Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Christina Garsten, Shalini Randeria
"The cosmopolitan anthropologist Ulf Hannerz has been engaged for forty years on a multi-site ethnography of the intricate web of relationships that he calls the global ecumene. To this ambitious, protean project he has brought remarkable erudition, the insights of the social sciences, and the style and sensibility of a humanist." - Adam Kuper, London School of Economics
"One of anthropology's most prescient, capacious, and original thinkers, Hannerz is unique in his worldliness, his genial humanity. He has long epitomized the genius of his discipline to cast light on a culturally...
"The cosmopolitan anthropologist Ulf Hannerz has been engaged for forty years on a multi-site ethnography of the intricate web of relationships tha...
This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, introducing countless students to the field and the tools it offers for exploring some of the most complicated questions of human life and interaction. This fourth edition is fully updated, incorporating recent debates and controversies in the field, ranging from globalization and migration research to problems of cultural translation and the challenges of interdisciplinarity. Effortlessly bridging the gap between classic and contemporary anthropology, Small Places, Large Issues remains an...
This concise introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, introducing countless students to the field and the tools i...
Když se potkají žena a muž, kolik lidí se vlastně potká? Kolik bytostí je s námi ve chvílích nejintimnějších — a nemusejí to být jen bytosti živé a lidské? V okamžicích milosti jsou stěny mezi námi tenké a propustné jako buněčná membrána — a nejen stěny mezi milenci, ale i mezi světy. Hrdinové Němcových příběhů hledají právě v tomto pohraničním pásu mezi světy skutečnými a jen tušenými nějakou formu milosti, ať už je kýženými odpustky nová láska, nový život, nebo alespoň pochopení toho dosavadního. Nové povídky Ludvíka...
Když se potkají žena a muž, kolik lidí se vlastně potká? Kolik bytostí je s námi ve chvílích nejintimnějších — a nemusejí to být je...
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Signe Howell, Olaf H. Smedal, Marilyn Strathern, Gunnar M. Sørbø, Halvard Vike, Synnøve K.N. Ben
Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connected and resourced, the discipline – standing apart from the British and American centres of anthropology – is well placed to offer critical reflection. In this book, an inclusive cast, from PhDs to professors, debate the complexities of anthropology as practised in Norway today and in the past. Norwegian anthropologists have long made public engagement a priority – whether Carl Lumholz collecting for museums from 1880; activists protesting with the Sámi in 1980; or in numerous recent...
Norway, it is claimed, has the most social anthropologists per capita of any country. Well connected and resourced, the discipline – standing apart ...
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach. From the pandemic to the spread of nationalism, from the Anthropocene to the Homogenocene, the authors discuss the most urgent issues of...
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world's leading anthropologists, Thoma...
