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Straying From The Straight Path - How Senses Of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

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 Straying from the Straight Path gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.
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Stategraphy - Toward A Relational Anthropology Of The State

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 In Stategraphy, the contributors explore state transformations in relation to social security in a variety of locations. Fusing grounded empirical studies with rigorous theorizing, the volume provides new perspectives to broader related debates in social research and political analysis.
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Post-Ottoman Topologies - The Presence Of The Past In The Era Of The Nation-State

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 With contributions from several of the Balkan countries that once were united under the aegis of the Ottoman Empire, this latest volume proposes new theoretical approaches to the experience and transmission of the past through time.
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Multiple Nature-Cultures, Diverse Anthropologies

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 Over time, the role of nature in anthropology has evolved from being a mere backdrop for social and cultural diversity to being viewed as an integral part of the ontological entanglement of human and nonhuman agents. This transformation of the role of nature offers important insight into the relationships between diverse anthropological traditions.
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Money Counts - Revisiting Economic Calculation

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 Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. Money Counts moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of moneyâ€™s quantity.
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Matsutake Worlds

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 Matsutake Worlds explores matsutake mushrooms through the lens of multispecies encounters, to explore the mushroomâ€™s success on the world stage. This success cannot be accounted for by any one cultural or economic processâ€"rather, the matsutake has flourished due to many different processes, culminating in the culinary institution we know today.
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Theorizing Relations In Indigenous South America

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 Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories.
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Working With Diagrams

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 Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.
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Hierarchy And Value - Comparative Perspectives On Moral Order

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 Globalization promised to bring about a golden age of liberal individualism, breaking down hierarchies of kinship, caste, and gender around the world and freeing people to express their true, authentic agency.
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Competition Beyond Capitalism - Anthropological Perspectives On An Unruly Dynamic

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 Competition is often seen as capitalismâ€™s engine, assigning value and setting people against one another. Yet ethnography shows competition exceeds capitalism: its meanings, aims, and practices are contested and shifting. Rather than enforcing fixed orders, competition produces complex, unexpected effects, enabling new social relations and mediating divergent social worlds globally.
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Being Godless - Ethnographies Of Atheism And Non-Religion

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 Drawing on ethnographic inquiry and the anthropological literature on doubt and atheism, this volume explores people's reluctance to pursue religion.
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Affective States - Entanglements, Suspensions, Suspicions

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 The volume enhances the anthropological understanding of the various ways through which the state comes to be experienced as a visceral presence in social life.
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Animism Beyond The Soul - Ontology, Reflexivity, And The Making Of Anthropological Knowledge

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 The contributors to this volume offer compelling case studies that demonstrate how indigenous animistic practices, concepts, traditions, and ontologies are co-authored in highly reflexive ways by anthropologists and their interlocutors.
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States Of Imitation - Mimetic Governmentality And Colonial Rule

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 Examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.
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Beyond The Social Contract - An Anthropology Of Tax

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 Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.
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Beyond The Social Contract - An Anthropology Of Tax

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 Tax and taxation are conventionally understood as the embodiment of social contract. This ground-breaking collection of essays challenges this truism, examining what tax might tell us about the limits of social-contract thinking.
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Straying From The Straight Path - How Senses Of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion

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 Responding to the need for comparative approaches in the face of the increasingly separated fields of the anthropology of Islam and Christianity, This book gives full attention to moral failure as a constitutive and potentially energizing force in the religious lives of both Muslims and Christians in different parts of the world.
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States Of Imitation - Mimetic Governmentality And Colonial Rule

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 Examines how the colonial state attempted to administer, control, and integrate its indigenous subjects through mimetic governmentality, as well the ways indigenous states adopted these imitative practices to establish reciprocal ties with, or to resist the presence of, the colonial state.
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Money Counts - Revisiting Economic Calculation

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 Traditionally viewed as an abstraction, the quantative nature of money is essential in evaluating the relationship between monetary systems and society. On the Qualities of Quantity moves beyond abstraction, exploring the conceptual diversity and everyday enactment of money's quantity.
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Working With Diagrams

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 Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.
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Working With Diagrams

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 Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Rather than attempting to define what diagrams are, and what their dietic capacity might be, contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.
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Theorizing Relations In Indigenous South America - Edited By Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani And Giovanna Bacchiddu

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 Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories.
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Working With Diagrams

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Arising from the need to go beyond the semiotic, cognitive, epistemic and symbolic reading of diagrams, this book looks at what diagrams are capable of in scholarly work. Contributions to this volume draw together the work diagrams do in the development of theories.
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Theorizing Relations In Indigenous South America - Edited By Marcelo Gonzalez Galvez, Piergiogio Di Giminiani And Giovanna Bacchiddu

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 Whether invented, discovered, implicit, or directly addressed, relations remain the main focus of most anthropological inquiries. These relations, once conceptualized in ethnographic fieldwork as self-evident connections between discrete social units, have been increasingly explored through local ontological theories.
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