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The Reinvention of HumanityThe Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, most of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about... |
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18,50 € |
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How Modernity Forgets (Connerton Paul)Why are we sometimes unable to remember events, places and objects? This concise overview explores the concept of forgetting, and how modern society affects our ability to remember things. It takes ideas from Francis Yates classic work, The Art of Memory, which viewed memory as being dependent on st... |
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The Hadza, 3: Hunter-Gatherers of Tanzania (Marlowe Frank)In The Hadza, Frank Marlowe provides a quantitative ethnography of one of the last remaining societies of hunter-gatherers in the world. The Hadza, who inhabit an area of East Africa near the Serengeti and Olduvai Gorge, have long drawn the attention of anthropologists and archaeologists for maintai... |
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Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity (Asad Talal)Opening with the provocative query what might an anthropology of the secular look like? this book explores the concepts, practices, and political formations of secularism, with emphasis on the major historical shifts that have shaped secular sensibilities and attitudes in the modern West and the Mid... |
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Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections (Calloway Colin G.)For over three hundred years, the Indian peoples of North America have attracted the interest of diverse segments of German society--missionaries, writers, playwrights, anthropologists, filmmakers, hobbyists and enthusiasts, and even royalty. Today, German scholars continue to be drawn to Indians, a... |
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Making Sense of Medicine: Material Culture and the Reproduction of Medical Knowledge (Nott John)A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge. Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and ... |
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Art History and Anthropology: Modern Encounters, 1870-1970 (Probst Peter)An in-depth and nuanced look at the complex relationship between two dynamic fields of study. While today we are experiencing a revival of world art and the so-called global turn of art history, encounters between art historians and anthropologists remain rare. Even after a century and a half of i... |
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Imprints of the Archaeology of Northern Nigeria (Sule Sani Abubakar)Abubakar Sule Sanis pioneering book combines archaeological, ethnographic and historical data to construct a compelling narrative about the people of the Bauchi region in northern Nigeria. It deploys a social theory of frontier to understand how Borno and other Hausa states impacted on the developme... |
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Colin Ward ()Bringing together a range of historians, anthropologists and political theorists, this volume celebrates and analyses the influence of Colin Ward and his uniquely approachable and creative form of |
18,60 € |
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Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People: Life and Struggle with Mortgage Debt in Spain (Garca-Lamarca Melissa)Non-Performing Loans, Non-Performing People tells the previously untold stories of those living with mortgage debt in times of precarity and explores how individualized indebtedness can unite resistance in the struggle toward housing justice. The book builds on several years of Melissa Garca-Lamarca... |
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Tree Leaf Talk: A Heideggerian Anthropology (Weiner James F.)This is the first book to explore the relationship between Martin Heideggers work and modern anthropology. Heidegger attracts much scholarly interest among social scientists, but few have explored his ideas in relation to current anthropological debates. The disciplines modernist foundations, the na... |
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Tripping on Utopia'It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents.'The generation that survived the second World War emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainst... |
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28,95 € |
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Inclusions: Aesthetics of the Capitalocene (Bourriaud Nicolas)A proposal that artists are the anthropologists of our new era or ecological crisis. Today, the ecological catastrophe challenges us to rethink the space our societies have assigned to art. Creativity, critical thinking, exchange, transcendence, the relationship to the Other and to History are valu... |
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The Anthropology of Religion (Metcalf Peter)This book describes how anthropologists in the twentieth century went about documenting the religions of those independent peoples who still lived beyond the frontiers of the global economy and the world religions. It begins by examining the enormous popularity of the newly invented field of anthrop... |
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Direct Action: An Ethnography (Graeber David)Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Action is the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in recent years--against the Summit of the Amer... |
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The Mirror and the Mind: A History of Self-Recognition in the Human Sciences (Guenther Katja)How the classic mirror test served as a portal for scientists to explore questions of self-awareness Since the late eighteenth century, scientists have placed subjects--humans, infants, animals, and robots--in front of mirrors in order to look for signs of self-recognition. Mirrors served as the po... |
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Revolution Beyond the Event: The afterlives of radical politics (Al-Khalili Charlotte)Revolution Beyond the Event brings together leading anthropologists and emerging scholars to examine revolutionary legacies from the MENA region, Latin America and the Caribbean. Carefully selected case studies offer a critical perspective on lived realities, challenging the liberal humanist assumpt... |
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Medical Anthropology in Ecological Perspective (McElroy Ann)Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In this premier teaching text, authors Ann McElroy and Patricia K. Townsend integrate biocultural, environmental, and evolu... |
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Towards a Scientific Theory of Culture: The Writings of Bronislaw Malinowski (Fern Ndez Oscar)This book is a elaborated research about one of the most important Anthropologist in the history of the discipline, who initialized the modern Anthropology: Bronislaw Malinowski. This Social Scientist, with his methodological innovations, became one of the proponents of the 20th century transformati... |
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Post-Specimen Encounters Between Art, Science and Curating: Rethinking Art Practice and Objecthood Through Scientific Collections. (Robinson Alistair)Post-Specimen Encounters in Art, Science and Curating examines the ways in which scientific objects held within museums and other collections act as inspiration to contemporary art practices, curating strategies, and their histories. With cross-disciplinary contributions from art historians, artists... |
40,60 € |
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