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God In The Machine - The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

by Emmanuel Grimaud

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 <p> A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. Initially conceived as an anthropological experiment, the machine was launched in 2014 and became a collective, political and metaphysical experience. Can a machine make a good divine interface? Likewise, what might be the virtues of hacking a god to understand our relation to machines? The Ganesh Yourself experiment is not only a fascinating exercise in anthropology by design, the first of this kind, but it also leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics and technology, opening unthinkable possibilities.</p>
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Waterworlds - Anthropology In Fluid Environments

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 In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
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God In The Machine - The Ganesh Yourself Experiment

by Saana Hansen

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 A teleoperated robot roaming in the streets of Mumbai enables anyone to put oneself in the place of the Hindu god Ganesha and have a conversation. God in the Machine explores the Ganesh Yourself experiment, a fascinating exercise in anthropology that leads to a radical deconstruction of religion, politics, and technology.
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Cutting Cosmos - Masculinity And Spectacular Events Among The Bugkalot

by Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

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 Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.
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Children Of Gregoria - Dogme Ethnography Of A Mexican Family

by Claudia Adeath Villamil e Regnar Kristensen

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 The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
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Cattle Poetics - How Aesthetics Shapes Politics In Mursiland, Ethiopia

by Jean-Baptiste Eczet

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 Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.
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Entanglements Of The Maya Universe - Life, Society, And Cosmos Among The K'Iche' Of Momostenango

by Alonso Rodrigo Zamora Corona

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 This book aims to rethink the topic of cosmology in anthropology by analysing the many entanglements of cosmological ideas and the personal and political lives of individuals within the Kâ€™ichâ€™e Maya community of Momostenango, Guatemala.
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Dreaming And The Imagination - Theoretical Intersections In Cross-Cultural Perspective

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 Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.
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Dreaming And The Imagination - Theoretical Intersections In Cross-Cultural Perspective

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 Of all the human behaviors anthropologists consider, perhaps the most conceptually challenging are those that cannot by directly observed. This volume draws from rich ethnographic data to offer theoretical and methodological tools for mapping the intersections between two such behaviors: dreaming and imagination.
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Vital Diplomacy - The Ritual Everyday On A Dammed River In Amazonia

by Chloe Nahum-Claudel

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 Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.
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Figurations Of The Future - Forms And Temporalities Of Left Radical Politics In Northern Europe

by Stine Krã¸Ijer Krã¸Ijer

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 Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism.
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Going To Pentecost - An Experimental Approach To Studies In Pentecostalism

by Annelin Eriksen, Michelle Maccarthy e Ruy Llera Blanes

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 This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies; Â It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors; Â It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context
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Cattle Poetics - How Aesthetics Shapes Politics In Mursiland, Ethiopia

by Jean-Baptiste Eczet

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Loving cows, then killing them. The relation with cattle in Mursi country is shaped by the dichotomy between the value given to it during life and the death imposed upon it. This book investigates the link between the nurturing and killing of cattle, and its accompanying aesthetics, with Mursi society itself.
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Children Of Gregoria - Dogme Ethnography Of A Mexican Family

by Claudia Adeath Villamil e Regnar Kristensen

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 The Children of Gregoria portrays a struggling Mexico, told through the story of the Rosales family. This book highlights their voices and allows them to tell their own stories in an accessible, literary manner without prejudice, persecution or judgment.
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Going To Pentecost - An Experimental Approach To Studies In Pentecostalism

by Annelin Eriksen, Michelle Maccarthy e Ruy Llera Blanes

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 This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies; It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors; It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context
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Going To Pentecost - An Experimental Approach To Studies In Pentecostalism

by Annelin Eriksen, Michelle Maccarthy e Ruy Llera Blanes

3,96€ + 10% CARD

 This is an experimental approach to Pentecostalism, departing from previous studies; It is explicitly comparative, with very close collaboration amongst the three authors; It offers new possibilities for the study of religion in global context
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Cutting Cosmos - Masculinity And Spectacular Events Among The Bugkalot

by Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Exploring the notion of masculinity among the Bugkalot, Cutting Cosmos is not only an experimental, anthropological study of the paradoxes around which Bugkalot society revolves, but also a reflection on anthropological theory and writing.
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Violent Becomings - State Formation, Sociality, And Power In Mozambique

by Bjorn Enge Bertelsen

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 Violent Becomings sheds light on violence in the periods of colonial and postcolonial state formation by conceptualizing the state not as the bureaucratically ordered polity of the nation-state, but as a continuously evolving and violently challenged mode of social ordering.
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Waterworlds - Anthropology In Fluid Environments

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 In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
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Figurations Of The Future - Forms And Temporalities Of Left Radical Politics In Northern Europe

by Stine Krøijer

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 Built around key events, this book explores politics among left radical activists in Northern Europe. The author recasts theoretical concerns about politics and aesthetics, drawing on anthropological literature from Scandinavia and the Amazon to establish analogies between perceptions of the body, autonomy, forests and capitalism.
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An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil For A Common World - An Essay On The Economy Of Knowledge

by Alberto Corsin Jimenez

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 Explores key elements in early modern political philosophy Inquires into the cultural epistemology fuelling the aggrandizement and miniaturisation of description Charts an itinerary for an internal anthropology of theorizing
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An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil For A Common World - An Essay On The Economy Of Knowledge

by Alberto Corsin Jimenez

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 Explores key elements in early modern political philosophy Inquires into the cultural epistemology fuelling the aggrandizement and miniaturisation of description Charts an itinerary for an internal anthropology of theorizing
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Vital Diplomacy - The Ritual Everyday On A Dammed River In Amazonia

by Chloe Nahum-Claudel

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 Focusing on the major ceremonial cycle of the Enawene-nawe people, Vital Diplomacy sheds new light on classic Amazonian themes such as manioc cultivation and cuisine, predatory relations with non-humans, and the interplay of myth and practice, and to consider dynamics of kin, clan, and gender relations, the meaning of productive work, and practices of foreign diplomacy.
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Waterworlds - Anthropology In Fluid Environments

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 In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people's lives, practices, and stories. Contributors analyse the union of water and social lives, thereby challenging anthropologists to foreground the mutable character of their subjects and responsibly engage with the generative role of cultural analysis.
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