Lewis Henry Morgan Lecture Series – serie
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17 produkter
Dramas of Nationhood
The Politics of Television in Egypt
Inbunden, 2004
1229 kr
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How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western …
Dramas of Nationhood
The Politics of Television in Egypt
Häftad, 2004
321 kr
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How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western …
Contingent Lives
Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
Häftad, 2002
321 kr
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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in …
Stigma and Culture
Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Av J. Lorand Matory, Thomas P. Gibson
Inbunden, 2015
847 kr
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In Stigma and Culture, J. Lorand Matory provocatively shows how ethnic identification in the United States-and around the globe-is a competitive and hierarchical process in which populations, especially of historically stigmatized races, seek status and income by dishonoring other stigmatized …
Marginal Gains
Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa
Inbunden, 2004
847 kr
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In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have …
Marginal Gains
Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa
Häftad, 2004
295 kr
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In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every day. But in Nigeria's "cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back to a bank after it's issued. What happens when two such radically different economies meet and mingle, as they have …
Foreign News
Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
Av Ulf Hannerz
Häftad, 2004
287 kr
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Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.Hannerz draws on extensive …
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Av Jean Lave
Häftad, 2011
321 kr
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In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the …
Dialectics of Shopping
Inbunden, 2001
1229 kr
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Shopping is generally considered to be a pleasurable activity. But in reality it can often be complicated and frustrating. Daniel Miller explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical street in London, and in the process offers a sophisticated examination of the way we shop, and …
Dialectics of Shopping
Häftad, 2001
321 kr
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Shopping is generally considered to be a pleasurable activity. But in reality it can often be complicated and frustrating. Daniel Miller explores the many contradictions faced by shoppers on a typical street in London, and in the process offers a sophisticated examination of the way we shop, and …
Work of Culture
Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Häftad, 1990
321 kr
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"The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."—Arjun Appadurai, Journal of …
Contingent Lives
Fertility, Time, and Aging in West Africa
Inbunden, 2002
1076 kr
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Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the opposite reason - to have as many children as possible. Using ethnographic and demographic data from a three-year study in …
Yali's Question
Sugar, Culture, and History
Av Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz
Inbunden, 2004
864 kr
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Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended …
Yali's Question
Sugar, Culture, and History
Av Frederick Errington, Deborah Gewertz
Häftad, 2004
346 kr
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Yali's Question is the story of a remarkable physical and social creation—Ramu Sugar Limited (RSL), a sugar plantation created in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. As an embodiment of imported industrial production, RSL's smoke-belching, steam-shrieking factory and vast fields of carefully tended …
Foreign News
Exploring the World of Foreign Correspondents
Av Ulf Hannerz
Inbunden, 2004
711 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Foreign News gives us a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look into the practices of the global tribe we call foreign correspondents. Exploring how they work, Ulf Hannerz also compares the ways correspondents and anthropologists report from one part of the world to another.Hannerz draws on extensive …
Apprenticeship in Critical Ethnographic Practice
Av Jean Lave
Inbunden, 2011
1037 kr
Tillfälligt slut
In this extended meditation, Jean Lave interweaves analysis of the process of apprenticeship among the Vai and Gola tailors of Liberia with reflections on the evolution of her research on those tailors in the late 1970s. In so doing, she provides both a detailed account of her apprenticeship in the …
Work of Culture
Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
Inbunden, 1990
951 kr
Tillfälligt slut
"The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it something of a blockbuster."—Arjun Appadurai, Journal of …
