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  • Cruel Attachments

    The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

    by John Borneman ...
    There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessments, in much of the West an increasing focus on rehabilitation through therapy provides hope that psychological transformation is possible. Examining ... Read more

    $20.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • I Was Married to a Horse, and Other Tales of an Accidental Anthropologist

    by John Borneman ...
    A personal odyssey and a portrait of a distinguished anthropologist in practice—a life shaped by accident, transformation, and the enduring power of connection.How does the youngest of eight children, raised on a family farm in northern Wisconsin by parents with only half a grammar school education, become an Ivy League professor and a witness to some of the most transformative events of the late ... Read more

    $17.99 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

  • Settling Accounts

    Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe

    by John W. Borneman ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Syrian Episodes

    Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo

    by John W. Borneman ...
    When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Philosophy and the Contemporary World

    Mercersburg, Culture, and the Church

    by John Williamson Nevin ...
    Series Book 11 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality without attention to ... Read more

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  • Comparing Impossibilities

    Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore

    by Sally Falk Moore ...
    Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and to the mountain of Kilimanjaro where she studied the politics of Tanzanian socialism. This book ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Digesting Difference

    Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe

    Edited by Kelly McKowen, John Borneman ...
    Series series Global Diversities
    Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading cultural anthropologists, Digesting Difference offers a series of ethnographic studies that show incorporation to be a process ... Read more

    $116.09 USD

  • Death of the Father

    An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

    Edited by John Borneman ...
    The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization of regimes of authority. This comparative volume examines the resulting crisis in symbolic ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Government in the Future

    by Noam Chomsky ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In this classic talk delivered at the Poetry Center, New York, on February 16, 1970, Noam Chomsky articulates a clear, uncompromising vision of social change. Chomsky contrasts the classical liberal, libertarian socialist, state socialist, and state capitalist world views and then defends a libertarian socialist vision as "the proper and natural extension . . . of classical liberalism into the era ... Read more

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  • The Myth of Mental Illness

    Foundations of a Theory of Personal Conduct

    by Thomas S. Szasz ...
    “The landmark book that argued that psychiatry consistently expands its definition of mental illness to impose its authority over moral and cultural conflict.” — New York TimesThe 50th anniversary edition of the most influential critique of psychiatry every written, with a new preface on the age of Prozac and Ritalin and the rise of designer drugs, plus two bonus essays.Thomas Szasz's classic book ... Read more

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  • Humankind

    A Hopeful History

    by Rutger Bregman ...
    Translated by Erica Moore, Elizabeth Manton ...
    This instant New York Times bestseller proves humanity thrives in a crisis and that our innate kindness and cooperation have been the greatest factors in our long-term success as a species.If there is one belief that has united the left and the right, psychologists and philosophers, ancient thinkers and modern ones, it is the tacit assumption that humans are bad. It's a notion that drives ... Read more

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