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Cet essai considère l'espace public mexicain en tant que construction sociale hiérarchisée, révélatrice des rapports de pouvoir et des orientations idéologiques qui se manifestent depuis que les femmes autochtones, organisées collectivement, y jouent un rle spécifique, tant économique que politique. L'analyse des dispositifs de développement rural, au sein de l'espace économique, met en évidence les phénomènes d'altérisation mais aussi...
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Sherry B. Ortner, quien ha mantenido un permanente interés por las teorías sobre prácticas culturales, parte de ellas para repensar los conceptos clave de cultura, agencia y subjetividad. De los ensayos que integran este volumen, algunos ofrecen una reflexión expresa sobre temas teóricos: la relación entre la agencia y el poder, la viabilidad de una antropología de la subjetividad y el carácter problemático de los estudios etnográficos de...
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By 2008, total Fair Trade purchases in the developed world reached nearly $3 billion, a five-fold increase in four years. Consumers pay a "fair price" for Fair Trade items, which are meant to generate greater earnings for family farmers, cover the costs of production, and support socially just and environmentally sound practices. Yet constrained by existing markets and the entities that dominate them, Fair Trade often delivers material improvements...
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Giuseppe Scaraffia elabora un incisivo diccionario con términos que van desde "Animal" hasta "Vulgar" pasando por "Cigarro" y "Satanismo". El dandi, siguiendo a Baudelaire, es la avanzadilla del arte moderno, su aspecto más cómico y brutal. Pero para Scaraffia, que rastrea su influencia hasta el siglo XXI, es mucho más: un filósofo que nos hace replantearnos nuestra relación con los objetos y con la sociedad.
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In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps. Challenging the conventional notion that these often malevolent demons belong exclusively to a realm of folklore or superstition separate from Christianity, Charles Stewart looks at beliefs about the exotikNB and the Orthodox Devil to demonstrate the interdependency of doctrinal and local religion....
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In this richly detailed, sensitive ethnographic work, Sally Cole takes as her starting point the firsthand accounts of five differently situated Portuguese women, who describe their lives in a rural fishing community on the north coast of Portugal. Skillfully combining these life stories with cultural and economic analysis, Cole radically departs from the picture of women as sexual beings that prevails in the anthropological literature on Europe and...
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Robert W. Hefner is Professor of Anthropology at Boston University, where he directs the Program in Civic Culture at the Institute for the Study of Economic Culture. The author of The Political Economy of Mountain Java and Hindu Javanese: Tengger Tradition and Islam (Princeton), he is also editor of Democratic Civility: The Cross-Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal and Market Cultures: Society and Morality in the New Asian Capitalisms....
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En mai 2011, le gouvernement du Québec lançait un projet de développement économique visant la mise en valeur et l'exploitation des ressources naturelles dans le nord de la province : le Plan Nord. Parmi les réactions qu'a provoquées l'annonce de ce projet controversé, des voix autochtones se sont fait entendre, notamment celles des femmes innues.
Le présent ouvrage s'intéresse à la résistance des femmes innues à ce projet, plus précisément...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1997" Deborah Poole is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York. Her previous publications include Unruly Order: Violence, Power, and Cultural Identity in the High Provinces of Southern Peru and Peru: Time of Fear.
Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.S. archives, Deborah Poole...
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The United States and the countries of Latin America were all colonized by Europeans, yet in terms of economic development, the U.S. far outstripped Latin America beginning in the nineteenth century. Observers have often tried to account for this disparity, many of them claiming that differences in cultural attitudes toward work explain the U.S.'s greater prosperity. In this innovative study, however, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view...
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Belmonte describes Fontana del Re, an impoverished Neapolitan neighborhood, documenting the struggles of Neapolitans surrounded by crumbling buildings and economic insecurity. Resisting standard depictions of the social and moral lives of the poor, Belmonte presents nuanced portraits of his subjects. He was also one of the first anthropologists to reflect on his own reactions and emotions. He describes the traumatic experience of living alone in a...
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The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps Anthropology and the Human Subject provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western intellectual tradition, focusing specifically on the secular trends of the twentieth century. Encyclopaedic in scope, lucidly and engagingly written,...
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This book opens a window on our historical past. We find antiquity has drawn a blind over earlier and more humanitarian cultures, writing off their artistic and egalitarian practices while antiquitys social habits escalated stress. Psychologists have recently made us aware that stress has very negative results for community life. Simultaneously, archaeologists have uncovered information about Neolithic cultures and art that makes no sense seen beside...
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Matthew Engelke is professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. An award-winning author and teacher, he is also a former editor of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subject
What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century,...
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Professor of Anthropology and History, Geoff Eley is Professor of History, and Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, all at the University of Michigan.
The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology...
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Study the diverse cultures of the world and the common threads of humanity in this wonderfully visual guide to anthropology, covering everything you would find on a degree course.
A Degree in a Book: Anthropology dives deep into the study of human culture and societies. Discover the impact of language on understanding, how different societies approach family and kinship and how different cultures are, studied, as well as how anthropology is used...
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El método etnográfico consiste en animarse a abandonar la comodidad de una oficina y meter los pies en el barro del terreno, a fin de entender cómo vive y piensa, siente y cree un grupo humano. Para lograrlo, el etnógrafo deberá comparecer en persona ante los miembros de ese grupo y sostener un contacto prolongado con ellos, conversando y compartiendo actividades sociales tan variadas como cocinar, bailar o jugar al fútbol, siempre que sus condiciones...
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Michael Herzfeld describes what happens when a bureaucracy charged with historic conservation clashes with a local populace hostile to the state and suspicious of tourism. Focusing on the Cretan town of Rethemnos, once a center of learning under Venetian rule and later inhabited by the Turks, he examines major questions confronting conservators and citizens as they negotiate the "ownership" of history: Who defines the past? To whom does the past belong?...
79) Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement
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"If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot coals, and, second,...
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En este libro se recopila una serie de textos sobre diversos aspectos de las
sociedades prehispánicas colombianas. Algunos presentan información general
sobre el poblamiento del territorio, o las grandes tendencias de cambio en estrategias
de subsistencia a lo largo de la historia. Otros evalúan aspectos como la
alimentación y su relación con el cambio social, la producción alfarera, orfebre o
textil, o los aspectos relacionados con la diferenciación...
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