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Transcendent Individual
Routledge 1997; US$ 44.95Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropological theory and ethnographic writing. more...
I Am Dynamite
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95Power 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 Subjects
Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95The 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 Capacity
Berghahn Books 2010; US$ 80.00What 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 Concepts
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 27.95Social 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 Consciousness
Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95This 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 Beyond
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 39.952000 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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