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  • Evil in Africa

    Encounters with the Everyday

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek ...
    William C. Olsen, Walter E. A. van Beek, and the contributors to this volume seek to understand how Africans have confronted evil around them. Grouped around notions of evil as a cognitive or experiential problem, evil as malevolent process, and evil as an inversion of justice, these essays investigate what can be accepted and what must be condemned in order to evaluate being and morality in ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Work of Hospitals

    Global Medicine in Local Cultures

    by William C. Olsen, Carolyn Sargent, Morgan K. Hoke, Samya R. Stumo, Thomas L. Leatherman, Cheryl Mattingly, John M. Janzen, Mark Nichter, Ghislain Emmanuel Sopoh0, Roch Christian Johnson1, Anita Chary2, Peter Rohloff3, Adrienne E. Strong4, Vania Smith-Oka5, Kayla Hurd6, Elisa (EJ) Sobo7, Eugenia Georges8, Emma Varley9, Claire Wendland0, Anita Hannig1 ...
    In the context of neoliberalism and global austerity measures, health care institutions around the world confront numerous challenges in attempting to meet the needs of local populations. Examples from Africa (including, Ethiopia, Ghana, and Congo), Latin America (Peru, Mexico, Guatemala), Western Europe (France, Greece), and the United States illustrate how hospitals play a significant role in ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • 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

  • Engaging Evil

    A Moral Anthropology

    Edited by William C. Olsen, Thomas J. Csordas ...
    Series Book 36 - Methodology & History in Anthropology
    Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

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    The Cost of Denying Women Access to Abortion

    by Diana Greene Foster, Ph.D ...
    “If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies, there is no democracy.” —Gloria SteinemThe “remarkable” (The New Yorker) landmark study of the consequences on women’s lives—emotional, physical, financial, professional, personal, and psychological—of receiving versus being denied an abortion that ... Read more

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  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    by Sam Harris ...
    Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The Study of Religion

    An Introduction to Key Ideas and Methods

    by George D. Chryssides, Professor Ron Geaves ...
    This updated textbook unravels the complex issues related to methodology and theory in the study of religion. It equips students with the knowledge needed for the academic study of religion, explaining the history of the methodology, including ideas of key theorists, and discusses key issues in the field, such as gender, phenomenology, and the insider/outsider discourse.Updated throughout, ... Read more

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  • When People Come First

    Critical Studies in Global Health

    Edited by João Biehl, Adriana Petryna ...
    A people-centered approach to global healthWhen People Come First critically assesses the expanding field of global health. It brings together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars to address the medical, social, political, and economic dimensions of the global health enterprise through vivid case studies and bold conceptual work. The book demonstrates the crucial role of ... Read more

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  • Life and Words

    Violence and the Descent into the Ordinary

    by Veena Das ...
    In this powerful, compassionate work, one of anthropology’s most distinguished ethnographers weaves together rich fieldwork with a compelling critical analysis in a book that will surely make a signal contribution to contemporary thinking about violence and how it affects everyday life. Veena Das examines case studies including the extreme violence of the Partition of India in 1947 and the ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe

    Edited by Drue H. Barrett, Leonard W. Ortmann, Angus Dawson, Carla Saenz, Andreas Reis, Gail Bolan ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few ... Read more

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  • Ritual : Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    Perspectives and Dimensions--Revised Edition

    by Catherine Bell ...
    From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet in many ways equally legitimate interpretations ritual seems to ... Read more

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  • A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion

    by Dr Bradley L. Herling ...
    How should we understand and interpret the strange but familiar thing that we call “religion”? What are the foundations of a methodical approach to this subject, and what theoretical tools are available to students who are new to this area of inquiry? A Beginner's Guide to the Study of Religion provides an accessible, wide-ranging introduction to theories and basic methodology in the field. Now in ... Read more

    $30.79 USD