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  • People Skills for Policy Analysts

    by Michael Mintrom, Gregory Cline, Jocelyn Dax, Michelle Dresben, Eric Hirsch, Matthew Kleiman, Jack Knott, Joe Meehan, Dawn Phillips, Susan Silberman, Emily Van Dunk ...
    Policymaking is of its very nature a people-centered business-a good reason why highly effective policy analysts display not only superb technical expertise but excellent people skills as well. Those "people skills" include the ability to manage professional relationships, to learn from others about policy issues, to give presentations, to work in teams, to resolve conflict, to write for multiple ... Read more

    $53.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancestral Presence

    Cosmology and Historical Experience in the Papuan Highlands

    by Eric Hirsch ...
    Series series The Anthropology of History
    Ancestral Presence tells a history that has more than one history in it while also telling the story of the relation between worlds.For the Fuyuge people of the Papuan highlands, the past is not ‘history’ in a conventional sense. For them, the world and its history derive from a creator force called Tidibe which is central to Fuyuge cosmology: the Fuyuge are at the ‘centre of the world’. But ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Acts of Growth

    Development and the Politics of Abundance in Peru

    by Eric Hirsch ...
    Over the last decade, Peru has experienced a spectacular mining boom and astronomical economic growth. Yet, for villagers in Peru's southern Andes, few have felt the material benefits. With this book, Eric Hirsch considers what growth means—and importantly how it feels. Hirsch proposes an analysis of boom-time capitalism that starts not from considerations of poverty, but from the premise that ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Property, Substance, and Effect

    Anthropological Essays on Persons and Things

    by Marilyn Strathern ...
    Series series Classics in Ethnographic Theory
    In engaging essays, celebrated anthropologist Marilyn Strathern reflects on the complexities of social life.Property, Substance, and Effect draws on Marilyn Strathern’s longstanding interest in the reification of social relations. If the world is shrinking in terms of resources and access to them, it is expanding in terms of new candidates for proprietorship. How new relations are brought into ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Melanesian World

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Inside Organizations

    Anthropologists at Work

    Edited by David Gellner, Eric Hirsch ...
    Most of us work in or for one, but there are surprisingly few sustained analyses of the problems and peculiarities of organizations. Anthropologists are increasingly turning their attention to the study of western organizations, and this timely collection addresses the pleasures and pitfalls of ethnographic research undertaken across a range of organizational contexts. From museums to laboratories ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Technologies of Procreation

    Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

    by Jeanette Edwards, Sarah Franklin, Eric Hirsch, Frances Price, Marilyn Strathern ...
    Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Consuming Technologies

    Media and Information in Domestic Spaces

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Roger Silverstone ...
    Consuming Technologies opens for analysis some crucial but rarely examined areas of social, cultural and economic life. At its core is a concern with the complex set of relationships that mark and define the place of the domestic in the modern world, and an explanation of the relationship between the domestic and public spheres as they are mediated by consumption and technology. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Compliance

    Cultures and Networks of Accommodation

    Edited by Eric Hirsch, Will Rollason ...
    Series Book 3 - Lifeworlds: Knowledges, Politics, Histories
    Exploring compliance from an anthropological perspective, this book offers a varied and international selection of chapters covering taxation, corporate governance, medicine, development, carbon offsetting, irregular migration and the building trade. Compliance emerges as more than the opposite of resistance: instead, it appears as a valuable heuristic approach for understanding collective life, ... Read more

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    by John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, John Banks, Jason Potts, Terry Flew ...
    Series series SAGE Key Concepts series
    This guide to the emerging language of creative industries field is a valuable resource for researchers and students alike. Concise, extensively referenced, and accessible, this this is an exceptionally useful reference work.- Gauti Sigthorsson***, Greenwich University***"There could be no better guides to the conceptual map of the creative industries than John Hartley and his colleagues, pioneers ... Read more

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  • Ethnography in Education

    by David Mills, Missy Morton ...
    Series series BERA/SAGE Research Methods in Education
    ′Written in a clear, accessible style, this inspirational book is both a practical guide and a survey of the different ways of doing ethnography. Drawing on wide-ranging examples and using classic and contemporary ethnographies, the authors demonstrate the importance of developing an ethnographic sensibility. A most valuable resource′- Cris Shore, University of AucklandEthnography in Education is ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Managing Professional Identities

    Knowledge, Performativities and the 'New' Professional

    Edited by Mike Dent, Stephen Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Business Organizations and Networks
    This book addresses the nature of current shifts in professional and managerial knowledge and practice, particularly in relation to power and accountability. Connecting with current debates concerned with work and identity, the book will present a range of theoretical and empirical accounts of the dilemmas and issues facing specialists in various organizational arenas as they seek to adapt to the ... Read more

    $61.99 USD