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22 produkter
Anthropology of Space
Av Rik Pinxten, Ingrid van Dooren m. fl.
Inbunden, 1983
1087 kr
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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the …
When God Comes to Town
Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
Av Rik Pinxten, Lisa Dikomitis
Häftad, 2012
444 kr
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Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the …
Culture and Politics
Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World
Av Rik Pinxten, Ghislain Verstraete m. fl.
Inbunden, 2004
1921 kr
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With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which …
Culture and Politics
Identity and Conflict in a Multicultural World
Av Rik Pinxten, Ghislain Verstraete m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
511 kr
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With "race" being discredited as a rallying cry for populist movements because of the atrocities committed in its name during World War II, "culture" has been adopted by right-wing groups instead, but used in the same exclusionary manner as racism was. This volume examines the essentialism, which …
Racism in Metropolitan Areas
Av Ellen Preckler, Rik Pinxten
E-bok, 2005
293 kr
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For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of …
Humanism Revisited
An Anthropological Perspective
Av Rik Pinxten
Inbunden, 2024
1649 kr
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The West emancipated itself from the old humanism long ago and in doing so distanced itself from ‘heteronomy’: it declared that man, and not a non-human power, should be the first reference to approach people and nature. Today, as heirs of this tradition, we are still stuck in Eurocentrism (and …
Racism in Metropolitan Areas
Av Rik Pinxten, Ellen Preckler
Inbunden, 2005
1861 kr
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For several decades, a political discourse, which incites exclusion and hatred againt those who are perceived as different, has been gaining ground, most notably in affluent and developed countries. Focusing on the growth of racism in large cities and urban areas, this volume presents the views of …
When God Comes to Town
Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
Av Rik Pinxten, Lisa Dikomitis
Inbunden, 2009
1921 kr
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Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the …
When God Comes to Town
Religious Traditions in Urban Contexts
Av Lisa Dikomitis, Rik Pinxten
E-bok, 2009
293 kr
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Around 1800 roughly three per cent of the human population lived in urban areas; by 2030 this number is expected to have gone up to some seventy per cent. This poses problems for traditional religions that are all rooted in rural, small-scale societies. The authors in this volume question what the …
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
Av Eric Vandendriessche, Rik Pinxten
Inbunden, 2023
1643 kr
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The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the …
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
Av Rik Pinxten, Eric Vandendriessche
E-bok, 2023
2111 kr
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The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the …
Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
Av Eric Vandendriessche, Rik Pinxten
2023
648 kr
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Indigenous Knowledge and Ethnomathematics
Av Eric Vandendriessche, Rik Pinxten
Häftad, 2024
1643 kr
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The book presents a series of ethnographic studies, which illustrate issues of wider importance, such as the role of cultural traditions, concepts and learning procedures in the development of formal (or mathematical) thinking outside of the western tradition. It focuses on research at the …
Universalism versus Relativism in Language and Thought
Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses
Av Rik Pinxten
E-bok, 2011
1472 kr
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MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
Av Rik Pinxten
Inbunden, 2015
551 kr
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This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and …
MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
Av Rik Pinxten
E-bok, 2015
713 kr
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This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and …
MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education
Av Rik Pinxten
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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This book defends that math education should systematically start out from the diverse out-of-school knowledge of children and develop trajectories from there to the Academic Mathematics tower of knowledge. Learning theories of the sociocultural school (Vygotsky and on) are used here, and …
Universalism versus Relativism in Language and Thought
Proceedings of a Colloquium on the Sapir-Whorf Hypotheses
Av Rik Pinxten
Inbunden, 1976
1644 kr
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Creation of God
Av Rik Pinxten
Häftad, 2010
908 kr
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This book develops a scientific approach to the phenomenon of religion. It is the conviction of the author that such an approach can only be comparative in nature, in order to overcome centuries of religiously biased views on religion. From an anthropological point of view the phenomenological …
WORLDVIEWS, SCIENCE AND US: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON WORLDS, CULTURES AND SOCIETY - PROCEEDINGS OF THE WORKSHOP ON "WORLDS, CULTURES AND SOCIETY"
Av Aerts Diederik, Diederik Aerts m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
1335 kr
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This volume is part of the “Worldviews, Science and Us” series of proceedings and contains several contributions on the subject of worlds, cultures and society. It represents the proceedings of several workshops and discussion panels organized by the Leo Apostel Center for Interdisciplinary studies …
When the Day Breaks
Essays in Anthropology and Philosophy
Av Rik Pinxten
Häftad, 1997
584 kr
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The book comprises four parts, all of them reflecting about anthropology and its usefulness. The first part questions the data gathering ways of the discipline, combining interpretive and scientific pretenses, against mere postmodernism. The second part pleads for a broad comparative theory in …
