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An Anthropological Lifetime in Japan: The Writings of Joy Hendry
ISBN: 9789004302860 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 716 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Joy Hendry's collection demonstrates the value of an anthropological approach to understanding a particular society by taking the reader through her own discovery of the field, explaining her practice of it in Oxford and Japan, and then offering a selection of the results and findings she obtained. Her work starts with a study of marriage made in a small rural community, continues with education and the rearing of children, and later turns to consider polite language, especially amongst women. This lead into a study of "wrapping" and cultural display, for example of gardens and theme parks,...
Joy Hendry's collection demonstrates the value of an anthropological approach to understanding a particular society by taking the reader through her o...
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An Affair with a Village
ISBN: 9781999696269 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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60,49 |
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Anthropologists, Indigenous Scholars and the Research Endeavour: Seeking Bridges Towards Mutual Respect
ISBN: 9781138008861 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthropologists and indigenous/native/aboriginal scholars, despite areas of overlapping interest. Participants from around the world share their views and opinions on subjects ranging from ideas for reconciliation, the question of what might constitute a universal "science," indigenous heritage, postcolonial museology, the boundaries of the term "indigeneity," different senses as ways of knowing, and the very issue of writing as a method of... This collection offers the fruits of a stimulating workshop that sought to bridge the fraught relationship which sometimes continues between anthro... |
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251,27 |
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Science and Sustainability: Learning from Indigenous Wisdom
ISBN: 9781137435910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are unsuitable for buildings because of earthquakes. Here, Hendry examines science through these indigenous roots, problematizing the idea that Western science is the only type that deserves that name.
Indigenous peoples have passed down vital knowledge for generations from which local plants help cure common ailments, to which parts of the land are ...
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404,42 |
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Wrapping Culture: Politeness, Presentation, and Power in Japan and Other Societies
ISBN: 9780198280286 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context. Starting with an examination of Japanese gift-wrapping, Joy Hendry demonstrates how our expectations are often influenced by cultural factors which may blind us to an appreciation of underlying intent. She extends this approach to the study of polite language as the wrapping of thoughts and intentions, garments as body wrappings, constructions and gardens as wrapping of space. Hendry shows how this extends even to the ways in which people may...
Wrapping Culture examines problems of intercultural communication and the possibilities for misinterpretation of the familiar in an unfamiliar context...
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496,47 |
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Sharing Our Worlds: An Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology
ISBN: 9781479883684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Sharing Our Worlds offers readers the perfect introduction to cultural and social anthropology, introducing the classic theoretical ideas of its key founders and placing them in their historical and geographical context. This new edition is fully updated, including -topics for reflection- at the end of each chapter which offer topics for debate and further discussion as well as a new final chapter illuminating the valuable ways in which anthropology may be used in the world at large.
This comprehensive text covers the anthropology's core topics in an even-handed and... Sharing Our Worlds offers readers the perfect introduction to cultural and social anthropology, introducing the classic theoretical ideas of ...
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199,33 |
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Reclaiming Culture: Indigenous People and Self-Representation
ISBN: 9781403970183 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the renewal (or rekindling) of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. At the same time, Hendry sets out to explain the importance of ensuring the survival of these cultures. By drawing a fine and textured picture of these cultures, Hendry illuminates extraordinary diversity that was, at one point, seriously endangered, and explains why it should matter in today's world.
This book focuses on the renewal (or rekindling) of cultural identity, especially in populations previously considered 'extinct'. At the same time, He...
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The Orient Strikes Back: A Global View of Cultural Display
ISBN: 9781859733288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese 'villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' Fairs . At the beginning of the 21st Century, Japanese tourists have reversed the gaze and now may visit a range of European 'countries', as well as several other cultural worlds, without ever leaving the shores of Japan. This book suggests that these and other exciting Asian theme parks pose a challenge to Western notions of leisure, education, and entertainment. Is this a case of reverse orientalism? Or is it simply a commercial follow-up on...
At the turn of the 20th Century, Japanese 'villages' and their exotic occupants delighted and mystified visitors to the Great Exhibitions and Worlds' ...
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Engendering Curriculum History
ISBN: 9780415885669 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Disrupting dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual, this book re-envisions curriculum history from a feminist, post-structuralist perspective as an emergent process that creates spaces for multiple interpretations.
Disrupting dominant notions of history as linear, as inevitable progress, and as embedded in the individual, this book re-envisions curriculum history...
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Back to the Bush
ISBN: 9781770108295 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Back to the Bush is the tale of a second year at Sasekile Private Game Reserve for brothers Angus and Hugh MacNaughton. Angus’s weekly journal recounts a positive beginning to the year: fastidious Hugh is in love, running his own camp and on the verge of a promotion. Angus is involved in a romantic liaison, which takes the edge off his customary cynicism, and for the first time in their adult lives, a positive fraternal bond exists between them. Inevitably, reality comes calling. Angus’s love affair ends, Hugh becomes stratospherically arrogant, and Julia, the MacNaughtons’ sister,...
Back to the Bush is the tale of a second year at Sasekile Private Game Reserve for brothers Angus and Hugh MacNaughton. Angus’s weekly journal recou...
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90,34 |
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Indigenous Justice: New Tools, Approaches, and Spaces
ISBN: 9781137606440 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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485,31 |
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Prison Island
ISBN: 9781785075155 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship and the prisons are overflowing. The Regime opens Britain's first penal colony by sending prisoners to a secure island south of the Scillies.
It's now five years since the first prisoners arrived and there have been changes. The prisoners are making a bid for freedom that doesn't involve escaping from the island. The Regime are increasingly disturbed and what ensues is a severe test of the prisoners' resolve. 'Prison Island' is a pacey adventure full of enlightened debate, eroticism, and action, in language that reaches for the ineffable and... Britain is ruled by a military dictatorship and the prisons are overflowing. The Regime opens Britain's first penal colony by sending prisoners to a s...
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73,13 |
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A manual of conveyancing: in the form of examinations embracing both personal and heritable rights.
ISBN: 9781240029921 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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137,52 |
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Reimagining the Educated Citizen: Creole Pedagogies in the Transatlantic World: 1685-1896
ISBN: 9780472076390 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Contends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a US national identity are inseparable from the simultaneous emergence of transatlantic constructs of an education citizen along transnational and transracial lines.
Contends that the constructs of public education and citizenship in the struggle to constitute a US national identity are inseparable from the simulta...
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I Love Your Tears
ISBN: 9781326445706 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When Linda was six years old, her Mum died. Thirty-five years later, she learned that it is never too late to grieve. Time alone had not healed her wounds, there were many thoughts and feelings that had to be faced head on. Practical tasks helped Linda to take time to grieve including: discovering more about her Mum; looking at old school books; and, surprisingly, making rag dolls By also learning about total forgiveness and shedding lots and lots of tears, Linda describes how she was able finally to let the past be the past Linda also gave birth to a still-born son, Charlie. Grieving for...
When Linda was six years old, her Mum died. Thirty-five years later, she learned that it is never too late to grieve. Time alone had not healed her wo...
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Connection
ISBN: 9781495977329 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This is a fictional story about a girl named Clara Dawson who has been in a coma for half her life, and in order for her to survive she must contain the inner demons inside herself that are gnawing at her soul.
This is a fictional story about a girl named Clara Dawson who has been in a coma for half her life, and in order for her to survive she must contain t...
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Secrets and Promises
ISBN: 9781914443008 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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Ethics and Finance: An Introduction
ISBN: 9781107612488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing carefully on ethical theory and with frequent use of case studies, it includes an analysis of the global financial system and its regulation and control, as well as a detailed analysis of the financial crisis. Chapters on specific areas of finance practice cover all the major financial scandals of recent times, from mis-selling to market manipulation and from insider trading to bankers' bonuses, as well as much more positive developments. From micro...
Ethics and Finance: An Introduction provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the ethical issues raised by modern finance. Drawing caref...
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Everybody Get Laid, Nobody Gets Screwed: The True Story of the 80s in the Park Festival
ISBN: 9781090318879 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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