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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “nils bubandt”
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  • Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet

    Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene

    Edited by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, Nils Bubandt, Elaine Gan, Heather Anne Swanson ...
    Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth.As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

  • Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene

    Doing Fieldwork in Multispecies Worlds

    Edited by Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, Nils Bubandt, Rachel Cypher ...
    A methodological follow-up to Arts of Living on a Damaged PlanetThe environmental and climatic crises of our time are fundamentally multispecies crises. And the Anthropocene, a time of “human-made” disruptions on a planetary scale, is a disruption of the fabric of life as a whole. The contributors to Rubber Boots Methods for the Anthropocene argue that understanding the multispecies nature of ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • The Anthropocene and the Undead

    Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination

    by Kyle William Bishop, Mikaela Bobiy, Aaron Bradshaw, Nils Bubandt, Daisy Butcher, Elana Gomel, Rebecca Stone Gordon, Sarah Lewison, Lars Schmeink, Conrad Scott, Gheorghe Williams, Andrew J. Wilson, Kristopher Woofter, Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., Steffen Hantke, Johan Höglund ...
    Series series Research in Horror Studies
    The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from the past that will not die, undead traumas that rise ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Philosophy on Fieldwork

    Case Studies in Anthropological Analysis

    Edited by Nils Bubandt, Thomas Schwarz Wentzer ...
    How do we teach analysis in anthropology and other field-based sciences? How can we engage analytically and interrogatively with philosophical ideas and concepts in our fieldwork? And how can students learn to engage critical ideas from philosophy to better understand the worlds they study?Philosophy on Fieldwork provides "show-don’t-tell" answers to these questions. In twenty-six "master class" ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Democracy, Corruption and the Politics of Spirits in Contemporary Indonesia

    by Nils Bubandt ...
    Series series The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia
    Indonesia has been an electoral democracy for more than a decade, and yet the political landscape of the world’s third-largest democracy is as complex and enigmatic as ever. The country has achieved a successful transition to democracy and yet Indonesian democracy continues to be flawed, illiberal, and predatory.This book suggests that this and other paradoxes of democracy in Indonesia often ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Experiments in Holism

    Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology

    Edited by Ton Otto, Nils Bubandt ...
    Experiments in HolismExperiments in Holism: Theory and Practice in Contemporary Anthropology presents a series of essays that critically examine the ongoing relevance of holism and its theoretical and methodological potential in today’s world. Contributions from a diverse collection of leading anthropologists reveal how recent critiques of the holistic approach have not led to its wholesale ... Read more

    $126.00 USD

  • The Empty Seashell

    Witchcraft and Doubt on an Indonesian Island

    by Nils Bubandt ...
    The Empty Seashell explores what it is like to live in a world where cannibal witches are undeniably real, yet too ephemeral and contradictory to be an object of belief. In a book based on more than three years of fieldwork between 1991 and 2011, Nils Bubandt argues that cannibal witches for people in the coastal, and predominantly Christian, community of Buli in the Indonesian province of North ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

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  • Staying with the Trouble

    Making Kin in the Chthulucene

    by Donna J. Haraway ...
    Series series Experimental Futures
    In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Ethnic Relations in Malaysia: Conflict and Harmony

    by Syed Husin Ali ...
    With Malaysia in the throes of sweeping political change, academic turned political activist and presently, Senator from Selangor state to the Parliament, Dr Syed Husin Ali traces how ethnicity has been manipulated, since Independence, by Malaysian politicians for their own gain to the detriment of the masses. In articles spanning more than three decades, collected for the first time here, he ... Read more

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  • The Location of Culture

    by Homi K. Bhabha ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Rethinking questions of identity, social agency and national affiliation, Bhabha provides a working, if controversial, theory of cultural hybridity - one that goes far beyond previous attempts by others. In The Location of Culture, he uses concepts such as mimicry, interstice, hybridity, and liminality to argue that cultural production is always most productive where it is most ambivalent. ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Hadrami Arabs in Present-day Indonesia

    An Indonesia-oriented group with an Arab signature

    by Frode F. Jacobsen ...
    Series series Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series
    This book focuses on social and cultural trends in present-day Hadrami Arab societies in Eastern and Central Indonesia, and the history of the Hadrami Arab people, which demonstrates an early form of globalization. For centuries migration has played a vital part in Hadrami adaptation. External forces, such as the expanding powers of the Portugese in the Indian Ocean and the Turkish conquering ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Beyond Nature and Culture

    by Philippe Descola ...
    Translated by Janet Lloyd ...
    "Gives to anthropological reflection a new starting point and will become the compulsory reference for all our debates in the years to come." —Claude Lévi-Strauss, on the French editionBeyond Nature and Culture has been a major influence in European intellectual life since its French publication in 2005. Here, finally, it is brought to English-language readers. At its heart is a question central ... Read more

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