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  • Those Who Play With Fire

    Gender, Fertility and Transformation in East and Southern Africa

    Modifié par Henrietta Moore, Todd Sanders, Bwire Kaare ...
    Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways in which ideational ... En savoir plus

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  • Think Like an Anthropologist

    par Matthew Engelke ...
    Collections series Pelican Books
    What is anthropology? What can it tell us about culture and the world around us? And why do we need it?For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from Melanesia to suburban England, Taipei to Wall Street, uncovering surprising facts, patterns, predilections and, sometimes, the inexplicable, in terms of how humans organize their lives and ... En savoir plus

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  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    par Professor Mary Douglas ...
    Collections series Routledge Classics
    In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most ... En savoir plus

    $43.99 CAD

  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    par Marshall Sahlins ...
    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    par Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... En savoir plus

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    par Graham Harvey ...
    Collections series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... En savoir plus

    $101.99 CAD

  • Partial Connections

    par Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... En savoir plus

    $54.99 CAD

  • The Ritual Process

    Structure and Anti-Structure

    par Victor Turner, Alfred Harris, Roger Abrahams ...
    In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... En savoir plus

    $86.56 CAD

  • Lifeworlds

    Essays in Existential Anthropology

    par Michael Jackson ...
    Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, ... En savoir plus

    $25.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    par David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Ethical Condition

    Essays on Action, Person & Value

    par Michael Lambek ...
    Written over a thirty-year span, Michael Lambek's essays in this collection point with definitive force toward a single central truth: ethics is intrinsic to social life. As he shows through rich ethnographic accounts and multiple theoretical traditions, our human condition is at heart an ethical one—we may not always be good or just, but we are always subject to their criteria. Detailing Lambek's ... En savoir plus

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  • Philosophical Dialogues

    Arne Naess and the Progress of Philosophy

    par Peder Anker, Per Ariansen, Alfred J. Ayer, Murray Bookchin, Baird Callicott, John Clark, Fons Elders, Paul Feyerabend, Warwick Fox, William C. French, Harold Glasser, Ramachandra Guha, Patsy Hallen, Stephan Harding, Andrew Mclaughlin, Ivar Mysterud, Arne Naess, Bryan Norton, Val Plumwood, Peter Reed, Kirkpatrick Sale, Karen Warren, Richard A. Watson, Jon Wetlesen, Bill Devall, Ariel Salleh, Genevieve Lloyd, Michael E. Zimmerman ...
    The volume documents, and makes an original contribution to, an astonishing period in twentieth-century philosophy-the progress of Arne Naess's ecophilosophy from its inception to the present. It includes Naess's most crucial polemics with leading thinkers, drawn from sources as diverse as scholarly articles, correspondence, TV interviews and unpublished exchanges. The book testifies to the ... En savoir plus

    $52.59 CAD