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“hannah regis”

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  • A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit

    by Hannah Regis ...
    A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit offers a rare and penetrative exploration into Caribbean literary articulations of non-material and numinous presences. The study incorporates representations of African-Caribbean and Indigenous mythologies, syncretic spirituality, and magico-religious practices. From texts by ten writers, Hannah Regis extracts thematic and poetic references to Caribbean spectrality, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Originary Violations

    Discursive Constructions of Caribbean Motherhood and Motherlands

    by Paula Morgan, Hannah Regis ...
    Caribbean motherhood reflects a complex interplay of ancestry and diaspora shaped by both violence and resilience. Originary Violations investigates how female embodiment, sexuality and maternal power were defined by the histories of slavery and colonialism as well as by social hierarchies built on race, class, gender and nationality. It considers the ways legacies of trauma and dispossession ... Read more

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    Adventures in the Moral Imagination

    by Webb Keane ...
    A mind-expanding exploration of the ethical bonds we share with the nonhumanMoral relationships saturate the living world, and the line between the human and nonhuman is blurrier than we might think. Animals, Robots, Gods provides a bold new vision of ethics defined less by the individual mind or society and more by our interactions with those around us, whether they are the pets we keep, the gods ... Read more

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  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    by Graham Harvey ...
    Series series Acumen Handbooks
    The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative, and material culture approaches, as well as advances in activist and indigenous thinking about ... Read more

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  • Symbols and Meaning

    A Concise Introduction

    by Mari Womack ...
    Womack offers a concise and easy-to-read overview of the power and meaning of symbols in all human societies. She describes how symbols_images, words, or behaviors with multi-layered meanings_are mechanism of communication. She demonstrates how we experience the power of symbols in all aspects of human life: birth, death, love, sexual desire, and the need for food and shelter. Womack investigates ... Read more

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  • Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

    by Kevin Quashie ...
    Series series Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study
    In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading ... Read more

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  • Partial Connections

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Updated with a new Preface, this seminal work challenges the routine ways in which anthropologists have thought about the complexity and quantity of their materials. Marilyn Strathern focuses on a problem normally regarded as commonplace; that of scale and proportion. She combines a wide-ranging interest in current theoretical issues with close attention to the cultural details of social life, ... Read more

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  • Lifeworlds

    Essays in Existential Anthropology

    by Michael Jackson ...
    Michael Jackson's Lifeworlds is a masterful collection of essays, the culmination of a career aimed at understanding the relationship between anthropology and philosophy. Seeking the truths that are found in the interstices between examiner and examined, world and word, and body and mind, and taking inspiration from James, Dewey, Arendt, Husserl, Sartre, Camus, and, especially, Merleau-Ponty, ... Read more

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  • Woman, Native, Other

    by Trinh T. Minh-Ha ...
    " . . . methodologically innovative . . . precise and perceptive and conscious . . . " —Text and Performance Quarterly"Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." ... Read more

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  • 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

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  • Sensual Relations

    Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory

    by David Howes ...
    With audacious dexterity, David Howes weaves together topics ranging from love and beauty magic in Papua New Guinea to nasal repression in Freudian psychology and from the erasure and recovery of the senses in contemporary ethnography to the specter of the body in Marx. Through this eclectic and penetrating exploration of the relationship between sensory experience and cultural expression, Sensual ... Read more

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  • Mapping the Shifting Paradigms of Post-Modern Society

    by Manu Mangattu ...
    Postmodernism has become the Holy Grail that charts 'living' in the present world through speculations, deliberations and negotiations. This collection of scholarly research articles map our dialogues with the intersections that twenty-first century society offers to individuals. Mapping the changing landscape of the Post-modern world is essential as man will not be talked out of finding meaning ... Read more

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