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44 produkter
Feast of the Sorcerer
Practices of Consciousness and Power
Häftad, 1997
488 kr
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Sorcery has long been associated with the "dark side" of human development, along with magic and witchcraft. This text argues, however, that sorcery practices reveal critical insights into how consciousness is formed, and how human beings constitute their social and political realities. Kapferer …
Celebration of Demons
Inbunden, 2021
2513 kr
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The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Celebration of Demons
Häftad, 1991
648 kr
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The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Phenomenology of Landscape
Places, Paths and Monuments
Av Christopher Tilley, Bruce Kapferer m. fl.
Inbunden, 1994
2045 kr
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Offers a new approach to landscape perception.This book is an extended photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. It integrates philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies of the significance of the landscape in small-scale societies. This …
Contemporary Religiosities
Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State
Av Bruce Kapferer, Kari Telle m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
527 kr
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The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, …
Legends of People, Myths of State
Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
Häftad, 2011
601 kr
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The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author’s native Australia. At the time this constituted an …
Legends of People, Myths of State
Violence, Intolerance, and Political Culture in Sri Lanka and Australia
E-bok, 2011
374 kr
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The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author’s native Australia. At the time this constituted an …
Contemporary Religiosities
Emergent Socialities and the Post-Nation-State
Av Annelin Eriksen, Kari Telle m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
326 kr
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The last decade has seen an unexpected return of the religious, and with it the creation of new kinds of social forms alongside new fusions of political and religious realms that high modernity kept distinct. For a fuller understanding of what this means for society in the context of globalization, …
Crisis of the State
War and Social Upheaval
Av Bruce Kapferer, Bjørn Enge Bertelsen
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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The variety of the essays and empirical cases demonstrate clearly the necessity of careful analysis of local situations and provide strong arguments for avoiding the overemphasis of singular explanations, such as those based on human rights...Because of its theoretical sophistication as well as …
Beyond Rationalism
Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
E-bok, 2003
293 kr
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This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the …
Oligarchs and Oligopolies
New Formations of Global Power
E-bok, 2005
131 kr
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As corporate practices are becoming more fused with state processes, the state itself is increasingly taking on a corporate structure, as well as a more overt oligarchic character. Evidence of this can be seen in the growing domination of political organizations and institutions by close-knit …
State, Sovereignty, War
Civil Violence in Emerging Global Realities
E-bok, 2004
128 kr
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The very institution of the state is widely conceived of as inseparable from war. If it constitutes peace within the borders or order of its sovereignty, this very peace may be the condition for its potential for war with those other states and social formation outside it. This volume represents …
World Trade Center and Global Crisis
Some Critical Perspectives
E-bok, 2004
131 kr
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Numerous humanly caused destructions of just the last hundred years dwarf the World Trade Center disaster, and the attention still addressed to it may over the next few years appear disproportionate. But the significance of events is always determined by the social, political, and cultural forces …
Celebration of Demons
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Celebration of Demons
E-bok, 2021
762 kr
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The Sinhalese exorcism rituals are perhaps the most complex and the most magnificent in performance still extant. For this second edition, the author has written a new preface and introduction in which he argues that the techniques of healing in Sri Lanka and the aesthetics of this healing cannot …
Beyond Rationalism
Rethinking Magic, Witchcraft and Sorcery
Häftad, 2003
440 kr
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This book seeks a reconsideration of the phenomenon of sorcery and related categories. The contributors to the volume explore the different perspectives on human sociality and social and political constitution that practices typically understood as sorcery, magic and ritual reveal. In doing so the …
Aesthetics in Performance
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Av Angela Hobart, Bruce Kapferer
Inbunden, 2005
1861 kr
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In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a …
Aesthetics in Performance
Formations of Symbolic Construction and Experience
Av Bruce Kapferer, Angela Hobart
E-bok, 2006
335 kr
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In various ways, the essays presented in this volume explore the structures and aesthetic possibilities of music, dance and dramatic representation in ritual and theatrical situations in a diversity of ethnographic contexts in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. Each essay enters into a …
Retreat of the Social
The Rise and Rise of Reductionism
E-bok, 2005
131 kr
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The powerful individualist and subjectivist turn in anthropology - a turn that cannot be easily separated from larger political processes of neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism - is one factor resulting in notions of the social and of society as becoming little else than empty shells of small or no …
In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Av Lotte Meinert, Bruce Kapferer
Häftad, 2015
454 kr
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Events are "generative moments" in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic …
In the Event
Toward an Anthropology of Generic Moments
Av Bruce Kapferer, Lotte Meinert
E-bok, 2015
287 kr
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Events are “generative moments” in at least three senses: events are created by and condense larger-scale social structures; as moments, they spark and give rise to new social processes; in themselves, events may also serve to analyze social situations and relationships. Based on ethnographic …
Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Av Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Häftad, 2016
454 kr
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Anthropology begins in the encounter with the 'exotic': what stands outside of-and challenges-conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and …
Against Exoticism
Toward the Transcendence of Relativism and Universalism in Anthropology
Av Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Bruce Kapferer
E-bok, 2016
284 kr
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Anthropology begins in the encounter with the ‘exotic’: what stands outside of—and challenges—conventional or established understandings. This volume confronts the distortions of orientalism, ethnocentrism, and romantic nostalgia to expose exoticism, defined as the construction of false and …
Moral Anthropology
A Critique
Av Bruce Kapferer, Marina Gold
Häftad, 2018
234 kr
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A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the 'moral turn', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. …
Moral Anthropology
A Critique
Av Marina Gold, Bruce Kapferer
E-bok, 2018
131 kr
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A development in anthropological theory, characterized as the ''moral turn'', is gaining popularity and should be carefully considered. In examining the context, arguments, and discourse that surrounds this trend, this volume reconceptualizes the discipline of anthropology in a radical way. …
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Av Bruce Kapferer, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Häftad, 2019
234 kr
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Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process?Bringing together different …
Democracy's Paradox
Populism and its Contemporary Crisis
Av Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, Bruce Kapferer
E-bok, 2019
131 kr
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Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process? Bringing together different …
Egalitarian Dynamics
Liminality, and Victor Turner’s Contribution to the Understanding of Socio-historical Process
Av Bruce Kapferer, Marina Gold
Inbunden, 2024
2123 kr
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Liminality: the state of being ‘betwixt and between’ is one of anthropology’s most influential concepts. This volume reconsiders Victor Turner’s innovative extension of Arnold Van Gennep’s concept of liminality from within the Manchester tradition of Social Anthropology established by Max Gluckman. …
