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  • - Umeda Society, Language and Ritual
    af Alfred Gell
    474,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

  • af Maurice Bloch
    502,95 - 1.779,95 kr.

    This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography.

  • - Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao
    af Joao de Pina-Cabral
    403,95 - 1.649,95 kr.

    From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. This book shows that as a rear window on China, Macao provides us with examples of marginality that allow us to study the limits of the systems that characterize the Chinese world.

  • - Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion
    af I. M. Lewis & Ioan Lewis
    450,95 kr.

    Presents a critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.

  • - Repair and Recovery in Post-Crisis Portugal
     
    1.282,95 kr.

    Through a range of ethnographic case studies focusing on the Portuguese recovery after the economic crisis, this book begins a conversation about the experience of recuperation and repair.

  • - Morality and Practice
     
    1.391,95 kr.

    When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions.

  • - Morality and Practice
     
    388,95 kr.

    When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions.

  • - The Abstract Labour of German Management Consultants
    af UK.) Stein & Felix (University of Edinburgh
    510,95 - 1.389,95 kr.

  • - Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
    af UK) Hull & Elizabeth (SOAS University of London
    513,95 - 1.383,95 kr.

  • - Striving in Securitized Britain
    af UK) Liberatore & Giulia (University of Edinburgh
    354,95 - 1.282,95 kr.

  •  
    437,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities.

  • - A Panara Ethnography
    af Elizabeth Ewart
    567,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

  • af Yan Yunxiang
    514,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

    China presents an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalization; therefore, its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world. This work reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has affected everyday life and Chinese society more broadly.

  • - An Anthropological Reader
     
    1.813,95 kr.

    Presents an anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. This book unpacks the 'world of industry' in the context of the shop floor, the family, and the city, revealing the rich social and political texture underpinning economic development.

  •  
    1.415,95 kr.

    Anthropology seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. This title contains essays that explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work and genocide, and our personal fears and desires.

  • - Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
     
    569,95 kr.

    This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.

  • - A Study Of Kachin Social Structure
    af E. R. Leach
    476,95 - 1.785,95 kr.

  • - Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
     
    1.649,95 kr.

  • - Essays and Diagrams
    af Alfred Gell
    522,95 - 1.684,95 kr.

    Collects the author's writings. This title demonstrates his theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of anthropological enquiry. It is suitable for art historians, sociologists and geographers, and includes ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, and spatial and temporal processes.

  • af Alan J.A. Elliott
    559,95 - 1.683,95 kr.

  • af Raymond Firth
    1.777,95 kr.

    In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years.

  • - Fukien and Kwantung
    af Maurice Freedman
    570,95 - 1.784,95 kr.

    Takes the argument set out in "Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China" a step further. This book incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data. The author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society within the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.

  • af Lucy P. Mair
    427,95 - 1.777,95 kr.

    Contains fourteen lectures and essays dealing with mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'.

  • - Essays in Honour of Lucy Mair
     
    1.394,95 kr.

    This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology.

  •  
    1.806,95 kr.

    An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.

  • - An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village
    af Cecilia Busby
    364,95 - 1.780,95 kr.

    Presents a description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. This title offers an account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community that reveals fresh ways of framing gender relations, the body and kinship.

  • - Selected Papers in Anthropology
    af Maurice Bloch
    523,95 - 1.588,95 kr.

    A collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

  •  
    1.343,95 kr.

    In 1947 members of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, under the leadership of Professor Firth, made a study of kinship in a South London borough.

  • - A Sociologial Analysis Revised Edition Volume 24
    af Sybille Sprenkel
    1.781,95 kr.

    Mrs van der Sprenkel was led to undertake this journey by her experiences while living in China. lt is a detailed sociological analysis of the whole complex of legal and quasi-legal institutions during the Manchu period.

  • af E. R. Leach
    531,95 - 1.770,95 kr.

    A collection of essays from Edmund Leach, one of the original voices in the social anthropological tradition.

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