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"They Are Beginning To Learn The Use Of Tobacco": Cultural Context And The Creation Of A Passion In Colonial Papua New Guinea, Terence Hays

Terence Hays

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The Sanctuary Of Apollo Hypoakraios And Imperial Athens, Peter Nulton

Peter E. Nulton Ph.D.

The Cave Sanctuary of Apollo on the North Slope of the Acropolis at Athens was investigated in 1896-97 and produced a rich collection of inscriptions relating to the cult. These inscriptions are published in full for the first time in this work. The author discusses the history of the cult. Far from being of great antiquity as readers of Euripides' "Ion" have long assumed, the cult was instituted in the time of Augustus when "The Athenians thought it fitting that their archons swear an oath that upheld tradition in connection to Apollo Patroos, but simultaneously honored their 'new Apollo'", the …

Cultural Displays And Tourism In Africa And The Americas, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams

Alcohol As Incentive In The Mixed Economy Of The Pre-Colonial Batswana, David Suggs

David Suggs

No abstract provided.

Through The Causality Web: Looking At Etiology And Resistance In Aboriginal Cancer Experiences, Treena Orchard

Dr. Treena Orchard

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Linguistic Anthropology Of Education, Stanton Wortham, Betsy Rymes

Betsy Rymes

Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language functions as one medium through which this socialization is accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has created useful characterizations of variations in communicative competence.The present work builds on the strengths of prior work, showing how new theoretical concepts and empirical methods developed in linguistic anthropology over the last decade can further illuminate educational settings. The authors introduce an updated Linguistic Anthropology of Education which recognizes that, in the rapidly changing …

The Politics Of Heritage In Tana Toraja, Indonesia: Interplaying The Local And The Global, Kathleen Adams

Kathleen M. Adams