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Recovering the Human Subject

Freedom, Creativity and Decision

AvJames Laidlaw,Barbara Bodenhornm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

1 245 kr

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This volume responds to the often-proclaimed 'death of the subject' in post-structuralist theorizing, and to calls from across the social sciences for 'post-humanist' alternatives to liberal humanism in a distinctively anthropological manner. It asks: can we use the intellectual resources developed in those approaches and debates to reconstruct a new account of how individual human subjects are contingently put together in diverse historical and ethnographic contexts? Anthropologists know that the people they work with think in terms of particular, distinctive, individual human personalities, and that in times of change and crisis these individuals matter crucially to how things turn out. The volume features a classic essay by Caroline Humphrey, 'Reassembling individual subjects', that provides a focus for the debate, and it brings together a distinguished collection of essays, which exhibit a range of theoretical approaches and rich and varied ethnography.

Sapiens : en kort historik över mänskligheten

AvYuval Noah Harari

Häftad, Svenska, 2018

219 kr

"En hisnande spaningstur genom mänsklighetens historia ... Sapiens är full av aha-upplevelser och bygger på breda insikter i naturvetenskap, antropologi och samhällsvetenskap."Lars Linder, DN"Det är en väldigt underhållande, tankeväckande och välskriven bok. Harari rör sig flytande och självsäkert över hela det akademiska fältet. Biologi möter antropologi som möter arkeologi och filosofi och teologi och historia. Han har humor, vilket gör honom i sammanhanget ganska originell, och han har också en känsla för dramatik."Patrik Svensson, Sydsvenskan"Djärv och fängslande."Isabelle Ståhl, Svenska Dagbladet"Provocerande, filosofiskt avancerat, stundtals mycket intressant, men ibland rent fjantigt ... underhållande men ibland häpnadsväckande stolliga historik över mänskligheten."Björn Gunnarsson, GP"Den är lysande. Troligtvis den bästa boken om mänsklighetens historia - och då jag har läst väldigt många."Henning Mankell

Sapiens är en storslagen berättelse om människans ursprung, nutid och framtid. Historikern Yuval Noah Harari tar oss med från Homo sapiens första steg på jorden, då vi var ett däggdjur bland alla andra, till idag när vi står som världens obestridda härskare - med makt att både skapa och utplåna liv.För cirka 70 000 år sedan var jorden befolkad av minst sex olika mänskliga arter. Ingen av dem hade någon större inverkan på den globala ekologin. Idag har bara en art överlevt - Homo sapiens. Hur blev det så? En del av hemligheten bakom framgångarna är att vi är det enda djur som kan prata om saker som existerar enbart i vår egen fantasi, såsom gudar, nationer, pengar och mänskliga rättigheter. Om detta och mycket mer handlar denna internationella bästsäljare som ger nytt bränsle åt diskussionen om vårt gemensamma förflutna och planetens framtid.Professor Yuval Noah Harari (född 1976) är verksam vid Hebreiska universitetet i Jerusalem och slutförde sin doktorsavhandling vid University of Oxford. Hans specialområde är världens historia och makrohistoriska processer. Harari har publicerat ett flertal böcker och artiklar och hans filmade föreläsningar om världens historia har blivit en stor succé på Youtube.

Bibliotekarien Jenny Lindh i DN rekommenderar:"Jag är så upphetsad över att Yuval Noah Hararis Sapiens nu kommer på svenska. Hans maffiga - och utmanande - bok om människan är så innehållsrik att den är hopplös att sammanfatta: "En makrohistorisk exposé över homo sapiens utveckling", försökte jag häromkvällen, varpå sällskapet omedelbart föll i djup REM-sömn. Därför ett par nedslag: Homo Sapiens är en mördarmaskin. Mänskliga rättigheter är en fantasi. Ja, kanske handlar Sapiens framför allt om just fantasin, den föreställningsförmåga som gjort oss till världens härskare. Sagan om människan är intimt förbunden med fiktion."Jenny Lindh i M-magasin:Högsta betyg MMMMM, oumbärlig."Årets bästa? Hur blev människan människa? Hur kan en ynklig tvåfotning utan klor och huggtänder dominera alla andra djur och människoarter? Briljante forskaren Yuval Noah Harari skriver Sapiens historia och finner, vackert nog, att vår vinnande egenskap stavas fantasi. Konsten att föreställa sig det osynliga har skapat religioner, pengar, imperier och vårt herravälde. Men vem betalar priset? Vårens, kanske årets fackbok gnistrar av lärdom och perfekt för diskussionskvällarna."

”Jag önskar att skolböckerna hade haft samma entusiasm, självförtroende och vigör som Yuval Noah Harari har när de berättar om mänsklighetens utveckling.”Kristian Ekenberg, Örnköldsviks Allehanda

”Sapiens: En kort historik över mänskligheten” är en spännande och skrämmande bok.”Bo Gustavsson, UNT

”Hans övergripande och välformulerade exposé är som gjord för underhållning.”Åsa Maria Hellman, Borås Tidning

”Harari kombinerar forskningsrön från många olika områden till ett verkligt ambitiöst, men också mycket imponerande verk … Hararis historik är minst sagt häpnadsväckande. Infallsvinklarnas mångfald gör att verket levererar nytt, ruskigt fascinerande tankegods på rullande band … Allt detta framför Harari med en tydlig, smidig och pedagogisk text – här finns varken något luddigt tänkt eller sagt. Den svenska översättningen kan man dessutom inte kalla annat än lyckad.”Sebastian Köhler, Affärsmagasinet Forum"Boken styrka är storskaligheten; författarens fascinerande framfart genom historien kan göra läsaren fartblind, men erbjuder samtidigt ett helikopterperspektiv över de långa utvecklingslinjerna och många jämförelser av världshistoriens olika kulturer som ger perspektiv på vårt samhälle."Gustav Holmberg, BTJ

"Djärv, mångfacetterad och provokativ utmanar Sapiens allt vi trodde att vi visste om att vara människa: våra tankar, våra handlingar, vår styrka … och vår framtid."The Independent"Harari kan skriva. … verkligen, verkligen skriva med intelligens, klarhet, elegans, och en underbar känsla för metaforer."The Times"Den här fascinerande boken kan inte sammanfattas; du måste helt enkelt läsa den."Financial Times

Doubting Ghosts

Paranormal Investigation and the Paradoxes of Belief

AvMichele Hanks

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

562 kr

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Based on ethnographic research in England, Doubting Ghosts explores the paradoxes faced by paranormal investigators or "ghost hunters": in spite of spending significant time observing and documenting what they suspect to be paranormal phenomena—in a scientific, secular and rational fashion—many paranormal investigators remain skeptical about the existence of the paranormal. What, then, does it mean to regularly see ghosts and yet to not believe ghosts are real?Examining the manner in which the scientific approach adopted by investigators produces profound doubts about the existence of the paranormal, the meaning of science, and the nature of modernity, the author demonstrates that doubt itself is central to experiences of secularity and that doubt can constitute a foundation for long-term engagements with the paranormal. Thus, paranormal investigators are able to sustain a relationship, albeit an uneasy one, with the paranormal while maintaining a commitment to a scientific, secular, and rational worldview.A contribution to understandings of doubt, science, religion, and disenchantment, this book will appeal to scholars of sociology and anthropology.

Exotic No More, Second Edition

Anthropology for the Contemporary World

AvJeremy Macclancy

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

261 kr

In this new edition of the anthropological classic Exotic No More, some of today's most respected anthropologists demonstrate the tremendous contributions that anthropological theory and ethnographic methods can make to the study of contemporary society. With chapters covering a wide variety of subjects--the economy, religion, the sciences, gender and sexuality, human rights, music and art, tourism, migration, and the internet--this volume shows how anthropologists grapple with a world that is in constant and accelerating transformation. Each contributor uses examples from their adventurous fieldwork to challenge us to rethink some of our most firmly held notions. This fully updated edition reflects the best that anthropology has to offer in the twenty-first century. The result is both an invaluable introduction to the field for students and a landmark achievement that will set the agenda for critical approaches to the study of contemporary life.Contributors: Ruben Andersson, Philippe Bourgois, Catherine Buerger, James G. Carrier, Marcus Colchester, James Fairhead, Kim Fortun, Mike Fortun, Katy Gardner, Faye Ginsburg, Roberto J. Gonz lez, Tom Griffiths, Chris Hann, Susan Harding, Faye V. Harrison, Laurie Kain Hart, Richard Jenkins, George Karandinos, Christopher M. Kelty, Melissa Leach, Margaret Lock, Jeremy MacClancy, Sally Engle Merry, Fernando Montero, Matt Sakakeeny, Anthony Alan Shelton, Christopher B. Steiner, Richard Ashby Wilson

Homo Necans

The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth

AvWalter Burkert

Häftad, Engelska, 1986

300 kr

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Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christianity. How did this violent phenomenon achieve the status of the sacred? This question is examined in Walter Burkert's famous study.

Ethnic Identity

Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century

AvLola Romanucci-Ross,George A. De Vosm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

675 kr

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In this thoroughly revised fourth edition, with ten new chapters, the editors provide thought-provoking discussions on the importance of ethnicity in different cultural and social contexts. The authors focus especially on changing ethnic and national identities, on migration and ethnic minorities, on ethnic ascription versus self-definitions, and on shifting ethnic identities and political control. The international group of scholars examines ethnic identities, conflicts and accommodations around the globe, in Africa (including Zaire and South Africa), Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Macedonia, the Netherlands, the United States, Thailand, and the former Yugoslavia. It will serve as an excellent text for courses in race & ethnic relations, and anthropology and ethnic studies.

Design Ethnography

Research, Responsibilities, and Futures

AvSarah Pink,Vaike Forsm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

574 kr

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This book advances the practice and theory of design ethnography. It presents a methodologically adventurous and conceptually robust approach to interventional and ethical research design, practice and engagement.The authors, specialising in design ethnography across the fields of anthropology, sociology, human geography, pedagogy and design research, draw on their extensive international experience of collaborating with engineers, designers, creative practitioners and specialists from other fields. They call for, and demonstrate the benefits of, ethnographic and conceptual attention to design as part of our personal and public everyday lives, society, institutions and activism. Design Ethnography is essential reading for researchers, scholars and students seeking to reshape the way we research, live and design ethically and responsibly into yet unknown futures.

Anthropologist as Writer

Genres and Contexts in the Twenty-First Century

AvHelena Wulff

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

566 kr

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Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist's primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.

Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

198 kr

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER AND BBC HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2022'Pacey and potentially revolutionary' Sunday Times 'Iconoclastic and irreverent ... an exhilarating read' The GuardianFor generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike - either free and equal, or thuggish and warlike. Civilization, we are told, could be achieved only by sacrificing those original freedoms or, alternatively, by taming our baser instincts. David Graeber and David Wengrow show how such theories first emerged in the eighteenth century as a reaction to indigenous critiques of European society, and why they are wrong. In doing so, they overturn our view of human history, including the origins of farming, property, cities, democracy, slavery and civilization itself.Drawing on path-breaking research in archaeology and anthropology, the authors show how history becomes a far more interesting place once we begin to see what's really there. If humans did not spend 95 per cent of their evolutionary past in tiny bands of hunter-gatherers, what were they doing all that time? If agriculture, and cities, did not mean a plunge into hierarchy and domination, then what kinds of social and economic organization did they lead to? The answers are often unexpected, and suggest that the course of history may be less set in stone, and more full of playful possibilities than we tend to assume.The Dawn of Everything fundamentally transforms our understanding of the human past and offers a path toward imagining new forms of freedom, new ways of organizing society. This is a monumental book of formidable intellectual range, animated by curiosity, moral vision and faith in the power of direct action.'This is not a book. This is an intellectual feast' Nassim Nicholas Taleb'The most profound and exciting book I've read in thirty years' Robin D. G. Kelley

Mushroom at the End of the World

On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins

AvAnna Lowenhaupt Tsing

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

213 kr

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"A poetic and remarkably fertile exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural environment."—Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian"I'm very grateful to have this book."—Ursula K. Le GuinThe acclaimed and award-winning book about what a rare mushroom can teach us about sustaining life on a fragile planetA Flavorwire and Times Higher Education Book of the YearMatsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction.By investigating one of the world's most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth.

Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv

AvImmanuel Kant

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

243 kr

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"Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv" var den sista bok Immanuel Kant publicerade (1798). Den baserar sig på hans mångåriga och välbesökta offentliga föreläsningar i antropologi – och blev den av hans böcker som sålde mest i sin första upplaga. Enligt Kant handlar hans filosofi ytterst om den till synes enkla frågan "Vad är människan?". När han här griper sig an den ur ett "pragmatiskt perspektiv", betyder det att han tar sikte på vad människan "som fritt handlande varelse gör eller kan och bör göra av sig själv". Han vill lära sina läsare om deras förmågor och mänskliga möjligheter, hur de kan övervinna sina tillkortakommanden och närma sig sin "bestämmelse", vilket för Kant innebär att utveckla sig till världsmedborgare. Vi möter i boken en annan Kant än den stränge systematikern. Han visar sig från sin humoristiska och ironiska sida, citerar flitigt såväl antika som samtida författare och delar ut levnadsråd. Men vi möter också en tänkare fast i tiden, som trots sin universalism inte undkom typiska inskränktheter och fördomar."Antropologi ur ett pragmatiskt perspektiv" är översatt av Jim Jakobsson och försedd med en efterskrift av den norske filosofen och idéhistorikern Nils Gilje.

Där solen aldrig går ned : hur världens mest sorgsna land gjorde världen syndigare

AvHenrik Brandão Jönsson

Pocket, Svenska, 2022

89 kr

"Brandão Jönsson noterar, som den reporter han är, i första hand det konkreta han ser och hör. Och snart inser jag att en genuin livsnjutare för pennan." Göran Greider, Dagens Nyheter

"Reportageboken ”Där solen aldrig går ned” gör världen större för de många, många läsare den förtjänar." Göteborgs-Posten

"Brandão Jönsson slösar med oväntade upplysningar, skriver lättläst och personligt, det går undan. Det känns som Jorden runt på 80 dagar”, Akademiledamoten Per Wästberg

"Ett både fängslande och lärorikt reportage. Brandão Jönsson träffar intressanta människor, levandegör miljöer, blandar in sig själv och sin egen historia på en lagom nivå och knyter ihop det hela elegant i alla delar." Aftonbladet

"Där solen aldrig går ned är inte bara ett underhållande resereportage utan sju historie- och geografilektioner som får världen att hänga ihop på ett nytt sätt." Arbetaren

"Hans blick är säker för galghumor av en sort som sämre skribenter brukar misslyckas med genom att bara bli roliga”." Svenska Dagbladet

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"Tråkigt har man aldrig i Brandão Jönssons sällskap, och svärtan finns alltid med. Hans bok om den lusofona världen fyller en stor lucka i bokhyllan." Dagens Nyheter

Med avstamp i de sju dödssynderna beger sig Henrik Brandão Jönsson ut på en jordenruntresa för att skildra den osannolika historien om hur ett av Europas fattigaste länder en gång i tiden var världens mäktigaste nation.

Genom upptäcktsresorna spred Portugal sin kultur och sitt språk över världen. Idag är portugisiskan världens sjätte största språk och talas av en kvarts miljard människor på fyra av jordens sex kontinenter. Ändå hör vi sällan om den delen av världen. Hur kommer det sig?

I sju kapitel berättar journalisten Henrik Brandão Jönsson om arvet efter det globala imperiet. Han besöker de forna portugisiska kolonierna och upptäcker att de blivit sina grannländers syndiga motpoler: i Goa har droger och frosseri fått fäste, i spelhålan Macao har pengar och girighet tagit över, i Brasilien breder lättjan ut sig. Alltmedan Portugal känner avund inför allt hon skapat utomlands, men inte fått till på hemmaplan.

"Det myllrande rika materialet där Jönsson korsklipper mellan resor i nutid och nedstigningar i det fjärran förflutna får form och framåtriktad energi, så att Jönssons främsta kvalitet - blicken för den konkreta detaljen som skapar sinnlig närvarokänsla - får fritt spelrum." Göteborgs-Posten

"Inspirerande och intressant skildring av en mycket inflytelserik global kultur.” BTJ

"Där solen aldrig går ned är också en historisk upptäcktsresa som utmynnar i en uppgörelse med den portugisiska självbilden som den goda kolonialmakten." Göteborgs-Posten

"Sju kunniga och inspirerande resereportage. /.../Genom möten och intervjuer med infödda blir den samtida situationen av de gamla kolonierna levande. De historiska och politiska sambanden blir tydliga." Miljömagasinet

"Utifrån sju territorier där man talar portugisiska berättas en historia om kolonialkrig, slavhandel och gränslös girighet. Inget man utan vidare återger med friskt humör. Ändå lyckas Henrik Brandão Jönsson göra just det. Hans blick är säker för galghumor av en sort som sämre skribenter brukar misslyckas med genom att bara bli roliga." Svenska Dagbladet

Revolt Against the Modern World

Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga

AvJulius Evola

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

334 kr

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No idea is as absurd as the idea of progress, which together with its corollary notion of the superiority of modern civilization, has created its own “positive” alibis by falsifying history, by insinuating harmful myths in people’s minds, and by proclaiming itself sovereign at the crossroads of the plebeian ideology from which it originated. In order to understand both the spirit of Tradition and its antithesis, modern civilization, it is necessary to begin with the fundamental doctrine of the two natures. According to this doctrine there is a physical order of things and a metaphysical one; there is a mortal nature and an immortal one; there is the superior realm of “being” and the inferior realm of “becoming.” Generally speaking, there is a visible and tangible dimension and, prior to and beyond it, an invisible and intangible dimension that is the support, the source, and the true life of the former.--from chapter one. With unflinching gaze and uncompromising intensity Julius Evola analyzes the spiritual and cultural malaise at the heart of Western civilization and all that passes for progress in the modern world. As a gadfly, Evola spares no one and nothing in his survey of what we have lost and where we are headed. At turns prophetic and provocative, Revolt against the Modern Worldoutlines a profound metaphysics of history and demonstrates how and why we have lost contact with the transcendent dimension of being. The revolt advocated by Evola does not resemble the familiar protests of either liberals or conservatives. His criticisms are not limited to exposing the mindless nature of consumerism, the march of progress, the rise of technocracy, or the dominance of unalloyed individualism, although these and other subjects come under his scrutiny. Rather, he attempts to trace in space and time the remote causes and processes that have exercised corrosive influence on what he considers to be the higher values, ideals, beliefs, and codes of conduct--the world of Tradition--that are at the foundation of Western civilization and described in the myths and sacred literature of the Indo?Europeans. Agreeing with the Hindu philosophers that history is the movement of huge cycles and that we are now in the Kali Yuga, the age of dissolution and decadence, Evola finds revolt to be the only logical response for those who oppose the materialism and ritualized meaninglessness of life in the twentieth century. Through a sweeping study of the structures, myths, beliefs, and spiritual traditions of the major Western civilizations, the author compares the characteristics of the modern world with those of traditional societies. The domains explored include politics, law, the rise and fall of empires, the history of the Church, the doctrine of the two natures, life and death, social institutions and the caste system, the limits of racial theories, capitalism and communism, relations between the sexes, and the meaning of warriorhood. At every turn Evola challenges the reader’s most cherished assumptions about fundamental aspects of modern life. A controversial scholar, philosopher, and social thinker, JULIUS EVOLA (1898-1974) has only recently become known to more than a handful of English?speaking readers. An authority on the world’s esoteric traditions, Evola wrote extensively on ancient civilizations and the world of Tradition in both East and West. Other books by Evola published by Inner Traditions include Eros and the Mysteries of Love, The Yoga of Power, The Hermetic Tradition, and The Doctrine of Awakening.

Sapiens

THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER

AvYuval Noah Harari

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

141 kr

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'Interesting and provocative... It gives you a sense of how briefly we've been on this Earth' Barack ObamaWhat makes us brilliant? What makes us deadly? What makes us Sapiens?One of the world's preeminent historians and thinkers, Yuval Noah Harari challenges everything we know about being human.Earth is 4.5 billion years old. In just a fraction of that time, one species among countless others has conquered it: us.In this bold and provocative book, Yuval Noah Harari explores who we are, how we got here and where we're going.**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**PRAISE FOR SAPIENS:'Jaw-dropping from the first word to the last... It may be the best book I've ever read' Chris Evans'Startling... It changes the way you look at the world' Simon Mayo'I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who's interested in the history and future of our species' Bill GatesOver 2 million copies sold since publication [Nielsen BookScan UK, Circana BookScan US, April 2024]

Svenska folksägner

AvBengt af Klintberg

Häftad, Svenska, 2015

312 kr

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I bondesamhällets muntliga diktning är det folksägnerna som säger mest om hur folk trodde och tänkte förr. De handlar ofta om tillvarons övernaturliga, fantastiska sidor, om människors möten med näck, skogsrå, vittror och troll. Bengt af Klintberg har gjort ett urval av typiska sägner från alla de svenska landskapen, och han presenterar dem närmare i en sakkunnig inledning.

Folklig botanik

AvIngvar Svanberg

Inbunden, Svenska, 2023

285 kr

I alla tider har föreställningar knutits till vilda och odlade växters undergörande och läkande kraft. Träd, gräs, örter och ormbunkar har spelat en viktig roll vid såväl kyrkliga som världsliga festligheter, vid uppvaktandet av det motsatta könet och som hjälpmedel för att förutsäga framtiden. Dessutom har de använts för ändamål som i dag ofta fallit i glömska: som livsmedel, kryddor, djurfoder, kosmetika, byggnadsmaterial, redskap, textilier, leksaker med mera.

Denna bok är något av en etnobiologisk bibel. Med hjälp av ett rikt källmaterial ur botaniska inventeringar, folkminnessamlingar, reseberättelser och topografiska skildringar har Ingvar Svanberg skrivit en uppslagsbok som ger svar på det mesta om vår folkliga flora.

Ingvar Svanberg har givit ut en rad böcker i ämnet etnobiologi, det vill säga studiet av människans bruk av och föreställningar om växter och djur i det förindustriella samhället.

Den andra upplagan är en omarbetning och uppdatering av utgåvan som kom ut 2011.

Hillbilly Elegy

The Internationally Bestselling Memoir from Trump’s Vice-President of the United States

AvJ. D. Vance

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

168 kr

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THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important book about America this year' Economist ‘Brilliant … offers an acute insight into the reasons voters have put their trust in Trump’ Observer J. D. Vance grew up in the hills of Kentucky. His family and friends were the people most of the world calls rednecks, hillbillies or white trash.In this deeply moving memoir, Vance tells the story of his family’s demons and of America’s problem with generational neglect. How his mother struggled against, but never fully escaped, the legacies of abuse, alcoholism, poverty and trauma. How his grandparents, ‘dirt poor and in love’, gave everything for their children to chase the American dream. How Vance beat the odds to graduate from Yale Law School. And how America came to abandon and then condescend to its white working classes, until they reached breaking point. ‘A beautiful memoir but it is equally a work of cultural criticism about white working-class America … Vance offers a compelling explanation for why it’s so hard for someone who grew up the way he did to make it … a riveting book’ Wall Street Journal ** Now a major-motion picture directed by Ron Howard and starring Amy Adams, Glenn Close, and Gabriel Basso **

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Christian Moderns

Freedom and Fetish in the Mission Encounter

AvWebb Keane

Häftad, Engelska, 2007

591 kr

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Across much of the postcolonial world, Christianity has often become inseparable from ideas and practices linking the concept of modernity to that of human emancipation. To explore these links, Webb Keane undertakes a rich ethnographic study of the century-long encounter, from the colonial Dutch East Indies to post-independence Indonesia, among Calvinist missionaries, their converts, and those who resist conversion. Keane's analysis of their struggles over such things as prayers, offerings, and the value of money challenges familiar notions about agency. Through its exploration of language, materiality, and morality, this book illuminates a wide range of debates in social and cultural theory. It demonstrates the crucial place of Christianity in semiotic ideologies of modernity and sheds new light on the importance of religion in colonial and postcolonial histories.

Guns, Germs, and Steel

The Fates of Human Societies

AvJared Diamond

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

119 kr

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Why did Eurasians conquer, displace, or decimate Native Americans, Australians, and Africans, instead of the reverse? In this “artful, informative, and delightful” (William H. McNeill, New York Review of Books) book, a classic of our time, evolutionary biologist Jared Diamond dismantles racist theories of human history by revealing the environmental factors actually responsible for its broadest patterns.The story begins 13,000 years ago, when Stone Age hunter-gatherers constituted the entire human population. Around that time, the developmental paths of human societies on different continents began to diverge greatly. Early domestication of wild plants and animals in the Fertile Crescent, China, Mesoamerica, the Andes, and other areas gave peoples of those regions a head start at a new way of life. But the localized origins of farming and herding proved to be only part of the explanation for their differing fates. The unequal rates at which food production spread from those initial centers were influenced by other features of climate and geography, including the disparate sizes, locations, and even shapes of the continents. Only societies that moved away from the hunter-gatherer stage went on to develop writing, technology, government, and organized religions as well as deadly germs and potent weapons of war. It was those societies, adventuring on sea and land, that invaded others, decimating native inhabitants through slaughter and the spread of disease.A major landmark in our understanding of human societies, Guns, Germs, and Steel chronicles the way in which the modern world, and its inequalities, came to be.

History of Modern Tibet, Volume 4

In the Eye of the Storm, 1957-1959

AvMelvyn C. Goldstein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

1 323 kr

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It is not possible to understand contemporary politics between China and the Dalai Lama without understanding what happened in the 1950s, especially the events that occurred in 1957–59. The fourth volume of Melvyn C. Goldstein's History of Modern Tibet series, In the Eye of the Storm, provides new perspectives on Sino-Tibetan history during the period leading to the Tibetan Uprising of 1959. The volume also reassesses issues that have been widely misunderstood as well as stereotypes and misrepresentations in the popular realm and in academic literature (such as in Mao’s policies on Tibet). Volume 4 draws on important new Chinese government documents, published and unpublished memoirs, new biographies, and a large corpus of in-depth, specially collected political interviews to reexamine the events that produced the March 10th uprising and the demise of Tibet’s famous Buddhist civilization. The result is a heavily documented analysis that presents a nuanced and balanced account of the principal players and their policies during the critical final two years of Sino-Tibetan relations under the Seventeen-Point Agreement of 1951.

The Dawn of Everything

A New History of Humanity

AvDavid Graeber,David Wengrow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

368 kr

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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers

The Foraging Spectrum

AvRobert L. Kelly

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

397 kr

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In this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, and downplays attempts to model the original foraging lifeway or to use foragers to depict human nature stripped to its core. Kelly reviews the anthropological literature for variation among living foragers in terms of diet, mobility, sharing, land tenure, technology, exchange, male-female relations, division of labor, marriage, descent and political organization. Using the paradigm of human behavioral ecology, he analyzes the diversity in these areas and seeks to explain rather than explain away variability, and argues for an approach to prehistory that uses archaeological data to test theory rather than one that uses ethnographic analogy to reconstruct the past.

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Don't Forget We're Here Forever

A New Generation's Search for Religion

AvLamorna Ash

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

145 kr

Why are young people finding their way back to faith?'One of those books I find myself being (excuse the pun) evangelical about, pressing it into friends' hands like a Gideon's Bible' Sunday Times'Spellbinding . . . An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in today' Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men*A TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER**A TELEGRAPH, GQ, NEW YORKER AND PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR*When several of her friends turned to faith in their twenties, Lamorna Ash sensed the beginnings of a phenomenon. In our fractured age, a new generation was rediscovering Christianity for itself.In this urgent and lyrical adventure, Ash embarks on a journey across Britain to meet the young people wrestling with faith today. Taking us from ancient abbeys to modern meeting houses, silent retreats to garrulous Bible classes, Don' t Forget We're Here Forever explores our need for community and nourishment of the soul.'One of our most talented young writers' Telegraph'It is not surprising that at a time like this, people should turn to older sources of meaning. Don't Forget We're Here Forever is therefore a book for our moment' Irish Times'A rare and arresting book' New Statesman

Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies

AvBrendan Hokowhitu,Aileen Moreton-Robinsonm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

710 kr

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The Routledge Handbook of Critical Indigenous Studies is the first comprehensive overview of the rapidly expanding field of Indigenous scholarship. The book is ambitious in scope, ranging across disciplines and national boundaries, with particular reference to the lived conditions of Indigenous peoples in the first world. The contributors are all themselves Indigenous scholars who provide critical understandings of indigeneity in relation to ontology (ways of being), epistemology (ways of knowing), and axiology (ways of doing) with a view to providing insights into how Indigenous peoples and communities engage and examine the worlds in which they are immersed. Sections include:• Indigenous Sovereignty • Indigeneity in the 21st Century • Indigenous Epistemologies • The Field of Indigenous Studies • Global Indigeneity This handbook contributes to the re-centring of Indigenous knowledges, providing material and ideational analyses of social, political, and cultural institutions and critiquing and considering how Indigenous peoples situate themselves within, outside, and in relation to dominant discourses, dominant postcolonial cultures and prevailing Western thought. This book will be of interest to scholars with an interest in Indigenous peoples across Literature, History, Sociology, Critical Geographies, Philosophy, Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, Native Studies, Māori Studies, Hawaiian Studies, Native American Studies, Indigenous Studies, Race Studies, Queer Studies, Politics, Law, and Feminism.

Hunt, Gather, Parent: What Ancient Cultures Can Teach Us about the Lost Art of Raising Happy, Helpful Little Humans

AvMichaeleen Doucleff

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

254 kr

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Heritage

Critical Approaches

AvRodney Harrison

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

2 178 kr

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Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums…we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession? Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various ‘crises’ of definition have significantly influenced the ways in which heritage is classified, perceived and managed in contemporary global societies. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to the many tangible and intangible ‘things’ now defined as heritage, this book attempts simultaneously to account for this global phenomenon and the industry which has grown up around it, as well as to develop a ‘toolkit of concepts’ with which it might be studied. In doing so, it provides a critical account of the emergence of heritage studies as an interdisciplinary field of academic study. This is presented as part of a broader examination of the function of heritage in late modern societies, with a particular focus on the changes which have resulted from the globalisation of heritage during the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Developing new theoretical approaches and innovative models for more dialogically democratic heritage decision making processes, Heritage: Critical Approaches unravels the relationship between heritage and the experience of late modernity, whilst reorienting heritage so that it might be more productively connected with other pressing social, economic, political and environmental issues of our time.

Law of Kinship

Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and the Family in France

AvCamille Robcis

Häftad, Engelska, 2013

609 kr

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In France as elsewhere in recent years, legislative debates over single-parent households, same-sex unions, new reproductive technologies, transsexuality, and other challenges to long-held assumptions about the structure of family and kinship relations have been deeply divisive. What strikes many as uniquely French, however, is the extent to which many of these discussions—whether in legislative chambers, courtrooms, or the mass media—have been conducted in the frequently abstract vocabularies of anthropology and psychoanalysis. In this highly original book, Camille Robcis seeks to explain why and how academic discourses on kinship have intersected and overlapped with political debates on the family—and on the nature of French republicanism itself. She focuses on the theories of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Jacques Lacan, both of whom highlighted the interdependence of the sexual and the social by positing a direct correlation between kinship and socialization. Robcis traces how their ideas gained recognition not only from French social scientists but also from legislators and politicians who relied on some of the most obscure and difficult concepts of structuralism to enact a series of laws concerning the family. Lévi-Strauss and Lacan constructed the heterosexual family as a universal trope for social and psychic integration, and this understanding of the family at the root of intersubjectivity coincided with the role that the family has played in modern French law and public policy. The Law of Kinship contributes to larger conversations about the particularities of French political culture, the nature of sexual difference, and the problem of reading and interpretation in intellectual history.

Goliath's Curse: The History and Future of Societal Collapse

AvLuke Kemp

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

352 kr

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Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods

AvAndrea Petitt,Anke Tonnaerm. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

480 kr

Skickas inom 5-8 vardagar

Multispecies Ethnography and Artful Methods explores the potential of multimodal art practices in doing qualitative research beyond the human. Through artful endeavours such as creative writing, photography, filmmaking, drawing and poetry, the volume aims to overcome the shortcomings of conventional, anthropocentric and logocentric methods in multispecies research. To move beyond the limitations of language and linguistic communication, the contributors build on the long tradition of visual and sensory anthropology while also engaging in and consciously reflecting on innovative, creative and artistic methods. Taking a multispecies and more-than-human perspective - ranging from snow and trees to animals and an AI oracle - the volume investigates ways to touch, speak, listen, feel, walk with and reach across different species.This book and accompanying multimedia website advance the frontier of publishing artful expressions of academic research by highlighting how creative practices can be the very core of data collection, analysis and the communication of research. As such, the artful pieces are not 'just' illustrations of textual representations, but are practised as part of an iterative process of data collection and analysis. The contributions by well-established scholars, early career researchers and postgraduates who carry out new, cutting-edge research offer an engaging range of analytical, methodological and empiric orientations, while conversing at the intersection of multispecies ethnography and artful methods.

Lives of Jewish Things

Collecting and Curating Material Culture

AvGabrielle Anna Berlinger,Ruth von Bernuth

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

376 kr

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