Stanley Kubrick s "2001: A Space Odyssey "is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesmerized audiences at the time of its initial screening in 1968 and went on to become one the highest grossing films of the decade. In "2001 and Counting, " renowned anthropologist Bruce Kapferer revisits "2001: A Space Odyssey, "making a compelling case for its continued cultural relevance. While the film s earliest audiences considered it to be a critical examination of European and American realities at the height of the Cold War, Kapferer...
Stanley Kubrick s "2001: A Space Odyssey "is widely recognized as a cult classic. Despite mixed critical reception, the dark and difficult movie mesme...
A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume aims to reconceptualise the discipline of anthropology in a radically critical way.
A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the...
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic' what stands outside of--and challenges--conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and unsubstantiated difference. Its aim is to re-found the importance of the exotic in the development of anthropological knowledge and to overcome methodological dualisms and dualistic approaches.
Chapters look at the risk of exoticism in the perspectivist approach, the significant exotic...
Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic' what stands outside of--and challenges--conventional or established understandings. This vol...
Christian Krohn-Hansen Knut G. Nustad Bruce Kapferer
What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state.The contributors argue that the state is not a fixed and definite object. Our perceptions of it are constantly changing, and differ from person to person. What is your idea of the state if you are a refugee? Or if you are living in post-aparteid South Africa? Our perceptions are formed and sustained by evolving discourses and techniques -- these come from institutions such as government, but are also made by communities and individuals. The contributors examine how state structures are...
What is the 'state' and how can we best study it? This book investigates new ways of analysing the state.The contributors argue that the state is not ...
A timely collection on contemporary relationships between the state and society, which uses case studies beyond the heartland of political theory to consider state control under challenge or in transition.
A timely collection on contemporary relationships between the state and society, which uses case studies beyond the heartland of political theory to c...
This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This perspective is used to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings. The author argues that the architecture of Neolithic stone tombs acts as a kind of camera lens focussing attention on landscape features such as rock outcrops, river valleys, mountain...
Offers a new approach to landscape perception.
This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It in...
This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series of Popular Front coalition Ministries. It asserts that French policy-makers made a substantial impact upon the course of British foreign policy whilst breathing new life into the waning Entente Cordiale. The study contends that close attention to the role of French influence is fundamental to a grasp of British appeasement and rearmament policy in the period and essential to the understanding of the Anglo-French response to such problems as the...
This book investigates the course of Anglo-French policy in Europe from 1936 to1938, a critical period during which France was governed by a series...
A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University Press.
Victor Turner will be remembered as the anthropologist who developed the concept of the 'social drama', a method used extensively by anthropologists to describe and analyse the social life of a community. In essence, this technique involves analysing social crises within a community over a period of time in order to gain a better understanding of the key principles that govern the social life of the community.
This book -- Turner's first 'social...
A reprint of the seminal anthropological work of the 1960s. Originally published by Manchester University Press.
This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and political implications of European integration with particular emphasis on changing European identities, concepts of citizenship and levels of participation. Their aim is to suggest an agenda for future research capable of addressing developing trends in contemporary Europe.
The book is divided into two parts. The first deals with major theoretical issues that have characterized the anthropological study of Europe and includes a detailed...
This is the first study of Europe post-1989 from an anthropological perspective. Thirteen distinguished authors examine the social, cultural and po...
Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtler discourses.
This absorbing book articulates powerful and convincing arguments on such key subjects as ethnicity, irony, authenticity, the body and resistance. Franco's 'politics of original sin' had left its mark on every aspect of Spanish life between 1936 and 1975, and flamenco music was no exception. Although widely portrayed as an apolitical, even frivolous form of entertainment, flamenco is shown here to have played a role in both...
Flamenco is renowned for its passion and flamboyance. Yet because it generates such visceral responses, it is often overlooked as a site for subtle...
