Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives
ISBN: 9780415132169 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on the nature/society interface from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, drawing upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic case studies - from Amazonia, the Solomon Islands, Malaysia, the Mollucan Islands, rural comunities from Japan and north-west Europe, urban Greece, and laboratories of molecular biology and high-energy physics. Among the questions posed by the authors are the following: Are the different cultural models of nature conditioned by the same set of...
This book focuses on the nature/society interface from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives, drawing upon recent developments in soc...
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Popularizing Anthropology
ISBN: 9780415136136 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explore the literary and reflective aspects of their work. Popularizing Anthropology advances that trend by looking at a key but previously marginalized genre of anthropology.
The contributors, who are well known anthropologists, explore such themes as: why so many anthropologists are women; how the Japanese have reacted to Ruth Benedict; why Margaret Mead became so successful; how the French media promote Levi-Strauss and Louis Dumont;... Anthropology written for a popular audience is the most neglected branch of the discipline. In the 1980s postmodernist anthropologists began to explor...
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Narrative and Genre
ISBN: 9780415151986 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluation, but also art. Any communication has to use shared conventions not only of language itself, but also the more complex expectations of genre, of the forms expected within a given context and type of communication.
Any life story, whether a written autobiography or an oral testimony, is shaped not only by the reworkings of experience through memory and re-evaluat...
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702,94 zł |
The Anthropology of Welfare
ISBN: 9780415169653 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.
Case studies from anthropologists in the field, examine different branches of welfare and community care, for example: * Maternity services * Children with learning difficulties * Children's homes * Mothers' centres * People with HIV * Mental health centres * Housing * Care and provision for the elderly. Contributors focus on comparative welfare systems - examples are taken from urban and rural areas of the UK, USA, Sweden,... The Anthropology of Welfare provides an overview of what anthropology has to offer welfare studies and vice-versa.
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Bronislaw Malinowski: Collected Works
ISBN: 9780415216715 / Angielski / Twarda / 3500 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important figures in the development of modern social anthropology. Among the British anthropologists repudiating so-called armchair research, Malinowski was a pioneer of fieldwork. He undertook his long-sustained fieldwork in Papua New Guinea and his accounts are populated by sympathetic figures, described in a deliberately vivid literary style. Malinowski is also recognized as the founder of Functionalism and his ethnographic studies contend that all components of society interlock to form a well-balanced system.
This collection... Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was one of the most important figures in the development of modern social anthropology. Among the British anthropolog...
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Natural Enemies: People-Wildlife Conflicts in Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9780415224413 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elicit a range of human responses. Wildlife pests are frequently demonized and resisted by local communities while routinely 'controlled' by state authorities. However, to the great concern of conservationists, the history of many people-wildlife conflicts lies in human encroachment into wildlife territory.
In Natural Enemies the authors place the analytical focus on the human dimension of these conflicts - an area often neglected by... Wild animals raid crops, attack livestock, and sometimes threaten people. Conflicts with wildlife are widespread, assume a variety of forms, and elici...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Anthropologists
ISBN: 9780415228251 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reference of biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the 19th century to the present day. Each chapters focuses on a national tradition or school of thought, outlining its central features and placing the anthropologists within their intellectual contexts.
A reference of biographical information on the most influential and significant figures in world anthropology, from the birth of the discipline in the...
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963,29 zł |
Globalizing Japan : Ethnography of the Japanese presence in Asia, Europe, and America
ISBN: 9780415244121 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on an everyday basis. Both consciously and unconsciously, we regularly come into contact with Japan's industrial and cultural globalization, from cameras and automobiles to judo, cuisine or animation. Japan's presence in the popular imagination is heavily influenced both by the country's historical past and its global present. The book's panel of expert contributors use thorough ethnographic accounts to examine the country's influence and image...
This book explores the social and cultural dimensions of Japan's global presence. Japan's expansion and presence as an economic giant is witnessed on ...
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An Anthropology of Indirect Communication
ISBN: 9780415247450 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called indirection. From patent miscommunication, through potent ambiguity to pregnant silence, this collection examines from a rare anthropological perspective the many aspects of indirect communication. From a Mormon theme park to carnival time on Montserrat, the contributors analyse indirection by illustrating how food, silence, sunglasses, martial arts and rudeness constitute powerful ways of conveying meaning. This book should prove a challenging introduction to this...
Sometimes we convey what we mean not by what we say but by what we do. This type of indirect communication is sometimes called indirection. From paten...
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The Archaeology of Shamanism
ISBN: 9780415252546 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The meaning of shamanism has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained altered states of consciousness in order to mediate between human beings and the supernatural world. The ritual practices that characterized these perceived contacts with the immaterial have left highly physical traces in the archaeological record of prehistoric peoples, and the potential for the recognition of shamanic belief systems in the past is now being realized as never before.
The meaning of shamanism has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained ...
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The Archaeology of Shamanism
ISBN: 9780415252553 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The meaning of shamanism has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained altered states of consciousness in order to mediate between human beings and the supernatural world. The ritual practices that characterized these perceived contacts with the immaterial have left highly physical traces in the archaeological record of prehistoric peoples, and the potential for the recognition of shamanic belief systems in the past is now being realized as never before.
The meaning of shamanism has been debated for almost three centuries, ever since the term was coined to describe the activities of those who attained ...
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Malinowski amongst the Magi : The Natives of Mailu [1915/1988]
ISBN: 9780415262446 / Angielski / Twarda / 366 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young who draws on Malinowski's diary, unpublished notebooks and letters.
A reissue of Malinowski's first field monograph, containing historical and theoretical material. This edition includes a major essay by Michael Young ...
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The Sexual Lives of Savages : [1932/1952]
ISBN: 9780415262484 / Angielski / Twarda / 506 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.
This volume provides an ethnographic account of courtship, marriage and family life among the people of the Trobriand Islands.
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Coral Gardens and Their Magic : The Description of Gardening [1935]
ISBN: 9780415262491 / Angielski / Twarda / 536 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the significance of agriculture in the Trobriand Islands.
The first part of a two volume classic devoted to the agriculture and agricultural rites of the Trobriand Islanders. This work looks at the significan...
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Man in Africa
ISBN: 9780415263948 / Angielski / Twarda / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number...
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Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War
ISBN: 9780415280532 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy. From trench art and postcards through avant-garde art, museum collections and prosthetic limbs to battlefield landscapes, the book examines the First World War and its significance through the things it left behind. The contributions come from a multidisciplinary perspective, uniting previously compartmentalized disciplines such as anthropology, archaeology, cultural history, museology and art history in their focus on material culture. This...
Matters of Conflict looks at the definitive invention of the twentieth century - industrialised war - and its vast and varied material legacy...
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Matters of Conflict: Material Culture, Memory and the First World War
ISBN: 9780415280549 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book looks at the vast and varied material legacy of the First World War. From trench art and postcards to prosthetic limbs, unexploded ordinance and war memorials, it examines the continuing and constantly changing significance of the conflict through the things it left behind. The diverse contributions span anthropology, archaeology, cultural history, museology and art history, bringing conceptual unity and coherence to a previously compartmentalized subject. Matters of Conflict sets a new agenda for the study of the First World War and ultimately of all twentieth-century conflict.
This book looks at the vast and varied material legacy of the First World War. From trench art and postcards to prosthetic limbs, unexploded ordinance...
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Companion Encyclopedia of Anthropology : Humanity, Culture and Social Life
ISBN: 9780415286046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1166 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There have been rapid advances in anthropological knowledge on a wide variety of fronts. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary thinking in biological, social and cultural anthropology. In bringing these three fields together, it establishes their interconnections and lays the foundations for an integrated perspective on the conditions of human life appropriate to the challenges of the future.
There have been rapid advances in anthropological knowledge on a wide variety of fronts. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary t...
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Essay on the Theory of the Earth, 1813
ISBN: 9780415289238 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based at the Parisian Museum of Natural History, Cuvier compared the fossil bones he dug from the quarries of Montmartre with those of animals alive today. Guided by the principle of correlation, he reconstructed extinct creatures from the incomplete skeletons he unearthed. This process is described in his Essay on the Theory of the Earth.
Based at the Parisian Museum of Natural History, Cuvier compared the fossil bones he dug from the quarries of Montmartre with those of animals alive t...
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Medical Pluralism in the Andes
ISBN: 9780415299183 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Written in tribute to Libbet Crandon Malamuds pioneering work on Andean medicine, this readable, extensively illustrated and instructive book reflects the diversity of approaches in medical anthropology that have evolved during the past two decades. Capturing the intricacies of health practice within the context of Andean social history, cultural tradition, community and folklore, this is a remarkable and intimate chronicle of Andean culture and...
Medical Pluralism in the Andes is the first major collection of anthropological approaches to health in the Andes for over twenty years. Writ...
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