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Northern Plainsmen : Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life
ISBN: 9780202309644 / Angielski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal peoples; cultural ecology, in that it shows the nature of the adaptations of four distinctive social groups to the environment of the Canadian Great Plains; the study of social and economic change, as it describes cultural patterns and mechanisms that are relevant to agrarian development the world over; and North American...
A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of t...
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229,49 zł |
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Anthropological Theory
ISBN: 9780202361338 / Angielski / Miękka / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed, how is it to be applied, and how can one confirm it? The editors of Anthropological Theory answer these questions by presenting essays relating to various aspects of anthropological theory. Their selections from widely scattered and often difficult-to-obtain sources present a comprehensive set of writings that describe the current position and issues involved in theory. The development of field work in anthropology generated a... Anthropological theory has been much discussed in recent years, yet the crucial questions still remain--how can it be defined, how is it developed,... |
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250,36 zł |
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One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
ISBN: 9780226038285 / Angielski / Twarda / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials.
Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern... "One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology British, Ger...
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439,32 zł |
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One Discipline, Four Ways: British, German, French, and American Anthropology
ISBN: 9780226038292 / Angielski / Miękka / 408 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology-British, German, French, and American. The result of lectures given by distinguished anthropologists Fredrik Barth, Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman to mark the foundation of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, this volume not only traces the development of each tradition but considers their impact on one another and assesses their future potentials.
Moving from E. B. Taylor all the way through the development of modern... "One Discipline, Four Ways" offers the first book-length introduction to the history of each of the four major traditions in anthropology-British, Ger...
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153,76 zł |
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The Potlatch Papers: A Colonial Case History
ISBN: 9780226069876 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology. Some researchers even claim to have discovered traces of the potlatch in all the economies of the world.
However, as Christopher Bracken shows in this elegantly argued work, the potlatch was in fact invented by the nineteenth-century Canadian law that sought to destroy it. In addition to giving the world its own potlatch, the law also generated a random collection of "potlatch papers" dating from the 1860s... Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking, and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the f...
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175,73 zł |
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Threads: Gender, Labor, and Power in the Global Apparel Industry
ISBN: 9780226113722 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well intentioned, many of these reports about child labor and sweatshop practices rely on stereotypes of how Third World factories operate, ignoring the complex economic dynamics driving the global apparel industry.
To dispel these misunderstandings, Jane L. Collins visited two very different apparel firms and their factories in the United States and Mexico. Moving from corporate headquarters to factory floors, her study traces the diverse ties that... Americans have been shocked by media reports of the dismal working conditions in factories that make clothing for U.S. companies. But while well inten...
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131,80 zł |
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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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175,73 zł |
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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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356,95 zł |
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The Body Impolitic: Artisans and Artifice in the Global Hierarchy of Value
ISBN: 9780226329130 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the necks of those who are condemned to produce it.
The Body Impolitic is a critical study of tradition, not merely as an ornament of local and national heritage, but also as a millstone around the neck...
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439,32 zł |
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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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175,73 zł |
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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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131,80 zł |
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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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153,76 zł |
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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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142,78 zł |
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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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148,27 zł |
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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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164,75 zł |
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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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131,80 zł |
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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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181,22 zł |
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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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148,27 zł |
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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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131,80 zł |
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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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158,57 zł |
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