Alter-Politics is concerned with the way anthropological critical writing in particular aims to weave oppositional concerns (anti-politics) with a search for alternatives (alter-politics): alternative economies, alternative modes of inhab...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 20-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: HAU Society Of Ethnographic Theory, ISBN-13: 9781914363191)
An English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency shows through rich ethnographic analysis how Mande people in West Africa resort to multiple ritual practices to add...Daugiau...
This edited volume operationalizes the figure of the ghost and subsequent hauntings through Derridas framing of hauntologyin an effort to attend to the liminal spaces that exist between presence and absence throughout social...Daugiau...
This book documents linguistic practices and ideologies toward language, identity, and nationalism among 35 members of the first generation in Spain to grow up with democracy and Catalan language normalization. Part I reproduces, translate...Daugiau...
The Dialectics of Two Refusals endeavors to use the multifarious optics of China to critically reinterpret and rehistoricize a wide set of Western cinematic representations of the 1968 disruptions beyond the traditional epistemological confines of...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: The Bodley Head Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781847928405)
What if a lie is told to reveal some underlying truth? Are feelings that seem inappropriate, such as the hysteria following the death of a celebrity, any less real or true than the grief we feel over the death of a loved one? Even if the plot of an...Daugiau...
The Mayan peoples of highland Guatemala live within an animate world, where the physical environment, ancestors, and surrounding people, plants, and animals are infused with spirit and presence.At the heart of this daily engagement are...Daugiau...
For example, many content analyses examine reporting about the migrants (especially the Turks) but neglect various diversity categories (e.g., gender, age). Therefore, this volume analyzes the contribution that critical ethnological perspectives...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646427307)
This book documents experiences and cultural practices of the Yupik people of southwest Alaska, including discussions about shamans and their roles within the Yupik community. Conversations in the Yupik language are featured in the bilingual sect...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781646427291)
Angalkut/Shamans in Yupik Oral Tradition collects over thirty years worth of shaman stories, told as part of gatherings organized by the Calista Elders Council to document Yupik traditional knowledge. These conversations highlight the criti...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Bristol University Press, ISBN-13: 9781529236057)
Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Peru, this book analyses how Indigenous peasant women who have experienced reproductive violence describe the harms of forced sterilization and the complexities of using human and reproductive rights frameworks t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487565701)
How do our beliefs about living with chronic illness shape the way we approach treatment and care?Savoring Care challenges conventional narratives about living with type 2 diabetes. A chronic condition defined by insulin resist...Daugiau...
The book examines ethnographic insights into how everyday conceptualizations of justice emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by differently positioned actors at work on Assams tea plantations. Four workings of justice are analyze...Daugiau...
Labor on the Line provides insights into the worlds largest tea-growing region of Assam. Anna-Lena Wolf examines everyday conceptualizations of justice: how they emerge, become prevalent, transform, and are negotiated by diff...Daugiau...
Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation examines the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice and equity issues in todays societies across the world. The book provides rea...Daugiau...
Serija: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Syracuse University Press, ISBN-13: 9780815611950)
This title provides an intimate portrait of Syrian displacement through the lives of five Syrian women as they cross borders, create new homes, and navigate complex transformations of their identities and families-- While humanitarian or...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501782824)
Access Vernaculars is an anthropological account of accessible design for mobility disability in Russia in the 2010s, including interviews with disabled people in Russia and a consideration of how the concept of accessibility in the built environme...Daugiau...
Access Vernaculars explores moments when accessible design fails. Observing how both disabled and nondisabled people in Russia recognize and point out poorly executed accessible design in built environments, ethnographer Cassa...Daugiau...
Andrew Brandel, Veena Das, Sandra Laugier, Perig Pitrou
Serija: Anthropological Horizons
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487550646)
A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that...Daugiau...
Moving Deserts re-examines the concept of resilience, as applied in the development sector. It gives central stage to the voices, experiences, memories and everyday lives of the people whose resilience is the subject of much international attention...Daugiau...
