Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject, Paperback - Sherry B. Ortner

In Anthropology and Social Theory the award-winning anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner draws on her longstanding interest in theories of cultural prac...

Famed anthropologist Ortner tracks down representative classmates from her mostly Jewish Newark, NJ high school class of '58 in order to examine cl...

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The pioneering anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner explores the culture and practices of independent filmmaking in the U.S., arguing that during the pa...

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Reducere. Universe of the Mind A Semiotic Theory of CultureYuri M. LotmanIntroduction by Umberto Eco Translated by Ann ShukmanA major book by one of the init...

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A collection of Essays over the last 20 years, exploring different dimensions (historical, political, philosophical, literary) of the philosophical...

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Today the Asia-Pacific region stands on the verge of major change, with centuries of western dominated regional order being seriously challenged an...

DescriptionThis book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture. Unmasking is not the sam...

Contributor(s): Author: Saba MahmoodPolitics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriv...

Reducere. DescriptionDistinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military, and political - this series traces their interrelations througho...

3rd edition.Revised edition of this accessible and hugely popular introduction, it includes all major thinkers, issues and debates in classical and...

Reducere. DescriptionThis classic book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams (1925-1996), one of the most influential black activists of the gener...

Reducere. Over the years, many textbooks have been written about the troika of sociological geniuses, Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. Too often, however, these wo...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Robert (University of California - Irvine, USA) CohenIllustration(s): 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Illust...

DescriptionIn Anthropology in the Meantime Michael M. J. Fischer draws on his real world, multi-causal, multi-scale, and multi-locale research to r...

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Social theory is a crucial resource for the social sciences. It provides rich insights into how human beings think and act and how contemporary soc...

Using the influential and controversial Writing Culture as a point of departure, the thirteen essays in Writing Culture and the Life of Anthropolog...

There are few areas of society today that remain outside the ambit of policy processes, and likewise policy-making has progressively reached into t...

Publisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Gavin (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) RaeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: ...

Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the An...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 44 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Reducere. Social scientists have long resisted the radical ideas known as postcolonial thought, while postcolonial scholars have critiqued the social science...

How can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?

DescriptionThis comprehensive collection of classical sociological theory is a definitive guide to the roots of sociology from its undisciplined be...

Reducere. In the past twenty years, there have been exciting new developments in the field of anthropology. This second edition of Barnard's classic textbook...

First published in 1956, The Power Elite stands as a contemporary classic of social science and social criticism. C. Wright Mills examines and crit...

Reducere. The social worker's guide to integrating theory and practice Applying Theory to Generalist Social Work Practice teaches aspiring social workers how...

Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade.

Lecturers, request your electronic inspection copy Kathy Charmaz presents the definitive guide to doing grounded theory from a constructivist persp...

Most writing on sociological method has been concerned with how accurate facts can be obtained and how theory can thereby be more rigorously tested...

Theorizing Globalization offers a reassessment of mainstream perspectives on globalization, providing essential insights into an enormously popular...

"This timely and necessary intervention revisits gender theory for contemporary times. The authors explore the multiple strands which go into makin...

This volume offers a comprehensive guide to methods used in the sociocultural, linguistic and historical research of food use. This volume is uniqu...

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Reducere. This absorbing and original examination brilliantly argues that religion is a product of the society from which it springs--that it is the "sacred ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Ori SchwarzNumber of pages: 218Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 228 x 152 x 24Cover type: Paperback / softbackRe...

A global survey of the condition of journalism internationally at the onset of the post-truth age, taking stock of the role of fake news in Trump's...

Reducere. Crowds and Power is a revolutionary work in which Elias Canetti finds a new way of looking at human history and psychology. Breathtaking in its ran...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jack David (Community College of Denver, USA) EllerIllustration(s): 38 Halftones, black and white; 38 Ill...

How can we use Social Reproduction Theory to inform political strategy?

Reducere. DescriptionAfter President Trump's election, BREXIT and the widespread rise of right-wing figures, there has been intense focus on authoritarian po...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Cheryl B. EvansForeword by: Colby MartinFrom the award winning author of I Promised Not to Tell comes this thought provokin...