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Living in Death
Genocide and Its Functionaries
Häftad, 2021
310 kr
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Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationWhen we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is …
Blind Man
A Phantasmography
Häftad, 2018
396 kr
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The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show …
Blind Man
A Phantasmography
Inbunden, 2018
1360 kr
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The Blind Man: A Phantasmography examines the complicated forces of perception, imagination, and phantasms of encounter in the contemporary world. In considering photographs he took while he was traveling in France, anthropologist and writer Robert Desjarlais reflects on a few pictures that show …
Doctor and Mrs. A.
Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis
Av Sarah Pinto
Häftad, 2019
559 kr
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In the years leading up to India’s independence, a young Punjabi woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an experiment in his new method of dream analysis. “Mrs A.’s” analysis included a surge of emotion and …
Doctor and Mrs. A.
Ethics and Counter-Ethics in an Indian Dream Analysis
Av Sarah Pinto
Inbunden, 2019
1655 kr
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In the years leading up to India’s independence, a young Punjabi woman, ill at ease in her marriage and eager for personal and national freedom, sat down with psychiatrist Dev Satya Nand for an experiment in his new method of dream analysis. “Mrs A.’s” analysis included a surge of emotion and …
Textures of the Ordinary
Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein
Av Veena Das
Häftad, 2020
435 kr
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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the …
Textures of the Ordinary
Doing Anthropology After Wittgenstein
Av Veena Das
Inbunden, 2020
1753 kr
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How might we speak of human life amid violence, deprivation, or disease so intrusive as to put the idea of the human into question? How can scholarship and advocacy address new forms of war or the slow, corrosive violence that belie democracy's promise to mitigate human suffering? To Veena Das, the …
Seeing Like a Child
Inheriting the Korean War
Av Clara Han
Inbunden, 2020
1089 kr
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Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist AnthropologyFinalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.Seeing Like a Child is a …
Seeing Like a Child
Inheriting the Korean War
Av Clara Han
Häftad, 2020
310 kr
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Winner, 2022 Senior Book Prize, Association for Feminist AnthropologyFinalist, 2022 Victor Turner Prize An utterly original and illuminating work that meets at the crossroads of autobiography and ethnography to re-examine violence and memory through the eyes of a child.Seeing Like a Child is a …
Living with Concepts
Anthropology in the Grip of Reality
Av Andrew Brandel, Marco Motta
Inbunden, 2021
1702 kr
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This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as …
Living with Concepts
Anthropology in the Grip of Reality
Av Andrew Brandel, Marco Motta
Häftad, 2021
469 kr
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This volume examines an often taken for granted concept—that of the concept itself. How do we picture what concepts are, what they do, how they arise in the course of everyday life? Challenging conventional approaches that treat concepts as mere tools at our disposal for analysis, or as …
Mixing Medicines
Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia
Häftad, 2021
390 kr
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Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today's Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. Mixing Medicines seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and …
Mixing Medicines
Ecologies of Care in Buddhist Siberia
Inbunden, 2021
1302 kr
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Traditional medicine enjoys widespread appeal in today's Russia, an appeal that has often been framed either as a holdover from pre-Soviet times or as the symptom of capitalist growing pains and vanishing Soviet modes of life. Mixing Medicines seeks to reconsider these logics of emptiness and …
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Inbunden, 2021
1237 kr
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Winner, 2023 Bernard S. Cohn Prize, Association for Asian StudiesWinner, 2021 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesWinner, 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2023 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize, Human Sexuality & Anthropology Interest …
Hijras, Lovers, Brothers
Surviving Sex and Poverty in Rural India
Häftad, 2021
373 kr
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Winner, 2023 Bernard S. Cohn Prize, Association for Asian StudiesWinner, 2021 Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social SciencesWinner, 2021 Ruth Benedict Prize, Association for Queer AnthropologyHonorable Mention, 2023 Anne Bolin & Gil Herdt Book Prize, Human Sexuality & Anthropology Interest …
Living in Death
Genocide and Its Functionaries
Inbunden, 2021
1157 kr
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Winner, Prix Littéraire Paris-Liège 2021 Winner, French Voices Award for Excellence in Publication and TranslationWhen we speak of mass killers, we may speak of radicalized ideologues, mediocrities who only obey orders, or bloodthirsty monsters. Who are these men who kill on a mass scale? What is …
Imagistic Care
Growing Old in a Precarious World
Av Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn
Häftad, 2022
375 kr
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Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, …
Imagistic Care
Growing Old in a Precarious World
Av Cheryl Mattingly, Lone Grøn
Inbunden, 2022
1341 kr
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Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volume asks: How can imagistic inquiries help us understand the complex entanglements of self and other, …
Spirit Power
Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
Häftad, 2022
388 kr
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Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious …
Spirit Power
Politics and Religion in Korea's American Century
Inbunden, 2022
1363 kr
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Spirit Power explores the manifestation of the American Century in Korean history with a focus on religious culture. It looks back on the encounter with American missionary power from the late nineteenth century, and the long political struggles against the country's indigenous popular religious …
Politics of the Near
On the Edges of Protest in South Africa
Häftad, 2022
439 kr
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The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people's movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of …
Politics of the Near
On the Edges of Protest in South Africa
Inbunden, 2022
1608 kr
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The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people's movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of …
Terror Trials
Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
Inbunden, 2023
1341 kr
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Honorable Mention, Bernard S. Cohn Book PrizeAn ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms …
Terror Trials
Life and Law in Delhi's Courts
Häftad, 2023
398 kr
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Honorable Mention, Bernard S. Cohn Book PrizeAn ethnography of terrorism trials in Delhi, India, this book explores what modes of life are made possible in the everyday experience of the courtroom. Mayur Suresh shows how legal procedures and technicalities become the modes through which courtrooms …
Work of Repair
Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
Inbunden, 2023
1476 kr
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In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity …
Work of Repair
Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
Häftad, 2023
435 kr
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In the timber plantations in northeastern South Africa, laborers work long hours among tall, swaying lines of eucalypts, on land once theirs. In 2008, at the height of the HIV/AIDS crisis, timber corporations distributed hot cooked meals as a nutrition intervention to bolster falling productivity …
Beyond Despair
The Rwanda Genocide Against the Tutsi Through the Eyes of Children
Av Hélène Dumas
Inbunden, 2024
1341 kr
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Winner, Prix Pierre LafueWinner, Prix lycéen du livre d'histoire des Rendez-vous de l'histoire de BloisIn the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contain, in the silence of accumulated …
Beyond Despair
The Rwanda Genocide Against the Tutsi Through the Eyes of Children
Av Hélène Dumas
Häftad, 2024
375 kr
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Winner, Prix Pierre LafueWinner, Prix lycéen du livre d'histoire des Rendez-vous de l'histoire de BloisIn the archives of the main institution in charge of the history and memory of the genocide in Rwanda, several bundles of fragile little school notebooks contain, in the silence of accumulated …
Time of the Cannibals
On Conspiracy Theory and Context
Inbunden, 2024
1312 kr
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In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand …
Time of the Cannibals
On Conspiracy Theory and Context
Häftad, 2024
393 kr
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In 2009, the body of a former president of the Republic of Cyprus, Tassos Papadopoulos, was stolen from his grave. The Time of the Cannibals reconsiders this history and the public discourse on it to reconsider how we think about conspiracy theory, and specifically, what it means to understand …
