Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures – serie
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Earth Beings
Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds
Häftad, 2015
334 kr
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Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents …
Give a Man a Fish
Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
Häftad, 2015
311 kr
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In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death …
Description and Comparison in Cultural Anthropology
Häftad, 1981
569 kr
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How are different cultures to be described and compared? This book provides a clear and concise discussion of the theoretical issues involved in ethnographic description and comparative study. Taking up the classic problems in the study of of social organisation, Professor Goodenough describes the …
Social Facts and Fabrications
"Customary" Law on Kilimanjaro, 1880-1980
Häftad, 1986
699 kr
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In this book, Sally Falk Moore examines a hundred years in the history of an African people, the Chagga of Kilimanjaro, in order to understand how their present system of 'customary' laws came to be the way it is, and how the idea of custom was used in Tanzania's experiment with African socialism. …
Japanese Society
Tradition, Self, and the Social Order
Häftad, 1985
527 kr
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As the world's only major industrial society yet to emerge from outside the Western tradition, Japan has evolved into an industrial state very different from those of the West. Robert Smith argues that this difference is found not so much in organisational and institutional forms as in the Japanese …
The Anthropology of Justice
Law as Culture in Islamic Society
Häftad, 1989
292 kr
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Law has often been seen as a relatively autonomous domain, one in which a professional elite sharply control the impact of broader social relations and cultural concepts. By contrast this study asserts that the analysis of legal systems, like the analysis of social systems generally, requires an …
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
Inbunden, 1990
944 kr
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Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical …
Magic, Science and Religion and the Scope of Rationality
Häftad, 1990
303 kr
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Professor Tambiah, one of today's leading anthropologists, is known particularly for his penetrating and scholarly studies of Buddhism. In this accessible and illuminating book he deals with the classical opposition between magic, science and religion. He reviews the great debates in classical …
Prey into Hunter
The Politics of Religious Experience
Inbunden, 1991
993 kr
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Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically …
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
Inbunden, 1993
1009 kr
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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one …
Prey into Hunter
The Politics of Religious Experience
Häftad, 1991
292 kr
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Maurice Bloch has for many years been developing an original and influential theory of ritual. In this book he synthesises a radical theory of religion. Rituals in a great many societies deny the transience of life and of human institutions. Bloch argues that they enact this denial by symbolically …
Medicine, Rationality and Experience
An Anthropological Perspective
Häftad, 1993
422 kr
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Biomedicine is often thought to provide a scientific account of the human body and of illness. In this view, non-Western and folk medical systems are regarded as systems of 'belief' and subtly discounted. This is an impoverished perspective for understanding illness and healing across cultures, one …
After Nature
English Kinship in the Late Twentieth Century
Häftad, 1992
471 kr
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Central as kinship has been to the development of British social anthropology, this is the first attempt by an anthropologist to situate ideas about English kinship in a cultural context. Based on the Morgan lectures given at the University of Rochester in 1989, After Nature challenges the …
Death in Banaras
Häftad, 1994
976 kr
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As a place to die, to dispose of the physical remains of the deceased and to perform the rites which ensure that the departed attains a 'good state' after death, the north Indian city of Banaras attracts pilgrims and mourners from all over the Hindu world. This book is primarily about the priests …
Give a Man a Fish
Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution
Inbunden, 2015
1195 kr
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In Give a Man a Fish James Ferguson examines the rise of social welfare programs in southern Africa, in which states make cash payments to their low income citizens. More than thirty percent of South Africa's population receive such payments, even as pundits elsewhere proclaim the neoliberal death …
Earth Beings
Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds
Inbunden, 2015
1265 kr
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Earth Beings is the fruit of Marisol de la Cadena's decade-long conversations with Mariano and Nazario Turpo, father and son, runakuna or Quechua people. Concerned with the mutual entanglements of indigenous and nonindigenous worlds, and the partial connections between them, de la Cadena presents …
Value of Comparison
Inbunden, 2016
1282 kr
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In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the …
Value of Comparison
Häftad, 2016
355 kr
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In The Value of Comparison Peter van der Veer makes a compelling case for using comparative approaches in the study of society and for the need to resist the simplified civilization narratives popular in public discourse and some social theory. He takes the quantitative social sciences and the …
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion
Av Lisa Rofel, Sylvia J. Yanagisako
Inbunden, 2019
1862 kr
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In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how …
Fabricating Transnational Capitalism
A Collaborative Ethnography of Italian-Chinese Global Fashion
Av Lisa Rofel, Sylvia J. Yanagisako
Häftad, 2019
456 kr
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In this innovative collaborative ethnography of Italian-Chinese ventures in the fashion industry, Lisa Rofel and Sylvia J. Yanagisako offer a new methodology for studying transnational capitalism. Drawing on their respective linguistic and regional areas of expertise, Rofel and Yanagisako show how …
Blood Work
Life and Laboratories in Penang
Inbunden, 2019
1630 kr
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What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their …
Blood Work
Life and Laboratories in Penang
Häftad, 2019
398 kr
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What is blood? How can we account for its enormous range of meanings and its extraordinary symbolic power? In Blood Work Janet Carsten traces the multiple meanings of blood as it moves from donors to labs, hospitals, and patients in Penang, Malaysia. She tells the stories of blood donors, their …
Subversive Archaism
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
Inbunden, 2022
1161 kr
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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and …
Subversive Archaism
Troubling Traditionalists and the Politics of National Heritage
Häftad, 2022
288 kr
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In Subversive Archaism, Michael Herzfeld explores how individuals and communities living at the margins of the modern nation-state use nationalist discourses of tradition to challenge state authority under both democratic and authoritarian governments. Through close attention to the claims and …
Book of Waves
Inbunden, 2023
1330 kr
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In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, …
Book of Waves
Häftad, 2023
338 kr
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In A Book of Waves Stefan Helmreich examines ocean waves as forms of media that carry ecological, geopolitical, and climatological news about our planet. Drawing on ethnographic work with oceanographers and coastal engineers in the Netherlands, the United States, Australia, Japan, and Bangladesh, …
Future of Futurity
Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
Av Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta
Inbunden, 2025
1245 kr
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In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity—an affective-temporal …
Exorbitance
A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance
Inbunden, 2025
1358 kr
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In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied …
Future of Futurity
Affective Capitalism and Potentiality in a Global City
Av Purnima Mankekar, Akhil Gupta
Häftad, 2025
325 kr
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In The Future of Futurity, Purnima Mankekar and Akhil Gupta examine the lives and experiences of call center agents in India’s business process outsourcing (BPO) industry, who live in Bengaluru and work for customers in the Global North. Mankekar and Gupta show how futurity—an affective-temporal …
Exorbitance
A Speculative Ethnography of Inheritance
Häftad, 2025
316 kr
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In Exorbitance, Deborah A. Thomas calls for new approaches to political sovereignty grounded in the embodied forms of autonomy and relation created in daily life. Rather than rooting sovereignty in the violence of the state and its institutions, Thomas conceives of sovereignty as the embodied …
