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...
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...
This series aims to reflect the richness and vitality of contemporary work in anthropology. Volumes included explore not only current developments within social and cultural anthropology, but also the interfaces between these areas and such fields as biological anthropology and archaeology. They challenge established conventions and represent a significant advance in a range of areas of anthropological enquiry which are of wide interest to an international readership.
This series aims to reflect the richness and vitality of contemporary work in anthropology. Volumes included explore not only current developments wit...
The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficult to define. It often appears in academic discourse and, especially, in the popular imagination as an abstraction, usually nebulous, grasped as pervasive - a spectre to be feared. In this book, distinguished scholars from around the world take issue with this purported universality, exploring alternative imaginings of the state, of power and of global processes at the margins. Taking an anthropological perspective based in diverse ethnographic contexts outside Europe and North America, if not...
The state is frequently conceived as a universal, although one apparently extraordinarily difficult to define. It often appears in academic discourse ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
