Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • Economic Knowledge in Crisis
    Olessia Kirtchik
    This book aims to shed new light on the puzzle of the late Soviet conversion to the 'market' and capitalism by revisiting the history of Soviet reform economics. Using a variety of sources, including interviews with economists, archival files, and published materials, it examines the social contexts in which economists employed in economic administration and research institutio...
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    205,77 €

  • Migration in the Making of the Gulf Space
    Combining visual and literary analyses and original ethnographic studies as part of a more general political reflection, Migration in the Making of Gulf Space examines the role of migrants and non-citizens in the processes of settling in the Arab States of the Gulf region. The contributions underscore the aspirational character of the Gulf as a place where migrant recognition c...
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    40,71 €

  • Sentient Ecologies
    Employing methodological perspectives from the fields of political geography, environmental studies, anthropology, and their cognate disciplines, this volume explores alternative logics of sentient landscapes as racist, xenophobic, and right-wing. While the field of sentient landscapes has gained critical attention, the literature rarely seems to question the intentionality of ...
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    26,35 €

  • Ethnographies of Deservingness
    Claims around ’who deserves what and why’ moralise inequality in the current global context of unprecedented wealth and its ever more selective distribution. Ethnographies of Deservingness explores this seeming paradox and the role of moralized assessments of distribution by reconnecting disparate discussions in the anthropology of migration, economic anthropology and political...
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    60,20 €

  • Illness and Enlightenment
    Susannah Deane
    Tibetan understandings of nyoné - ’madness’- encompass a broad range of concepts. Perspectives on the causation and treatment of madness as an illness are informed by Tantric and medical understandings of mind-body structure and (dys)functioning, as well as people’s relationships with non-human entities. In addition, ’madness’ may be seen as a sign of enlightenment in the case ...
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    184,30 €

  • Colonial Intervention and Destabilization of African Identities
    Obed Mfum-Mensah
    External forces and African elites impose trusteeship practices on Africans to construct and consolidate hierarchical power relations in African societies that infantilize Africans. They employ 'trusteeship' and 'organized infantilism' as two-pronged colonial intervention tools to keep the masses of Africans in subordinated positions by accepting and internalizing those practic...
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    163,73 €

  • Market and Monastery
    Prista Ratanapruck
    In the established historiography of trade in Asia, the emergence of Western trading empires invariably triggered the decline and dispersal of old trading networks. In this transregional ethnographic history of the Manangi, a Buddhist trading community from northern Nepal, Prista Ratanapruck provides counter evidence, elucidating how kinship, social, and religious institutions ...
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    184,20 €

  • Towards a British Natyam
    Magdalen Gorringe
    The story of the emerging professionalization of classical Indian dance forms in Britain is wrought with contradictions. Though becoming increasingly popular within mainstream culture, the forms lack the clear routes to vocational training so essential for creating a dance career in the traditional sense. Towards a British Natyam uses this lens to analyze the cultural, social, ...
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    204,72 €

  • Traveling Models and Practical Norms
    Jean-Pierre Olivier de Sardan
    Public policies, development projects, and NGO interventions often have large gaps between the planning and execution. Standardized public policies, especially development ones, ignore the multiple contexts in which they are implemented. Local actors (those targeted by public policies or responsible for implementing them) play a major role in the implementation of planning and ...
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    183,78 €

  • Representations of 'Japanese Nature'
    Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
    'Nature' as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that 'the pristine nature' is 'out there.' This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as 'pristine' into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for 'seasons'. Much emphasis is given to the inhabitants demonstrating the d...
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    184,33 €

  • Queer and Trans Life
    Against a background marked by endless ordinary crises, widespread precarity, and disrupting critical events, Queer and Trans Life charts queer investments for the future. It examines the challenges and pleasures in marginal everyday experiences of gender and sexual dissidence and the labours of care and endurance which sustain a sense of sociality and community, often against ...
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    184,16 €

  • Representations of 'Japanese Nature'
    Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
    'Nature' as a concept and word is extremely elusive, yet it is commonly taken for granted that 'the pristine nature' is 'out there.' This book explores the factors that have naturalized the idea of nature as 'pristine' into our psyche, and as something that has a spatial, visual, and temporal dimension for 'seasons'. Much emphasis is given to the inhabitants demonstrating the d...
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    47,30 €

  • Arabic in Context
    This Festschrift, Arabic in Context, is a tribute to the remarkable scholarly legacy of the Reverend Professor Martin R. Zammit. It celebrates his extensive contributions to the fields of Semitic Studies, Arabic linguistics, and comparative Semitic philology. Spanning decades of dedicated research and teaching, Professor Zammit’s career has been marked by a profound engagement ...
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    53,08 €

  • Folklore aspects part 3 - Nativity scenes
    Herbert Jenewein
    Folklore / local customs and interculturality / inculturation are concerned with the study of the nativity scene, which takes on significance at Christmas time. In addition, the study of nativity scenes is of interest in the preservation and appreciation of cultural and religious competence as an element in the representation of biblical events at Christmas time.The author pres...
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    52,07 €

  • Arabic in Context
    This Festschrift, Arabic in Context, is a tribute to the remarkable scholarly legacy of the Reverend Professor Martin R. Zammit. It celebrates his extensive contributions to the fields of Semitic Studies, Arabic linguistics, and comparative Semitic philology. Spanning decades of dedicated research and teaching, Professor Zammit’s career has been marked by a profound engagement ...
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    34,84 €

  • The Development of Evolutionary Genetics
    Prakash Gorroochurn
    The books describes the historical development of evolutionary genetics, starting from early ideas on evolution and ending with the modern synthesis. It provides an extensive coverage of the history of both evolution and heredity, and gives detailed descriptions of the works of Lamarck, Darwin, Mendel, Näageli, Weismann, de Vries, Galton, Pearson, Bateson, Johannsen, Morgan, Fi...
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    328,06 €

  • Arctic state identity
    Ingrid A. Medby
    This book explores what it means for state personnel from Norway, Iceland, and Canada that their country holds a formal title as an ’Arctic state’. It asks what an Arctic state identity might look like through geographies, pasts, futures, and geopolitical relations across different scales, from the international to the personal. ...
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    145,06 €

  • Cadence of Life
    Sheila Aketch Orero
    This book explores the multifaceted realities of religious conversion, challenging conventional notions of faith, identity, and change. Using sociological concepts of the study of every day and lived religion, it examines the lifestyles of the Adventist Massai in Arusha and Manyara. Guided by the multimodal approach, the study seeks to understand conversion from the Massai pers...
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    130,06 €

  • Necropolitics of the Ordinary
    Ruth E. Toulson
    Can a state make its people forget the dead?Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-state of Singapore. Confronted with high population density and rapid economic growth, the government has ordered the destruction of all but one burial ground, forcing people to exhume their family members. In this ethnography of Chinese funeral parlors and cemet...
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    158,52 €

  • Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives
    Shaping Space and Mobilities in Contemporary Walking Narratives represents an exploration of the dynamic intersections between mobility, space, and literature. By focusing on walking as both a practice and a narrative device, the book illustrates how mobilities shape and reconfigure our experiences of space. Drawing from both literary and interdisciplinary approaches, the contr...
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    206,33 €

  • Cinematic Ethnography
    Laurent Van Lancker
    Cinematic Ethnography proposes an interdisciplinary approach to theories and practices that reside within the fertile zone where anthropology and filmmaking intersect. ...
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    157,23 €

  • UNESCO, Religious Cultural Heritage and Political Contestation
    Clizia Franceschini
    This book offers an innovative study of UNESCO’s religious heritage and nomination mechanisms. In particular, it shows how these processes can easily become instruments of power politics, undermining the neutrality and impartiality of the nomination processes. This is particularly true where political contestation for the exercise of sovereign authority over the site is politic...
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    180,42 €

  • African Proverbs as Pedagogy to moral values
    Lilian Mokwunye
    This work examines African proverbs in the light of its pedagogic impact on moral values in the society with reference to some select plays. Proverbs are those phrases that give witty advices used to impact knowledge, wisdom, moral values and teachings to the younger generation. African proverbs constitute important and strategic areas where the African philosophy of life can b...
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    51,75 €

  • Music, the Avant-Garde, and Counterculture
    Anabela Duarte
    This book studies how the complex relationship between music, the avant-garde, and counterculture challenges all sorts of boundaries. By exploring the avant-garde as a thoughtful inquiry into experimentation, creativity, and originality, we bring to the fore the 'invisible republics' of culture, the ephemeral, the suppressed, and the unconformity of artistic and political under...
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    77,83 €

  • The Lost Cities of the Ancient World
    Michelle Arnolds
    Unearth the mysteries of humanity’s greatest ancient civilisations in The Lost Cities of the Ancient World, a captivating journey through the forgotten corners of history. From the ingenious urban planning of Çatalhöyük to the monumental splendour of Angkor, this book delves into the rise and fall of some of the world’s most fascinating cities.Through vivid storytelling and met...
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    13,45 €

  • Parallel Lives
    Calin Goina
    This book explores the articulation between macro-social historical transformations and the opportunities and constraints that the resultant political and property regimes presented for villagers. It builds on ethnographic analyses of rural Eastern Europe by adding an historical analysis of the configurations and reconfigurations of life trajectories across three successive gen...
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    208,52 €

  • Tribal Histories And Social Structures In The Gulf
    Hichem Karoui
    In 'Tribal Histories and Social Structures in the Gulf,' Dr Hichem Karoui intricately weaves together the complex threads of tribal dynamics, unveiling their profound influence on the Gulf’s political and social landscape. As the fourth instalment in the acclaimed series 'Knowledge of the Gulf,' this volume extends the dialogue, offering a nuanced exploration of the enduring ro...
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    48,55 €

  • Ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua
    Eduard Conzemius
    Eduard Conzemius was an anthropologist who specialized in ethnographic surveys. This volume covered an ethnographical Survey of the Miskito and Sumu Indians of Honduras and Nicaragua ...
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    16,47 €

  • Udbhēda
    Kathryn Hummel
    ’Udbhēda: Details of Bangladesh Life & Adda’ recounts the lived experiences of three diverse individuals-Sampurna, Afreen and Nusrat-as related in conversation with the author. Framed by the methodology and methods of narrative ethnography, ’Udbhēda’ describes the details that comment on or even challenge broad definitions and portrayals of Bangladesh and its people, particular...
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    96,23 €

  • Our Emotions and Culture
    E Doyle McCarthy
    In the current global social landscape, emotions have become important in people’s lives. Doyle McCarthy, in Culture and Our Emotions, explains in highly accessible terms how this came about and how our lives have been changed in the process. ...
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    159,00 €


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