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  • Cruel Attachments

    The Ritual Rehab of Child Molesters in Germany

    de John Borneman ...
    There is no more seemingly incorrigible criminal type than the child sex offender. Said to suffer from a deeply rooted paraphilia, he is often considered as outside the moral limits of the human, profoundly resistant to change. Despite these assessments, in much of the West an increasing focus on rehabilitation through therapy provides hope that psychological transformation is possible. Examining ... Leer más

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  • I Was Married to a Horse, and Other Tales of an Accidental Anthropologist

    de John Borneman ...
    A personal odyssey and a portrait of a distinguished anthropologist in practice—a life shaped by accident, transformation, and the enduring power of connection.How does the youngest of eight children, raised on a family farm in northern Wisconsin by parents with only half a grammar school education, become an Ivy League professor and a witness to some of the most transformative events of the late ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • The Ethics of Kinship

    Ethnographic Inquiries

    Series series Alterations
    What need is there for kinship? What good is it anyway? The questions are as old as anthropology itself, but few answers have been enduringly persuasive. Kinship systems can contribute to our enslavement, but more often they permit, channel, and facilitate our relations with others and our further fashioning of ourselves-as kin but also as subjects of other kinds. When they do, they are among the ... Leer más

    $55.99 USD

  • Settling Accounts

    Violence, Justice, and Accountability in Postsocialist Europe

    Series series Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History
    As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence. In Settling Accounts, John Borneman explores the attempts by these ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Syrian Episodes

    Sons, Fathers, and an Anthropologist in Aleppo

    When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial authority in this secular republic, Borneman spent ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Philosophy and the Contemporary World

    Mercersburg, Culture, and the Church

    Series Libro 11 - Mercersburg Theology Study Series
    These essays by John Nevin, theologian of Mercersburg Theology, are united by two primary themes: Part 1 documents Nevin's noteworthy and innovative application of idealist philosophy to Reformed theology in antebellum America. American Christians largely rejected any inherited philosophical discipline or categories, claiming the right to invent moral and religious reality without attention to ... Leer más

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  • Brecht Collected Plays: 1

    Baal; Drums in the Night; In the Jungle of Cities; Life of Edward II of England; & 5 One Act Plays

    Series Libro 1 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.Volume One of Brecht's Collected Plays contains Brecht's first performed stage works. Baal is inspired by Brecht's student life in Augsburg and follows the life of a young poet on the rocky road to inspiration; Drums ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Church, Sacrament, and American Democracy

    The Social and Political Dimensions of John Williamson Nevin’s Theology of Incarnation

    John Williamson Nevin, architect of the nineteenth-century movement, the Mercersburg Theology, has increasingly gained respect as one of the most important theologians of American history and the broader Reformed tradition. Accompanied by the great historian, Philip Schaff, Nevin faced a headwind of American individualism, subjectivism, and sectarianism, but nevertheless forged ahead in ... Leer más

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  • Comparing Impossibilities

    Selected Essays of Sally Falk Moore

    Few scholars have had a more varied career than Sally Falk Moore. Once a lawyer for an elite New York law firm, her career has led her to the Nuremberg trials where she prepared cases against major industrialists, to Harvard, to the Spanish archives where she studied the Inca political system, and to the mountain of Kilimanjaro where she studied the politics of Tanzanian socialism. This book ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Digesting Difference

    Migrant Incorporation and Mutual Belonging in Europe

    Edición de Kelly McKowen, John Borneman ...
    Series series Global Diversities
    Migration across Europe's external and internal borders has introduced unprecedented sociocultural diversity, and with it, new questions about belonging, identity, and the incorporation of others into extant and emergent groups and communities. Bringing together leading cultural anthropologists, Digesting Difference offers a series of ethnographic studies that show incorporation to be a process ... Leer más

    $116.99 USD

  • Death of the Father

    An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority

    Edición de John Borneman ...
    The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined; constraints and affective attachments intensified in ways that had major effects on the organization of regimes of authority. This comparative volume examines the resulting crisis in symbolic ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

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  • Brecht Collected Plays: 2

    Man Equals Man; Elephant Calf; Threepenny Opera; Mahagonny; Seven Deadly Sins

    Series Libro 2 - World Classics
    Published by Methuen Drama, the collected dramatic works of Bertolt Brecht are presented in the most comprehensive and authoritative editions of Brecht's plays in the English language.This second volume of Brecht's Collected Plays brings together some of his most glittering Berlin successes including The Threepenny Opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, The Seven Deadly Sins, Man ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD