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  • Transcendent Individualby Nigel Rapport

    Routledge 1997; US$ 44.95

    Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing. more...

  • I Am Dynamiteby Nigel Rapport

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95

    Power is conventionally regarded as being held by social institutions. We are taught to believe that it is these social structures that determine the environment and circumstances of individual lives. In I Am Dynamite , the anthropologist Nigel Rappaport argues for a different view. Focusing on the lives and works of the writer and Auschwitz survivor... more...

  • British Subjectsby Nigel Rapport

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95

    The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological concerns such as community, rationality, aesthetics, the body, power, work and leisure, nationalism... more...

  • Human Nature as Capacityby Nigel Rapport

    Berghahn Books 2010; US$ 80.00

    What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring ?the human? to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis... more...

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Conceptsby Nigel Rapport; Joanna Overing

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 27.95

    Social and Cultural Anthropology: The Key Concepts is the ideal introduction to this discipline, defining and discussing its central terms with clarity and authority. Among the concepts explored are: Cybernetics Ecriture Feminine Gossip Human Rights Moralities Stereotypes Thick Description Violence. Each entry is accompanied... more...

  • Questions of Consciousnessby Anthony P. Cohen; Nigel Rapport

    Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95

    This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process. more...

  • 2000 Years and Beyondby David Archard; Paul Gifford; Trevor A. Hart; Nigel Rapport

    Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.95

    2000 Years and Beyond brings together some of the most eminent thinkers of our time - specialists in philosophy, theology, anthropology and cultural theory. In a horizon-scanning work, they look backwards and forwards to explore what links us to the matrix of the Judaeo-Christian tradition from which Western cultural identity has evolved. Their plural... more...

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