Creative Land

Creative LandWhat is creative in kinship? How are people connected to places? James Leach answers these questions through formulating creativity as an integral part of kinship on the north coast of Papua New Guinea. The book contains a new critique of the genealogical model of kinship, suggesting that this model prevents us from grasping the way generative relations, including those to land and place, constitute persons on the Rai Coast. Analytic attention is

Based on unprecedented access to the Ghanaian military barracks and inspired by the recent resurgence of coups in West Africa

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spanning across centuries and cultures

Haley's belief that well-funded

Contributors focus on a particular school

Scholars from the six countries examined here profile and evaluate current social policies and programs on poverty eradication and provide a comparative perspective that ensures that culturally specific solutions can be found in place of borrowed solutions from abroad - solutions which have thus far ignored the cultural factor and have thus failed to deliver

Postmodern

and yet his prose shows signs of the universal religious and philosophical themes that would inspire such masterpieces as War and Peace (1869) and Anna Karenina (1877)

Thoughtlessness and Decadence in Iran explores from a theoretical perspective the problem of democracy deficit-or

The book is unique in that it combines the ideas of management

by Jews and non-Jews

the consequences of the legacy of the Shoah for survivors and for the 'second generation