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Being Godless
Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Av Roy Llera Blanes, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. …
Emptiness and Fullness
Ethnographies of Lack and Desire in Contemporary China
Av Susanne Bregnbæk, Mikkel Bunkenborg
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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As critical voices question the quality, authenticity, and value of people, goods, and words in post-Mao China, accusations of emptiness render things open to new investments of meaning, substance, and value. Exploring the production of lack and desire through fine-grained ethnography, this volume …
Being Godless
Ethnographies of Atheism and Non-Religion
Av Roy Llera Blanes, Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion. The contributors capture the experiences of godless people and examine their perspectives on the role of religion in their personal and public lives. …
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Av Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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Stategraphy-the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundaries, and forms of embeddedness of state actors-offers crucial analytical avenues for researching state transformations. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the …
Stategraphy
Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Av Tatjana Thelen, Larissa Vetters m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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Stategraphy—the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors—offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interactions and negotiations of local actors in different institutional settings, the contributors explore …
Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious …
Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Av Mateusz Laszczkowski, Madeleine Reeves
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as ‘affect theory’. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide …
Affective States
Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions
Av Mateusz Laszczkowski, Madeleine Reeves
Häftad, 2017
454 kr
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In recent years, political and social theory has been transformed by the heterogeneous approaches to feeling and emotion jointly referred to as 'affect theory'. These range from psychological and social-constructivist approaches to emotion to feminist and post-human perspectives. Covering a wide …
Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Av Katherine Swancutt, Mireille Mazard
Inbunden, 2018
1665 kr
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How might we envision animism through the lens of the `anthropology of anthropology'? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists …
Animism beyond the Soul
Ontology, Reflexivity, and the Making of Anthropological Knowledge
Av Katherine Swancutt, Mireille Mazard
Häftad, 2018
454 kr
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How might we envision animism through the lens of the ‘anthropology of anthropology’? The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists …
Hierarchy and Value
Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy-or …
Hierarchy and Value
Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order
Häftad, 2018
454 kr
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Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency. But in some places globalization has spurred the emergence of new forms of hierarchy—or …
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation State
Inbunden, 2019
1701 kr
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How does an ethnically and culturally plural empire, where Christians, Jews, and Muslims could ascend to the highest levels of political authority and influence, devolve into a disarray of nation-states defined by nationalist ideologies? With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that …
Post-Ottoman Topologies
The Presence of the Past in the Era of the Nation-State
Häftad, 2019
454 kr
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How are historians and social scientists to understand the emergence, the multiplicity, and the mutability of collective memories of the Ottoman Empire in the political formations that succeeded it? With contributions focussing on several of the nation-states whose peoples once were united under …
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Av Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita
Inbunden, 2019
1701 kr
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Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the …
Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies
Av Casper Bruun Jensen, Atsuro Morita
Häftad, 2019
454 kr
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Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the …
Money Counts
Revisiting Economic Calculation
Inbunden, 2020
1701 kr
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Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies …
Money Counts
Revisiting Economic Calculation
Häftad, 2020
327 kr
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Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantitative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money’s quantity. Drawing from case studies …
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Av Patrice Ladwig, Ricardo Roque
Inbunden, 2020
1701 kr
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Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, …
States of Imitation
Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Av Patrice Ladwig, Ricardo Roque
Häftad, 2020
454 kr
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Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical forms to their own benefit. Drawing on historical ethnographic studies of colonialism in Asia and Africa, …
Straying from the Straight Path
How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Häftad, 2020
444 kr
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If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains and place experiences of inadequacy in everyday religious life – such as a wavering commitment, religious …
Matsutake Worlds
Av Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway
Inbunden, 2021
1701 kr
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The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multispecies encounters, particularly the matsutake’s notorious elusiveness. The mushroom’s success on the world stage, …
Matsutake Worlds
Av Lieba Faier, Michael J. Hathaway
Häftad, 2021
454 kr
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The matsutake mushroom continues to be a highly sought delicacy, especially in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cuisine. Matsutake Worlds explores this mushroom through the lens of multi-species encounters centered around the matsutake’s notorious elusiveness. The mushroom’s success, the contributors …
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Av Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1648 kr
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Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local …
Theorizing Relations in Indigenous South America
Edited by Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani and Giovanna Bacchiddu
Av Marcelo González Gálvez, Piergiorgio Di Giminiani m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
454 kr
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Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local …
Working With Diagrams
Av Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1701 kr
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Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work related to the social sciences. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, …
Working With Diagrams
Av Lukas Engelmann, Caroline Humphrey m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
444 kr
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Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw …
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Av Nicolette Makovicky, Robin Smith
Inbunden, 2023
1701 kr
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Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and …
Beyond the Social Contract
An Anthropology of Tax
Av Nicolette Makovicky, Robin Smith
Häftad, 2023
307 kr
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Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking. The contributors shed light on contemporary fiscal structures and …
Competition beyond Capitalism
Anthropological Perspectives on an Unruly Dynamic
Av Leo Hopkinson, Teodor Zidaru
Inbunden, 2026
1701 kr
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Competition often appears to typify capitalist social life as a process that defines relative value and pits people against one another. But capitalism is not all there is to competition. In ethnographic perspective, the outcomes of competition depend on always varied, shifting and contested …
