... race culture UNESCO indigeneity culture area ...

... Franz Boas Clark Wissler American Museum of Natural History culture areas culture concept ...

..., it focuses on the substitution of the concept of relative cultures for the idea of race as an explanation for human difference. These issues are explored with regard to the museum’s collecting in both North America and the Old World, as well as the resultant classification of relative culture areas...

... history of anthropology culture theory development anthropology area studies ...

... through culture exemplified by the restitution of racial logics of governance in Australia’s recent Northern Territory Intervention. race culture UNESCO indigeneity culture area ...

... that is seminal in one telling may be coincidental in another. history of anthropology culture theory development anthropology area studies ...

... areas and the various uses of a Boasian notion of culture and the assessment of intellectual capacity as a lever for developing a vision of a more independent Māori social development. Indigenous agency is a focus of this chapter, particularly in relation to the Māori politicians and scholars involved...

... postrevolution China. Identifying consumption as a key area that contains a large set of issues, Cai explores the desire to deterritorialize on the part of certain urban youth and the efforts, especially the political logic, to prevent such tendencies. The resulting cultural conflicts and their narrativization...

... of their societies, and their cultural differences from the civilizations that are adjacent to them in the plains. The chapter critiques forms of romanticization of those who live in the mountain areas that connect India and China and attempts to give a contextualized picture of anthropological thinking about hill...

... Department funding financed the Research in Contemporary Cultures project at Columbia University, reshaping anthropological approaches to large-scale team research projects. research funding area studies political economy ...

... This chapter introduces aspects of the sociopolitical, economic, and physical conditions of the Pelourinho neighborhood. By the mid-1990s the ongoing reforms of the Pelourinho had divided the neighborhood into two main areas: a gleaming restored shrine to Bahian culture and an area of decaying...

... This chapter outlines the project of unsettling India through the lens of transnational public cultures. Theorizing the role of transnational public cultures in the contemporary moment, the chapter argues for moving away from substantialist assumptions about nationhood to conceptions of India...

... This chapter examines the heuristics of various geographical metaphors that shape theoretical and empirical analyses, especially in the social sciences and humanities. Some of the most important geographical metaphors have been territories (as delimited by states), regions (cultural areas...

... locations, the small scale of their societies, and their cultural differences from the civilizations that are adjacent to them in the plains. The chapter critiques forms of romanticization of those who live in the mountain areas that connect India and China and attempts to give a contextualized picture...

... This chapter introduces the phenomenon of the Filipino American mobile disc jockey crews in the Bay Area. It begins with a discussion of the importance of DJs to community formations before moving on to an examination of DJing as a collective activity itself. It also discusses the relevance...

... territories (as delimited by states), regions (cultural areas), islands, and the world (globalization). In contrast, archipelagic thinking seeks to study roots, formed by place and habitation, and connected through routes, understood as complex connections, and to map the historical trajectories...

... recast their lives as ongoing translations, both cultural and linguistic. Their reflections indicate how autobiographies are about self-becoming to the extent that they entail being and speaking otherwise. area studies United States contingency Benedict Anderson Arjun Appadurai ...

... factors. The conclusion further identifies some of the long-term, indirect legacies of the revolutionary nativism espoused by China’s interwar fascists, including the ways in which they linked Confucianism to a national developmentalist program, and helped to shape the trajectory of cultural revolution...