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tredition Japanese Paper Crafts
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tredition Japanese Bamboo Crafts
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Bohlau Verlag Fabeltiere: Tierische Fabelwesen der
Book SynopsisFür die Menschen der vorindustriellen Zeit war die Natur trotz weitreichender Handelsbeziehungen ein wilder und manchmal auch gefährlicher Ort. Wälder, Sümpfe und Gebirge hielt man für die Heimstätte magischer Kreaturen und fabelhafter Tiere. Wesen, deren Faszination noch heute ungebrochen ist. Lindwürmer und Einhörner, Hausdrachen und Wolpertinger lebten weiter in Sagen und Erzählungen, die im 19. Jahrhundert durch die Brüder Grimm und viele andere zusammengetragen und schriftlich fixiert wurden.Das Buch unternimmt eine Reise in die Welt der Fabeltiere des deutschsprachigen Raumes. Die Autor:innen haben das umfangreiche, vielfältige in der Literatur überlieferte Material gesichtet, sortiert und aufbereitet. Florian Schäfer schuf auf dieser Basis zahlreiche lebensnahe Nachbildungen von Fabeltieren basierend auf historischen Beschreibungen und macht damit diese mythologischen Wesen auf einzigartige und faszinierende Weise zugänglich.
£34.19
Bohlau Verlag It’s All About Emotions: Narratives of highly
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£34.19
Dietrich Reimer Konfliktforschung in Der Ethnologie - Eine
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Dietrich Reimer Anthropologie Der Emotionen: Affektive Dynamiken
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£67.15
Brill U Schoningh Mediterranean Flows: People, Ideas and Objects in
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Brill I Schoeningh Jahrbuch für Europäische Ethnologie
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Lit Verlag Changing Paradigms: The State of the Ethnological
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Lit Verlag Reproduction in an African City Today: Decisions,
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Lit Verlag The Formation of Peripheral Capital: Value
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Lit Verlag Anthropological Abstracts: 8
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Lit Verlag Anthropological Abstracts: 7: Cultural/Social
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Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden Coaching als individuelle Antwort auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen
Book SynopsisIn diesem Buch thematisieren die Beitragenden Gesellschaft als zentrale Referenz aktueller Coaching-Entwicklungen und präsentieren Coaching-Praxisfelder als individuelle Antworten auf gesellschaftliche Herausforderungen. Professionelles Coaching als Format der Förderung von Selbststeuerung wird damit in den Kontext gesamtgesellschaftlicher Ansprüche (steigende Flexibilitäts-, Produktivitäts- und Leistungsansprüche) gestellt. Insgesamt über 40 wissenschaftliche und praxisnahe Beiträge renommierter deutsch- und englischsprachiger AutorInnen bilden die Grundlage dieses Sammelbands.Table of ContentsCoaching und Gesellschaft.- Coaching und Praxisfelder als Antworten auf gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen.- Übergreifende, gesellschaftlich geprägte Entwicklungen im Coaching.
£47.49
Springer VS Einführung in das Denken Munasu DualaMbedys
Book SynopsisDer xenologische Entwurf Duala Mbedys.- Eine medizinische Metapher.- Ein neues Verständnis der Xenologie.- Konstitutiv, regulativ, negativ. In einem Wort: Fremd.- Eine Geschichte der xenologischen Frage.- Xenologie als metaxú.- Der Gegenstand der Xenologie.- Mythos des Fremden und Fremdes im Mythos.- Xenologie als Weltphilosophie.- Xenologie und Phänomenologie.- Ein paradoxes Scheinproblem.- Die Valenz des Werkes in der heutigen Rezeption.- Aktualisierte Bio-Bibliographie der Schriften Munasu Duala Mbedys.
£49.49
Palgrave Macmillan Journalism and Diversity
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Hirzel S. Verlag Lob der Lge Wie in der Evolution der Zweck die
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£19.80
Hirzel S. Verlag Einfach essen Gegen den Ernhrungswahn in unseren
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Lit Verlag Russian Intellectual Culture in Transition: The
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Lit Verlag Distinct Inheritances: Property, Family and
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Lit Verlag Contemporary Nomadisms: Relations Between Local
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transcript Postmigrant Counterpublics
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transcript Verlag La chance
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transcript Worlding and Storying Forced Displacement
£41.24
Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH Zeit (Time) - From Durer to Bonvicini: Cat.
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Communalism Press The Anthropology of Utopia
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£12.34
Strandberg Publishing Connectedness: an incomplete encyclopedia of anthropocene: views, thoughts, considerations, insights, images, notes & remarks
£32.00
Bloomsbury India Re-Imagine: India-UK Cultural Relations in the
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Bloomsbury India Love and Marriage in Mumbai
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Bloomsbury India Bonding with the Lord: Jagannath, Popular Culture
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Bloomsbury India Political Economy of Social Change and
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Tara Books Still Bombay
Book SynopsisPhotographer Mayur Tekchandaney discovers the unexpectedly quiet beauty of Mumbai: the happy coincidences of colour, the lyricism of place names and the energy of its citizens. It is a book of photos and essays serving as tribute to a city that hovers forever between collapse and hope.
£20.00
Springer Verlag, Singapore A Guide to Tribes in Indonesia: Anthropological Insights from the Archipelago
Book SynopsisThis encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, cultures, kinship norms, and other significant cultural aspects of the tribes, or otherwise named ethnic groups, of Indonesia, by an Indonesian anthropologist. The entries are supported by illustrations drawn by the late author himself, and are also accompanied by maps indicating the geographic locations and distributions of each tribe throughout the vast archipelago. Originally written and published in Bahasa Indonesian, the text has been translated into English and revised to feature up-to-date information. In showcasing the extent of diversity and the distinctiveness of the numerous tribal cultures in Indonesia, the volume presents itself as an important academic reference in Indonesian anthropology and ethnography studies, now finally available to global readership. Intended as a short work of reference, it will be indispensable to students and scholars researching Indonesia from anthropological, sociocultural, and ethnographic perspectives. Table of ContentsForeword (by Dr. J. Emmed M. Prioharyono).- Preface.- Introduction.- Guidance of Entry, Number and Maps Use.- Encyclopedia of Indonesian Tribes.- Bibliography.- Attachment: Maps of Indonesian Tribes' Distributions.- Indices.- About the Author.
£42.74
Springer Verlag, Singapore Risky Expertise in Chinese Financialisation:
Book SynopsisThis book focuses on the subjectivities of stock market investors to explore tensions within the Chinese state’s engagement in contemporary financial capitalism. It adopts a genealogical method to investigate how the production of foreign-trained financial experts (haigui) and informal experts (sanhu) points to paradoxes in China’s efforts to cultivate financial expertise. Chinese financialisation relates to the state’s project of financialising human capital in reaction to a contractualised labour market and the vanishing welfare state. Through ethnographic inquiry, Dal Maso shows the Chinese stock markets are crucial to the new redistributive regime where wage labour risks losing its primacy. Here, one can observe how the relationship between money and wages in China is being reworked and witness the development of a new economic order in which the state’s legitimacy becomes increasingly dependent on its capacity to jiushi–to rescue the market in times of crisis.Table of Contents1. Introduction.- 2. The Chinese Genealogy of Financial Expertise.- 3. Fostering Chinese Talents Abroad: The Paradox of the Returnees (Haigui).- 4. Circuit of Expertise.- 5. Shanghai: The Returning City.- 6. The Financialisation Rush.- 7. The Precarious Ecology of Chinese Financial Expertise.
£40.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Making Food in Local and Global Contexts:
Book SynopsisThis book is a collection of research focusing on the anthropological aspects of how food is made in modern society from both global and local perspectives. Modern food consumed in any society is created in a variety of natural and cultural environments. There is a "food democracy" in which how we procure and share food can be an indicator of our participation in society, while food nurtured in particular climates and land can be transmitted to the outside world owing to the influence of tourism and the global economy, a phenomenon that is recognized on a global scale as exemplified by the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage. In other words, food is an aspect of both culture and civilization. Anthropological approaches are used to reveal the humanistic aspects of food, highlighting the strength and individuality of regional and ethnic foods in global civilizations. The book is a compilation of results from sessions of the international symposium “Making Food in Human and Natural History”, which took place on March 18 and 19, 2019, in Osaka, Japan.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Preface and Acknowledgment Introduction. Atsushi Nobayashi Part 1. Ecology and Food Chapter 1. Gastronomical goods as a biocultural value of wood pastures in Eastern Europe. Anna Varga, Nikolett Darányi, Krisztina Molnár, Zsolt Molnár and Noémi Ujhá-zy. Chapter 2. Merroir in the Making: Provenance Fetishism and the Social Construction of Taste in the Japanese Seafood System. Shingo Hamada. Chapter 3. The Socio-Cultural Reception of MSG (Monosodium Glutamate) in Thailand. Yoshimi Osawa. Part 2. Social context of Food Chapter 4. Sharing food and conviviality in the Mediterranean Diet. Some ethnographic examples Elisabetta Moro and Rossella Galletti. Chapter 5. Rethinking foodscapes: Does it matter how food reaches my plate? Cristina Grasseni Chapter 6. Rethinking family commensality: Through Japanese cases and Italian ones Taeko Udagawa Part 3. Ethnicity in Foodscape Chapter 7. The “Making” of Hakka Cuisine: A Case Study for the Formation of Ethnic Food and its Foodscapes in Southeast China. Hironao Kawai. Chapter 8. Tubawan and the Play of Authorial Slippage: The Sani Yi people’s practice of hospitality business and the making of indigenous foodscape. Rongling Ge. Chapter 9. Translocal Foodscapes: Gastronomic Creativity in Mérida, Mexico, and Seville, Spain. Steffan Igor Ayora Diaz. Part 4. Food and the nation Chapter 10. The Tea Industry in Modern China and Public Demand for Tea Jianping Guan Chapter 11. On the Formation of Chinese National Cuisine: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives Haruhiko Nishizawa
£999.99
Experiment The Shortest History of Music
£11.02
Oxford University Press Harnessing Fortune
Book SynopsisBased on long-term fieldwork with herding families along the Mongolian-Russian border, this book examines how people tend to past memories in their homes while navigating new ways of accumulating wealth and fortune in the face of political and economic uncertainties. It is at this intersection, where the politics of tending to the past and the morality of new means of accumulating wealth come together to shape intimate social relations that the book reveals an innovative area for the study of kinship in anthropology. Combining personal experience with ethnographic insight, the volume will be essential reading for social anthropologists and those with a general interest in East Asia and post-socialist countries.Trade ReviewHarnessing Fortune wears its learning lightly...Empson's writing is suffused with a deeply personal connection to a people who, as she asserts, are not living in a way that they consider to be transitional. * Dominic Martin, Social Anthropology *
£76.00
Oxford University Press Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 166 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows IX
Book SynopsisSixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Brian Barry; Michael Baxandall; Robert Black; Henry Chadwick; Nicolas Coldstream; Howard Colvin; Mary Douglas; Robin Du Boulay; Alan Everitt; Robert Latham; Geoffrey Lewis; Laurence Picken; Thomas Puttfarken; Karen Spärck Jones; Christopher Stead; Denis Twitchett.Table of ContentsBrian Michael Barry 1936-2009 ; Michael David Kighley Baxandall 1933-2008 ; Robert Denis Collison Black 1922-2008 ; Henry Chadwick 1920-2008 ; John Nicolas Coldstream 1927-2008 ; Howard Montagu Colvin 1919-2007 ; Margaret Mary Douglas 1921-2007 ; Francis Robin Houssemayne Du Boulay 1920-2008 ; Alan Milner Everitt 1926-2008 ; Robert Clifford Latham 1912-1995 ; Geoffrey Lewis Lewis 1920-2008 ; Laurence Ernest Rowland Picken 1909-2007 ; Thomas Monrad Puttfarken 1943-2006 ; Karen Ida Boalth Sparck Jones 1935-2007 ; George Christopher Stead 1913-2008 ; Denis Crispin Twitchett 1925-2006
£71.25
OUP Oxford Journey which Father António Gomes made to the
Book SynopsisGomes's Viagem..., written in 1648, presents in rare detail the relations of the Portuguese creole community with the African population of south-central Africa.Trade ReviewAs I read it, I could not stop imagining myself using Gomes's text to discuss with my students the strengths and weaknesses of the written document as a historical source, and what, even in the same document, might count as primary and secondary source. In this way, both the independent researcher and the guided student of pre-colonial African history will benefit from this book. * Festo Mkenda SJ, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Glossary List of maps List of Illustrations Introduction Portuguese text of the Viagem... English Translation of the Viagem...
£65.00
Oxford University Press Corpus of Early Accounts of the Sunjata Epic
Book SynopsisThe Corpus enables in-depth study of the coherence of and variation within the Sunjata epic oral tradition. It presents a rich evocation of this still-living performance tradition during almost the entirety of the Western Sudan's turbulent period of European colonial control, from the late 1880s to 1959.Table of ContentsList of maps & figures Acknowledgements Note on translations Foreword: A Platform for Re-Examining History and Praise, the Public and the Personal, in the Sunjata CorpusPaulo Fernando de Moraes Farias: Maps Introduction: Towards a history of the Sunjata epic 1: Emile Hourst: The legend of Somangoro and Sundiata from Kulikoro 2: Jean-Gilbert Jaime: The legend of Sumanguru from Kulikoro 3: Fernand Quiquandon: 'The history of Manding power according to legend and tradition' - Sunjata's epic from the griots of Kenedugu fàama Tieba Traore, ruler of Sikasso 4: Charles Monteil: Two Khasonka versions of the legend of 'Simanguru and Sun-Jata' 5: The history of Sundiata from a Kita chronicle 6: Mamadou Diakite: Genealogy of the Keïta - an Umarian account of Sunjata 7: Mamadou Diakite: Historical legends of the Nioro region 8: Bathily: An oral performance of the Sunjata epic from Nioro's Western Sudanese chronicle 9: Mamadi Aïssa Kaba Diakite: The history of the war between the empires of Sosso and Mande 10: Kande Kanote: The legend of Sundiata 11: Habibou Sissoko: Additional material on the legend of Sundiata 12: Kieba Koate 'Korongo': The Sunjatta legend of the Malinke people 13: Jules Vidal: The 'official' legend of Sundiata, founder of the Mali empire 14: Bakary Diabate: Sundiata - Abdoulaye Sadji's hero for the Negritude movement 15: Mamby Sidibé: Sundiata Keita, historical and legendary hero, emperor of the Manding 16: Théatre dahoméen: The Tricks of Jegue 17: Maximilien Quénum: The legend of Fama-Sundiata 18: René Guillot: The Magic Arrow 19: Paul Humblot: Episodes from the legend of Sondiata 20: Ali Sawse: A Wolof version of Sunjata Glossary Table of episodes Index of common names Bibliography Index
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The University of Chicago Press Troubling Confessions Speaking Guilt in Law and
Book SynopsisAdam Ashforth, an Australian who has spent many years in Soweto, finds his longtime friend Madumo in dire circumstances: his family has accused him of using witchcraft to kill his mother and has thrown him out on the street. Convinced that his life is cursed, Madumo seeks help among Soweto's bewildering array of healers and prophets.Trade Review"A fascinating page-turner that recounts one man's battle with an eerie symptom of powerlessness: obsession with witchcraft.... Ashforth enfolds his readers in this distressing story... [and] also offers a persuasive analysis of the broader sociological phenomenon that, he argues, Madumo's tribulations exemplify." - Voice Literary Supplement; "Adam Ashforth has spent much of the past decade immersed in a culture in which witchcraft remains as common as air.... A warm, colorful book, a mix of memoir, journalism, and sociology. He has dual roles, as reporter and friend, and manages to describe Madumo's search for relief with both compassion and professional skepticism." - Mark Schone, Salon"
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University of Chicago Press Witchcraft Intimacy and Trust Africa in
Book SynopsisOffers a range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror. This title sketches it as a central ember at the core of human relationships, one brutally revealed in the practice of witchcraft.Trade Review"Peter Geschiere presents a sensitive interpretation of witchcraft as both a discourse and a lived reality, zooming into his fine-grained fieldwork material and then zooming back out to give historical, sociological, and political-economic context. As in The Perils of Belonging, he takes what might seem to be exceptional African circumstances and puts them in conversation with comparable cases from other parts of the world, allowing him to clarify what is really at stake-not only in Africa, but all over the globe." (Mike McGovern, author of Unmasking the State)"
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The University of Chicago Press Mullahs on the Mainframe Islam Modernity Among
Book SynopsisThe values of traditionalist Islam are often portrayed as inherently hostile to those of a modern, pluralistic society. This book shatters many of these stereotypes. Jonah Blank provides a first-hand account of the Daudi Bohra to show how a premodern clerical elite has embraced modernity.Trade Review"This is a groundbreaking work.... This brilliant study is both academically rigorous and a welcome introduction to the real success of this Islamic community in the modern world. Highly recommended." - Library Journal; "[A] model piece of scholarship, the kind of work you want to give to younger scholars so as to awaken them to the wonders and the variety of the world.... Here is one brilliant venture by a young, superbly trained American social scientist who delves into the world of Indian Muslims, and renders that world with artistry, precision, and detail." - Fouad Ajami, author of Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation's Odyssey; "[Blank's] book should be read for his portrait of a group trying to carve out a place for their practices while maintaining peaceful relations with religious activists and secularists alike, a delicate tightrope act that he chronicles well." - John R. Bowen, Washington Post Book World
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The University of Chicago Press Religious Bodies Politic Rituals of Sovereignty
Book SynopsisExamines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. This book illustrates how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.Trade Review"Religious Bodies Politic is an ethnographically detailed and theoretically ambitious work that boldly brings together three topics of anthropological inquiry that are usually kept apart: postsocialism, Buddhism, and transnationalism. Anya Bernstein succeeds in untangling the surprising ways in which Buddhism lies at the heart of the ongoing restructuring of Buryat social worlds, cultural forms, and political imaginaries in the wake of the collapse of state socialism and the rise of global market capitalism." (Morton Axel Pedersen, University of Copenhagen)"
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University of Chicago Press The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters Gender
Book SynopsisWomen - one of Freemasonry's best-kept secrets - are often upper class and highly educated but paradoxically antifeminist, and their self-cultivation through the Masonic path is an effort to embrace the deeply gendered ideals of fraternity. The author unravels this contradiction at the heart of Freemasonry.Trade Review"A riveting analysis of the women Freemasons in Italy that illuminates the debates about and paradoxes of women's inclusion into a controversial secret 'brotherhood.' Mahmud initiates us with wisdom into the contradictions of a liberal political philosophy that extols universal brotherhood but is embedded in exclusionary practices of community and ritual based on class, race, and gender. This feminist ethnography is sure to become a classic in the anthropology of Europe." (Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?)"
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The University of Chicago Press The Brotherhood of Freemason Sisters
Book SynopsisFreemasonry has long been one of the most romanticized secret societies in the world. But a simple fact escapes most depictions of this elite brotherhood: there are women Freemasons, too. The author takes you inside Masonic lodges in contemporary Italy, where she observes the many ritualistic and fraternal bonds forged among women initiates.Trade Review"A riveting analysis of the women Freemasons in Italy that illuminates the debates about and paradoxes of women's inclusion into a controversial secret 'brotherhood.' Mahmud initiates us with wisdom into the contradictions of a liberal political philosophy that extols universal brotherhood but is embedded in exclusionary practices of community and ritual based on class, race, and gender. This feminist ethnography is sure to become a classic in the anthropology of Europe." (Lila Abu-Lughod, author of Do Muslim Women Need Saving?)"
£28.00
The University of Chicago Press Drama Play Game English Festive Culture in the
Book SynopsisThis text demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not theatre as we understand the term today. The author contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed.
£58.90
The University of Chicago Press The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks
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