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Corruption

Anthropological Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2005

Corruption in politics and business is, after war, perhaps the greatest threat to democracy. Academic studies of corruption tend to come from the field of International Relations, analysing systems of formal rules and institutions. This book offers a radically different perspective - it shows how...
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Securing the City

Neoliberalism, Space, and Insecurity in Postwar Guatemala

by Thomas Offit, Deborah Levenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2011

Unprecedented crime rates have made Guatemala City one of the most dangerous cities in the world. Following a peace process that ended Central America’s longest and bloodiest civil war and impelled the transition from a state-centric economy to the global free market, Guatemala’s neoliberal moment...
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Reframing Visual Social Science

Towards a More Visual Sociology and Anthropology

by Luc Pauwels
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015

The burgeoning field of 'visual social science' is rooted in the idea that valid scientific insight into culture and society can be acquired by observing, analyzing and theorizing its visual manifestations: visible behavior of people and material products of culture. Reframing Visual Social Science...
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Mapping Cultures

Place, Practice, Performance

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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012

An interdisciplinary collection exploring the practices and cultures of mapping in the arts, humanities and social sciences. It features contributions from scholars in critical cartography, social anthropology, film and cultural studies, literary studies, art and visual culture, marketing, museum studies, architecture, and popular music studies.
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Irish Tourism

Image, Culture and Identity

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Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2003

For many years Ireland has been a popular tourist destination and tourism has been one of the most significant social, economic and cultural forces in Irish society. Irish Tourism: Image, Culture and Identity engages with major national and international debates on contemporary tourism through cutting-edge...
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Precarious Lives

Waiting and Hope in Iran

by Shahram Khosravi
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017

In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness,...
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Mobilities, Boundaries, and Travelling Ideas

Rethinking Translocality Beyond Central Asia and the Caucasus

by Manja Stephan-Emmrich, Philipp Schröder
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018

This collection brings together a variety of anthropological, historical and sociological case studies from Central Asia and the Caucasus to examine the concept of translocality. The chapters scrutinize the capacity of translocality to describe, in new ways, the multiple mobilities, exchange practices...
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by Déborah Danowski, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

The end of the world is a seemingly interminable topic Ð at least, of course, until it happens. Environmental catastrophe and planetary apocalypse are subjects of enduring fascination and, as ethnographic studies show, human cultures have approached them in very different ways. Indeed, in the face...
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Exhibiting Cultures

The Poetics and Politics of Museum Display

by Ivan Karp
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2012

Debating the practices of museums, galleries, and festivals, Exhibiting Cultures probes the often politically charged relationships among aesthetics, contexts, and implicit assumptions that govern how art and artifacts are displayed and understood. The contributors—museum directors, curators, and...
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In Darkness and Secrecy

The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia

by Johannes Wilbert, Silvia M. Vidal
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2004

In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection...
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Maturing Masculinities

Aging, Chronic Illness, and Viagra in Mexico

by Emily A. Wentzell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2013

Maturing Masculinities is a nuanced exploration of how older men in urban Mexico incorporate aging, chronic illness, changing social relationships, and decreasing erectile function into their conceptions of themselves as men. It is based on interviews that Emily A. Wentzell conducted with more than...
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by Huon Wardle, Paloma Gay y Blasco
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007

How to Read Ethnography is an invaluable guide to approaching anthropological texts. Laying bare the central conventions of ethnographic writing, it helps students to develop a critical understanding of texts and explains how to identify and analyse the core ideas in order to apply these ideas to...
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by Catherine Bell
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 1992

Ritual studies today figures as a central element of religious discourse for many scholars around the world. Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice, Catherine Bell's sweeping and seminal work on the subject, helped legitimize the field. In this volume, Bell re-examines the issues, methods, and ramifications...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004

There is a revolution happening in the practice of anthropology. A new field of 'indigenous knowledge' is emerging, which aims to make local voices hear and ensure that development initiatives meet the needs of indigenous people. Development and Local Knowledge focuses on two major challenges...
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