wyszukanych pozycji: 6
E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
ISBN: 9780822336211 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to "E.T. Culture" take these communities seriously. They demonstrate that an E.T. orientation toward various forms of visitation--including alien beings, alien technologies, and uncanny visions--engages primary concepts underpinning anthropological research: host and visitor,...
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a ...
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111,65 zł |
On the Bones of the Serpent: Person, Memory, and Mortality in Sabarl Island Society
ISBN: 9780226038896 / Angielski / Miękka / 1990 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Sabarl island created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of themselves as true "islanders": persons separated from the means of both physical and social survival. The Sabarl struggle for continuity of the physical and social person and of social relations, of cultureal values, of paternal influence in a matrilineal society is the subject of Debbora Battaglia's sensitive ethnography of loss and reconstruction: the first major work on cultural responses to mortality in the southern Massim culture area and an...
Sabarl island created, in myth, from the bones of a serpent is a coral atoll in the Louisiade archipelago of Papua New Guinea. The Sabarl speak of the...
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160,34 zł |
Rhetorics of Self-Making
ISBN: 9780520087996 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social practices of persuasion. Second, it demonstrates how postmodernity problematizes the experience and concept of the self. Finally, the book challenges the pervasive practice of equating an individuated self with the Western world and a relational self with the non-Western world. Contributions cover a...
Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions...
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133,61 zł |
Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination
ISBN: 9781478008422 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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116,73 zł |
Voluminous States: Sovereignty, Materiality, and the Territorial Imagination
ISBN: 9781478007913 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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451,88 zł |
E.T. Culture: Anthropology in Outerspaces
ISBN: 9780822336327 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a shared belief in alien beings and UFO sightings and their effect on popular and expressive culture. Opening up a new frontier for anthropological study, the contributors to "E.T. Culture" take these communities seriously. They demonstrate that an E.T. orientation toward various forms of visitation--including alien beings, alien technologies, and uncanny visions--engages primary concepts underpinning anthropological research: host and visitor,...
Anthropologists have long sought to engage and describe foreign or "alien" societies, yet few have considered the fluid communities centered around a ...
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431,57 zł |