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Unsettled
Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans
Häftad, 2016
262 kr
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In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding …
Our Most Troubling Madness
Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures
Av T.M. Luhrmann, Jocelyn Marrow
Häftad, 2016
371 kr
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Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness - are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to …
Forget Colonialism?
Sacrifice and the Art of Memory in Madagascar
Häftad, 2001
441 kr
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While doing fieldwork in a village in east Madagascar that had suffered both heavy settler colonialism and a bloody anticolonial rebellion, Jennifer Cole found herself confronted by a puzzle. People in the area had lived through almost a century of intrusive French colonial rule, but they appeared …
Culture and the Senses
Bodily Ways of Knowing in an African Community
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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Adding her stimulating and finely framed ethnography to recent work in the anthropology of the senses, Kathryn Geurts investigates the cultural meaning system and resulting sensorium of Anlo-Ewe-speaking people in southeastern Ghana. Geurts discovered that the five-senses model has little relevance …
Sensory Biographies
Lives and Deaths among Nepal’s Yolmo Buddhists
Häftad, 2003
443 kr
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Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives. These two are a woman in her late eighties known as Kisang Omu and a Buddhist …
Becoming Sinners
Christianity and Moral Torment in a Papua New Guinea Society
Av Joel Robbins
Häftad, 2004
321 kr
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In a world of swift and sweeping cultural transformations, few have seen changes as rapid and dramatic as those experienced by the Urapmin of Papua New Guinea in the last four decades. A remote people never directly "missionized," the Urapmin began in the 1960s to send young men to study with …
Jesus in Our Wombs
Embodying Modernity in a Mexican Convent
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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In "Jesus in Our Wombs", Rebecca J. Lester takes us behind the walls of a Roman Catholic convent in central Mexico to explore the lives, training, and experiences of a group of postulants - young women in the first stage of religious training as nuns. Lester, who conducted eighteen months of …
Too-Good Wife
Alcohol, Codependency, and the Politics of Nurturance in Postwar Japan
Av Amy Borovoy
Häftad, 2005
443 kr
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Social drinking is an accepted aspect of working life in Japan, and women are left to manage their drunken husbands when the men return home, restoring them to sobriety for the next day of work. In attempting to cope with their husbands' alcoholism, the women face a profound cultural dilemma: when …
Subjectivity
Ethnographic Investigations
Av João Biehl, Byron J. Good m. fl.
Häftad, 2007
304 kr
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This innovative volume is an extended intellectual conversation about the ways personal lives are being undone and remade today. Examining the ethnography of the modern subject, this preeminent group of scholars probes the continuity and diversity of modes of personhood across a range of Western …
Postcolonial Disorders
Av Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good, Sandra Teresa Hyde m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
331 kr
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The essays in this volume reflect on the nature of subjectivity in the diverse places where anthropologists work at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Contributors explore everyday modes of social and psychological experience, the constitution of the subject, and forms of subjection that …
Under a Watchful Eye
Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
Av Harry Walker
Inbunden, 2012
913 kr
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What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but …
Under a Watchful Eye
Self, Power, and Intimacy in Amazonia
Av Harry Walker
Häftad, 2012
304 kr
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What does it mean to be accompanied? How can autonomy and a sense of self emerge through one's involvement with others? This book examines the formation of self among the Urarina, an Amazonian people of lowland Peru. Based on detailed ethnography, the analysis highlights the role of intimate but …
Unsettled
Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans
Inbunden, 2016
1156 kr
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In 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the past decade, protests, scandals, and upheavals have unsettled families with colonial origins, reminding …
Our Most Troubling Madness
Case Studies in Schizophrenia across Cultures
Av T.M. Luhrmann, Jocelyn Marrow
Inbunden, 2016
602 kr
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Schizophrenia has long puzzled researchers in the fields of psychiatric medicine and anthropology. Why is it that the rates of developing schizophrenia - long the poster child for the biomedical model of psychiatric illness - are low in some countries and higher in others? And why do migrants to …
Us, Relatives
Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World
Inbunden, 2017
814 kr
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Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar …
Us, Relatives
Scaling and Plural Life in a Forager World
Häftad, 2017
304 kr
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Anthropologists have long looked to forager-cultivator cultures for insights into human lifeways. But they have often not been attentive enough to locals' horizons of concern and to the enormous disparity in population size between these groups and other societies. Us, Relatives explores how scalar …
Likeness
Semblance and Self in Slovene Society
Inbunden, 2020
1156 kr
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The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression …
Likeness
Semblance and Self in Slovene Society
Häftad, 2020
262 kr
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The Likeness is a close ethnographic study of subjectivity in the former Yugoslav republic of Slovenia. In this highly imaginative work, the author argues that much of what matters in Slovenia plays out on surfaces—of people and things, systems and locations—rendering the complexity of expression …
Anatomy of Loneliness
Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan
Inbunden, 2021
791 kr
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Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In this illuminating book, anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-de Silva …
Anatomy of Loneliness
Suicide, Social Connection, and the Search for Relational Meaning in Contemporary Japan
Häftad, 2021
296 kr
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Loneliness is everybody’s business. Neither a pathology nor a rare affliction, it is part of the human condition. Severe and chronic loneliness, however, is a threat to individual and public health and appears to be on the rise. In this illuminating book, anthropologist Chikako Ozawa-de Silva …
Avatar Faculty
Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games
Inbunden, 2023
814 kr
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The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, meaning "standing outside …
Avatar Faculty
Ecstatic Transformations in Religion and Video Games
Häftad, 2023
262 kr
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The Avatar Faculty creatively examines the parallels between spiritual and digital activities to explore the roles that symbolic second selves—avatars—can play in our lives. The use of avatars can allow for what anthropologists call ecstasy, from the Greek ekstasis, meaning "standing outside …
Being Single in India
Stories of Gender, Exclusion, and Possibility
Av Sarah Lamb
Häftad, 2022
313 kr
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A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.Today, the majority of the world's population lives in a country with falling marriage rates, a phenomenon with profound impacts on women, gender, and sexuality. In this exceptionally crafted ethnography, Sarah …
Life of Worry
Politics, Mental Health, and Vietnam’s Age of Anxiety
Av Allen L Tran
Häftad, 2023
262 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Who, what, and how we fear reflects who we are. In less than half a century, people in Vietnam have gone from fearing bombing …
Breaking Points
Youth Mental Health Crises and How We All Can Help
Häftad, 2024
296 kr
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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.Unprecedented numbers of young people are in crisis today, and our health care systems are set up to fail them. Breaking Points …
