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  • An Analysis of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

    by Kitty Wheater ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation.As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task, in which nothing can be achieved without careful and incisive interpretative work. Edward Evans-Pritchard’s seminal 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles, and ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • An Analysis of Claude Levi-Strauss's Structural Anthropology

    by Jeffrey A. Becker, Kitty Wheater ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Claude Lévi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyond it. As one of the key figures in the development of what is known today as ‘French theory,’ Lévi-Strauss was one of the most important thinkers of the 20th-century. His theories of interpretation, ... Read more

    $8.95 USD

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    The Macat Analysis of Edward Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic:

    Among the Azande

    by Kitty Wheater ...
    Narrated by John Chancer ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 56 min

    Based on 20 months of fieldwork among the Azande people of South Sudan, Evans-Pritchard’s work became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft. Although the book had little impact when it first appeared in 1937, its popularity grew after World War II and its influence on anthropology is still strong nearly 80 years later. Evans-Pritchard wholeheartedly supported an emerging belief in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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    Edited by Paul Wake, Simon Malpas ...
    Series series Routledge Companions
    Now in a fully updated second edition The Routledge Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory is an indispensible guide for anyone approaching the field for the first time. Exploring ideas from a diverse range of disciplines through a series of 11 critical essays and a dictionary of key names and terms, this book examines some of the most complex and fundamental theories in modern scholarship ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Cultural Studies 1983

    A Theoretical History

    by Stuart Hall ...
    Series series Stuart Hall: Selected Writings
    The publication of Cultural Studies 1983 is a touchstone event in the history of Cultural Studies and a testament to Stuart Hall's unparalleled contributions. The eight foundational lectures Hall delivered at the University of Illinois in 1983 introduced North American audiences to a thinker and discipline that would shift the course of critical scholarship. Unavailable until now, these lectures ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Valences of Interdisciplinarity

    Theory, Practice, Pedagogy

    Edited by Raphael Foshay ...
    Series series Cultural Dialectics
    The modern university can trace its roots to Kant's call for enlightened self-determination, with education aiming to produce an informed and responsible body of citizens. As the university evolved, specialized areas of investigation emerged, enabling ever more precise research and increasingly nuanced arguments. In recent decades, however, challenges to the hegemony of disciplines have arisen, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • History and Theory in Anthropology

    by Alan Barnard ...
    Anthropology is a discipline very conscious of its history, and Alan Barnard has written a clear, balanced and judicious textbook that surveys the historical contexts of the great debates and traces the genealogies of theories and schools of thought. It also considers the problems involved in assessing these theories. The book covers the precursors of anthropology; evolutionism in all its guises; ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

    Edited by Michael Payne, Jessica Rae Barbera ...
    Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theoryUpdated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic ... Read more

    $48.00 USD

  • An Analysis of Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality

    Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge

    by Rachele Dini, Chiara Briganti ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    Michel Foucault is famous as one of the 20th-century’s most innovative and wide-ranging thinkers. The qualities that made him one of the most-read and influential theorists of the modern age find full expression in History of Sexuality, the last project Foucault was able to complete before his death in 1984.Central to Foucault’s appeal is the creativity of his thought. Creative thinking takes ... Read more

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  • An Analysis of Pierre Bourdieu's Outline of a Theory of Practice

    by Rodolfo Maggio ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn’t account for all observable nuances of behaviour. Drawing on his fieldwork in Algeria, he expresses the need for a theory of practice focusing on the ... Read more

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  • The Fateful Triangle

    Race, Ethnicity, Nation

    by Stuart Hall ...
    Series series The W. E. B. Du Bois Lectures
    “Given the current political conditions, these lectures on race, ethnicity, and nation, delivered by Stuart Hall almost a quarter of a century ago, may be even more timely today.”—Angela Y. DavisIn this defining statement one of the founding figures of cultural studies reflects on the divisive, often deadly consequences of our contemporary politics of race and identity. As he untangles the power ... Read more

    $14.79 USD

  • Scandalous Bodies

    Diasporic Literature in English Canada

    by Smaro Kamboureli ...
    Series series TransCanada
    Scandalous Bodies is an impassioned scholarly study both of literature by diasporic writers and of the contexts within which it is produced. It explores topics ranging from the Canadian government’s multiculturalism policy to media representations of so-called minority groups, from the relationship between realist fiction and history to postmodern constructions of ethnicity, from the multicultural ... Read more

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