Comparative Social Dynamics

Comparative Social Dynamics
Author: Erik Cohen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2019-02-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0429725515

These original articles relate to major themes in the comparative study of the dynamics of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin Americ

Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure

Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure
Author: Sarah Surface-Evans
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2020-08-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1789207118

What happens when we blur time and allow ourselves to haunt or to become haunted by ghosts of the past? Drawing on archaeological, historical, and ethnographic data, Blurring Timescapes, Subverting Erasure demonstrates the value of conceiving of ghosts not just as metaphors, but as mechanisms for making the past more concrete and allowing the negative specters of enduring historical legacies, such as colonialism and capitalism, to be exorcised.

Going Forward by Looking Back

Going Forward by Looking Back
Author: Felix Riede
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 539
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781789208641

Catastrophes are on the rise due to climate change, as is their toll in terms of lives and livelihoods as world populations rise and people settle into hazardous places. While disaster response and management are traditionally seen as the domain of the natural and technical sciences, awareness of the importance and role of cultural adaptation is essential. This book catalogues a wide and diverse range of case studies of such disasters and human responses. This serves as inspiration for building culturally sensitive adaptations to present and future calamities, to mitigate their impact, and facilitate recoveries.

Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Colombian Area

Multiscalar Approaches to Studying Social Organization and Change in the Isthmo-Colombian Area
Author: Scott D. Palumbo
Publisher: Center for Comparative Arch
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2013-11-04
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1877812927

Chapters offer new understandings of how ranked societies emerged and developed in prehistoric southern Central America and northern South America (the "Isthmo-Colombian Area"). The emphasis is on integrating the results of studies of social units at a range of different scales from the household to the local commuity to the region and beyond. Complete text in English and Spanish.

Mobility and Territoriality

Mobility and Territoriality
Author: Michael Casimir
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2021-01-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000323234

Territorial behaviour among various herders and hunter-gatherers has been discussed in earlier studies, but this is the first time that a comparison of these three types of mobile populations has been attempted. The original papers presented in this volume discuss the conditions and problems of securing access to resources among pastoralists, peripatetics, and hunting, gathering and fishing communities in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. A comprehensive introductory chapter places these empirical studies in a broader theoretical context of the behaviourial sciences.

Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics

Spatial Boundaries and Social Dynamics
Author: Augustin Holl
Publisher: International Monographs in Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 1993
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781879621046

A collection of 7 ethnoarchaeological case studies from food-producing societies. Contributors include: K E Agorsah (Archaeological considerations on social dynamics); G D Stone (Agrarian settlement and the spatial disposition of labour); A Holl (Community interaction and settlement patterning in Northern Cameroon); T E Levy (Production, space, and social change in protohistoric Palestine); I Musa (Traditional iron technology and settlement patterns in central Darfur); A Holl (Late Neolithic cultural landscape in southeastern Mauritania).

The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage

The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage
Author: Astrid Van Oyen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2020-05-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108495532

This is the first archaeological study to approach the central problem of storage in the Roman world holistically, across contexts and datasets, of interest to students and scholars of Roman archaeology and history and to anthropologists keen to link the scales of farmer and state.

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean

Archaeology of Domestic Landscapes of the Enslaved in the Caribbean
Author: James A. Delle
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2022-08-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1683403177

While previous research on household archaeology in the colonial Caribbean has drawn heavily on artifact analysis, this volume provides the first in-depth examination of the architecture of slave housing during this period. It examines the considerations that went into constructing and inhabiting living spaces for the enslaved and reveals the diversity of people and practices in these settings. Contributors present case studies using written descriptions, period illustrations, and standing architecture, in addition to archaeological evidence to illustrate the wide variety of built environments for enslaved populations in places including Jamaica, the Bahamas, and the islands of the Lesser Antilles. They investigate how the enslaved defined their social positions and identities through house, yard, and garden space; they explore what daily life was like for slaves on military compounds; they compare the spatial arrangements of slave villages on plantations based on type of labor; and they show how the style of traditional laborer houses became a form of vernacular architecture still in use today. This volume expands our understanding of the wide range of enslaved experiences across British, French, Dutch, and Danish colonies. Contributors: Elizabeth C. Clay | James A. Delle | Todd M. Ahlman | Marco Meniketti | Kenneth Kelly | Hayden Bassett | James A. Delle | Kristen R. Fellows | Allan D. Meyers | Elizabeth C. Clay | Alicia Odewale | Meredith D. Hardy | Zachary J. M. Beier | Mark W. Hauser A volume in the Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Conviviality in Bellville. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa

Conviviality in Bellville. An Ethnography of Space, Place, Mobility and Being in Urban South Africa
Author: Ingrid Brudvig
Publisher: African Books Collective
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2014-07-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9956792861

This book provides insight into the experiences of mobility and migration in contemporary South Africa, contributing to a field of literature about multiculturalism and urban public space in globalizing cities. It takes into consideration the greater international political and local socio-economic factors that drive migration, relationships and conviviality, and how they are intertwined in the everyday narrative of insiders and outsiders. The Bellville central business district demonstrates the realities of interconnected local and global hierarchies of citizenship and belonging and how they emerge in a world of accelerated mobility. The book further demonstrates how the emergence of conviviality in everyday public life represents a critical field for contemplating contemporary notions of human rights, citizenship and belonging.