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  • Choreographies of Landscape

    Signs of Performance in Yosemite National Park

    by Sally Ann Ness ...
    Series Book 8 - Dance and Performance Studies
    As an international ecotourism destination, Yosemite National Park welcomes millions of climbers, sightseers, and other visitors from around the world annually, all of whom are afforded dramatic experiences of the natural world. This original and cross-disciplinary book offers an ethnographic and performative study of Yosemite visitors in order to understand human connection with and within ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Ethnography of Tourism

    Edward Bruner and Beyond

    by Naomi M. Leite, Quetzil E. Castañeda, Margaret Byrne Swain, Julia Harrison, Mary Mostafanezhad, David Picard, Kathleen M. Adams, Edward M. Bruner0, Nelson Graburn1, Walter E. Little2, Sally Ann Ness3, Valerio Simoni4, Dr. Michael A. Di Giovine5 ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
    **Winner of the 2020 Edward M. Bruner Book Award from the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group**"Leite, Castaneda, and Adams's volume is a beautiful retrospective of the enduring importance of Ed Bruner's work and legacy in our field, and we have no doubt that it will be used as a central historical, theoretical, and teaching text by many." - Prize CommitteeWhat does it mean to study tourism ... Read more

    $52.99 CAD

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  • Understanding Kant: Concepts and Intuitions

    Understanding Philosophy, #4

    by Hercules Bantas ...
    Series Book 4 - Understanding Philosophy
    This guide examines Kant's theory of knowledge, specifically his arguments for separating human thought into concepts and intuitions. Based on the Critique of Pure Reason, this guide covers his critique of empirical and rational thought, and explains key concepts such as a priori judgements, analytic and synthetic judgements, and the difference between pure and empirical concepts. ... Read more

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  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    by Marshall Sahlins ...
    In this pithy two-part essay, Marshall Sahlins reinvigorates the debates on what constitutes kinship, building on some of the best scholarship in the field to produce an original outlook on the deepest bond humans can have. Covering thinkers from Aristotle and Lévy- Bruhl to Émile Durkheim and David Schneider, and communities from the Maori and the English to the Korowai of New Guinea, he draws on ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    by Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Book 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Communication Uncovered: General Semantics and Media Ecology

    by Corey Anton ...
    In this highly readable and well-arranged compilation-including his much-celebrated "The Practice of Reading Good Books" and award-winning "Playing with Bateson"-Corey Anton brings together some of his most accessible and well-received essays. The collection, in addition to advancing and integrating the fields of media ecology and general semantics, will be of great interest to people who are ... Read more

    $9.61 CAD

  • Culture and Communication

    An Introduction

    by James M. Wilce ...
    James M. Wilce's new textbook introduces students to the study of language as a tool in anthropology. Solidly positioned in linguistic anthropology, it is the first textbook to combine clear explanations of language and linguistic structure with current anthropological theory. It features a range of study aids, including chapter summaries, learning objectives, figures, exercises, key terms and ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Anthropology of Nature

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 2 March 2001

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    It looks as though the anthropology of nature is an oxymoron of sorts, given that for the past few centuries, nature has been characterized in the West by humans’ absence, and humans, by their capacity to overcome what is natural in them. But nature does not exist as a sphere of autonomous realities for all peoples. By positing a universal distribution of humans and non-humans in two separate ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Aesthetics of Care

    Practice in Everyday Life

    by Yuriko Saito ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Aesthetics
    Building upon her previous work on everyday aesthetics, Yuriko Saito argues in this book that the aesthetic and ethical concerns are intimately connected in our everyday life. Specifically, she shows how aesthetic experience embodies a care relationship with the world and how the ethical relationship with others, whether humans, non-human creatures, environments, or artifacts, is guided by ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    by David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The Anthropology of Performance

    A Reader

    by Frank J. Korom ...
    Series Book 29 - Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
    The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of performance in cultures around the globe. Leading anthropologists describe the range of human expression through performance and explore its role in constructing identity and community, ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD