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Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire: Nazarite Women's Performance in South Africa
ISBN: 9780226548203 / Angielski / Miękka / 337 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites ("ibandla lamaNazaretha") is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities in South Africa. Founded in 1910 by Isaiah Shembe, it offers South Africans particularly disadvantaged black women and girls a way to remake and reconnect to ancient sacred traditions disrupted by colonialism and apartheid. Ethnomusicologist Carol Muller explores the everyday lives of Nazarite women through their religious songs and dances, dream narratives, and fertility rituals, which come to life both musically and visually on CD-ROM....
With close to one million members, the Church of the Nazarites ("ibandla lamaNazaretha") is one of the most popular indigenous religious communities i...
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208,32 |
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Home and Work: Negotiating Boundaries Through Everyday Life
ISBN: 9780226581460 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home and work events? Do you have separate telephone books for colleagues and friends? In "Home and Work, " Christena Nippert-Eng examines the intricacies and implications of how we draw the line between home and work.
Arguing that relationships between the two realms range from those that are highly "integrating" to those that are highly "segmenting," Nippert-Eng examines the ways people sculpt the boundaries between home and work. With remarkable... Do you put family photos on your desk at work? Are your home and work keys on the same chain? Do you keep one all-purpose calendar for listing home an...
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Education and Democratic Citizenship in America
ISBN: 9780226583891 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Formal education is crucial for creating enlightened and active citizens. The better educated are more engaged, more knowledgeable, and more politically tolerant. Despite a dramatic increase in education attainment over the last quarter century, political engagement has not risen at a commensurate level. How and why education affects citizenship in these ways has until now been a puzzle.
Norman H. Nie, Jane Junn, and Kenneth Stehlik-Barry provide answers by uncovering the causal relationship between education and democratic citizenship. They argue that citizenship encompasses both... Formal education is crucial for creating enlightened and active citizens. The better educated are more engaged, more knowledgeable, and more political...
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The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
ISBN: 9780226615981 / Angielski / Twarda / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster." Arjun Appadurai, "Journal of Asian Studies""
""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combinat...
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520,80 |
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The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
ISBN: 9780226615998 / Angielski / Miękka / 380 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster." Arjun Appadurai, "Journal of Asian Studies""
""The Work of Culture" is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combinat...
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156,24 |
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
ISBN: 9780226619507 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished...
"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twe...
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229,15 |
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Kamikaze Diaries: Reflections of Japanese Student Soldiers
ISBN: 9780226619514 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twenties. We felt the clock ticking away towards our death, every sound of the clock shortening our lives." So wrote Irokawa Daikichi, one of the many kamikaze pilots, or tokkotai, who faced almost certain death in the futile military operations conducted by Japan at the end of World War II. This moving history presents diaries and correspondence left by members of the tokkotai and other Japanese student soldiers who perished...
"We tried to live with 120 percent intensity, rather than waiting for death. We read and read, trying to understand why we had to die in our early twe...
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81,81 |
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Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory
ISBN: 9780226645322 / Angielski / Miękka / 398 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The image of the ethnographer in the field who observes his or her subjects from a distance while copiously taking notes has given way in recent years to a more critical and engaged form of anthropology. Composed as a polyphonic dialogue of texts, Stefania Pandolfo's Impasse of the Angels takes this engagement to its limit by presenting the relationship between observer and observed as one of interacting equals and mutually constituting interlocuters.
Impasse of the Angels explores what it means to be a subject in the historical and poetic imagination of a southern Moroccan... The image of the ethnographer in the field who observes his or her subjects from a distance while copiously taking notes has given way in recent years...
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158,32 |
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Talcott Parsons on Institutions and Social Evolution: Selected Writings
ISBN: 9780226647494 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Talcott Parsons is regarded, by admirers and critics alike, as a major creator of the sociological thought of our time. Despite the universal recognition of his influence, however, Parsons's thought is not well understood, in part because his work presents the reader with almost legendary difficulties. Most of his important essays and books presume that the reader is familiar with his rather specialized vocabulary, and even when Parsons begins by defining basic terms, his special uses for words and his style of exposition strike many readers as forbidding.
In his extensive introduction... Talcott Parsons is regarded, by admirers and critics alike, as a major creator of the sociological thought of our time. Despite the universal recognit...
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Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community
ISBN: 9780226653976 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Landlords and Lodgers "analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian "zongo," or stranger quarter a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow explores the relationships among community members both in terms of the built structures rooms, doors, communal structures, and hallways and of the social networks, institutions, and routine activities that define this unique urban neighborhood. This volume will be useful to students and scholars of the relationships between architecture, migration, and social change.
... "Landlords and Lodgers "analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian "zongo," or stranger quarter a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from...
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145,82 |
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Intellectual Life in America: A History
ISBN: 9780226661018 / Angielski / Miękka / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to other Americans. Lewis Perry considers intellectuals in their varied historical roles as learned gentlemen, as clergymen and public figures, as professionals, as freelance critics, and as a professoriate.
Looking at the changing reputation of the intellect itself, Perry examines many forms of anti-intellectualism, showing that some of these were encouraged by intellectuals as surely as by their antagonists. This work is interpretative, critical,... This historical study of intellectuals asks, for every period, who they were, how important they were, and how they saw themselves in relation to othe...
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223,94 |
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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
ISBN: 9780226680583 / Angielski / Twarda / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals.
Included... Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encou...
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416,64 |
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Travels with Tooy: History, Memory, and the African American Imagination
ISBN: 9780226680590 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encountered Tooy, a priest, philosopher, and healer living in a rough shantytown on the outskirts of Cayenne, French Guiana. Tooy is a time traveler who crosses boundaries between centuries, continents, the worlds of the living and the dead, and the visible and invisible. With an innovative blend of storytelling and scholarship, "Travels with Tooy" recounts the mutually enlightening and mind-expanding journeys of these two intellectuals.
Included... Thirty-five years into his research among the descendants of rebel slaves living in the South American rain forest, anthropologist Richard Price encou...
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156,24 |
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The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
ISBN: 9780226707280 / Angielski / Twarda / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Poison in the Gift" is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of "ritual centrality," Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial...
"The Poison in the Gift" is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretat...
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520,80 |
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The Poison in the Gift: Ritual, Prestation, and the Dominant Caste in a North Indian Village
ISBN: 9780226707297 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Poison in the Gift" is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretation of caste. Introducing the concept of "ritual centrality," Raheja shows that the position of the dominant landholding caste in the village is grounded in a central-peripheral configuration of castes rather than a hierarchical ordering. She advances a view of caste as semiotically constituted of contextually shifting sets of meanings, rather than one overarching ideological feature. This new understanding undermines the controversial...
"The Poison in the Gift" is a detailed ethnography of gift-giving in a North Indian village that powerfully demonstrates a new theoretical interpretat...
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156,24 |
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Freedom in Fulani Social Life: An Introspective Ethnography
ISBN: 9780226717432 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Paul Riesman's "Freedom in Fulani Social Life" is based upon his two years of residence among the Jelgobe, a group of semi-nomadic Fulani of the Sahel in Upper Volta, western Africa. Since its original publication, this classic study has profoundly influenced the field of anthropology through its re-examination of the enthnographer's personal input on his research.
""Freedom in Fulani Social Life" richly documents how the ethnographer's own personal and cultural background is implicated in the research process. . . . For this reason, Riesman's] book will be of paramount interest to all... Paul Riesman's "Freedom in Fulani Social Life" is based upon his two years of residence among the Jelgobe, a group of semi-nomadic Fulani of the Sahel...
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166,66 |
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Bargaining for Reality: The Construction of Social Relations in a Muslim Community
ISBN: 9780226726113 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Much modern anthropology has assumed that an adequate description of any society consists of rules that inform its members' relationships and the logic that unites their cultural symbols. In this book Lawrence Rosen argues that, for the people who live in and around the Moroccan city of Sefrou, attachment to others and the terms by which they are conceived are, at their most fundamental level, subject to a constant process of negotiation.
Drawing on the philosophy of speech acts as well as interpretive theory, Rosen shows how, for the people of this Muslim community, reality consists of... Much modern anthropology has assumed that an adequate description of any society consists of rules that inform its members' relationships and the logi...
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145,82 |
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Picturing Culture: Explorations of Film and Anthropology
ISBN: 9780226730998 / Angielski / Miękka / 340 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Here, Jay Ruby--a founder of visual anthropology--distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conviction that the ideal of an anthropological cinema has not even remotely begun to be realized, Ruby argues that ethnographic filmmakers should generate a set of critical standards analogous to those for written ethnographies. Cinematic artistry and the desire to entertain, he argues, can eclipse the original intention, which is to provide an anthropological representation of the subjects. The book begins with analyses of key filmmakers...
Here, Jay Ruby--a founder of visual anthropology--distills his thirty-year exploration of the relationship of film and anthropology. Spurred by a conv...
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156,24 |
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Islands of History
ISBN: 9780226733586 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also concerned with the insular thinking in Western scholarship that creates false dichotomies between past and present, between structure and event, between the individual and society. Sahlins's provocative reflections form a powerful critique of Western history and anthropology.
" Marshall Sahlins centers these essays on islands Hawaii, Fiji, New Zealand whose histories have intersected with European history. But he is also conc...
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119,78 |
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Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii, Volume 1: Historical Ethnography
ISBN: 9780226733654 / Angielski / Miękka / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V. Kirch, a leading archaeologist of Oceania, Anahulu seeks out the traces of this transformation in a typical local center of the kingdom founded by Kamehameha: the Anahulu river valley of northwestern Oahu.
Volume I shows the surprising effects of the encounter with the imperial forces of commerce... From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets cr...
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246,27 |
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