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  • Phenomenology in Anthropology

    A Sense of Perspective

    by Michael Jackson ...
    This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Self-Alteration

    How People Change Themselves across Cultures

    by Max Harwood, Gil Hizi, Michael Jackson, Muhammad Kavesh, Gisella Orsini, Nigel Rapport, Kathryn Rountree, Banu Senay, Jaap Timmer ...
    Many of us feel a pressing desire to be different—to be other than who we are. Self-conscious, we anxiously perceive our shortcomings or insufficiencies, wondering why we are how we are and whether we might be different. Often, we wish to alter ourselves, to change our relationships, and to transform the person we are in those relationships. Not only a philosophical question about how other people ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Theocracy, Secularism, and Islam in Turkey

    Anthropocratic Republic

    by Christopher Houston ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    In this novel and lucid work, Christopher Houston clarifies a particular modern style and practice of politics that he calls anthropocracy*.* In the name of popular sovereignty, anthropocracies de-legitimize the rule of God(s) even as they re-deploy it to stabilize the rule of the representatives of the people, all the while obfuscating their political conscription of the divine.In distinguishing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Istanbul, City of the Fearless

    Urban Activism, Coup d'Etat, and Memory in Turkey

    by Christopher Houston ...
    Based on extensive field research in Turkey, Istanbul, City of the Fearless explores social movements and the broader practices of civil society in Istanbul in the critical years before and after the 1980 military coup, the defining event in the neoliberal reengineering of the city. Bringing together developments in anthropology, urban studies, cultural geography, and social theory, Christopher ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Muslim Integration

    Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia

    by Erich Kolig, Malcolm Voyce, Jan A. Ali, Ann Black, Selda Dagistanli, Abdullah Martin Drury, Christopher Houston, Lisa Siobhan Irving, Christopher Evan Longhurst0, Adam Possamai1, Joshua M. Roose2, Banu Senay3, William Shepard4, Lisa Worthington5, Arezou Zalipour6, Tahir Abbas7, Bryan S. Turner8 ...
    In Muslim Integration: Pluralism and Multiculturalism in New Zealand and Australia, contributors from a range of backgrounds investigate the state of Muslim integration in New Zealand and Australia. The growing presence of a Muslim minority has invited these two Pacific settler states to closely consider the question of Muslim integration into Western society. This collection discusses the future ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Islam, Kurds and the Turkish Nation State

    by Christopher Houston ...
    Can Islamism, as is often claimed, truly unite Muslim Turks and Kurds in a discourse that supersedes ethnicity? This is a volatile and exciting time for a country whose long history has been characterized by dramatic power play. Evolving out of two years of fieldwork in Istanbul, this book examines the fragmenting Islamist political movement in Turkey. As Turkey emerges from a repressive ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Phenomenology in Anthropology

    A Sense of Perspective

    by Michael D. Jackson, Jaap Timmer, Daniel Fisher, Ian Bedford, Robert Desjarlais, Deborah Van Heekeren, Monica Dalidowicz, C. Jason Throop, Lisa L. Wynn, Thomas Csordas, Greg Downey ...
    This volume explores what phenomenology adds to the enterprise of anthropology, drawing on and contributing to a burgeoning field of social science research inspired by the phenomenological tradition in philosophy. Essays by leading scholars ground their discussions of theory and method in richly detailed ethnographic case studies. The contributors broaden the application of phenomenology in ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Emotions in the Field

    The Psychology and Anthropology of Fieldwork Experience

    Edited by James Davies, Dimitrina Spencer ...
    As emotion is often linked with irrationality, it's no surprise researchers tend to underreport the emotions they experience in the field. However, denying emotion altogether doesn't necessarily lead to better research. Methods cannot function independently from the personalities wielding them, and it's time we questioned the tendency to underplay the scientific, personal, and political ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • What Is Religion?

    Debating the Academic Study of Religion

    Edited by Aaron W. Hughes, Russell T. McCutcheon ...
    Controversies over how to define the word "religion" have persisted for decades. It is a term of art and of academic study, but also one of governance, technologies, and of networks; it is a concept whose diversity is often its own worst enemy. "Religion" is as much a fuzzy set of conceptualizations and generalizations about a range of human activities as it is an authorizing system of persons, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Religious Affects

    Animality, Evolution, and Power

    by Donovan O. Schaefer ...
    In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect theory, evolutionary biology, and poststructuralist theory, Schaefer builds on the recent materialist shift in religious studies to relocate religious practices in the affective realm—an insight that ... Read more

    $18.69 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of Body Studies

    Edited by Bryan Turner ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    In the last three decades, the human body has gained increasing prominence in contemporary political debates, and it has become a central topic of modern social sciences and humanities. Modern technologies – such as organ transplants, stem-cell research, nanotechnology, cosmetic surgery and cryonics – have changed how we think about the body.In this collection of thirty original essays by leading ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Metamodernism

    The Future of Theory

    by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm ...
    "Not only an astute diagnosis of the confusions and contradictions of contemporary thought; it also offers compelling alternatives." —Rita Felski, author of Hooked: Art and AttachmentFor decades, scholars have been calling into question the universality of disciplinary objects and categories. The coherence of defined autonomous categories—such as religion, science, and art—has collapsed under the ... Read more

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