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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “janet mcintosh”
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  • Kill Talk

    Language and Military Necropolitics

    de Janet McIntosh ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in the Anthropology of Language
    The language used by American military personnel can be intense and confrontational, yet the relationship between language and military violence is rarely examined in depth. This groundbreaking book offers a unique perspective on how language facilitates the work of combat infantry-the state's killable killers. Through vivid ethnographic research, Janet McIntosh meticulously traces the nuances of ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • The Edge of Islam

    Power, Personhood, and Ethnoreligious Boundaries on the Kenya Coast

    de Janet McIntosh ...
    In this theoretically rich exploration of ethnic and religious tensions, Janet McIntosh demonstrates how the relationship between two ethnic groups in the bustling Kenyan town of Malindi is reflected in and shaped by the different ways the two groups relate to Islam. While Swahili and Giriama peoples are historically interdependent, today Giriama find themselves literally and metaphorically on the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Language in the Trump Era

    Scandals and Emergencies

    Edición de Janet McIntosh, Norma Mendoza-Denton ...
    Early in his campaign, Donald Trump boasted that 'I know words. I have the best words', yet despite these assurances his speech style has sown conflict even as it has powered his meteoric rise. If the Trump era feels like a political crisis to many, it is also a linguistic one. Trump has repeatedly alarmed people around the world, while exciting his fan-base with his unprecedented rhetorical style ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Successful Aging as a Contemporary Obsession

    Global Perspectives

    de Sarah Lamb, Jessica Robbins-Ruszkowski, Anna Corwin, Toni Calasanti, Neal King, Abigail Brooks, Imani Woody, Emily Wentzell, Elana Buch, Janelle S. Taylor0, Aske Juul Lassen1, Astrid Pernille Jespersen2, Jason Danely3, Judith Farquhar4, Qicheng Zhang5, Janet McIntosh6, Annette Leibing7, Meika Loe8 ...
    Series series Global Perspectives on Aging
    In recent decades, the North American public has pursued an inspirational vision of successful aging—striving through medical technique and individual effort to eradicate the declines, vulnerabilities, and dependencies previously commonly associated with old age. On the face of it, this bold new vision of successful, healthy, and active aging is highly appealing. But it also rests on a deep ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Unsettled

    Denial and Belonging Among White Kenyans

    de Janet McIntosh ...
    Series Libro 10 - Ethnographic Studies in Subjectivity
    Honorable Mention for the 2018 American Ethnological Society Senior Book PrizeHonorable Mention for the 2017 Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing presented by the American Anthropological AssociationIn 1963, Kenya gained independence from Britain, ending decades of white colonial rule. While tens of thousands of whites relocated in fear of losing their fortunes, many stayed. But over the ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

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  • Inner Dimensions of Islamic Worship

    de Imam al-Ghazali ...
    Traducido por Muhtar Holland ...
    Covers those dimensions of Islamic rituals of worship prayer, almsgiving, fasting, Pilgrimage, etc. which are essential to the fulfilment of inner quality. Consists of selections from al-Ghazali's Ihya, a pivotal work in the history of Islamic thought. ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD

  • The Knowing Heart

    A Sufi Path of Transformation

    de Kabir Helminski ...
    An engaging study of Sufi teachings that presents the Sufi way as a universal means of gaining a greater understanding of ourselves, others, and the worldIn Sufi teaching the human heart is not a fanciful metaphor but an objective organ of intuition and perception. It perceives all that is beautiful, lovely, and meaningful in life—and reflects these spiritual qualities in the world, for the ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • Darfur

    A 21st-Century Genocide, Third Edition

    de Gérard Prunier ...
    Series series Crises in world politics
    Praise for the 2005 Edition:"A passionate and highly readable account of the current tragedy that combines intimate knowledge of the region's history, politics, and sociology with a telling cynicism about the polite but ineffectual diplomatic efforts to end it. It is the best account available of the Darfur crisis."-Foreign Affairs"Does the conflict in Darfur, however bloody, qualify as genocide? ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Qur'an: Essential Teachings

    de Abdur Raheem Kidwai ...
    This work is intended to help readers gain a clear idea of the Qur'anic worldview, particularly the articles of Islamic faith, God-man relationship, religious duties and Islamic value system, bringing into sharper focus the God-oriented life as prescribed by Islam. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Tales of Mogadiscio

    de Iris Kapil ...
    Mogadiscio was not always the sprawling jerry-built urban landscape we see today. Until 1991, when the government fell and clan militias, in a civil war, reduced it to rubble, Mogadiscio was a lovely, vibrant city. Tales of Mogadiscio describes a time, during the 1960s, when Mogadiscio was the capital and center of a newly independent Somali Republic. The stories portray individuals and the city's ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Hunt for the Golden Mole

    All Creatures Great & Small and Why They Matter

    de Richard Girling ...
    Taking as its narrative engine the hunt for an animal that is legendarily rare, Richard Girling writes an engaging and highly informative history of humankind's interest in hunting and collecting—what prompts us to do this? What good might come of our need to catalog all the living things of the natural world?Girling, named Environmental Journalist of the Years 2008 and 2009, has here chronicled – ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Treasures of the Qur'an

    Surah al-Fatihah to Surah al-Mai'dah

    de Abdur Rashid Siddiqui, Khurram Murad ...
    commentaries upon the Qur'an are scarily large in size, often running to over a million words in length. This short volume gives readers an accessible alternative, offering some deeper background to the chapters of the Qur'an commentated upon.The chapters of the Qur'an this book focuses upon are those with the most religious rulings. They set out the moral framework that a large portion of the ... Leer más

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