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  • Fictionalizing Anthropology

    Encounters and Fabulations at the Edges of the Human

    de Stuart J. McLean ...
    What might become of anthropology if it were to suspend its sometime claims to be a social science? What if it were to turn instead to exploring its affinities with art and literature as a mode of engaged creative practice carried forward in a world heterogeneously composed of humans and other than humans? Stuart McLean claims that anthropology stands to learn most from art and literature not as ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Crumpled Paper Boat

    Experiments in Ethnographic Writing

    Edición de Anand Pandian, Stuart J. McLean ...
    Crumpled Paper Boat is a book of experimental ventures in ethnographic writing, an exploration of the possibilities of a literary anthropology. These original essays from notable writers in the field blur the boundaries between ethnography and genres such as poetry, fiction, memoir, and cinema. They address topics as diverse as ritual expression in Cuba and madness in a Moroccan city, the HIV ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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  • The Wave in the Mind

    Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader, and the Imagination

    de Ursula K. Le Guin ...
    Join Ursula K. Le Guin as she explores a broad array of subjects, ranging from Tolstoy, Twain, and Tolkien to women's shoes, beauty, and family life. With her customary wit, intelligence, and literary craftsmanship, she offers a diverse and highly engaging set of readings. The Wave in the Mind includes some of Le Guin's finest literary criticism, rare autobiographical writings, performance art ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

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  • The Queer Art of Failure

    de Jack Halberstam ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    The Queer Art of Failure is about finding alternatives—to conventional understandings of success in a heteronormative, capitalist society; to academic disciplines that confirm what is already known according to approved methods of knowing; and to cultural criticism that claims to break new ground but cleaves to conventional archives. Jack Halberstam proposes “low theory” as a mode of thinking and ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    de Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Libro 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • Toward A Minor Architecture

    de Jill Stoner ...
    A major proposal for a minor architecture, and for the making of spaces out of the already built.Architecture can no longer limit itself to the art of making buildings; it must also invent the politics of taking them apart. This is Jill Stoner's premise for a minor architecture. Her architect's eye tracks differently from most, drawn not to the lauded and iconic but to what she calls “the ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • More Writers & Company

    New Conversations with CBC Radio's Eleanor Wachtel

    de Eleanor Wachtel ...
    Interviews with Isabel Allende, Martin Amis, John Berger, Harold Bloom, E.L. Doctorow, Amitav Ghosh, Kazuo Ishiguro, Jamaica Kincaid, Oliver Sacks, Carol Shields, Jeanette Winterson and more. ... Leer más

    Antes $14.99 USD Ahora $5.99 USD

  • The Poem Is You

    60 Contemporary American Poems and How to Read Them

    de Stephanie Burt ...
    A delightful and provocative journey across four decades of contemporary American poetry with Stephanie Burt, “the leading poetry critic of her generation” (New York Times), as our surefooted guide.In The Poem Is You, critic and poet Stephanie Burt canvasses contemporary American poetry —from the urgency of Claudia Rankine’s Citizento the limitless energy of Juan Felipe Herrera and the erotic ... Leer más

    $25.19 USD

  • Creativity/Anthropology

    Edición de Renato Rosaldo, Smadar Lavie, Kirin Narayan ...
    Series series The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues
    Creativity and play erupt in the most solemn of everyday worlds as individuals reshape traditional forms in the light of changing historical circumstances. In this lively volume, fourteen distinguished anthropologists explore the life of creativity in social life across the globe and within the study of ethnography itself. Contributors include Barbara A. Babcock, Edward M. Bruner, James W. ... Leer más

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  • Biting the Error

    Writers Explore Narrative

    Edición de Gail Scott, Robert Gluck, Camille Roy ...
    What is the best way to tell a story? In this anthology, the first-ever collection of essays by innovative, cutting-edge writers on the theme of narration, forty of the continent's top experimental writers describe their engagement with language, storytelling and the world. The anthology includes renowned writers like Kathy Acker, Dennis Cooper, Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, Lydia Davis and ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Anatomy of Freedom

    Feminism in Four Dimensions

    de Robin Morgan ...
    The classic of feminist vision by one of its greatest writers, with a new preface by the authorWith the advent of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, physics and our world changed forever. In The Anatomy of Freedom, Robin Morgan shows us how the empowerment of women—half of humanity—will have the same transformative power for society that e=mc2 had for the physical world.This is not simply another ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Twenty-First-Century Fiction

    A Critical Introduction

    de Peter Boxall ...
    The widespread use of electronic communication at the dawn of the twenty-first century has created a global context for our interactions, transforming the ways we relate to the world and to one another. This critical introduction reads the fiction of the past decade as a response to our contemporary predicament – one that draws on new cultural and technological developments to challenge ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD