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Exchanging the Past
A Rainforest World of Before and After
Inbunden, 2002
871 kr
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Twenty years ago, the Gebusi of the low-land Papua New Guinea rainforest had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Bruce M. Knauft found then that the killings stemmed from violent scape-goating of suspected sorcerers. But by the time he returned in 1998, homicide rates had plummeted, and …
Critically Modern
Alternatives, Alterities, Anthropologies
Häftad, 2002
275 kr
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"Critically Modern makes a critical intervention in one of the great debates of the moment. It offers a variety of rich and fascinating empirical analyses of 'modern' phenomena from diverse societies, and contributes a powerful (and largely missing) voice to the growing literature on globalization …
Returns to the Field
Multitemporal Research and Contemporary Anthropology
Av Bruce M. Knauft, Signe Howell m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
272 kr
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Many anthropologists return to their original fieldwork sites a number of times during their careers, but this experience has seldom been subjected to analytic and theoretical scrutiny. The contributors to Returns to the Field have all undertaken multitemporal fieldwork—repeated visits to the same …
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
Inbunden, 1996
2504 kr
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In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements …
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
Häftad, 1996
921 kr
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In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements …
South Coast New Guinea Cultures
History, Comparison, Dialectic
Av Bruce M. Knauft, Meyer Fortes
Inbunden, 1993
1710 kr
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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. …
South Coast New Guinea Cultures
History, Comparison, Dialectic
Av Bruce M. Knauft, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 1993
732 kr
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The communities of south coast New Guinea were the subject of classic ethnographies, and fresh studies in recent decades have put these rich and complex cultures at the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, such as ritual homosexuality, have attracted particular interest. …
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
E-bok, 2013
1091 kr
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In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements …
Genealogies for the Present in Cultural Anthropology
E-bok, 2013
1091 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In the wake of tensions between modern and postmodern sensibilities, what larger directions now emerge in cultural anthropology? In this major work, Bruce Knauft takes stock of important recent initiatives in cultural and critical theory. By combining critical reviews and ethnographic engagements …
Exchanging the Past
A Rainforest World of Before and After
Häftad, 2002
272 kr
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Twenty years ago, the Gebusi of the low-land Papua New Guinea rainforest had one of the highest homicide rates in the world. Bruce M. Knauft found then that the killings stemmed from violent scape-goating of suspected sorcerers. But by the time he returned in 1998, homicide rates had plummeted, and …
