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16 produkter
Museum Temporalities
Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) Museum
E-bok, 2025
831 kr
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Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums' often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past? Since the …
Readings in Modernity in Africa
Av Peter Geschiere, Birgit Meyer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
771 kr
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Questions surrounding modernity and its meanings weigh heavily on students and scholars who study Africa. Becoming modern carries a lot of different meanings and puts concepts of culture, tradition, and nation into uneasy use. Readings in Modernity in Africa brings together classic essays, old and …
Colonial Subjects
Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
Häftad, 2000
504 kr
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It is often forgotten that anthropology--the scientific study of cultural difference--arose from situations that required a practical management of cultural differences. Out of the practical contexts of colonial contact--administration, mission, nationalism, policing, settler cultivation, tourism, …
Magic and Modernity
Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
Inbunden, 2003
1475 kr
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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." …
Magic and Modernity
Interfaces of Revelation and Concealment
Häftad, 2003
344 kr
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Magic and Modernity is the first book to explore comparatively how magic—usually portrayed as the antithesis of the modern—is also something that is at home in modernity. "Magic" and "modernity" are rarely regarded as belonging together. Evolutionism regarded magic as quintessentially "unmodern." …
Embedding Ethics
E-bok, 2020
749 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Museum Temporalities
Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) Museum
E-bok, 2025
831 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums' often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past? Since the …
Embedding Ethics
E-bok, 2020
749 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Politics of Presence
Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Av Peter Pels
E-bok, 2013
813 kr
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Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the …
Politics of Presence
Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Av Peter Pels
E-bok, 2013
831 kr
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Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the …
Museum Temporalities
Time, History and the Future of the (Ethnographic) Museum
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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Museum Temporalities analyzes how museums relate to time. It explores the hidden temporal assumptions and practices that define museums. How might these assumptions help us to better understand and address museums’ often problematic and painful relationship to the colonial past? Since the …
Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Av Peter Pels
Inbunden, 2023
1861 kr
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A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their ‘life’. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that …
Spirit of Matter
Modernity, Religion, and the Power of Objects
Av Peter Pels
Häftad, 2026
339 kr
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A range of meaningful objects—exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computers—demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their ‘life’. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that …
Embedding Ethics
Inbunden, 2005
2510 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Embedding Ethics
Häftad, 2005
618 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Politics of Presence
Contacts Between Missionaries and Walugru in Late Colonial Tanganyika
Av Peter Pels
Inbunden, 1999
2510 kr
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Christian missions in Africa are commonly viewed as a blatant example of ethnocentrism. This stereotype partly exists because the day-to-day interaction between missionaries and Africans has so rarely been studied. This book shows how Africans and missionaries co-produced a Catholic Church in the …
