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Magical Consciousness
An Anthropological and Neurobiological Approach
Av Susan Greenwood, Erik D. Goodwyn
Häftad, 2017
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636 kr
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How does a mind think magically? The research documented in this book is one answer that allows the disciplines of anthropology and neurobiology to come together to reveal a largely hidden dynamic of magic. Magic gets to the very heart of some theoretical and methodological difficulties encountered …
Meeting Ethnography
Meetings as Key Technologies of Contemporary Governance, Development, and Resistance
Av Jen Sandler, Renita Thedvall
Häftad, 2019
710 kr
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This volume asks and addresses elusive ontological, epistemological, and methodological questions about meetings. What are meetings? What sort of knowledge, identities, and power relationships are produced, performed, communicated, and legitimized through meetings? How do—and how …
Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence
A Tale of Two Lynchings
Av Gavin Weston
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of …
Mambila Divination
Framing Questions, Constructing Answers
Inbunden, 2020
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This book offers a major contribution to the study and analysis of divination, based on continuing fieldwork with the Mambila in Cameroon. It seeks to return attention to the details of divinatory practice, using the questions asked and life histories to help understand the perspective of the …
Biometric Border World
Technology, Bodies and Identities on the Move
Av Karen Fog Olwig, Kristina Grünenberg m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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Since the 1990s, biometric border control has attained key importance throughout Europe. Employing digital images of, for example, fingerprints, DNA, bones, faces or irises, biometric technologies use bodies to identify, categorize and regulate individuals’ cross-border movements.Based on …
Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal
Häftad, 2019
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Everyday Faith in Sufi Senegal explores the historical, religious, cultural and economic contexts of Islam in Senegal through the narrative first-hand accounts of people’s everyday lives. Drawing on rich ethnographic fieldwork conducted by the author over a period of seven years, the result is a …
Time and Its Object
A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images
Av Paolo Fortis, Susanne Küchler
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. …
Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
Inbunden, 2019
2525 kr
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This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the …
Hope and Uncertainty in Contemporary African Migration
Av Nauja Kleist, Dorte Thorsen
Häftad, 2019
768 kr
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This volume examines the relationship between hope, mobility, and immobility in African migration. Through case studies set within and beyond the continent, it demonstrates that hope offers a unique prism for analyzing the social imaginaries and aspirations which underpin migration in situations of …
Bioinformation Worlds and Futures
Av EJ Gonzalez-Polledo, Silvia Posocco
Inbunden, 2021
2525 kr
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This book sets out to define and consolidate the field of bioinformation studies in its transnational and global dimensions, drawing on debates in science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology. It provides situated analyses of bioinformation journeys across domains and spheres of …
Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union
Village Fascists and their Rivals
Inbunden, 2020
2759 kr
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Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements – progressive and reactionary – derive from resilient agrarian features.It draws attention to how the legacy of rural socialist modernization …
Africa and Urban Anthropology
Theoretical and Methodological Contributions from Contemporary Fieldwork
Av Deborah Pellow, Suzanne Scheld
Inbunden, 2023
2144 kr
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This volume offers valuable anthropological insight into urban Africa, covering a range of cities across a continent that has become one of the fastest urbanizing geographic areas of the globe. Consideration is given to the structures, social formations, and rhythms that constitute the definition …
Knots
Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought
Av David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island …
Cultural Economy of Protest in Post-Socialist European Union
Village Fascists and their Rivals
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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Focusing on Slovakia and East Central Europe, this book examines the cultural economy of protest and considers how the origins of political movements – progressive and reactionary – derive from resilient agrarian features.It draws attention to how the legacy of rural socialist modernization …
Slogans
Subjection, Subversion, and the Politics of Neoliberalism
Av Nicolette Makovicky, Anne-Christine Trémon m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Focusing on contexts of accelerated economic and political reform, this volume critically examines the role of slogans in the contemporary projects of populist mobilization, neoliberal governance, and civic subversion. Bringing together a collection of ethnographic studies from Greece, Slovakia, …
Bureaucracy, Integration and Suspicion in the Welfare State
Av Mark Graham
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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This book explores how the often well-meaning routines and assumptions of a generous welfare state can reflect and even contribute to the stigmatisation of refugees and Muslims in Europe today. While the main cases are from Sweden, examples are included from the UK, France, Switzerland, Germany and …
Hybrid Communities
Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships
Av Charles Stépanoff, Jean-Denis Vigne
Häftad, 2020
739 kr
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Domestication challenges our understanding of human-environment relationships because it blurs the dichotomy between what is artificial and what is natural. In domestication, biological evolution, environmental change, techniques and practices, anthropological trajectories and sociocultural choices …
Orthodox Christian Material Culture
Of People and Things in the Making of Heaven
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Although much has been written on the making of art objects as a means of engaging in creative productions of the self (most famously Alfred Gell’s work), there has been very little written on Orthodox Christianity and its use of material within religious self-formation. Eastern Orthodox …
Ethnography of Global Environmentalism
Becoming Friends of the Earth
Häftad, 2020
739 kr
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Based on nine years of research, this is the first book to offer an in-depth ethnographic study of a transnational environmentalist federation and of activists themselves. The book presents an account of the daily life and the ethical strivings of environmental activist members of Friends of the …
Critical Times in Greece
Anthropological Engagements with the Crisis
Av Dimitris Dalakoglou, Georgios Agelopoulos
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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This volume brings together new anthropological research on the Greek crisis. With a number of contributions from academics based in Greece, the book addresses a number of key issues such as the refugee crisis, far-right extremism and the psychological impact of increased poverty and unemployment. …
Counterfeit Itineraries in the Global South
The human consequences of piracy in China and Brazil
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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At the end of the 1970s, Chinese merchandise moved to Brazil via Paraguay, forming an on-the-margins-of-the-law trade chain involving the production, distribution, and consumption of cheap goods. Economic changes in the twenty-first century, including the enforcement of intellectual property rights …
Distortion
Social Processes Beyond the Structured and Systemic
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. It can also occur between thoughts and actions; between words and how they are interpreted; between a statement of law and its enactment; between a vision and its artistic representation; and between a cultural tradition or …
Culture as a System
How We Know the Meaning and Significance of What We Do and Say
Häftad, 2020
690 kr
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A particular culture is associated with a particular community, and thus has a social dimension. But how does culture operate and how is it to be defined? Is it to be taken as the behavioral repertoire of members of that community, as the products of their behavior, or as the shared mental content …
Security Blurs
The Politics of Plural Security Provision
Av Tessa Diphoorn, Erella Grassiani
Häftad, 2020
739 kr
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Security Blurs makes an important contribution to anthropological work on security. It introduces the notion of “security blurs” to analyse manifestations of security that are visible and identifi able, yet constructed and made up of a myriad and overlapping set of actors, roles, motivations, …
Cultural Models of Nature
Primary Food Producers and Climate Change
Häftad, 2020
739 kr
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Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the …
Time and Its Object
A Perspective from Amerindian and Melanesian Societies on the Temporality of Images
Av Paolo Fortis, Susanne Küchler
Häftad, 2022
710 kr
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This volume examines the way objects and images relate to and shape notions of temporality and history. Bringing together ethnographic studies from the Lowlands of Central and South America and Melanesia, it explores the temporality inhering in images and artefacts from a comparative perspective. …
One World Anthropology and Beyond
A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold
Av Martin Porr, Niels Weidtmann
Inbunden, 2023
2525 kr
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This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships between human beings, organisms, and their environment, Ingold has become one of the most influential, innovative, and prolific writers in anthropology in …
One World Anthropology and Beyond
A Multidisciplinary Engagement with the Work of Tim Ingold
Av Martin Porr, Niels Weidtmann
Häftad, 2024
651 kr
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This volume offers a multidisciplinary engagement with the work of Tim Ingold. Involved in a critical long-term exploration of the relationships between human beings, organisms, and their environment, Ingold has become one of the most influential, innovative, and prolific writers in anthropology in …
Human Extinction and the Pandemic Imaginary
Häftad, 2021
739 kr
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This book develops an examination and critique of human extinction as a result of the ‘next pandemic’ and turns attention towards the role of pandemic catastrophe in the renegotiation of what it means to be human. Nested in debates in anthropology, philosophy, social theory and global health, the …
Guatemalan Vigilantism and the Global (Re)Production of Collective Violence
A Tale of Two Lynchings
Av Gavin Weston
Häftad, 2021
739 kr
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This book grounds an understanding of lynching as an increasingly globalised phenomenon through an examination of two cases in Guatemala.The chapters cover issues of migration, tourism, gangs, inter-generational conflict, media, gossip, and rumour to understand national and global patterns of …
