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From 1971 to 1972, William E. Mitchell undertook fieldwork on suffering and healing among the Lujere of Papua New Guinea's Upper Sepik River Basin. At a time when it was not yet common to make colonial agencies a subject of anthropological study, Mitchell carefully located his research on Lujere practices in the framework of a history of colonization that surrounded the Lujere with a shifting array of Western institutions, dramatically changin...

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Author's preface -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- 1. The Jews of New York City -- 2. The origins of family clubs -- 3. Membership and leadership -- 4. Resources and records -- 5. Social gatherings -- 6. Feuds and fissions -- 7. Why family clubs? An explanatory model -- 8. Family clubs and kinship theory -- Appendices -- Notes -- References -- Index

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? This book describes how these intimate, spirited, and often contentious family clubs are organized and how they function.

The Wape of New Guinea live in a mountainous tropical forest habitat. They are slash and burn horticulturalists and reside in sedentary villages. Marriage is by bride wealth and polygyny is permitted but rare. The society is egalitarian in terms of male status and, although the society is hierarchical in terms of sex and age differences, both women and the young enjoy higher status than in many other New Guinea societies. While most Wape are n...

This book provides a long-overdue vision for a new automobile era. The cars we drive today follow the same underlying design principles as the Model Ts of a hundred years ago and the tail-finned sedans of fifty years ago. In the twenty-first century, cars are still made for twentieth-century purposes. They are inefficient for providing personal mobility within cities¿where most of the world¿s people now live. In this pathbreaking book, William...

How can Jewish relatives who range in residence and occupation from a Scarsdale doctor to a Brooklyn butcher, and who diverge in religiosity from an Orthodox cantor to a ham-eating atheist, maintain close family ties? This book describes how these intimate, spirited, and often contentious family clubs are organized and how they function.