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Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology
In Art in the Pre-Hispanic Southwest: An Archaeology of Native
American Cultures, Radoslaw Palonka reconstructs the development of
pre-Hispanic Native American cultures and tribes in the American
Southwest and Mexican Northwest. Palonka also examines the wider
context through the lenses of settlement studies and social
transformation, while paying close attention to the material
manifestations of pre-Hispanic beliefs, including intricately
decorated ceramics and rock art iconography in paintings and
petroglyphs.
Whitehead and the Pittsburgh School: Preempting the Problem of
Intentionality proposes a revisionary history of the relationship
between Alfred North Whitehead and analytic philosophy, as well as
a constructive proposal for how thinking with Whitehead can help
disabuse analytic philosophy of the problem of intentionality. Lisa
Landoe Hedrick defines "analytic" philosophy as primarily the
intellectual tradition that runs from Gottlob Frege to Bertrand
Russell to Wilfrid Sellars, or, geographically speaking, from
Vienna to Cambridge to Pittsburgh between the twentieth and
twenty-first centuries. As key members of the Pittsburgh School of
philosophy, Robert Brandom and John McDowell pick up the Sellarsian
project of reconciling nature and normativity in different ways,
yet each of them presupposes a problematic relationship between
language and the world precisely bequeathed to them by an implicit
metaphysics of subjecthood that characterized analytic thinkers of
the early twentieth century. Hedrick both investigates Whitehead's
published and archived critiques of early analytic thought-as an
extension of a wider critique of modern philosophy-and employs
Whitehead to reimagine nature and normativity after the problem of
intentionality by way of his aesthetics of symbolism. This book
thereby builds upon a burgeoning effort among philosophers to
interface process and analytic thought, but it is the first to
focus on contemporary analytic thinkers.
Afro and Indigenous Intersectionality in America as Nomen broadens
the historical narrative of Indigenous, Autochthonous, and First
World people who have been classified historically as Negro, Black,
Colored, Afro, and African American. By addressing the ways in
which the singular narrative of "slavery" codifies identity, this
work moves beyond binary racial classifications and proposes the
possibility of utilizing holistic historical narratives to foster
group and personal identity.
In Field Stories, William H. Leggett and Ida Fadzillah Leggett have
drawn together a collection of fieldwork experiences from around
the world. Using concepts like vulnerability, friendship, fear, and
affect, the contributors in this collection draw on their
ethnographic research and classroom experience to share instructive
narratives related to their personal encounters and insights from
working with local interlocuters. Drawing on moments both
unfamiliar and all too familiar to those accustomed to fieldwork,
the contributors demonstrate, in clear, relatable prose, how
intimate engagements with others in the field can present moments
of rich ethnographic value that can be used to understand and
provide insight into global interconnections.
In Revolutionary Tunisia: Inequality, Marginality, and Power,
Stefano Pontiggia examines marginality and inequality in Tunisia
through the stories of people living in Redeyef, a mining town in
the Tunisian south that is well known for its militant past.
Considering the ongoing formation of the post-revolutionary
Tunisian state, Pontiggia explores the extent to which state-led
institutions, local power relations, the social structure, and the
dynamics of space production coincide to perpetuate inequality. Far
from being a process of exclusion from wealth and development,
Pontiggia asserts, marginality is instead synonymous with a gradual
integration of territories and populations into a socio-territorial
hierarchy that is rooted in the colonial experience. What emerges
is a country whose revolution is characterized by change as much as
continuity with the past.
South Asia in Transition is an introductory book on the
anthropology of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri
Lanka, and Bangladesh, suitable for students at all levels and
others interested in this topic. It assumes no prior knowledge of
either the region or the discipline of anthropology. The book makes
extensive use of existing publications to describe how
anthropologists have approached the region and what they have said
about it. The first group of chapters deals mostly with India and
caste, class, tribes, religion, kinship and marriage, gender, the
body and personhood, politics and political economy. A second group
of chapters deals successively with Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Nepal.
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