Afropolitan Horizons. Essays toward a Literary Anthropology of Nigeria, Paperback - Ulf Hannerz

Nigeria is a country shaped by internal diversity and transnational connections, past and present. Leading Nigerian writers have portrayed these Ni...

Maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.Publisher: Pluto Press...

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From debates over the aesthetics of birds in the urban landscape to how horse racing enhanced imperial power to the ways in which water navigation ...

Papers of the international conference "A Voice as Something More, " held at the University of Chicago in November 2015.

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This book takes steps to develop a philosophy of engineering not to promote an ideology for engineering but to stimulate critical reflection among ...

How does sound ecology--an acoustic connective tissue among communities--also become a basis for a healthy economy and a just community? Jeff Todd ...

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Publisher: University of Illinois PressNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2005Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 22Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s...

Reducere. A New York Times Notable Book of the Year 1989 Philosopher, mother, and feminist Sara Ruddick examines the discipline of mothering, showing for the...

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by European...

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Reducere. This anthology is considered one of the groundbreaking collections of feminist essays published in the 1970's, and includes works by authors such a...

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Challenging traditional therapeutic approaches to the arts in which art is often secondary to a psychological model, Principles and Practice of Exp...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Faye V. Harrison"provides a most-needed analysis of the benefits and limitations of the new cultural anthropology." Bolles ...

A team of renowned philosophers and a new generation of thinkers come together to offer the first book-length examination of the relationship betwe...

DescriptionEvery year, roughly 50, 000 unaccompanied minors arrive at the US/Mexico border to present themselves for asylum or related visas. The m...

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In (toward) a phenomenology of acting, Phillip Zarrilli considers acting as a 'question' to be explored in the studio and then reflected upon. This...

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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated...

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What would we learn if animals could tell their own stories? Eric Baratay, a pioneering researcher in animal histories in France, applies his knowl...