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Queering knowledge : analytics, devices, and investments after Marilyn Strathern
This volume draws on the significance of the work of Marilyn Strathern in respect of its potential to queer anthropological analysis and to foster the reimagining of the object of anthropology. The authors examine the ways in which Strathern’s varied analytics facilitate the construction of alternative forms of anthropological thinking, and greater understanding of how knowledge practices of …
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- 9781315316482
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- x, 193 p.
- Series Title
- Theorizing ethnography
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- 306.76 BOY q
Chemical Youth : Navigating Uncertainty in Search of the Good Life
This open access book explores how young people engage with chemical substances in their everyday lives. It builds upon and supplements a large body of literature on young people’s use of drugs and alcohol to highlight the subjectivities and socialities that chemical use enables across diverse socio-cultural settings, illustrating how young people seek to avoid harm, while harnessing the bene…
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- 9783030570811
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- 318p. ; ill.
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- Critical Studies in Risk and Uncertainty
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- 362.29 ANI c
Culture and history in the Pacific
Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of anthropological writing at the time, such as the relationship between anthropologists’ representations and local conceptions. This republication aims to…
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- 9789523690479
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- vii, 267 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 306.0995 SII c
Beyond observation : a history of authorship in ethnographic film
This book analyses the authoring of ethnographic films between 1895 and 2015. It is based on the general argument that the ethnographicness of a film should not be gauged according to whether it is about an exotic culture, but rather by the degree to which it conforms to the norms of ethnographic practice more generally. On these grounds, it considers films made in a broad range of styles, on a…
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- 9781526147295
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- xviii, 525 p. : bnw, ill.
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- 301 HEN b
History of concepts : comparative perspectives
Although vastly influential in German-speaking Europe, conceptual history (Begriffsgeschichte) has until now received little attention in English. This genre of intellectual history differs from both the French history of mentalités and the Anglophone history of discourses by positing the concept - the key occupier of significant syntactical space - as the object of historical investigation. C…
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- 9053563067
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- ix, 293 p. : ill
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- 907.2 VAN h
Pendidikan toleransi beragama, sebuah kajian sosiologi tentang peran sekolah …
Buku ini memaparkan secara kritis dan seimbang terhadap fenomena intoleransi keagamaan. Oleh karena itu, buku ini bukan-lah sebuah karya keagamaan ataupun karya yang ingin menyudutkan sebuah kepercayaan yang dimiliki oleh suatu kelompok keyakinan. Dalam buku ini, selain mengkaji mengenai masalah intoleransi di Indonesia, juga mengulik tentang perkembangan pendidikan di Indonesia, toleransi bera…
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- 9786024962593
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- xxii, 113p.
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- 207.5 PEN k
Anthropology's world : life in a twenty-first century discipline
A work that reassesses the issues that have always affected anthropology: what is anthropology for; how do anthropologists want their work to be understood; for whom do they write, and in what language? In his panoramic new book, Ulf Hannerz cements his reputation as one of anthropology's finest writers. He describes how anthropology came to be a major intellectual discipline, why it is vital t…
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- 9781849645652
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- vii, 199 p.
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- -
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- 301 HAN a
Manusia dan gunung: teologi, bandung, ekologi.
Buku ini berusaha menyajikan pembahasan gunung berdasarkan konteks ketuhanan, sejarah, budaya, bentang alam, hingga hubungannya dengan ekologi. Melalui buku ini, penulis mengajak pembaca untuk tidak hanya sekadar mendaki ketinggian pengetahuan gunung, melainkan juga menyelami kedalaman kebijaksanaan gunung. Teologi Gunung Pada bagian “teologi gunung”, dalam buku ini dipaparkan…
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- 9786025183300
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- xvi, 234 p. : ill.
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- -
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- 577 WAH m
Personalised cancer medicine : future crafting in the genomic era
What does it mean to personalise cancer medicine? Personalised cancer medicine explores this question by foregrounding the experiences of patients, carers and practitioners in the UK. Drawing on an ethnographic study of cancer research and care, we trace patients’, carers’ and practitioners’ efforts to access and interpret novel genomic tests, information and treatments as they craft pers…
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- 9781526156532
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- viii, 277 p.
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- 616.9940695 KER p
The local dimension of migration policymaking
This book prompts a fresh look on immigrant integration policy. Revealing just where immigrants and their receiving societies interact everyday, it shows how societal inclusion is administered and produced at a local level. The studies presented focus on three issue areas of migration policy - citizenship, welfare services and religious diversity - and consider cities in very different national…
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- 22
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- 9789048512430
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- 204 p. : ill.
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- 325.4 CAP t
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