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Changing Vulnerability
Häftad, 2027
418 kr
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This volume explores a diverse array of cultural contexts to understand how vulnerabilities were involved in survival, domination, representation, relationality, agency, and humanity. Viewed as a prospect to be grasped rather than as a limit to be overcome, vulnerability has emerged as a key …
Recapturing Anthropology
Working in the Present
Häftad, 1991
448 kr
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The ten papers in this volume offer different versions of how and where anthropologists might work usefully in today's world, converging on the issue of how anthropology can best recapture the progressive character its basic concepts, such as "culture," once had. Together the authors demonstrate …
Costly and Cute
Helpless Infants and Human Evolution
Av Wenda R. Trevathan, Karen R. Rosenberg
Häftad, 2016
443 kr
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Scholars have long argued that the developmental state of the human infant at birth is unique. This volume expands that argument, pointing out that many distinctively human characteristics can be traced to the fact that we give birth to infants who are highly dependent on others and who learn how …
Seduced and Betrayed
Exposing the Contemporary Microfinance Phenomenon
Av Milford Bateman, Kate Maclean
Häftad, 2017
456 kr
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Microfinance began as the disbursement of tiny loans to the poor, which they could use to undertake informal income-generating activities. It went on to become one of the most popular international development policies of all time and a mainstay of local development and antipoverty programs across …
Negotiating Structural Vulnerability in Cancer Control
Av Julie Armin, Nancy J. Burke m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
793 kr
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What can case studies about the lived experiences of cancer contribute to an interest in the concept of structural vulnerability? And can a consideration of structural vulnerability enhance applied anthropological work in cancer prevention and control? To answer these questions the contributors in …
Governing Gifts
Faith, Charity, and the Security State
Häftad, 2019
662 kr
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This collection investigates the intersections between faith-based charity and secular statecraft. The contributors trace the connections among piety, philanthropy, policy, and policing. Rather than attempt to delimit what constitutes so-called faith-based aid and institutions or to reify the …
Psychology of Women Under Patriarchy
Av Holly F. Mathews, Holly F. Mathews m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
693 kr
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In the #MeToo era, US women continue to struggle with whether or not to report sexual harassment, while women living in parts of rural Pakistan and Mexico try to pursue educational and employment opportunities without directly refusing parental wishes for them to marry. Despite rapidly changing …
How Nature Works
Rethinking Labor on a Troubled Planet
Av Sarah Besky, Sarah Besky m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
443 kr
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We now live on a planet that is troubled--even overworked--in ways that compel us to reckon with inherited common sense about the relationship between human labor and nonhuman nature. In Paraguay, fast-growing soy plants are displacing both prior crops and people. In Malaysia, dispossessed farmers …
Walling in and Walling Out
Why Are We Building New Barriers to Divide Us?
Av Laura McAtackney, Randall H. McGuire
Häftad, 2020
443 kr
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Walls are being built at a dizzying pace to separate us, cocoon us, and exclude us. The contributors to this volume illuminate the roles and uses of walls around the world--in contexts ranging from historic neighborhoods to contemporary national borders. They argue that more and more walls are …
Archaeologies of Empire
Local Participants and Imperial Trajectories
Av Anna L. Boozer, Bleda S. Düring m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
456 kr
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Throughout history, a large portion of the world's population has lived under imperial rule. Although scholars do not always agree on when and where the roots of imperialism lie, most would agree that imperial configurations have affected human history so profoundly that the legacy of ancient …
Designs and Anthropologies
Frictions and Affinities
Av Keith M. Murphy, Keith M. Murphy m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
714 kr
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The chapters in this captivating volume demonstrate the importance and power of design and the ubiquitous and forceful effects it has on human life within the study of anthropology. The scholars explore the interactions between anthropology and design through a cross-disciplinary approach, and …
Trumpism, Mexican America, and the Struggle for Latinx Citizenship
Av Phillip B. Gonzales, Phillip B. Gonzales m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
548 kr
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For Latinx people living in the United States, Trumpism represented a new phase in the old struggle to achieve a sense of belonging and full citizenship. Throughout their history in the United States, people of Mexican descent have been made to face the question of how they do or do not belong to …
New Death
Mortality and Death Care in the Twenty-First Century
Av Shannon Lee Dawdy, Shannon Lee Dawdy m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
693 kr
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The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic, historical, and media-based approaches, the …
Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades
Av Alex E. Chavéz, Alex E. Chavéz m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
443 kr
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The contributors in Ethnographic Refusals, Unruly Latinidades highlight the value of "radical inclusion" in their research and call for a critical self-reflexivity that marshals the power of bearing witness to move from rhetoric to praxis in support of these methodologies within anthropological …
Changing Vulnerability
Inbunden, 2027
1076 kr
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This volume explores a diverse array of cultural contexts to understand how vulnerabilities were involved in survival, domination, representation, relationality, agency, and humanity. Viewed as a prospect to be grasped rather than as a limit to be overcome, vulnerability has emerged as a key …
Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest
Labor, Power, and Prestige
Av Patricia L. Crown, Patricia L. Crown
Häftad, 2001
521 kr
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Women & Men in the Prehispanic Southwest takes a groundbreaking look at gendered activities in prehistory and the differential access that women and men had to sources and symbols of power and prestige. The authors-including some of the most prominent archaeologists working in the Southwest …
Origins of Language
What Nonhuman Primates Can Tell Us
Inbunden, 1999
354 kr
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Is human language unique in the animal world, or does it have meaningful precursors in animal communication? In The Origins of Language, ten primatologists and paleoanthropologists conduct a comprehensive examination of the nonhuman primate data, discussing different views of what language is and …
Regimes of Language
Ideologies, Polities, and Identities
Häftad, 2000
521 kr
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In Regimes of Language, ten leading linguistic anthropologists integrate two often segregated domains: politics (without language) and language (without politics). Their essays contribute to an understanding of the role of language ideologies and discursive practices in state formation, …
Biology, Brains, & Behavior
The Evolution of Human Development
Häftad, 2000
330 kr
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An exciting new cross-disciplinary field of biocultural research is emerging at the start of the twenty-first century: developmental evolutionary biology. Looking at the behaviorial ontogeny of primates, the authors--leading scholars of biological anthropology, evolutionary biology, developmental …
Chaco & Hohokam
Prehistoric Regional Systems in the American Southwest
Häftad, 1991
398 kr
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Synthesizing data and current thought about the regional systems of the Chacoans and the Hohokam, eleven archaeologists examine settlement patterns, subsistence economy, social organization, and trade, shedding new light on two of the most sophisticated cultures of the prehistoric Southwest.
War in the Tribal Zone
Expanding States and Indigenous Warfare
Av R. Brian Ferguson, R. Brian Ferguson
Häftad, 2000
274 kr
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War in the Tribal Zone, the 1991 anthropology of war classic, is back in print with a new Preface by the editors. Their timely and insightful essay examines the occurrence of ethnic conflict and violence in the decade since the idea of the 'tribal zone' originally was formulated. Finding the book's …
Dreaming
Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
Av Barbara Tedlock, Barbara Tedlock
Häftad, 1992
330 kr
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The ten contributors to this book-anthropologists and psychologists-explore the ways in which dreams are remembered, recounted, shared (or not shared), interpreted, and used by people from New Guinea to the Andes. The authors take a major step toward moving the study of dreaming from the margins to …
Ideology and Pre-Columbian Civilizations
Häftad, 1992
282 kr
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Employing data from central Mexico, the Maya area, coastal Peru, and highland Peru and Bolivia, directors of several major archaeological field projects interpret evidence of prehistoric ideology and address the question, has ideology any relevance in the reconstruction of prehistory?
Memory, History, and Opposition Under State Socialism
Häftad, 1994
477 kr
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Eight anthropologists, sociologists, and historians probe the oppositional narratives created by Chinese rural intellectuals, EmigrE Croatians, and organized dissenters such as the Djilas of Yugoslavia who constructed and maintained oppositional histories in state socialist societies. Even as the …
Last Hunters, First Farmers
New Perspectives on the Prehistoric Transition to Agriculture
Av T. Douglas Price, Anne Birgitte Gebauer
Häftad, 1996
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537 kr
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During virtually the entire four-million-year history of our habitation on this planet, humans have been hunters and gatherers, dependent for nourishment on the availability of wild plants and animals. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, however, the most remarkable phenomenon in the course of human …
Senses of Place
Av Steven Feld
Häftad, 1996
386 kr
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The complex relationship of people to places has come under increasing scholarly scrutiny in recent years as acute global conditions of exile, displacement, and inflamed borders-to say nothing of struggles by indigenous peoples and cultural minorities for ancestral homelands, land rights, and …
Cyborgs & Citadels
Anthropological Interventions in Emerging Sciences and Technologies
Häftad, 1998
463 kr
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Some of the country's most influential thinkers use anthropological methods and theories to examine the practices and practitioners of contemporary science, technology, and medicine in the United States. The authors explore such questions as how science gains authority to direct truth practices, …
Archaic States
Häftad, 1998
306 kr
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One of the most challenging problems facing contemporary archaeology concerns the operation and diversity of ancient states. This volume addresses how ancient states were structured and how they operated, an understanding of which is key to our ability to interpret a state's rise or fall. Archaic …
History in Person
Enduring Struggles, Contentious Practice, Intimate Identities
Häftad, 2001
540 kr
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Extended conflict situations in Northern Ireland or South Africa, the local effects of the rise of multinational corporations, and conflicts in workplaces, households, and academic fields are all crucibles for the forging of identities. In this volume, the authors bring their research to bear on …
Uruk Mesopotamia & Its Neighbors
Cross-cultural Interactions in the Era of State Formation
Häftad, 2001
386 kr
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In Uruk Mesopotamia and Its Neighbors, ten field and theoretical archaeologists working in the area today offer an overview and analysis of new data and interpretations for Greater Mesopotamia during the late fifth and fourth millennia B.C. They radically reassess the chronological framework for …
