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Wrapping in Images : Tattooing in Polynesia
ISBN: 9780198280903 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In traditional Polynesian societies, tattooing has played a key role in the social construction of the individual. This is the first study to provide a comparative analysis of tattooing in its original setting--based on a comprehensive survey of both written and oral sources. Drawing on modern social theory, psychoanalysis, and anthropological studies, Gell demonstrates the role of tattooing in the complex array of controlling sacredness and protecting the self.
In traditional Polynesian societies, tattooing has played a key role in the social construction of the individual. This is the first study to provide ...
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527,24 zł |
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Metamorphosis of the Cassowaries: Umeda Society, Language and Ritual Volume 51
ISBN: 9780485195514 / Angielski / Twarda / 1975 / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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706,98 zł |
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The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images
ISBN: 9780854968909 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The author examines the phenomenon of time and asks such fascinating questions as how time impinges on people, to what extent our awareness of time is culturally conditioned, how societies deal with temporal problems and whether time can be considered a resource' to be economized. More specifically, he provides a consistent and detailed analysis of theories put forward by a number of thinkers such as Durkheim, Evans-Pritchard, Levi-Strauss, Geertz,...
Time - relentless, ever-present but intangible and the single element over which human beings have no absolute control - has long proved a puzzle. The...
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198,95 zł |
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The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams
ISBN: 9780485195675 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This text collect together the most influential of Alfred Gell's writings. The essays vividly demonstrate his theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of anthropological inquiry.
This text collect together the most influential of Alfred Gell's writings. The essays vividly demonstrate his theoretical and empirical interests and ...
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680,80 zł |
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The Anthropology of Time: Cultural Constructions of Temporal Maps and Images
ISBN: 9780367719685 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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706,98 zł |
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The Art of Anthropology: Essays and Diagrams
ISBN: 9781845204846 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This work collects together the most influential of Gell's writings with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate Gell's theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of current anthropological enquiry. A central theme of the essays is Gel's highly original exploration of diagrammatic imagery as the site where social relations and cognitive processes converge and crystallise. Gell tracks this imagery across studies of tribal market transactions, dance forms, the iconicity of language and his most recent and... This work collects together the most influential of Gell's writings with a new introductory chapter written by Gell. The essays vividly demonstrate... |
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193,71 zł |
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Art and Agency: An Anthropological Theory
ISBN: 9780198280149 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influencing the thoughts and actions of others. He argues that existing anthropological and aesthetic theories take an overwhelmingly passive point of view, and questions the criteria that accord art status only to a certain class of objects and not to others. The anthropology of art is here reformulated as the anthropology of a category of action: Gell shows how art objects embody complex intentionalities and mediate social agency. He explores the...
Alfred Gell puts forward a new anthropological theory of visual art, seen as a form of instrumental action: the making of things as a means of influen...
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663,66 zł |
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