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How Things Count as the Same
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
Av Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 2018
1985 kr
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In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we …
How Things Count as the Same
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
Av Robert P. Weller, Adam B. Seligman
E-bok, 2018
459 kr
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In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we …
How Things Count as the Same
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
Av Robert P. Weller, Adam B. Seligman
E-bok, 2018
459 kr
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In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we …
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Av Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1481 kr
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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the …
Ritual and its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
Av Adam B Seligman, Robert P Weller m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
552 kr
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Ritual is usually understood as pointing to some essence beyond the ritual act itself. This ambitious interdisciplinary study offers a convincing challenge to this understanding. The authors begin by seeking to explain how the conventional idea arose in the first place. They locate its origin in a …
How Things Count as the Same
Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor
Av Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller
Häftad, 2020
779 kr
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In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we …
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
E-bok, 2008
477 kr
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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the …
Ritual and Its Consequences
An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity
E-bok, 2008
424 kr
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This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the …
Rethinking Pluralism
Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
Av Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 2012
1335 kr
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How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that …
Rethinking Pluralism
Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
Av Robert P. Weller, Adam B. Seligman
E-bok, 2012
391 kr
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The authors argue that resorting to rules and categories cannot adequately address the pervasive problems of ambiguity, difference, and boundaries - that is to say, the challenge of pluralism in our world. They show that alternative, more particularistic modes of dealing with ambiguity through …
Rethinking Pluralism
Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity
Av Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller
Häftad, 2012
781 kr
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How can we order the world while accepting its enduring ambiguities? Rethinking Pluralism suggests a new approach to the problem of ambiguity and social order, which goes beyond the default modern position of 'notation' (resort to rules and categories to disambiguate). The book argues that …
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
Inbunden, 2005
2506 kr
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Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life,Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has …
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
Häftad, 2007
210 kr
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Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life,Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has …
Discovering Nature
Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan
Häftad, 2006
422 kr
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Robert P. Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. Indeed, both places can be said to have 'discovered' a new concept of nature. The book focuses on …
Discovering Nature
Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan
Inbunden, 2006
1090 kr
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Robert P. Weller's richly documented account describes the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. Indeed, both places can be said to have 'discovered' a new concept of nature. The book focuses on …
Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism
Av Robert P. Weller, Jean Comaroff m. fl.
E-bok, 2001
652 kr
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The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on …
Unruly Gods
Divinity and Society in China
Av Meir Shahar, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 1996
384 kr
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Testing the Margins of Leisure
Av Robert P Weller, Eugenio Menegon m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
513 kr
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Testing the Margins of Leisure
Av Robert P Weller, Eugenio Menegon m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
584 kr
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Religion and Charity
The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies
Av Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1661 kr
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Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market …
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
E-bok, 2004
237 kr
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Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has …
Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia
Organizing between Family and State
E-bok, 2004
236 kr
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Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has …
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Av Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 2019
2040 kr
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Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus …
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Av Robert P. Weller, Keping Wu
E-bok, 2019
338 kr
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Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus …
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Av Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus …
Haunting Silence
Häftad, 2027
313 kr
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Informed by the author's personal experiences and over forty years of fieldwork in China and Taiwan, this book explores how people can live with loss and memory as they echo across space and time.From the ghost of the author’s sister to the three deaths of a Chinese goddess, Haunting Silence …
Power and Protest in the Countryside
Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America
Av Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim
Inbunden, 1983
1389 kr
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“Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has …
Power and Protest in the Countryside
Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America
Av Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim
Häftad, 1989
342 kr
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“Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has …
