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  • Designs for an Anthropology of the Contemporary

    by Paul Rabinow, George E. Marcus, Tobias Rees, James D. Faubion ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In this compact volume two of anthropology’s most influential theorists, Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, engage in a series of conversations about the past, present, and future of anthropological knowledge, pedagogy, and practice. James D. Faubion joins in several exchanges to facilitate and elaborate the dialogue, and Tobias Rees moderates the discussions and contributes an introduction and an ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory—a matter of ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

    Edited by James D. Faubion, George E. Marcus ...
    Over the past two decades anthropologists have been challenged to rethink the nature of ethnographic research, the meaning of fieldwork, and the role of ethnographers. Ethnographic fieldwork has cultural, social, and political ramifications that have been much discussed and acted upon, but the training of ethnographers still follows a very traditional pattern; this volume engages and takes its ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • Impulse to Act

    A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice

    by Jessica Greenberg, Eirine Avramapoulou, Irene Peano, James D. Faubion, Neni Panourgia, Tania Ahmad, Cymene Howe, Petra Rethmann, John Postill, Marianne Maeckelbergh, Alex Khasnabish, Athanasiou Athena ...
    What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing political movement immersed in contingency? Impulse to Act addresses these questions incisively, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Kinship

    Ethnographic Inquiries

    by James Faubion, Carolyn Babula, Jamila Bargach, John Borneman, Stanford Carpenter, Nityanand Deckha, James D. Faubion, Laurel George, Lamia Karim, Susan Ossman, Kristen Peterson, Deepa Reddy, N Denise Youngblood ...
    Series series Alterations
    What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • An Anthropology of Ethics

    by James D. Faubion ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    Through an ambitious and critical revision of Michel Foucault's investigation of ethics, James Faubion develops an original program of empirical inquiry into the ethical domain. From an anthropological perspective, Faubion argues that Foucault's specification of the analytical parameters of this domain is the most productive point of departure in conceptualizing its distinctive features. He ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • Questioning Technology

    by Andrew Feenberg ...
    In this extraordinary introduction to the study of the philosophy of technology, Andrew Feenberg argues that techonological design is central to the social and political structure of modern societies. Environmentalism, information technology, and medical advances testify to technology's crucial importance.In his lucid and engaging style, Feenberg shows that technology is the medium of daily life. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Between Reason and Experience

    Essays in Technology and Modernity

    by Andrew Feenberg, Michel Callon ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    A leading philosopher of technology calls for the democratic coordination of technical rationality with everyday experience.The technologies, markets, and administrations of today's knowledge society are in crisis. We face recurring disasters in every domain: climate change, energy shortages, economic meltdown. The system is broken, despite everything the technocrats claim to know about science, ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Technosystem

    The Social Life of Reason

    by Andrew Feenberg ...
    We live in a world of technical systems designed in accordance with technical disciplines and operated by personnel trained in those disciplines. This is a unique form of social organization that largely determines our way of life, but the actions of individuals and social protest still play a role in developing and purposing these rational systems. In Technosystem, Andrew Feenberg builds a theory ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Comparison

    Theories, Approaches, Uses

    Edited by Rita Felski, Susan Stanford Friedman ...
    An extended volume of New Literary History that considers the practice of comparison in literary studies and other disciplines within the humanities.Writing and teaching across cultures and disciplines makes the act of comparison inevitable. Comparative theory and methods of comparative literature and cultural anthropology have permeated the humanities as they engage more centrally with the ... Read more

    $33.59 USD

  • Feminists Theorize the Political

    Edited by Judith Butler, Joan W. Scott ...
    A collection of work by leading feminist scholars, engaging with the question of the political status of poststructuralism within feminism, and affirming the contemporary debate over theory as politically rich and consequential. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

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