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Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle
Av Vassos Argyrou, Meyer Fortes
Inbunden, 1996
1737 kr
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The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out …
Tradition and Modernity in the Mediterranean
The Wedding as Symbolic Struggle
Av Vassos Argyrou, Meyer Fortes
Häftad, 2005
569 kr
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The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out …
Anthropology and the Will to Meaning
A Postcolonial Critique
Häftad, 2002
359 kr
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Anthropology, the study of societies and cultures different to our own, is based on the humanist assumption that difference does not mean otherness and inferiority. In this book, Vassos Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self centred …
Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living
Inbunden, 2013
1921 kr
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European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an “economy of …
Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living
E-bok, 2013
293 kr
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European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an “economy of …
Logic of Environmentalism
Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality
E-bok, 2005
319 kr
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Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that …
Gift of European Thought and the Cost of Living
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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European thought is often said to be a gift to the rest of the world, but what if there is no gift as such? What if there is only an economy where every giving is also a taking, and every taking is also a giving? This book extends the question of economies by making a case for an "economy of …
Logic of Environmentalism
Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality
Inbunden, 2005
1861 kr
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Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that …
Logic of Environmentalism
Anthropology, Ecology and Postcoloniality
Häftad, 2005
527 kr
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Although modernity’s understanding of nature and culture has now been superseded by that of environmentalism, the power to define the meaning of both, and hence the meaning of the world itself, remains in the same (Western) hands. This bold argument is at the center of this provocative book that …
