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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

Virilio Live

Selected Interviews

AvPaul Virilio,John Armitage

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

1 953 kr

Edited by one of the leading Paul Virilio authorities this book offers the reader a guide through Virilio's work. Using the interview form, Virilio speaks incisively and at length about a vast assortment of cultural and theoretical topics, including architecture and `speed-space', `chronopolitics', art and technoculture, modernism, postmodernism and `hypermodernism', the time of the trajectory and the `information bomb'. His thoughts on Foucault, Baudrillard, Deleuze and Guattari, the performance artist Stelarc, the Persian War and the Kosovo War, are also gathered together.

Revolt Against the Modern World

Politics, Religion, and Social Order in the Kali Yuga

AvJulius Evola

Inbunden, Engelska, 1995

328 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.

Horse, the Wheel, and Language

How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World

AvDavid W. Anthony

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

351 kr

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Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European. But who were the early speakers of this ancient mother tongue, and how did they manage to spread it around the globe? Until now their identity has remained a tantalizing mystery to linguists, archaeologists, and even Nazis seeking the roots of the Aryan race. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language lifts the veil that has long shrouded these original Indo-European speakers, and reveals how their domestication of horses and use of the wheel spread language and transformed civilization. Linking prehistoric archaeological remains with the development of language, David Anthony identifies the prehistoric peoples of central Eurasia's steppe grasslands as the original speakers of Proto-Indo-European, and shows how their innovative use of the ox wagon, horseback riding, and the warrior's chariot turned the Eurasian steppes into a thriving transcontinental corridor of communication, commerce, and cultural exchange.He explains how they spread their traditions and gave rise to important advances in copper mining, warfare, and patron-client political institutions, thereby ushering in an era of vibrant social change. Anthony also describes his fascinating discovery of how the wear from bits on ancient horse teeth reveals the origins of horseback riding. The Horse, the Wheel, and Language solves a puzzle that has vexed scholars for two centuries--the source of the Indo-European languages and English--and recovers a magnificent and influential civilization from the past.

In Sorcery's Shadow

A Memoir of Apprenticeship among the Songhay of Niger

AvPaul Stoller,Cheryl Olkes

Häftad, Engelska, 1989

248 kr

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The tale of Paul Stoller's sojourn among sorcerors in the Republic of Niger is a story of growth and change, of mutual respect and understanding that will challenge all who read it to plunge deeply into an alien world.

Philosophical Anthropology

AvPaul Ricoeur

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

369 kr

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How do human beings become human? This question lies behind the so-called �human sciences.� But these disciplines are scattered among many different departments and hold up a cracked mirror to humankind. This is why, in the view of Paul Ricoeur, we need to develop a philosophical anthropology, one that has a much older history but still offers many untapped resources.This appeal to a specifically philosophical approach to questions regarding what it was to be human did not stop Ricoeur from entering into dialogue with other disciplines and approaches, such as psychoanalysis, history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics and the philosophy of language, in order to offer an up-to-date reflection on what he saw as the fundamental issues. For there is clearly not a simple, single answer to the question �what is it to be human?� Ricoeur therefore takes up the complexity of this question in terms of the tensions he sees between the �voluntary� and the �involuntary,� �acting� and �suffering,� �autonomy� and �vulnerability,� �capacity� and �fragility,� and �identity� and �otherness.�The texts brought together in this volume provide an overall view of the development of Ricoeur�s philosophical thinking on the question of what it is to be human, from his early 1939 lecture on �Attention� to his remarks on receiving the Kluge Prize in 2004, a few months before his death.

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Exotic No More, Second Edition

Anthropology for the Contemporary World

AvJeremy Macclancy

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

264 kr

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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

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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

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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]

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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.

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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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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

"Vilken fantastisk läsupplevelse!" Benjamin Elfors, podcasten Kunskap bit för bit

"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

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Together

A Manifesto Against a Heartless World

AvEce Temelkuran

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

126 kr

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Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands.Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.

Constructing Frames of Reference

An Analytical Method for Archaeological Theory Building Using Ethnographic and Environmental Data Sets

AvLewis R. Binford

Inbunden, Engelska, 2001

1 126 kr

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Many consider Lewis Binford to be the single most influential figure in archaeology in the last half-century. His contributions to the 'New Archaeology' changed the course of the field, as he argued for the development of a scientifically rigorous framework to guide the excavation and interpretation of the archaeological record. This book, the culmination of Binford's intellectual legacy thus far, presents a detailed description of his methodology and its significance for understanding hunter-gatherer cultures on a global basis. This landmark publication will be an important step in understanding the great process of cultural evolution and will change the way archaeology proceeds as a scientific enterprise. This work provides a major synthesis of an enormous body of cultural and environmental information and offers many original insights into the past. Binford helped pioneer what is now called 'ethnoarchaeology' - the study of living societies to help explain cultural patterns in the archaeological record - and this book is grounded on a detailed analysis of ethnographic data from about 340 historically known hunter-gatherer populations.The methodological framework based on this data will reshape the paradigms through which we understand human culture for years to come.

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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.

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Lost Worlds

How Humans Tried, Failed, Succeeded, and Built Our World

AvPatrick Wyman

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

326 kr

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"Lost Worlds convinces us of the value of slowing down to recognize the tremendous diversity of the human past. But he presses hard against the conclusion that there was any direction or pattern behind its complexity." —The Wall Street Journal“A spellbinding tour de force!” —Walter Scheidel, author of What Is Ancient History?“This is non-fiction storytelling at its finest.” —Eric H. Cline, author of 1177 B.C.The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by trial and error on a global scale.There’s a familiar story about us humans: we went from hunting and gathering to farming, wandering bands to villages and cities, clans and chieftains to states and kings. But Lost Worlds offers a new narrative of humanity’s deep history. Here beloved podcast host Patrick Wyman focuses on the 10,000-year span between the end of the Ice Age and the decline of the Bronze Age—the period when civilization as we understand it emerged, introducing social hierarchies, urbanism, complex political organizations, and the written word.In this nuanced retelling, human progress is no longer a straight march from caves to cities: Farming didn’t always replace foraging, villages didn’t automatically spark agriculture, and cities didn’t necessitate rigid hierarchies. For thousands of years, humans merely improvised. By the end of the Bronze Age, the world had become unrecognizable: mammoths and giant sloths replaced by cattle and sheep, scattered nomadic bands replaced by millions living in cities, and farming on nearly every continent. Wyman argues that the rise of states and steady food production wasn’t inevitable, but rather, the outcome of countless choices that reshaped the planet and made us who we are today.Combining cutting-edge science with gripping storytelling, Lost Worlds explores:A Sweeping New History of the Ancient World: Discover how early societies rose, adapted, and collapsed across thousands of years of human history.The Archaeology Revolution: Ancient DNA, climate science, and new excavation methods are revealing how prehistoric people lived, migrated, and fought.From Ice Age Hunters to Early Civilizations: Follow the dramatic transformation that led from nomadic foragers to farming, cities, and powerful states.Why Societies Rise—and Fall: Learn how climate change, migration, population growth, and conflict shaped the fate of early civilizations.

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Connector

Living with Experimental Neuroprosthetics

AvAlexandra Middleton

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

323 kr

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In The Connector, Alexandra Middleton examines how the frontiers of experimental medical science are always the everyday lived experiences for patients and their families and communities. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in Swedish labs and clinics that develop neuromusculoskeletal protheses, as well as in the homes of patients enrolled in clinical trials as they live with these new forms of prosthetics, Middleton shows how patients’ sensory experiences and domestic worlds become key spaces of scientific knowledge production that extend well beyond their visits to the lab. Through storytelling that centers the patients’ embodied knowledge and labor, along with the scientists who work closely with them, Middleton depicts how “connection” entails inhabiting the liminal space between ideation and materialization, a space punctuated not only by breakthroughs and breakdowns, but the slow work of the everyday. The Connector critically examines where biomedical innovation, scientific discovery, and the “cutting edge” come from in ways that foreground the importance of the domestic spaces in which experimental science take place.

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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.

The Rise of Homo Sapiens: The Evolution of Modern Thinking

AvFrederick L. Coolidge,Thomas Wynn

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

608 kr

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The Rise of Homo sapiens provides an unrivalled interdisciplinary introduction to the subject of hominin cognitive evolution that is appropriate for general audiences and students in psychology, archaeology, and anthropology.The book includes chapters on neural anatomy, working memory, evolutionary methods, and non-human primate cognition, but the bulk of the text reviews major developments in cognition over the span of hominin evolution from the ape-like cognition of Ardipithecus to the final developments that enabled the modern mind. The most provocative chapters of the first edition - the explicit discussion of the role of sleep in hominin evolution and the difference between Neandertal and modern human cognition - incorporate significant developments in both areas since the publication of the first edition. This revised edition updates the former text and adds greater emphasis to the growing fields of epigenetic inheritance, embodied cognition, and neuroaesthetics. The new edition provides greater emphasis on role and status of Homo heidelbergensis.

Key Sociological Thinkers

AvRob Stones

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

546 kr

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The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised introduction to classical and contemporary theory. Each chapter offers an insightful assessment of a different theorist, exploring their lives, works and legacies, and in a much-valued 'Seeing Things Differently' section authors demonstrate how each thinker’s ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways.With frameworks for deep learning around group discussion, this continues be an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate modules on sociological and social theory.New to this Edition:- Four new chapters, on Mead, Du Bois, Latour and Alexander- Five chapters by new authors on existing key thinkers: Durkheim, Merton, Goffman, Bourdieu, and Giddens- A major new introduction- An updated, structured and annotated ‘Further Reading’ section for each thinker- Extended accounts of 13 additional thinkers who have influenced, or been influenced by, the key thinkersAccompanying online resources for this title can be found at bloomsburyonlineresources.com/key-sociological-3e. These resources are designed to support teaching and learning when using this textbook and are available at no extra cost.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects (Hardback)

AvWeston Price

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

364 kr

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Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes

At the Crossroads of History and Anthropology

AvBrooke Larson,Olivia Harrism. fl.

Häftad, Engelska, 1995

593 kr

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Until now, Andean peasants have primarily been thought of by scholars as isolated subsistence farmers, "resistant" to money and to different markets in the region. Ethnicity, Markets, and Migration in the Andes overturns this widely held assumption and puts in its place a new perspective as it explores the dynamic between Andean cultural, social, and economic practices and the market forces of a colonial and postcolonial mercantile economy. Bringing together the work of outstanding scholars in Andean history, anthropology, and ethnohistory, these pioneering essays show how, from the very earliest period of Spanish rule, Andean peasants and their rulers embraced the new economic opportunities and challenged or subverted the new structures introduced by the colonial administration. They also convincingly explain why in the twentieth century the mistaken idea developed that Andean peasants were conservative and unable to participate effectively in different markets, and reveal how closely ethnic inequalities were tied to evolving market relations. Inviting a critical reconsideration of ethnic, class, and gender issues in the context of rural Andean markets, this book will revise the prevailing view of Andean history and provide a more fully informed picture of the complex mercantile activities of Andean peasants.

Wärend och wirdarne

AvGunnar Olof Hyltén-Cavallius

Häftad, Svenska, 2019

260 kr

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Wärend och wirdarne är en nästan mytomspunnen bok, vars stora inflytande går långt bortom dess egentliga ämnesområde. Den får anses vara Hyltén-Cavallius, även kallad den svenska etnografins fader, främsta verk. Trots delvis omstridda teorier fortsätter boken att tjusa läsarna, inspirera forskarna och framförallt utgöra en veritabel guldgruva av uppteckningar om folks föreställningar, vanor och traditioner i Sverige genom tiderna. Författaren har sitt eget uppväxtområde Wärend (och dess folk wirdarna) som utgångspunkt, men han berör även övriga Sverige och Norden, och innehållet är relevant för alla svenskar med intresse för vårt lands folk och historia.Båda delarna av verket presenteras här samlat i en volym, med delvis moderniserat språk. Boken är illustrerad.”Våra förfäder, ehuru okonstlade barn av naturen, var nämligen inga råa barbarer. Tvärtom vittnar alla spår, att de var ett andligen begåvat folk, med sinne för vad som är stort i tanke och handling. Detta folk är då väl värt att studeras i de minnen, som det lämnat i arv åt efterkommande. Ty det är i vårdandet av vårt nationella arv, som vi har att söka fäderneslandets framtid.”Högintressant för alla historieintresserade. (Bygd och natur, nr 3, 2019)

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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

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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.

Das egoistische Gen

Mit einem Vorwort von Wolfgang Wickler

AvRichard Dawkins

Häftad, Tyska, 2014

355 kr

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>>Ein auch heute noch bedeutsamer Klassiker<< Daily Express Sind wir Marionetten unserer Gene? Nach Richard Dawkins´ vor über 30 Jahren entworfener und heute noch immer provozierender These steuern und dirigieren unsere von Generation zu Generation weitergegebenen Gene uns, um sich selbst zu erhalten. Alle biologischen Organismen dienen somit vor allem dem Überleben und der Unsterblichkeit der Erbanlagen und sind letztlich nur die "Einweg-Behälter" der "egoistischen" Gene. Sind wir Menschen also unserem Gen-Schicksal hilflos ausgeliefert? Dawkins bestreitet dies und macht uns Hoffnung: Seiner Meinung nach sind wir nämlich die einzige Spezies mit der Chance, gegen ihr genetisches Schicksal anzukämpfen.

Ethnic Identity

Problems and Prospects for the Twenty-first Century

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

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

682 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.

Del 36 - California Series in Public Anthropology

Land of Open Graves

Living and Dying on the Migrant Trail

AvJason De Leon

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

351 kr

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In his gripping and provocative debut, anthropologist Jason De Leon sheds light on one of the most pressing political issues of our time-the human consequences of US immigration policy. The Land of Open Graves reveals the suffering and deaths that occur daily in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona as thousands of undocumented migrants attempt to cross the border from Mexico into the United States. Drawing on the four major fields of anthropology, De Leon uses an innovative combination of ethnography, archaeology, linguistics, and forensic science to produce a scathing critique of "Prevention through Deterrence," the federal border enforcement policy that encourages migrants to cross in areas characterized by extreme environmental conditions and high risk of death. For two decades, this policy has failed to deter border crossers while successfully turning the rugged terrain of southern Arizona into a killing field. In harrowing detail, De Leon chronicles the journeys of people who have made dozens of attempts to cross the border and uncovers the stories of the objects and bodies left behind in the desert. The Land of Open Graves will spark debate and controversy.

Garfinkel and Ethnomethodology

AvJohn Heritage

Häftad, Engelska, 1984

354 kr

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The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics. This book offers a systematic and innovative analysis of his theories and of the ethnomethodological movement which he has inspired.It is the only full-length study focused on the writings of Harold Garfinkel and will be essential reading for all those concerned with understanding and evaluating one of the most radically original social scientists of recent times.

Det omistliga : om förlusten av mångfald i natur och kultur - och hur den kan återskapas

AvThomas Hylland Eriksen

Häftad, Svenska, 2025

263 kr

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Det är allvar nu. Det är vår framtid som står på spel. Såväl kulturell som biologisk mångfald hotas i den globaliserade värld som nu löper amok.

Det pris vi betalar för mänsklighetens framsteg är standardisering. Vi har utrotat sjukdomar och hungersnöd, men även arter och säregna kulturer. Urskog och vildmark har omvandlats till plantager och betongöknar, små språk försvinner och lokal kunskap glöms bort.

Vi har alla från Sverige till Seychellerna, från Amazonas till Australien utvecklats till konsumenter av samma sort. Resultatet är allt större likriktning. Men allt är faktiskt inte hopplöst. Denna bok visar både på motkrafter och försök att återskapa mångfald. Det är viktigare än någonsin att visa på de alternativ som finns. Variationsrikedom är livsviktig.

Så kan man sammanfatta kärnan i det intellektuella arv som den norske antropologen Thomas Hylland Eriksen lämnar efter sig. Det är raka motsatsen till att hylla renhet eller sätta upp stängsel och staket. Det handlar om de nyskapande blandformer som uppstår där människor och kulturer möts. När Thomas Hylland Eriksen gick bort, hösten 2024, hade han just färdigställt Det omistliga. Denna bok blev hans sista stora projekt och sammanfattar hans livsgärning som forskare, författare och kunskapsförmedlare.

Det omistliga ges ut på svenska i samarbete mellan Bokförlaget Korpen och Irene Publishing.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962 2024) var professor i socialantropologi vid Oslo universitet och författare till en lång rad böcker på norska och engelska. Hans forskning var inriktad på sociala och kulturella effekter av globaliseringen, från nationalism och kreolisering till informationsrevolutionen och klimatkrisen. Hylland Eriksen mottog en rad priser för sitt författarskap och räknades vid sin bortgång till en av Norges ledande intellektuella. Hans böcker Små platser stora frågor och Ögonblickets tyranni har översatts till mer än trettio språk.