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  • Waves of Protest

    Social Movements Since the Sixties

    by Abigail Halcli, Suzanne Staggenborg, Emily Stoper, Diana Gay Cutchin, Luther P. Gerlach, John C. Green, Eric L. Hirsch, J Craig Jenkins, Roberta Ann Johnson, David S. Meyer, Frederick D. Miller, Nancy E. Whittier, David G. Bromley, James M. Jasper, Doug McAdam, Verta Taylor ...
    Series series People, Passions, and Power: Social Movements, Interest Organizations, and the P
    This book updates and adds to the classic Social Movements of the Sixties and Seventies, showing how social movement theory has grown and changed-from an earlier emphasis on collective behavior, to the resource mobilization approach, and currently to analyses that emphasize culture, ideology, and collective identity. Top social scientists combine insiders' insights with critical analyses to ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Acts of Growth

    Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru

    by Eric Hirsch ...
    Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ancestral Presence

    Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands

    by Eric Hirsch ...
    Series series The Anthropology of History
    Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not ‘history’ in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derive from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the ‘centre of the world’. But ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Technologies of Procreation

    Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

    by Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern ...
    Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Cancer and Reproductive Health

    Edited by Sean Kehoe, Eric Jauniaux, Pierre Martin-Hirsch, Philip Savage ...
    Series series Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Study Group
    While cancer affects primarily the elderly, it also occurs in younger age groups, with different implications specifically relating to reproduction. Cancer can also occur during pregnancy itself. This brings together two diverse areas of medicine, encompassing the complexity of cancer and its varied biology and the equally challenging areas of fertility, conception and pregnancy. The 55th RCOG ... Read more

    $77.09 USD

  • People Skills for Policy Analysts

    by Michael Mintrom, Gregory Cline, Jocelyn Dax, Michelle Dresben, Eric Hirsch, Matthew Kleiman, Jack Knott, Joe Meehan, Dawn Phillips, Susan Silberman, Emily Van Dunk ...
    Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage professional relationships, to learn from others about policy issues, to give presentations, to work in teams, to resolve conflict, to write for multiple ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Melanesian World

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Property, Substance, and Effect

    Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Series series Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life.Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern’s longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations are brought into ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Compliance

    Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason ...
    Series Book 3 - Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
    Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Inside Organizations

    Anthropologists at Work

    Edited by David Gellner, Eric Hirsch ...
    Most of us work in or for one, but there are surprisingly few sustained analyses of the problems and peculiarities of organizations. Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of western organizations, and this timely collection addresses the pleasures and pitfalls of ethnographic research undertaken across a range of organizational contexts. From museums to laboratories ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Consuming Technologies

    Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Roger Silverstone ...
    Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

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  • Key Concepts in Creative Industries

    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

    $67.49 USD