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  • - An Anthropology of Irish Catholics
    af Lawrence J. Taylor
    318,95 kr.

    Presents devotional "occasions" or experiences by Irish Catholics. This is an anthropological study of Irish Catholicism. It includes ethnographical material, archival sources, cultural observations, accounts of individual experiences, and scrutiny of religious questions and theories which illuminates twenty years of ethnographic fieldwork.

  • - An Italian Middle Class in the Shade of Revitalization
    af Emanuela Guano
    684,95 kr.

    Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research in Genoa, Italy, Creative Urbanity argues for an understanding of contemporary urban life that refuses scholarly condemnation of urban lifestyles and consumption and casts a fresh light on an oft-neglected social group-the middle class.

  • - Ethnography and Estrangement
    af Dan Rose
    928,95 kr.

    Dan Rose draws on the fact and metaphor of colonization to demonstrate that the central motive in the contemporary United States has been-and continues to be-the corporate form, the purpose of which is to create new resources, new products, new landscapes, new ideas, and new markets. These corporations determine who we are and what we can do.

  • - Kinesthetic and Visual Symbolism in a Philippine Community
    af Sally Ann Ness
    323,95 kr.

  • af John D. Dorst
    318,95 kr.

    In Looking West, John D. Dorst examines a largely neglected pattern of seeing that stands in contrast to the universally familiar iconography.

  • - The Aesthetics of Illness and Healing in the Nepal Himalayas
    af Robert R. Desjarlais
    323,95 kr.

    Presents a study of the relationship between culture and emotional distress, an examination of the cultural forces that influence, make sense of, and heal severe pain and malaise.

  • - Sanity and Selfhood Among the Homeless
    af Robert R. Desjarlais
    323,95 kr.

    "Beautifully crafted, powerfully illustrated with conversation, theoretically important, and almost unique as an ethnography."-Arthur Kleinman, Harvard University

  • - Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel
    af Glenn Hinson
    413,95 kr.

    Fire in My Bones contributes to our understanding of gospel-and of the nature of religious experience in general.

  • - Deep in the Heart of Tejas
    af Douglas E. Foley
    273,95 kr.

    Building on the author's thirty-six years of experience with North Town, Texas, this second edition presents an ethnographic study of the ways the town's youth learn traditional American values through participation in sports, membership in formal and informal social groups, dating, and interactions with teachers in the classroom.

  • - Between Rural and Urban North India
    af Ann Grodzins Gold
    323,95 - 983,95 kr.

    Ann Grodzins Gold weaves together an integrated series of ethnographic sketches depicting the distinctive nature of non-urban, non-rural places; the impact locality has on belonging; the negotiations of difference required in a pluralistic society; and the ways a changing environment permeates experiences of self and place.

  • - Stories of a Himalayan Hunter
    af Joseph S. Alter
    273,95 kr.

  • - Belonging in the New Cyprus
    af Rebecca Bryant
    273,95 kr.

    By examining oral history collected during two years of fieldwork, anthropologist Rebecca Bryant investigates why the 2003 opening of the ceasefire line dividing Cyprus has not led the country any closer to reunification, and how in many ways it has driven the two communities of the island farther apart.

  • - An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma
    af John D. Dorst
    313,95 kr.

    "A subversive and postmodern work about the town of Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. The book considers Wyeth country-what kind of place it is and how it is constituted... Dorst asks questions about how the place represents itself to itself and to tourists."-Lingua Franca

  • - Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets
    af Sonia Silva
    273,95 kr.

    Anthropologist Sonia Silva examines how a community of Luvale people, Angolan refugees living in Zambia, use lipele divination baskets to cope with daily life in a new land and maintain connections to their past.

  • - Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City
    af Jacqueline Copeland-Carson
    363,95 kr.

    "'Who is 'African' in a global ecumene? Anthropologist Copeland Carson poses this challenging question in her study of cultural dynamics in Minneapolis-Saint Paul. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice

  • - Legality and Kinship in Transplants
    af Marie-Andree Jacob
    823,95 kr.

    This sensitive ethnography reveals the methods and mindsets of doctors, patients, donors, and sellers in Israel's living kidney transplant bureaus. Matching Organs with Donors describes how these actors identify and adjudicate suitable matches between donor and recipient using terms borrowed from definitions of kinship.

  • - Gender and Politics in Sri Lanka
    af Sandya Hewamanne
    318,95 kr.

    By analyzing how Sri Lankan free trade zone factory workers claim political subjectivity and revealing a vibrant subaltern political universe where they can express alternative perspectives, Stitching Identities in a Free Trade Zone challenges conventional notions about marginalized women at the bottom of the global economy.

  • af Bilinda Straight
    273,95 kr.

    The miraculous blends with the mundane in this book as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes miracles inside the cultural logic that makes them possible, questioning how anthropology can best engage with the improbable.

  • af Amanda Wise
    828,95 kr.

    Drawing on innovative ethnographic research, Exile and Return Among the East Timorese explores questions of shifting identity and home, trauma and embodiment, belonging and return among the East Timorese abroad at this critical juncture in their lives.

  • - Sierra Leonean Muslims in America
    af JoAnn D'Alisera
    313,95 kr.

    In An Imagined Geography, anthropologist JoAnn D'Alisera demonstrates persuasively that the long-held anthropological paradigms of separate, bounded, and unique communities, geographically located and neatly localized, must be reconsidered in light of the range and diversity of the Sierra Leonean diaspora.

  • - Spirit Possession in Brazilian Candomble
    af Jim Wafer
    318,95 kr.

    "The Taste of Blood brilliantly explores both Condomble and the representations of ethnographic research."-Folklore Forum

  • - Coming To Know Another Culture
    af Ernestine McHugh
    318,95 kr.

    "A stunning, emotionally charged, intellectually stimulating, and aesthetically crafted fieldwork memoir. This is a book I will teach often, recommend to colleagues, and share with family and friends for its multifaceted delights."-Kirin Narayan, University of Wisconsin, Madison

  • - Folk Narrative in Hindu Religious Teaching
    af Kirin Narayan
    273,95 kr.

    Supplements eight folk narratives with discussion of audience participation and response as well as relevant Hindu themes.

  • - Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
    af Christopher Dole
    833,95 kr.

    Anthropologist Christopher Dole investigates the controversial position of religious healing in modern Turkey, demonstrating that the authority of the religious healer is deeply embedded within Turkey's history of secular reform, and that religious healing and secularism share a set of common stakes.

  • - Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
    af Sabina Magliocco
    323,95 kr.

    "Magliocco impressively corrals the diverse writings and experiences of U.S. neo-pagans into this highly readable and deeply researched ethnographic study. . . . Highly recommended."-Choice

  • - Dialogues with Sikh Militants
    af Cynthia Keppley Mahmood
    343,95 kr.

    "A stunning presentation of narrative ethnography, achieving the remarkable feat of forcing the reader to enter into the world-and the world view-of those whom most of us would regard as terrorists."-Mark Juergensmeyer, UCSB

  • - A New Interpretation of African Healing
    af Edith Turner
    273,95 kr.

    Gives an account of how the author sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. This work presents a view not common in anthropological writings - the view of millions of Africans - that ritual is the harnessing of spiritual power.

  • - Moroccan Women and the Revoicing of Tradition
    af Deborah Kapchan
    318,95 kr.

    "Kapchan's splendid enthnographic study of women's performance genres in Beni Mellal, Morocco, is an outstanding contribution to gender studies and to the understanding of Middle Eastern society."-Choice

  • af Paul Stoller
    273,95 kr.

    Challenges social theorists and cultural critics who, using the notion of embodiment to critique Eurocentric and phallocentric predispositions in scholarly thought, consider the body primarily as a text that can be read and analyzed. This book argues that this attitude is in itself Eurocentric.