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Ways of Walking
Ethnography and Practice on Foot
Av Jo Lee Vergunst, Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 2008
2746 kr
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Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'technique of the body'. This book presents studies …
Attention in Performance
Acting Lessons in Sensory Anthropology
Inbunden, 2021
2585 kr
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This book elucidates how learning from actors enables an intense education of attention for anthropologists. Actors perform the perception of sunshine, the sensation of pain, affects such as shock and emotions such as happiness; they act quarrels, erotic attraction, leadership and submission on …
Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically
Av Sara Asu Schroer, Susanne Schmitt
Häftad, 2020
705 kr
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The notion of atmosphere has always been part of academic discourse, but often refers to something vague and diffuse - a phenomenon connected with our affective engagement with the world that is difficult to grasp. This volume develops and refines the concept of atmosphere, seeking to render it …
Attention in Performance
Acting Lessons in Sensory Anthropology
Häftad, 2022
726 kr
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This book elucidates how learning from actors enables an intense education of attention for anthropologists. Actors perform the perception of sunshine, the sensation of pain, affects such as shock and emotions such as happiness; they act quarrels, erotic attraction, leadership and submission on …
Peripheral Methodologies
Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits
Av Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
647 kr
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How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery – ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as …
Craftwork as Problem Solving
Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making
Häftad, 2017
654 kr
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This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental …
Reflections on Imagination
Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method
Häftad, 2017
635 kr
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In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, …
Bodily Imagination in Butoh Dance
Towards an Anthropology with Art for Creativity and Healing
Inbunden, 2026
2548 kr
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This book offers an anthropological study of butoh dance as an artistic somatic practice which can be oriented toward self-knowledge and transformation as pathways to creativity and healing. Based on immersive ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Japan and the UK, it reflects on the use of butoh as …
Digressions and the Human Imagination
Tracing the Indirectness of Cultural Creativity
Inbunden, 2024
2585 kr
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Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural transformations occur. And yet, what we know …
Digressions and the Human Imagination
Tracing the Indirectness of Cultural Creativity
Häftad, 2026
705 kr
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Digressions and the Human Imagination makes a significant contribution to our anthropological knowledge about human creativity. The creative force of the human imagination is widely considered as a key ingredient in understanding how social and cultural transformations occur. And yet, what we know …
Naming and Being
Knowledges, Identities, and Cultural Politics
Av Gwyneira Isaac, Stanisław Kordasiewicz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
2510 kr
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This experimental volume explores how intersections between different knowledge systems affect identity formation through names and naming, bringing together anthropologists, community scholars, artists, linguists, scientists, poets, specialists in science and technology, as well as legal and …
Narrative Objects
Museums, the Sakha Summer Festival, and Cultural Revival in Siberia
Av Tatiana Argounova-Low, Alison K. Brown
Häftad, 2026
705 kr
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Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars, and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh – the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East – which has been in the …
Making and Growing
Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts
Av Elizabeth Hallam, Tim Ingold
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as …
Ways of Walking
Ethnography and Practice on Foot
Av Jo Lee Vergunst, Tim Ingold
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Despite its importance to how humans inhabit their environments, walking has rarely received the attention of ethnographers. Ways of Walking combines discussions of embodiment, place and materiality to address this significant and largely ignored 'technique of the body'. This book presents studies …
Conversations With Landscape
Av Karl Benediktsson, Katrín Anna Lund
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing communication that is inherent in any …
Redrawing Anthropology
Materials, Movements, Lines
Av Tim Ingold
Häftad, 2016
822 kr
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Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic …
Imagining Landscapes
Past, Present and Future
Av Monica Janowski, Tim Ingold
Häftad, 2016
846 kr
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The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their …
Design and Anthropology
Häftad, 2016
865 kr
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Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses …
Narrative Objects
Museums, the Sakha Summer Festival, and Cultural Revival in Siberia
Av Tatiana Argounova-Low, Alison K. Brown
Inbunden, 2025
2510 kr
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Narrative Objects is concerned with the conversations that arise when artists, scholars, and museum practitioners come together with historic objects. Its focus is a unique mammoth ivory model of yhyakh – the annual celebration of the Sakha people in the Russian Far East – which has been in the …
Peripheral Methodologies
Unlearning, Not-knowing and Ethnographic Limits
Av Francisco Martínez, Lili Di Puppo m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1826 kr
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How does peripherality challenge methodology and theory-making? This book examines how the peripheral can be incorporated into ethnographic research, and reflects on what it means to be on the periphery – ontologically and epistemologically. Starting from the premise that clarity and fixity as …
Conversations With Landscape
Av Karl Benediktsson, Katrín Anna Lund
Inbunden, 2010
2510 kr
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Conversations With Landscape moves beyond the conventional dualisms associated with landscape, exploring notions of landscape and its relation with humans through the metaphor of conversation. Such an approach conceives of landscape as an actor in the ongoing communication that is inherent in any …
Redrawing Anthropology
Materials, Movements, Lines
Av Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 2011
2585 kr
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Why should anthropologists draw? The answer proposed in this groundbreaking volume is that drawing uniquely brings together ways of making, observing and describing. In twelve chapters, a team of authors from the UK, Europe, North America and Australia explore the potential of a graphic …
Design and Anthropology
Inbunden, 2012
2743 kr
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Design and Anthropology challenges conventional thinking regarding the nature of design and creativity, in a way that acknowledges the improvisatory skills and perceptual acuity of people. Combining theoretical investigations and documentation of practice based experiments, it addresses …
Imagining Landscapes
Past, Present and Future
Av Monica Janowski, Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 2012
3262 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined. What part, then, does imagining landscapes play in their perception? The contributors to this volume, drawn from a range of disciplines, argue that landscapes are 'imagined' in a sense more fundamental than their …
Making and Growing
Anthropological Studies of Organisms and Artefacts
Av Elizabeth Hallam, Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 2014
2510 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Making and Growing brings together the latest work in the fields of anthropology and material culture studies to explore the differences - and the relation - between making things and growing things, and between things that are made and things that grow. Though the former are often regarded as …
Reflections on Imagination
Human Capacity and Ethnographic Method
Inbunden, 2015
2510 kr
Lägg i varukorg
In this innovative volume, anthropologists turn their attention to a topic that has rarely figured as a focus of concerted investigation and yet which can be described as an intrinsic aspect of all human knowing and part of all processes by which human beings process information about themselves, …
Craftwork as Problem Solving
Ethnographic Studies of Design and Making
Inbunden, 2015
2824 kr
Lägg i varukorg
This volume brings together a cross-disciplinary group of anthropologists, researchers of craft, and designer-makers to enumerate and explore the diversity and complexity of problem-solving tactics and strategies employed by craftspeople, together with the key social, cultural, and environmental …
Exploring Atmospheres Ethnographically
Av Sara Asu Schroer, Susanne Schmitt
Inbunden, 2017
2510 kr
Lägg i varukorg
The notion of atmosphere has always been part of academic discourse, but often refers to something vague and diffuse - a phenomenon connected with our affective engagement with the world that is difficult to grasp. This volume develops and refines the concept of atmosphere, seeking to render it …
