Routledge Classic Texts in Anthropology – serie
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In Search of the Primitive
A Critique of Civilization
Häftad, 2017
704 kr
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Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of …
In Search of the Primitive
A Critique of Civilization
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Anthropology is a kind of debate between human possibilities—a dialectical movement between the anthropologist as a modern man and the primitive peoples he studies. In Search of the Primitive is a tough-minded book containing chapters ranging from encounters in the field to essays on the nature of …
Mirror for Man
The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking, at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright conflict is high, perhaps higher than ever. As Andrea L. Smith convincingly argues in her new introduction to this classic work, certain questions are as …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical …
Cultural Intimacy
Social Poetics and the Real Life of States, Societies, and Institutions
Häftad, 2016
733 kr
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In the third edition of this important and influential book, Michael Herzfeld revisits the idea of ‘cultural intimacy’. The chapters examine a range of topics touching on the relationship between state and citizen, and the notion of ‘national character’. Herzfeld provides a developed theoretical …
Mimesis and Alterity
A Particular History of the Senses
Häftad, 2018
704 kr
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In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the …
Reinvention of Primitive Society
Transformations of a Myth
Av Adam Kuper
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of …
Reinvention of Primitive Society
Transformations of a Myth
Av Adam Kuper
Häftad, 2017
733 kr
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Adam Kuper’s iconoclastic intellectual history argues that the idea of “primitive society” is a western myth. The “primitive” is imagined as the opposite of the “civilised”. But this is a protean myth. As ideas about civilisation change, so the image of primitive society must be adjusted. By way of …
Mimesis and Alterity
A Particular History of the Senses
Inbunden, 2018
2504 kr
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In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves from the nineteenth-century invention of mimetically capacious machines, such as the camera, to the …
Evolution and Social Life
Av Tim Ingold
Häftad, 2016
820 kr
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Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology. This book charts the fortunes of the idea from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times. By comparing biological, historical, and anthropological approaches to the study of human culture and social …
Evolution and Social Life
Av Tim Ingold
Inbunden, 2016
2504 kr
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Evolution is among the most central and most contested of ideas in the history of anthropology. This book charts the fortunes of the idea from the mid-nineteenth century to recent times. By comparing biological, historical, and anthropological approaches to the study of human culture and social …
Mirror for Man
The Relation of Anthropology to Modern Life
Häftad, 2017
646 kr
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While the world has undoubtedly been shrinking, at the same time it has grown more complex. The likelihood of culture clashes leading to outright conflict is high, perhaps higher than ever. As Andrea L. Smith convincingly argues in her new introduction to this classic work, certain questions are as …
