This article represents some of the results of my fieldwork and research on the islands of Sardinia, Corsica, Malta, Sicily, Crete and Susak between the years 1962-1986. My main field-work in Sardinia was supported by the Social Science Research Council, London and the University of Reading/Berks, and the ones in Corsica, Malta and Sardinia by the Department of Ethnology, University of Cologne ...

Organizers: Tomasz Kalicki, Institute of Geography, Jan Kochanowski University, Kielce, Poland/Institute of Geography and Spatial Organization Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Bartłomiej Szmoniewski, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology Polish Academy of Sciences, Kraków, Poland Valentina P. Zernitskaya, Institute for Problems of Natural Resources Use and Ecology, National Academy o...

MERICAN anthropology as an organized science is only one hundred years A old. The American Ethnological Society of New York, founded in 1842, was the first organization of its kind on the continent. I n 1851 “the first scientific account of an Indian tribe” appeared-Lewis H. Morgan’s League of the Iroquois. I n 1866 the Peabody Museum of American Archeology and Ethnology was founded in Cambridg...

In a 1983 lecture at the Sorbonne entitled “History and Ethnology,” Claude LéviStrauss offered an example of the connection between these two disciplines based on his work on “house-based societies,” in which he compared eleventh-century Japan, the Fiji Islands, and medieval Europe.1 In his earlier work, Lévi-Strauss categorized kinship systems by using combinations of binary opposites, such as...

However, in the Mbulu area, a rural and very remote region between Lake Eyasi and Lake Manyara in Northern Tanzania, three tribes of non-Bantu origin live among Bantu tribes 3-5 . The Southern Cushitic Iraqw (approximately 500 000 people), are subsistence farmers who probably migrated from Ethiopia several centuries ago 2,3 . The Southern Nilotic Datoga (100 000–200 000people) are nomadic pasto...

The separation of the contributions to the theory and practice of socialism by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was not seriously posited during their lifetimes, but only in the following generation. The separation, as opposed to the contributions of their entire working lives, of the respective quality of thinking in either case, was a matter of which Engels was conscious, for he wrote: "Marx wa...

Photographs and negatives of V. Scherbakivskyi are an important source for studying the genesis Ukrainian sacred construction, architecture, folk art, ethnography. They basis restoration artistic tradition, remain relevant, go far beyond boundaries historiographical discourse. The goal is to publicize analyze information about Vadym Shcherbakivskyi's negatives, which stored in funds Institute E...

After a pilot study in 1948, John M. Roberts designed a project that was to deal with some of the ideas that he was formulating about the nature of culture and the degree to which individuals controlled the information content of their cultures. In this project, Roberts studied four Southwestern men (a Mormon, a Spanish-American, a Zuni, and a Navaho) as individuals and as members of an experim...