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Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Av Jacob Copeman, Lam Minh Chau m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
299 kr
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Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research …
Sociality
New Directions
Av Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore
Inbunden, 2012
1921 kr
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The notion of "sociality" is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in …
Social Life of Achievement
Av Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore
Inbunden, 2013
1867 kr
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What happens when people "achieve"? Why do reactions to "achievement" vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart …
Sociality
New Directions
Av Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore
Häftad, 2014
527 kr
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The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in …
Social Life of Achievement
Av Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore
Häftad, 2016
512 kr
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What happens when people “achieve”? Why do reactions to “achievement” vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart …
State We're In
Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles
Av Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
1921 kr
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What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores …
Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Inbunden, 2017
1979 kr
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In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other …
Moral Engines
Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life
Av Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1921 kr
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In the past fifteen years, there has been a virtual explosion of anthropological literature arguing that morality should be considered central to human practice. Out of this explosion new and invigorating conversations have emerged between anthropologists and philosophers. Moral Engines: Exploring …
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Inbunden, 2018
1921 kr
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Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activist groups in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find …
Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Av Catherine Alexander, Andrew Sanchez
Inbunden, 2018
1880 kr
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What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to …
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Av Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
Inbunden, 2019
2040 kr
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Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus …
State We're In
Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles
Av Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
527 kr
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What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores …
It Happens Among People
Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth
Av Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller
Häftad, 2019
560 kr
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Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus …
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Inbunden, 2020
1921 kr
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We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and …
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Av John Fahy
Inbunden, 2019
1861 kr
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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, …
Indeterminacy
Waste, Value, and the Imagination
Av Catherine Alexander, Andrew Sanchez
Häftad, 2020
527 kr
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What happens to people, places and objects that do not fit the ordering regimes and progressive narratives of modernity? Conventional understandings imply that progress leaves such things behind, and excludes them as though they were valueless waste. This volume uses the concept of indeterminacy to …
Patient Multiple
An Ethnography of Healthcare and Decision-Making in Bhutan
Häftad, 2020
543 kr
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In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, medical patients engage a variety of healing practices to seek cures for their ailments. Patients use the expanding biomedical network and a growing number of traditional healthcare units, while also seeking alternative practices, such as shamanism and other …
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Inbunden, 2022
1665 kr
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In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the …
After Difference
Queer Activism in Italy and Anthropological Theory
Häftad, 2022
336 kr
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Queer activism and anthropology are both fundamentally concerned with the concept of difference. Yet they are so in fundamentally different ways. The Italian queer activists in this book value difference as something that must be produced, in opposition to the identity politics they find around …
Where is the Good in the World?
Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Av David Henig, Anna Strhan m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1921 kr
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Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how …
New Perspectives on Moral Change
Anthropologists and Philosophers Engage with Transformations of Life Worlds
Av Cecilie Eriksen, Nora Hämäläinen
Inbunden, 2022
1280 kr
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The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life. This raises questions of how to cope with and understand the …
Against Better Judgment
Akrasia in Anthropological Perspectives
Av Patrick McKearney, Nicholas H. A. Evans
Inbunden, 2023
1921 kr
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Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' – that is, the possibility that people might act against their better …
Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange
Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond
Av Jacob Copeman, Lam Minh Chau m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1867 kr
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Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research …
Making Better Lives
Hope, Freedom and Home-Making among People Sleeping Rough in Paris
Häftad, 2024
440 kr
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In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the …
Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective
Essays on Morality, Achievement and Modernity
Av Susan Bayly
Inbunden, 2024
2123 kr
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Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these …
Selfishness and Selflessness
New Approaches to Understanding Morality
Häftad, 2024
516 kr
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We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. The traits of Selfishness and selflessness address the ‘proper’ and ‘improper’ relationship between one’s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and …
Where is the Good in the World?
Ethical Life between Social Theory and Philosophy
Av David Henig, Anna Strhan m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
382 kr
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Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how …
Building Social Worlds
Thinking forwards with Esther Newcomb Goody
Av Barbara Bodenhorn, Alicia Fentiman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2123 kr
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Esther Newcomb Goody had an extensive academic career. She particularly revisited intellectual themes of kinship and relationships. This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goody’s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of …
Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City
Av John Fahy
Häftad, 2027
394 kr
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Becoming Vaishnava in an Ideal Vedic City centers on a growing multinational community of ISKCON (International Society for Krishna Consciousness) devotees in Mayapur, West Bengal. While ISKCON’s history is often presented in terms of an Indian guru ‘transplanting’ Indian spirituality to the West, …
Critiquing Neoliberalism
Art and Activism in Post-Recession Dublin
Inbunden, 2025
1921 kr
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Following the fallout of the 2008 recession in the Republic of Ireland, its creative economy is framed as a window onto a range of other shifts in contemporary Irish society, including the recent rise of Irish nationalism. This book follows a group of young activists and artists who were facing …
