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Paulla A. Ebron is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University.
The jali--a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers--is a charismatic but contradictory figure. He is at once the repository of his people's history, the voice of contemporary political authority, the inspiration for African American dreams of an African homeland, and the chief entertainment for the burgeoning transnational tourist industry. Numerous...
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El poder encanta y la antropología no ha sido inmune a sus efectos cautivantes. A lo largo de su historia esta disciplina ha brindado relatos pormenorizados de las múltiples expresiones del poder en diferentes sociedades y culturas. Pero muchas veces ha quedado atrapada en visiones esquemáticas, como si entre los todopoderosos y los desposeídos, entre el Estado, como encarnación de las instituciones políticas modernas y la dominación, y las...
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The author had identified six Foundations Pillars that are the essential and minimum requirements for all nations, to ensure development and improvements for all their citizenry. These are appropriate building blocks, regardless of the type of government the nation has, or the level of industrialization and progress of their economy. This book focuses on India; it provides a dimension to the already ignited and meaningful discussion and debate for...
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This book presents an in-depth discussion within diverse contexts and a range of conceptual and methodological offerings, which interrogate not only issues concerning the migration discourse, but of gender theory and practice as well. It explores the gendered patterns of migration including how gender impacts on decisions to migrate in terms of who goes and why. Furthermore it examines how this affects the benefits and risks of migration for women...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Heroification is a process that makes people over into heroes. Through this process, our educational media turn flesh-and-blood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest.
#2 Helen Keller was a radical socialist who joined the Socialist party in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from...
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La modernidad argentina puede identificarse con la expansión de modelos del capitalismo europeo condensados en modos de producción económica y en lógicas de organización cultural (un territorio, una lengua, una religión). El proceso histórico nacional invisibilizó las denominadas "minorías religiosas", construyendo una ideología donde rasgos diferentes de los del catolicismo estaban ausentes de los diacríticos simbólicos de la argentinidad.
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" One of the leading members of the well-known Subaltern Studies collective of scholars, Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta. His other works include Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (Zed/Minnesota).
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist...
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Originally published in 1920. Author: Sir George Grierson, K.C.I.E Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Kashmir Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Le développement des technologies informatiques, à l'exemple de la ville connectée, des données massives (big data) et de l'intelligence artificielle est appuyé par un ensemble de discours à visée persuasive. Par divers procédés de langage, figures et stratégies rhétoriques, ces argumentaires visent notamment à légitimer une numérisation de plus en plus croissante des sociétés. Les métaphores jouent à ce sujet un rle crucial. Bien...
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Esta obra estudia la relación memoria/olvido en la tradición occidental, poniendo énfasis en que la historia ha sido articulada principalmente a partir del discurso del "vencedor", silenciando, muchas veces, las voces de los vencidos. Pese al deliberado propósito de acallar tales voces, se advierten, en ocasiones, huellas de discursos preteridos que es forzoso recuperar para la construcción, lo más veraz posible, de la historia, tal como sostiene...
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The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps Anthropology and the Human Subject provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western intellectual tradition, focusing specifically on the secular trends of the twentieth century. Encyclopaedic in scope, lucidly and engagingly written,...
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Franz Boas Professor of History and Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom and the editor of Colonialism and Culture and In Near Ruins. He has taught at the University of Michigan, the California Institute of Technology, and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociale in Paris.
When thinking of India, it is hard not to think of caste. In academic and common...
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"Winner of the 2003 Diana Forsythe Prize, American Anthropological Association" Cori Hayden is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.
Bioprospecting--the exchange of plants for corporate promises of royalties or community development assistance--has been lauded as a way to develop new medicines while offering southern nations and indigenous...
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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming. "The Cretan mountain-dwellers are in particular famous for their sustained resistance to Turkish rule and then to German occupation. Their values, well-expressed in the motto of the Cretan writer Kazantzakis--'I hope for nothing; I fear nothing; I am free'--made them heroes at times when such qualities were positively endorsed...
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John Hartigan Jr. is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Anthropology at the University of North Texas. His work on "white trash" and the "white underclass" has been published in a range of journals and edited volumes.
Racial Situations challenges perspectives on race that rely upon oft-repeated claims that race is culturally constructed and, hence, simply false and distorting. John Hartigan asserts, instead, that we need to explain how race...
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"Winner of the 2002 Williard Hurst Prize in Legal History" Sally Engle Merry is Class of 1949 Professor of Ethics in the Anthropology Department at Wellesley College. Her books include Urban Danger: Life in a Neighborhood of Strangers, Getting Justice and Getting Even: Legal Consciousness among Working-Class Americans, and The Possibility of Popular Justice: A Case Study of American Community Mediation, coedited with Neal Milner. She is currently...
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Study the diverse cultures of the world and the common threads of humanity in this wonderfully visual guide to anthropology, covering everything you would find on a degree course.
A Degree in a Book: Anthropology dives deep into the study of human culture and societies. Discover the impact of language on understanding, how different societies approach family and kinship and how different cultures are, studied, as well as how anthropology is used...
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Pour l'anthropologue Bernard Arcand, écrire Les Cuivas a été le projet de toute une vie : celui d'offrir à un large public un portrait intime d'une petite population de chasseurs-cueilleurs nomades vivant dans les Llanos, en Colombie. À la fin des années 1960, à l'époque des ferveurs révolutionnaires, le jeune anthropologue a vécu deux ans avec les Cuivas, partageant leur quotidien et étudiant leur rapport au monde. Il a tiré de cette...
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This book opens a window on our historical past. We find antiquity has drawn a blind over earlier and more humanitarian cultures, writing off their artistic and egalitarian practices while antiquitys social habits escalated stress. Psychologists have recently made us aware that stress has very negative results for community life. Simultaneously, archaeologists have uncovered information about Neolithic cultures and art that makes no sense seen beside...
80) Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1991"
"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second,...
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