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The Gift: The Form and Reason for Exchange in Archaic Societies (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In The Gift (1925), Marcel Mauss elevates a simple gift from the status of innocent object to something that has the capacity to motivate people and define social relationships.
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The Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In this original and controversial 2005 book, Mahmood argues that Muslim women can show independence even while assuming traditional... Læs mere
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An Ain't No Makin' It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low Income Neighborhood (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
MacLeod’s 1987 work, ground-breaking for the way it combines field research with theory, follows the lives of two groups of... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Structural Anthropology (1958) not only transformed the discipline of anthropology, it also energized a movement called structuralism that came to dominate the humanities and social sciences for a generation.
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An Analysis of Geert Hofstede's Culture's Consequences: Comparing Values, Behaviors, Institutes and Organizations across Nations (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Culture’s Consequences was the first study took and in depth look at... Læs mere
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An Liquidated:: An Ethnography of Wall Street (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York’s famous Wall Street.
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The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Up to the mid 20th century, generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems into their work, regardless of where they were studying.... Læs mere
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An Analysis of James Ferguson's The Anti-Politics Machine: Machine "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
The Anti-Politics Machine (1990) examines how international development projects are conceived, researched, and put into practice.
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An Analysis of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard’s work became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft.
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An Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
In Collapse, Diamond identifies five factors he believes determine the success or failure of all human societies throughout history. Asking first why... Læs mere
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An Analysis of Franz Boas's Race, Language and Culture: Race, Language and Culture (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Born in 1858, Franz Boas permanently changed the standards and practices of anthropology. His 1940 work Race, Language and Culture brings together a half-century’s worth of ground-breaking scholarship in one volume.
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An Analysis of Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalisation (Bog, Hardback, Engelsk)
Modernity at Large is an edited collection of the essays that made Appadurai an influential figure in cultural anthropology. Collectively, these not only present a theory of globalization, but also suggest ways that other researchers can follow up on the author’s ideas. .
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