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The Quest for Fruition Through Ngoma: The Political Aspects of Healing in Southern Africa
ISBN: 9780821413043 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study has arisen out of a fascination with the vibrant nature of African societies, their vitality, and particularly the way in which they seem to be able time and again to overcome tribulation and turmoil. In the southern African region, ngoma, an indigenous ritual of healing, dance, rhythm, and rhyme, is at the heart of the social effort of turning the tables for individuals and communities so that their well-being is restored. This volume investigates ngoma in its many culturally diverse manifestations. It seeks to explore how these manifestations are perceived, how they function in...
This study has arisen out of a fascination with the vibrant nature of African societies, their vitality, and particularly the way in which they seem t...
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Schneider on Schneider: The Conversion of the Jews and Other Anthropological Stories
ISBN: 9780822316916 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To listen to David M. Schneider is to hear the voice of American anthropology. To listen at length is to hear much of the discipline s history, from the realities of postwar practice and theory to Schneider s own influence on the development of symbolic and interpretive anthropology in the 1970s and 1980s. "Schneider on Schneider" offers readers this rare opportunity, and with it an engrossing introduction into a world of intellectual rigor, personal charm, and wit.
In this work, based on conversations with Richard Handler, Schneider tells the story of his days devoted to anthropology as a... To listen to David M. Schneider is to hear the voice of American anthropology. To listen at length is to hear much of the discipline s history, from t...
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We Are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School, 1988-1998
ISBN: 9780822326991 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes student life at a provincial Mexican junior high, often drawing on poignant and illuminating interviews, to study how the the school s powerful emphasis on equality, solidarity, and group unity dissuades the formation of polarized peer groups and affects students eventual life trajectories.
Exploring how students develop a cultural game of equality that enables them to identify across typical class and social boundaries with their peers, the... We Are All Equal is the first full-length ethnography of a Mexican secondary school available in English. Bradley A. U. Levinson observes stude...
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Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
ISBN: 9780822332251 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Anthropology as Cultural Critique" helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with "Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, "pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing worlds of technoscience, telemedia saturation, and the reconstruction of societies after massive trauma. Fischer argues that new methodologies and conceptual tools are necessitated by the fact that cultures of every kind are becoming more complex and differentiated at the same time that...
"Anthropology as Cultural Critique" helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with "Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voic...
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Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice
ISBN: 9780822332381 / Angielski / Miękka / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Anthropology as Cultural Critique" helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with "Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voice, "pathbreaking scholar Michael M. J. Fischer moves the discussion to a consideration of the groundwork laid in the 1990s for engagements with the fast-changing worlds of technoscience, telemedia saturation, and the reconstruction of societies after massive trauma. Fischer argues that new methodologies and conceptual tools are necessitated by the fact that cultures of every kind are becoming more complex and differentiated at the same time that...
"Anthropology as Cultural Critique" helped redefine cultural anthropology in the 1980s. Now, with "Emergent Forms of Life and the Anthropological Voic...
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Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
ISBN: 9780822333807 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gaston R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of the bush that dominates the Chaco landscape.
As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that... Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco ...
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Landscapes of Devils: Tensions of Place and Memory in the Argentinean Chaco
ISBN: 9780822333913 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco region. In the early twentieth century, the Toba were defeated by the Argentinean army, incorporated into the seasonal labor force of distant sugar plantations, and proselytized by British Anglicans. Gaston R. Gordillo reveals how the Toba s memory of these processes is embedded in their experience of the bush that dominates the Chaco landscape.
As Gordillo explains, the bush is the result of social, cultural, and political processes that... Landscapes of Devils is a rich, historically grounded ethnography of the western Toba, an indigenous people in northern Argentina s Gran Chaco ...
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Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology
ISBN: 9780822334743 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lively, forceful, and impassioned, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle is a major intervention in debates about the configuration of the discipline of anthropology. In the essays brought together in this provocative collection, prominent anthropologists consider the effects of and alternatives to the standard definition of the discipline as a holistic study of humanity based on the integration of the four fields of archaeology, biological anthropology, sociocultural anthropology, and linguistic anthropology. Editors Daniel A. Segal and Sylvia J. Yanagisako provide a powerful introduction to...
Lively, forceful, and impassioned, Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle is a major intervention in debates about the configuration of the discipline of...
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The Anthropology of Christianity
ISBN: 9780822336082 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell...
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the wo...
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The Anthropology of Christianity
ISBN: 9780822336464 / Angielski / Miękka / 373 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the world. At the same time, the contributors, all anthropologists, rethink the vexed relationship between anthropology and Christianity. As Fenella Cannell contends in her powerful introduction, Christianity is the critical "repressed" of anthropology. To a great extent, anthropology first defined itself as a rational, empirically based enterprise quite different from theology. The theology it repudiated was, for the most part, Christian. Cannell...
This collection provides vivid ethnographic explorations of particular, local Christianities as they are experienced by different groups around the wo...
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After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
ISBN: 9780822338857 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?
In "After Eden," Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating research... When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climat...
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After Eden: The Evolution of Human Domination
ISBN: 9780822339380 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climate, polluted the water and soil, destroyed ecosystems, and rendered many species extinct, vastly increasing the likelihood of an ecological catastrophe. How did humankind come to rule nature to such an extent? To regard the planet's resources and creatures as ours for the taking? To find ourselves on a seemingly relentless path toward ecocide?
In "After Eden," Kirkpatrick Sale answers these questions in a radically new way. Integrating research... When did the human species turn against the planet that we depend on for survival? Human industry and consumption of resources have altered the climat...
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A Generation Later: Household Strategies and Economic Change in the Rural Philippines
ISBN: 9780824822132 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect of rural communities and makes a convincing case for an approach that integrates farm and nonfarm occupations and does justice to the conditions of occupational multiplicity that characterize, to an increasing extent, many of the rural communities in Asia. In this context, it challenges conventional (and simplistic) peasant to proletarian views of change. Rather than finding a dreary and dispirited landscape of sameness and hardship, it offers some empirical support for amore...
A Generation Later moves beyond analytical models of rural change that focus on the peasant/agricultural aspect of rural communities and makes a convi...
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Village on the Edge
ISBN: 9780824825218 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 1998 the village looked much as it had some twenty-two years earlier when author Michael French Smith first visited. But he soon found that changing circumstances were shaking things up. Village on the Edge weaves together the story of Kragur villagers' struggle to find their own path toward the future with the story of Papua New Guinea's travails in the post-independence era. Smith writes of his own experiences as well, living and working in Papua New Guinea and...
Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 1998 the village lo...
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Sinnott: Toms & Dees Paper
ISBN: 9780824827410 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A tom (from tomboy) refers to a masculine woman who is sexually involved with a feminine partner, or dee (from lady). The patterning of female same-sex relationships into masculine and feminine pairs, coupled with the use of English derived terms to refer to them, is found throughout East and Southeast Asia. Have the forces of capitalism facilitated the dissemination of Western-style gay and lesbian identities throughout the developing world as some theories of... A vibrant, growing, and highly visible set of female identities has emerged in Thailand known as tom and dee. A tom (from tomboy) refers to a mascu... |
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Staying Fijian: Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity
ISBN: 9780824831127 / Angielski / Twarda / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparent paradox and concludes that the reasons lie in the ability of its identity functions to buffer the effects of social stress. This is so for not only Vatuleleans but all Fijians. It is argued that the resultant strong indigenous demand has caused the efflorescence in barkcloth manufacture and use,...
Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many othe...
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The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property?
ISBN: 9780826321251 / Angielski / Miękka / 331 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has brought into sharp relief the conflicts among public and private collectors, scholars, and indigenous peoples over the provenience and disposition of cultural property, especially archaeological remains. First published in 1989 and now updated and enlarged, this book explores the ethical, legal, and intellectual issues related to excavating, selling, collecting, and owning cultural artefacts. Twenty-two contributors, representing archaeology, law, museum administration, art history, and philosophy, suggest how the...
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) has brought into sharp relief the conflicts among public and private collectors, s...
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Scientists and Storytellers : Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest
ISBN: 9780826338686 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the first decades of the twentieth century, the work produced by women anthropologists dominated scholarship about the Native American Southwest. Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing American culture, early anthropologists sought examples of cultures capable of coping successfully with diversity and complexity. Ethnographers believed that they had found such cultures in the Native American Southwest, and turned to these cultures to make sense of their own. For women anthropologists especially, living in a society where women's roles and identities were hotly contested,... In the first decades of the twentieth century, the work produced by women anthropologists dominated scholarship about the Native American Southwest... |
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Holocene Saharans
ISBN: 9780826463487 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holocene Saharans addresses issues of continuity and change in past life-ways as well as radical shifts in techniques, innovation and achievements of the Saharan people during the Holocene period, the last 10,000 years. The project is accomplished through a series of precise case studies, each addressing a topical space-time problem. The key pre-occupation linking the case studies is a concern with the replicability of research protocols and the testability of suggested results. The anthropological perspective advocated in this book is anchored on the investigation of dynamic... Holocene Saharans addresses issues of continuity and change in past life-ways as well as radical shifts in techniques, innovation and achievements ... |
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World-Systems Theory in Practice: Leadership, Production, and Exchange
ISBN: 9780847691043 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric states lacked the mechanisms to dominate the distant (and in some cases, nearby) societies with which they interacted.
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to...
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