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  • Connections

    Brain, Mind and Culture in a Social Anthropology

    by Stephen Reyna ...
    Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that explains the relationship between the biological and the cultural. Recent popular interest in the brain is evident, and now social anthropologists are starting to consider connections between science ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Starry Nights

    Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

    by Stephen P. Reyna ...
    Series Book 1 - Loose Can(n)ons
    Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology offers nothing less than a reinventing of the discipline of anthropology. In these six essays – four published here for the first time – Stephen Reyna critiques the postmodern tenets of anthropology, while devising a new strategy for conducting research. Combative and clear, Starry Nights provides an important critique of mainstream ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Political Economy of African Famine

    Edited by R. E. Downs, Donna O. Kerner, Stephen P. Reyna ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Food Supply and Policy
    Originally published in 1991. This volume explores the combination of political and economic forces that influence different levels of food supply. The book begins with a discussion of famine theories, ranging from cultural ecology to neo-Marxism. Following this survey is a series of essays by anthropologists, geographers, economists and development practitioners that explores the role of Western ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Deadly Developments

    Edited by Stephen and Downs Reyna ...
    Ten anthropologists trace the machinations of war and the effects of violence in capitalist states, from their formation to the present. This collection, the newest volume in the War and Society series, questions the foundations of classical social theory while investigating local and international conflict through the critical and cross-cultural lens of social theory, history, and anthropology. ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Deadly Contradictions

    The New American Empire and Global Warring

    by Stephen P. Reyna ...
    As US imperialism continues to dictate foreign policy, Deadly Contradictions is a compelling account of the American empire. Stephen P. Reyna argues that contemporary forms of violence exercised by American elites in the colonies, client state, and regions of interest have deferred imperial problems, but not without raising their own set of deadly contradictions. This book can be read many ways: ... Read more

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  • Crude Domination

    An Anthropology of Oil

    Edited by Andrea Behrends, Stephen Reyna, Günther Schlee ...
    Series Book 9 - Dislocations
    Crude Domination is an innovative and important book about a critical topic – oil. While there have been numerous works about petroleum from ‘experience-far’ perspectives, there have been relatively few that have turned the ‘experience-near’ ethnographic gaze of anthropology on the topic. Crude Domination does just this among more peoples and more places than any other volume. Its chapters ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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  • Chomsky

    Language, Mind and Politics

    by James McGilvray ...
    Series series Key Contemporary Thinkers
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  • The Diversity of Morals

    by Steven Lukes ...
    How to make sense of the divergence between philosophers’ quest for a single morality and social scientists’ assumption that there are multiple moralitiesWhen we speak of morals, what are we speaking of? Is morality singular (as many philosophers tend to assume, even if they don’t agree on what it is) or are there multiple moralities (which social scientists, notably anthropologists, study)? In ... Read more

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  • Anthropology in Theory

    Issues in Epistemology

    Edited by Henrietta L. Moore, Todd Sanders ...
    This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century.Provides a comprehensive selection of 60 readings and an insightful overview of the evolution of anthropological theoryRevised ... Read more

    $68.00 USD

  • Futurability

    The Age of Impotence and the Horizon of Possibility

    by Francesco Berardi ...
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