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The Aeneidby Virgil, James H. MantinbandISBN 0804469520 (0-8044-6952-0)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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Against Autonomy: Global Dialectics of Cultural Exchangeby Timothy J. ReissISBN 0804743509 (0-8047-4350-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Anatomy of Human Destructivenessby Erich FrommISBN 080501604X (0-8050-1604-X)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Ancestor Worship and Korean Societyby Roger L. Janelli, Dawnhee Yim JanelliISBN 0804721580 (0-8047-2158-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Ancient Lives: Daily Life in Egypt of the Pharaohsby John RomerISBN 0805012443 (0-8050-1244-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worldsby Marc AugeISBN 0804734747 (0-8047-3474-7)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds'Book summary:Under what conditions is anthropology possible today, when a crisis of social meaninga crisis that makes it more difficult to conceive and manage our relation to the othermakes the need for anthropology appear more clearly than ever before? This book sets forth at least the beginning of an answer to this question.[via]
The volumes title combines a singular noun, anthropology, with a plural one, contemporaneous worlds. It aims to register the double movement of universalization and particularization that is simultaneously affecting the entire planet. Social anthropology has always taken into account the context of the groups and phenomena it studied. Today, while multiplicity is being maintained or, more precisely, renewed, that context has become, in all cases, planetary.
Positioned in opposition not only to political theories of universalization and uniformization more or less tied to the theme of the end of history, but also to postmodernist versions of anthropological theories of multiplicity and relativism, the author argues that social anthropology, through its self-critical tradition, is fully capable of adapting to the accelerated change that is continuously recomposing relations between universalism and particularisms. It is for social anthropology to select, analyze, and understand the new modes of sociality and the new spaces in which (not without calamities and contradictions) these utterly new recompositions, a major aspect of our contemporary world, manifest themselves.More editions of An Anthropology for Contemporaneous Worlds:
Beyond Metaphor: The Theory of Tropes in Anthropologyby James W. FernandezISBN 0804719403 (0-8047-1940-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Blood Rites: Origins and History of the Passions of Warby Barbara EhrenreichISBN 0805050779 (0-8050-5077-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Braindanceby Dean FalkISBN 0805031863 (0-8050-3186-3)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Christian Origins and Cultural Anthropology: Practical Models for Biblical Interpretationby Bruce J. MalinaISBN 0804202419 (0-8042-0241-9)
Softcover, Presbyterian Pub Corp
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The City in Late Imperial Chinaby William Skinner, G. William Skinner, Hugh D. R. BakerISBN 0804708924 (0-8047-0892-4)
Hardcover, Proquest Info & Learning
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Coevolution: Genes, Culture, and Human Diversityby William H. DurhamISBN 0804721564 (0-8047-2156-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Constructing Knowledge: Authority and Critique in Social Scienceby Lorraine Nencel, Peter PelsISBN 0803984022 (0-8039-8402-2)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Consuming Culture: Why You Eat What You Eatby Jeremy MacclancyISBN 0805035877 (0-8050-3587-7)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Contemporary Marketing and Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Sourcebookby John F. SherryISBN 080395753X (0-8039-5753-X)
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Cultural Criticism: A Primer of Key Conceptsby Arthur Asa BergerISBN 0803957343 (0-8039-5734-3)
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Culture Through Time: Anthropological Approachesby Emiko Ohnuki-TierneyISBN 0804717915 (0-8047-1791-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illnessby Megan VaughanISBN 0804719713 (0-8047-1971-3)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The book includes chapters on the history of psychiatry in Africa, on the treatment of venereal diseases, on the memoirs of European 'Jungle Doctors', and on mission medicine. In exploring the representations of disease as well as medical practice, Curing their Ills makes a fascinating and original contribution to both medical history and the social history of Africa. [via]More editions of Curing Their Ills: Colonial Power and African Illness:
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Daily Life of the Aztecs, on the Eve of the Spanish Conquestby Jacques SoustelleISBN 0804707219 (0-8047-0721-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Dawn Behind the Dawn: A Search for the Earthly Paradiseby Geoffrey AsheISBN 0805026649 (0-8050-2664-9)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negativeby Michael TaussigISBN 0804732000 (0-8047-3200-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Arguing that this sort of knowledge ("knowing what not to know") is the most powerful form of social knowledge, Taussig works with ideas and motifs from Nietzsche, William Burroughs, Elias Canetti, Georges Bataille, and the ethnography of unmasking in so-called primitive societies in order to extend his earlier work on mimesis and transgression. Underlying his concern with defacement and the public secret is the search for a mode of truth telling that unmasks, but only to reenchant, thereby underlining Walter Benjamin's notion that "truth is not a matter of exposure of the secret, but a revelation that does justice to it."More editions of Defacement: Public Secrecy and the Labor of the Negative:
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The Duke of Puddle Dock: Travels in the Footsteps of Stamford Rafflesby Nigel BarleyISBN 0805019685 (0-8050-1968-5)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Earlier Inhabitants of Londonby Frederick Gymer ParsonsISBN 0804612404 (0-8046-1240-4)
Hardcover, Kennikat Press
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Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology : Sponsored by the Human Relations Area Filesby David Levinson, Melvin EmberISBN 0805028773 (0-8050-2877-3)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Epic of Gilgameshby Maureen Gallery KovacsISBN 0804717117 (0-8047-1711-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Ethnography in Organizationsby Helen B. SchwartzmanISBN 0803943792 (0-8039-4379-2)
Softcover, Sage Pubns
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Etiquette Guide to Japan: Know the Rules That Make the Differenceby Boye Lafayette De MenteISBN 0804834172 (0-8048-3417-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Exploring Media Culture: A Guideby Michael R. RealISBN 0803958765 (0-8039-5876-5)
Hardcover, Sage Pubns
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The Flow of Gifts: Reciprocity and Social Networks in a Chinese Villageby Yunxiang YanISBN 0804726035 (0-8047-2603-5)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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For Prayer and Profit: The Ritual Economic and Social Importance of Beer in Gwembe District, Zambia, 1950-1982by Elizabeth Colson, Thayer ScudderISBN 0804714444 (0-8047-1444-4)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Gleanings in Buddha-Fields; Studies of Hand and Soul in the Far Eastby Lafcadio HearnISBN 080480978X (0-8048-0978-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japanby Lafcadio HearnISBN 0804811458 (0-8048-1145-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Greece Before History: An Archaeological Companion and Guideby Priscilla Murray, Curtis Neil RunnelsISBN 080474050X (0-8047-4050-X)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Headhunting and the Social Imagination in Southeast Asiaby Peter Metcalf, K.M. George, Andrew McWilliam, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Jules De Raedt, Allen R. Maxwell, Janet HoskinsISBN 0804725748 (0-8047-2574-8)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and Historyby Renato RosaldoISBN 0804712840 (0-8047-1284-0)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Imbreeding, Incest, And The Incest Taboo: The State Of Knowledge At The Turn Of The Centuryby Arthur P. WolfISBN 0804751412 (0-8047-5141-2)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Jane Eyreby Charlotte BronteISBN 0804900175 (0-8049-0017-5)
Softcover, Airmont Pub Co
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Japanese Cultureby Paul VarleyISBN 0804814937 (0-8048-1493-7)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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Language and Cultural Description: Essays by Charles O. Frakeby Charles O. Frake, Anwar S. DilISBN 0804710740 (0-8047-1074-0)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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The Legends and Myths of Hawaii : The Fables and Folk-Lore of a Strange Peopleby David Kalakaua, R. M. DaggettISBN 080481032X (0-8048-1032-X)
Softcover, Tuttle Publishing
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Like People You See in a Dream: First Contact in Six Papuan Societiesby Edward L. Schieffelin, Robert CrittendenISBN 0804718997 (0-8047-1899-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Lucy and Her Timesby Nicole Verrechia, Pascal G. Picq, Nicole VerecchiaISBN 0805050620 (0-8050-5062-0)
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Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones & Einstein's Brainby Harvey RachlinISBN 0805039651 (0-8050-3965-1)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Lucy's Bones, Sacred Stones, & Einstein's Brain: The Remarkable Stories Behind the Great Objects and Artifacts of History, from Antiquity to the Modern Eraby Harvey RachlinISBN 0805039643 (0-8050-3964-3)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth-Century Mexicoby William B. TaylorISBN 0804724563 (0-8047-2456-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Makiko's Diary: A Merchant Wife in 1910 Kyotoby Kazuko Smith, Makiko NakanoISBN 0804724415 (0-8047-2441-5)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Making Indigenous Citizens: Identities, Education, and Multicultural Development in Peruby Maria Elena GarciaISBN 0804750157 (0-8047-5015-7)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: Fallacy of Raceby Ashley MontaguISBN 0803946473 (0-8039-4647-3)
Hardcover, Altamira Pr
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Masked Gods: Navaho and Pueblo Ceremonialismby Frank WatersISBN 0804006415 (0-8040-0641-5)
Softcover, Swallow Pr
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Medicine & Culture: Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and Franceby Lynn PayerISBN 0805048030 (0-8050-4803-0)
Softcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Memories Of A Future Home: Diasporic Citizenship Of Chinese In Panamaby Lok SiuISBN 0804753024 (0-8047-5302-4)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Michel De Certeau: Interpretation and Its Otherby Jeremy Ahearne, Michel De CerteauISBN 0804726728 (0-8047-2672-8)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Migration, Social Change, and Health: A Samoan Community in Urban Californiaby Craig R. JanesISBN 0804717893 (0-8047-1789-3)
Hardcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Modern Japan Through Its Weddings: Gender, Person, and Society in Ritual Portrayalby Walter Drew EdwardsISBN 0804718156 (0-8047-1815-6)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Museums and Memoryby Susan A. CraneISBN 0804735654 (0-8047-3565-4)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Representing a variety of fieldshistory, anthropology, art history, and museum scholarshipthe contributors discuss museums across disciplinary boundaries that have separated art museums from natural history museums or local history museums from national galleries. The essays range widely over time (from the Renaissance to the second half of the twentieth century), and place (China, Japan, the United States, and Germany), in exhibitions explored (photography, Native American history, and Jurassic technology ), and institution (the Chinese Imperial Collection, Renaissance curiosity cabinets, and modern art museums).
Memory operates thematically among the essays in diverse and provocative ways. The papers are organized according to three suggestive themes: experimental ways of theorizing and designing contemporary museums with an explicit interest in history and memory; discussions of personal encounters with historical exhibits; and the professional risks at stake for collectors and curators who shape the institutional presentation of history and memory.
The contributors are Susan A. Crane, Wolfgang Ernst, Michael Fehr, Paula Findlen, Tamara Hamlish, Alexis Joachimides, Suzanne Marchand, Julia A. Thomas, and Diana Drake Wilson.More editions of Museums and Memory:
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My Tiny Life : Crime and Passion in a Virtual Worldby Julian DibbellISBN 0805036261 (0-8050-3626-1)
Softcover, Holt & Company, Henry
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Dibbell offers glimpses of his RL between rich, colorful, and entertaining chapters describing the online community's gossip, his interactions and relationships with the other members, and his first experience with cybersex. What is interesting is that the brief snatches of RL are bland and boring, written in a kind of script format with little more than stage directions for descriptions. This device, plus Dibbell's discussions of his dreams about the MOO, show the reader how deeply involved Dibbell becomes in this community. The turning point comes when Dibbell's membership at LambdaMOO threatens to ruin one of his closest RL relationships. --Cristina Vaamonde [via]
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Not a Hazardous Sportby Nigel BarleyISBN 0805009604 (0-8050-0960-4)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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Okubo Diary: Portrait of a Japanese Valleyby Brian MoeranISBN 0804715211 (0-8047-1521-1)
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Other Cultures, Elder Years: An Introduction to Cultural Gerontologyby Lowell D. Holmes, Ellen Rhoads HolmesISBN 0803951345 (0-8039-5134-5)
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Pascalian Meditationsby Pierre Bourdieu, Richard NiceISBN 0804733325 (0-8047-3332-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Pascalian Meditations'Book summary:A synthesis of forty years' work by France's leading sociologist, this book pushes the critique of scholarly reason to a new level. It is a brilliant example of Bourdieu's unique ability to link sociological theory, historical information, and philosophical thought.[via]
Pascalian Meditations makes explicit the presuppositions of a state of "scholasticism," a certain leisure liberated from the urgencies of the world. Philosophers, unwilling to engage these presuppositions in their practice, have brought them into the order of discourse, not so much to analyze them as to legitimate them. This situation is the primary systematic, epistemological, ethical, and aesthetic error that Bourdieu subjects to methodological critique.
This critique of scholarly reason is carried out in the name of Pascal because he, too, pointed out the features of human existence that the scholastic outlook ignores: he was concerned with symbolic power; he refused the temptation of foundationalist thinking; he attended (without populist naïveté) to "ordinary people"; and he was determined to seek the raison d'être of seemingly illogical behavior rather than condemning or mocking it.
Through this critique, Bourdieu charts a negative philosophy that calls into question some of our most fundamental presuppositions, such as a "subject" who is free and self-aware. This philosophy, with its intellectual debt to such other "heretical" philosophers as Wittgenstein, Austin, Dewey, and Peirce, renews traditional questioning of the concepts of violence, power, time, history, the universal, and the purpose and direction of existence.More editions of Pascalian Meditations:
Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980'sby Emily Honig, Gail HershatterISBN 0804714312 (0-8047-1431-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's'Book summary:Dramatic and far-reaching changes have occurred in the lives of Chinese women in the years since the death of Mao and the fall of the Gang of Four During the decade of the Cultural Revolution, attention to personal life was regarded as 'bourgeois'; in the post-Mao decade, abrupt turns in public policy made discussion of personal life imperative, and nowhere has this been more evident than in the debate about the role of women in Chinese society. This book is based on extensive personal viewing of urban women and study of contemporary literature and articles in the periodical press that touched on the problems of rural women. It is not only about the changes in women's lives but also about the excitement, confusion, and anxieties that Chinese women express as they contemplate the future of their society and their own place in it. Each chapter is devoted to one aspect of women's Lives: girlhood, adornment and sexuality, courtship, marriage, family relations, divorce, work, violence against women, and gender inequality. Giving a personal dimension to the issues discussed, the chapters close with a rich sampling of excerpts from the newly thriving women's press and other contemporary publications. Although many women in China still suffer discrimination in working life and mistreatment in the family, they can now raise questions that would have been unthinkable even ten years ago. Most notably, they can and do use the press to voice complaints, expose injustices, seek advice, and support or deplore the social changes of the 1980's.[via]More editions of Personal Voices: Chinese Women in the 1980's:
The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 080490183X (0-8049-0183-X)
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Power and Difference: Gender in Island Southeast Asiaby Jane Monnig Atkinson, Joint Committee on Southeast Asia, Shelly ErringtonISBN 0804717818 (0-8047-1781-8)
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Practical Reason: On the Theory of Actionby Pierre BourdieuISBN 0804733635 (0-8047-3363-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action'Book summary:Do social classes really exist? Is disinterested action really possible? What do the family, the church, and the intellectual world have in common? Can morality be founded on hypocrisy? What is the "subject" of action? In this new volume, one of France's foremost social thinkers of our time responds to these major questions and to others, thus tracing the outlines of a work that could be called "Pierre Bourdieu by himself."[via]
In these texts, the author tries to go to the essential, that is, the most elementary and fundamental, questions. He thereby explains the philosophical principles that have led to his social science research and the idea of the human that guides his choices there. With the lucidity allowed by retrospect, Bourdieu brings out the fundamental theories of his greatest books, notably Outline of a Theory of Practice and The Logic of Practice (Stanford, 1990), and, with an eye to the future, presents the first results of his most recent work on the state, the anthropological moorings of the economy, and male domination.
Bourdieu's theory is both a philosophy of science dedicated to revealing the objective relations that shape and underpin social life, and a philosophy of action that takes account of agents' dispositions as well as the structured situations in which they act. This philosophy of action is condensed in a small number of key conceptshabitus, field, capitaland it is defined by the two-way relationship between the objective structures of social fields and the incorporated structures of the habitus.
All in all, this book should be an indispensable introduction to Bourdieu's work, not only to students and scholars in sociology, anthropology, political science, and philosophy, but throughout the social sciences and humanities generally.More editions of Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action:
Pumpkin Seed Point.by Frank WatersISBN 0804006350 (0-8040-0635-0)
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Qualitative Researchingby Jennifer MasonISBN 0803989865 (0-8039-8986-5)
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Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approachesby H. Russell BernardISBN 0803952457 (0-8039-5245-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches'Book summary:Research Methods in Anthropology achieves a comprehensive balance of both qualitative and quantitative methods, while offering a wealth of examples from across the social sciences for better understanding. Like the first edition, the second edition's focus remains on pedagogy through clear writing and examples of real social science work. But there is now more. Containing additional material on the positivist/interpretivist debate; information on ethics, sampling and focus groups; and the use of methods for theory development, Bernard's book will offer your students the information they need to complete qualitative and quantitative research projects. [via]
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The Return of the God of Wealth: The Transition to a Market Economy in Urban Chinaby Charlotte IkelsISBN 0804725802 (0-8047-2580-2)
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Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social And Environmental Relations in New Guineaby Stuart KirschISBN 0804753423 (0-8047-5342-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social And Environmental Relations in New Guinea'Book summary:While ethnography ordinarily privileges anthropological interpretations, this book attempts the reciprocal process of describing indigenous modes of analysis. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research with the Yonggom people of New Guinea, the author examines how indigenous analysis organizes local knowledge and provides a framework for interpreting events, from first contact and colonial rule to contemporary interactions with a multinational mining company and the Indonesian state.[via]
This book highlights Yonggom participation in two political movements: an international campaign against the Ok Tedi mine, which is responsible for extensive deforestation and environmental problems, and the opposition to Indonesian control over West Papua, including Yonggom experiences as political refugees in Papua New Guinea. The author challenges a prevailing homogenization in current representations of indigenous peoples, showing how Yonggom modes of analysis specifically have shaped these political movements.More editions of Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social And Environmental Relations in New Guinea:
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Robinson Crusoeby Daniel DefoeISBN 0804900221 (0-8049-0022-1)
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Sense And Sensibilityby Jane AustenISBN 0804900582 (0-8049-0058-2)
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A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropologyby Marc Auge, Amy JacobsISBN 0804730350 (0-8047-3035-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology'Book summary:If the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is anthropology still possible, and if so, to what end? The author uses these questions as a point of departure for a probing interrogation of ethnological practice, starting with Lévi-Strauss.[via]
For several years, the author has advocated an anthropology of proximity in place of the usual anthropology of distance. He has studied such emblematic places of Western modernity as the Parisian Metro, or such emblematic non-places as airports or freeways, treating as valid anthropological objects phenomena that others might judge less pure or significant than systems of filiation or matrimonial alliance. The proper place of the ethnographer, he argues, is sufficiently distanced to comprehend a system as a system, yet participatory enough to live it as an individual. How can one best arrive at such a place?
This book answers by outlining an approach to anthropology that focuses on negotiating the social meanings we and others use in making sense of the world, and on the processes of identification that create the difference between same and other. Why trace a line of demarcation between societies thought to warrant and require anthropological observation and others (namely, our own) thought to demand a different type of study? Once anthropology, through its study of rites, takes social meaning as its principal object, the necessity for a generalized anthropology that includes the entire planet seems obvious, especially in view of the rapid proliferation of new networks of communication and the integration of individuals into those networks.More editions of A Sense for the Other: The Timeliness and Relevance of Anthropology:
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Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agricultureby Robert McC NettingISBN 0804721025 (0-8047-2102-5)
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The Social Cage: Human Nature and the Evolution of Societyby Jonathan H. Turner, Alexandra MaryanskiISBN 0804720029 (0-8047-2002-9)
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The Spirit Of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, And Economics In Zimbabweby Erica BornsteinISBN 0804753369 (0-8047-5336-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spirit Of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, And Economics In Zimbabwe'Book summary:Religious NGOs are important sources of humanitarian aid in Africa, entering where the welfare programs of weakened states fail to provide basic services. As collaborators and critics of African states, religious NGOs occupy an important structural and ideological position. They also, however, illustrate a key ironyhow economic development, a symbol of science, progress, and this-worldly material improvement, borrows heavily from other-worldly faith.[via]
Through a study of two transnational NGOs in Zimbabwe, this book offers a nuanced depiction of development as both liberatory and limiting. Humanitarian effort is not a hopeless task, but behind the liberatory potential of Christian development lurks the sad irony that change can bring its own disappointments.
While rapt attention has been given to the supposed role of NGOs in democratizing Africa, few studies engage with the ground operations. Questioning the assumption that economic development is a move away from religious mysticism toward the scientific promise of progress, the author offers a remarkable account of development that is neither defeatist nor comforting.More editions of The Spirit Of Development: Protestant Ngos, Morality, And Economics In Zimbabwe:
Study of Chinese Society: Essays by Maurice Freedman. Selected and Introd by G. William Skinnerby Maurice FreedmanISBN 0804709645 (0-8047-0964-5)
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Ting Hsien: A North China Rural Communityby Sideny D. GambleISBN 0804706328 (0-8047-0632-8)
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The Underside of History: A View of Women Through Timeby Elise BouldingISBN 0803948174 (0-8039-4817-4)
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Untouchable: An Indian Life Historyby James M. FreemanISBN 0804711038 (0-8047-1103-8)
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Violent Origins: Walter Burkett, Rene Girard, and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formationby Robert G. Hamerton-KellyISBN 0804715181 (0-8047-1518-1)
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