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“evan killick”

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  • The Ways of Friendship

    Anthropological Perspectives

    Edited by Amit Desai, Evan Killick ...
    Friendship is an essential part of human experience, involving ideas of love and morality as well as material and pragmatic concerns. Making and having friends is a central aspect of everyday life in all human societies. Yet friendship is often considered of secondary significance in comparison to domains such as kinship, economics and politics. How important are friends in different cultural ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    A Very Short Introduction

    by John Monaghan, Peter Just ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do. This Very Short Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology combines an accessible account of some of the disciplines guiding principles and methodology with abundant examples and illustrations of anthropologists at work. Peter Just and John Monaghan begin by discussing anthropologys most important contributions to ... Read more

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  • Small Places, Large Issues

    An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

    by Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    ‘Remains among the most brilliant summaries of key ideas animating anthropology. In his famously accessible writing style, Eriksen introduces fundamental questions that shape human life, and provides an overview of the discipline’s contribution to the pressing issues of our times. A must-read’ Ursula Rao, Director, Anthropology of Politics and Governance, Max Planck Institute for Social ... Read more

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  • How to Think Like an Anthropologist

    by Matthew Engelke ...
    From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subjectWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matter? For well over a century, cultural anthropologists have circled the globe, from Papua New Guinea to suburban England and from China to California, uncovering surprising facts and insights about how ... Read more

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  • The Empire Writes Back

    Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial Literatures

    by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, Helen Tiffin ...
    Series series New Accents
    The experience of colonization and the challenges of a post-colonial world have produced an explosion of new writing in English. This diverse and powerful body of literature has established a specific practice of post-colonial writing in cultures as various as India, Australia, the West Indies and Canada, and has challenged both the traditional canon and dominant ideas of literature and culture ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The End of the Cognitive Empire

    The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South

    by Boaventura de Sousa Santos ...
    In The End of the Cognitive Empire Boaventura de Sousa Santos further develops his concept of the "epistemologies of the South," in which he outlines a theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical framework for challenging the dominance of Eurocentric thought. As a collection of knowledges born of and anchored in the experiences of marginalized peoples who actively resist capitalism, colonialism, ... Read more

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  • Trans Femme Futures

    Abolitionist Ethics for Transfeminist Worlds

    by Nat Raha, Mijke van der Drift ...
    ‘A brilliant, useful, and immensely moving book that deals a critical blow to the epistemic austerity of our times’—Jordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox‘Astute and hopeful ... Offering up an abolitionist “transfeminist love-politics” as a practical antidote to the suffocating neoliberal world order, the book is a breath of fresh air’—H.L.T. Quan, author of Become Ungovernable‘What we ... Read more

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  • Strange Encounters

    Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality

    by Sara Ahmed ...
    Series series Transformations
    Examining the relationship between strangers, embodiment and community, Strange Encounters challenges the assumptions that the stranger is simply anybody we do not recognize and instead proposes that he or she is socially constructued as somebody we already know. Using feminist and postcolonial theory this book examines the impact of multiculturalism and globalization on embodiment and community ... Read more

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  • Pedagogies of Crossing

    Meditations on Feminism, Sexual Politics, Memory, and the Sacred

    by M. Jacqui Alexander, Judith Halberstam, Lisa Lowe ...
    Series series Perverse Modernities
    M. Jacqui Alexander is one of the most important theorists of transnational feminism working today. Pedagogies of Crossing brings together essays she has written over the past decade, uniting her incisive critiques, which have had such a profound impact on feminist, queer, and critical race theories, with some of her more recent work. In this landmark interdisciplinary volume, Alexander points to ... Read more

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  • Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century

    A Critical Approach

    by A. Lynn Bolles, Ruth Gomberg-Muñoz, Bernard C. Perley, Keri Vacanti Brondo ...
    Anthropological Theory for the Twenty-First Century presents a critical approach to the study of anthropological theory for the next generation of aspiring anthropologists. Through a carefully curated selection of readings, this collection reflects the diversity of scholars who have long contributed to the development of anthropological theory, incorporating writings by scholars of color, non ... Read more

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  • Critical Terms for the Study of Gender

    Edited by Catharine R. Stimpson, Gilbert Herdt ...
    "Gender systems pervade and regulate human lives—in law courts and operating rooms, ballparks and poker clubs, hair-dressing salons and kitchens, classrooms and playgroups. . . . Exactly how gender works varies from culture to culture, and from historical period to historical period, but gender is very rarely not at work. Nor does gender operate in isolation. It is linked to other social ... Read more

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  • Crisis and Body Politics in Twenty-First Century Cultural Production

    Territorial Bodies

    Edited by Charlotte Spear, Madeleine Sinclair ...
    Series series Warwick Series in the Humanities
    The twenty-first century has been deemed the “Age of Crisis”. We are witnessing the catastrophic unfolding of environmental crisis, financial crisis, pandemic and conflict. But are we to understand these crises as new phenomena? Is their seemingly simultaneous existence purely coincidental? Or rather do they instead form part of a singular, historically produced, unfolding crisis, which only today ... Read more

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