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19 produkter
Restless Anthropologist
New Fieldsites, New Visions
Häftad, 2012
282 kr
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What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In "The Restless Anthropologist", Alma Gottlieb brings …
Restless Anthropologist
New Fieldsites, New Visions
E-bok, 2012
682 kr
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What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees and housing activists in Rome and Bangkok? In The Restless Anthropologist , Alma Gottlieb brings …
Afterlife Is Where We Come From
Inbunden, 2004
857 kr
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When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way …
Afterlife Is Where We Come From
Häftad, 2004
368 kr
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When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way …
Parallel Worlds
An Anthropologist and a Writer Encounter Africa
Av Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham
Häftad, 1994
342 kr
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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 …
Under the Kapok Tree
Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
Häftad, 1996
265 kr
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In this companion volume to "Parallel Worlds," Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by the kapok tree planted …
Braided Worlds
Av Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham
Häftad, 2012
247 kr
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In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the …
Under the Kapok Tree
Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
E-bok, 2012
586 kr
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In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Côte d''Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, symbolized by the kapok tree planted …
Blood Magic
The Anthropology of Menstruation
Av Thomas Buckley, Alma Gottlieb
Häftad, 1988
272 kr
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Examining cultures as diverse as long-house dwellers in North Borneo, African farmers, Welsh housewives, and postindustrial American workers, this volume dramatically redefines the anthropological study of menstrual customs. It challenges the widespread image of a universal 'menstrual taboo' as …
A World of Babies
Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies
Av Alma Gottlieb, Judy S. DeLoache
Inbunden, 2016
838 kr
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Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs …
World of Babies
Imagined Childcare Guides for Seven Societies
Av Alma Gottlieb, Judy S. DeLoache
E-bok, 2000
415 kr
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Are babies divine, or do they have the devil in them? Should parents talk to their infants, or is it a waste of time? Answers to questions about the nature and nurture of infants appear in this book as advice to parents in seven world societies. Imagine what Dr Spock might have written if he were a …
A World of Babies
Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies
Av Alma Gottlieb, Judy S. DeLoache
Häftad, 2016
455 kr
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Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs …
World of Babies
Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies
Av Judy S. DeLoache, Alma Gottlieb
E-bok, 2016
440 kr
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Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs …
World of Babies
Imagined Childcare Guides for Eight Societies
Av Judy S. DeLoache, Alma Gottlieb
E-bok, 2016
440 kr
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Should babies sleep alone in cribs, or in bed with parents? Is talking to babies useful, or a waste of time? A World of Babies provides different answers to these and countless other childrearing questions, precisely because diverse communities around the world hold drastically different beliefs …
Three Ways to Fail
Journeys Through Mapuche Chile
Av Magnus Course, Alma Gottlieb
Inbunden, 2024
1438 kr
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An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurperHow do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure—both …
Three Ways to Fail
Journeys Through Mapuche Chile
Av Magnus Course, Alma Gottlieb
Häftad, 2024
350 kr
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An ethnographic exploration of anthropological failure through the Mapuche archetypes of witch, clown, and usurperHow do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure—both …
Negotiating Mistrust
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Av Scott Youngstedt, Alma Gottlieb
Häftad, 2026
513 kr
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Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical …
Negotiating Mistrust
Patients and Healers Across Traditional, Islamic, and Biomedical Health Sectors of Niger
Av Scott Youngstedt, Alma Gottlieb
Inbunden, 2026
1280 kr
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Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers—and interactions between them—in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust. It offers a holistic study of the medical …
Braided Worlds
Av Alma Gottlieb, Philip Graham
Inbunden, 2012
685 kr
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In a compelling mix of literary narrative and ethnography, anthropologist Alma Gottlieb and writer Philip Graham continue the long journey of cultural engagement with the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire that they first recounted in their award-winning memoir Parallel Worlds. Their commitment over the …
