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19 produkter
Sick Societies
Inbunden, 1992
500 kr
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Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.
Warriors of the Rising Sun
A History of the Japanese Military
Inbunden, 1997
618 kr
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Chronicles the Japanese military's transformation from honorable soldiers known for their chivalry and kindness towards their wounded and imprisoned enemies into men who massacred hundreds of thousands in the Pacific theater during World War II.
Companion to Psychological Anthropology
Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Av Robert B. Edgerton, Conerly Casey
E-bok, 2008
2836 kr
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This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the field Offers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and …
Cloak of Competence, Revised and Updated edition
Häftad, 1993
290 kr
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This new edition brings up to date a classic study of the everyday lives of previously institutionalized people with mental retardation. For the first time, the author allowed these people to speak about their own lives, their fears, and their hopes. He focused on the role of stigma in their lives …
Alone Together
Social Order on an Urban Beach
Häftad, 1979
500 kr
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In Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach, the focus is on the social dynamics and unwritten rules governing interactions at Southland Beach, a popular, urban Southern California beach. With millions of visitors each year, Southland Beach draws a diverse crowd, including locals, tourists, …
Alone Together
Social Order on an Urban Beach
E-bok, 1979
339 kr
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In Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach, the focus is on the social dynamics and unwritten rules governing interactions at Southland Beach, a popular, urban Southern California beach. With millions of visitors each year, Southland Beach draws a diverse crowd, including locals, tourists, …
Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order
Häftad, 1985
601 kr
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Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order by Robert B. Edgerton explores one of the most basic but perplexing questions of human social life: why do societies both insist on rules and simultaneously create exceptions to them? Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history, Edgerton examines …
Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order
E-bok, 1985
433 kr
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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed …
Alone Together
Social Order on an Urban Beach
Inbunden, 1979
1156 kr
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In Alone Together: Social Order on an Urban Beach, the focus is on the social dynamics and unwritten rules governing interactions at Southland Beach, a popular, urban Southern California beach. With millions of visitors each year, Southland Beach draws a diverse crowd, including locals, tourists, …
Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order
Inbunden, 1985
823 kr
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Rules, Exceptions, and Social Order by Robert B. Edgerton explores one of the most basic but perplexing questions of human social life: why do societies both insist on rules and simultaneously create exceptions to them? Drawing on philosophy, anthropology, sociology, and history, Edgerton examines …
Companion to Psychological Anthropology
Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Inbunden, 2004
2286 kr
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This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the fieldOffers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and …
Fall of the Asante Empire
The Hundred-Year War For Africa'S Gold Coast
Häftad, 2002
197 kr
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In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. A group of 5,000 Asante soldiers, many wearing immense caps topped with three foot eagle feathers and gold ram's horns, engulfed him with a "zeal bordering on phrensy," shooting muskets into …
Drunken Comportment
A Social Explanation
Av Craig MacAndrew, Robert B. Edgerton
Häftad, 2003
520 kr
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When Aldine originally published this book in 1969, the emerging multidisciplinary field of alcohol studies was dominated by biology, chemistry, physiology, and other 'hard sciences.' As such, writes Dwight Heath in his new foreword, the work challenged the prevailing wisdom in the authors’ use of …
Companion to Psychological Anthropology
Modernity and Psychocultural Change
Häftad, 2007
673 kr
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This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures. Brings together original essays by leading scholars in the fieldOffers an in-depth exploration of the concepts and …
Sick Societies
E-bok, 2010
182 kr
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Author and scholar Robert Edgerton challenges the notion that primitive societies were happy and healthy before they were corrupted and oppressed by colonialism. He surveys a range of ethnographic writings, and shows that many of these so-called innocent societies were cruel, confused, and misled.
Fall of the Asante Empire
The Hundred-Year War For Africa''S Gold Coast
E-bok, 2010
209 kr
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For the first time, anthropologist Robert Edgerton tells the story of the Hundred-Year War—from 1807 to 1900, between the British Empire and the Asante Kingdom—from the Asante point of view. In 1817, the first British envoy to meet the king of the Asante of West Africa was dazzled by his reception. …
Betrunkenes Betragen
Eine ethnologische Weltreise. Wiederentdeckt und übersetzt von Jakob Hein
Av Robert B. Edgerton, Craig MacAndrew m. fl.
E-bok, 2024
227 kr
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Singen, Tanzen, Reden, Rasen – und Karneval feiern? Die simple Erkenntnis lautet: Was wir tun, wenn wir Alkohol getrunken haben, ist alles eine Frage der Kultur.Aus eigener Erfahrung glauben wir zu wissen: Alkohol enthemmt. Schüchternheit, Vernunft, Anstand? Für ein paar Stunden vergessen! Das …
Betrunkenes Betragen
Av Craig Macandrew, Robert B. Edgerton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
286 kr
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