▪ Abstract Across cultures, narrative emerges early in communicative development and is a
fundamental means of making sense of experience. Narrative and self are inseparable in …

BACKGROUND" If the broad problem in political anthropology is to understand the origin
and variety of inequality, that in legal anthropology is to understand the mainte-nance of …

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Meaning and Power in a Southeast Asian Realm SHELLY ERRINGTON Princeton University …

Das öffentliche Interesse an Gender-Fragen ist ungebrochen. Diese Einführung gibt einen
umfassenden Überblick über den Komplex'Sprache und Geschlecht': Sie unternimmt …

Das Leben jedes Menschen besteht aus einer Aneinanderreihung von Gesprächen. Die
Analyse von Alltagsgesprächen und ihrer Auswirkungen auf zwischenmenschliche …

Ritual wailing performed by Warao women at funerals in eastern Venezuela provides a
paradigmatic case of the inversion of established relationships between gender and …

▪ Abstract Southeast Asia is probably the part of the world most closely associated by
anthropologists with an interpretive concept of culture. Yet do such ideas as culture areas or …

A generation of feminist research has explored the extent to which the roles--and
expectations--of women and men vary across cultures. In this volume, leading …

If each world region has its own style of anthropological analysis, then surely Southeast Asia
has come to be the place where interpretive approaches to culture have reigned, whether in …

Takes a cross-cultural approach to the study of womenA World Full of Women, 6/e,
combines descriptive ethnography, gender theory, and international statistics to present a …