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  • Microdystopias

    Aesthetics and Ideologies in a Broken Moment

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  • Hierarchy

    Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

    Edición de Knut M. Rio, Olaf H. Smedal ...
    Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middle East they challenge some current conceptions of hierarchical formations and reassess former debates - ... Leer más

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  • Towards an Anthropology of Wealth

    Imagination, Substance, Value

    Edición de Theodoros Rakopoulos, Knut Rio ...
    Aiming to redefine the concept of wealth, which has too often been reduced to merely ‘accumulated assets’, this book views wealth primarily as a question of reproduction, relational flows and life vitality. The authors therefore outline wealth as a triangular phenomenon between capital, the commons and power.Viewing wealth as firstly a product of relational capacities, the book explores the ... Leer más

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  • Pentecostalism and Witchcraft

    Spiritual Warfare in Africa and Melanesia

    Series series Contemporary Anthropology of Religion
    This open access book presents fresh ethnographic work from the regions of Africa and Melanesia—where the popularity of charismatic Christianity can be linked to a revival and transformation of witchcraft. The volume demonstrates how the Holy Spirit has become an adversary to the reconfirmed presence of witches, demons, and sorcerers as manifestations of evil. We learn how this is articulated in ... Leer más

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    Series series Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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  • Decoding Subaltern Politics

    Ideology, Disguise, and Resistance in Agrarian Politics

    Series series Asia's Transformations/Critical Asian Scholarship
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  • The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

    For two thousand years the disparate groups that now reside in Zomia (a mountainous region the size of Europe that consists of portions of seven Asian countries) have fled the projects of the organized state societies that surround them—slavery, conscription, taxes, corvée labor, epidemics, and warfare. This book, essentially an “anarchist history,” is the first-ever examination of the huge ... Leer más

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  • Social and Cultural Anthropology

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  • Going to Pentecost

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