Catálogo de libros: Antropología social y cultural, etnografía

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  • Disability Worlds
    Faye Ginsburg
    In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition...
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    134,65 €

  • Disability Worlds
    Faye Ginsburg
    In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City’s wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars. They situate their disabled children’s lives among the experiences of advocates, families, experts, activists, and artists in larger struggles for recognition...
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    35,41 €

  • Exploring CQ
    Wilbur Sargunaraj
    Embark on a transformative journey to develop your cultural intelligence and build meaningful relationships with people from different cultures. In Exploring CQ, Cultural Intelligence Facilitator Wilbur Sargunaraj uses insightful and humorous stories from his travels to explore cultural values, cultural clusters, and the subtleties of unconscious bias. This book is an invitatio...
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    17,64 €

  • Wonder in South Asia
    Tulasi Srinivas
    A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions. ...
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    46,83 €

  • Wake Up To Woke
    Kevin Donnelly
    Western civilisation, including Australia, is facing an existential threat to the hard fought forliberties and freedoms we take for granted. Rationality and reason no longer exist, religiousfreedom and freedom of conscience cancelled and institutions, including schools, universities, thechurch, family, businesses, corporations, the law and the media, infected with neo-Marxist i...
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    15,13 €

  • The elementary structuring of patriarchy
    Menara Guizardi
    Through life histories of Indigenous women, the volume bridges classical anthropological studies on kinship and contemporary research on the gender inequalities in transnational and transborder migrant families. This ethnographically-informed exercise establishes a critical feminist contribution to the study of border territories. ...
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    194,07 €

  • Vital Relations
    Jean Dennison
    Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations’ governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts, this insightful ethnography provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native nation l...
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    127,07 €

  • Vital Relations
    Jean Dennison
    Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations’ governance. Focusing on the unique history and context of Osage nation building efforts, this insightful ethnography provides a deeper vision of the struggles Native nation l...
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    38,22 €

  • Shadow-Claimed
    Martine Osias
    In a world that has evolved beyond recognition, where human characteristics, interactions and cultural expressions seem alien compared to a century ago, this book dares to question the unnatural shift in humanity. It boldly uncovers the unspoken truths about life in today’s world, challenging the reader to say: STOP! We have strayed too far from our natural course.The book intr...
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    38,68 €

  • Are We Learning from Accidents?
    Nippin Anand
    Book review ’This brilliant book combines deeply personal insights and scholarly work, brought to bear on the important case of the Costa Concordia ship disaster. It’s full of riveting stories about shipping, punctuated by cool-headed analyses of mistakes and learning in general. Nippin’s labour of love will make everyone who reads the work a better, more interesting person.’ L...
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    27,33 €

  • Lives Guided by Honor
    Mayling Elizabeth Simpson
    '...reveals the secret ingredients to why strong traditions at VMI have remained for almost two hundred years and the influence society has had on the school to change with the times.' -Destiny Jennifer Ringgold, author of Choosing the Harder Right: West Point’s 1976 Cheating Scandal'Simpson has drawn back the veil to reveal this legendary and mysterious Southern institution.' ...
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    17,95 €

  • Lives Guided by Honor
    Mayling Elizabeth Simpson
    '...reveals the secret ingredients to why strong traditions at VMI have remained for almost two hundred years and the influence society has had on the school to change with the times.' -Destiny Jennifer Ringgold, author of Choosing the Harder Right: West Point’s 1976 Cheating Scandal'Simpson has drawn back the veil to reveal this legendary and mysterious Southern institution.' ...
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    24,59 €

  • Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation
    Lilia Makhloufi
    Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation is a rich collection that illuminates the complex interrelationships between tangible and intangible heritage.Offering a close and critical examination of heritage preservation in countries including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Oman, Syria and Tunisia, these essays illustrate t...
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    60,67 €

  • Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation
    Lilia Makhloufi
    Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Age of Globalisation is a rich collection that illuminates the complex interrelationships between tangible and intangible heritage.Offering a close and critical examination of heritage preservation in countries including Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chile, Egypt, Iran, Japan, Morocco, Oman, Syria and Tunisia, these essays illustrate t...
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    43,58 €

  • Decolonial Mourning and the Caring Commons
    Encarnación Gutiérrez Rodríguez
    This book engages with decolonial mourning by bearing witness to the political grief work of contemporary struggles against migration-coloniality necropolitics in Europe, the United States and Latin America. ...
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    50,09 €

  • The Ethnography of Tantra
    Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia. ...
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    46,52 €

  • Displacing Theory Through the Global South
    Displacing Theory Through the Global South calls for reflection on the historical and geopolitical inequalities that have shaped theorization. It asserts that what appears ’universal’ often involves generalizations that flatten the particular. Critiquing the colonialist, imperialist, and Eurocentric perspectives that have historically impacted theorization in general and, more ...
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    10,74 €

  • The Human Figure on Film
    Seth Barry Watter
    Offers a fresh approach to the problem of the human figure in an age of digital cinema. ...
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    43,61 €

  • The Trans-Australian Wonderland
    A.G. Bolam
    The first book written on the natural history of life on the Nullabor Plain, was written by station-master A.G. Bolam and first published in 1923. The author recollects his times with Aboriginal trackers and workers in and around Ooldeah, as the great railway progressed from South Australia across to Western Australia, and in doing so looks at animal and bird life and the uniqu...
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    19,07 €

  • Beyond Ethnic Loneliness
    Prasanta Verma
    'So what are you? Go back where you belong!'Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind of aloneness: ethnic and racial loneliness.An Indian American immigrant who grew up in white Southe...
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    19,88 €

  • Through the Window
    Keith Doubt
    This book is not about war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, evil, or the killing of a society. It is about a cultural heritage, something vital to a society as a society, something that was not killed in the previous war, something that is resilient. Through the Window brings an original perspective to folklore of Bosnians at a certain period of time and the differenc...
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    27,90 €

  • Shadow-Claimed
    Martine M. Osias
    In a world that has evolved beyond recognition, where human characteristics, interactions and cultural expressions seem alien compared to a century ago, this book dares to question the unnatural shift in humanity. It boldly uncovers the unspoken truths about life in today’s world, challenging the reader to say: STOP! We have strayed too far from our natural course.The book intr...
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    29,02 €

  • Ageing and new intimacies
    Sarah Milton
    Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and ’new’ intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and raced, emphasising the quest for ’respectability’. ...
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    157,77 €

  • The Next Elvis
    Barbara Barnes Sims
    An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio’s immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the company’s chart toppers and legendary musicians there exists another story, told by Barbara Barnes Sims. In the male-dominated work...
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    22,08 €

  • Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do
    Harold Armitage
    Three Hundred Things A Bright Boy Can Do, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned...
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    32,03 €

  • Mountain Craft
    Geoffrey Winthrop Young
    Mountain Craft, is a classical and a rare book, that has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and redesigned. These books are not made...
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    37,79 €

  • Fatfoot
    Neil Frost
    Fatfoot: Encounters with a Dooligahl is a quintessential cryptozoology investigation.Neil Frost has spent decades investigating and interacting with the phenomenon of the Australian Hairy Man, developing an intriguing thesis regarding the mammalian identities behind Yowie encounters. Based on observed behavior and biology (both personal observations and those of his community n...
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    84,87 €

  • JEZEREAL
    C. JENKINS
    In the intricate dance between love and hate, where moments define the shades of our existence, emerges a compelling tale that challenges our very notions of good and bad. Meet Jezereal Wright, a woman whose life traverses the unforgiving landscape of indigenous slavery in America during the turbulent times of the 1860s, marked by the American Civil War and the assassination of...
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    14,35 €

  • Digital Culture and Society
    Kate Orton-Johnson
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    51,79 €

  • Digital Culture and Society
    Kate Orton-Johnson
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    153,04 €


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