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  • Demands of the Day

    On the Logic of Anthropological Inquiry

    by Paul Rabinow, Anthony Stavrianakis ...
    Demands of the Day asks about the logical standards and forms that should guide ethical and experimental anthropology in the twenty-first century. Anthropologists Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis do so by taking up Max Weber's notion of the "demands of the day." Just as the demand of the day for anthropology decades ago consisted of thinking about fieldwork, today, they argue, the demand is ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Crucible of the Incurable

    Facing ALS

    by Anthony Stavrianakis ...
    Series series Expertise: Cultures and Technologies of Knowledge
    Crucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and with people living with the illness in the United States. He examines the multiple meanings of care in a context of a chronic, degenerative, one-hundred percent fatal, neuromuscular illness, whose most common duration is between two and five years. How ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Leaving

    A Narrative of Assisted Suicide

    by Anthony Stavrianakis ...
    The first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, which he characterizes as operating in a political, ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Designs on the Contemporary

    Anthropological Tests

    by Paul Rabinow, Anthony Stavrianakis ...
    Designs on the Contemporary pursues the challenge of how to design and put into practice strategies for inquiring into the intersections of philosophy and anthropology. Drawing on the conceptual repertoires of Max Weber, Michel Foucault, and John Dewey, among others, Paul Rabinow and Anthony Stavrianakis reflect on and experiment with how to give form to anthropological inquiry and its aftermath, ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Social Epistemology

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  • The Mediated Construction of Reality

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  • Institutional Ethnography

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  • Automatic Society, Volume 1

    The Future of Work

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  • Can Your Beliefs Impact Your Health and Well-Being?

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  • Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be

    Learning Anthropology's Method in a Time of Transition

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  • And a Time to Die

    How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life

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