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Nanotech and the Humanities
An Anthropologist Observes the Science of Atoms and Molecules
Toumey shows that the humanities and social sciences play a major role in contributing to our understanding of nanotechnology, and illuminates various societal and ethical issues that are often found in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and microelectronics.
Toumey shows that the humanities and social sciences play a major role in contributing to our understanding of nanotechnology, and illuminates various societal and ethical issues that are often found in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and microelectronics.
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Entanglements of Life with the Law
Precarity and Justice in London’s Magistrates’ Courts
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London's magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city's most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
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Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland
Practice, Performance and Meaning
Discover the little-known world of Nollywood in Europe. This book reveals how African migrants use film to represent their complex lives, challenging colonial narratives and forging a bold, new transnational cinema.
Discover the little-known world of Nollywood in Europe. This book reveals how African migrants use film to represent their complex lives, challenging colonial narratives and forging a bold, new transnational cinema.
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Food and Cultural (In)Compatibilities
12 Points of View
Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.
Specialists in fields from anthropology to linguistics explore how we understand the cultural heritage of food and how it defines the stratification of society. Providing insights into physical and cultural food, this book offers a higher level of understanding of our world.
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All around the globe, people perform acts of philanthropy. This book presents philanthropy as a universal societal system that deserves a distinctive academic discipline: the science of philanthropology.
All around the globe, people perform acts of philanthropy. This book presents philanthropy as a universal societal system that deserves a distinctive academic discipline: the science of philanthropology.
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Land of Fertility III
The Southeast Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest
Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt's relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?
Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt’s relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?
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This book explores how digital technologies contribute to the expression, construction, and enactment of identities. Drawing from various disciplines, it examines the nearly limitless opportunities for staging and transforming the self in our modern world.
This book explores how digital technologies contribute to the expression, construction, and enactment of identities. Drawing from various disciplines, it examines the nearly limitless opportunities for staging and transforming the self in our modern world.
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All Graceful Instruments
The Contexts of the Grateful Dead Phenomenon
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band's success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
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Postcolonial Identities
Constructing the "New Irish"
One man’s story of exile and renewal. Traumatised by the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda, artist Jean Hakizimana journeyed to Ireland. There, he rediscovered the healing power of painting, his story reflecting the multicultural experience of the “new” Irish.
One man’s story of exile and renewal. Traumatised by the genocides of Burundi and Rwanda, artist Jean Hakizimana journeyed to Ireland. There, he rediscovered the healing power of painting, his story reflecting the multicultural experience of the “new” Irish.
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Snakes, People, and Spirits, Volume Two
Traditional Eastern Africa in its Broader Context
This study explores the multifaceted ophidian symbolism of Eastern Africa and its mysterious “snake priests,” whose curse was like a serpent's bite. It shows the widely held assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
This study explores the multifaceted ophidian symbolism of Eastern Africa and its mysterious “snake priests,” whose curse was like a serpent’s bite. It shows the widely held assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
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The Limits of the Human Species in the Face of Sustainable Development
A Multidisciplinary Approach
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
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A radical reappraisal of the relationship between East and West. This inter-disciplinary volume refutes Euro-centric assumptions, exploring the complex cultural, diplomatic, mercantile, and military encounters between 1453 and 1699.
A radical reappraisal of the relationship between East and West. This inter-disciplinary volume refutes Euro-centric assumptions, exploring the complex cultural, diplomatic, mercantile, and military encounters between 1453 and 1699.
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Survivors of Suicide
A Qualitative Study on Survivors of Suicide
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
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Anthropological Fieldwork
A Relational Process
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
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Restoring Our Humanity
Six Essays
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
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Reveries of Home
Nostalgia, Authenticity and the Performance of Place
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
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These essays feature an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians and anthropologists, who address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums and the value of studying arms in order to write richer cultural histories.
These essays feature an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians and anthropologists, who address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums and the value of studying arms in order to write richer cultural histories.
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This timely contribution explores the theme of evidence in anthropology. Using diverse case studies, these ethnographically-grounded essays ask: What constitutes viable evidence? Together, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence.
This timely contribution explores the theme of evidence in anthropology. Using diverse case studies, these ethnographically-grounded essays ask: What constitutes viable evidence? Together, they challenge the boundaries of what anthropologists recognise and construct as evidence.
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This book marks a new direction in Eurasian archaeology, focusing on how people lived in their local environments. It re-images Eurasia as a complex landscape of shifting social boundaries, questioning rigid stereotypes and offering novel interpretations of the past.
This book marks a new direction in Eurasian archaeology, focusing on how people lived in their local environments. It re-images Eurasia as a complex landscape of shifting social boundaries, questioning rigid stereotypes and offering novel interpretations of the past.
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Orientalism is typically associated with Western scholars. This book presents alternative views from regions like Latin America, also affected by colonialism. Rather than constructing the Orient as an inferior other, these essays attempt to understand the Asian within us.
Orientalism is typically associated with Western scholars. This book presents alternative views from regions like Latin America, also affected by colonialism. Rather than constructing the Orient as an inferior other, these essays attempt to understand the Asian within us.
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