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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “urmila mohan”
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  • Masking in Pandemic U.S.

    Beliefs and Practices of Containment and Connection

    by Urmila Mohan ...
    Series series Routledge Focus on Anthropology
    This anthropological study explores the beliefs and practices that emerged around masking in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic. Americans responded to this illness as unique subjects navigating the flux of social and corporeal boundaries, supporting certain beliefs and acting to shape them as compelling realities. Debates over health and safety mandates indicated that responses were fractured ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Efficacy of Intimacy and Belief in Worldmaking Practices

    Edited by Urmila Mohan ...
    This book explores ‘efficacious intimacy’ as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains. The study of how beliefs make and manifest power through their sociality and materiality can reveal who, or what, is considered effective in a particular socio-cultural context. The chapters feature case studies drawn from diverse ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

  • The Material Subject

    Rethinking Bodies and Objects in Motion

    Edited by Urmila Mohan, Laurence Douny ...
    The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power.Through theoretical ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

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    Anthropological Perspectives on Tree Symbolism

    Edited by Laura Rival ...
    Series series Materializing Culture
    The passionate response of the British public to the Newbury Bypass is a revealing measure of how strongly people feel about trees and the environment. Similarly, in the United States, the giant sequoia of California is an enduring national symbol that inspires intense feelings. As rainforests are sacrificed to the interests of multi-national corporations and traditional ways of life disappear, ... Read more

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  • Hospicing Modernity

    Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism

    by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira ...
    A thought-provoking guide to facing global pandemics, climate change, and other modern crises with maturity, humility, and integrity—for fans of Everything Is F*cked and Against PurityThis book is not easy: it contains no quick-fix plan for a better, brighter tomorrow, and gives no ready-made answers. Instead, Vanessa Machado de Oliveira presents us with a challenge: to grow up, step up, and show ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Animal Intimacies

    Interspecies Relatedness in India's Central Himalayas

    by Radhika Govindrajan ...
    "A delightful read [and] an important addition to human-animal relations studies." — Anthropology MattersWhat does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care, kinship, violence, politics, indifference, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals.Built on extensive ethnographic ... Read more

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  • National Performance

    Representing Quebec from Expo 67 to Celine Dion

    by Erin Hurley ...
    In National Performance, Erin Hurley examines the complex relationship between performance and national identity. How do theatrical performances represent the nation in which they were created? How is Quebecois performance used to define Quebec as a nation and to cultivate a sense of 'Quebec-ness' for audiences both within and outside the province? In exploring Expo 67, the critical response to ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Restoring the Kinship Worldview

    Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

    by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows), Darcia Narvaez PhD ...
    **28 speeches and reflections from Indigenous leaders around the worldWisdom for our times, nourishment for our collective, and a pathway forward toward sustainable, interconnected futures**Indigenous worldviews, and the knowledge they confer, are critical for human survival and the wellbeing of future generations. Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows) and Darcia Narvaez present and discuss 28 powerful ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries

    by Gerard Bouchard, Les Editions du Boreal ...
    Translated by Howard Scott ...
    Myths are commonly associated with illusions or with deceptive, dangerous discourse, and are often perceived as largely the domain of premodern societies. But even in our post-industrial, technologically driven world, myths – Western or Eastern, ancient or modern, religious or scientific – are in fact powerful, pervasive forces.In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Against Purity

    Living Ethically in Compromised Times

    by Alexis Shotwell ...
    The world is in a terrible mess. It is toxic, irradiated, and full of injustice. Aiming to stand aside from the mess can produce a seemingly satisfying self-righteousness in the scant moments we achieve it, but since it is ultimately impossible, individual purity will always disappoint. Might it be better to understand complexity and, indeed, our own complicity in much of what we think of as bad, ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Signing and Belonging in Nepal

    by Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway ...
    While many deaf organizations around the world have adopted an ethno-linguistic framing of deafness, the meanings and consequences of this perspective vary across cultural contexts, and relatively little scholarship exists that explores this framework from an anthropological perspective.In this book, Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway presents an accessible examination of deafness in Nepal. As a linguistic ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD