Social Mobility In Kerala

Filippo Osella, Filippo Caroline

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• Essential reading for Indianists and those engaged in the comparative study of modernity, be they anthropologists, historians, or sociologists' - Ethn... Lees meer

Anthropology, Art And Cultural Production

Maruska Svasek

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• An introduction to anthropological perspectives on art that links the production of art to political and cultural processes Lees meer

Landscape, Memory and History

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• How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? The contributors explore this question from an anthropolog... Lees meer

The Trouble With Community

Vered Amit, Nigel Rapport

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• 'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption, of much social science, has been that it is in communities -- and to... Lees meer

On The Game

Sophie Day

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• Day explores how individual sex workers live, in public and in private. Lees meer

Anthropology and the Will to Meaning

Vassos Argyrou

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• Argyrou puts forward a powerful critique of both modern and postmodern anthropology that reveals the self-centered logic of anthropological humanism. Lees meer

Anthropology of the Self

Brian Morris

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• This book looks at the 'self' in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African... Lees meer

Anthropology and Cultural Studies

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• In adopting an interdisciplinary approach to the anthropology of complex cultural issues, the contributors to this volume review both the challenges a... Lees meer

Land, Law and Environment: Mythical Land, Legal Boundaries

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• Contributors to this volume take issue with the 'idealist' approach in which land and landscape - place and space - are read as purely expressive and ... Lees meer