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6 produkter
Making Things Better
A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior
Inbunden, 2014
2673 kr
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In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets …
Making Things Better
A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior
Häftad, 2014
536 kr
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In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets …
Making Things Better
A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior
E-bok, 2013
343 kr
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In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''''things'''' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate …
Age of Immunology
Conceiving a Future in an Alienating World
E-bok, 2010
1307 kr
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In this fascinating and inventive work, A. David Napier argues that the central assumption of immunology—that we survive through the recognition and elimination of non-self—has become a defining concept of the modern age. Tracing this immunological understanding of self and other through an …
Masks, Transformation, and Paradox
Häftad, 1987
304 kr
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Masks are found world-wide in connection with seasonal festivals, rites of passage, and curative ceremonies. They provide a means of investigating the paradoxical problems that appearances pose in the experience of transitional states. In this far-reaching work, A. David Napier studies mask …
Foreign Bodies
Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology
E-bok, 1992
336 kr
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In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic …
