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Knowledge and Social Imagery
ISBN: 9780226060972 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published in 1976. In this second edition, Bloor responds in a substantial new Afterword to the heated debates engendered by his book.
The first edition of this book profoundly challenged and divided students of philosophy, sociology, and the history of science when it was published i...
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179,83 zł |
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On Collective Memory
ISBN: 9780226115962 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in his work on collective memory, which established him as a major figure in the history of sociology. This volume, the first comprehensive English-language translation of Halbwach's writings on the social construction of memory, fills a major gap in the literature on the sociology of knowledge. Halbwachs' primary thesis is that human memory can only function within a collective context. Collective memory, Halbwachs asserts, is always... How do we use our mental images of the present to reconstruct our past? Maurice Halbwachs (1877-1945) addressed this question for the first time in... |
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152,59 zł |
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The New Politics of Science
ISBN: 9780226147635 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science.
In "The New Politics of Science," David Dickson points out that "the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its... How science "gets done" in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has bec...
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152,59 zł |
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Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds
ISBN: 9780226249445 / Angielski / Miękka / 284 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing games like Dungeons & Dragons. Gary Alan Fine immerses himself in several different gaming systems, offering insightful details on the nature of the games and the patterns of interaction among players-as well as their reasons for playing.
This classic study still provides one of the most acute descriptions available of an often misunderstood subculture: that of fantasy role playing game...
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174,38 zł |
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Profession of Medicine: A Study of the Sociology of Applied Knowledge
ISBN: 9780226262284 / Angielski / Miękka / 440 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "Must be judged as a landmark in medical sociology." Norman Denzin, "Journal of Health and Social Behavior"
""Profession of Medicine" is a challenging monograph; the ideas presented are stimulating and thought provoking. . . . Given the expanding domain of what illness is and the contentions of physicians about their rights as professionals, Freidson wonders aloud whether expertise is becoming a mask for privilege and power. . . . "Profession of Medicine" is a landmark in the sociological analysis of the professions in modern society." Ron Miller, "Sociological Quarterly" "This is the... "Must be judged as a landmark in medical sociology." Norman Denzin, "Journal of Health and Social Behavior"
""Profession of Medicine" is a challen... |
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201,63 zł |
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Parallel Worlds: An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
ISBN: 9780226305066 / Angielski / Miękka / 343 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This suspenseful and moving memoir of Africa recounts the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as they lived in two remote villages in the rain forest of Cote d'Ivoire. With an unusual coupling of first-person narratives, their alternate voices tell a story imbued with sweeping narrative power, humility, and gentle humor. "Parallel Worlds" is a unique look at Africa, anthropological fieldwork, and the artistic process.
"A remarkable look at a remote society and] an engaging memoir that testifies to a loving partnership . . .... This suspenseful and moving memoir of Africa recounts the experiences of Alma Gottlieb, an anthropologist, and Philip Graham, a fiction writer, as the...
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152,59 zł |
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Discourses of the Vanishing: Modernity, Phantasm, Japan
ISBN: 9780226388335 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continuity disturb many in Japan, despite widespread insistence that it has remained culturally intact. In this provocative conjoining of ethnography, history, and cultural criticism, Marilyn Ivy discloses these anxieties--and the attempts to contain them--as she tracks what she calls the vanishing: marginalized events, sites, and cultural practices suspended at moments of impending disappearance.
Ivy shows how a fascination with cultural margins... Japan today is haunted by the ghosts its spectacular modernity has generated. Deep anxieties about the potential loss of national identity and continu...
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152,59 zł |
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Cassette Culture: Popular Music and Technology in North India
ISBN: 9780226504018 / Angielski / Miękka / 365 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In "Cassette Culture, " Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium the portable cassette player caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world's second-largest country. The advent of cassette technology in the 1980s transformed India's popular music industry from the virtual monopoly of a single multinational LP manufacturer to a free-for-all among hundreds of local cassette producers. The result was a revolution in the quantity, quality, and variety of Indian popular music and its patterns of dissemination and consumption.
Manuel shows that the cassette revolution, however, has... In "Cassette Culture, " Peter Manuel tells how a new mass medium the portable cassette player caused a major upheaval in popular culture in the world'...
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163,49 zł |
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Persecution and the Art of Writing
ISBN: 9780226777115 / Angielski / Miękka / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss sets forth the thesis that many philosophers, especially political philosophers, have reacted to the threat of persecution by disguising their most controversial and heterodox ideas.
" The essays collected in "Persecution and the Art of Writing" all deal with one problem the relation between philosophy and politics. Here, Strauss set...
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130,79 zł |
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Lived Experiences of Public Consumption: Encounters with Value in Marketplaces on Five Continents
ISBN: 9780230517042 / Angielski / Twarda / 251 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our globalizing world. The chapters comprising Live Experiences of Public Consumption give a vivid account of how cultural and economic value intertwine at face-to-face encounters in marketplaces.
This collection of original ethnographically based research from five continents, provides insights into the dynamics of stability and change in our g...
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191,85 zł |
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Uncanny Modernity: Cultural Theories, Modern Anxieties
ISBN: 9780230517714 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters disturb the rational presumptions of the modern world view and the security of modern self-identity, just as the latter may themselves be implicated in the production of these experiences as uncanny.
This book explores the sense in which the uncanny may be a distinctively modern experience, the way these unnerving feelings and unsettling encounters...
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191,85 zł |
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The Language of Ethnic Conflict: Social Organization and Lexical Culture
ISBN: 9780231055574 / Angielski / Miękka / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) |
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257,59 zł |
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Culture and Society, 1780-1950
ISBN: 9780231057011 / Angielski / Miękka / 363 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history from George Eliot to George Orwell to inquire about the complex ways economic reality shapes the imagination.
Acknowledged as perhaps the masterpiece of materialist criticism in the English language, this omnibus ranges over British literary history fro...
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257,59 zł |
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Sports Spectators
ISBN: 9780231064019 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint. Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early...
In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern s...
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221,69 zł |
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Games and Empires: Modern Sports and Cultural Imperialism
ISBN: 9780231100427 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) An exploration of the ways in which modern sports have spread from their Western roots to all corners of the globe. Could this be another form of cultural imperialism?
An exploration of the ways in which modern sports have spread from their Western roots to all corners of the globe. Could this be another form of cult...
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257,59 zł |
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Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
ISBN: 9780231111423 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth created a new form of expression built around elaborately designed names and initials displayed on public walls, vehicles, and subways. Critics called it "graffiti," but to the practitioners it was "writing." Taking the Train traces the history of "writing" in New York City against the...
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influence...
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544,95 zł |
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Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City
ISBN: 9780231111430 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influenced by the widespread use of famous names on billboards, in neon, in magazines, newspapers, and typographies from advertising and comics, city youth created a new form of expression built around elaborately designed names and initials displayed on public walls, vehicles, and subways. Critics called it "graffiti," but to the practitioners it was "writing." Taking the Train traces the history of "writing" in New York City against the...
In the 1960s and early 1970s, young people in New York City radically altered the tradition of writing their initials on neighborhood walls. Influence...
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190,73 zł |
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Transmitting Culture
ISBN: 9780231113458 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In a departure, author Regis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technologies of transmission and lays the groundwork for a science of the transmission of cultural forms."
In a departure, author Regis Debray redefines communication as the inescapable conditioning of civilization's meanings and messages by their technolog...
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152,59 zł |
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Reading Rock and Roll: Authenticity, Appropriation, Aesthetics
ISBN: 9780231113991 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Considering the work of such artists as Madonna, George Clinton, U2, Elvis Costello, and Nirvana, the contributors deftly combine the rigors of scholarship with the energy of rock journalism to provide an analysis at once critical, contextualized, and enthusiastic. While a number of scholars have recently turned their attention to rock and pop music, most of their work has focused on providing sweeping cultural contexts for its popularity rather than exploring the music itself. Now, in Reading Rock and Roll, Kevin Dettmar and William Richey have gathered a wealth of erudite, original,...
Considering the work of such artists as Madonna, George Clinton, U2, Elvis Costello, and Nirvana, the contributors deftly combine the rigors of schola...
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152,59 zł |
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Culture of the Fork: A Brief History of Everyday Food and Haute Cuisine in Europe
ISBN: 9780231121507 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) We know where he went, what he wrote, and even what he wore, but what in the world did Christopher Columbus eat? The Renaissance and the age of discovery introduced Europeans to exotic cultures, mores, manners, and ideas. Along with the cross-cultural exchange of Old and New World, East and West, came new foodstuffs, preparations, and flavors. That kitchen revolution led to the development of new utensils and table manners. Some of the impact is still felt--and tasted--today. Giovanni Rebora has crafted an elegant and accessible history filled with fascinating information and...
We know where he went, what he wrote, and even what he wore, but what in the world did Christopher Columbus eat? The Renaissance and the age of discov...
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190,73 zł |
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