Catálogo de libros: Antropología

20502 Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • Of Microbes and Art
    Microbial defacement and degradation of artistic or historic artifacts is a worldwide problem affecting all countries regardless of their history, geographical location, or economic conditions. This is the first comprehensive study of the role of microbial colonization on the degradation of different cultural artifacts (from buildings to books, w...
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    134,00 €

  • Spirits and Slaves in Central Sudan
    Susan M. Kenyon
    This historical ethnography of Central Sudan explores the century-old intertwining of zar, spirit possession, with lives of ex-slaves. Despite very different social and cultural contexts, it has continued to be shaped by the experience of slavery. As the treatment of last resort, zar addresses a wide range of problems brought predominantly by women through participation in colo...
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    64,83 €

  • Preservation and National Belonging in Eastern Germany
    Jason James
    Drawing on cultural anthropology and cultural studies, this book sheds new light on the everyday politics of heritage and memory by illuminating local, everyday engagements with Germanness through heritage fetishism, claims to hometown belonging, and the performative appropriation of cultural property. ...
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    65,22 €

  • Comparative Early Modernities
    David Porter
    'Recent historical scholarship has shown the way towards a geographically capacious conception of the early modern world. Featuring essays by nine leading scholars of early modern Asia and Europe, Comparative Early Modernities casts aside the legacies of European exceptionalism to reveal the interconnected multiplicity of the early modern world and of the variety of unexpected...
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    157,16 €

  • Anatomy of a Trend
    Henrik Vejlgaard
    A fascinating look at the predictable patterns behind trendsIt is one of the most puzzling mysteries of modern culture: how do changes in style and taste come about?It’s all part of the inner workings of trends. In Anatomy of a Trend, pioneering trend sociologist Henrik Vejlgaard reveals this startling truth: there are actually predictable patterns behind every trend. Vejlgaard...
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    23,82 €

  • Nature and culture
    Samuel Alberti / Samuel J. M. M. Alberti / Samuel JMMAlberti
    Nature and Culture asks how objects were collected and displayed in the twentieth century. It explores natural and cultural objects in the Manchester Museum, a major university collection. How did these specimens come to be there? What happened to them in the collection, and who used them? ...
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    29,52 €

  • Uncovering the History of the Albuquerque Greek Community, 1880-1952
    Katherine M. Pomonis / Katherine MPomonis
    Why did Greeks in the late 1800s cross a sea, an ocean and a continent, to start new lives in the United States? Why did they eventually migrate to a small dusty town in the desert Southwest? How did Albuquerque become a center of Greek-America in the 1930s? And how did the decision to build the church in 1944 in the Huning Highland originate from a tragic event? This book answ...
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    14,30 €

  • Craft Production and Social Change in Northern China
    Anne P. Underhill
    This book offers an anthropological analysis of how craft production changed in relation to the development of complex societies in northern China. It focuses on the production and use of food containers-pottery and bronze vessels-during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. A major theme is how production and use of prestige vessels change...
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    207,34 €

  • Silencing Race
    Ileana M. Rodr Guez-Silva / Ileana M. Rodraiguez-Silva / Ileana M. Rodriguez-Silva
    In their quest for greater political participation within shifting imperial fields-from Spanish (1850s-1898) to US rule (1898-)-Puerto Ricans struggled to shape and contain conversations about race. In so doing, they crafted, negotiated, and imposed on others multiple forms of silences while reproducing the idea of a unified, racially mixed, harmonious nation. Hence, both upper...
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    156,98 €

  • South of the Crisis
    Juan E. Corradi / Juan ECorradi
    The book offers an unorthodox account of why and how global capitalism has entered a phase of unsustainable crises of accumulation and legitimacy, and examines the different exit strategies open to Latin American countries. ...
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    57,75 €

  • Essential Ethnographic Methods
    Jean J. Schensul / Jean JSchensul / Margaret D. LeCompte / Margaret DLeCompte
    Essential Ethnographic Methods introduces the fundamental, face-to-face data collection tools for ethnographers and other qualitative researchers and provides detailed instruction to improve the quality and scope of data collection.. ...
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    60,47 €

  • Colonial Entanglement
    Jean Dennison
    From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new government’s goals, the Nation’s own history, and what it means to be Osage. The primary debates were focused on biology, culture, natural resources, and sovereignty. Osage anthropologist Jean Dennison documents the reform process in order...
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    47,93 €

  • Ogata-Mura
    Donald C. Wood / Donald CWood
    Following the Second World War, a massive land reclamation project to boost Japan’s rice production capacity led to the transformation of the shallow lagoon of Hachirogata in Akita Prefecture into a seventeen-thousand-hectare expanse of farmland. In 1964, the village of Ogata-mura was founded on the empoldered land inside the lagoon and nearly six hundred pioneers from across t...
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    184,20 €

  • Wind Over Water
    Providing a comprehensive treatment of a full range of migrant destinies in East Asia by scholars from both Asia and North America, this volume captures the way migrants are changing the face of Asia, especially in cities, such as Beijing, Hong Kong, Hamamatsu, Osaka, Tokyo, and Singapore. It investigates how the crossing of geographical boundaries should also be recognized as ...
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    184,10 €

  • Narrating the Future in Siberia
    Olga Ulturgasheva
    The wider cultural universe of contemporary Eveny is a specific and revealing subset of post-Soviet society. From an anthropological perspective, the author seeks to reveal not only the Eveny cultural universe but also the universe of the children and adolescents within this universe. The first full-length ethnographic study among the adolescence of Siberian indigenous peoples,...
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    184,46 €

  • Playing with Languages
    Amy L. Paugh / Amy LPaugh
    Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language. Despite government efforts at Patwa revitalization and cultural heritage tourism, rural caregivers and teachers prohibit children from speaking Patwa in their presence. Drawing on detailed ethnographic fieldwork and analysis of video-recorded s...
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    184,19 €

  • Don’t go back to where you came from
    Tim Soutphommasane
    Tim Soutphommasane boldly stakes a claim for the overwhelming success of multiculturalism in Australia. European governments are declaring multiculturalism a failure, with many conservatives in Australia hastening to agree. But is a multicultural approach to integration and diversity really as destructive as critics say? Have we been too quick to declare its demise? Offering an...
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    29,74 €

  • Culinary Capital
    Kathleen Lebesco / Peter Naccarato
    TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping...
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    58,04 €

  • Ageing selves and everyday life in the north of England
    Cathrine Degnen
    Seeking to explore what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. Based on research conducted in a former coal mining village in South Yorkshire, England, Cathrine Degnen explores how the category of 'old ag...
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    157,72 €

  • Culinary Capital. by Kathleen Lebesco, Peter Naccarato
    Kathleen LeBesco / Peter Naccarato
    TV cookery shows hosted by celebrity chefs. Meal prep kitchens. Online grocers and restaurant review sites. Competitive eating contests, carnivals and fairs, and junk food websites and blogs. What do all of them have in common? According to authors Kathleen LeBesco and Peter Naccarato, they each serve as productive sites for understanding the role of culinary capital in shaping...
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    161,25 €

  • Handbook of Cross-Cultural Neuropsychology
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    209,79 €

  • Hearing by Whales and Dolphins
    Here, experts in different areas of the field provide an overview of the bioacoustics of whales and dolphins as well as a thorough introduction to the subject for investigators of hearing in other animals. Topics covered include the structure and function of cetacean auditory systems, the unique sound production system of odontocetes, acoustic communi...
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    206,69 €

  • Rainforest Asylum
    Sara Ashencaen Crabtree
    Malaysian psychiatric services and policy show some developments similar to those of the West-yet much of the rhetoric that has informed these changes internationally, such as the discourse of service-user empowerment, has yet to be fully embraced within Malaysia itself. The author argues that an important factor here is that psychiatric services in Malaysia retain many of the ...
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    50,56 €

  • Institutional Economics and the Theory of Social Value
    Charles M.A. Clark
    Marc R. Tool, both through his writings and his editorship of the Journal of Economic Issues, has had a profound influence on institutional economics. Tool’s efforts, in his own words, 'has been to keep values on the agenda of economic inquiry,' which is another way of saying 'keep economic inquiry relevant. ' Tool’s work on the theory of social value...
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    133,89 €

  • Science and Technology in Historic Preservation
    Technology transfer has played an increasingly important role in historic preservation during the latter half of the twentieth century, a situation attested to by the undertaking of an important congressional study in 1986 that assessed the role of federal agencies in the field. In this book leading researchers update the earlier findings and con...
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    133,47 €

  • Media and Ritual
    Johanna Sumiala
    This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. ...
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    241,39 €

  • Media and Ritual
    Johanna Sumiala
    This wide-ranging and accessible book offers a stimulating introduction to the field of media anthropology and the study of religious ritual. ...
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    73,62 €

  • Urban Encounters
    A. Cicalo
    Winner of the Latin American Studies Association Brazil Section Book Awards.   Utilizing an ethnographic study of a public university and its users, Cicalo analyzes the practical and symbolic potential that affirmative action has to redress historically-produced and territorialized inequalities in the urban space. ...
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    66,52 €

  • Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey
    D. Kuzmanovic
    Drawing on data from ethnographic fieldwork among civic activists and identifying a range of domestic and international socio-political contexts, Refractions of Civil Society in Turkey explores different perceptions of civil society in Turkey and pursues the general question of why civil society holds such power to move those who evoke it. ...
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    66,60 €

  • Thinking through the Body
    What is the archaeology of the body and how can it change the way we experience the past? This book, one of the first to appear on the subject, records and evaluates the emergence of this new direction of cross-disciplinary research, and examines the potential of incorporating some of its insights into archaeology. It will be of interest to students, ...
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    133,97 €


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