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Examines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier.

Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Bibliography -- Index of Subjects

Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words -- Ethnographic Filming and the Cinema -- The History of Ethnographic Film -- McCarty's Law and How to Break It -- Cinematic Social Inquiry -- The Camera and Man -- Documenting the Human Condition -- Beyond Observational Cinema -- Ethnographie Film Documents -- Idea and Event in Urban Film -- Ethnographie Observation and the Super-8 Millimeter Camera -- Research Filming of Naturally Occurring Phenomena: Basic Strategies -- Visual Anthropology and the Past -- Ethnographic Film and History -- Some Methods of Ethnographic Filming -- Reconstructing Cultures on Film -- The Role of Film in Archaeology -- Specialized Uses of Film and Videotape -- Photography and Visual Anthropology -- Feature Films as Cultural Documents -- Videotape: New Techniques of Observation and Analysis in Anthropology -- The Film Elicitation Technique -- Audiovisual Tools for the Analysis of Culture Style -- Analysis of Body Movement and Space -- Filming Body Behavior -- A Photographic Method for the Recording and Evaluation of Cross-Cultural Proxemic Interaction Patterns -- Proxemic Research: A Check on the Validity of its Techniques -- The Presentation of Anthropological Information -- Educational Uses of Videotape -- Using Film in Teaching Anthropology: One Pedagogical Approach -- The Use of Television in Teaching Anthropology -- Research Films and the Communications Revolution -- Mass Communication Meets the Anthropologist: A Short Manual of Some Unprimitive Thought -- Anthropological Programming in Japanese Television -- The Future of Visual Anthropology -- The Tribal Terror of Self-Awareness -- Visual Records, Human Knowledge, and the Future -- Conclusion -- Appendices -- Resolution on Visual Anthropology -- Filmography -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Films -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- SECTION ONE: INTRODUCTORY -- Introduction -- SECTION TWO: LINGUISTIC MODELS -- Linguistic Relativity: Myths and Methods -- Wordless Thoughts -- Some Notes on Central Eskimo Color Terminology -- The Terminology of Time in Romanian -- "Meaning" for the Linguist and "Meaning" for the Anthropologist -- Linguistic Models in Anthropology -- On Speech and Thought -- SECTION THREE: ETHNOSCIENCE -- The Synthetic Informant Model: On the Simulation of Large Lexical/Semantic Fields -- Tahitian Ethnozoological Classification and Fuzzy Logic -- On an African Classificatory System -- Ethnoscience as a Research Paradigm -- Australian Kin Classification -- Kinship Terminologies: The Okinawan Case -- SECTION FOUR: ETHNOHERMENEUTICS -- Kachin Social Categories and Methodological Sins -- "Must" and "Ought": Problems of Translation in Sanskritic Hindu Law -- Ethnolinguistic Introduction to Japanese Literature -- Ethnohermeneutics: On the Interpretation of Intended Meaning Among the Kpelle of Liberia -- Bodily Symbolism in Hindu Ashrams and the Replication of Social Experience -- Prestations and Prayers: Two Homologous Systems in Northern India -- SECTION FIVE: OPPOSITIONS -- Correlation of Contradictions: A Tibetan Semantic Device -- Sex, Nature, and Culture in Ponapean Myth -- Not in Ourselves, But in Our Stars -- Conceptual Patterns in Yoruba Culture -- On the Overlapping of Categories in the Social Sciences -- SECTION SIX: FUNCTIONS, STRUCTURES, AND VALUES -- The Semiotic Character of the Aesthetic Function as Defined by the Prague Linguistic Circle -- Interrelationships of Individual, Cultural, and Pan-Human Values -- The Nature of Value and the Experience Entities -- SECTION SEVEN: DISCUSSION -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

Frontmatter -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Section One: Introductory -- Introduction -- Section Two: Human Communication -- Paralinguistic Behavior as Continuity Between Animal and Human Communication -- A Consideration of Language Acquisition Rates and Possible Interspecies Relationships -- Domestic Animal Calling in a Berber Tribe -- Infant Vocalization: Communication Before Speech -- Early Language Learning: A Sociolinguistic Approach -- Section Three: Language Acquisition -- The Role of Social Context in Language Acquisition -- Reading and Stages of Language Acquisition -- Competence in English-Language Learning by American Indian Monolinguals and Bilinguals -- Linguistic Universals in Anthropological Studies of Bilingualism -- Implications of Language Contact for Bilingual Language Acquisition -- Studies in Language Switching and Mixing -- Section Four: Mixing and Sequencing -- Nonverbal Components in Message Sequence: "Mixed Syntax" -- Linguistic and Kinesic Correlations in Code Switching -- Language, Motion in Paralanguage, and Body the Structure of Conversation -- A Study of Interaction Markers in Conversational Spanish -- Components of Interaction in the Negotiation of a Definition of the Situation -- Section Five: Language and the Science of Man -- Analysis of a Culture Through Its Culturemes: Theory and Method -- Sociolinguistic Considerations on Psychosocial Socialization: The Beginnings of a Theory of Verbalization -- The Contribution of Romanian Cultural-Linguistic Anthropology to the Complex Study of Modern Populations -- Section Six: Discussion -- Summary of Discussion -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

This work examines the relationship between violence, narrative and memory in the former West Nile district of Uganda.

This volume reveals the historical dynamism of what appears at first sight to be a forgotten backwater.

I-XIV -- SECTION ONE. Pleistocene Man in North America -- Introduction -- The Calico Mountains Site: Pleistocene Archaeology in the Mojave Desert, California -- The Metate: An Early Grain-Grinding Implement in the New World -- Wisconsin and Pre-Wisconsin Stone Industries of New York State and Related Tools from a Shop Site near Tula, Mexico -- The Trimmed-Core Tradition in Asiatic-American Contacts -- Fractured Cherts from Pleistocene Fossiliferous Beds at Medicine Hat, Alberta -- The California Coastal Region: Its Late Pleistocene and Holocene Climate and Function as an Ice Age Refugium -- SECTION TWO. Microblade Traditions and Migrations -- Introduction -- Early Migrations to America in the Light of a Study of the Dyuktai Paleolithic Culture in Northeast Asia -- Concerning the Cultural Contacts Between Asia and America in the Late Paleolithic -- Fluted Points at the Batza Téna Obsidian Source, Northwestern Interior Alaska -- Late Paleolithic Cultures in Alaska -- Microblades and Prehistory: Technological and Cultural Considerations for the North Pacific Coast -- SECTION THREE. Paleodemography -- Introduction -- An Ecological Interpretation of Variation in Mortality Within Three Prehistoric American Indian Populations From Dickson Mounds -- Patterns of Microscopic Bone Remodeling in Three Aboriginal American Populations -- Epigenetic Distance: A Study of Biological Variability in the Lower Illinois River Region -- A Sample of Northern North American Hunter-Gatherers and the Malthusian Thesis: An Explicitly Quantified Approach -- SECTION FOUR. Later Cultural Adaptations and Technological Studies -- Introduction -- Prehistoric Diet and Parasites in the Desert West of North America -- Prehistoric Basketry of Western North America and Mexico -- The Introduction, Use, and Technology of Fiber-Tempered Pottery in the Southeastern United States -- Coding and Cluster Analysis of Wisconsin Ceramics -- The Temple Town Community: Cahokia and Amalucan Compared -- An Interpretation of the Two-Climax Model of Illinois Prehistory -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects