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Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice, and the Moral Imagination
ISBN: 9780226244235 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This idea of irony as an integral force in social life is at the center of this provocative book. The result of a meeting where anthropologists were invited to explore the politics of irony and the moral responsibilities that accompany its recognition, this book is one of the first to lend an anthropological perspective to this contemporary phenomenon.
The first group of essays explores the limits to irony's liberating qualities from the... Irony today extends beyond its classification as a figure of speech and is increasingly recognized as one of the major modes of human experience. This...
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Referential Practice: Language and Lived Space among the Maya
ISBN: 9780226315461 / Angielski / Miękka / 606 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Referential Practice" is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices in which Maya speakers make reference to themselves and to each other, to their immediate contexts, and to their world. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Oxkutzcab, Yucatan, William F. Hanks develops a sociocultural approach to reference in natural languages. The core of this approach lies in treating speech as a social engagement and reference as a practice through which actors orient themselves in the world. The conceptual framework derives...
"Referential Practice" is an anthropological study of language use in a contemporary Maya community. It examines the routine conversational practices ...
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Buying and Believing: Sri Lankan Advertising and Consumers in a Transnational World
ISBN: 9780226430416 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated with the West, urban life, prosperity, and modernity. One consequence of this exposure is that it frees people's imaginations from time and place, and imposes a new and foreign reality. In this book Steven Kemper looks at a parallel trend, arguing that advertising firms in Nairobi, Caracas, and Colombo also domesticate the imagination, insinuating images into people's minds of the traditional as well as the modern, the local as much as the global....
Advertising is a central part of the global system of commerce and culture. Every day it exposes consumers around the world to practices associated wi...
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Unnatural Emotions: Everyday Sentiments on a Micronesian Atoll and Their Challenge to Western Theory
ISBN: 9780226497228 / Angielski / Miękka / 281 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."-Karl G. Heider, American Anthropologist
"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all tho...
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Complexities: Beyond Nature & Nurture
ISBN: 9780226500249 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meaning and difference. Daily we read assertions that everything from disease to morality not to mention the presumed characteristics of race, gender, and sexuality can be explained by reference primarily to genetics and our evolutionary past.
Complexities mobilizes experts from several fields of anthropology cultural, archaeological, linguistic, and biological to offer a compelling challenge to the resurgence of reductive theories of human... Recent years have seen a growing impetus to explain social life almost exclusively in biological and mechanistic terms, and to dismiss cultural meanin...
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Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya
ISBN: 9780226554204 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this moving book, Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community.
Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first,... Growing up in the Maragoli community in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school ra...
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Caribbean Pleasure Industry: Tourism, Sexuality, and AIDS in the Dominican Republic
ISBN: 9780226644363 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that foreign visitors there seek pleasure is through prostitution. While much has been written on the female sex workers who service these tourists, "Caribbean Pleasure Industry" shifts the focus onto the men. Drawing on his groundbreaking ethnographic research in the Dominican Republic, Mark Padilla discovers a complex world where the global political and economic impact of tourism has led to shifting sexual identities, growing economic pressures,... In recent years, the economy of the Caribbean has become almost completely dependent on international tourism. And today one of the chief ways that... |
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How Natives Think: About Captain Cook, For Example
ISBN: 9780226733692 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the meanings and logics of non-Western peoples? Who has the right to speak for whom? Questions such as these are among the most hotly debated in contemporary intellectual life. In How "Natives" Think, Marshall Sahlins addresses these issues head on, while building a powerful case for the ability of anthropologists working in the Western tradition to understand other cultures.
In recent years, these questions have arisen in debates over... When Western scholars write about non-Western societies, do they inevitably perpetuate the myths of European imperialism? Can they ever articulate the...
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Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues
ISBN: 9780226756103 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intellectual agenda of a meaning-centered, nonreductive interpretive social science and have provoked much excitement and debate about the nature of human understanding.
As part of the American Anthropological Association's centennial celebration, the executive board sponsored a presidential session honoring Geertz. "Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues" compiles the twelve speeches given then by a distinguished panel of social scientists along with a... Clifford Geertz is the most influential American anthropologist of the past four decades. His writings have defined and given character to the intelle...
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Natural Histories of Discourse
ISBN: 9780226757704 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it.
Eleven original essays of "natural history" range in focus from nuptial poetry of insult among Wolof griots to case-based teaching... Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and ...
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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
ISBN: 9780226762913 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social isolation - the disappearance of what sociologists call social capital. But relatively few have examined precisely how such poverty affects social capital or have considered for what reasons living in a poor neighborhood results in such undesirable effects. This book examines a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston to consider the pros and cons of social scientific thinking about the true nature of ghettos in America....
For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienat...
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Villa Victoria: The Transformation of Social Capital in a Boston Barrio
ISBN: 9780226762920 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienation, apathy, and social isolation the disappearance of what sociologists call social capital. But relatively few have examined precisely "how" such poverty affects social capital or have considered for what reasons living in a poor neighborhood results in such undesirable effects.
This book examines a neglected Puerto Rican enclave in Boston to consider the pros and cons of social scientific thinking about the true nature of ghettos in... For decades now, scholars and politicians alike have argued that the concentration of poverty in city housing projects would produce distrust, alienat...
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Gypsy World: The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead
ISBN: 9780226899299 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manu, not only do not speak of their dead, they burn or discard the deceased's belongings, refrain from eating the dead person's favorite foods, and avoid camping in the place where they died.
In "Gypsy World," Patrick Williams argues that these customs are at the center of how Manu see the world and their place in it. The Manu inhabit a world created by the "Gadzos" (non-Gypsies), who... For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what th...
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Tribal Heritage: A Study of the Santals
ISBN: 9780227170670 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This anthropological study considers the Santal people who live in the area north-east of the mouth of the Ganges. It looks at dancing, music and poetry; folk-tales; myths and clan organization; festivals; birth and initiation; marriage; death; and the impact of Christian missions.
This anthropological study considers the Santal people who live in the area north-east of the mouth of the Ganges. It looks at dancing, music and poet...
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Tribal Heritage: A Study of the Santals
ISBN: 9780227170687 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A pioneering anthropological study of one of the largest tribal people of India, the Santals, who live in the north-east area of the mouth of the Ganges. The author explores every aspect of their culture, from their perception of themselves, to the intricacies of their art, both, verbal and visual, and covers their history, their relationship with other ethnic groups, their customs and beliefs and the impact of the Christian missions on their way of life.
A pioneering anthropological study of one of the largest tribal people of India, the Santals, who live in the north-east area of the mouth of the Gang...
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630,11 |
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Theories of Man and Culture
ISBN: 9780231036399 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summarizes, compares, and contrasts the ideas of ten prominent anthropologists of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, revealing fundamental differences in their interpretations of human behavior and in the kinds of meaning they see in human affairs. This unusual and ambitious book will be welcomed by all who wish to understand exactly what anthropology is and what anthropologists do. It summari... |
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The High Valley
ISBN: 9780231050357 / Angielski / Miękka / 266 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. -- Hobart M. Van Deusen, "Natural History" -- Hobart M. Van Deusen, "Natural History" |
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The Mainland Haole
ISBN: 9780231053167 / Angielski / Twarda / 233 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Beyond Anthropology: Society and the Other
ISBN: 9780231066853 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study analyzes the manner in which the perception of human difference has changed from the time of the Renaissance to the 20th century. Building on the insights of Foucault and Garfinkel, it charts how humanity has become contained within the anthropological concept of the Other.
This study analyzes the manner in which the perception of human difference has changed from the time of the Renaissance to the 20th century. Building ...
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Gender in Crisis: Women and the Palestinian Resistance Movement
ISBN: 9780231074476 / Angielski / Miękka / 245 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work involved, the organizations these women have founded, and the changing nature of gender roles set against an intense and sustained crisis.
This study explores the role of politically active Palestinian women in the Lebanese Resistance Movement. The author describes the types of work invol...
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160,34 |
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