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The White Woman's Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia During British Rule
ISBN: 9780415911054 / Angielski / Miękka / 322 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of British rule. She tells the stories of many well-known women, including Katherine Mayo, Helena Blavatsky, Annie Besant, Madeleine Slade, and Mirra Richard and highlights the stories of dozens of women whose names have been forgotten today. In the course of this telling, Jayawardena raises the issues of race, class, and gender which are part of current debates among feminists throughout the world.
In The White Woman's Other Burden, Kumari Jayawardena re-evaluates the Western women who lived and worked in South Asia during the period of ...
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Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
ISBN: 9780415915052 / Angielski / Twarda / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia....
Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization ...
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Dangerous Women: Gender and Korean Nationalism
ISBN: 9780415915069 / Angielski / Miękka / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization and decolonialization of the Korean nation. The contributors explore the troubled category of "woman," placing it in the specific context of a marginalized and colonized nation. But Korean women are not merely configured here as metaphors for an emasculated and infantilized "homeland;" they are also shown to be products of a problematic gender construction that originates in Korea, and extends even today to Korean communities beyond Asia....
Dangerous Women addresses the themes of Korean nationalism and gender construction, as well as various issues related to the colonialization ...
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Claiming the Virgin: The Broken Promise of Liberation Theology in Brazil
ISBN: 9780415915670 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an exploration of a particularly vivid example of liberation theology, an innovative religious and political movement that flourished in Latin America for more than 20 years. The text presents the differing interpretations and ritual practices of community residents on either side of the issue, and explains how, despite its failures, liberation theology left a legacy still felt in Recife and other parts of Latin America.
This is an exploration of a particularly vivid example of liberation theology, an innovative religious and political movement that flourished in Latin...
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Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change
ISBN: 9780415931502 / Angielski / Twarda / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America.
Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa,... Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States...
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777,25 |
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Mainstreaming Midwives: The Politics of Change
ISBN: 9780415931519 / Angielski / Miękka / 570 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States, including the creation of two new direct-entry certifications, the Certified Midwife and the Certified Professional Midwife, and examine the history, purposes, complexities, and the political strife that has characterized the evolution of midwifery in America.
Including detailed case studies, the book looks at the efforts of direct-entry midwives to achieve legalization and licensure in seven states: New York, Florida, Michigan, Iowa,... Providing insights into midwifery, a team of reputable contributors describe the development of nurse- and direct-entry midwifery in the United States...
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Philosophy of Anthropology and Sociology: A Volume in the Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Series
ISBN: 9780444515421 / Angielski / Twarda / 883 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, including traditional questions in the philosophy of social science as well as those specific to these disciplines. Authors attend to the historical development of the current debates and set the stage for future work. - Comprehensive survey of philosophical issues in anthropology and sociology
- Historical discussion of important debates - Applications to current research in anthropology and sociology This volume concerns philosophical issues that arise from the practice of anthropology and sociology. The essays cover a wide range of issues, includi...
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Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought
ISBN: 9780465006960 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" Using findings from anthropology, cognitive science, linguistics, and evolutionary biology, Religion Explained shows how this aspect of human consciousness is increasingly admissible to coherent, naturalistic explanation. This brilliant and controversial book gives readers the first scientific explanation for what religious feeling is really about, what it consists of, and where it comes from.
Many of our questions about religion, says renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, are no longer mysteries. We are beginning to know how to answer quest...
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A Brief History of the Smile
ISBN: 9780465087792 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every smile is the product of physical processes common to all humans. But since the dawn of civilization, the upward movement of the muscles of the face has carried a bewildering range of meanings. Supreme enlightenment is reflected in the holy smile of the Buddha, yet the Victorians thought of open-mouthed smiling as obscene, and nineteenth-century English and American slang equated "smiling" with drinking whisky.In A Brief History of the Smile, Angus Trumble deftly combines art, poetry, history, and biology into an intriguing portrait of the many nuances of the smile. Elegantly...
Every smile is the product of physical processes common to all humans. But since the dawn of civilization, the upward movement of the muscles of the f...
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Five Families: Mexican Case Studies in the Culture of Poverty
ISBN: 9780465097050 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and children of five Mexican families and the impoverished communities in which they live.
One of the truly seminal works in modern cultural anthropology, Five Families is a dramatic and forceful account of the men, women, and childre...
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Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities: Structure in the Early History of the Sandwich Islands Kingdom
ISBN: 9780472027217 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation
Hawaiian culture as it met foreign traders and settlers is the context for Sahlins's structuralist methodology of historical interpretation
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The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America
ISBN: 9780472065608 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America.
An important and timely study of environmental degradation in Central and South America.
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Remembering to Live: Illness at the Intersection of Anxiety and Knowledge in Rural Indonesia
ISBN: 9780472067855 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, including their own secret ethnomedical knowledge. But anxiety, in the presence and absence of illness, profoundly shapes the ways Sasaks use healing and knowledge. Hay addresses complex questions regarding cultural models, agency, and other relationships to conclude that the ethnomedical knowledge they use to cope with their illnesses ironically inhibits improvements in their health care. M. Cameron Hay is a NSF Advance Fellow and an Assistant... Sasaks, a people of the Indonesian archipelago, cope with one of the country's worst health records by employing various medical traditions, inclu... |
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On the Banks of the Ganga: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River
ISBN: 9780472068081 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this rich ethnographic study, Kelly D. Alley sheds light on debates about water uses, wastewater management, and the meanings of waste and sacred power. On the Banks of the Ganga analyzes the human predicaments that result from the accumulation and disposal of waste by tracing how citizens of India interpret the impact of wastewater flows on a sacred river and on their own cultural practices.
Alley investigates ethno-semantic, discursive, and institutional data to flesh out the interplay between religious, scientific, and official discourses about the river Ganga. Using a new... In this rich ethnographic study, Kelly D. Alley sheds light on debates about water uses, wastewater management, and the meanings of waste and sacred p...
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The Use and Abuse of Biology: An Anthropological Critique of Sociobiology
ISBN: 9780472766000 / Angielski / Miękka / 136 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists
A criticism of sociobiology by one of the world's foremost anthropologists
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Fingerprints of the Gods: The Evidence of Earth's Lost Civilization
ISBN: 9780517887295 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.
The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Ha...
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Policies, Plans, and People: Foreign Aid and Health Developmentvolume 17
ISBN: 9780520067882 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs culturally compatible with the populations they serve.
Judith Justice uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how anthropologists and planners can combine their expertise to make health care programs cu...
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Susto, a Folk Illness
ISBN: 9780520076341 / Angielski / Miękka / 195 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to be a sickness caused by the separation of soul and body which is precipitated by a supernatural force. Most studies of culture-bound diseases have relied on descriptive approaches that focus on pathologies derived from medical textbooks. This study takes an interdisciplinary approach, looking for explanations of susto in the interaction of social, physiological, and psychological factors.
Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms. It is considered by susceptible populations to...
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Engaging Contradictions: Theory, Politics, and Methods of Activist Scholarship
ISBN: 9780520098619 / Angielski / Miękka / 417 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in social activism. Some advocate on behalf of the communities they study; others incorporate the knowledge and leadership of their informants directly into the process of knowledge production. What ethical, political, and practical tensions arise in the course of such work? In this wide-ranging and multidisciplinary volume, leading scholar-activists map the terrain on which political engagement and academic rigor meet.
Contributors: ... Scholars in many fields increasingly find themselves caught between the academy, with its demands for rigor and objectivity, and direct engagement in ...
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Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America
ISBN: 9780520201620 / Angielski / Miękka / 439 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions about menopause. She uses ethnography, interviews, statistics, historical and popular culture materials, and medical publications to produce a richly detailed account of Japanese women's lives. The result offers irrefutable evidence that the experience and meaningseven the endocrinological changesassociated with female midlife are far from universal. Rather, Lock argues, they are the product of an ongoing dialectic between culture and local...
Margaret Lock explicitly compares Japanese and North American medical and political accounts of female middle age to challenge Western assumptions abo...
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