Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Phosphoros
    Luis Felipe De Medeiros Veiga
    Esta obra situa os fósforos como uma tecnologia recente de acendimento de fogo, em continuidade com outras desenvolvidas pela humanidade desde o final do Pleistoceno superior. Descreve uma trajetória da indústria fosforeira no cenário da industrialização brasileira a partir da associação entre matérias de periódicos da Hemeroteca da Biblioteca Nacional – Brasil e análises de ró...
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    26,52 €

  • Como Os Deuses Chegaram Até Nós: Por Outras Historiografias, Sociologias, Filosofias E Antropologias
    Marcelo Barboza Duarte
    Resumo:O trabalho em tela é um esforço de expor e contextualizar, as possíveis expressões das primeiras formas, modos e tipos de manifestações místicas, ritualísticas, mágicas, sacrificiais, de crenças e míticas nos processos sociais, culturais, econômicos, políticos e históricos das sociedades. Verificando assim, os primeiros fundamentos, processos e construções biopsicossocia...
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    12,43 €

  • Bosquejo sobre las dimensiones de la experiencia humana
    Adrián Medina Liberty
    ¿En qué consiste la experiencia humana? ¿Cómo entenderla? ¿Qué nos distingue de otras especies? Estas remotas, frecuentes y omnipresentes interrogantes son las que intenta responder el autor mediante un modelo de cuatro dimensiones: la conducta, la cognición y la afectividad, más una cuarta propiedad que las recorre y las integra: la simbólica ...
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    15,08 €

  • Last Scene of All
    Jessica Goodman
    Death in classical tragedy is an ending: a symbolic moment of catharsis, read by the audience according to theatrical and cultural tradition. Yet any stage death is also a non-ending: just one in a series of repeated (re)presentations, by an actor who will live (and die) again. Spanning six centuries and seven countries, this study considers how different dramatic authors have ...
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    17,56 €

  • Teorias Sociológicas: Dos Clássicos Aos Contemporâneos
    Eduardo Nunes Jacondino
    A presente obra foi escrita de modo a contribuirmos para a formação dos estudantes do ensino superior brasileiro, no sentido de fortalecermos o contato, dos mesmos, com o universo da Sociologia. Neste Volume 1 apresentamos a obra de Emile Durkheim. A qual representa um dos maiores clássicos da escola francesa. Os demais volumes - 2 e 3 – retratarão as obras de Karl Marx e de Ma...
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    8,27 €

  • A Ideia Que Mudaria O Mundo
    Daniel Chat Gpt / Deusdete
    E se um jovem herdeiro de uma grande fortuna decidisse não viver apenas para si, mas colocar sua riqueza e talentos a serviço de uma causa maior? Movido por uma inquietação interior e um profundo senso de propósito, ele sonha acordado com algo jamais visto: uma cidade-modelo construída sobre os pilares do corpo, da mente e do espírito — um lugar onde saúde, educação, espiritual...
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    10,35 €

  • The Pragmatics of Intercultural Communicative Competence
    J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
    This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. The book concludes with a reflection on what it means to be an intercultural speaker and the benefits for the learner of developing intercultural competence. ...
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    50,80 €

  • The Pragmatics of Intercultural Communicative Competence
    J. Cesar Felix-Brasdefer
    This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in study abroad contexts. The book concludes with a reflection on what it means to be an intercultural speaker and the benefits for the learner of developing intercultural competence. ...
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    170,50 €

  • Schlingensief-Handbuch
    Christoph Schlingensiefs (1960-2010) grenzüberschreitendes Werk umfasst Film, Fernsehen, Theater, Oper, Aktionskunst, Hörspiel, Literatur und Essayistik. Ebenso vielfältig sind seine Themen, die von Nationalsozialismus, Rassismus und Rechtspopulismus zu Kolonialismus, Kapitalismus, Krankheit und Terrorismus reichen. Er war Kult in Deutschlands Sub- und Popkultur, zugleich bespi...
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    132,42 €

  • O Conceito De Pessoa
    Gleison De Sousa Furtado
    Visa uma análise do conceito de pessoa na antropologia personalista na perspectiva do amor em Karol Wojtyla. A pesquisa foi realizada em caráter bibliográfico, cunho exploratório e apresentação de conceitos conforme as obras do autor. As explanações das reflexões iniciam-se pela apresentação dos pressupostos históricos e da formação de seu pensamento, com suas influências e aut...
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    11,96 €

  • Deporting Black Britons
    Luke de Noronha
    In the last two decades, the UK has deported thousands of people to Jamaica. Deporting Black Britons traces the life stories of four men who have been exiled through deportation, exploring how they survive once they are returned to Jamaica, and what their memories of poverty, racist policing and illegality reveal about contemporary Britain. ...
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    22,02 €

  • Understanding baby loss
    Elspeth Whitby / Julie Ellis / Kate Reed
    This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement. ...
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    44,32 €

  • Global networks of Indigeneity
    This book brings together a range of Indigenous perspectives, forming a global network of writers, thinkers, and scholars connected by common investments in Indigenous futures. ...
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    44,16 €

  • Conto - Ligações De Uma Paixão
    Duarte M. B.
    Selma é uma professora de sensibilidade ímpar cuja vida se transforma após um encontro inesperado durante uma viagem. Ao conhecer Gerson, um homem de olhar enigmático e voz suave, ela se vê envolvida em longas conversas noturnas que se tornam um refúgio de declarações intensas, devaneios e silêncios misteriosos.Nesse universo onde o real se mescla ao imaginado, cada palavra de ...
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    9,31 €

  • Visceral Politics
    Indira Arumugam
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    157,52 €

  • Inqueersition
    David Canga Corozo
    Inqueersition: Cultural War and the Decline of the West (Volume 1) by David Canga Corozo is a critique of woke-progress indoctrination and the cultural transformation of Western society under the banner of identity politics, radical individualism, and ideological censorship.With a historical lens and incisive commentary, Inqueersition traces the philosophical, political, and so...
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    45,79 €

  • The Riddle of Intelligence
    Eugene Anderson / Foreman Bandama / John Terrell
    There is little agreement today on what it takes to be intelligent. Yet this word is widely believed to be about something real, mostly biological, and important. From this popular perspective, intelligence is also something you can have a lot of, and luckily find yourself being labeled as a genius. Or sadly, something you do not have nearly enough of, and so find yourself bein...
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    164,01 €

  • Wrestling with Hope in Urban Senegal
    Mark Hann
    In Dakar, thousands of young men train daily on beaches, football pitches and sandy courtyards in pursuit of athletic success. Aspiring football players seek contracts in the lucrative leagues of the Global North, while hopeful wrestlers aim to captivate massive crowds as members of Senegal’s beloved national sport. Despite their differences - (European) football’s global appea...
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    184,50 €

  • Capitalism and Catastrophe
    Raja Swamy
    Synthesizing critical perspectives on the impact of disasters in regard to social inequality, this book brings together key insights from political ecology and historical materialism. Querying assumptions about the 'normal' conditions of life, it examines the exploitative structures and practices that shape everyday life using theoretical approaches including Rhythmanalysis, Me...
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    163,84 €

  • Understanding Social Images
    Marcus Banks
    Marcus Banks was one of the scholars who changed the way visual anthropology and visual methods were regarded in social and cultural anthropology. This collection of Banks’ essays considers the role of collaboration in the making of ethnographic films and makes the case for slow research. It discusses the meaning of anthropological research in film archives and illustrates how ...
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    184,43 €

  • Women’s Empowerment and Son Preference in India
    Sheela Suryanarayanan
    Sex selective abortions are unjust, unethical and illegal in India, yet the experience of motherhood for pregnant women can be influenced by ’son preference’ from those who support female feticide. Women are denied agency in exercising reproductive rights and the medical fraternity often fosters the misuse of technologies for sex selective abortions in India. This book reviews ...
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    184,35 €

  • The Southeast Asia Connection
    Sing C. Chew
    The contribution of Southeast Asia to the world economy (during the late prehistoric and early historic periods) has not received much attention. It has often been viewed as a region of peripheral entrepôts, especially in the early centuries of the current era. Recent archaeological evidence revealed the existence of established and productive polities in Southeast Asia in the ...
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    40,60 €

  • Artifak
    Hugo DeBlock
    In Vanuatu, commoditization and revitalization of culture and the arts do not necessarily work against each other; both revolve around value formation and the authentication of things. This book investigates the meaning and value of (art) objects as commodities in differing states of transit and transition: in the local place, on the market, in the museum. It provides an ethnog...
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    47,10 €

  • The Egyptian New Kingdom Navy
    Michael Allen Stephens
    This book analyses the technology, administration, strategic and tactical employment of the Egyptian New Kingdom navy. The work draws on the author’s military experience, coupled with practical experimental watercraft studies, and offers a unique perspective on aspects of the New Kingdom navy. While other works address naval operations, the emphasis on infrastructure and admini...
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    123,08 €

  • El Acuario Humano
    Josep Martí
    “El Acuario Humano” es un libro pensado para proporcionar una idea de la variedad de intereses de la antropología, así como del gran potencial de esta disciplina humanística para entender la realidad humana. El libro está concebido para un amplio ámbito de lectores, tanto para los que han tenido pocos textos de antropología en sus manos como para los más versados y les puedan i...
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    19,24 €

  • Prehistoric Pictures and American Modernism
    Elke Seibert
    In April 1937, the Museum of Modern Art in New York hosted an exhibition that served as a catalyst for the appropriation of prehistoric rock art in postwar abstract painting. With the title 'Prehistoric Rock Pictures in Europe and Africa', it displayed a range of copies from the influential collection of the German ethnologist Leo Frobenius.Largely disregarded in modern America...
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    53,15 €

  • Social Implications of Research in Higher Education
    Andile Alfred Mdikana
    Traditional research assumes a singular, almost absolutist approach to knowledge. In contrast, critical theory challenges the positivist outlook on scientific research and assumes a more socio-cultural outlook on the social world. In specific terms, critical research examines the nature of power dynamics influencing the social world. More broadly, this has implications for unde...
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    230,50 €

  • Social Implications of Research in Higher Education
    Andile Alfred Mdikana
    Traditional research assumes a singular, almost absolutist approach to knowledge. In contrast, critical theory challenges the positivist outlook on scientific research and assumes a more socio-cultural outlook on the social world. In specific terms, critical research examines the nature of power dynamics influencing the social world. More broadly, this has implications for unde...
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    177,72 €

  • Oral Poetry
    Ruth Finnegan
    This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the vast field of ’oral poetry,’ encompassing everything from American folksongs, contemporary pop songs, and Inuit lyrics, to the heroic epics of Homer, biblical psalms, and epic traditions in Asia and the Pacific. Taking a broad comparative approach, it explores oral poetry across Africa, Asia, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas...
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    75,11 €

  • Infants, Children, and Youth
    María Florencia Amigó
    How does the place, economy, and culture of where a person is born and raised impact the development of their personhood over their life course?Drawing from five case studies across diverse global contexts, social anthropologist María Florencia Amigó considers how cultural identity, engrained beliefs and practices, and economic determinants can shape destinies, by looking at ho...
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    22,44 €