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Four Lectures on Ethics – Anthropological Perspectives
Av Michael Lambek, Veena Das m. fl.
Häftad, 2015
306 kr
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Anthropology has recently seen a lively interest in the subject of ethics and comparative notions of morality and freedom. This masterclass brings together four of the most eminent anthropologists working in this field-Michael Lambek, Veena Das, Didier Fassin, and Webb Keane-to discuss, via …
After Kinship
Av Janet Carsten, Olivia J. Harris m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
471 kr
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This innovative book takes a look at the anthropology of kinship and the comparative study of relatedness. Kinship has historically been central to the discipline of anthropology but what sort of future does it have? What is the impact of recent studies of reproductive technologies, of gender, and …
The Ceremonial Animal
A New Portrait of Anthropology
Av Wendy James, Michael Lambek
Inbunden, 2003
2329 kr
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Adapting Wittgenstein's concept of the human species as 'a ceremonial animal', Wendy James writes vividly and readably. Her new overview advocates a clear line of argument: that the concept of social form is a primary key to anthropology and the human sciences as a whole. Weaving memorable …
Ethical Condition
Essays on Action, Person, and Value
Inbunden, 2015
847 kr
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Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical …
Ethical Condition
Essays on Action, Person, and Value
Häftad, 2015
279 kr
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Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical …
Tense Past
Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
Häftad, 1996
783 kr
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Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory …
Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte
Häftad, 1981
346 kr
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Based on intensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book describes and interprets trance behaviour among the Malagasy speakers of Mayotte, a small island in the Comoro Archipelago in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa. Professor Lambek describes how the people of Mayotte (most often women) …
Bodies and Persons
Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
Av Michael Lambek, Andrew Strathern
Inbunden, 1998
1710 kr
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Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to …
Bodies and Persons
Comparative Perspectives from Africa and Melanesia
Av Michael Lambek, Andrew Strathern
Häftad, 1998
780 kr
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Large-scale comparisons are out of fashion in anthropology, but this book suggests a bold comparative approach to broad cultural differences between Africa and Melanesia. Its theme is personhood, which is understood in terms of what anthropologists call 'embodiment'. These concepts are applied to …
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
Häftad, 1993
440 kr
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On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a …
Ordinary Ethics
Anthropology, Language, and Action
Inbunden, 2010
1360 kr
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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a …
Ordinary Ethics
Anthropology, Language, and Action
Häftad, 2010
524 kr
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What is the place of the ethical in human life? How do we render it visible? How might sustained attention to the ethical transform anthropological theory and enrich our understanding of thought, speech, and social action? This volume offers a significant attempt to address these questions. It is a …
Magic Mountains
The Liberal Ethic and the Spirit of Medicine in Switzerland
Inbunden, 2027
813 kr
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Complementary and alternative medicine are extremely popular in Switzerland. The Magic Mountains contextualizes these practices with respect to the Swiss way of life, gaining deeper insight into the conditions, policies, and culture that sustain this flourishing. The book offers a window into the …
Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Av Michael Lambek, Janice Boddy
E-bok, 2014
2884 kr
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents …
Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Av Michael Lambek, Janice Boddy
E-bok, 2014
829 kr
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents …
Companion to the Anthropology of Religion
Av Janice Boddy, Michael Lambek
Häftad, 2015
663 kr
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A Companion to the Anthropology of Religion presents a collection of original, ethnographically-informed essays that explore the variety of beliefs, practices, and religious experiences in the contemporary world and asks how to think about religion as a subject of anthropological inquiry. Presents …
Tense Past
Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
E-bok, 2016
960 kr
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Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory …
Tense Past
Cultural Essays in Trauma and Memory
E-bok, 2016
981 kr
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Tense Past provides a much needed appraisal and contextualization of the upsurge of interest in questions of memory and trauma evident in multiple personality and post-traumatic stress disorders, child abuse, and commemoration of the Holocaust. Contributors examine the historical origins of memory …
Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Av Lambek, Michael Lambek
Häftad, 2008
551 kr
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A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by …
Reader in the Anthropology of Religion
Av LAMBEK, Michael Lambek
Inbunden, 2008
1445 kr
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A Reader in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of some of the most significant classic and contemporary writings in the field. Updated in its second edition, this volume examines numerous aspects of religion in a diversity of cultures and expands upon the idea of what we mean by …
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
E-bok, 1993
558 kr
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On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a …
Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte
Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
E-bok, 1993
506 kr
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On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a …
Concepts and Persons
Inbunden, 2021
342 kr
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The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University …
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
E-bok, 2018
520 kr
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial …
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
E-bok, 2018
526 kr
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial …
Island in the Stream
An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
Häftad, 2018
424 kr
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Island in the Stream introduces an original genre of ethnographic history as it follows a community on Mayotte, an East African island in the Mozambique Channel, through eleven periods of fieldwork between 1975 and 2015. Over this 40-year span Mayotte shifted from a declining and neglected colonial …
Concepts and Persons
E-bok, 2021
424 kr
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The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University …
Concepts and Persons
E-bok, 2021
424 kr
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The Tanner Lectures are a collection of educational and scientific discussions relating to human values. Conducted by leaders in their fields, the lectures are presented at renowned institutions around the world, including the Universities of Oxford, Harvard, and Yale. In January 2019, University …
Behind the Glass
The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family
Inbunden, 2022
398 kr
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing.The book traces the …
Behind the Glass
The Villa Tugendhat and Its Family
E-bok, 2022
489 kr
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The Villa Tugendhat, designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1928, is an icon of architectural modernism and a UNESCO World Heritage site. Behind the Glass tells the true story of the large family connected to it, who rose to prominence through industrial textile manufacturing. The book traces the …
