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Living on Thin Ice

The Gwich'in Natives of Alaska
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
The Gwich'in Natives of Arctic Village, Alaska, have experienced intense social and economic changes for more than a century. In the late 20th century, new transportation and communication t...
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193,61 zł

Made in Egypt

Gendered Identity and Aspiration on the Globalised Shop...
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
This ground-breaking ethnography of an export-orientated garment assembly factory in Egypt examines the dynamic relationships between its managers - emergent Mubarak-bizniz (business) e...
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192,48 zł

In the Absence of the Gift

New Forms of Value and Personhood in a Papua New Guinea...
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
By adopting ideas like 'development,' members of a Papua New Guinean community find themselves continuously negotiating what can be expected of a relative or a community member. Nearly half the ...
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193,81 zł

States of Imitation

Mimetic Governmentality and Colonial Rule
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Late Western colonialism often relied on the practice of imitating indigenous forms of rule in order to maintain power; conversely, indigenous polities could imitate Western sociopolitical for...
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165,34 zł

World War I and the Jews

Conflict and Transformation in Europe, the Middle East,...
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World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic myths about Jewish cowardice, and to fight for Jewish right...
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190,95 zł

Ownership and Nurture

Studies in Native Amazonian Property Relations
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological deb...
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192,28 zł

Understanding Conflicts about Wildlife

A Biosocial Approach
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Conflicts about wildlife are usually portrayed and understood as resulting from the negative impacts of wildlife on human livelihoods or property. However, a greater depth of analysis reveals th...
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193,41 zł

Who Owns the Past?

The Politics of Time in a 'Model' Bulgarian Village
Autor: Deema Kaneff
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
In the decades since the collapse of socialism in eastern Europe, time has been a central resource under negotiation. Focusing on a local community that was considered a 'model' in the socialist...
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193,28 zł

Humour, Comedy and Laughter

Obscenities, Paradoxes, Insights and the Renewal of Life
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. ...
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193,61 zł

Cousin Marriages

Between Tradition, Genetic Risk and Cultural Change
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Juxtaposing contributions from geneticists and anthropologists, this volume provides a contemporary overview of cousin marriage and what is happening at the interface of public policy, the manag...
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193,01 zł

Sacrifice and Rebirth

The Legacy of the Last Habsburg War
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
When Austria-Hungary broke up at the end of the First World War, the sacrifice of one million men who had died fighting for the Habsburg monarchy now seemed to be in vain. This book is the first...
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191,88 zł

Stategraphy

Toward a Relational Anthropology of the State
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Stategraphy-the ethnographic exploration of relational modes, boundary work, and forms of embeddedness of actors-offers crucial analytical avenues for researching the state. By exploring interac...
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166,42 zł

Sense and Essence

Heritage and the Cultural Production of the Real
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Contrary to popular perceptions, cultural heritage is not given, but constantly in the making: a construction subject to dynamic processes of (re)inventing culture within particular social forma...
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162,82 zł

Making Ubumwe

Power, State and Camps in Rwanda's Unity-Building Project
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Since the end of the Rwandan genocide, the new political elite has been challenged with building a unified nation. Reaching beyond the better-studied topics of post-conflict justice and memory, ...
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191,88 zł

Straying from the Straight Path

How Senses of Failure Invigorate Lived Religion
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
If piety, faith, and conviction constitute one side of the religious coin, then imperfection, uncertainty, and ambivalence constitute the other. Yet, scholars tend to separate these two domains ...
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195,07 zł

Expert Knowledge

First World Peoples, Consultancy, and Anthropology
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
...a useful addition to the literature on professional knowledge and its application to problems extant in neoliberal settings. · PoLAR The professionalization of anthropology through prac...
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79,81 zł

At Home in Postwar France

Modern Mass Housing and the Right to Comfort
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
After World War II, France embarked on a project of modernization, which included the development of the modern mass home. At Home in Postwar France examines key groups of actors -- sta...
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192,55 zł

Nature Knowledge

Ethnoscience, Cognition, and Utility
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Numerous scholars, in particular anthropologists, historians, economists, linguists, and biologists, have, over the last few years, studied forms of knowledge and use of nature, and of the way...
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217,54 zł

Shakespeare and Creative Criticism

Wydawca: Berghahn Books
What kinds of critical insights are made possible only or especially via creative strategies? This volume examines how creative modes of writing might facilitate or inform new ways to critical...
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133,89 zł

Search After Method

Sensing, Moving, and Imagining in Anthropological Field...
Wydawca: Berghahn Books
Reigniting a tradition of learning from experience, Search After Method is a plea for livelier forms of anthropology. The anthropologists in the collection recount their experiences of working...
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192,48 zł
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