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  • Ritual and Its Consequences

    An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller, Michael J, Simon ...
    This pioneering, interdisciplinary work shows how rituals allow us to live in a perennially imperfect world. Drawing on a variety of cultural settings, the authors utilize psychoanalytic and anthropological perspectives to describe how ritual--like play--creates "as if" worlds, rooted in the imaginative capacity of the human mind to create a subjunctive universe. The ability to cross between ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Religion and Charity

    The Social Life of Goodness in Chinese Societies

    by Robert P. Weller, C. Julia Huang, Keping Wu, Lizhu Fan ...
    Free markets alone do not work effectively to solve certain kinds of human problems, such as education, old age care, or disaster relief. Nor have markets ever been the sole solution to the psychological challenges of death, suffering, or injustice. Instead, we find a major role for the non-market institutions of society - the family, the state, and social institutions. The first in-depth ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • How Things Count as the Same

    Memory, Mimesis, and Metaphor

    by Adam B. Seligman, Robert P. Weller ...
    In their third book together, Adam B. Seligman and Robert P. Weller address a seemingly simple question: What counts as the same? Given the myriad differences that divide one individual from another, why do we recognize anyone as somehow sharing a common fate with us? For that matter, how do we live in harmony with groups who may not share the sense of a common fate? Such relationships lie at the ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • The Book of Puka-Puka

    A Lone Trader in the South Pacific

    by Robert Dean Frisbie, Anthony Weller ...
    In 1924, Robert Frisbie arrived on the island of Puka-Puka, one of the most remote in the South Pacific, to run a trading post. Within months he had learned the language and become absorbed into the ways of its ancient, indigenous community – fishing, picnicking, swimming, sleeping and falling in love. Fortunately for us he also had a pitch-perfect ear for stories.Before the book is done, we feel ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • It Happens Among People

    Resonances and Extensions of the Work of Fredrik Barth

    Edited by Keping Wu, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series Book 8 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory. As a collection, the chapters thus expand Barth’s pioneering work on values, further develop his insights on human agency and its potential ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Power and Protest in the Countryside

    Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

    Edited by Robert P. Weller, Scott E. Guggenheim ...
    “Constitutes an important and timely addition to the literature on peasant rebellion; wisely, the editors have been eclectic in drawing from some of the leading historians, anthropologists, political scientists, and sociologists active in the field an analysis of the forms that rural violence has taken through the past three centuries.”—Pacific Affairs ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Alternate Civilities

    Democracy And Culture In China And Taiwan

    by Robert Paul Weller ...
    Alternate Civilities is an anthropologist's answer to the argument that China's cultural tradition renders it incapable of achieving an open political system. Robert Weller draws on his knowledge of both China and Taiwan to show how such sweeping claims fail to take account of potential democratic stimuli among local-level associations such as business organizations, religious groups, ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Civil Life, Globalization and Political Change in Asia

    Organizing between Family and State

    Edited by Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Academics and policy makers have grown increasingly interested in the ways that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) may encourage better governance, democratic politics, and perhaps ultimately a global civil society. In *Civil Life,*Globalization and Political Change in Asia, Robert Weller has brought together an international group of experts on the subject, whose chapters address these ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism

    Edited by Jean Comaroff, John L. Comaroff, Robert P. Weller ...
    Series series a Public Culture Book
    The essays in Millennial Capitalism and the Culture of Neoliberalism pose a series of related questions: How are we to understand capitalism at the millennium? Is it a singular or polythetic creature? What are we to make of the culture of neoliberalism that appears to accompany it, taking on simultaneously local and translocal forms? To what extent does it make sense to describe the present ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Population of the South

    Structure and Change in Social Demographic Context

    by Daniel O. Price ...
    The expression “the New South” was introduced by Henry Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, to a New York audience in 1886; every generation of writers since has used the term. The southern population, unique in its socioeconomic and cultural characteristics, has always been a topic of major interest with U.S. demographers.The articles in this book, the majority of which were originally ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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    Maws Vacation (Unabridged)

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    by EMERSON HOUGH ...
    Narrated by Heather West, Earline Weller, Robert Barrett, Jose Alverez ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 3 min

    Times has changed! Maw has only known hard work her whole life. She’s been married to Paw for 40 years, helping raise crops, raising children and pinching pennies their whole life. After all these years, and with some milestones behind them, it’s time to take a vacation. Destination: Yellowstone Park. But what does one who has never taken a vacation do on vacation? As dear ol’ Maw explores the ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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    Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion

    by Peter L. Berger ...
    Influential scholar Peter L. Berger explores the sociological underpinnings of religion and the rise of a modern secular societyAcclaimed scholar and sociologist Peter L. Berger carefully lays out an understanding of religion as a historical, societal mechanism in this classic work of social theory. Berger examines the roots of religious belief and its gradual dissolution in modern times, applying ... Read more

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