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14 produkter
Person and Myth
Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
Inbunden, 1982
636 kr
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Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954) - missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer - received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of …
Writing Culture
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
Av James Clifford, George E. Marcus
Häftad, 2010
304 kr
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This seminal collection of essays critiquing ethnography as literature is augmented with a new foreword by Kim Fortun, exploring the ways in which Writing Culture has changed the face of ethnography over the last 25 years.
Person and Myth
Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
E-bok, 1982
822 kr
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Originally published in 1982, James Clifford''s analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878 - 1954)--missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer--received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of …
Writing Culture
The Poetics and Politics of Ethnography
Av George E. Marcus, James Clifford
E-bok, 2010
509 kr
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These seminal essays place ethnography at the intersection of interpretive anthropology, cultural studies, social history, travel writing, discourse theory, and textual criticism. They grapple with issues of power and poetics in contemporary situations of globalization, post-coloniality, and …
Formal Semantics and Pragmatics for Natural Language Querying
Av James Clifford, C. J. van Rijsbergen
Häftad, 2004
804 kr
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This book discusses the connection between two areas of semantics, namely the semantics of databases and the semantics of natural language, and links them via a common view of the semantics of time. It is argued that a coherent theory of the semantics of time is an essential ingredient for the …
Predicament of Culture
Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
Häftad, 1988
355 kr
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The Predicament of Culture is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, James Clifford shows authoritative accounts of other ways of life to be …
Returns
Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century
Inbunden, 2013
485 kr
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Returns explores homecomings—the ways people recover and renew their roots. Engaging with indigenous histories of survival and transformation, James Clifford opens fundamental questions about where we are going, separately and together, in a globalizing, but not homogenizing, world.It was once …
Routes
Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1997
330 kr
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When culture makes itself at home in motion, where does an anthropologist stand? In a follow-up to The Predicament of Culture, one of the defining books for anthropology in the last decade, James Clifford takes the proper measure: a moving picture of a world that doesn't stand still, that reveals …
Person and Myth
Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World
Häftad, 1992
286 kr
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Originally published in 1982, James Clifford's analytical biography of Maurice Leenhardt (1878–1954)-missionary, anthropologist, founder of French Oceanic studies, historian of religion, and colonial reformer-received wide critical acclaim for its insight into the colonial history of anthropology. …
Recent Advances in Temporal Databases
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, 17–18 September 1995
Av Alexander Tuzhilin, James Clifford
E-bok, 2012
755 kr
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The International Workshop on Temporal Databases held in Zurich, Switzerland, 17-18 September 1995 brought together researchers from academic and industrial institutions with database practitioners interested in keeping up with the state-of-the-art developments in the management of temporal data. A …
Recent Advances in Temporal Databases
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Temporal Databases, Zurich, Switzerland, 17–18 September 1995
Av James Clifford, Alexander Tuzhilin
Häftad, 1995
564 kr
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The International Workshop on Temporal Databases held in Zurich, Switzerland, 17-18 September 1995 brought together researchers from academic and industrial institutions with database practitioners interested in keeping up with the state-of-the-art developments in the management of temporal data. A …
Itinerarios transculturales
E-bok, 2019
238 kr
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Cuando la cultura se adapta al movimiento, ¿dónde se sitúa un antropólogo? Viajes, diásporas, cruces de fronteras, construcción de hogares lejos del propio: he aquí los dilemas transculturales de hoy, mientras vagamos por los lugares y no-lugares de un mundo marcado por intensos procesos de …
New Directions for Database Systems
Inbunden, 1986
295 kr
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This volume is intended for researchers, practitioners, and members of the business community interested in the shape of data management in the years to come. The volume is both retrospective and future oriented and the chapters recapitulate current 1980s database research and applications. The …
On the Edges of Anthropology
Interviews
Häftad, 2003
120 kr
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Since the publication of Person and Myth: Maurice Leenhardt in the Melanesian World, James Clifford has become one of anthropology's most important interlocutors. A key figure in theory and criticism, he has written seminal essays on topics ranging from art and identity to museum studies and …
