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Reflections on Historical Anthropology

2016
This essay targets a Chinese scholarly audience, who deserves a coherent presentation of the analytical themes that my South China colleagues and I have been concerned with. One cannot ignore history when one studies the unifying and diversifying cultural processes in an entity one terms “China.” Years of field research in South China has made one ...
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African Widows: Anthropological and Historical Perspectives

Journal of Women & Aging, 2003
Variety characterizes widows' experiences around the world and in Africa south of the Sahara. This article explores the socioeconomic and cultural contexts of African widowhood, using anthropological studies in a number of African societies, including the author's research among Abaluyia of western Kenya.
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Regional Comparison in Historical Anthropology

, 2020
A. Gingrich
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Anthropological and Historical Studies

2001
Abstract Medical anthropologists and historians have described a number of” culture­ bound” syndromes, disorders found only in certain cultures or during certain eras. Many of these appear to be illness roles. Since anthropologists and historians have long made a point of addressing the functions such illnesses serve, their study can ...
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An historical anthropology of Ngazidja

2002
This thesis is an attempt to situate current development theory and prac­tice in a historical context. The basic premise is that formal development projects on Ngazidja since independence have, generally, been unsuc­cessful. This lack of success can only be understood in a wider historical context that recognises contemporary social structures in ...
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Shari'a Scripts: A Historical Anthropology

, 2018
B. Messick
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Historical and historic sites Archaeology as anthropology: Basic definitions and relationships

Historical Archaeology, 2019
R. L. Schuyler
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“Non-places” as a Concept of Military-Historical Anthropology

Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, 2021
E E Krasnozhenova, S V Kulik
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Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: The Historical Anthropology of Sindh's Colonization

, 2015
M. Cook
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Muslim Societies in Africa: A Historical Anthropology

, 2013
Roman Loimeier
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