Kenneth M Kensinger
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 125274 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kenneth M Kensinger |
| NOMBRES | Kenneth M |
| APELLIDO | Kensinger |
| FIRMA | KENSINGER K M |
| AFILIACIONES | Temple University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 73 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1968 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
South American Indian Languages
Being a Real Man
The author reminisces on the life of Grompes, the headman of the Cashinahua village of Balta on the Curanja River of southeastern Peru. El autor cuenta sus recuerdos de la vida de Grompes, el cacique del pueblo Cashinahua de Balta en el rio Curanja del suroeste de Peru
Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. Volumen III
La Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonia es un proyecto editorial de largo aliento que se propone publicar monografías etnográficas, ensayos comparativos y trabajos de arqueología referentes a diversas zonas y pueblos indígenas de las regiones amazónicas de Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Colombia. El proyecto contempla la publicación de 15 volúmenes y la participación de más de 50 destacados especialistas de América Latina, Europa y los Estados Unidos. …
You Killed My Baby
Kenneth M. Kensinger, "You Killed My Baby!": The Dilemmas of Medical Intervention during Fieldwork, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Jul., 1996), pp. 134-136
Beyond the Bilingual Classroom
Disposing of the Dead in Cashinahua Society
The Gift of Birds
Presenting 10 essays by experts in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and ornithology on the native peoples of South America and their use of birds, this volume offers a fascinating view into the lives and customs of some of the indigenous peoples living in the rainforest and coastal areas of Brazil and Peru. This book includes color photographs of South American natives in festival and ritual celebrations and everyday activities, along wit…
The Body Silent. Robert F. MURPHY
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
This article examines marriage practices among indigenous societies in lowland South America, focusing on variations and commonalities across different cultural groups. It explores the relationship between marriage systems and social organization, considering factors such as kinship structures, economic exchange, and political alliances. The authors analyze various aspects of marriage, including mate selection, residence patterns, and the role of…
On Meat and Hunting
Recent Publications in Panoan Linguistics
Ethnology
The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru
Data, data, and more Yanomamö data
Napoleon A. Chagnon. Studying the Yanomamö. Studies in Anthropological Method, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, and references. $4.25 (paper)
The anthropometric determination of body composition among the Peruvian Cashinahua
The morphology and body composition of the Peruvian Cashinahua, a small unacculturated rain forest population numbering 206, has been analyzed. Measurements involve anthropometry, including skinfolds, and endosteal and periosteal breadths of the second metacarpals, taken from 135 handwrist radiographs. The analysis indicates that the Cashinahua are short and relatively heavy at all ages, and are morphologically similar to other comparable populat…
The Feast. Timothy ASCH and Napoleon CHAGNON
Linguistics
General and Ethnology
Finger dermatoglyphics of the Peruvian Cashinahua
The Peruvian Cashinahua are an isolate of unmixed American Indians living in four villages in the Southeastern part of the country. Finger dermatoglyphic data were collected from the three most closely grouped villages in the summer of 1966. The relatively low proportion of whorls and high proportion of arches, and the low values of pattern intensity (10.75) and total ridge count (89.14) contrasts markedly with other American Indian groups in gen…
Peru before the Incas
Oil and Steel. Processes of Karinya Culture Change in Response to Industrial Development
How Real People Ought to Live
The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
This article examines marriage practices among indigenous societies in lowland South America, focusing on variations and commonalities across different cultural groups. It explores the relationship between marriage systems and social organization, considering factors such as kinship structures, economic exchange, and political alliances. The authors analyze various aspects of marriage, including mate selection, residence patterns, and the role of…
On Meat and Hunting
The anthropometric determination of body composition among the Peruvian Cashinahua
The morphology and body composition of the Peruvian Cashinahua, a small unacculturated rain forest population numbering 206, has been analyzed. Measurements involve anthropometry, including skinfolds, and endosteal and periosteal breadths of the second metacarpals, taken from 135 handwrist radiographs. The analysis indicates that the Cashinahua are short and relatively heavy at all ages, and are morphologically similar to other comparable populat…
The Feast. Timothy ASCH and Napoleon CHAGNON
The Body Silent. Robert F. MURPHY
Recent Publications in Panoan Linguistics
Finger dermatoglyphics of the Peruvian Cashinahua
The Peruvian Cashinahua are an isolate of unmixed American Indians living in four villages in the Southeastern part of the country. Finger dermatoglyphic data were collected from the three most closely grouped villages in the summer of 1966. The relatively low proportion of whorls and high proportion of arches, and the low values of pattern intensity (10.75) and total ridge count (89.14) contrasts markedly with other American Indian groups in gen…
You Killed My Baby
Kenneth M. Kensinger, "You Killed My Baby!": The Dilemmas of Medical Intervention during Fieldwork, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Jul., 1996), pp. 134-136
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
Ethnology
Data, data, and more Yanomamö data
Napoleon A. Chagnon. Studying the Yanomamö. Studies in Anthropological Method, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, and references. $4.25 (paper)
Linguistics
General and Ethnology
Oil and Steel. Processes of Karinya Culture Change in Response to Industrial Development
Finger dermatoglyphics of the Peruvian Cashinahua
The Peruvian Cashinahua are an isolate of unmixed American Indians living in four villages in the Southeastern part of the country. Finger dermatoglyphic data were collected from the three most closely grouped villages in the summer of 1966. The relatively low proportion of whorls and high proportion of arches, and the low values of pattern intensity (10.75) and total ridge count (89.14) contrasts markedly with other American Indian groups in gen…
Peru before the Incas
Linguistics
General and Ethnology
The anthropometric determination of body composition among the Peruvian Cashinahua
The morphology and body composition of the Peruvian Cashinahua, a small unacculturated rain forest population numbering 206, has been analyzed. Measurements involve anthropometry, including skinfolds, and endosteal and periosteal breadths of the second metacarpals, taken from 135 handwrist radiographs. The analysis indicates that the Cashinahua are short and relatively heavy at all ages, and are morphologically similar to other comparable populat…
The Feast. Timothy ASCH and Napoleon CHAGNON
Data, data, and more Yanomamö data
Napoleon A. Chagnon. Studying the Yanomamö. Studies in Anthropological Method, New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1974. xiv + 270 pp. Tables, illustrations, appendixes, glossary, and references. $4.25 (paper)
The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru
Ethnology
Recent Publications in Panoan Linguistics
On Meat and Hunting
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
This article examines marriage practices among indigenous societies in lowland South America, focusing on variations and commonalities across different cultural groups. It explores the relationship between marriage systems and social organization, considering factors such as kinship structures, economic exchange, and political alliances. The authors analyze various aspects of marriage, including mate selection, residence patterns, and the role of…
Marriage Practices in Lowland South America
The Body Silent. Robert F. MURPHY
Disposing of the Dead in Cashinahua Society
The Gift of Birds
Presenting 10 essays by experts in the fields of anthropology, ethnography, and ornithology on the native peoples of South America and their use of birds, this volume offers a fascinating view into the lives and customs of some of the indigenous peoples living in the rainforest and coastal areas of Brazil and Peru. This book includes color photographs of South American natives in festival and ritual celebrations and everyday activities, along wit…
Beyond the Bilingual Classroom
You Killed My Baby
Kenneth M. Kensinger, "You Killed My Baby!": The Dilemmas of Medical Intervention during Fieldwork, Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 69, No. 3, Healing and the Body Politic: Dilemmas of Doctoring in Ethnographic Fieldwork (Jul., 1996), pp. 134-136
Guía etnográfica de la Alta Amazonía. Volumen III
La Guía etnográfica de la alta amazonia es un proyecto editorial de largo aliento que se propone publicar monografías etnográficas, ensayos comparativos y trabajos de arqueología referentes a diversas zonas y pueblos indígenas de las regiones amazónicas de Perú, Bolivia, Ecuador y Colombia. El proyecto contempla la publicación de 15 volúmenes y la participación de más de 50 destacados especialistas de América Latina, Europa y los Estados Unidos. …
Being a Real Man
The author reminisces on the life of Grompes, the headman of the Cashinahua village of Balta on the Curanja River of southeastern Peru. El autor cuenta sus recuerdos de la vida de Grompes, el cacique del pueblo Cashinahua de Balta en el rio Curanja del suroeste de Peru
South American Indian Languages
How Real People Ought to Live
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