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Quinceanera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
ISBN: 9781477319680 / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Quinceanera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceanera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the...
Quinceanera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Am...
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406,75 zł |
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Quinceanera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities
ISBN: 9781477319697 / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Quinceanera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Americas. But in the consumer-driven United States, the ritual has evolved from a largely religious ceremony to an elaborate party where social status takes center stage. Examining the many facets of this contemporary debut experience, Quinceanera Style reports on ethnographic fieldwork in California, Texas, the Midwest, and Mexico City to reveal a complex, compelling story. Along the way, we meet a self-identified transwoman who uses the...
Quinceanera celebrations, which recognize a girl's transition to young womanhood at age fifteen, are practiced in Latinx communities throughout the Am...
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136,97 zł |
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A History of Magic and Witchcraft
ISBN: 9781526757630 / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 6-8 dni roboczych. |
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71,03 zł |
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Life in a Haitian Valley
ISBN: 9781558764552 / Miękka / 396 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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128,72 zł |
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Contemporary Issues in Egyptian Society: Socio-Anthropological Field Studies
ISBN: 9781515340942 / Arabski / Miękka / 382 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. The aim of this book is to present the findings of socio-anthropological field research on the following issues in the Egyptian society: 1: The factors affecting demographic security in Arab societies. 2: Egypt face the tsunami which struck in the Arab spring. 3: The folk proverbs and social control in the tribes of Western desert of Egypt. 4: The rituals and popular beliefs associated with pregnancy and childbirth in Rasheed. 5: Youth and creativity/innovation in Rasheed. 6: Violence in social relations among young people. 7: Women's rights in customary laws. 8. Working paper towards a...
The aim of this book is to present the findings of socio-anthropological field research on the following issues in the Egyptian society: 1: The factor...
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63,06 zł |
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Skitnikut - usmivki I sulzi: Rasmisleniata na edin bulgarski emigrant
ISBN: 9781949397963 / Bułgarski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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131,92 zł |
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Drinking in America: A History
ISBN: 9780029185704 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Synopsis coming soon.......
Synopsis coming soon.......
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93,44 zł |
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Emerging from the Chrysalis: Rituals of Women's Initiation
ISBN: 9780195069105 / Angielski / Miękka / 163 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Asserting the critical importance of such rites in a world dominated by men, Lincoln shows that in these societies women's initiation involves not only a transformation of the self but also of the cosmos. Considering initiation rites among the Tiyyar of South India, the Navajo, the Tiv of West Africa, and the Tukuna of the Northwest Amazon, Lincoln argues that unlike men's rites, women's rites do not impart a change in hierarchical status, but rather a...
Now reissued in an expanded edition, this unique book offers the first full-length treatment of women's initiation rites in five cultures. Asserting t...
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409,49 zł |
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From the Margins of Hindu Marriage: Essays on Gender, Religion, and Culture
ISBN: 9780195081183 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or transgressed. Rather than focus on normative expectations within marriage, they examine times in which norms are tested or rejected. Using stories, songs, and narrated accounts, the essays treat such topics as widowhood, adultery, levirate, divorce, and suttee, as well as the subversion of marriage by devotion to deities and by alternative constructions of conjugal duty and marital experience.
Providing a unique and intimate view of Hindu marriage, the essays in this collection explore points at which the margins of marriage are traversed or...
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343,61 zł |
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The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland
ISBN: 9780195090321 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals, silver bands and pipe bands, furling medieval banners, lavish costumes, and singers and actors--the "Common Riding" is an elaborate, little-studied ritual phenomenon of the border towns of Scotland. In this vividly written and insightful analysis, Gwen Kennedy Neville uses this civic ceremony as a window for glimpsing the process of ritual, symbol, and experience in the development of the concept of "the town" in Western culture. Based on extensive fieldwork in the town of Selkirk, The Mother Town looks at the Common Riding in...
Horses with riders trailed by foot processionals, silver bands and pipe bands, furling medieval banners, lavish costumes, and singers and actors--the ...
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332,59 zł |
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Divergent Paths: How Culture & Institutions Have Shaped North American Growth
ISBN: 9780195098662 / Angielski / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldrums of slow growth. In this comprehensive look at North American economic history, Marc Egnal argues that culture and institutions play an integral role in determining economic outcome. He focuses his examination on the eight colonies of the North, five colonies of the South (which together made up the original thirteen states), and French Canada. Using census data, diaries, travelers' accounts, and current scholarship, Egnal systematically...
Why are some countries without an apparent abundance of natural resources, such as Japan, economic success stories, while other languish in the doldru...
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861,79 zł |
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Rite Out of Place: Ritual, Media, and the Arts
ISBN: 9780195301458 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consider, remain stubbornly conservative. This book issues a challenge to these theories and to popular conceptions of ritual. Rite Out of Place collects 10 revised essays originally published in widely varied sources across the past five years. Grimes has selected for inclusion those essays that track ritual as it haunts the edges of cultural boundaries-ritual converging with theater, ritual on television, ritual at the edge of natural...
Much ritual studies scholarship still focuses on central religious rites. For this reason, Grimes argues, dominant theories, like the data they consid...
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188,99 zł |
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The Cannibal Within
ISBN: 9780202020488 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. The Cannibal Within offers an evolutionary account of the propensity of human beings, in extreme circumstances to eat other human beings, despite the strong Western taboo against such practices. What sets this volume apart from the large body of literature on cannibalism, both popular and anthropological, is the underlying premise: cannibalism as an alternative to starvation is tacitly condoned by the same biological morality that would condemn cannibalism of other sorts in non-threatening situations. Deep as the taboos may be, the survival instinct runs even deeper. The title of...
The Cannibal Within offers an evolutionary account of the propensity of human beings, in extreme circumstances to eat other human beings, despi...
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198,10 zł |
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Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Social Order
ISBN: 9780202306902 / Angielski / Miękka / 154 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. |
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198,10 zł |
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Man the Hunter
ISBN: 9780202330327 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 18 dni roboczych. Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic studies increasingly contribute substantial amounts of new data on hunter-gatherers and are rapidly changing our concept of Man the Hunter. Social anthropologists generally have been reappraising the basic concepts of descent, fi liation, residence, and group structure. This book presents new data on hunters and clarifi es a series of conceptual issues among social anthropologists as a necessary background to broader discussions with...
Man the Hunter is a collection of papers presented at a symposium on research done among the hunting and gathering peoples of the world. Ethnographic ...
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188,25 zł |
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The Imaginary of Exaggeration
ISBN: 9781517257590 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. THE IMAGINARY OF EXAGGERATION is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms are used by the man of Antioquia to create new cultural products. In particular, they are analyzed the imaginary processes and processes of exaggeration. The oral tradition becomes the source to rebuild this cultural wealth. It parades here imaginary beings created to educate ethically and morally to members of human groups in this geography. The stories arouse emotions, transmit knowledge and educate for life.
THE IMAGINARY OF EXAGGERATION is a cultural essay on the culture of Antioquia, Colombia. Mental mechanisms are used by the man of Antioquia to create ...
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31,56 zł |
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The Lord's First Night: The Myth of the Droit de Cuissage
ISBN: 9780226067438 / Angielski / Miękka / 310 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. From the late Middle Ages to "The Marriage of Figaro" to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart," the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the "droit de cuissage," or right of a feudal lord to sleep with the bride of a vassal on her wedding night. The "droit de cuissage" even resurfaced in the debate over the French Penal Code of 1992 as a synonym for sexual harassment.
But, as Alain Boureau elegantly demonstrates in this book, the "droit de cuissage" is a myth. Under contextual examination, nearly all the supposed evidence for this custom melts away yet belief in it has survived for seven... From the late Middle Ages to "The Marriage of Figaro" to Mel Gibson's "Braveheart," the ultimate symbol of feudal barbarism has been the "droit de cui...
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120,09 zł |
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The Enigma of the Gift
ISBN: 9780226300450 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potentially exchangeable item, whose value can be transferred? In The Enigma of the Gift, the distinguished French anthropologist Maurice Godelier reassesses the significance of gifts in social life by focusing on sacred objects, which are never exchanged despite the value they possess.
Beginning with an analysis of the seminal work of Marcel Mauss and Claude Levi-Strass, and drawing on his own fieldwork in Melanesia, Godelier argues that... When we think of giving gifts, we think of exchanging objects that carry with them economic or symbolic value. But is every valuable thing a potential...
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178,24 zł |
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Guardians of the Flutes, Volume 1: Idioms of Masculinity
ISBN: 9780226327495 / Angielski / Miękka / 402 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. In the first systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological and ideological contexts while exploring what they mean to the individuals who practice them. Raising a host of issues concerning gender identity, hostility between the sexes, and the relationships between myth, culture, and personal experience, Herdt provides a vivid and convincing portrait of how Sambia men experience their sexual development.
In the first systematic documentation of New Guinea rituals of manhood, Gilbert Herdt places the homosexual customs of the Sambia in their ecological ...
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120,09 zł |
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Tradition
ISBN: 9780226753263 / Angielski / Miękka / 334 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-12 dni roboczych. Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a whole. Intent on questioning the meaning of the antitraditionalist impulse in today's society, Shils argues here that the tendency to distrust and rebel against tradition is at the heart of tradition itself; only through suspicion and defiance does tradition actually move forward. Revealing the importance of tradition to social and political institutions, technology, science, literature, religion, and scholarship, Tradition remains the...
Tradition, by esteemed sociologist Edward Shils, was the first book to fully explore the history, significance, and future of tradition as a wh...
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110,75 zł |
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