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6 produkter

  1. Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko, Paolo Heywood, Fiona Wright - Freedoms of Speech, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Freedoms of Speech

    Anthropological Perspectives on Language, Ethics, and Power

    Av Matei Candea, Taras Fedirko m. fl.

    Häftad, 2025

    440 kr

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    Bringing together leading anthropologists, this collection sheds light on the vast topic of freedoms of speech from a comparatively human perspective. Freedoms of Speech provides a sustained, empirical exploration of the variety of ways freedom of speech is lived, valued, and contested in practice; …

  2. Constantine V. Nakassis - Onscreen/Offscreen, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Onscreen/Offscreen

    Av Constantine V. Nakassis

    Häftad, 2023

    328 kr

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    Based on over a decade of ethnographic fieldwork in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Onscreen/Offscreen is an exploration of the politics and being of filmic images. The book examines contestations inside and outside the Tamil film industry over the question "what is an image?" Answers to this …

  3. Luke Fleming - On Speaking Terms, Inbunden. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    On Speaking Terms

    Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

    Av Luke Fleming

    Inbunden, 2024

    523 kr

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    Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into "joking" and "avoidance" relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to …

  4. Luke Fleming - On Speaking Terms, E-bok. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    On Speaking Terms

    Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

    Av Luke Fleming

    E-bok, 2024

    605 kr

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    Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into “joking” and “avoidance” relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to …

  5. Luke Fleming - On Speaking Terms, E-bok. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    On Speaking Terms

    Avoidance Registers and the Sociolinguistics of Kinship

    Av Luke Fleming

    E-bok, 2024

    598 kr

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    Why are kin, in societies all over the world, divided into “joking” and “avoidance” relations? Foundational figures in the human sciences, from E.B. Tylor and Alfred Radcliffe-Brown to Sigmund Freud and Claude Lévi-Strauss, have sought to explain why some classes of kin are normatively expected to …

  6. Andrew M. Carruthers - Spectres of Affinity, Inbunden. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Spectres of Affinity

    The Social Life of Comparison at a Southeast Asian Border

    Av Andrew M. Carruthers

    Inbunden, 2026

    663 kr

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    Undocumented immigrants are generally assumed to exhibit clear signs of their so-called outsider status. In the absence of such signs, however, how is the “illegal immigrant” made legible or policed? How might migrants negotiate their statuses as objects of state surveillance by exploiting their …