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Godless Intellectuals?
The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism....
Social Quality Theory
A New Perspective on Social Development
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, ...
Modern Babylon?
Prostituting Children in Thailand
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked...
Landscape, Process and Power
Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe...
Envisioning Eden
Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation...
Media and Nation Building
How the Iban became Malaysian
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
With the end of the Cold War and the proliferation of civil wars and "regime changes," the question of nation building has acquired great practical and theoretical urgency. From Eastern Europe to East Timor, Afghanistan and recently Iraq, the United States and its allies have often been...
Engaging with Strangers
Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian...
Unveiling the Whale
Discourses on Whales and Whaling
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book,...
Virtualism, Governance and Practice
Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009
Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. This collection indicates that such an analysis appears to be justified from one perspective, but not from another. The chapters in this...
World Heritage on the Ground
Ethnographic Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly...
Ethical Consumption
Social Value and Economic Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the...
Waterworlds
Anthropology in Fluid Environments
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world...