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  • Amazonian Caboclo Society

    An Essay on Invisibility and Peasant Economy

    de Stephen Nugent ...
    Series series Explorations in Anthropology
    Amazonian Caboclo Society is concerned with peasant society in Brazilian Amazonia. Most anthropological work in Amazonia has focused on Indian groups, and caboclos (peasants of mixed ancestry) have generally been regarded as relics of the haphazard development of Amazonia and have received little serious attention. This volume aims to analyze the reasons for the relative 'invisibility' of caboclo ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Amazon Rubber Industry

    An Historical Anthropology

    de Stephen Nugent ...
    In this engaging book, Stephen Nugent offers an in-depth historical anthropology of a widely recognised feature of the Amazon region, examining the dramatic rise and fall of the rubber industry. He considers rubber in the Amazon from the perspective of a long-term extractive industry that linked remote forest tappers to technical innovations central to the industrial transformation of Europe and ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Scoping the Amazon

    Image, Icon, and Ethnography

    de Stephen Nugent ...
    The Amazon Indian is an icon that straddles the world between the professional anthropologist and the popular media. Presented alternately as the noble primitive, the savior of the environment, and as a savage, dissolute, cannibalistic half-human, it is an image well worth examining. Stephen Nugent does just that, critiquing the claims of authoritativeness inherent in visual images presented by ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • Critical Anthropology

    Foundational Works

    Edición de Stephen Nugent ...
    Critical anthropology has had a major influence on the discipline, shifting it away from concepts of bounded societies with evolutionary trajectories to complex analyses of interconnected economic, political, and social processes. This book brings together some of critical anthropology’s most influential writings, collecting classic articles and spirited rebuttals by major scholars such as Eric ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Elite Cultures

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edición de Stephen Nugent, Cris Shore ...
    Series series ASA Monographs
    Drawing on a diverse, comparative ethnographic literature, this new volume examines the intimate spaces and cultural practices of those elites who occupy positions of power and authority across a variety of different settings. Using ethnographic case studies from a wide range of geographical areas, including Mexico, Peru, Amazonia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Europe, North America and Africa, the ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities

    Edición de Jon Christensen, Michelle Niemann, Ursula Heise ...
    Series series Routledge Literature Companions
    The Routledge Companion to the Environmental Humanities provides a comprehensive, transnational, and interdisciplinary map to the field, offering a broad overview of its founding principles while providing insight into exciting new directions for future scholarship. Articulating the significance of humanistic perspectives for our collective social engagement with ecological crises, the volume ... Leer más

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  • Reimagining Political Ecology

    de Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau, Michael R. Dove ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    Reimagining Political Ecology is a state-of-the-art collection of ethnographies grounded in political ecology. When political ecology first emerged as a distinct field in the early 1970s, it was rooted in the neo-Marxism of world system theory. This collection showcases second-generation political ecology, which retains the Marxist interest in capitalism as a global structure but which is also ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Radical Territories in the Brazilian Amazon

    The Kayapó’s Fight for Just Livelihoods

    de Laura Zanotti ...
    Series series Native Peoples of the Americas
    Indigenous groups are facing unprecedented global challenges in this time of unparalleled environmental and geopolitical change, a time that has intensified human-rights concerns and called for political and economic restructuring. Within this landscape of struggle, the Kayapó, an indigenous nation in the central Brazilian Amazon, emerge as leaders in the fight.Radical Territories in the Brazilian ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

  • Governing the Commons

    The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    de Elinor Ostrom ...
    Series series Canto Classics
    The governance of natural resources used by many individuals in common is an issue of increasing concern to policy analysts. Both state control and privatization of resources have been advocated, but neither the state nor the market have been uniformly successful in solving common pool resource problems. After critiquing the foundations of policy analysis as applied to natural resources, Elinor ... Leer más

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  • Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture

    Edición de Fernando Vidal, Nélia Dias ...
    Series series Routledge Environmental Humanities
    The notion of Endangerment stands at the heart of a network of concepts, values and practices dealing with objects and beings considered threatened by extinction, and with the procedures aimed at preserving them. Usually animated by a sense of urgency and citizenship, identifying endangered entities involves evaluating an impending threat and opens the way for preservation strategies.Endangerment, ... Leer más

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    de Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • From Extreme Violence to the Problem of Civility

    A Selection from Violence and Civility: On the Limits of Political Philosophy

    de Étienne Balibar ...
    Traducido por G.M. Goshgarian ...
    In this impassioned argument, Étienne Balibar boldly confronts the insidious causes of violence, racism, nationalism, and ethnic cleansing worldwide. Through a novel synthesis of theory and empirical studies of violence drawn from contemporary life, Balibar tests the limits of political philosophy to formulate new, productive conceptions of war, revolution, sovereignty, and class. Balibar explores ... Leer más

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