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  • Sociality

    New Directions

    Edición de Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore ...
    Series Libro 1 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    The notion of 'sociality' is now widely used within the social sciences and humanities. However, what is meant by the term varies radically, and the contributors here, through compelling and wide ranging essays, identify the strengths and weaknesses of current definitions and their deployment in the social sciences. By developing their own rigorous and innovative theory of human sociality, they re ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Social Life of Achievement

    Edición de Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore ...
    Series Libro 2 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    What happens when people “achieve”? Why do reactions to “achievement” vary so profoundly? And how might an anthropological study of achievement and its consequences allow us to develop a more nuanced model of the motivated agency that operates in the social world? These questions lie at the heart of this volume. Drawing on research from Southeast Asia, Europe, the United States, and Latin America, ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The State We're In

    Reflecting on Democracy's Troubles

    Edición de Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, Henrietta L. Moore ...
    Series Libro 3 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    What makes people lose faith in democratic statecraft? The question seems an urgent one. In the first decades of the twenty-first century, citizens across the world have grown increasingly disillusioned with what was once a cherished ideal. Setting out an original theoretical model that explores the relations between democracy, subjectivity and sociality, and exploring its relevance to countries ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange

    Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond

    Edición de Lam Minh Chau, Joanna Cook, Nicholas J. Long, Jacob Copeman ...
    Series Libro 15 - WYSE Series in Social Anthropology
    Dialogues, encounters and interactions through which particular ways of knowing, understanding and thinking about the world are forged lie at the centre of anthropology. Such ‘intellectual exchange’ is also central to anthropologists’ own professional practice: from their interactions with research participants and modes of pedagogy to their engagements with each other and scholars from adjacent ... Leer más

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  • Museums Matter

    In Praise of the Encyclopedic Museum

    de James Cuno ...
    Series series Campbell Lectures
    The concept of an encyclopedic museum was born of the Enlightenment, a manifestation of society’s growing belief that the spread of knowledge and the promotion of intellectual inquiry were crucial to human development and the future of a rational society. But in recent years, museums have been under attack, with critics arguing that they are little more than relics and promoters of imperialism. ... Leer más

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  • The Argumentative Indian

    Writings on Indian History, Culture and Identity

    de Amartya Sen ...
    A Nobel Laureate offers a dazzling new book about his native countryIndia is a country with many distinct traditions, widely divergent customs, vastly different convictions, and a veritable feast of viewpoints. In The Argumentative Indian, Amartya Sen draws on a lifetime study of his country's history and culture to suggest the ways we must understand India today in the light of its rich, long ... Leer más

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  • After the Massacre

    Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

    de Heonik Kwon ...
    Series Libro 14 - Asia: Local Studies / Global Themes
    Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study considers how Vietnamese villagers in My Lai and Ha My—a village where South Korean troops committed an equally appalling, though less well-known, massacre of unarmed civilians—assimilate the catastrophe of ... Leer más

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  • Amitav Ghosh: A Critical Companion

    With a new essay on Satyajit Ray by Amitav Ghosh

    de Tabish Khair ...
    Looking back now, I am more than ever aware of the part that [Satyajit] Ray played in shaping the imaginary universe of my childhood and youth. I see this even in such details as my interest in science and science fiction; in ghost stories and the fantastical…When I saw Agantuk [The Stranger], in which the main character is an anthropologist, I began to wonder whether my interest in anthropology ... Leer más

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  • Different Spaces, Different Voices: A Rendezvous with Decoloniality

    de Sayan Dey ...
    This collection of interviews fromfrom various decolonial researchersand academicians across the worldcentrally reflects upon upon twocrucial aspects - the differencesbetween the concepts of postcolonialityand decoloniality, and the multifariousforms of decolonial thinking and doingthat are taking place in thecontemporary era. ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Self-Expression

    The Urdu Middleclass Milieu in Mid-Twentieth Century India and Pakistan

    de Markus Daechsel ...
    Series series Royal Asiatic Society Books
    The 1930s to 1950s witnessed the rise and dominance of a political culture across much of North India which combined unprecedented levels of mobilization and organization with an effective de-politicization of politics. On the one hand obsessed with world events, people also came to understand politics as a question of personal morality and achievement. In other words, politics was about ... Leer más

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  • In Stereotype

    South Asia in the Global Literary Imaginary

    de Mrinalini Chakravorty ...
    Series series Literature Now
    In Stereotype confronts the importance of cultural stereotypes in shaping the ethics and reach of global literature. Mrinalini Chakravorty focuses on the seductive force and explanatory power of stereotypes in multiple South Asian contexts, whether depicting hunger, crowdedness, filth, slums, death, migrant flight, terror, or outsourcing. She argues that such commonplaces are crucial to defining ... Leer más

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  • The Dao of World Politics

    Towards a Post-Westphalian, Worldist International Relations

    de L. H. M. Ling ...
    Series series New International Relations
    This book draws on Daoist yin/yang dialectics to move world politics from the current stasis of hegemony, hierarchy, and violence to a more balanced engagement with parity, fluidity, and ethics.The author theorizes that we may develop a richer, more representative approach towards sustainable and democratic governance by offering a non-Western alternative to hegemonic debates in IR. The book ... Leer más

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