Clifford Geertz ?
• Mary Douglas : comprendre les institutions
• Le "structuralisme dynamique" d'Edmund Leach
• Marshall Sahlins, la culture sans le culturalisme
• Maurice Godelier : fortunes et infortunes de la notion d'imaginaire
• L'échange en politique : traces et limites de Lévi-Strauss
• Van Gennep et les rites de passages
• Georges Balandier et l'analyse du changement politique
• Le pouvoir chez Pierre Clastres. Une nouvelle philosophie politique
• Penser la violence avec René Girard.

"Tout en ayant son identité propre, la science politique s'enrichit en permanence de ses relations avec les autres disciplines. Preuve de son universalité, nombre de ses objets ont été appréhendés par l'anthropologie. Réciproquement, le décentrement anthropologique est l'occasion de revenir aux questions les plus essentielles des sociétés humaines. Ce livre s'attache à l'apport de dix concepts-clés appartenant à l'oeuvre de dix anthropologues : Geertz (la description), Douglas (l'institution), Leach (la structure), Sahlins (la culture), Godelier (l'imaginaire), Lévi-Strauss (l'échange), Van Gennep (le rite), Balandier (le changement), Clastres (le pouvoir), Girard (la violence). Cette démarche originale entend enrichir l'étude de la science politique en encourageant un réflexe d'ouverture vers l'anthropologie, et, plus généralement, vers d'autres sciences sociales."--Page 4 of cover.

• Overview : conventional wisdom
• The Neanderthal within
• Agriculture : the big change
• Consequences of agriculture
• Gene flow
• Expansions
• Medieval evolution : how the Ashkenazi Jews got their smarts.

Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years. Scientists have long believed that the great leap forward that occurred some 40,000 to 50,000 years ago in Europe marked end of significant biological evolution in humans. In this stunningly original account of our evolutionary history, top scholars Gregory Cochran and Henry Harpending reject this conventional wisdom and reveal that the human species has undergone a storm of genetic change much more recently. Human evolution in fact accelerated after civilization arose, they contend, and these ongoing changes have played a pivotal role in human history. They argue that biology explains the expansion of the Indo-Europeans, the European conquest of the Americas, and European Jews' rise to intellectual prominence. In each of these cases, the key was recent genetic change: adult milk tolerance in the early Indo-Europeans that allowed for a new way of life, increased disease resistance among the Europeans settling America, and new versions of neurological genes among European Jews. Ranging across subjects as diverse as human domestication, Neanderthal hybridization, and IQ tests, Cochran and Harpending's analysis demonstrates convincingly that human genetics have changed and can continue to change much more rapidly than scientists have previously believed. A provocative and fascinating new look at human evolution that turns conventional wisdom on its head, The 10,000 Year Explosion reveals the ongoing interplay between culture and biology in the making of the human race.
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For more than one hundred years, tourists and residents alike have flocked to Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, located on Seattle's waterfront. Here a mummy nicknamed Sylvester, a collection of shrunken heads from Ecuador, a two-headed calf, and a mermaid preside over walls and cases crammed with an incredible jumble of souvenirs and trinkets, intermixed with authentic Northwest Coast and Alaskan Eskimo carvings, baskets, blankets, and other artworks. The guestbook records visits by Theodore Roosevelt, Will Rogers, Jack Dempsey, Charlie Chaplin, J. Edgar Hoover, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Sylvester Stallone, and Queen Marie of Rumania, among many others. Ye Olde Curiosity Shop was founded in 1899 by Joseph E. "Daddy" Standley, an Ohio-born curio collector who came to Seattle in the late 1890s during the Yukon gold rush.Although Native American material vied for space with exotica from all corners of the globe, it soon grew to be the mainstay of the shop, which became identified with the whalebones displayed outside and the "piles of old Eskimo relics" within. Also to be found were baskets, moccasins, ivory carving from Alaska, Tlingit spruce root baskets, Haida "jadeite" totem poles, masks, paddles, and other curiosities from the Northwest Coast. Indians from the Olympic Peninsula brought baskets, coming up to the back door of the shop in their canoes. Others, originally from British Columbia but now living on the flats not far from the shop, carved miniature totem poles by the hundreds and full-size poles on commission. Trading companies supplied Indian curios from the Plains, Southwest, and California.An art historian trained in the classic arts of the Northwest Coast, Kate Duncan became interested in the history of the shop when she learned that it had not only been an active participant in Seattle's 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition but had also been a major source of important Northwest Coast collections in many museums, including, among others, the Royal Ontario Museum, the George G. Heye Collection (now in the Smithsonian's Museum of the American Indian), the Washington State Museum, the Newark Museum, the Portland Art Museum, and the American Museum of Natural History.Granted full access by the present owners - grandson and great-grandson of "Daddy" Standley - to the remarkably complete archives maintained from the time the shop opened, Duncan has provided a fascinating chapter in the history of Seattle, especially in its early years, as well as a significant contribution to the literature on tourist arts and collecting. Kate Duncan, professor of art at Arizona State University, is also the author of "Northern Athapaskan Art: A Beadwork Tradition", and coauthor of "A Special Gift: The Kutchin Beadwork Tradition" and "Out of the North: The Subarctic Collection of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology".
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The history of the gadget is both the history of invention and the history of men's lives. What man doesn't remember when he mastered the iPhone, the Swiss Army Knife, or the Walkman? While they are personal milestones, gadgets can change the course of history. How did the transistor radio create Rock and Roll, or did the audio-cassette overthrow the Shah of Iran? Popular MechanicsnMagazine partners with HISTORY(TM) on this two-hour special, assembling a panel of the world's most renowned tech gurus to generate the definitive list. It is hosted by Richard Dean Anderson (MacGyver) and features Popular Mechanics James Meigs, Jim Cameron, James Dyson, and others discussing the gadgets that inspired, amused, or confused them. Is the combination lock the most influential gadget ever invented? The Zippo lighter? The bra? It's a fast-paced countdown to Number One

Zanzibar Island in Tanzania is famous for its spices, but also has rich varieties of indigenous and exotic fruits and traditional medicine. The book introduces 104 plants with a traditional healer Dr. Mmadi H. Shamata and a botanist Mr. Mbago. Introducing special spices, fruits, and medicinal plants in a joint work with herbalists and botanists. Mary Martin Booksellers. http://www.marymartin.com/web/viewbooks?bookId=657781

• The collapse of civilizations: 1177 BC
• Act I. Of arms and the man: the fifteenth century BC
• Act II. An (Aegean) affair to remember: the fourteenth century BC
• Act III. Fighting for gods and country: the thirteenth century BC
• Act IV. The end of an era: the twelfth century BC
• A "perfect storm" of calamities?
• Sea Peoples, systems collapse, and complexity theory
• The aftermath

From acclaimed archaeologist and bestselling author Eric Cline, a breathtaking account of how the collapse of an ancient civilized world ushered in the first Dark Ages In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy defeated them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, famine, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life a vibrant multicultural world, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires of the age and shows that it may have been their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse. Now revised and updated, 1177 B.C. sheds light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and eventually destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age-and set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece and, ultimately, our world today.
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• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Series Editor's Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue: THE COLLAPSE OF CIVILIZATIONS: 1177 BC
• CHAPTER ONE. ACT I. OF ARMS AND THE MAN: THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY BC
• CHAPTER TWO. ACT II. AN (AEGEAN) AFFAIR TO REMEMBER: THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY BC
• CHAPTER THREE. ACT III. FIGHTING FOR GODS AND COUNTRY: THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY BC
• CHAPTER FOUR. ACT IV. THE END OF AN ERA: THE TWELFTH CENTURY BC
• CHAPTER FIVE. A "PERFECT STORM" OF CALAMITIES?
• EPILOGUE: THE AFTERMATH
• AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION IN SEARCH OF A SMOKING GUN
• DRAMATIS PERSONAE
• NOTES
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• INDEX

In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen?In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages, " Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries.A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age-and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece

• List of Illustrations xi Series Editor's Foreword xiii Preface xv Acknowledgments xix PROLOGUE The Collapse of Civilizations: 1177 BC 1 CHAPTER ONE Act I. Of Arms and the Man: The Fifteenth Century BC 14 CHAPTER TWO Act II. An (Aegean) Affair to Remember: The Fourteenth Century BC 43 CHAPTER THREE Act III. Fighting for Gods and Country: The Thirteenth Century BC 73 CHAPTER FOUR Act IV. The End of an Era: The Twelfth Century BC 102 CHAPTER FIVE A "Perfect Storm" of Calamities? 139 EPILOGUE The Aftermath 171 Dramatis Personae 177 Notes 181 Bibliography 201 Index 229.
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In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the Bronze Age came to an abrupt and cataclysmic end. Kingdoms fell like dominoes over the course of just a few decades. No more Minoans or Mycenaeans. No more Trojans, Hittites, or Babylonians. The thriving economy and cultures of the late second millennium B.C., which had stretched from Greece to Egypt and Mesopotamia, suddenly ceased to exist, along with writing systems, technology, and monumental architecture. But the Sea Peoples alone could not have caused such widespread breakdown. How did it happen? In this major new account of the causes of this "First Dark Ages, " Eric Cline tells the gripping story of how the end was brought about by multiple interconnected failures, ranging from invasion and revolt to earthquakes, drought, and the cutting of international trade routes. Bringing to life the vibrant multicultural world of these great civilizations, he draws a sweeping panorama of the empires and globalized peoples of the Late Bronze Age and shows that it was their very interdependence that hastened their dramatic collapse and ushered in a dark age that lasted centuries. A compelling combination of narrative and the latest scholarship, 1177 B.C. sheds new light on the complex ties that gave rise to, and ultimately destroyed, the flourishing civilizations of the Late Bronze Age-and that set the stage for the emergence of classical Greece.
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• Note on Transliteration and Translation Acknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Introduction 1The Reign of Ahmed III and the 1720 Festival 2Historiographical Framework 3Previous Research on Ottoman Festivals 4This Book 1Preparing the Festival 1In Search of Utensils 1.1Borrowing From Court Institutions and Purchasing From the Market 1.2Borrowing Utensils From Officials and City Dwellers 2Food Provisioning 3Making Nahils and Candy Gardens 3.1Officials, Merchants, and Craftsmen Working Together 4Registering the Names of Uncircumcised Boys and Performers 4.1Boys Registered for the Circumcision 4.2Performers Registered for the Festival 2Staging the Festival 1Food-Related Events 1.1Distribution of Food Allowances 1.2Donations Through Food 1.3"They Ate His Food, Drank His Sherbet": Imperial Banquets 2Spectacles on Land and Sea 2.1Marvelous Shows Enacted 2.2Some Events as Performances 2.3Guild Parades 3Gifting 3.1Monetary Gifts to Attendants and Performers 3.2Robes of Honor to Dignitaries and Officials 3.3Providing Circumcision and Clothing for Boys 3.4A Piece of Jewelry or a Simple Candlestick: Obligatory Gifts Presented to the Sultan 3Representing the Festival 1Commissioning Process of the Illustrated Surnames 1.1Supervision of the Project 1.2Painters Working for the Illustrated Surnames 1.3The 1720 Festival Paintings in the Ottoman Book Painting Tradition 2Iconography and Image-Making 3Narrating the 1720 Festival in Imagery 3.1Serial Images of Processions and Guild Parades 3.2Narrating the Public Celebrations of the 1720 Festival in Imagery Conclusions Selected Bibliography Index.
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The 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul offers the first holistic examination of an Ottoman public festival through an in-depth inquiry into different components of the 1720 event. Through a critical and combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources along with the textual and pictorial narratives on the topic, the book vividly illustrates the festival's organizational details and preparations, its complex rites (related to consumption, exchange, competition), and its representation in court-commissioned illustrated festival books (surnames). To analyze all these phases in a holistic manner, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach by using the methodological tools of history, art history, and performance studies and thus, provides a new methodological and conceptual framework for the study of Ottoman celebrations.
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• List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgments Note on Cyrillic Transliteration
• Chapter 1. The Polar Census and the Architecture of Enumeration David G. Anderson Chapter 2. Seasonal Mobility and Sacred Landscape Geography among Northern Hunter-Gatherer Peter Jordan
• Chapter 3. The Interpretation of Nenets Demography in the First Third of the 20th Century Elena Volzhanina Chapter 4. Undaunted Courage: the Polar Census in the Obdor Region Elena Glavatskaya Chapter 5. Household Structure in the Multi-Ethnic Barents Region - A Local Case Study Gunnar Thorvaldsen Chapter 6. Statistical Surveys of the Kanin Peninsula and the Samoed Question Igor Semenov Chapter 7. The Sustaining Landscape and the Arctic Fox Trade in the European North of Russia 1926-1927 Konstantin Klokov Chapter 8. The Origin of Reindeer Herding as 'Sector' on the Kanin Peninsula Stanislav Kiselev Chapter 9. The Spatial Demography of the 'Outer Taiga' of the Zhuia River Valley, Eastern Siberia David Anderson, Evgenii Ineshin, John Ziker
• Chapter 10. Identity, Status, and Fish among Essei Iakuts Tatiana Argounova-Low
• Chapter 11. Subsistence and Residence in the Putoran Uplands and Taimyr Lowlands John Ziker Appendices Appendix I:The Manuscript Archives of the Polar Census Expeditions Appendix II: Table of Measures
• Bibliographic and Archival References
• Notes on the Contributors.
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"This a much-welcome addition to the modern English-language reference library on Siberian indigenous people and the first book-size effort to address their plight and status from the perspective of the Russian archival statistical and documentary records of the early 1900s. It is an outcome of a monumental collaborative project." * Igor Krupnik, Smithsonian Institution In 1926/27 the Soviet Central Statistical Administration initiated several yearlong expeditions to gather primary data on the whereabouts, economy and living conditions of all rural peoples living in the Arctic and sub-Arctic at the end of the Russian civil war. Due partly to the enthusiasm of local geographers and ethnographers, the Polar Census grew into a massive ethnological exercise, gathering not only basic demographic and economic data on every household but also a rich archive of photographs, maps, kinship charts, narrative transcripts and museum artifacts. To this day, it remains one of the most comprehensive surveys of a rural population anywhere. The contributors to this volume - all noted scholars in their region - have conducted long-term fieldwork with the descendants of the people surveyed in 1926/27. This volume is the culmination of eight years' work with the primary record cards and was supported by a number of national scholarly funding agencies in the UK, Canada and Norway. It is a unique historical, ethnographical analysis and of immense value to scholars familiar with these communities' contemporary cultural dynamics and legacy.
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