Anthropology Books
Harrassowitz Verlag Ethiopic Historiographical Texts
£49.30
Dietrich Reimer Curare
£47.50
Brill I Schoeningh Melodie Des Werdens
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£88.50
Verlag Herder Homo Sapiens
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£32.00
Peter Lang AG Paris, London und die europaeische Provinz: Die
Book SynopsisDie Modejournale des ausgehenden 18. und des beginnenden 19. Jahrhunderts versprachen ihrem breiten Publikum die Vermittlung von Lebensstil und Geschmack. Geschmacksbildung tangierte im zeitgenössischen Verständnis den einzelnen wie das Gemeinwesen. Sie war auch von ökonomischer Bedeutung; die Magazine bemühten sich um eine Gewerbeförderung. Sie waren auf die in Paris und London entworfenen Leitbilder ausgerichtet. Gleichwohl propagierten sie einen nationalen Geschmack. Es zeigt sich, wie weit die nationale Idee verankert war. Gerade an die Leserinnen richteten sich zahlreiche Artikel, die das Verhältnis zwischen den Geschlechtern zum Thema hatten. Einem komparativen Ansatz folgend wurden gemischte Modemagazine aus England, Frankreich, Deutschland, den Niederlanden und Italien herangezogen.
£93.81
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Grundriß der Entwicklungsgeschichte des Menschen
Table of Contentsund Bemerkungen zur embryologischen Technik.- I. Keimzellenbildung und Befruchtung.- Die Geschlechtszellen.- Die Reifung der Geschlechtszellen.- Die Befruchtung.- II. Frühentwicklung (Furchung und Keimblattbildung).- Furchung bei dotterarmen und holoblastischen Eiern am Beispiel von Branchiostoma.- Furchung und Gastrulation bei Amphibien.- Bemerkungen zur Entwicklungsmechanik und Teratologie.- Furchung und Gastrulation bei Vögeln.- Eihäute und Embryonalanhänge.- Furchung, Keimblattbildung und Eihäute der Säugetiere und des Menschen.- Verschiedene Formen der Zwillingsbildung.- Vom Wesen der Keimblätter.- Abgrenzung des Körpers; äußere Körperform; Altersbestimmung der Keimlinge beim Menschen.- Allgemeine Placentation.- Placentation beim Menschen.- III. Organentwicklung.- A. Haut, Nervensystem und Sinnesorgane.- Haut und Anhangsgebilde.- Gehirn und Rückenmark.- Das Rückenmark.- Das Gehirn.- Rhombencephalon.- Mesencephalon.- Diencephalon.- Hypophyse.- Telencephalon.- Hirnhäute.- Periphere Nerven.- Sehorgan.- Gehör- und Gleichgewichtsorgan.- Nasenhöhle mit Gesichts- und Gaumenbildung.- Geschmacksorgan.- B. Atmungs-und Verdauungstrakt.- Kopfdarm.- Lippen, Zähne, Munddrüsen.- Der Darm und seine Drüsen.- Leibeshöhle und Zwerchfell.- Leber und Pankreas.- Kiemendarm und branchiogene Organe.- Zunge.- Atmungsapparat.- C. Urogenitalapparat und Nebenniere.- Harnapparat.- Harnblase und Sinus urogenitalis.- Geschlechtsorgane.- Keimdrüsen.- Ableitende Geschlechtswege.- Descensus und Bänder der Keimdrüsen.- Äußeres Genitale.- Nebenniere.- D. Kreislaufapparat.- Herz.- Herzmißbildungen.- Gefäß- und Blutbildung.- Milz.- Arterien.- Venen.- Der fetale Blutkreislauf.- Lymphgefäße und Lymphknoten.- E. Bewegungsapparat.- Wirbelsäule.- Thorax.- Gliedmaßen.- Schädel.- Skeletmuskulatur.- Braunes Fettgewebe.- F. Der Geburtszustand und seine Folgerungen.
£42.29
Lit Verlag Cultural Heritage: At the Intersection of the
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£113.40
Lit Verlag Youth Development in Nigeria: A Means to Poverty
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£999.99
Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Handbuch Körpersoziologie 1: Grundbegriffe und
Book SynopsisDas Handbuch Körpersoziologie verfolgt das Ziel, den grundlegenden Stellenwert des Körpers für soziologisches Denken zu veranschaulichen. Die Körpersoziologie begreift den Körper als bedeutsam für subjektiv sinnhaftes Handeln sowie als eine soziale Tatsache, die hilft, Soziales zu verstehen und zu erklären. Der Körper ist Produzent und Effekt des Sozialen, er ist gesellschaftliches und kulturelles Symbol wie auch Agent, Medium und Instrument sozialen Handelns. Die Körpersoziologie analysiert, wie soziale Strukturen sich in den Körper einschreiben, soziale Ordnung in körperlichen Handlungen und Interaktionen hergestellt und sozialer Wandel durch körperliche Empfindungen motiviert sowie durch körperliche Aktionen gestaltet wird. Körpersoziologie ist in diesem Sinne als verkörperte Soziologie aufzufassen. Das zweibändige Handbuch Körpersoziologie dokumentiert das breite Spektrum an körpersoziologischen Perspektiven und Ansätzen sowie den aktuellen Status Quo der Körpersoziologie. Band 1 präsentiert eine Übersicht zentraler körpersoziologischer Grundbegriffe sowie die Perspektiven einer Vielzahl soziologischer Theorien auf den Körper.Table of ContentsGrundbegriffe.- Theoretische Perspektiven.
£999.99
LAP Lambert Academic Publishing Folk-Worshipping in West Bengal
£34.57
Bod Third Party Titles Schrift und Recht im Bauernkrieg von 1525 Luthers und Melanchthons Antwort auf die Zwlf Artikel der oberschwbischen Bauern
£15.68
Hatje Cantz Fragments: Pots, Patchworks, Power Figures
Book SynopsisThe collections of the Museum der Kulturen Basel contain numerous fragments that bear witness to practices of sharing and connecting. They include fragments from history, remnants of destruction, and once powerful objects made up of single parts. The publication shows how these things were handled in the past, and still are today. It sheds light on what it means to divide, repair, reassemble, even to let something fall apart. Whichever, it is always a matter of (re)storing or creating a new order. Instead of seeing fragments exclusively as signs of loss or as witnesses to the inexorable passage of time, the authors focus on the power of connecting, the art of separating, and the force of destruction in the pieces presented.
£35.20
Lit Verlag Exploitation and Overexploitation in Societies
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£33.30
Lit Verlag Crossing Boundaries: African American Inner City
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£20.90
Transcript Verlag Thinking Like a River: An Anthropology of Water
Book SynopsisThe Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the ?stream of life? for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River.
£43.99
Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Menschliches Verstehen: Die Archaologie Der
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£138.51
Prodinnova La Psychologie de la race allemande
£9.86
Springer Verlag, Japan Learning Strategies and Cultural Evolution during the Palaeolithic
Book SynopsisThis volume is motivated by the desire to explain why Neanderthals were replaced by modern humans, in terms of cultural differences between the two (sub-) species. It provides up-to-date coverage on the theory of cultural evolution as is being used by anthropologists, archaeologists, biologists and psychologists to decipher hominin cultural change and diversity during the Palaeolithic. The contributing authors are directly involved in this effort and the material presented includes novel approaches and findings. Chapters explain how learning strategies in combination with social and demographic factors (e.g., population size and mobility patterns) predict cultural evolution in a world without the printing press, television or the Internet. Also addressed is the inverse problem of how learning strategies may be inferred from actual trajectories of cultural change, for example as seen in the North American Palaeolithic. Mathematics and statistics, a sometimes necessary part of theory, are explained in elementary terms where they appear, with details relegated to appendices. Full citations of the relevant literature will help the reader to further pursue any topic of interest.Table of ContentsIntroduction.- Experimental Studies of Cumulative Culture in Modern Humans: What are the Requirements of the Ratchet.- Factors Limiting the Number of Independent Cultural Traits That Can Be Maintained in a Population.- Inferring Learning Strategies from Cultural Frequency Data.- The Replacement of Neanderthals by Modern Humans and the Diversity in Cultural Transition Patterns: a Theoretical Perspective.- Simulating Geographical Variation in Material Culture: Were Early Modern Humans in Europe Ethnically Structured?.- “Learning in the Acheulean: Experimental Insights Using Handaxe Form as a ‘Model Organism’.- Behavioral Modernity and the Cultural Transmission of Structured Information: The Semantic Axelrod Model.- Evolution of Culturally Transmitted Teaching Behavior.- Transmission of Cultural Variants in the North American Paleolithic.- Mobility and Cultural Diversity in Central-Place Foragers: Implications for the Emergence of Modern Human Behavior.
£999.99
Oxford University Press Imaginative Minds
Book SynopsisImagination is one of the most distinctive characteristics of human thought. The supreme powers of flexibility, supposition and inventiveness that are its hallmarks, whether in science, technology, business or the visual, literary and performing arts, are highly prized in contemporary societies. Yet in the fields of psychology and cognitive science, where we might expect to find the topic ''centre-stage'', there has been comparatively little work. This volumes addresses this omission by bringing together the theories and methods of these disciplines with other perspectives offering important insights into the imagination. The 15 chapters address key questions about the imaginative workings of the mind, including how the capacity for imagination evolved, how it is expressed and what roles it plays in children''s thinking, what psychological processes and brain mechanisms are involved, and how imagination operates in universal cultural phenomena such as music, fiction and religion, whichTrade Reviewthe reviews cover a wide range of standpoints with modesty and caution...In summary this fascinating book provides a comprehensive survey of a neglected and scientifically challenging field. It should help further research. * Alan Kerr Journal of Consciousness Studies *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ; EVOLUTION OF THE IMAGINATION ; DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGINATION IN CHILDREN ; MIND INTO CULTURE: PERSPECTIVES ON MUSICAL IMAGINATION ; IMAGINATION, COGNITION AND CREATIVE THINKING ; COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE OF THE IMAGINATION ; ATYPICAL IMAGINATION AND BRAIN MECHANISMS
£76.00
OUP/British Academy Strings Attached
Book SynopsisReligion and AIDS are transforming African public and private domains. This book questions why so much of the transnational religious engagement has seemed to serve conservative values, and explores connections between Europe/North America and Africa highlighting how these carry both financial resources for HIV/AIDS work and moral values.Table of ContentsPART 1: TRANSNATIONAL RELATIONS AND CONSERVATIVE AGENDAS; PART 2: TRANSNATIONAL POWER AND LOCAL AGENCY; PART 3: TRANSNATIONAL IDEAS AND LOCAL DISCOURSES ABOUT SEXUALITY; PART 4: TRANSNATIONAL IDENTITIES AND HOMOSEXUALITY; EPILOGUE
£71.25
Oxford University Press, USA Migrants in Medieval England c 500c 1500
Book SynopsisThis is a ground-breaking volume into the phenomenon of migration in and to England over the medieval millennium. A series of subject specialists synthesise and extend recent research in a wide range of disciplines and marks an important contribution to medieval studies, and to modern debates on migration and the free movement of people.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements 1: W. Mark Ormrod, Joanna Story, and Elizabeth M. Tyler: Framing Migration in England 2: Mark Jobling and Andrew Millard: Isotopic and Genetic Evidence for Migration in Medieval England 3: Martin Findell and Phillip Shaw: Language Contact in Early Medieval Britain: Settlement, Interaction, and Acculturation 4: Jayne Carroll: Identifying Migrants in Medieval England: The Possibilities and Limitations of Place-Name Evidence 5: Peter McClure: Personal Names as Evidence for Migrants and Migration in Medieval England 6: Elizabeth M. Tyler and George Younge: Moving People, Moving Forms: Narrating Migration in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles 7: Dawn M. Hadley: The Archaeology of Migrants in Viking-Age and Anglo-Norman England: Process, Practice, and Performance 8: Julian Luxford: The Migrant in English Art: Perspectives on Influence and Agency 9: Christopher Dyer: Migration in Rural England in the Later Middle Ages 10: Sarah Rees Jones: English Towns in the Later Middle Ages: The Rules and Realities of Population Mobility 11: Bart Lambert and W. Mark Ormrod: The State and the Immigrant: Negotiating Nationalities in Later Medieval England Index
£76.00
Oxford University Press, USA Vulnerability and the Politics of Care Transdisciplinary Dialogues Proceedings of the British Academy
Book SynopsisThis book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.Table of ContentsBodies, Resistance, Despair 1: JUDITH BUTLER: Bodies that Still Matter 2: ROSALBA ICAZA: Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics 3: C. JASON THROOP: Meteorological Moods and Atmospheric Attunements Response: The Terror of InvulnerabilityRAHUL RAO: Ambiguity, Affectivity, Violence 4: ERINN GILSON: The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability 5: THOMAS GREGORY: Vulnerable Civilians: Coalition Checkpoints and the Perception of Hostile Intent 6: OMAR DEWACHI: Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq Response: On the Condition of Being OpenVÉRONIQUE PIN-FAT: Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure 7: JACKIE LEACH SCULLY: The politics of care: from biomedical transformation to narrative vulnerability 8: JASON DANELY: "It rips you to bits!": Woundedness and Compassion in Carers' Narratives 9: ANN CAHILL: Disclosing an Experience of Sexual Assault: Ethics and the Role of the Confidant Response: Tenuous MooringsYASMIN GUNARATNAM: Dependence, Distribution, Waiting 10: LOTTE MEINERT: Vulnerability as Radically Social: Cash and Care for the Elderly in Uganda 11: LISA BARAITSER AND WILLIAM BROOK: Watchful Waiting: Temporalities of Crisis and Care in the UK: National Health Service Response: The Hopeless Hopeful Time of CaringTIFFANY PAGE: Index
£71.25
Oxford University Press Representing Homelessness
Book SynopsisThis multidisciplinary volume combines academic research with first-hand accounts of homelessness. It describes how people affected by homelessness are perceived as objects through the process of Othering. It also provides examples of how such Othering can be overcome through collaboration, and by providing a platform for people affected by homelessness.The volume argues that stereotypical representations of homelessness, while useful for charity fundraising, do more harm than good. It concludes that organisations tasked with dealing with homelessness must include greater representation from people with direct lived experience' of homelessness.Table of ContentsList of Figures Notes on Contributors OWEN CLAYTON: Introduction: 's Skid Row 10: OWEN CLAYTON:
£65.00
The University of Chicago Press Performing the Nation
Book SynopsisSince its founding in 1964 Tanzania has used music, dance and other cultural productions as ways of imagining and legitimizing the new nation. Focusing on the politics surrounding Swahili performance, Kelly Askew demonstrates the crucial role of popular culture in Tanzania's history.
£40.85
University of Chicago Press Renegade Dreams
Book SynopsisWalking the streets of one of Chicago's most violent neighborhoods - where the local gang has been active for more than fifty years the author talks with people whose lives are irrecoverably damaged, seeking to understand how they cope and how they can be helped.Trade Review"Renegade Dreams is a tour de force-extremely well written and engaging, and replete with original insights. Once I began reading Ralph's book I had a difficult time putting it down. His field research is fascinating. And his explicit discussion of the interconnections of inner-city injury with government and community institutions, as well as how it is related to historical and social processes, is a major contribution." (William Julius Wilson, author of The Truly Disadvantaged)"
£19.00
The University of Chicago Press Jamaica Genesis Religion and the Politics of
Book SynopsisExamines how Pentecostalism has managed to achieve such ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominantly African descent. This book argues that it has flourished because it successfully mediates between two historically central themes in Jamaican religious life.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Made to Be Seen
Book SynopsisExpanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, this title reflects on the role of the visual in all areas of life. It includes different essays that examine a range of topics such as: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, and more.
£112.10
The University of Chicago Press Made to Be Seen
Book SynopsisExpanding the definition of visual anthropology beyond more limited notions, this title reflects on the role of the visual in all areas of life. It includes different essays that examine a range of topics such as: art, dress and body adornment, photography, the built environment, digital forms of visual anthropology, indigenous media, and more.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press One Discipline Four Ways British German French
Book SynopsisFinally, Silverman traces the formative influence of Franz Boas, the expansion of the discipline after World War II, and the fault lines and promises of contemporary anthropology in the United States.Trade Review"This is an absorbing and much-needed volume that has considerable potential as a teaching tool. It is the first cross-national review of the history of anthropology in its Euro-American experience. This is an excellent source for anyone who might want to know how anthropology arose in different settings, where it has been, and where it might be going." - George Marcus, Rice University"
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Venda Childrens Songs A Study in
Book SynopsisThis text provides a detailed analysis of both the music and the cultural significance of children's songs among the Venda people of the northern Transvaal, South Africa. It examines topics such as role of melody in generating rhythm.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Contingent Lives Fertility Time and Aging in West
Book SynopsisMost women in the West use contraception in order to avoid having children. But in rural sub-saharan Africa many women use it for the opposite reason, to have more children. This study of aging and reproduction makes use of ethnographic and demographic data.Trade Review"Making brilliant use of the puzzle of women in The Gambia using modern contraception as a means to increase their fertility, Bledsoe shows - in a way no one previously has done so well - just why anthropological insights are needed in demographic research. Contingent Lives offers a rich contribution both to social theory and to social methodology." - David Kertzer, Brown University
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Crossing the Postmodern Divide
Book SynopsisA guide to the meanings of the postmodern era, that charts the options before us as we seek alternatives to the joyless and artificial culture of consumption.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments 1. Closure and Transition Introduction Sullenness Hyperactivity 2. Modernism The Rise of Modernism Aggressive Realism Methodical Universalism Ambiguous Individualism 3. Postmodernism The Postmodern Critique The Postmodern Economy 4. Hypermodernism The Power and Ambiguity of Postmodernism Hyperreality Hyperactivity Hyperintelligence 5. Postmodern Realism Moral Decisions and Material Culture Focal Realism Patient Vigor Communal Celebration Notes Index
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press What Would You Do
Book SynopsisHow has bioethics evolved into a legitimate specialty? When is such expertise necessary? How do bioethicists make their decisions? And whose interests do they serve? This book addresses these questions while reflecting on the ethical dilemmas that the author's ethnographic research among surgeons and genetic counselors has provoked.Trade Review"Bosk provides in these pages a rich and rigorous account of the ways in which medical ethics, ethnography, and social science illuminate the human condition. He is the finest ethnographer of his generation, and he offers to future generations a standard of ethnographic practice and reflection that is unrivaled in its appreciation of the nuances and complexities of making sense of people's lives." - Jonathan B. Imber, Wellesley College"
£24.00
The University of Chicago Press American Indians and Christian Missions Studies
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£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Music Culture and Experience
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system.Table of ContentsForeword Bruno Nettl Acknowledgments The Ethnomusicology of John Blacking 1: Expressing Human Experience through Music 2: The Problem of Musical Description 3: The Music of Venda Girls' Initiation 4: Music and the Historical Process in Vendaland 5: The Study of Musical Change 6: Reflections on the Effectiveness of Symbols 7: The Music of Politics 8: Music, Culture, and Experience A Note on Pronunciation Works by John Blacking References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press Music Culture and Experience Selected Papers of
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together eight of Blacking's most important theoretical papers which reveal his theoretical themes such as the innateness of musical ability and the properties of music as a symbolic or quasi-linguistic system.
£34.20
The University of Chicago Press Public Religions in the Modern World Conference
Book SynopsisIn this reconsideration of the relation between religion and modernity, Casanova surveys the roles that religions play in the public sphere of modern societies. He looks at five cases from two religious traditions (Catholicism and Protestantism) in four countries (Spain, Poland, Brazil, USA).
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Apologies to Thucydides
Book SynopsisPresents Thucydides' classic work on the history of the Peloponnesian War that is the root of Western conceptions of history - including the ethnocentric idea that Thucydides' historiography was universally valid, applicable to all societies at all times.Trade Review"This book is a paradigm of how history and anthropology might be brought together, to the mutual enrichment of both disciplines." (American Historical Review) "Marshall Sahlins's complex book... [addresses] questions of historical causation and agency using a wide variety of examples-including, at one point, Elian Gonzales and the 1951 New York Giants. The complete ramifications of Sahlins's argument will be appreciated best by anthropologists and historians. Even for the general reader, however, Apologies to Thucydides has much to offer, as an introduction to an unfamiliar culture and as a new perspective on our own." (New York Sun)"
£21.00
The University of Chicago Press Law and Disorder in the Postcolony
Book SynopsisAre postcolonies haunted more by criminal violence than other nation-states? The usual answer is yes. In Law and Disorder in the Postcolony, Jean and John Comaroff and a group of respected theorists show that the question is misplaced: that the predicament of postcolonies arises from their place in a world order dominated by new modes of governance, new sorts of empires, new species of wealthan order that criminalizes poverty and race, entraps the south in relations of corruption, and displaces politics into the realms of the market, criminal economies, and the courts.As these essays make plain, however, there is another side to postcoloniality: while postcolonies live in states of endemic disorder, many of them fetishize the law, its ways and itsmeans. How is the coincidence of disorder with a fixation on legalities to be explained? Law and Disorder in the Postcolony addresses this question, entering into critical dialogue with such theorists as Benjamin, Agamben, and Bayart. In the p
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The University of Chicago Press Picturing a Colonial Past The African Photographs
Book SynopsisContains photographs of British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003) taken between 1929 and 1934, during his earliest work among Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (Botswana). Covering a spectrum of daily activities, this book includes depictions from pot making, thatching, cattle herding to village architecture, and more.
£30.40
The University of Chicago Press Civil Society and the Political Imagination in
Book SynopsisThese essays explore the diverse, unexpected and controversial ways in which the idea of civil society has entered into populist politics and public debate throughout Africa. It shows how struggles over civil society reveal much about larger historical forces in the post-Cold War era.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press In the Time of Cannibals The Word Music of South
Book SynopsisThe workers who migrate from Lesotho to the mines and cities of neighbouring South Africa have developed a rich genre of sung oral poetry - word music - that focuses on the experiences of migrant life. Complete with transcriptions of performances, this book discusses this musical literature.
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University of Chicago Press The Magical State Nature Money and Modernity in
Book SynopsisIn 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture and economy, recasting theories of development for other postcolonial nations.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction: The Magical State and Occidentalism Pt. I: Premiere - The Nature of the Nation: State Fetishism and Nationalism 1: History's Nature 2: The Nation's Two Bodies Pt. II: Debut - Venezuelan Counterpoint: Dictatorship and Democracy 3: The Eighteenth Brumaire of Dictatorship 4: Constructing the Nation; The Nation as a Construct 5: The Twenty-third of January of Democracy Pt. III: Revival - The Petrostate and the Sowing of Oil 6: The Motors Wars: The Engines of Progress 7: Mirages of El Dorado: The Death of a Tractor Factory 8: The Devil's Excrement: Criminality and Sociality Pt. IV: Sequel - Black Gold: Money Fetishism and Modernity 9: Harvesting the Oil: The Storm of Progress 10: Beyond Occidentalism: A Subaltern Modernity References Index
£76.00
The University of Chicago Press The Magical State Nature Money and Modernity in
Book SynopsisIn 1935 Venezuela consolidated its position as the world's major oil exporter, establishing South America's longest-lasting democratic regime. This text examines key transformations in Venezuela's polity, culture and economy, recasting theories of development for other postcolonial nations.
£30.00
The University of Chicago Press Designs on the Contemporary
Book SynopsisDeals with the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. The authors explore the contemporary from past works: how to conceptualize, test, and give form to breakdowns of truth and conduct, and how to open up possibilities for the remediation of such breakdowns.Trade Review"Designs on the Contemporary is a work of profound importance to the philosophy of anthropology. In conjunction with Rabinow's other works, it creates a nonpareil, a configuration of thought with no equal." (Marilyn Strathern, University of Cambridge)"
£23.00
The University of Chicago Press Papi A Novel
Book SynopsisThroughout this text the author shows his awareness that the actual past remains fundamentally irreplicable. He asserts all histories to be culturally crafted artifacts, commensurate with folk tales, stage plays, or films.
£38.00
The University of Chicago Press The New Politics of Science
Book SynopsisHow science gets done in today's world has profound political repercussions, since scientific knowledge, through its technical applications, has become an important source of both economic and military power. The increasing dependence of scientific research on funding from business and the military has made questions about the access to and control of scientific knowledge a central issue in today's politics of science. In The New Politics of Science, David Dickson points out that the scientific community has its own internal power structures, its elites, its hierarchies, its ideologies, its sanctioned norms of social behavior, and its dissenting groups. And the more that science, as a social practice, forms an integral part of the economic structures of the society in which it is imbedded, the more the boundaries and differences between the two dissolve. Groups inside the scientific community, for example, will use groups outside the communityand vice versato achieve their own political ends. In this edition, Dickson has included a new preface commenting on the continuing and increasing influence of industrial and defense interests on American scientific research in the 1980s.
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press W. E. B. DuBois on Sociology and the Black
Book SynopsisThis volume collects W.E.B. Du Bois' sociological writings from 1898 to 1910. The selections include discussion on the conception of sociology and sociological research, especially as a tool in the struggle for racial justice along with an assessment of race relations before and after World War II.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgments Introduction Dan S. Green, Edwin D. Driver. I: The Tasks of Sociology 1: The Atlanta Conferences 2: The Laboratory in Sociology at Atlanta University 3: The Twelfth Census and the Negro Problems 4: The Study of the Negro Problems 5: The Negro Race in the United States of America II: Community Studies 6: The Philadelphia Negro 7: The Black North in 1901: New York 8: The Negroes of Dougherty County, Georgia 9: The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia III: Black Culture and Creativity 10: The Negro American Family 11: The Religion of the American Negro 12: The Problem of Amusement 13: The Conservation of Races IV: Changing Patterns of Racial Relations 14: The Relations of the Negroes to the Whites in the South 15: The Social Evolution of the Black South 16: The Problem of the Twentieth Century Is the Problem of the Color Line 17: Prospect of a World without Race Conflict Notes Selected Bibliography of W. E. B. Du Bois Index
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