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Remembering Violence: Anthropological Perspectives on Intergenerational Transmission (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly.
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United in Discontent: Local Responses to Cosmopolitanism and Globalization (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Offers multi-disciplinary interpretations of cosmopolitanism and globlisation. Assumes an analytical and critical stance... Læs mere
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Out of the Study and Into the Field: Ethnographic Theory and Practice in French Anthropology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Outside France, French anthropology is conventionally seen as being dominated by grand theory produced by writers who have done little or no fieldwork themselves, and who may not even count as anthropologists in terms of the institutional structures of French academia.
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Reconstructing Obesity: The Meaning of Measures and the Mesure of Meanings (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
This volume draws on ethnographic methods and analytical emic explorations in order to consider the impact of cultural... Læs mere
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Powerless Science?: Science and Politics in a Toxic World (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In spite of decades of research on toxicants, along with the growing role of scientific expertise in public policy and the unprecedented rise in... Læs mere
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Variations on Uzbek Identity: Strategic Choices, Cognitive Schemas and Political Constraints in Identification Processes (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Combines a historical analysis with ethnographic field research Analyzes decision making processes by Uzbeks Examines ethnic groups in varying regions of contemporary Uzbekistan
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Metallic Modern: Everyday Machines in Colonial Sri Lanka (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Presents multi-scalar interconnected history from South Asia Focuses on modernity at an everyday level Research based on multiple archives in the USA, Sri Lanka and India
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Morality and Economic Growth in Rural West Africa: Indigenous Accumulation in Hausaland (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on fieldwork conducted in 2 national economic cycles, one of petroleum-boom prosperity, the other of... Læs mere
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We the Cosmopolitans: Moral and Existential Conditions of Being Human (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Explores the meaning of cosmopolitanism in the eyes of leading anthropologists Advances existential critique of abstract globalization discourse Enriches inter-disciplinary debates about neglected aspects of contemporary cosmopolitanism as a political and moral project
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Silence, Screen, and Spectacle: Rethinking Social Memory in the Age of Information (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In an age of information and new media the relationships between remembering and forgetting have changed.... Læs mere
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Peripheral Vision: Politics, Technology, and Surveillance (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
An in-depth ethnography of Portugal from 2005-2010 examining ‘modernization through technology’ Uses surveillance studies to explain the current... Læs mere
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The Hidden History of Crime, Corruption, and States (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
No other volume covers the collusion of lawmakers and lawbreakers in state formation over 300 years touching on each continent. Contributing scholars... Læs mere
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