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As If Already Free
Anthropology and Activism After David Graeber
Häftad, 2023
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268 kr
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'A highly original thinker' - New York Times David Graeber (1961-2020) was an American anthropologist and anarchist activist who left us with new ways to understand humankind. His writings picked apart political power and social hierarchy to reveal what makes human society tick.As If Already Free …
History of Anthropology
Av Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Finn Sivert Nielsen
Häftad, 2013
342 kr
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This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. The authors provide summaries of 'Enlightenment', 'Romantic' and 'Victorian' anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The …
Small Places, Large Issues
An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
Häftad, 2023
227 kr
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This introduction to social and cultural anthropology has become a modern classic, revealing the rich global variation in social life and culture across the world.Presenting a clear overview of anthropology, it focuses on central topics such as kinship, ethnicity, ritual and political systems, …
Ethnicity and Nationalism
Anthropological Perspectives
Häftad, 2010
293 kr
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Is ethnicity a result of cultural differences? Is ethnicity dependent on the practical use and belief in cultural differences? Drawing on a wide-range of classic and recent studies in anthropology and sociology, Thomas Hylland Eriksen examines the relationship between ethnicity, class, gender and …
Fredrik Barth
An Intellectual Biography
Häftad, 2015
359 kr
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Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth's ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In an accessible style, Thomas Hylland Eriksen's biographical study reveals the magic of ethnography to …
Children of the Welfare State
Civilising Practices in Schools, Childcare and Families
Häftad, 2016
293 kr
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This original ethnographic study looks at how children are ‘civilised’ within child institutions, such as schools, day care centres and families, under the auspices of the welfare state. As part of a general discussion on civilising projects and the role of state institutions, the authors focus on …
New Directions in Economic Anthropology
Häftad, 1997
487 kr
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Using an historical perspective, Narotzky highlights the interdependent nature of the contemporary world economy, and includes case studies of Western societies. She gives special emphasis to current issues such as the anthropology of work, the informal economy, and the cultures of …
Anthropology of the Self
The Individual and Cultural Perspectives
Av Brian Morris
Häftad, 1994
448 kr
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Western society is individualised; we feel at ease talking about individuals and we study individual behaviour through psychology and psychoanalysis. Yet anthropology teaches us that an individual approach is only one of many ways of looking at ourselves. In this wide-ranging text Morris explores …
Anthropological Perspectives on Kinship
Häftad, 1996
487 kr
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This authoritative introductory text takes into account the changes in the conceptualisation of kinship brought about by new reproductive technologies and the growing interest in culturally specific notions of personhood and gender. Holy considers the extent to which Western assumptions have guided …
Human Rights, Culture and Context
Anthropological Perspectives
Häftad, 1998
487 kr
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Drawing on case studies from around the world - including Iran, Guatemala, USA and Mexico - this collection documents how transnational human rights discourses and legal institutions are materialised, imposed, resisted and transformed in a variety of contexts.
Orange Parades
The Politics of Ritual, Tradition and Control
Häftad, 2000
302 kr
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In the first major study of the Protestant Loyalist Orange Order in Northern Ireland, Dominic Bryan provides a detailed ethnographic and historical study of Orange Order parades. He looks at the development of the parades, the history of disputes over the parades, the structure and politics of the …
Life on the Outside
Häftad, 1999
326 kr
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This study of the Tamil diaspora is one of the first full ethnographic studies of a postcolonial migrant community, and a major contribution to the study of migration, globalisation, identity politics and ‘long distance’ nationalism from an anthropological perspective.Fuglerud’s study traces the …
Race, Nature and Culture
An Anthropological Perspective
Av Peter Wade
Häftad, 2002
326 kr
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Since the controversial scientific race theories of the 1930s, anthropologists have generally avoided directly addressing the issue of race, viewing it as a social construct. Challenging this tradition, Peter Wade proposes that anthropologists can in fact play an important role in the study of …
Risk Revisited
Av Pat Caplan, Pat Caplan
Häftad, 2000
408 kr
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This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed …
Being There
Fieldwork in Anthropology
Av C. W. Watson
Häftad, 1999
293 kr
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This book draws on the experience of international anthropologists from Italy, the Himalayas, Northern England, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Being There examines the close relationships anthropologists establish with friends and informants in the field. Collectively they describe the varying ways in …
Witchcraft, Power and Politics
Exploring the Occult in the South African Lowveld
Av Isak Niehaus, Eliazaar Mohlala m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
359 kr
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This is an extraordinary account of witchcraft and witch-hunting in the modern world. A powerful ethnographic study of witch-hunting in 1980s South Africa - a period of rapid social change - this book demonstrates the extent to which witchcraft must be seen, not as a residue of 'traditional' …
Macedonia
The Politics of Identity and Difference
Av Jane K. Cowan, Jane K. Cowan
Häftad, 2000
326 kr
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Macedonia has been contested by its three neighbours – Serbia, Bulgaria and Greece – during and since the demise of the Ottoman Empire. But the Macedonian Question extends far beyond the contested borders of Macedonia to immigrant communities in Europe, Australia and North America. The contributors …
Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru
Inbunden, 2001
1185 kr
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In this study of prostitution, Lorraine Nencel interrogates the ways in which sexuality, gender and illicit behaviour have been constructed (and deconstructed) over the years. This is a richly detailed ethnographic account that interweaves narrative with theory. Nencel deals with issues such as …
Class, Nation and Identity
The Anthropology of Political Movements
Av Jeff Pratt
Häftad, 2003
326 kr
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Political movements across the world have such diverse characteristics and aims that it is difficult to examine them as a collective group. Movements that are class-based are usually portrayed as formed by economic categories of people driven by material interests. By contrast the study of ethnic …
Power and Its Disguises
Anthropological Perspectives on Politics
Häftad, 2000
359 kr
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This book explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a 'view from below' and revealing forces that shape …
Social Mobility in Kerala
Modernity and Identity in Conflict
Av Filippo Osella, Caroline Osella
Häftad, 2000
408 kr
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The Izhavas are an ex-untouchable community in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Politically and economically weak, stigmatised as 'toddy tappers' and 'devil dancers', and considered unapproachable by clean caste Hindus, a century ago Izhavas were associated with other manual-labouring …
Locating Cultural Creativity
Häftad, 2001
359 kr
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This book reexamines the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in an increasingly hybrid world. They argue that while many of the old certainties about high culture and artistic canons may now be disintegrating, culture and creativity themselves are still very much a reflection of social …
Locating Cultural Creativity
Av John Liep
Inbunden, 2001
947 kr
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This book reexamines the interconnectedness of culture and creativity in an increasingly hybrid world. They argue that while many of the old certainties about high culture and artistic canons may now be disintegrating, culture and creativity themselves are still very much a reflection of social …
Trouble with Community
Anthropological Reflections on Movement, Identity and Collectivity
Häftad, 2002
536 kr
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'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings.The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual …
On the Game
Women and Sex Work
Av Sophie Day
Häftad, 2007
349 kr
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***Winner of the Eileen Basker Prize and the Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as Applied to Medical Problems***On the Game is an ethnographic account of prostitutes and prostitution. Sophie Day has followed the lives of individual women over fifteen years, and her book details their attempts to …
Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production
Häftad, 2007
525 kr
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This book provides an introduction to anthropological perspectives on art. Svasek defines art as a social process. We study not only the artefacts themselves and the values attributed to them, but also the process of production and its wider context. Providing a critical overview of various …
Cultivating Development
An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
Av David Mosse
Häftad, 2004
326 kr
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What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development …
Cultivating Development
An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
Av David Mosse
Inbunden, 2004
947 kr
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What if development agencies and researchers are not driven by policy? Suppose that the things that make for 'good policy' - policy that legitimises and mobilises political support - in reality make it impossible to implement?By focusing in detail on the unfolding activities of a development …
Anthropology and the Will to Meaning
A Postcolonial Critique
Häftad, 2002
359 kr
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Anthropology, the study of societies and cultures different to our own, is based on the humanist assumption that difference does not mean otherness and inferiority. In this book, Vassos Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self centred …
Bearing Witness
Women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
Häftad, 2002
421 kr
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People who witness acts of terror and violence are often called after the event to bear witness to what they saw. In cases where this violence is inflicted by the state upon its own people, the process of bearing witness is both politically complex and traumatic for the individual involved. …
