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Coping with Distances: Producing Nordic Atlantic Societies
ISBN: 9780857451446 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction of functioning communities. But through innovations, networking and the formation of identities people have coped with distances, thus continuously rebuilding societies in Northern Norway, Iceland, the Faroes and Greenland. Living conditions in the Nordic Atlantic are so extreme that one might ask whether the notion of society is applicable under these circumstances. The author argues that, yes, there is a meaningful way of comprehending these...
The Nordic Atlantic area has seen remarkable examples of social formations in areas that many would perceive as too remote to allow the construction o...
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Environmental Anthropology Today
ISBN: 9780415781558 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and efforts contributing to its repair is of vital importance. This volume poses the question: What can increasing the emphasis on the environment in environmental anthropology, along with the science of its problems and the theoretical and methodological tools of anthropological practice, do to aid conservation efforts, policy initiatives, and our overall understanding of how to survive as citizens of the planet? Environmental... Today, we face some of the greatest environmental challenges in global history. Understanding the damage being done and the varied ethics and effor... |
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Cities of Pilgrimage
ISBN: 9783825816186 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Pilgrimage places anthropological works on a privileged platform for religious studies. It contains the dichotomy of life and death, striving towards the spirit of a dead that may or may not be religious. It is a soul searching process, a coming to terms with hopes and disillusions. Human situations in the flow of urban areas draw together the primal human quest and economic considerations. The sacred and the profane, the belief in miracles and the management of both, necessitate a fresh search of urban pilgrimage.
Pilgrimage places anthropological works on a privileged platform for religious studies. It contains the dichotomy of life and death, striving towards ...
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Performing Costa Rica
ISBN: 9783639331431 / Angielski / Miękka / 180 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Costa Rica is one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Historically, it has been defined in terms of homogeneity and socio- economic equality; essential elements in the construction of a national identity characterized by happy and peaceful citizens. This research utilizes the methodological lens of Performance Studies to analyze these iconic elements of Costa Rican national identity and to challenge the view of Costa Rica as a paradise. The international community continues defining the country in the same manner as it did during the second part of the...
Costa Rica is one of the most stable countries in Latin America. Historically, it has been defined in terms of homogeneity and socio- economic equal...
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History and Socio-Economic Profile of Royal Gurjar Community
ISBN: 9783639329636 / Angielski / Miękka / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Gurjar is a member of a South Asian, ethnic group mainly located in eastern Pakistan, Kashmir, Gujarat, and northwestern India. Gurjars traditionally belonged to the Kshatriya, caste, and formerly ruled the Gurjara-Pratihara, Kingdom, which included much of northern India during the 8th and 9th centuries. However, they are mostly Muslims, a few being either Hindus or Sikhs. Conventionally they have been cattle breeders and milkmen. They were usually associated with herdsmen and shepherds and were a pastoral people. A large number of Gurjars have now settled down and taken farming...
Gurjar is a member of a South Asian, ethnic group mainly located in eastern Pakistan, Kashmir, Gujarat, and northwestern India. Gurjars traditionall...
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Unique social paradigm in Awra-Amba community
ISBN: 9783639325034 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For centuries, institutions had had tried to alleviate inequalities of right, discrimination of race and unfairness of resources. The manifestation of all these were poverty, hunger and disease. Paradoxically, small village as a part of solution were found whose level of aspiration involved and motivated to found a new social era. Awra-Amba community synchronized individual knowledge, experience, resources and commitment into integrated collective effort and synergy to achieve their common aspiration. Moreover, members worked together meticulously based on their ability (Age and ...
For centuries, institutions had had tried to alleviate inequalities of right, discrimination of race and unfairness of resources. The manifestation ...
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Long-Distance Nationalism
ISBN: 9783639324761 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Structured around a series of biographical narratives that investigate domestic kitchens in India and the U.S., this research explores how Indians from disparate cultural backgrounds alter their ethnic identities when they immigrate to the U.S. By simultaneously adopting, adapting, and inventing new, "hybrid" practices because of the alien cultural and spatial environment of American suburban apartment kitchens, these immigrants construct a flexible behavior, which manifests itself in the formation of their transcultural identity. Through these transcultural practices, Indian immigrants end...
Structured around a series of biographical narratives that investigate domestic kitchens in India and the U.S., this research explores how Indians fro...
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The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Nothing - Part II
ISBN: 9788883980695 / Angielski / Miękka / 456 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Nothing - Part I
ISBN: 9788883980688 / Angielski / Miękka / 472 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Empathy and Healing: Essays in Medical and Narrative Anthropology
ISBN: 9780857451385 / Angielski / Miękka / 294 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Arguably, Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist...One of the best assets of this book is its introduction. In its 15 lucid and condensed pages, Skultans summarizes her intellectual journey and contextualizes the articles presented in the collection, thus providing readers with a highly efficient guide to the themes that hold the book together." - Journal of Baltic Studies "If anthropologists want to attend to wider audiences and adjoining disciplinary perspectives, this book is an inspiring example of how anthropology can be both challenged... "Arguably, Vieda Skultans is the most prominent contemporary Latvian social anthropologist...One of the best assets of this book is its introducti... |
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Seeking a Richer Harvest: The Archaeology of Subsistence Intensification, Innovation, and Change
ISBN: 9781441941022 / Angielski / Miękka / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among foragers and horticulturalists. This set of global case studies re-examines the 'subsistence question' in light of recent research. It contrasts traditional approaches with recent archaeological research that presents human driven strategies for power, prestige, and status as causes of subsistence intensification. Subsistence intensification, innovation and change have long figured prominently in explanations for the development of social complexity among for... |
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An Interdisciplinary Theory of Activity
ISBN: 9781608461455 / Angielski / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Andy Blunden presents an immanent critique of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the pschychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing the roots of this theory from Goethe, Hegel and Marx, the author draws out the principles with which Vygotsky developed a theory of the mind in which transcended the problems of mind-body dualism
Andy Blunden presents an immanent critique of Cultural-Historical Activity Theory, the pschychology originating from Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934). Tracing...
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Worldviews, Science and Us: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Worlds, Cultures and Society - Proceedings of the Workshop on Worlds, Cultures and Socie
ISBN: 9789814355056 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is part of the “Worldviews, Science and Us” series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies within the framework of the “Research on the Construction of Integrating Worldviews” research community set up by the Flanders Fund for Scientific Research, over the period of time between 2005 to 2010. Further information about this research community and a full list of...
This volume is part of the “Worldviews, Science and Us” series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of world...
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395,10 |
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Muslim Societies: Historical and Comparative Aspects
ISBN: 9780415665889 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the 18th century to 2003, providing fresh insight through comparison. The contributors examine the characteristics of peaceful symbiotic relationships with other peoples as well as a series of conflicts.
Examines Muslim societies across Europe, North Africa, Central Asia and South Asia from the 18th century to 2003, providing fresh insight through comp...
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Tombs for the Living: Andean Mortuary Practices
ISBN: 9780884023746 / Angielski / Miękka / 434 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tombs for the Living examines how mortuary practices functioned in different cultures across the Andes. By examining rich sets of archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data, this collection enriches our understanding of the context and meaning of mortuary traditions in the region.
Tombs for the Living examines how mortuary practices functioned in different cultures across the Andes. By examining rich sets of archaeological, ethn...
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A Comparison of Tomb Art
ISBN: 9783639343205 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many wonder about the true meaning of art in tombs. Do they all have the same meaning? Or does each culture have their own reason behind painting elaborate scenes on tomb walls that no one may ever see? This is a compilation of images from tombs in Egypt and Oaxaca, Mexico that relate to the specific afterlife beliefs of each respective culture. The Egyptian examples focus on what is needed to get into the afterlife and convincing the gods that an individual belongs. In contrast, the Oaxacan examples focus on convincing the ancestors to keep watch over the family after an individual is gone....
Many wonder about the true meaning of art in tombs. Do they all have the same meaning? Or does each culture have their own reason behind painting elab...
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Staying Maasai?: Livelihoods, Conservation and Development in East African Rangelands
ISBN: 9781441927668 / Angielski / Miękka / 418 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic images lie concerns about environmental degradation, declining wildlife populations, and about worsening poverty of pastoral peoples. East Africa presents in microcosm the paradox so widely seen across sub Saharan Africa, where the world s poorest and most vulnerable populations live alongside some of the world s most outstanding biodiversity resources. Over the last decade or so, community conservation has emerged as a way out of... The area of eastern Africa, which includes Tanzania and Kenya, is known for its savannas, wildlife and tribal peoples. Alongside these iconic image... |
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Testing Collapse Theory
ISBN: 9783639349054 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We have been fascinated by societal collapse since civilisation began; as soon as the first monumental stone structures were erected they began to crack, crumble, and decay, and people became aware of their society's mortality. From the writings of Plato and Aristotle to the silver screen of Hollywood; the very idea that a civilisation can flourish and burn so brightly, and then fall so far, to ruin, fills us with an almost morbid fascination, "the possibility that an entire civilisation could die doubles our own mortality" (Mazzarino 1966: 171). However, despite popular interest, collapse...
We have been fascinated by societal collapse since civilisation began; as soon as the first monumental stone structures were erected they began to cra...
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Direct Sales and Direct Faith in Latin America
ISBN: 9780230112490 / Angielski / Twarda / 191 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Through an ethnographic portrait, Peter S. Cahn demonstrates that the quasi-religious commission of self-empowerment accounts for the explosive growth of commission-based sales in the developing world.
Since 1990, direct sales have attracted over two million recruits in Mexico and are characterized by a belief in the power of positive thinking. Throu...
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The Dynamics of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Asia
ISBN: 9780415678698 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks and associations), in diverse parts of Asia. Addressing the pressing need for improved governance within the spatial, political and cultural realities in the rapidly transforming landscapes of Asia, the contributors to the book bring together interdisciplinary work that focuses on the ways in which civic engagement can link with social capital building. The goal of this volume is to inspire policy that recognizes that a vibrant society with...
The purpose of this volume is to highlight the impacts on civic engagement of social capital, and its various component parts (trust, norms, networks ...
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