wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9789400729315 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region. In "Flows of Faith," the contributing authors take as their starting point questions of how religions manifest outside their cultural boundaries and provide the basis for new social identities, political movements and social transformations. With fresh insights into the globalization of beliefs, their local inflections, and their institutionalization, the authors explore how old and new... Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious mo... |
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391,77 zł |
Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780700713998 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of puberty, explorations with sexuality and courtship, and the pressure to reproduce are a few of the human tensions central to this volume.
In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of...
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701,59 zł |
Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self
ISBN: 9781611320985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma...
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of ...
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207,83 zł |
Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940
ISBN: 9780521560085 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This unique book is a history of health, disease and its prevention in Malaya under colonial rule. With insight and clarity, it explores the relationships among biology, environment, population and the structures of the state. The book emphasizes the role of medicine in legitimizing colonialism and shows that the ill health of populations was related to the political and social climate. The book integrates history, medical and social theory to offer a compelling account of disease and changing health status under colonialism.
This unique book is a history of health, disease and its prevention in Malaya under colonial rule. With insight and clarity, it explores the relations...
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370,64 zł |
Australian Ways: Anthropological Studies in an Industrialised Society
ISBN: 9780367717476 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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701,59 zł |
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health
ISBN: 9780415673297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies, global identities and material cultures, and their influence on people's sexual health and wellbeing. Its impetus is the renewed interest in technology and the 'social life of things, ' including pharmaceuticals, expanded sexual and related surgery, the growing exploitation of markets for sexual and contraceptive products, and the impact of these on sexual and health practices and outcomes. The book is organised into three parts. The first...
Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health highlights the complex ways in which sexuality is expressed and enacted through local ideologies...
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753,56 zł |
Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality
ISBN: 9780700714001 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 307 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of puberty, explorations with sexuality and courtship, and the pressure to reproduce are a few of the human tensions central to this volume.
In recent years, first feminist considerations, and now concerns with HIV/Aids have led to new approaches to the study of sexuality. The experience of...
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244,21 zł |
Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries, and the Social Self
ISBN: 9781611320978 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 295 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of function, the loss or replacement of organs. Against a sweeping cultural backdrop of art, popular culture, and the history of science and medicine, Manderson uses narrative epistemology based on in-depth interviews with over 300 individuals to show how they re-establish the coherence of their bodies, identities, and biographies. In addition to offering important new insights into the care, rehabilitation, and rehabituation of post-trauma...
Surface Tensions is an expansive, yet intimate study of how people remake themselves after catastrophic bodily change--the loss of limbs, the loss of ...
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805,53 zł |
Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870 1940
ISBN: 9780521524483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This unique book is a history of health, disease and its prevention in Malaya under colonial rule. With insight and clarity, it explores the relationships among biology, environment, population and the structures of the state. The book emphasizes the role of medicine in legitimizing colonialism and shows that the ill health of populations was related to the political and social climate. The book integrates history, medical and social theory to offer a compelling account of disease and changing health status under colonialism.
This unique book is a history of health, disease and its prevention in Malaya under colonial rule. With insight and clarity, it explores the relations...
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211,96 zł |
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness
ISBN: 9780813547473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18-20 dni roboczych. Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of...
Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in dive...
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191,47 zł |
Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of Covid-19
ISBN: 9781800080249 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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151,25 zł |
Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific
ISBN: 9789400794290 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 20 dni roboczych. Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movements whose incidence is growing across the region. In Flows of Faith, the contributing authors take as their starting point questions of how religions manifest outside their cultural boundaries and provide the basis for new social identities, political movements and social transformations. With fresh insights into the globalization of beliefs, their local inflections, and their institutionalization, the authors explore how old and new religions...
Unique local transformations of the practice of established religions in Asia and the Pacific are juxtaposed with the emergence of new religious movem...
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391,77 zł |
Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture, and Society in Oceania and Southeast Asia
ISBN: 9780521187411 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. This 1987 volume brought together for the first time a range of essays on the anthropology of food in Oceania and Southeast Asia. The essays reflect research in the field, primarily that undertaken by Australian scholars. The volume focuses on four main concerns: factors that influence the production of food and dietary behaviour; the way in which people think and speak about diet and nutrition, including concepts of hunger and the classification of foods; infant feeding practice, including the promotion of bottle feeding; and the roles of government agencies and multinational corporations....
This 1987 volume brought together for the first time a range of essays on the anthropology of food in Oceania and Southeast Asia. The essays reflect r...
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211,96 zł |
Disclosure in Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780415702478 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be 'disclosed' to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the new social and political implications of disclosure practices in health and illness.
Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be 'd...
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753,56 zł |
Disclosure in Health and Illness
ISBN: 9780367341398 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be `disclosed' to peers and professionals, and on some occasions, disclosure is a requirement and not a choice. This innovative collection examines the new social and political implications of disclosure practices in health and illness. We make our identities and our connections with others by sharing life stories, experiences and innermost desires and are often asked to disclose facts about our lives, bodies and minds, at times with unintended...
Disclosure is a frequently used but rarely interrogated concept in health and social welfare. Abuse, disability, sexuality and health status can be `d...
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207,83 zł |
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
ISBN: 9781138612877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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249,41 zł |
The Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology
ISBN: 9781138015630 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. "The" "Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology" provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting departure from conventional handbooks, compendia and encyclopedias, the three editors have written the core chapters of the volume, and in so doing, invite the reader to reflect on the ethnographic richness and theoretical contributions of research on the clinic and the field, bioscience and medical research, infectious and communicable disease, biomedicine, complementary and alternative modalities, structural violence and vulnerability, gender and... "The" "Routledge Handbook of Medical Anthropology" provides a contemporary overview of the key themes in medical anthropology. In this exciting dep... |
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1143,33 zł |