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Encyclopedia of World Cultures, oceania Vol. 2 by David Levinson; Timothy J O'Leary; Terence E Hays; Paul Hockings; Linda A Bennett; Paul Friedrich; Norma Diamond; Johannes Wilbert; James Dow; John Middleton; Amal Rassam; Thomson Gale (Firm) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This volume, with one hundred new articles, supplements the award-winning 10-volume Encyclopedia of World Cultures, which was also organized and prepared by the Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) at Yale University, and published by G. K. Hall/Macmillan Library Reference between 1991 and 1996. The volume includes three kinds of entries. One kind is an important culture that was not included, for one reason or another, in the original encyclopedia. These new cultures are located in most regions of the world, but especially in Africa and North America. For example, Rwandans and Barundi are now included. New or updated articles on cultures that have been strongly affected by recent political events are a second kind of entry here. For example, the wars in the former Yugoslavia required expansions and updates of the articles on the Bosnian Muslims, Albanians, and Serbs, and the Afghanistan war called for revisions of the articles on the Tajiks and Uzbeks. Finally, there originally were only short entries on some important cultures, including some that are of classic interest in anthropology (for example, Crow, Zulu). These have now been expanded and updated. In preparing this supplement

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Author

David Levinson; Timothy J O'Leary; Terence E Hays; Paul Hockings; Linda A Bennett; Paul Friedrich; Norma Diamond; Johannes Wilbert; James Dow; John Middleton; Amal Rassam; Thomson Gale (Firm)

Publisher

G.K. Hall, Macmillan Reference USA

Published

1991

Language

EN

ISBN

9780816118120

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Anthropology