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48 produkter
Civil Society
Challenging Western Models
Inbunden, 1996
2504 kr
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Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable …
Nature and Society
Anthropological Perspectives
Av Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson
Häftad, 1996
820 kr
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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic …
Understanding Rituals
Häftad, 1992
762 kr
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Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research. The contributors demonstrate how rituals create and maintain - or transform - a society's …
Other Histories
Häftad, 1992
889 kr
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The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of …
Conceptualizing Society
Av Adam Kuper
Inbunden, 1992
2504 kr
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The social anthropologists represented in this volume share the view that, together, ethnography and theoretically informed comparison constitute a single, plausible enterprise, and they reject both the postmodernist criticism of ethnography as epistemologically problematic, and the opposing view …
Gendered Anthropology
Häftad, 1993
762 kr
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In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which …
Alcohol, Gender and Culture
Inbunden, 1992
2504 kr
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Europeans consitiute 12 and a half per cent of the world's population but consume 50 per cent of the recorded world production alcohol, and this consumption plays a significant role in the cultural, religious, and social identites of these countrise. The contributors show how different groups …
Grasping the Changing World
Häftad, 1996
646 kr
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As different societies merge into one global society and face the concomitant crisis of identity, of purpose and interest, social anthropology urgently needs to bring its methodology up to date: new methods are needed to analyse, compare and understand different cultures across space and …
Fieldwork and Footnotes
Studies in the History of European Anthropology
Av Arturo Alvarez Roldan, Han Vermeulen
Inbunden, 1994
2578 kr
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The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, …
Fieldwork and Footnotes
Studies in the History of European Anthropology
Av Arturo Alvarez Roldan, Han Vermeulen
Häftad, 1994
785 kr
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The history of anthropology has great relevance for current debates within the discipline, offering a foundation from which the professionalisation of anthropology can evolve. The authors explore key issues in the history of social and cultural anthropological approaches in Germany, Great Britain, …
Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge
Häftad, 1994
762 kr
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Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the …
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
The Politics of Religious Synthesis
Av Rosalind Shaw, Charles Stewart
Inbunden, 1994
2126 kr
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Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not …
Syncretism/Anti-Syncretism
The Politics of Religious Synthesis
Av Rosalind Shaw, Charles Stewart
Häftad, 1994
762 kr
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Syncretism - the synthesis of different religious - is a contentious word. Some regard it as a pejorative term, referring to local versions of notionally standard `world religions' which are deemed `inauthentic' because saturated with indigenous content. Syncretic versions of Christianity do not …
Inside and Outside the Law
Inbunden, 1996
1517 kr
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Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme …
Inside and Outside the Law
Häftad, 1996
434 kr
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Inside and Outside the Law analyses the relationship between the law, the state and its citizens. Drawing on general theories and specific case-studies, it examines the diverse ways in which people in different cultural and historical settings have experienced the ambiguities of law. Its theme …
Nature and Society
Anthropological Perspectives
Av Philippe Descola, Gisli Palsson
Inbunden, 1996
2504 kr
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The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent developments in social theory, biology, ethnobiology, epistemology, sociology of science, and a wide array of ethnographic …
Civil Society
Challenging Western Models
Häftad, 1996
762 kr
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Between kinship ties on the one hand and the state on the other, human beings experience a diversity of social relationships and groupings which in modern western thought have come to be gathered under the label 'civil society'. A liberal-individualist model of civil society has become fashionable …
Anthropology of Policy
Perspectives on Governance and Power
Inbunden, 1997
2504 kr
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Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight …
Anthropology of Policy
Perspectives on Governance and Power
Häftad, 1997
892 kr
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Arguing that policy has become an increasingly central concept and instrument in the organisation of contemporary societies and that it now impinges on all areas of life so that it is virtually impossible to ignore or escape its influence, this book argues that the study of policy leads straight …
Ethnography of Moralities
Av Signe Howell
Inbunden, 1996
2433 kr
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Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and …
Ethnography of Moralities
Av Signe Howell
Häftad, 1996
783 kr
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Focusing on the social construction of morality, The Ethnography of Moralities discusses a topic which is complex but central to the study and nature of anthropology. With the recent shift towards an interest in indigenous notions of self and personhood, questions pertaining to the moral and …
Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development
Knowledge and sentiments in conflict
Av Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren
Inbunden, 1998
2504 kr
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This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes.The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and …
Anthropological Perspectives on Local Development
Knowledge and sentiments in conflict
Av Simone Abram, Jacqueline Waldren
Häftad, 1998
762 kr
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This collection examines the conflicts and realities of development at a local, empirical level. It provides a series of case studies which illuminate the attitudes and actions of all of those involved in local development schemes.The material is drawn from Southern and Eastern Europe, Asia and …
Recasting Ritual
Performance, Media, Identity
Av Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Inbunden, 1998
2504 kr
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Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own …
Recasting Ritual
Performance, Media, Identity
Av Mary M. Crain, Felicia Hughes-Freeland
Häftad, 1998
312 kr
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Recasting Ritual explores how ritualized action diversifies in response to varying cultural, political and physical contexts. The contributors look at how issues such as globalisation and technology affect ritual performance and how minorities often utilise performances to affirm their own …
Locality and Belonging
Av Nadia Lovell
Inbunden, 1998
2504 kr
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Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and …
Locality and Belonging
Av Nadia Lovell
Häftad, 1998
762 kr
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Locality and Belonging provides an international overview of the close relationship between territory and cultural identity. The issue of 'belonging' has long been recognized as crucial to the study of identity within anthropology. Here, contributors from Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, France and …
Dividends of Kinship
Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Inbunden, 2000
2504 kr
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This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's …
Dividends of Kinship
Meanings and Uses of Social Relatedness
Häftad, 2000
646 kr
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This collection reaffirms the importance of kinship, and of studying kinship, within the framework of social anthropology.The contributors examine both the benefits and burdens of kinship across cultures and explore how 'relatedness' is inextricably linked with other concepts which define people's …
Constructing the Field
Ethnographic Fieldwork in the Contemporary World
Av Vered Amit
Häftad, 1999
762 kr
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Ethnographic fieldwork is traditionally seen as what distinguishes social and cultural anthropology from the other social sciences. This collection responds to the inte nsifying scrutiny of fieldwork in recent years. It challenges the idea of the necessity for the total immersion of the …
