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Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
ISBN: 9780231136891 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices. She analyzes how the rites and beliefs associated with death shape and reflect poor Oaxacans' values and social identity. Norget also considers the intimate relationship that is perceived to exist between the living and the dead in Oaxacan popular culture. She argues that popular death rituals,...
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca...
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157,50 |
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Accelerating Possession: Global Futures of Property and Personhood
ISBN: 9780231137843 / Angielski / Twarda / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationship between property and personhood. These prominent scholars argue that in our present age, globalization, rampant privatization, and biotechnology have irrevocably changed traditional ideas of property and the self. Definitions of property no longer correspond to the configurations of the person who owns or is subjected to property. Self and ownership have a whole new arithmetic.In these essays, privatization is understood as an array of...
Accelerating Possession is a groundbreaking collection of essays that examines how recent economic movements have revolutionized the relationsh...
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363,66 |
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Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures Since 1880
ISBN: 9780252013911 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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124,64 |
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Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture
ISBN: 9780252014017 / Angielski / Miękka / 752 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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174,56 |
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Disorderly Conduct
ISBN: 9780252019050 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jackson will stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selections range freely over a wide spectrum of American social conditions, public policy, and crime and punishment issues from the mid-1960s to the present: the pulse of America as felt through a row of bayonet-carrying troops on the Pentagon porch; how prisoners get through the toughest days in the toughest prison in Texas, and how narcotics cops do the same on their beats in Harlem; miners and mine owners trying to get a piece of the dream in eastern...
This gathering of essays by the maverick social observer Bruce Jackson will stir memories, give insights, and provoke strong reactions. Selections ran...
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Imaginary States: Studies in Cultural Transnationalism
ISBN: 9780252023934 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In Imaginary States, Peter Hitchcock explores such questions to invigorate the analysis of cultural transnationalism. Juxtaposing the macroeconomic realities of commodities with the creation of cultural workers, Hitchcock offers case studies of Nike and the coffee industry alongside examinations of writings by the Algerian feminist Assia Djebar and the Caribbean writers Edward Glissant, Kamau Brathwaite, and Maryse Conde. The stark contrast of...
Can transnationalism be separated from capitalist globalization? Can an artist create cultural space and rethink the nation state simultaneously? In I...
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164,59 |
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From Here to Tierra del Fuego
ISBN: 9780252025556 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost inhabited locale in the world and one of South America's most popular tourist destinations, although there's nothing there except the end of the world. When asked why they have come to Tierra del Fuego, most visitors say, I just wanted to be able to say I'd been here. Paul Magee, the anthropologist among them, seizes upon this absurd nonreason to investigate the West's complex relationship to an island synonymous with the word elsewhere. Beginning with Darwin, who saw the Fuegian Indians as the world's most primitive inhabitants, Magee interweaves the...
Tierra del Fuego is the southernmost inhabited locale in the world and one of South America's most popular tourist destinations, although there's noth...
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129,62 |
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The Cultural Analysis of Kinship: The Legacy of David M. Schneider
ISBN: 9780252026737 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider announced that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides an assessment of Schneider's ideas, focusing particularly on his contributions to kinship studies and the implications of his work for cultural relativism.
In the mid-1970s, David M. Schneider announced that kinship did not exist in any culture known to humankind. This volume provides an assessment of Sch...
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179,55 |
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Spain in America: The Origins of Hispanism in the United States
ISBN: 9780252027246 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Setting aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the U.S. image of Spain for more than a century, this innovative volume uncovers the roots of Spanish studies to explain why the diversity, vitality, and complexity of Spanish history and culture have been reduced in U.S. accounts to the equivalent of a tourist brochure. Spurred by the complex colonial relations between the United States and Spain, the new field of Spanish studies offered a way for the young country to reflect a positive image of itself as a democracy, in contrast with perceived Spanish...
Setting aside the pastiche of bullfighters and flamenco dancers that has dominated the U.S. image of Spain for more than a century, this innovative vo...
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184,54 |
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Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa
ISBN: 9780252029080 / Angielski / Twarda / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building. In this compact, powerful new study Thembisa Waetjen explores how gender structured the mobilization of Zulu nationalism in South Africa as antiapartheld efforts gained force during the 1980s. Undercutting assumptions of male power and nationalism as monolithic, Workers and Warriors demonstrates the ways that masculinities may be plural, conflict-ridden, and crucial not only to the formation of loyalty but also to why some nationalisms fail.
Using South Africa as a case study this book explores how the politics of masculinity and gender power are at the heart of tensions in nation building...
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129,62 |
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Our Cannibals, Ourselves
ISBN: 9780252029257 / Angielski / Twarda / 172 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism? Moving from the idea of the dangerous Other, Priscilla L. Walton's Our Cannibals, Ourselves shows us how modern-day cannibalism has been recaptured as in the vampire story, resurrected into the human blood stream, and mutated into the theory of germs through AIDS, Ebola, and the like. At the same time, it has expanded to encompass the workings of entire economic systems (such as in consumer cannnibalism). Our Cannibals, Ourselves is an interdisciplinary study of cannibalism in contemporary culture. It demonstrates...
Why does Western culture remain fascinated with and saturated by cannibalism? Moving from the idea of the dangerous Other, Priscilla L. Walton's Our C...
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159,60 |
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Intersecting Journeys: The Anthropology of Pilgrimage and Tourism
ISBN: 9780252029400 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela, and even Star Trek conventions. Ethnographic analysis of the conflicts over resources and meanings associated with such sites, as well as the sense of community they inspire, provides compelling evidence re-emphasizing the links between pilgrimage and tourism. As the papers in this collection demonstrate, studies of these forms of journeying are at the forefront of postmodern debates about movement and...
The appeal of sacred sites remains undiminished at the start of the twenty-first century, as unprecedented numbers of visitors travel to Lourdes, Rome...
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The American Myth of Success: From Horatio Alger to Norman Vincent Peale
ISBN: 9780252060434 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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84,74 |
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Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples
ISBN: 9780252063213 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Africans and Native Americans (the book) explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of color, analyzing the development of color classification systems and the specific evolution of key terms such as black, mulatto, and mestizo, which no longer carry their original meanings. Jack Forbes presents strong evidence that Native American and African contacts began in Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean and that Native Americans may have crossed the Atlantic long before Columbus.
Africans and Native Americans (the book) explores key issues relating to the evolution of racial terminology and European colonialists' perceptions of...
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104,69 |
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Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective
ISBN: 9780252063282 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Why have sociologists failed to understand twentieth-century American race relations? James McKee finds answers in assumptions underlying sociology's perspective on race in American life and in the discipline's demeaning image of blacks. Tracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective was the notion that blacks were culturally inferior, backward, and...
Why have sociologists failed to understand twentieth-century American race relations? James McKee finds answers in assumptions underlying sociology's ...
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139,60 |
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Conserving Culture: A New Discourse on Heritage
ISBN: 9780252063541 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines heritage protection in the United States and how it has been implemented in specific cases. Contributors challenge the division of heritage into nature, the built environment, and culture. They describe cultural conservation as an integrated process for resource planning and recommended supplanting the current prescriptive approach with one that is more responsive to grass-roots cultural concerns.
This book examines heritage protection in the United States and how it has been implemented in specific cases. Contributors challenge the division of ...
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109,67 |
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On the Edge of the Auspicious: Gender and Caste in Nepal
ISBN: 9780252067167 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. People of lower caste live throughout the villages of Nepal but have been noticeably absent from ethnographic accounts of the Himalayan region. Starting from the perspective of lower-caste Hindu women, this title offers a study of artisans and farmers in western Nepal.
People of lower caste live throughout the villages of Nepal but have been noticeably absent from ethnographic accounts of the Himalayan region. Starti...
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129,62 |
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Zoo Culture
ISBN: 9780252067624 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This provocative study shows that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals. Through observations based on visits to zoos and conversations with zoo owners and keepers all over the world, the authors suggest that, while animals may not need zoos, urban societies seem to. A new preface takes note of dramatic changes in the perceived role of zoos that have occurred since the book's original publication.
This provocative study shows that zoos tell us as much about humans as they do about animals. Through observations based on visits to zoos and convers...
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94,71 |
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Shared Traditions: Southern History & Folk Culture
ISBN: 9780252067723 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Essays on the folk culture of the South cover cultural interaction in the old South, the world of slaves, Irish folk culture in the American South, folk music, and the impact of the civil rights movement.
Essays on the folk culture of the South cover cultural interaction in the old South, the world of slaves, Irish folk culture in the American South, fo...
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94,71 |
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The Equality of Human Races: Positivist Anthropology
ISBN: 9780252071027 / Angielski / Miękka / 470 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies
An important contribution to contemporary scholarship in anthropology, pan-African studies, and colonial and postcolonial studies
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149,57 |
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