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  • Knots

    Ethnography of the Moral in Culture and Social Thought

    Edición de David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Anthropology
    Knots are well known as symbols of moral relationships. This book develops an exciting new view of this otherwise taken-for-granted image and considers their metaphoric value in and for moral order. In chapters that focus on Japan, China, Europe, South America and in several Pacific Island societies, granular ethnography depicts how knots are deployed to express unity in daily and ritual ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Mortuary Dialogues

    Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

    Edición de David Lipset, Eric K. Silverman ...
    Series Libro 7 - ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology
    Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich ethnographies, the book examines how funerals and death rituals give rise to discourse and debate about sustaining moral personhood and community amid modernity and its enormous transformations. The book’s key concept, “mortuary dialogue,” describes the different genres of talk ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

    de Wade Davis ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Great Derangement

    Climate Change and the Unthinkable

    de Amitav Ghosh ...
    Series series Berlin Family Lectures
    A " concise and utterly enlightening" look at why we can't wrap our minds around climate change ( Publishers Weekly).Are we deranged? Award-winning essayist and novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? The Great Derangement examines our inability—at the level of literature, history, and politics—to ... Leer más

    $11.59 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    de Philippe Descola ...
    Traducido por Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • When Languages Die

    The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge

    de K David Harrison ...
    It is commonly agreed by linguists and anthropologists that the majority of languages spoken now around the globe will likely disappear within our lifetime. The phenomenon known as language death has started to accelerate as the world has grown smaller. This extinction of languages, and the knowledge therein, has no parallel in human history. K. David Harrison's book is the first to focus on the ... Leer más

    $27.99 USD

  • Whispers and Vanities

    Samoan Indigenous Knowledge and Religion

    de Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, Albert Wendt, Vitolia Mo'a, Jenny Plane Te Paa Daniel ...
    This collection of essays and selected poetry responds to an address on Samoan religious culture given by Samoa's Head of State, His Highness Tui Atua Tupua Tamasese Ta'isi Tupuola Tufuga Efi, to the 2009 Parliament of the World's Religions. The address challenges some fundamental aspects of and assumptions in modern Samoan indigenous religious culture. The essays and poetry form a carefully woven ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Dying Words

    Endangered Languages and What They Have to Tell Us

    de Nicholas Evans ...
    Series Libro 22 - The Language Library
    The next century will see more than half of the world’s 6,000 languages become extinct, and most of these will disappear without being adequately recorded. Written by one of the leading figures in language documentation, this fascinating book explores what humanity stands to lose as a result.Explores the unique philosophy, knowledge, and cultural assumptions of languages, and their impact on our ... Leer más

    $42.00 USD

  • The Handbook of Contemporary Animism

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • The Origins of the World's Mythologies

    de E.J. Michael Witzel ...
    This remarkable book is the most ambitious work on mythology since that of the renowned Mircea Eliade, who all but single-handedly invented the modern study of myth and religion. Focusing on the oldest available texts, buttressed by data from archeology, comparative linguistics and human population genetics, Michael Witzel reconstructs a single original African source for our collective myths, ... Leer más

    $60.99 USD

  • Partial Connections

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $42.99 USD

  • Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 1 – Planet

    Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, #1

    de Gavin Van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer ...
    Series Libro 1 - Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations
    *Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of AnthologyVolume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary relations: What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship?We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that ... Leer más

    $22.00 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus