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The Old Charges of British Freemasons (Hardcover): William James 1841-1911 Hughan The Old Charges of British Freemasons (Hardcover)
William James 1841-1911 Hughan
R765 Discovery Miles 7 650 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Citizen and subject - Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism (Paperback, 2nd ed): Mahmood Mamdani Citizen and subject - Contemporary Africa and the legacy of late colonialism (Paperback, 2nd ed)
Mahmood Mamdani
R395 R365 Discovery Miles 3 650 Save R30 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy-a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects. Many writers have understood colonial rule as either "direct" (French) or "indirect" (British), with a third variant-apartheid-as exceptional. This benign terminology, Mamdani shows, masks the fact that these were actually variants of a despotism. While direct rule denied rights to subjects on racial grounds, indirect rule incorporated them into a "customary" mode of rule, with state-appointed Native Authorities defining custom. By tapping authoritarian possibilities in culture, and by giving culture an authoritarian bent, indirect rule (decentralized despotism) set the pace for Africa; the French followed suit by changing from direct to indirect administration, while apartheid emerged relatively later. Apartheid, Mamdani shows, was actually the generic form of the colonial state in Africa. Through case studies of rural (Uganda) and urban (South Africa) resistance movements, we learn how these institutional features fragment resistance and how states tend to play off reform in one sector against repression in the other. Reforming a power that institutionally enforces tension between town and country, and between ethnicities, is the key challenge for anyone interested in democratic reform in Africa.

Statutes and Regulations of the Supreme Council 33@ for the Dominion of Canada, Adopted, October, 1887 [microform] - With the... Statutes and Regulations of the Supreme Council 33@ for the Dominion of Canada, Adopted, October, 1887 [microform] - With the Grand Regulations of 1762 and Grand Constitutions of 1786 (Hardcover)
Scottish Rite (Masonic Order) Suprem
R761 Discovery Miles 7 610 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
The History of Java; Vol. 1 (Hardcover): Thomas Stamford Raffles The History of Java; Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
Thomas Stamford Raffles
R1,114 Discovery Miles 11 140 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology (Paperback): James G. Carrier A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology (Paperback)
James G. Carrier
R945 Discovery Miles 9 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary. Since the financial crisis of 2008, the anthropological study of economic activity has profoundly changed. A Research Agenda for Economic Anthropology poses new questions for anthropologists about the post-recession world, interrogating common social and political assumptions and stimulating innovative directions for research in economic anthropology. Employing a broad range of intellectual orientations, this comprehensive book tackles the most pressing developments in economic anthropology. The stimulating and thought-provoking chapters engage with the major features of modern economies, including inequality, debt, financialisation, neoliberalism and the ethics of economic practice, as well as with the effects of social mobilisation and activism. The contributors shed light on previously overlooked topics, reassess familiar subjects that need a fresh approach and share their own predilections concerning the modern economic world. With contributors ranging from senior academics to those early in their career, this work is critical reading for any anthropologist concerned with the economy and economic activity. Those searching for novel questions or for a sense of the direction of the discipline will particularly benefit from this book's broad, inquisitive approach. Economic sociologists and geographers will also gain from the comprehensive coverage of the many facets of modern economies. 'The chapters in James Carrier's provocative new collection give us stimulating ideas that set us well on the way to a new kind of economic anthropology. Anybody who finds themselves simultaneously fascinated and yet puzzled by what seems to be the ever more ''economized'' kind of society we live in will find much to attract them in these wide-ranging pages. And this won't just be anthropologists (or broad-minded economists), but students old and young, some seeking a new take on an old issue - markets and the state, inequality, or ethical action; others instead urged to reach toward new challenges - expanding our ideas of ''management'', thinking about resources along a time dimension, or reflecting on how politics is expressed in the language of finance. And there is much more. The opposite of a comprehensive ''wrapping-up'' exercise, this lively collection provides us with a distinct set of starting points that take us into exciting new fields within, and well beyond, economic anthropology. Lively, challenging and rewarding reading.' - Gavin Smith, University of Toronto, Canada and the National University of Ireland

Yorkshire Bibliographer; 1 (Hardcover): Joseph Horsfall 1845- Turner Yorkshire Bibliographer; 1 (Hardcover)
Joseph Horsfall 1845- Turner
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the old French and Indian Wars (Hardcover): C. Alice Baker True Stories of New England Captives Carried to Canada During the old French and Indian Wars (Hardcover)
C. Alice Baker
R983 Discovery Miles 9 830 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
On This and Other Worlds (Hardcover): Kristine Stenzel, Bruna Franchetto On This and Other Worlds (Hardcover)
Kristine Stenzel, Bruna Franchetto
R1,463 Discovery Miles 14 630 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Illustrated Catalogue of the Standard Trimmings. (Hardcover): Anonymous Illustrated Catalogue of the Standard Trimmings. (Hardcover)
Anonymous
R664 Discovery Miles 6 640 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
The Public Value of Anthropology (Hardcover): Dorothy Zinn, Elisabeth Tauber, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali The Public Value of Anthropology (Hardcover)
Dorothy Zinn, Elisabeth Tauber, Centro Studi Investimenti Sociali
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil - Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship... Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil - Black Women's Perspectives on Love, Respect, and Kinship (Hardcover)
Melanie A Medeiros
R2,961 Discovery Miles 29 610 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Using an intersectional approach, Marriage, Divorce, and Distress in Northeast Brazil explores rural, working-class, black Brazilian women's perceptions and experiences of courtship, marriage and divorce. In this book, women's narratives of marriage dissolution demonstrate the ways in which changing gender roles and marriage expectations associated with modernization and globalization influence the intimate lives and the health and well being of women in Northeast Brazil. Melanie A. Medeiros explores the women's rich stories of desire, love, respect, suffering, strength, and transformation.

Entering Into the Fullness of Christ - A Total Worship Experience (Hardcover): Katherine L Savage Entering Into the Fullness of Christ - A Total Worship Experience (Hardcover)
Katherine L Savage
R690 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R76 (11%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days
An Englishwoman in California - The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 (Hardcover): Zoe Klippert An Englishwoman in California - The Letters of Catherine Hubback 1871-76 (Hardcover)
Zoe Klippert
R770 Discovery Miles 7 700 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A niece of Jane Austen and a novelist herself, Catherine Hubback was fifty-two years old when she left England for America. She travelled to California on the Transcontinental Railroad and settled in Oakland, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay. Her son Edward shared her household and commuted by ferryboat to a wheat brokerage in the City. In letters to her eldest son John and his wife Mary in Liverpool, Catherine conveys her delight - and her exasperation - at her new environment. She portrays her neighbours with a novelist's wry wit and brings her English sensibility to bear on gardening with unfamiliar plants and maintaining a proper wardrobe in a dry climate. She writes vividly of her adventures as she moves about a landscape recognizable to present-day residents, at a time when boats rather than bridges spanned the bay, and hot springs were the main attraction in the Napa Valley. In an atmosphere of financial unrest, she writes freely of her anxieties, while supplementing Edward's declining income by making lace and teaching the craft to other women. She recalls her 'prosperous days' in England, but finds pleasure in small things and assuredly takes her place in a society marked by great disparities in wealth. In addition to transcriptions of the letters, this highly readable edition offers pertinent information on many of the people and places mentioned, explanatory notes, and striking illustrations. The introduction places the letters in context and tells the story of Catherine Hubback, whose life evolved in ways unprecedented in the Austen family.

Guide to Accomplishments in Conversation, Letter-writing, and Oratory (Hardcover): Jane Aster, Edward W (Edward William) 1809... Guide to Accomplishments in Conversation, Letter-writing, and Oratory (Hardcover)
Jane Aster, Edward W (Edward William) 1809 Cox
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Tales From the Fjeld - a Series of Popular Tales From the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjornsen (Hardcover): Peter Christen 1812-1885... Tales From the Fjeld - a Series of Popular Tales From the Norse of P. Ch. Asbjornsen (Hardcover)
Peter Christen 1812-1885 Asbjornsen; Created by George Webbe Dasent
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Invisible Bridge - An African Journey through Cultures (Hardcover): Francis Mading Deng Invisible Bridge - An African Journey through Cultures (Hardcover)
Francis Mading Deng
R1,088 Discovery Miles 10 880 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (Hardcover): Roshni Sengupta Reading the Muslim on Celluloid (Hardcover)
Roshni Sengupta
R1,512 Discovery Miles 15 120 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
American Nerd - The Story of My People (Paperback): Benjamin Nugent American Nerd - The Story of My People (Paperback)
Benjamin Nugent
R363 R338 Discovery Miles 3 380 Save R25 (7%) Ships in 10 - 17 working days

"One of the season's most talked about cultural studies" ("Los Angeles" "Times")--an incisive and irreverent appreciation of nerds that combines history, sociology, psychology, and memoir from noted journalist and self-proclaimed nerd Ben Nugent.
Most people know a nerd when they see one, but yet can't define just what a nerd is exactly. "American Nerd: The Story of My People "gives readers the history of" "the concept of nerdiness and its related subcultures. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal nerd? Where did the modern jock come from? When and how did being a self-described nerd become trendy? As the nerd emerged in the nineteenth century, and popped up again and again in college humor journals and sketch comedy, our culture obsessed over the phenomenon.
"Part history, part memoir, and all funny" ("GQ"), "American Nerd" is critically acclaimed writer Benjamin Nugent's entertaining fact-finding mission. He seeks the best definition of nerd and illuminates the common ground between nerd subcultures that might seem unrelated: high-school debate team kids and ham radio enthusiasts, medieval reenactors and pro-circuit videogame players. Why do the same people who like to work with computers also enjoy playing Dungeons & Dragons? How are those activities similar? This clever, enlightening book will appeal to the nerd (and anti-nerd) that lives inside everyone.

Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated - Fall and Winter 1888-9. (Hardcover): N. y. ). Fox and Kelly (New York Fox and Kelly's Fashion Catalogue Illustrated - Fall and Winter 1888-9. (Hardcover)
N. y. ). Fox and Kelly (New York
R662 Discovery Miles 6 620 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Vol. 3 - The Masters of History (Hardcover): Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens: A Graphic History, Vol. 3 - The Masters of History (Hardcover)
Yuval Noah Harari; Edited by David van der Meulen; Illustrated by David Casanave
R585 R515 Discovery Miles 5 150 Save R70 (12%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

Sometimes history seems like a laundry list of malevolent monarchs, pompous presidents and dastardly dictators. But are they really the ones in the driving seat? Sapiens: A Graphic History – The Masters of History takes us on an immersive and hilarious ride through the human past to discover the forces that change our world, bring us together, and – just as often – tear us apart.

Grab a front-row seat to the greatest show on earth and explore the rise of money, religion and empire. Join our fabulous host Heroda Tush, as she wonders: which historical superhero will display the power to make civilisations rise and fall? Will Mr Random prove that luck and circumstance prevail? Will Lady Empire convince us of the irrefutable shaping force of conquerors? Or will Clashwoman beat them all to greatness by reminding us of the endless confrontations that seem to forever plague our species?

In this next volume of the bestselling graphic series, Yuval Noah Harari, David Vandermeulen and Daniel Casanave continue to present the complicated story of humankind with wit, empathy and originality. Alongside the unlikely cast of new characters, we are rejoined by the familiar faces of Yuval, Zoe, Professor Saraswati, Bill and Cindy (now Romans), Skyman and Captain Dollar. As they travel through time, space and human drama in search of truth, it's impossible not to wonder: why can’t we all just get along?

This third instalment in the Sapiens: A Graphic History series is an engaging, insightful, and colourful retelling of the story of humankind for curious minds of all ages, and can be browsed through on its own or read in sequence with Volumes One and Two.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan [microform] (Hardcover): Clement A. Miles Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan [microform] (Hardcover)
Clement A. Miles
R1,014 Discovery Miles 10 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada at the Annual Convocation, 1918 (Hardcover): Royal Arch Masons... Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons of Canada at the Annual Convocation, 1918 (Hardcover)
Royal Arch Masons Grand Chapter (Can
R919 Discovery Miles 9 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Fall and Winter, 1890-91 Fashion Catalogue / H. O'Neill and Co. (Hardcover): H O'Neill and Company Fall and Winter, 1890-91 Fashion Catalogue / H. O'Neill and Co. (Hardcover)
H O'Neill and Company
R803 Discovery Miles 8 030 Ships in 10 - 17 working days
Imagine Belonging - Your Inclusive Leadership Guide to Building an Equitable Workplace (Hardcover): Rhodes Perry Imagine Belonging - Your Inclusive Leadership Guide to Building an Equitable Workplace (Hardcover)
Rhodes Perry
R874 Discovery Miles 8 740 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland, With Sketches of the Irish Past (Hardcover): Lady 1826-1896 Wilde Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland, With Sketches of the Irish Past (Hardcover)
Lady 1826-1896 Wilde
R923 Discovery Miles 9 230 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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