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  • Kinship, Ecology and History

    Renewal of Conjunctures

    by Laurent Dousset, Sejin Park, Georges Guille-Escuret ...
    The analysis of kinship plays a major role in social anthropology. However, the intellectual triumph of structuralism has transformed this analysis into an ivory tower and the methodological hegemony of functionalism inhibits any historical authority. Kinship, Ecology and History informs the reader of these old, yet long-lasting issues. By presenting new, original perspectives, this book reinvents ... Read more

    $174.99 CAD

  • The Scope of Anthropology

    Maurice Godelier’s Work in Context

    Edited by Laurent Dousset, Serge Tcherkézoff ...
    Series Book 23 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Some of the most prominent social and cultural anthropologists have come together in this volume to discuss Maurice Godelier’s work. They explore and revisit some of the highly complex practices and structures social scientists encounter in their fieldwork. From the nature–culture debate to the fabrication of hereditary political systems, from transforming gender relations to the problems of the ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • Pacific Realities

    Changing Perspectives on Resilience and Resistance

    Edited by Laurent Dousset, Mélissa Nayral ...
    Series Book 6 - Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists
    Throughout the Pacific region, people are faced with dramatic changes, often described as processes of “glocalization”; individuals and groups espouse multilayered forms of identity, in which global modes of thinking and doing are embedded in renewed perceptions of local or regional specificities. Consequently, new forms of resistance and resilience – the processes by which communities attempt to ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

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    by Charles Taylor ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    In Malaise of Modernity, Charles Taylor focuses on the key modern concept of self-fulfillment, often attacked as the central support of what Christopher Lasch has called the culture of narcissism. To Taylor, self-fulfillment, although often expressed in self-centered ways, isn't necessarily a rejection of traditional values and social commitment; it also reflects something authentic and valuable ... Read more

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  • The Will to Improve

    Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics

    by Tania Murray Li ...
    The Will to Improve is a remarkable account of development in action. Focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform. Deftly integrating theory, ethnography, and history, she illuminates the work ... Read more

    $34.09 CAD

  • Raising Resilient Children with a Borderline or Narcissistic Parent

    by Margalis Fjelstad, Jean McBride ...
    Being partnered with a narcissist or borderline personality can be hard enough, but learning how to shield children from the fallout is paramount. Here, the authors show readers how to manage parenting when a narcissistic or borderline partner is part of the equation.Life in a narcissistic family system is at best challenging, and too often filled with chaos, isolation, emotional outbursts, and ... Read more

    $24.49 CAD

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  • Out of the Dark Night

    Essays on Decolonization

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Achille Mbembe is one of the world’s most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new wave of French critical theory. His writings examine the complexities of decolonization for African subjectivities and the possibilities emerging in its wake. In Out of the Dark Night, he offers a rich analysis of the paradoxes of the postcolonial moment that ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Dispossession and the Environment

    Rhetoric and Inequality in Papua New Guinea

    by Paige West ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    When journalists, developers, surf tourists, and conservation NGOs cast Papua New Guineans as living in a prior nature and prior culture, they devalue their knowledge and practice, facilitating their dispossession. Paige West's searing study reveals how a range of actors produce and reinforce inequalities in today's globalized world. She shows how racist rhetorics of representation underlie all ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD

  • Critique of Black Reason

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Translated by Laurent Dubois ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Critique of Black Reason eminent critic Achille Mbembe offers a capacious genealogy of the category of Blackness—from the Atlantic slave trade to the present—to critically reevaluate history, racism, and the future of humanity. Mbembe teases out the intellectual consequences of the reality that Europe is no longer the world's center of gravity while mapping the relations among colonialism, ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • On the Postcolony

    by Achille Mbembe ...
    Series Book 41 - Studies on the History of Society and Culture
    Achille Mbembe is one of the most brilliant theorists of postcolonial studies writing today. In On the Postcolony he profoundly renews our understanding of power and subjectivity in Africa. In a series of provocative essays, Mbembe contests diehard Africanist and nativist perspectives as well as some of the key assumptions of postcolonial theory.This thought-provoking and groundbreaking collection ... Read more

    $20.89 CAD

  • Modern Social Imaginaries

    by Charles Taylor, Dilip Parameshwar Gaonkar, Jane Kramer, Benjamin Lee, Michael Warner ...
    Series series Public planet books
    One of the most influential philosophers in the English-speaking world, Charles Taylor is internationally renowned for his contributions to political and moral theory, particularly to debates about identity formation, multiculturalism, secularism, and modernity. In Modern Social Imaginaries, Taylor continues his recent reflections on the theme of multiple modernities. To account for the ... Read more

    $29.69 CAD

  • Ethno-erotic Economies

    Sexuality, Money, and Belonging in Kenya

    by George Paul Meiu ...
    Ethno-erotic Economies explores a fascinating case of tourism focused on sex and culture in coastal Kenya, where young men deploy stereotypes of African warriors to help them establish transactional sexual relationships with European women. In bars and on beaches, young men deliberately cultivate their images as sexually potent African men to attract women, sometimes for a night, in other cases ... Read more

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