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  • Wayward Women

    Sexuality and Agency in a New Guinea Society

    de Holly Wardlow ...
    Written with uncommon grace and clarity, this extremely engaging ethnography analyzes female agency, gendered violence, and transactional sex in contemporary Papua New Guinea. Focusing on Huli "passenger women," (women who accept money for sex) Wayward Women explores the socio-economic factors that push women into the practice of transactional sex, and asks how these transactions might be an ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • The Making of Global and Local Modernities in Melanesia

    Humiliation, Transformation and the Nature of Cultural Change

    de Holly Wardlow ...
    Series series Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific
    Authored by well-established and respected scholars, this work examines the kinds of efforts that have been made to adopt Western modernity in Melanesia and explores the reasons for their varied outcomes. The contributors take the work of Professor Marshall Sahlins as a starting point, assessing his theories of cultural change and of the relationship between cultural intensification and ... Leer más

    $57.99 USD

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  • What Kinship Is-And Is Not

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    de Matthew Engelke ...
    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

    $15.09 USD

  • Beyond Learning by Doing

    Theoretical Currents in Experiential Education

    de Jay W. Roberts ...
    What is experiential education? What are its theoretical roots? Where does this approach come from? Offering a fresh and distinctive take, this book is about going beyond "learning by doing" through an exploration of its underlying theoretical currents.As an increasingly popular pedagogical approach, experiential education encompasses a variety of curriculum projects from outdoor and environmental ... Leer más

    $69.99 USD

  • Queer Theory, Gender Theory

    de Riki Wilchins ...
    Originally published in 2004, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer is a classic of LGBTQ+ literature and is taught in most gender studies programs throughout the United States. It was the first book to offer a one-stop, no-nonsense introduction to the core of postmodern theory, particularly its impact on queer and gender studies and is still powerfully relevant today.Nationally-known ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    de Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Anthropology and Social Theory

    Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject

    de Sherry B. Ortner ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural practice to rethink key concepts of culture, agency, and subjectivity for the social sciences of the twenty-first century. The seven theoretical and interpretive essays in this volume each advocate reconfiguring, rather than abandoning, the concept of ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Justice for Animals

    Our Collective Responsibility

    de Martha C. Nussbaum ...
    A “brilliant” (Chicago Review of Books), “elegantly written, and compelling” (National Review) new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • What is Anthropology?

    de Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Leading anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen shows how anthropology is a revolutionary way of thinking about the human world. Perfect for students, but also for those who have never encountered anthropology before, this book explores the key issues in an exciting and innovative way.Lucid and accessible, What is Anthropology? draws examples from current affairs as well as previous anthropological ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Debating Procreation

    Is It Wrong to Reproduce?

    de David Benatar, David Wasserman ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    While procreation is ubiquitous, attention to the ethical issues involved in creating children is relatively rare. In Debating Procreation, David Benatar and David Wasserman take opposing views on this important question. David Benatar argues for the anti-natalist view that it is always wrong to bring new people into existence. He argues that coming into existence is always a serious harm and that ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD