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  • African Medical Pluralism

    by Carolyn Sargent, Koen Stroeken, Claire Wendland, Arthur Kleinman, John M. Janzen, Susan J. Rasmussen, Stacey A. Langwick, Christopher Taylor, Elisha P. Renne0, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf1, Ulrika Trovalla2, Benson Mulemi3, James Leslie Kennell4 ...
    In most places on the African continent, multiple health care options exist and patients draw on a therapeutic continuum that ranges from traditional medicine and religious healing to the latest in biomedical technology. The ethnographically based essays in this volume highlight African ways of perceiving sickness, making sense of and treating suffering, and thinking about health care to reveal ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Ageing in Africa

    Sociolinguistic and Anthropological Approaches

    by Koen Stroeken ...
    African gerontology has expanded dramatically as a discipline with population ageing and its consequences for societies and for individual experiences of ageing becoming prominent issues all over the continent. This volume therefore brings together some of the most prolific and skilful researchers working on ageing in Africa today. The book is based on sociolinguistic and anthropological research ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Medicinal Rule

    A Historical Anthropology of Kingship in East and Central Africa

    by Koen Stroeken ...
    Series Book 35 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    As soon as Europeans set foot on African soil, they looked for the equivalents of their kings – and found them. The resulting misunderstandings have lasted until this day. Based on ethnography-driven regional comparison and a critical re-examination of classic monographs on some forty cultural groups, this volume makes the arresting claim that across equatorial Africa the model of rule has been ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Moral Power

    The Magic of Witchcraft

    by Koen Stroeken ...
    Series Book 9 - Epistemologies of Healing
    Neither power nor morality but both. Moral power is what Sukuma farmers in Tanzania in times of crisis attribute to an unknown figure they call their witch. A universal process is involved, as much bodily as social, which obstructs the patient’s recovery. Healers turn the table on the witch through rituals showing that the community and the ancestral spirits side with the victim. In contrast to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • War, Technology, Anthropology

    Edited by Koen Stroeken ...
    Series Book 13 - Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
    Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Simplex Society

    How to Humanize

    by Koen Stroeken ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment, the long-term trends that led us here, and the prospects for a humane future. The experience of complexity characterizing a globalized information society triggers simplexes. These unidimensional responses instrumental in bringing about a predictable ... Read more

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  • Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Religion

    Edited by Michael Banton ...
    As the basic questions of social structure were elucidated there came a quickening of interest among social anthropologists in the study of religion. Chapters in this book include: · Religion as a Cultural System (Clifford Geertz) · Colour Classification in Ndembu Religion (Victor W. Turner) · Religion: Problems of Definition and Explanation (Melford E. Spiro) · Fathers, Elders and Ghosts in Edo ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • Politics on the Couch

    Citizenship and the Internal Life

    by Andrew Samuels ...
    This is an accessible, lucid and stimulating account of the hidden psychology of politics and the hidden politics of the psyche. It is packed with original and imaginative ideas on economics, nationalism, "good-enough" leadership, the citizen and the state, women and men, fatherhood, and the citizen as a "therapist of the world". The author offers trenchant and timely critiques of the crisis in ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Animals and African Ethics

    by Kai Horsthemke ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The claim is frequently made on behalf of African moral beliefs and practices that they do not objectify and exploit nature and natural existents like Western ethics does. This book investigates whether this is correct and what kind of status is reserved for other-than-human animals in African ethics. ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Language Loss of the Indigenous

    Edited by G. N. Devy, Geoffrey V. Davis, K. K. Chakravarty ...
    This volume traces the theme of the loss of language and culture in numerous post-colonial contexts. It establishes that the aphasia imposed on the indigenous is but a visible symptom of a deeper malaise — the mismatch between the symbiotic relation nurtured by the indigenous with their environment and the idea of development put before them as their future. The essays here show how the cultures ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Minds Make Societies

    How Cognition Explains the World Humans Create

    by Pascal Boyer ...
    A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to explore the development and workings of human societies."There is no good reason why human societies should not be described and explained with the same precision and success as the rest of nature." Thus argues evolutionary psychologist Pascal Boyer in this uniquely innovative book.Integrating recent ... Read more

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  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $17.29 USD