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  • An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice

    Series series The Macat Library
    In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn’t account for all observable nuances of behaviour. Drawing on his fieldwork in Algeria, he expresses the need for a theory of practice focusing on the ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated

    An Ethnography of Wall Street

    Series series The Macat Library
    Liquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture – that of the Wall Street banker – much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote ‘savage’ tribes. But using the techniques of ethnography, including interviews, analysis of daily lives, and fieldwork to investigate a modern western culture is not original; what sets Ho's work apart and gives it value is ... Leer más

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  • An Analysis of Jared M. Diamond's Collapse

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

    Series series The Macat Library
    American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died.Why, for example, did the Norsemen of Scandinavia who colonized Greenland in the early tenth century not survive, ... Leer más

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  • I Kwara’ae di Honiara

    Migrazione e buona vita alle Isole Salomone

    Da più di cinquant’anni i Kwara’ae lasciano Malaita, la loro isola di origine, per costruirsi una nuova vita a Honiara, capitale delle Isole Salomone. Quando raccontano della loro condizione, parlano di Malaita come di un luogo primitivo, isolato e senza speranza di sviluppo, e vedono invece Honiara come la moderna città di arrivo, dove tutto può succedere. Tuttavia, Malaita è anche un simbolo di ... Leer más

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    Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice

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    1 horas 52 minutos

    Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu develops a theory of practice that is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood, illustrated by his fieldwork in Algeria. The text’s rigorous, consistent, materialist ... Leer más

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    The Macat Analysis of Karen Z Ho's Liquidated:

    An Ethnography of Wall Street

    Narrado por Laurence Bouvard ...

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    1 horas 59 minutos

    Liquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York’s famous Wall Street. Through close observation of the daily lives of the bankers working there, and the beliefs, rituals, and timeframes that define them, Karen Ho uncovers a distinct culture and value system which, she argues, is the ultimate cause of the ... Leer más

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    The Macat Analysis of Jared Diamond's Collapse:

    How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

    Narrado por John Chancer ...

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    In Collapse, Diamond identifies five factors he believes determine the success or failure of all human societies throughout history. Asking first why societies collapse, he explores various examples of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia to the 18th century inhabitants of Easter Island. He then shows how inhabitants of Highland New Guinea and Japan overcame potentially terminal ... Leer más

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