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“beth a conklin”

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  • Consuming Grief

    Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society

    by Beth A. Conklin ...
    Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as an expression of compassion for the deceased and for his or her close relatives. By removing and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Anthropology and the Politics of Representation

    by Gabriela Vargas-Cetina, Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field, Katie Glaskin, Frederic W. Gleach, Tracey Heatherington, Bernard C. Perley0, Vilma Santiago-Irizarry1, Timothy J. Smith2, Sergey Sokolovskiy3, David Stoll4, Thomas M. Wilson5 ...
    Examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people in ethnography and in anthropological workIn Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume editor Gabriela Vargas-Cetina brings together a group of international scholars who, through their fieldwork experiences, reflect on the epistemological, political, and personal implications of their own ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

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    Every culture is a unique answer to a fundamental question: What does it mean to be human and alive? In The Wayfinders, renowned anthropologist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Wade Davis leads us on a thrilling journey to celebrate the wisdom of the world's indigenous cultures.In Polynesia we set sail with navigators whose ancestors settled the Pacific ten centuries before Christ. In ... Read more

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  • Encountering Development

    The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

    by Arturo Escobar ...
    How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became ... Read more

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  • Border as Method, or, the Multiplication of Labor

    by Sandro Mezzadra, Brett Neilson ...
    Series series a Social Text book
    Far from creating a borderless world, contemporary globalization has generated a proliferation of borders. In Border as Method, Sandro Mezzadra and Brett Neilson chart this proliferation, investigating its implications for migratory movements, capitalist transformations, and political life. They explore the atmospheric violence that surrounds borderlands and border struggles across various ... Read more

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  • Displacing Whiteness

    Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism

    by Rebecca Aanerud, T. Muraleedharan, Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, bell hooks ...
    Displacing Whiteness makes a unique contribution to the study of race dominance. Its theoretical innovations in the analysis of whiteness are integrated with careful, substantive explorations of whiteness on an international, multiracial, cross-class, and gendered terrain. Contributors localize whiteness, as well as explore its sociological, anthropological, literary, and political dimensions ... Read more

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  • Noble Savages

    My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes -- the Yanomamo and the Anthropologists

    by Napoleon A. Chagnon ...
    ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF OUR TIMEWhen Napoleon Chagnon arrived in Venezuela’s Amazon region in 1964 to study the Yanomamö Indians, one of the last large tribal groups still living in isolation, he expected to find Rousseau’s “noble savages,” so-called primitive people living contentedly in a pristine state of nature. Instead Chagnon discovered a remarkably violent society. ... Read more

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  • Territories of Difference

    Place, Movements, Life, Redes

    by Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series a John Hope Franklin Center Book
    In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso ... Read more

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  • The Falling Sky

    Words of a Yanomami Shaman

    by Davi Kopenawa, Bruce Albert ...
    Translated by Nicholas Elliott, Alison Dundy ...
    The Falling Sky is a remarkable first-person account of the life story and cosmo-ecological thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami of the Brazilian Amazon. Representing a people whose very existence is in jeopardy, Davi Kopenawa paints an unforgettable picture of Yanomami culture, past and present, in the heart of the rainforest--a world where ancient indigenous knowledge ... Read more

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  • Decolonising the University

    Edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, Kerem Nişancıoğlu ...
    In 2015, students at the University of Cape Town demanded the removal of a statue of Cecil Rhodes, the imperialist, racist business magnate, from their campus. The battle cry '#RhodesMustFall' sparked an international movement calling for the decolonisation of the world's universities.Today, as this movement grows, how will it radically transform the terms upon which universities exist? In this ... Read more

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  • Rainforest Medicine

    Preserving Indigenous Science and Biodiversity in the Upper Amazon

    by Jonathon Miller Weisberger ...
    Chronicling the practices, legends, and wisdom of the vanishing traditions of the upper Amazon, this book reveals the area's indigenous peoples' approach to living in harmony with the natural world. Rainforest Medicine features in-depth essays on plant-based medicine and indigenous science from four distinct Amazonian societies: deep forest and urban, lowland rainforest and mountain.The book is ... Read more

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  • Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond

    by Mario Blaser, Arturo Escobar, Dianne Rocheleau ...
    Series series New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
    For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to maintain their world in the face of conservation and development programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between modernizing visions of development, the place-based “life projects” of the Yshiro, and ... Read more

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