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Political customs and rites --- Rites and ceremonies --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rome --- Politics and government

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Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

Festivals --- Political customs and rites --- History --- Days --- Manners and customs --- Anniversaries --- Fasts and feasts --- Pageants --- Processions --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies

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This book argues that the promulgation of the Traditional Leadership and Governance Framework and Communal Land Rights Acts runs the risk of compromising South Africa's democracy. The acts establish traditional councils with land administration powers. These structures are dominated by unelected members.

Chiefdoms --- Tribal government --- Political customs and rites --- Democracy --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Tribes --- Chieftaincies --- Chieftainships --- Xalanga (South Africa) --- Xhalanga (South Africa) --- Politics and government. --- Social conditions. --- Political sociology --- Political systems --- South Africa --- Democracy. --- Descriptive sociology --- Social conditions --- Social history --- History --- Sociology

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Persistence of violent conflict in Africa indicates that modern international methods are ineffective. This study examines traditional conflict management practices that can be found on the African continent, and looks at similar practices elsewhere, such as the Middle East and China, for comparison. Examples of African conflict management practices are presented, and their characteristics are discussed in the context of both internal meaning and external comparisons. Chapters are in sections on managing conflict in traditional African societies, other traditional approaches to reconciliation, and applying traditional methods to modern conflict management.

Polemology --- Sociology of culture --- Africa --- Ethnicity --- Culture conflict --- Social conflict --- Conflict management --- Political customs and rites --- Ethnicité --- Conflit culturel --- Conflits sociaux --- Gestion des conflits --- Moeurs politiques --- Afrique --- Social life and customs. --- Politics and government. --- Moeurs et coutumes --- Politique et gouvernement --- #SBIB:39A11 --- #SBIB:39A73 --- #SBIB:327.5H20 --- Class conflict --- Class struggle --- Conflict, Social --- Social tensions --- Interpersonal conflict --- Social psychology --- Sociology --- Cultural conflict --- Culture wars --- Conflict of cultures --- Intercultural conflict --- Antropologie : socio-politieke structuren en relaties --- Etnografie: Afrika --- Vredesonderzoek: algemeen --- Ethnicité --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies

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How do landscapes-defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations-contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic remains of early complex societies, this provocative and far-reaching book is the first systematic attempt to explain the links between spatial organization and politics from an anthropological point of view. The Classic-period Maya, the kingdom of Urartu, and the cities of early southern Mesopotamia provide the focal points for this multidimensional account of human polities. Are the cities and villages in which we live and work, the lands that are woven into our senses of cultural and personal identity, and the national territories we occupy merely stages on which historical processes and political rituals are enacted? Or do the forms of buildings and streets, the evocative sensibilities of architecture and vista, the aesthetics of place conjured in art and media constitute political landscapes-broad sets of spatial practices critical to the formation, operation, and overthrow of polities, regimes, and institutions? Smith brings together contemporary theoretical developments from geography and social theory with anthropological perspectives and archaeological data to pursue these questions.

Landscape assessment. --- Landscape archaeology --- Political anthropology. --- Assessment, Landscape --- Environmental perception --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Perception, Landscape --- Human ecology --- Land use --- Landscape protection --- Archaeology --- Cultural landscapes --- Anthropology, Political --- Government, Primitive --- Ethnology --- Political science --- Political aspects. --- Anthropological aspects --- Political anthropology --- Political aspects --- Landscape assessment --- anthropological. --- archaeologists. --- artistic works. --- classicists. --- complex societies. --- cultural identity. --- early societies. --- epigraphs. --- formation of governments. --- formation of polities. --- maya. --- national territories. --- nations. --- nonfiction. --- overthrow of regimes. --- physical world. --- political anthropology. --- political formation. --- political history. --- political institutions. --- political landscape. --- political power. --- political rituals. --- political science. --- social theory. --- systematic approach. --- textbooks. --- urartu.