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10%OFFJoseph C. Berland - No Five Fingers are Alike - 9780674625402 - V9780674625402
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No Five Fingers are Alike

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Description for No Five Fingers are Alike Hardcover. Num Pages: 257 pages, 16ill.19tabs. BIC Classification: JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 150 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.

Snake charmers, bards, acrobats, magicians, trainers of performing animals, and other nomadic artisans and entertainers have been a colorful and enduring element in societies throughout the world. Their flexible social system, based on highly specialized individual skills and spatial mobility, contrasts sharply with the more rigid social system of sedentary peasants and traditional urban dwellers. Joseph Berland brings into focus the ethnographic and psychological differences between nomadic and sedentary groups by examining how the experiences of South Asian gypsies and their urban counterparts contribute to basic perceptual habits and skills.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
257
Condition
New
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674625402
SKU
V9780674625402
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Reviews for No Five Fingers are Alike
Joseph Berland’s study of South Asian nomads and entertainers is unique among cross-cultural studies of cognition. Berland, an anthropologist by training, has spent several years living among the people he describes for us. This familiarity already sets him apart from most psychologists, like myself, who have limited time to spend among the people they study. Even more remarkable is the ... Read more

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