wyszukanych pozycji: 4
Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
ISBN: 9783030769260 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found themselves in unexpectedly familiar territory. In theirempirical experience, fact—knowledge accepted as true—derives its salience from social mechanisms of legitimization, thereby demonstrating a deep interconnection with power and authority. In thisperspective, fact is a continually contested and volatile social category.
Due to the specific histories of their colonial and post-independence experience, African societies offer a... When the notion of ‘alternative facts’ and the alleged dawning of a ‘postfactual’ world entered public discourse, social anthropologists found...
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Troubled Minds: On the Cultural Construction of Mental Disorder and Normality in Southern Malaŵi
ISBN: 9783631587171 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 10-14 dni roboczych. Every society has its own definition of a normal and an abnormal human condition. For persons living with mental disorders, these concepts have a tremendous impact. This study investigates how the abnormal mind is culturally defined in Malawi, South-Eastern Africa. Based on anthropological techniques such as interviews, participant observation, and archive research, it explores the different social dimensions of mental disorder - e.g. its reflection in traditional dance rituals, in behavioural rules during pregnancy, or in the healing ministry of independent churches. It demonstrates how...
Every society has its own definition of a normal and an abnormal human condition. For persons living with mental disorders, these concepts have a trem...
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456,68 zł |
Spirit & Mind - Mental Health at the Intersection of Religion & Psychiatry
ISBN: 9783643907073 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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204,75 zł |
Challenging Authorities: Ethnographies of Legitimacy and Power in Eastern and Southern Africa
ISBN: 9783030769239 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. |
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500,03 zł |