wyszukanych pozycji: 14
Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America is Evolving Toward Africa
ISBN: 9781594517655 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory...
As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evo...
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192,97 zł |
Modernity and Its Malcontents: Ritual and Power in Postcolonial Africa
ISBN: 9780226114408 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modernAfricans? How are so-called "traditional" culturalforms deployed by people seeking empowerment in a world where"modernity" has failed to deliver on its promises?
Some of the essays in "Modernity and Its Malcontents" address familiar anthropological issues like witchcraft, myth, and the politics of reproduction but treat them in fresh ways, situating them amidst the polyphonies of contemporary Africa. Others explore distinctly nontraditional subjects among them the Nigerian popular press and soul-eating in Niger in such a way as to... What role does ritual play in the everyday lives of modernAfricans? How are so-called "traditional" culturalforms deployed by people seeking empowerme...
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153,76 zł |
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance: The Culture and History of a South African People
ISBN: 9780226114231 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 303 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state. Like others on the fringes of the modern world system, the Tshidi struggle to construct a viable order of signs and practices through which they act upon the forces that engulf them. Their dissenting Churches of Zion have provided an effective medium for reconstructing a sense of history and identity, one that protests the terms of colonial and post-colonial society and culture.
In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the mar...
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153,76 zł |
The Truth about Crime: Sovereignty, Knowledge, Social Order
ISBN: 9780226424910 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by our arts, our politics, or our science that we understand ourselves--it is by our crimes. Surveying an astonishing range of forms of crime and policing--from petty thefts to the multibillion-dollar scams of too-big-to-fail financial institutions to the collateral damage of war--they take readers into the disorder of the late modern world. Looking at recent transformations in the triangulation of capital, the state, and governance that have led to...
In this book, renowned anthropologists Jean and John L. Comaroff make a startling but absolutely convincing claim about our modern era: it is not by o...
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131,80 zł |
Of Revelation and Revolution, Volume 1: Christianity, Colonialism, and Consciousness in South Africa
ISBN: 9780226114422 / Angielski / Miękka / 1991 / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. "Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and events as objects of analysis. These they mine for clues to the 19th-century contents of the British imagination and of Tswana minds. They are themselves imagining the imagination of others, and they do the job with characteristic aplomb....The first volume creates an appetite for the second."--Sally Falk Moore, American Anthropologist
"Defining their enterprise as more in the direction of poetics than of prosaics, the Comaroffs free themselves to analyze a vivid series of images and...
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164,75 zł |
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
ISBN: 9780367004019 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Africa and colonialism they have explored some of the fundamental questions of social science, delving into the nature of history and human agency, culture and consciousness, ritual and representation. How are human differences constructed and institutionalized, transformed and (sometimes) effaced, empowered and (sometimes) resisted? How do local cultures articulate with global forms? How is the power of some people over others built, sustained,...
Over the years John and Jean Comaroff have broadened the study of culture and society with their reflections on power and meaning. In their work on Af...
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704,29 zł |
Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
ISBN: 9780367153885 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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208,62 zł |
The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
ISBN: 9780226510767 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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499,73 zł |
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
ISBN: 9780822327158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present juncture in world history as an age of revolution, one not unlike 1789 1848 in its transformative potential?
In exploring the material and cultural dimensions of the Age of Millennial Capitalism,... The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at...
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119,94 zł |
Theory from the South: Or, How Euro-America Is Evolving Toward Africa
ISBN: 9781594517648 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evolving' into the kind of societies normally associated with the 'Global South'. Anthropologists Jean and John Comaroff draw on their long experience of living in Africa to address a range of familiar themes - democracy, national borders, labour and capital and multiculturalism. They consider how we might understand these issues by using theory developed in the Global South. Challenging our ideas about 'developed' and 'developing' nations, Theory...
As nation-states in the Northern Hemisphere experience economic crisis, political corruption and racial tension, it seems as though they might be 'evo...
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912,96 zł |
The Politics of Custom: Chiefship, Capital, and the State in Contemporary Africa
ISBN: 9780226510934 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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170,24 zł |
Ethnicity, Inc.
ISBN: 9780226114712 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In "Ethnicity, Inc." anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. Through a wide-ranging exploration of the changing relationship between culture and the market, they address a pressing question: Wherein lies the future of ethnicity? Their account begins in South Africa, with the incorporation of an ethno-business in venture capital by a group of traditional African chiefs. But their horizons are global: Native American casinos; Scotland's efforts to brand itself; a Zulu ethno-theme park named Shakaland; a... In "Ethnicity, Inc." anthropologists John L. and Jean Comaroff analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant commodification. ... |
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439,32 zł |
Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
ISBN: 9780226114095 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In "Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, " Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealth-an order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the "south" in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts. Are postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In "Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, " Jea... |
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175,73 zł |
The Anthropology of Displaced Communities
ISBN: 9781912385225 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowships fund, which supports research into communities whose culture and social life are under immediate threat. Created by George Appell in response to the distress he experienced working with a traumatized community of swidden cultivators in Borneo, who were struggling to survive after relocation in what Appell describes as a ‘cultural concentration camp’, the fund was established to identify ways of supporting and strengthening such communities through ethnographic work. Since 1995,...
This collection highlights the work of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Urgent Anthropology Fellowships fund, which supports research into comm...
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464,75 zł |