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Communities of Complicity: Everyday Ethics in Rural China (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Everyday life in contemporary rural China is characterized by an increased sense of moral challenge and uncertainty. This ethnographic study of the village of Zhongba is an attempt to grasp the ethical reflexivity of everyday life in rural China.
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Capricious Borders: Minority, Population, and Counter-Conduct Between Greece and Turkey (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Borders of states, borders of citizenship, borders of exclusion. As the lines drawn on international treaty maps... Læs mere
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Toward Engaged Anthropology (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Describes how anthropologists may play a wider role in achieving social justice by applying anthropological theory and practice in programmes of action and activism Highlights the increasingly participatory role of anthropologists in communities or social groupings being studied
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An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World: An Essay on the Economy of Knowledge (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores key elements in early modern political philosophy Inquires into the cultural epistemology fuelling the aggrandizement and miniaturisation of description Charts an itinerary for an internal anthropology of theorizing
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Irish/ness Is All Around Us: Language Revivalism and the Culture of Ethnic Identity in Northern Ireland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness and shifting practices of "Irish culture" in the domains of language, music, dance, and sports.
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Durkheim, the Durkheimians, and the Arts (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Using a broad definition of the Durkheimian tradition, this book offers the first systematic attempt to explore the Durkheimians' engagement with art. It focuses on both Durkheim and his contemporaries as well as later thinkers influenced by his work.
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The Bedouin of Mount Sinai: An Anthropological Study of their Political Economy (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on fieldwork over ten years Builds on the central theoretical understanding that the complex political economy of the Mount Sinai Bedouin is integrated in urban society and is part of the modern global world.
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Astonishment and Evocation: The Spell of Culture in Art and Anthropology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
All societies are shaped by arts, media, and other persuasive practices that can awe, captivate, enchant or otherwise seem to cast... Læs mere
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Colonial Collecting and Display: Encounters with Material Culture from the Andaman and Nicobar Islands (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
First study dedicated to the historical collecting and display of the material cultures of the... Læs mere
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Homemade Men in Postwar Austrian Cinema: Nationhood, Genre and Masculinity (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Provides a detailed overview of popular films in Austria during the era of reconstruction after World War II Draws on gender, culture and memory methodologies Articulates how and why it provided powerful representation for nation re-building
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The Economic Diplomacy of Ostpolitik: Origins of NATO's Energy Dilemma (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Despite the consensus that economic diplomacy played a crucial role in ending the Cold War, very little research has been done on the... Læs mere
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Displacement Beyond Conflict: Challenges for the 21st Century (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Climate change, accelerating environmental degradation, rapid industrialization and intensifying competition over the world's resources is creating population displacement on an unprecedented scale, resulting in serious societal conflict.
Status: Skaffevare (forvent 3 - 8 uger)
