Social Science : Anthropology

Judy offers an alternative interpretation of literacy that challenges traditional Enlightenment discourse’s claim that literacy and reason are the privileged properties of Western culture. Judy argues, on the basis of his readings of autobiographical African-American Arabic slave narratives, that through the production of the Arabic text, the African slave already had all the elements that the West attributes to “reason” before his original introduction to Western culture—a literacy that already mediated between Africa and Europe. more...

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A Companion to American Cultural History offers a historiographic overview of the scholarship, with special attention to the major studies and debates that have shaped the field, and an assessment of where it is currently headed. • 30 essays explore the history of American culture at all analytic levels. • Written by scholarly experts well-versed in the questions and controversies that have activated interest in this burgeoning field. • Part of the authoritative Blackwell Companions to American History series. • Provides both a chronological and thematic approach: topics range from British America in the Eighteenth Century to the modern day globalization of American Culture; thematic approaches include gender and sexuality and popular culture more...

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This volume examines the tumultuous changes that have occurred and are still occurring in the aftermath of European colonization of the globe from 1492 to 1947.:.; Ranges widely over the major themes, regions, theories and practices of postcolonial study.:.; Presents original essays by the leading proponents of postcolonial study in the Americas, Europe, India, Africa, East and West Asia.:.; Provides clear introductions to the major social and political movements underlying colonization and decolonization, accessible histories of the literature and culture, and separate regions affected by European colonization.:.; Features introductory essays on the major thinkers and intellectual schools that have informed strategies of national liberation worldwide.:.; Offers an incisive summary of the long history and theory of modern European colonization in local detail and global scale. more...

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This Companion offers an unprecedented overview of anthropology’s unique contribution to the study of politics.:.; Explores the key concepts and issues of our time - from AIDS, globalization, displacement, and militarization, to identity politics and beyond.; Each chapter reflects on concepts and issues that have shaped the anthropology of politics and concludes with thoughts on and challenges for the way ahead.; Anthropology’s distinctive genre, ethnography, lies at the heart of this volume more...

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A vivid, scholarly and eminently readable account of ancient religions from around the world. more...

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