Village Studies

Managing Tourist Space in Pueblo Villages of the American Southwest

by Alan A. Lew

Prepublication version. Published in In Singh, Tej Vir, ed., Tourism Development in Critical Environments, pp. 120-36. Elmsford, NY: Cognizant Communications Corporation.

Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management
more Keywords: Tourism, Pueblo Indians, Acculturation, Village Design, Tourist Behavior, Environmental Management

First paragraph:

Acculturation is defined as the process of culture change that occurs when a society with superior technological sophistication comes into contact with one of inferior technological sophistication.  The latter is most likely to become an acculturated society, experiencing dramatic shifts in social structure and world view.  The North American experience has largely been one in which American Indians have experienced pressure to change under the expanding influence of European settlers (Bodine 1972).  Societies can react in a variety of ways under pressure of this kind (Lew 1989).  In general, these reactions can be classified into two types: innovation diffusion, and cultural adaptation.

Das Dorf als Lebenswelt: Institutionen und Lebensgrundlagen

by Ulf Scharrer

Co-authored with Jürgen Zangenberg, in: Klaus Scherberich (ed.), Neues Testament und antike Kultur 2: Familie - Gesellschaft - Wirtschaft, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2005, 104-108

Family, Village and the Political Party: Articulation of Social Change in Contemporary Rural Syria

by Sulayman Khalaf

1981. Abstract - Doctor in Philosophy in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Das byzantinische Dorf in Zentralkleinasien, in: J. Lefort – Cécile Morrisson – J.-P. Sodini (Hrsg.), Les Villages dans l’Empire byzantin (IVe–XVe siècle) (Réalités byzantines 11). Paris 2005, 425–435.

by Klaus Belke

"Casata e Lignaggio. Problematiche socio-politiche in Cisgiordania",«L'Uomo»,3, 1979, 203-234.

by Adriana Destro

Strukturne promene veličine naselja u planinskim područjima Srbije/ Structural changes in size of settlements in Serbian mountain regions

by Tamara Maricic

in Serbian, english abstract
Radomir Malobabić, Tamara Maričić
Arhitektura i Urbanizam, no. 14-15, str. 65-71

À propos de la «naissance du village au Moyen Age »: la fin d'un paradigme?

by Magali Watteaux

published in 'Études Rurales', n°167-168, juill.-déc. 2003, p. 307-318.

About the "birth of the village during the Middle Ages" : the end of a paradigm

In France, since... more About the "birth of the village during the Middle Ages" : the end of a paradigm

In France, since the beginning of the 1980's, researches on the medieval rural settlement have been conducted by a theory on the origins of our villages by Robert Fossier. The villages would appear around the beginning of the eleventh century and would fix them durably in the soils, around the church and/or the castle. This theory - forged at one time when it made possible to advance the reflexion on the relations between the seigniories and the habitat - can be today revalued thanks to the archaeological data brought by the preventive excavations.

Archéogéographie de l’habitat et du parcellaire au haut Moyen Âge.

by Magali Watteaux

published in E. Peytremann (ed.), 'L’Austrasie. Sociétés, économies, territoires, christianisation', actes des XXVIe Journées Internationales d'Archéologie Mérovingienne (Nancy, 22-25/09/2005), Presses Universitaires de Nancy, Nancy, 2009, p. 109-120.

Archaeogeography of the settlement and of the plots of land during the early Medieval Ages (V-XII c.)

Paper... more Archaeogeography of the settlement and of the plots of land during the early Medieval Ages (V-XII c.)

Paper on the question of the early medieval setllement and of the plots of lands during this period. I use a lot the archaeological data but in an archaeographical perspective.

North India 1950s - 2000s: Two (conceptual) villages, its (Chamar) inhabitants and the question of 'the new'

by manuela ciotti

Article in preparation

Drawing on the comparison between Bernard Cohn’s work on a Chamar community in a northern India village in the 1950s... more Drawing on the comparison between Bernard Cohn’s work on a Chamar community in a northern India village in the 1950s (An anthropologist among the historians and other essays, 1987) and my work on the same community in a nearby village (Retro-modern India. Forging the low-caste self, 2010), this paper investigates the occurrence of ‘the new’. The paper takes cue from Cohn’s observation of a typological discrepancy in family models between Chamars and upper-caste Thakurs - showing an absence of synchrony between such models. This discrepancy, Cohn remarked, was also found in many aspects of social life – testifying to a distinctive social reproduction pattern among Chamars. Half a century later, I recorded comparable discrepancies among this community – signalling the presence of repetitions.

By taking the villages under analysis as ‘conceptual spaces’, it is argued that repetitions turn into new social practices when their enactment is engendered by new compulsions. Against this backdrop, the paper asks how the ‘new’ is actually detected: it is suggested that this is the result of empirical observation but, equally importantly, also of shifts in analytical paradigms (i.e. from modernization and Sanskritisation to modernity). The new might also emerge when both empirical observation and analysis shift the focus from collective to individual agency. By disentangling the question of the emergence of the new vis-à-vis ethnography/theory, the paper also wishes to examine how the multiple shifts outlined above have contributed to, complicated, or essentialised knowledge production on Chamar communities and the wider constituency of which they are part.

Uttar Pradesh: Untouchability and politics

by manuela ciotti

Forthcoming, chapter in The Many Indias. A Reader on ethnography after Independence, Peter Berger & Frank Heidemann (eds), Routledge

A retrospective on the anthropological imagination on Uttar Pradesh (north India) since India's Independence A retrospective on the anthropological imagination on Uttar Pradesh (north India) since India's Independence

The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head's " The Wind and a Boy"

by Johan Schimanski

Johan Schimanski. “The Postcolonial Border: Bessie Head’s ‘The Wind and a Boy’”,  Readings of the Particular: The Postcolonial in the Postnational. Eds. Anne Holden Rønning and Lene Johannessen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007. 71-91. 

Approcci all'analisi degli insediamenti e loro confini territoriali nel medioevo

by Paul Arthur

co-authored with G. Gravili, in IV Congresso Nazionale di Archeologia Medievale, All'Insegna del Giglio, Florence, 2006, pp. 31-36.

Interesting results through an analysis of modern municipal boundaries and hypothetical territories of medieval... more Interesting results through an analysis of modern municipal boundaries and hypothetical territories of medieval villages, with the aid of Thiessen polygons. Certain coincidences suggest that a number of modern boundaries were established in the Middle Ages.

Thompson, Victor D. 2007 Articulating Activity Areas and Formation Processes at the Sapelo Island Shell Ring Complex. Southeastern Archaeology 26 (1): 91-107.

by Victor Thompson

Rainer Schreg: Archäologische Studien zur Genese des mittelalterlichen Dorfes in Südwestdeutschland. Arch. Nachrbl. 7, 2002, 329-335

by Rainer Schreg

in German

summary of doctoral thesis summary of doctoral thesis