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23 produkter
Embedding Ethics
Inbunden, 2005
2510 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Embedding Ethics
Häftad, 2005
618 kr
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Anthropologists who talk about ethics generally mean the code of practice drafted by a professional association for implementation by its members. As this book convincingly shows, such a conception is far too narrow. A more radical approach is to recognize that moral judgments are made at every …
Where the Wild Things Are Now
Domestication Reconsidered
Av Rebecca Cassidy, Molly Mullin
Inbunden, 2007
2510 kr
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Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological …
Where the Wild Things Are Now
Domestication Reconsidered
Av Rebecca Cassidy, Molly Mullin
Häftad, 2007
531 kr
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Domestication has often seemed a matter of the distant past, a series of distinct events involving humans and other species that took place long ago. Today, as genetic manipulation continues to break new barriers in scientific and medical research, we appear to be entering an age of biological …
World Anthropologies
Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power
Av Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Arturo Escobar
Inbunden, 2006
2510 kr
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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. …
World Anthropologies
Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power
Av Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, Arturo Escobar
Häftad, 2006
647 kr
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Since its inception, anthropology's authority has been based on the assumption that it is a unified discipline emanating from the West. In an age of heightened globalization, anthropologists have failed to discuss consistently the current status of their practice and its mutations across the globe. …
Sensible Objects
Colonialism, Museums and Material Culture
Av Elizabeth Edwards, Chris Gosden m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
618 kr
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Anthropologists of the senses have long argued that cultures differ in their sensory registers. This groundbreaking volume applies this idea to material culture and the social practices that endow objects with meanings in both colonial and postcolonial relationships. It challenges the privileged …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Nicholas J. Enfield
Inbunden, 2006
2439 kr
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This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction …
Roots of Human Sociality
Culture, Cognition and Interaction
Av Stephen C. Levinson, Nicholas J. Enfield
Häftad, 2006
629 kr
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This book marks an exciting convergence towards the idea that human culture and cognition are rooted in the character of human social interaction, which is unique in the animal kingdom. Roots of Human Sociality attempts for the first time to explore the underlying properties of social interaction …
Indigenous Experience Today
Av Marisol de la Cadena, Orin Starn
Inbunden, 2007
2510 kr
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A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the …
Indigenous Experience Today
Av Marisol de la Cadena, Orin Starn
Häftad, 2007
618 kr
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A century ago, the idea of indigenous people as an active force in the contemporary world was unthinkable. It was assumed that native societies everywhere would be swept away by the forward march of the West and its own peculiar brand of progress and civilization. Nothing could be further from the …
Anthropology Put to Work
Inbunden, 2007
2510 kr
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How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The image of anthropologists …
Anthropology Put to Work
Häftad, 2007
531 kr
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How do anthropologists work today and how will they work in future? While some anthropologists have recently called for a new "public" or "engaged" anthropology, profound changes have already occurred, leading to new kinds of work for a large number of anthropologists. The image of anthropologists …
Ritual Communication
Av Gunter Senft, Ellen B Basso
Häftad, 2009
647 kr
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Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic chants, political …
Ritual Communication
Av Gunter Senft, Ellen B Basso
Inbunden, 2009
2510 kr
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Ritual Communication examines how people create and express meaning through verbal and non-verbal ritual. Ritual communication extends beyond collective religious expression. It is an intrinsic part of everyday interactions, ceremonies, theatrical performances, shamanic chants, political …
Plagues and Epidemics
Infected Spaces Past and Present
Av D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund
Häftad, 2010
667 kr
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Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone, and to other …
Plagues and Epidemics
Infected Spaces Past and Present
Av D. Ann Herring, Alan C. Swedlund
Inbunden, 2010
2585 kr
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Until recently, plagues were thought to belong in the ancient past. Now there are deep worries about global pandemics. This book presents views from anthropology about this much publicized and complex problem. The authors take us to places where epidemics are erupting, waning, or gone, and to other …
Anthropology Beyond Culture
Av Richard G. Fox, Barbara J. King
Inbunden, 2002
2510 kr
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Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their …
Anthropology Beyond Culture
Av Richard G. Fox, Barbara J. King
Häftad, 2002
618 kr
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Culture is a vexed concept within anthropology. From their earliest studies, anthropologists have often noted the emotional attachment of people to their customs, even in cases where this loyalty can make for problems. Do anthropologists now suffer the same kind of disability with respect to their …
Hearing Cultures
Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
Av Veit Erlmann
Inbunden, 2004
2510 kr
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Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, …
Hearing Cultures
Essays on Sound, Listening and Modernity
Av Veit Erlmann
Häftad, 2004
618 kr
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Vision is typically treated as the defining sense of the modern era and a powerful vehicle for colonial and postcolonial domination. This is in marked contrast to the almost total absence of accounts of hearing in larger cultural processes. Hearing Cultures is a timely examination of the elusive, …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Caroline Humphrey, Katherine Verdery
Inbunden, 2004
2309 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
Property in Question
Value Transformation in the Global Economy
Av Caroline Humphrey, Katherine Verdery
Häftad, 2004
569 kr
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How has it come about that indigenous cultures, body parts, and sequences of musical notes are considered property? How has the movement from collective to privatized systems affected notions of property? At what point in transaction chains do native cultures, indigenous medicines, or cyberdata …
