Peter Geiser
Biographic Data
| ID | 92869 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Geiser |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Geiser |
| SIGNATURE | GEISER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | California State University System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Egyptian Nubian: A Study in Social Symbiosis
Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution
The Ainu: The Past in the Present
The Myth of the Dam1
Change and stability can be understood not as polar opposites but as conditions necessary to the viability of organic life. Social transformation may be accomplished, in part, because there exists a mythopoeic faculty which during processes of transformation acts to preserve one's self-concept and collective identification. Although the Nubian practiced labor migration over centuries, he asserts, today, that no one could have left Nubia had it no…
The Contemporary Ainu: A People in Search of Society
The Ainu of Japan are a sub-group whose cultural continuity appears to be rapidly coming to an end. The accompanying phenomenon of alienation is partly explained by a century-old Japanese colonial policy which completely transformed the Ainu's economic and political institutions. The symbolisms formerly attaching to group boundary-maintaining mechanisms became ineffective as instruments for the definition of an ethnic community. Consequently, the…
Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement: The Nubian Case
This paper is an analysis of selected aspects of population movement, with special reference to the case of Nubia. It examines a portion of the data collected in the years 1961-1964 during the course of an anthropological-sociological study of Nubian society, including both the villages of Egyptian Nubia and the urban communities of Egypt and the Sudan. Specifically, the paper describes the Nubian community in historical perspective, sketching ou…
The Myth of the Dam1
Change and stability can be understood not as polar opposites but as conditions necessary to the viability of organic life. Social transformation may be accomplished, in part, because there exists a mythopoeic faculty which during processes of transformation acts to preserve one's self-concept and collective identification. Although the Nubian practiced labor migration over centuries, he asserts, today, that no one could have left Nubia had it no…
Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution
Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement: The Nubian Case
This paper is an analysis of selected aspects of population movement, with special reference to the case of Nubia. It examines a portion of the data collected in the years 1961-1964 during the course of an anthropological-sociological study of Nubian society, including both the villages of Egyptian Nubia and the urban communities of Egypt and the Sudan. Specifically, the paper describes the Nubian community in historical perspective, sketching ou…
Some Differential Factors Affecting Population Movement: The Nubian Case
This paper is an analysis of selected aspects of population movement, with special reference to the case of Nubia. It examines a portion of the data collected in the years 1961-1964 during the course of an anthropological-sociological study of Nubian society, including both the villages of Egyptian Nubia and the urban communities of Egypt and the Sudan. Specifically, the paper describes the Nubian community in historical perspective, sketching ou…
The Contemporary Ainu: A People in Search of Society
The Ainu of Japan are a sub-group whose cultural continuity appears to be rapidly coming to an end. The accompanying phenomenon of alienation is partly explained by a century-old Japanese colonial policy which completely transformed the Ainu's economic and political institutions. The symbolisms formerly attaching to group boundary-maintaining mechanisms became ineffective as instruments for the definition of an ethnic community. Consequently, the…
The Myth of the Dam1
Change and stability can be understood not as polar opposites but as conditions necessary to the viability of organic life. Social transformation may be accomplished, in part, because there exists a mythopoeic faculty which during processes of transformation acts to preserve one's self-concept and collective identification. Although the Nubian practiced labor migration over centuries, he asserts, today, that no one could have left Nubia had it no…
The Ainu: The Past in the Present
The Egyptian Nubian: A Study in Social Symbiosis
Bassari Migrations: The Quiet Revolution
African history and culture analysis (3 works) · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Archaeology and Historical Studies (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Japanese History and Culture (2 works) · Law (2 works)