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  • Challenge to Civilization

    Indigenous Wisdom and the Future

    by Alexander Blair Stonechild ...
    Rediscovering, valuing, and embracing Indigenous spirituality and wisdom is critical for humanity to survive in the future.Civilization is a western, Eurocentric construct borne from a distrust of nature, a desire to endlessly exploit it and profit from it. Despite being a relatively recent development, civilization’s inherent logic has resulted in over-population, inequality, poverty, misery, war ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Knowledge Seeker

    Embracing Indigenous Spirituality

    by Alexander Blair Stonechild ...
    In The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild shares his own sixty-year journey of learning—from residential school to PhD and beyond—looking all the while to find a place for Indigenous spirituality in the classroom. Encouraged by an Elder who insisted sacred information be written down, Stonechild explores the underlying philosophy of his people's teachings to demonstrate that Indigenous ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The New Buffalo

    The Struggle for Aboriginal Post-Secondary Education

    by Blair Stonechild ...
    Post-secondary education, often referred to as “the new buffalo,” is a contentious but critically important issue for First Nations and the future of Canadian society. While First Nations maintain that access to and funding for higher education is an Aboriginal and Treaty right, the Canadian government insists that post-secondary education is a social program for which they have limited ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality

    by Alexander Blair Stonechild ...
    The follow-up to his award-winning book The Knowledge Seeker, Blair Stonechild’s Loss of Indigenous Eden and the Fall of Spirituality continues to explore the Indigenous spiritual teachings passed down to the author by Elders, examining their relevance in today’s world.Exploring how the rise of civilization has been antithetical to the relational philosophy of Indigenous thinking—whereby all ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Principles of Subjective Anthropology

    Concepts and the Knowledge System

    by Binggong Chen ...
    Translated by Xianming Liu, A. Blair Stonechild ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This book puts forward the concept of “subjective anthropology” and outlines a theoretical system that will allow subjective anthropology to qualify as a new academic discipline in its own right. In an effort to respond to the field’s proper role as the science of humanity, subjective analysis has been introduced into the study of anthropology. The book fills two distinct gaps in our knowledge and ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced "a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally" (George Simpson, American Sociological Review ).In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and ... Read more

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  • The Social Construction of Reality

    A Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge

    by Peter L. Berger, Thomas Luckmann ...
    A general and systematic account of the role of knowledge in society aimed to stimulate both critical discussion and empirical investigations.This book is concerned with the sociology of ‘everything that passes for knowledge in society’. It focuses particularly on that ‘common-sense knowledge’ which constitutes the reality of everyday life for the ordinary member of society.The authors are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Freedom Paradox

    Towards a post-secular ethics

    by Clive Hamilton ...
    Why is it so many of us lack contentment, despite all the wealth and freedoms we enjoy?The past two centuries delivered individual and political freedoms that promised unprecedented opportunities for personal fulfilment. Yet citizens of affluent countries are encouraged to pursue lives of consumerism, endless choice and the pleasures of the body.Clive Hamilton argues that the paradox of modern ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Recognition and the Human Life-Form

    Beyond Identity and Difference

    by Heikki Ikäheimo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    What is recognition and why is it so important? This book develops a synoptic conception of the significance of recognition in its many forms for human persons by means of a rational reconstruction and internal critique of classical and contemporary accounts.The book begins with a clarification of several fundamental questions concerning recognition. It then reconstructs the core ideas of Fichte, ... Read more

    $77.99 CAD

  • Reflexive Methodology

    New Vistas for Qualitative Research

    by Mats Alvesson, Kaj Skoldberg ...
    Praise for the Second Edition:"In opposition to most literature on how to conduct good social science research which is either empirically oriented or gives priority to theoretical and philosophical considerations, which tends to make empirical research look odd or irrelevant, this volume on ′Reflexive Methodology′ explicitly turns towards a consideration of the perceptual, cognitive, theoretical, ... Read more

    $139.99 CAD

  • Valences of Interdisciplinarity

    Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

    Edited by Raphael Foshay ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced arguments. In recent decades, however, challenges to the hegemony of disciplines have arisen, ... Read more

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  • An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Human Mind

    Subjectivity, Science and Experiences in Change

    by Line Joranger ...
    Series series Cultural Dynamics of Social Representation
    One of the main aims of modern mental health care is to understand a person's explicit and implicit ways of thinking and acting. So, it may seem like the ultimate paradox that mental health care services are currently overflowing with brain concepts belonging to the external, visible brain-world and that neuroscientists are poised to become new experts on human conduct. An Interdisciplinary ... Read more

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