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  • af Maurice Bloch
    489,95 - 1.735,95 kr.

    This book brings together recent work by Maurice Bloch which explores the highly controversial territory between the cognitive and social sciences. The essays are of broad, theoretical interest and aim to combine naturalistic approaches to cognition with a recognition and respect for the cultural and historical specificity of ethnography.

  • - Umeda Society, Language and Ritual
    af Alfred Gell
    433,95 - 1.732,95 kr.

  • af Friedrik Barth
    431,95 - 1.356,95 kr.

  • af E. R. Leach
    517,95 - 1.726,95 kr.

    A collection of essays from Edmund Leach, one of the original voices in the social anthropological tradition.

  • - A Sociologial Analysis Revised Edition Volume 24
    af Sybille Sprenkel
    1.737,95 kr.

    Mrs van der Sprenkel was led to undertake this journey by her experiences while living in China. lt is a detailed sociological analysis of the whole complex of legal and quasi-legal institutions during the Manchu period.

  •  
    1.346,95 kr.

    In 1947 members of the Department of Anthropology at the London School of Economics, under the leadership of Professor Firth, made a study of kinship in a South London borough.

  • - Selected Papers in Anthropology
    af Maurice Bloch
    510,95 - 1.421,95 kr.

    A collection of some of Maurice Bloch's most important work, including essays on power, hierarchy, death and fertility.

  • - An Anthropology of Everyday Life in a South Indian Fishing Village
    af Cecilia Busby
    331,95 - 1.735,95 kr.

    Presents a description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. This title offers an account of the lives of men and women in a South Indian fishing community that reveals fresh ways of framing gender relations, the body and kinship.

  •  
    1.760,95 kr.

    An ethnographic exploration of the rise of new forms of leadership at community and national levels with islanders are synthesising traditional and Western models.

  • - Essays in Honour of Lucy Mair
     
    1.359,95 kr.

    This volume in honour of Professor Mair reflects the range of her interests, and those of the Department in which she taught, in many areas of social anthropology.

  • af Lucy P. Mair
    416,95 - 1.732,95 kr.

    Contains fourteen lectures and essays dealing with mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'.

  • - Fukien and Kwantung
    af Maurice Freedman
    555,95 - 1.739,95 kr.

    Takes the argument set out in "Lineage Organization in South-Eastern China" a step further. This book incorporates some of Professor Freedman's field data. The author seeks to analyse certain crucial institutions of Chinese society within the framework of contemporary anthropological theory.

  • af Raymond Firth
    1.732,95 kr.

    In this volume Professor Firth has brought together and commented upon a number of his papers on anthropological subjects published over the last thirty years.

  • af Alan J.A. Elliott
    544,95 - 1.641,95 kr.

  • - Essays and Diagrams
    af Alfred Gell
    508,95 - 1.642,95 kr.

    Collects the author's writings. This title demonstrates his theoretical and empirical interests and his distinctive contribution to several key areas of anthropological enquiry. It is suitable for art historians, sociologists and geographers, and includes ideas about exchange, representation, aesthetics, and spatial and temporal processes.

  • - Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
     
    1.475,95 kr.

  • - A Study Of Kachin Social Structure
    af E. R. Leach
    464,95 - 1.741,95 kr.

  • - Ethnographies of Procreation, Fertility and Growth Volume 68
     
    554,95 kr.

    This volume provides an international analysis of the core metaphors and practices of human sexual and social reproduction in their personal, social and cosmological contexts.

  •  
    1.380,95 kr.

    Anthropology seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. This title contains essays that explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work and genocide, and our personal fears and desires.

  • - An Anthropological Reader
     
    1.768,95 kr.

    Presents an anthropological overview of industrialisation in both Western and non-Western societies. This book unpacks the 'world of industry' in the context of the shop floor, the family, and the city, revealing the rich social and political texture underpinning economic development.

  • af Yan Yunxiang
    500,95 - 1.732,95 kr.

    China presents an alternative model of social transformation in the age of globalization; therefore, its path to development may have particular implications for the developing world. This work reveals how individual agency has been on the rise since the 1970s and how this has affected everyday life and Chinese society more broadly.

  • - A Panara Ethnography
    af Elizabeth Ewart
    552,95 - 1.732,95 kr.

  •  
    412,95 kr.

    Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the flow of everyday life in Chinese communities.

  • - Striving in Securitized Britain
    af UK) Liberatore & Giulia (University of Edinburgh
    380,95 - 1.149,95 kr.

  • - Professional Aspiration in a South African Hospital
    af UK) Hull & Elizabeth (SOAS University of London
    500,95 - 1.348,95 kr.

  • - The Abstract Labour of German Management Consultants
    af UK.) Stein & Felix (University of Edinburgh
    497,95 - 1.354,95 kr.

  • - Morality and Practice
     
    362,95 kr.

    When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions.

  • - Morality and Practice
     
    1.356,95 kr.

    When humans cooperate, what are the social and psychological mechanisms that enable them to do so successfully? Is cooperativeness something natural for humans, built in to our species over the course of evolution, or rather something that depends on cultural learning and social interaction? This book addresses these central questions.

  • - Comparative Approaches to History, Politics and Religion
    af I. M. Lewis & Ioan Lewis
    434,95 kr.

    Presents a critique of the globalisation of the culture principle, arguing that theory is dependent on the actual study of peoples.

  • - Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao
    af Joao de Pina-Cabral
    412,95 - 1.404,95 kr.

    From the mid-1500s to December 1999, Macao was the longest-standing site of economic, religious and political contact between the Chinese and European worlds. This book shows that as a rear window on China, Macao provides us with examples of marginality that allow us to study the limits of the systems that characterize the Chinese world.