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  • An Anthropology of Absence

    Materializations of Transcendence and Loss

    In studying material culture, anthropologists and archaeologists use meaningful physical objects from a culture to help understand the less tangible aspects of that culture, such as societal structure, rituals, and values. What happens when these objects are destroyed, by war, natural disaster, or other historical events? Through detailed explanations of eleven international case studies, the ... Leer más

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  • Waterworlds

    Anthropology in Fluid Environments

    Edición de Kirsten Hastrup, Frida Hastrup ...
    Series Libro 3 - Ethnography, Theory, Experiment
    In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world where unbounded relationalities and unsettled frames of orientation mark the lives of all, ... Leer más

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  • Outside in the Teaching Machine

    Series series Routledge Classics
    Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak is one of the most pre-eminent postcolonial theorists writing today and a scholar of genuinely global reputation. This collection, first published in 1993, presents some of Spivak’s most engaging essays on works of literature such as Salman Rushdie's controversial Satanic Verses, and twentieth century thinkers such as Jacques Derrida and Karl Marx. Spivak relentlessly ... Leer más

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  • Investigating Culture

    An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology

    de Carol Delaney ...
    The third edition of Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology, the highly praised innovative approach to introducing aspects of cultural anthropology to students, features a series of revisions, updates, and new material.Offers a refreshing alternative to introductory anthropology texts by challenging students to think in new ways and apply cultural learnings to their ... Leer más

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  • Death of a Discipline

    Series series The Wellek Library Lectures
    For almost three decades, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak has been ignoring the standardized "rules" of the academy and trespassing across disciplinary boundaries. Today she remains one of the foremost figures in the study of world literature and its cultural consequences. In this new book she declares the death of comparative literature as we know it and sounds an urgent call for a "new comparative ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies

    Edición de Robert A. Orsi ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    The Cambridge Companion to Religious Studies is both informative and provocative, introducing readers to key debates in the contemporary study of religion and suggesting future research possibilities. A group of distinguished scholars takes up some of the most pressing theoretical questions in the field. What is a 'religious tradition'? How are religious texts read? What takes place when a ... Leer más

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Leer más

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  • Philosophy and the Study of Religions

    A Manifesto

    Series series Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
    Philosophy and the Study of Religions: A Manifesto advocates a radical transformation of the discipline from its current, narrow focus on questions of God, to a fully global form of critical reflection on religions in all their variety and dimensions.Opens the discipline of philosophy of religion to the religious diversity that characterizes the world todayBuilds bridges between philosophy of ... Leer más

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  • The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

    Edición de John Hinnells ...
    Series series Routledge Religion Companions
    The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion is a major resource for courses in Religious Studies. It begins by explaining the most important methodological approaches to religion, including psychology, philosophy, anthropology and comparative study, before moving on to explore a wide variety of critical issues, such as gender, science, fundamentalism, ritual, and new religious movements. ... Leer más

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  • Religion, Media and Culture: A Reader

    This Reader brings together a selection of key writings to explore the relationship between religion, media and cultures of everyday life. It provides an overview of the main debates and developments in this growing field, focusing on four major themes:Religion, spirituality and consumer cultureMedia and the transformation of religionThe sacred senses: visual, material and audio cultureReligion, ... Leer más

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  • Materiality

    Throughout history and across social and cultural contexts, most systems of belief—whether religious or secular—have ascribed wisdom to those who see reality as that which transcends the merely material. Yet, as the studies collected here show, the immaterial is not easily separated from the material. Humans are defined, to an extraordinary degree, by their expressions of immaterial ideals through ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Comparison

    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Leer más

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