Alterations – serie
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8 produkter
Orphans of Islam
Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco
Häftad, 2002
783 kr
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Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and "excluded body" of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of "adoption," which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and …
Ethics of Kinship
Ethnographic Inquiries
Häftad, 2001
713 kr
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What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further …
Religious Identity and Political Destiny
'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism
Inbunden, 2006
1420 kr
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Religious Identity and Political Destiny: 'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism is an ethnography of a contentious, ongoing debate about the place of religion in Indian civic life. Exploring Hindu nationalism from the varied perspectives of its critics in women's activist and Left intellectual …
Religious Identity and Political Destiny
'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism
Häftad, 2006
601 kr
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Religious Identity and Political Destiny: 'Hindutva' in the Culture of Ethnicism is an ethnography of a contentious, ongoing debate about the place of religion in Indian civic life. Exploring Hindu nationalism from the varied perspectives of its critics in women's activist and Left intellectual …
Cosmopolitan Desire
Transcultural Dialogues and Antiterrorism in Morocco
Häftad, 2006
615 kr
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Foster's timely work looks at globalization processes and the transformations that occur within a diverse society. He investigates the multicultural blend of Western and Moslem cultures in Morocco, showing how a multicultural society deals with differences, e.g., how urban secularized Moslems …
Orphans of Islam
Family, Abandonment, and Secret Adoption in Morocco
E-bok, 2002
857 kr
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Orphans of Islam portrays the abject lives and "excluded body" of abandoned and bastard children in contemporary Morocco, while critiquing the concept and practice of "adoption," which too often is considered a panacea. Through a close and historically grounded reading of legal, social, and …
Ocasi
The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration
Av George E. Marcus, Fernando Mascarenhas
Inbunden, 2005
1475 kr
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Anthropologist George Marcus and Fernando Mascarenhas, Marques of Fronteira and Alorna, reveal the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through their letters and commentaries. This innovative and experimental ethnography is a reflection on the survival of the contemporary Portuguese …
Ocasião
The Marquis and the Anthropologist, A Collaboration
Av George E. Marcus, Fernando Mascarenhas
Häftad, 2005
549 kr
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Distinguished anthropologist George Marcus and his co-author Fernando Mascarenhas engage in a new experiment in anthropological writing. Ocasião reveals the key relationship between anthropologist and subject through the letters and commentaries exchanged between Marcus and Mascarenhas, Marques of …
