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Pierre Fatumbi Verger - From Detached Look To Knowledge Through Initiation

de Jérôme Souty

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 With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Vergerâ€™s experience as a photographer in search of otherness in the black cultures of Africa and Brazil and the transatlantic world of the Orisha VodunÂ deities.
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The Scope Of Anthropology - Maurice Godelier’S Work In Context

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 The volume brings together world-class scholars Sophisticated discussions of Maurice Godelierâ€™s work and approach The text contains theoretical propositions applicable in a wide scope of social sciences
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Up Close And Personal - On Peripheral Perspectives And The Production Of Anthropological Knowledge

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 Combining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts.
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Understanding Cultural Transmission In Anthropology - A Critical Synthesis

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 The concept of "cultural transmission" is central to much contemporary anthropological theory, since successful human reproduction through social systems is essential for effective survival and for enhancing the adaptiveness of individual humans and local populations.
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Returning Life - Language, Life Force And History In Kilimanjaro

de Knut Christian Myhre

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 Returning Life explores how language and action affect life-force. Diverse sources demonstrate how this phenomenon extends to coffee cash-cropping, Catholic Christianity, and colonial and post-colonial rule, featuring cognate languages throughout the area.
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Medicinal Rule - A Historical Anthropology Of Kingship In East And Central Africa

de Koen Stroeken

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 Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa, the model of rule has been medicine - and not (as Europeans have long assumed) the colonizer's despotic administrator...
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Total Atheism - Secular Activism And The Politics Of Difference In South India

de Stefan Binder

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 Exploring lived atheism in the South Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, this book offers a unique insight into India's rapidly transforming multi-religious society and develops an alternative to Eurocentric accounts of secularity...
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Search After Method - Sensing, Moving, And Imagining In Anthropological Fieldwork

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 Reigniting a tradition of learning by experience, Search After Method is a plea for more lively forms of anthropology. The chapters relate the contributorâ€™s first experiences of working in the field and use their experiences to link their work to the discipline of Anthropology, along with other broader fieldwork questions.
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The Social Origins Of Thought - Durkheim, Mauss, And The Category Project

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 Explores the Durkheim Schoolâ€™s ambitious critique of philosophical interpretations of the genesis and constitution of the categories of thought. With contributions from philosophy, sociology, anthropology, media studies, and sinology, this volume illustrates the interdisciplinarity and intellectual rigor of the â€œcategory projectâ€.
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Franz Baermann Steiner - A Stranger In The World

de Jeremy Adler e Richard Fardon

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 Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-52) provided the vital link between the intellectual culture of central Europe and the Oxford Institute of Anthropology in its post-Second World War years. This book demonstrates his quiet influence within anthropology, and how his remarkable poetry reflected profoundly on the slavery and murder of the Shoah.
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Engaging Evil - A Moral Anthropology

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 Exploring the anthropology of evil as an empirical human phenomenon, this volume attempts to show the usefulness of treating evil as a descriptive reality where concepts such as violence, criminality, and hatred fall short of capturing the darkest side of human existence.
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Expeditionary Anthropology - Teamwork, Travel And The ''Science Of Man''

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 This rich assessment of cross-cultural research and team-based travel is part of a new historical turn that regards expeditions as cultural formations, and provides new and compelling perspectives on the histories of anthropology and empire.
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The Ethics Of Knowledge Creation - Transactions, Relations, And Persons

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 This volume focuses on how knowledge is relationally created, how local knowledge can be transmuted into 'universal knowledge', and how transactions and consumption of knowledge monitors knowledge.
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Human Origins - Contributions From Social Anthropology

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 Social anthropologists have been conspicuously absent from debates about the origins of modern humans. Human Origins explores why that is, and how social anthropology can shed light on early kinship and economic relations, gender politics, ritual, cosmology, ethnobiology, medicine, and the evolution of language.
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A History Of Oxford Anthropology

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 Offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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Holistic Anthropology - Emergence And Convergence

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 Addresses the challenges that holistic anthropology presents. This book explores topics such as the social understanding, interpretation and appropriation of new biological technologies, which increasingly penetrate most aspects of physical life, including reproduction, food, biomedicine, health, but also physical performance and art.
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Human Nature As Capacity - Transcending Discourse And Classification

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 What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring the humanA" to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor...
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The Spirit Of Matter - Modernity, Religion, And The Power Of Objects

de Peter Pels

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 A range of meaningful objectsâ€"exhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersâ€"demonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their â€œlifeâ€. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of â€œmind over matterâ€.
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Pierre Fatumbi Verger - From Detached Look To Knowledge Through Initiation

de Jérôme Souty

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 A maverick photographer who travelled the world in search of otherness, over time Verger became a prominent ethnographer, botanist and historian. He devoted fifty years of research to the black cultures of Brazil and Africa and to the transatlantic world of the Orisha and Vodun deities. Living in the field, initiated into diverse religious societies, he was reborn under the name of Fatumbi. A go-between of the Yoruba diaspora, Verger practiced an anti-colonial ethnology avant la lettre. This book is an anthropological essay, but also a cross-cultural portrait and the story of an extraordinary life. It provides a detailed analysis of the artistic and scientific work of Pierre Fatumbi Verger (1902-1996).
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Anyone - The Cosmopolitan Subject Of Anthropology

de Nigel Rapport

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 The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being.
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Durkheim In Dialogue - A Centenary Celebration Of The Elementary Forms Of Religious Life

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 A dialogue between theory and ethnography, the book shows how Durkheimian sociology has become a mainstay of social thought and theory, pointing to multiple ways in which Durkheim's great work on religion remains relevant to thinking about culture.
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After Society - Anthropological Trajectories Out Of Oxford

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 In the early 1980s, when the contributors to this volume completed their graduate training at Oxford, the conditions of practice in anthropology were undergoing profound change. Here self-ethnography is used to portray the contributorsâ€™ anthropological trajectories, showing how analytical and academic engagements interacted creatively over time.
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Chicanery - Senior Academic Appointments In Antipodean Anthropology, 1920-1960

de Christine Winter, Doug Munro e Geoffrey Gray

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 Academic appointments can bring forth unexpected and unforeseen contests and tensions, cause humiliation and embarrassment for unsuccessful applicants and reveal unexpected allies and enemies. Chicanery deals with how the founding Chairs at Sydney, the Australian National University, Auckland and Western Australia dealt with this process.
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The Spirit Of Matter - Modernity, Religion, And The Power Of Objects

de Peter Pels

~~22,04€~~ 17,63€ 20% IMEDIATO

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 A range of meaningful objectsexhibits of human remains or live people, fetishes, objects in a Catholic Museum, exotic photographs, commodities, and computersdemonstrate a subordinate modern consciousness about powerful objects and their life. The Spirit of Matter discusses these objects that move people emotionally but whose existence is often denied by modern wishful thinking of mind over matter. It traces this mindset back to Protestant Christian influences that were secularized in the course of modern and colonial history.
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