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Indeterminacy - Waste, Value, And The Imagination

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 This volume explores the indeterminacy left behind by conventional understandings of progress and shows how totalizing forward movement may be resisted by fragments, open-endedness, and the possibility of going nowhere at all.
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Practices Of Care In An Italian Eating Disorder Clinic - Rethinking Food, Family And Ethics

by Giulia Sciolli

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 The relational complexities between food and kinship are highlighted in eating disorders. This book is an ethnographic account of a public treatment centre for eating disorders in Italy, examining how food and family emerge aligned in the production and treatment of these conditions.
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Against Better Judgment - Akrasia In Anthropological Perspectives

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 Anthropologists have long explained social behaviour as if people always do what they think is best. But what if most of these explanations only work because they are premised upon ignoring what philosophers call 'akrasia' - that is, the possibility that people might act against their better judgment? The contributors to this volume turn an ethnographic lens upon situations in which people seem to act out of line with what they judge, desire and intend. The result is a robust examination of how people around the world experience weaknesses of will, which speaks to debates in both the anthropology of ethics and moral philosophy.
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Practices Of Care In An Italian Eating Disorder Clinic - Rethinking Food, Family And Ethics

by Giulia Sciolli

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 The conflicting notions and experiences of eating disorders from patients, family carers and professionals must be reconciled when treating these conditions. This book is an in-depth ethnographic account of the practices and ethics of care which are attempted by clinicians in a public treatment centre in Italy. Food and family emerge aligned in both the production and treatment of eating disorders, as healthcare professionals tackle the kinship relationships of patients in order to intervene in their eating behaviour and its impact on their bodies. Ultimately, the book rethinks existing understandings of the relationship between food and kinship, showing how kinship makes and unmakes people through food.
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Critiquing Neoliberalism - Art And Activism In Post-Recession Dublin

by Natalie Morningstar

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 Following the 2008 recession in Ireland, its creative economy reflects broader societal shifts, including rising nationalism. This book explores how young activists and artists, facing precarious housing and labour conditions, engaged in campaigns â€" particularly for reproductive rights and affordable housing.
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Building Social Worlds - Thinking Forwards With Esther Newcomb Goody

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 This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goodyâ€™s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning.
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Selfishness And Selflessness - New Approaches To Understanding Morality

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 We are said to be suffering a narcissism epidemic when the need for collective action seems more pressing than ever. Selfishness and selflessness address the â€˜properâ€™ and â€˜improperâ€™ relationship between oneâ€™s self and others. The work they do during periods of social instability and cultural change is probed in this original, interdisciplinary collection.
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Building Social Worlds - Thinking Forwards With Esther Newcomb Goody

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 This collection draws on ethnography across Africa, Europe, Oceania and the Americas, and uses Goodyâ€™s ideas to expand contributors understanding of the nature of relationships, communication, intimacy, resistance and resilience with a particular focus on rich ethnographies of childhood and learning.
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Where Is The Good In The World? - Ethical Life Between Social Theory And Philosophy

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 Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
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Making Better Lives - Hope, Freedom And Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough In Paris

by Johannes Lenhard

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 In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
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Asian Lives In Anthropological Perspective - Essays On Morality, Achievement And Modernity

by Susan Bayly

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 Contemporary Asian societies bear the imprint of the experience and afterlives of colonialism, revolutionary socialism and religious and secular nationalism in dramatically contrasting ways. Asian Lives in Anthropological Perspective draws together essays that demonstrate the role of these far-reaching transformations in the shaping of two Asian settings in particular - India and Vietnam. It traces historical and contemporary realities through a variety of compelling topics including the lived experience of India’s caste system and the ethical challenges faced by Vietnamese working women.
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Making Better Lives - Hope, Freedom And Home-Making Among People Sleeping Rough In Paris

by Johannes Lenhard

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 In this ethnographic study, Johannes Lenhard observes the daily practices, routines and techniques of people who are sleeping rough on the streets of Paris. The book focusses on their survival practises, their short-term desires and hopes, how they earn money through begging, how they choose the best place to sleep at night and what role drugs and alcohol play in their lives.
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An Anthropology Of Intellectual Exchange - Interactions, Transactions And Ethics In Asia And Beyond

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 This volume advocates for an analytical focus on intellectual exchange, as well as producing an ethnographically informed framework for its study across cultures and contexts.
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The Sound Of Silence - Indigenous Perspectives On The Historical Archaeology Of Colonialism

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 Combining SÃ¡mi perspectives and other Indigenous archaeologies Â Offers new perspectives for understanding the role of material culture in transformation of indigenous cultures in colonial contact Â Emphasizes local and indigenous histories and interpretations over Eurocentric ones
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Moral Engines - Exploring The Ethical Drives In Human Life

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 What fundamentally drives human beings to strive for moral perfection? Is it care of the self?Â Is it care for others? Is it inextricably wedded to politics? Moral Engines includes some of the foremost voices in the anthropology of morality, representing a unique interdisciplinary conversation between anthropologists and philosophers about the moral engines of ethical life.
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Gigantosaurus - Santasaurus Surprise - A Christmas Lift-The-Flap Dinosaur Adventure

by Cyber Group Studios; Illustration: Cyber Group Studios

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 With fun flaps for little fingers to lift on every spread and a SURPRISE ending, this is the perfect story to read with little ones in the run up to Christmas. Watch the latest Gigantosaurus episodes now and read other books in series like The Scary Cave, Where's Giganto?
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Sophie La Girafe: My First Christmas - A Felt-Flap Book To Read With Baby

by Ruth Symons; Illustration: Vulli

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 Find favourite toy Sophie and her friends behind the felt flaps in this board book, perfect for baby's first Christmas.
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Five Little Penguins - A Lift-The-Flap Christmas Picture Book

by Lily Murray; Illustration: Holly Surplice

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 Five little penguins went out one dayOver the hills and far away. Mamma Penguin said "Hurry back to me!"How many penguins can you see? There's so much to see as Mamma Penguin and her chicks waddle through a frosty forest, skate down an icy river and toboggan down snowy slopes.
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The Ever-Changing Earth

by Grahame Baker-Smith

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 A small boy imagines life on Earth when dinosaurs ruled, and the sky boomed with the wild beat of pterosaur wings. . The Ever-Changing Earth takes us on a spellbinding journey through Earth's incredible evolution, with its forgotten creatures, its buried oceans and its frozen layers.
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New Perspectives On Moral Change - Anthropologists And Philosophers Engage With Transformations Of Life Worlds

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 The world we live in is constantly changing. Climate change, transforming gender conceptions, emerging issues of food consumption, novel forms of family life and technological developments are altering central areas of our forms of life.
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Cyborg Mind - What Brainâ€“Computer And Mindâ€“Cyberspace Interfaces Mean For Cyberneuroethics

by Calum Mackellar

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 An inter-disciplinary examination of the ethical challenges arisings from direct interfaces between the human brain and computer systems as well as between the mind and cyberspace. This volume is the first extensive study in cyberneuroethics, a subject matter which is certain to have a significant impact in the 21st century and beyond.
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Where Is The Good In The World? - Ethical Life Between Social Theory And Philosophy

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 Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other. The chapters examine how people realize the good in social life, exploring how ethics and values relate to forms of suffering, power and inequality, and, in doing so, demonstrate how focusing on the good enhances social theory. This is the first interdisciplinary engagement with what it means to study the good as a fundamental aspect of social life.
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It Happens Among People - Resonances And Extensions Of The Work Of Fredrik Barth

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 Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology.
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Where Is The Good In The World? - Ethical Life Between Social Theory And Philosophy

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 Bringing together contributions from anthropology, sociology, religious studies, and philosophy, along with ethnographic case studies from diverse settings, this volume explores how different disciplinary perspectives on the good might engage with and enrich each other.
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