Antropologi

What kind of animals are human beings? And how do our visions of the human shape our theories of social action and institutions? In Moral, Believing Animals, Christian Smith advances a creative theory of human persons and culture that offers innov...

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"En hisnande spaningstur genom mänsklighetens historia ... Sapiens är full av aha-upplevelser och bygger på breda insikter i naturvetenskap, antropologi och samhällsvetenskap." Lars Linder, DN "Det är en väldigt underhållande, tankeväckande och vä...

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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack Obama What makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens? One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Hara...

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I bondesamhällets muntliga diktning är det folksägnerna som säger mest om hur folk trodde och tänkte förr. De handlar ofta om tillvarons övernaturliga, fantastiska sidor, om människors möten med näck, skogsrå, vittror och troll. Bengt af Klintberg...

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"The word "love" is most often defined as a noun, yet...we would all love better if we used it as a verb," writes bell hooks as she comes out fighting and on fire in All About Love. Here, at her most provocative and intensely personal, the renowne...

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No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress, which together with its corollary notion of the superiority of modern civilization, has created its own "positive" alibis by falsifying history, by insinuating harmful myths in people's minds, and by p...

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'If you read only one non-fiction book this year, consider this one' TOM HANKS 'If there's one book that I would urge everyone to read - it is Nexus' STEPHEN FRY The mind-blowing story of how information networks - from the stone age to AI -have s...

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR FINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022 'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating ...

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'Spectacular and terrifyingly true' Owen Jones 'Explosive' John McDonnell, New Statesman, Books of the Year 'Thought-provoking and funny' The Times FT BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018, NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY 'Essential reading for this moment in history' New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist 'Brillia...

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A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and art The Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else," wrote Italo Calvino when the book f...

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Under de senaste decennierna har Sverige genomgått en rad genomgripande förändringar som gjort att många upplever att vårt samhälle har blivit hårdare och mer polariserat. Vad är det som har hänt? På vilka sätt påverkar samtidens förändringar männ...

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I bondesamhällets muntliga diktning är det folksägnerna som säger mest om hur folk trodde och tänkte förr. De handlar ofta om tillvarons övernaturliga, fantastiska sidor, om människors möten med näck, skogsrå, vittror och troll. Bengt af Klintberg...

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This narrative follows the lives of a group of transgendered prostitutes ("travestis" in Portuguese) in the Brazilian city Salvador. Travestis are males who, at an age as young as ten, adopt female names, clothing styles, hairstyles and linguistic...

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Discover humanity's past and its future in this in this special box set featuring Sapiens--a reading pick of President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Mark Zuckerberg--and its acclaimed companion Homo Deus.

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"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."-Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian "I'm very grateful to have this book."-Ursula K. Le Guin The acclaimed and award-winning book about wha...

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"This book presents a magisterial overview of Cultural Studies, and of studies of culture more broadly. It synthesizes a bewildering range of writers and ideas into a comprehensible narrative. It's respectful to the history of ideas and completely...

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Nittonhundratalet blev kärnfamiljens århundrade, men hur gick det till? Den här boken handlar om hur familjen - pappa, hemmamamma och (helst tre) barn - inte bara blev normen i svensk vardag från trettiotal till sextiotal utan även ett centralt ve...

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The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization tha...

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Etnografisk materialanalys är ett fält fyllt av komplexitet och kreativitet , där forskaren måste navigera mellan teori, metod och praktiska utmaningar. I denna antologi bidrar etnologer och kulturforskare från Sverige och Finland med sina unika p...

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A sociologist and former fashion model takes readers inside the elite global party circuit of "models and bottles" to reveal how beautiful young women are used to boost the status of men Million-dollar birthday parties, megayachts on the French Ri...

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DMT is the world's strangest and most mysterious drug, inducing one of the most remarkable and yet least understood of all states of consciousness. This common plant molecule has, from ancient times to the modern day, been used as a tool to gain a...

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The international legal framework of human rights presents itself as universal. But rights do not exist as a mere framework; they are enacted, practiced, and debated in local contexts. Rights After Wrongs ethnographically explores the chasm betwee...

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This engaging and cutting-edge text provides an accessible introduction to the complex methods and concepts of social neuroscience, with examples from contemporary research and a blend of different pedagogical features helping students to engage w...

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Stories brought us together Books spread our ideas - and our mythologies The internet promised infinite knowledge The algorithm learned our secrets - and then turned us against each other What will AI do? NEXUS is the thrilling account of how we a...

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A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations. This book is concerned with the sociology of 'everything that passes for knowledge in society'. It focus...

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"Brandão Jönsson noterar, som den reporter han är, i första hand det konkreta han ser och hör. Och snart inser jag att en genuin livsnjutare för pennan." Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter "Reportageboken "Där solen aldrig går ned" gör världen större f...

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