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Yokohama Street Life - The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer (Hardcover): Tom Gill Yokohama Street Life - The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer (Hardcover)
Tom Gill
R3,275 R2,308 Discovery Miles 23 080 Save R967 (30%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Yokohama Street Life: The Precarious Career of a Japanese Day Laborer is a one-man ethnography, tracing the career of a single Japanese day laborer called Kimitsu, from his wartime childhood in the southern island of Kyushu through a brief military career to a lifetime spent working on the docks and construction sites of Tokyo, Osaka and Yokohama. Kimitsu emerges as a unique voice from the Japanese ghetto, a self-educated philosopher whose thoughts on life in the slums, on post-war Japanese society and on more abstract intellectual concerns are conveyed in a series of conversations with British anthropologist Tom Gill, whose friendship with Kimitsu spans more than two decades. For Kimitsu, as for many of his fellow day laborers at the bottom of Japanese society, offers none of the comforting distractions of marriage, family life, or a long-term career in a settled workplace. It leads him through existential philosophy towards Buddhist mysticism as he fills the time between days of hard manual labor with visits to second-hand bookshops in search of enlightenment. The book also portrays Kimitsu's living environment, a Yokohama slum district called Kotobuki. Kotobuki is a 'doya-gai'-a slum inhabited mainly by men, somewhat similar to the skid row districts that used to be common in American cities. Traditionally these men have earned a basic living by working as day laborers, but the decline in employment opportunities has forced many of them into welfare dependence or homelessness. Kimitsu's life and thought are framed by an account of the changing way of life in Kotobuki, a place that has gradually been transformed from a casual laboring market to a large, shambolical welfare center. In Kotobuki the national Japanese issues of an aging workforce and economic decline set in much earlier than elsewhere, leading to a dramatic illustration of the challenges facing the Japanese welfare state.

A Treatise On Physical Geography - Comprising Hydrology, Geognosy, Geology, Meteorology, Botany, Zoology, and Anthropology... A Treatise On Physical Geography - Comprising Hydrology, Geognosy, Geology, Meteorology, Botany, Zoology, and Anthropology (Hardcover)
A Barrington
R1,041 Discovery Miles 10 410 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Studying the Image (Hardcover): Eloise Meneses Studying the Image (Hardcover)
Eloise Meneses; Foreword by Serah Shani
R1,292 R1,077 Discovery Miles 10 770 Save R215 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
North East India Tribal Studies - An Insiders' View (Hardcover): Cheithou Charles Yuhlung North East India Tribal Studies - An Insiders' View (Hardcover)
Cheithou Charles Yuhlung
R1,615 Discovery Miles 16 150 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Church and Cultures - New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology (Paperback): Louis J Luzbetak The Church and Cultures - New Perspectives in Missiological Anthropology (Paperback)
Louis J Luzbetak; Foreword by Eugene Nida
R1,333 R1,113 Discovery Miles 11 130 Save R220 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Why should the church be concerned about cultures? Louis J. Luzbetak began to answer this question twenty-five years ago with the publication of The Church and Cultures: An Applied Anthropology for the Religious Worker. Reprinted six times and translated into five languages, it became an undisputed classic in the field. Now, by popular demand, Luzbetak has thoroughly rewritten his work, completely updating it in light of contemporary anthropological and missiological thought and in face of current world conditions. Serving as a handbook for a culturally sensitive ministry and witness, The Church and Cultures introduces the non-anthropologist to a wealth of scientific knowledge directly relevant to pastoral work, religious education social action and liturgy - in fact, to all forms of missionary activity in the church. It focuses on a burning theological issue: that of contextualization, the process by which a local church integrates its understanding of the Gospel ("text") with the local culture ("context").

Catalogue No. 52. (Hardcover): B Altman & Co Catalogue No. 52. (Hardcover)
B Altman & Co
R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola (Hardcover): Jonathan Kaplan, Federico Paredes Umana Water, Cacao, and the Early Maya of Chocola (Hardcover)
Jonathan Kaplan, Federico Paredes Umana
R3,266 Discovery Miles 32 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This exciting book brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the ""lost city"" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umana prove that Chocola was a major Maya polity and reveal exactly why it was so influential. In their fieldwork at the site, Kaplan and Paredes Umana discovered an extraordinarily sophisticated underground water-control system. They also discovered cacao residues in ceramic vessels. Based on these and other findings, the authors believe that cacao was consumed and grown intensively at Chocola and that the city was the center of a large cacao trade. They contend that the city's wealth and power were built on its abundant supply of water and its command of cacao, which was significant not just to cuisine and trade but also to Maya ideology and cosmology. Moreover, Kaplan and Paredes Umana detail the ancient city's ceramics and add over thirty stone sculptures to the site's inventory. Because the southern Maya region was likely the origin of Maya hieroglyphic writing and the Long Count calendar, scholars have long suspected the area to be important. This pioneering field research at Chocola helps explain how and why the region played a leading role in the rise of the Maya civilization.

Letter-Writing - Its Ethics and Etiquette, With Remarks On the Proper Use of Monograms, Crests and Seals (Hardcover): Arthur... Letter-Writing - Its Ethics and Etiquette, With Remarks On the Proper Use of Monograms, Crests and Seals (Hardcover)
Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Tributes of Hawaiian Tradition - the Pali and Battle of Nuuanu; Kaliuwaa Falls and Kamapuaa, the Demigod (revised From the... Tributes of Hawaiian Tradition - the Pali and Battle of Nuuanu; Kaliuwaa Falls and Kamapuaa, the Demigod (revised From the Hawaiian Annual and Hawaiian Folk-tales) (Hardcover)
Thomas G (Thomas George) 184 Thrum
R716 Discovery Miles 7 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Geisha of a Different Kind - Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America (Hardcover): C Winter Han Geisha of a Different Kind - Race and Sexuality in Gaysian America (Hardcover)
C Winter Han
R3,104 Discovery Miles 31 040 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In gay bars and nightclubs across America, and in gay-oriented magazines and media, the buff, macho, white gay man is exalted as the ideal-the most attractive, the most wanted, and the most emulated type of man. For gay Asian American men, often viewed by their peers as submissive or too 'pretty,' being sidelined in the gay community is only the latest in a long line of racially-motivated offenses they face in the United States.Repeatedly marginalized by both the white-centric queer community that values a hyper-masculine sexuality and a homophobic Asian American community that often privileges masculine heterosexuality, gay Asian American men largely have been silenced and alienated in present-day culture and society. In Geisha of a Different Kind, C. Winter Han travels from West Coast Asian drag shows to the internationally sought-after Thai kathoey, or "ladyboy," to construct a theory of queerness that is inclusive of the race and gender particularities of the gay Asian male experience in the United States. Through ethnographic observation of queer Asian American communities and Asian American drag shows, interviews with gay Asian American men, and a reading of current media and popular culture depictions of Asian Americans, Han argues that gay Asian American men, used to gender privilege within their own communities, must grapple with the idea that, as Asians, they have historically been feminized as a result of Western domination and colonization, and as a result, they are minorities within the gay community, which is itself marginalized within the overall American society. Han also shows that many Asian American gay men can turn their unusual position in the gay and Asian American communities into a positive identity. In their own conception of self, their Asian heritage and sexuality makes these men unique, special, and, in the case of Asian American drag queens, much more able to convey a convincing erotic femininity. Challenging stereotypes about beauty, nativity, and desirability, Geisha of a Different Kind makes a major intervention in the study of race and sexuality in America.

Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change - Sovereignties and Disruptions (Hardcover): Paul-Francois Tremlett Towards a New Theory of Religion and Social Change - Sovereignties and Disruptions (Hardcover)
Paul-Francois Tremlett
R3,547 Discovery Miles 35 470 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book argues that neither theories of secularisation nor theories of lived religion offer satisfactory accounts of religion and social change. Drawing from Deleuze and Gauttari's idea of the assemblage, Paul-Francois Tremlett outlines an alternative. Informed by classical and contemporary theories of religion as well as empirical case studies and ethnography conducted in Manila and London, this book re-frames religion as spatially organised flows. Foregrounding the agency of hon-human actors, it offers a compelling and original account of religion and social change.

The History of Freemasonry - Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc., Derived From Official Sources Throughout... The History of Freemasonry - Its Antiquities, Symbols, Constitutions, Customs, Etc., Derived From Official Sources Throughout the World; 1 (Hardcover)
Robert Freke 1836-1915 Gould
R1,076 Discovery Miles 10 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Legends of the St. Lawrence [microform] - Told During a Cruise of the Yatch [sic] Hirondelle From Montreal to Gaspe... The Legends of the St. Lawrence [microform] - Told During a Cruise of the Yatch [sic] Hirondelle From Montreal to Gaspe (Hardcover)
J M (James Macpherson) S Le Moine
R899 Discovery Miles 8 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Hope and Insufficiency - Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison (Hardcover): Rachel Douglas-Jones, Justin Shaffner Hope and Insufficiency - Capacity Building in Ethnographic Comparison (Hardcover)
Rachel Douglas-Jones, Justin Shaffner
R2,668 Discovery Miles 26 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A process through which skills, knowledge, and resources are expanded, capacity building, remains a tantalizing and pervasive concept throughout the field of anthropology, though it has received little in the way of critical analysis. By exploring the concept's role in a variety of different settings including government lexicons, religious organizations, environmental campaigns, biomedical training, and fieldwork from around the globe, Hope and Insufficiency seeks to question the histories, assumptions, intentions, and enactments that have led to the ubiquity of capacity building, thereby developing a much-needed critical purchase on its persuasive power.

Walking on the Wild Side - Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover): Kristi M. Fondren Walking on the Wild Side - Long-Distance Hiking on the Appalachian Trail (Hardcover)
Kristi M. Fondren
R3,192 Discovery Miles 31 920 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The most famous long-distance hiking trail in North America, the 2,181-mile Appalachian Trail - the longest hiking-only footpath in the world - runs along the Appalachian mountain range from Georgia to Maine. Every year about 2,000 individuals attempt to ""thru-hike"" the entire trail, a feat equivalent to hiking Mount Everest sixteen times. In Walking on the Wild Side, sociologist Kristi M. Fondren traces the stories of forty-six men and women who, for their own personal reasons, set out to conquer America's most well known, and arguably most social, long-distance hiking trail. In this fascinating in-depth study, Fondren shows how, once out on the trail, this unique subculture of hikers lives mostly in isolation, with their own way of acting, talking, and thinking; their own vocabulary; their own activities and interests; and their own conception of what is significant in life. They tend to be self-disciplined, have an unwavering trust in complete strangers, embrace a life of poverty, and reject modern-day institutions. The volume illuminates the intense social intimacy and bonding that forms among long-distance hikers as they collectively construct a long-distance hiker identity. Fondren describes how long-distance hikers develop a trail persona, underscoring how important a sense of place can be to our identity, and to our sense of who we are. Indeed, the author adds a new dimension to our understanding of the nature of identity in general. Anyone who has hiked - or has ever dreamed of hiking - the Appalachian Trail will find this volume fascinating. Walking on the Wild Side captures a community for whom the trail is a sacred place, a place to which they have become attached, socially, emotionally, and spiritually.

Tyneside Neighbourhoods - Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Hardcover, Hardback ed.): Daniel... Tyneside Neighbourhoods - Deprivation, Social Life and Social Behaviour in One British City (Hardcover, Hardback ed.)
Daniel Nettle
R1,138 Discovery Miles 11 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways (Hardcover): Mora L. Mclean West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways (Hardcover)
Mora L. Mclean
R1,552 Discovery Miles 15 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Names of the Python - Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Hardcover): David L. Schoenbrun The Names of the Python - Belonging in East Africa, 900 to 1930 (Hardcover)
David L. Schoenbrun
R2,330 Discovery Miles 23 300 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Systems of belonging, including ethnicity, are not static, automatic, or free of contest. Historical contexts shape the ways which we are included in or excluded from specific classifications. Building on an amazing array of sources, David L. Schoenbrun examines groupwork-the imaginative labor that people do to constitute themselves as communities-in an iconic and influential region in East Africa. His study traces the roots of nationhood in the Ganda state over the course of a millennia, demonstrating that the earliest clans were based not on political identity or language but on shared investments, knowledges, and practices. Grounded in Schoenbrun's skillful mastery of historical linguistics and vernacular texts, The Names of the Python supplements and redirects current debates about ethnicity in ex-colonial Africa and beyond. This timely volume carefully distinguishes past from present and shows the many possibilities that still exist for the creative cultural imagination.

The Roots of Western Finance - Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World (Hardcover): Thomas K. Park, James B... The Roots of Western Finance - Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World (Hardcover)
Thomas K. Park, James B Greenberg
R2,671 Discovery Miles 26 710 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World, Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to credit. They suggest that financial activities occur in a complex milieu, in which specific parties, with particular motives, achieve their goals using a form of social, cultural, or economic agency. They examine the imbrication of finance and hidden interests in Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, classical Greece and Rome, the early Judeo-Christian traditions, and the Islamic world to illuminate the ties between social, ethical, and financial institutions. This unique breadth of research provides new perspectives on Mesopotamian ways of incentivizing production through financial arrangements, the source of Egyptian surpluses, linguistics and usury, metrological influences on finance, and the enduring importance of honor and social capital. This book not only illustrates the particular cultural logics that drove these ancient economies, it also depicts how modern society's financial techniques, ethics, and concerns with justice are attributable to a rich multicultural history.

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba - Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (Hardcover): Cynthia T.... Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba - Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia (Hardcover)
Cynthia T. Fowler
R2,365 Discovery Miles 23 650 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Biosocial Synchrony on Sumba: Multispecies Relationships and Environmental Variations in Indonesia examines biosocial change in the Austronesian community of the Kodi by examining multispecies interactions between select biota and abiota. Cynthia T. Fowler describes how the Kodi people coordinate their mundane and ritual practices with polychaetes and celestial bodies, and how this synchrony encourages and is encouraged by social and ecological variations. Fowler grounds her anthropogenic environmental research with information from geospatial science, marine ecology, astronomy, physics, and astrophysics.

Rediscovering the Silver Lyre of Ur (Hardcover): Richard Dumbrill Rediscovering the Silver Lyre of Ur (Hardcover)
Richard Dumbrill
R2,221 Discovery Miles 22 210 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Big Ratchet - How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis (Hardcover): Ruth Defries The Big Ratchet - How Humanity Thrives in the Face of Natural Crisis (Hardcover)
Ruth Defries
R1,162 Discovery Miles 11 620 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Our species long lived on the edge of starvation. Now we produce enough food for all 7 billion of us to eat nearly 3,000 calories every day. This is such an astonishing thing in the history of life as to verge on the miraculous. "The Big Ratchet" is the story of how it happened, of the ratchets--the technologies and innovations, big and small--that propelled our species from hunters and gatherers on the savannahs of Africa to shoppers in the aisles of the supermarket.
The Big Ratchet itself came in the twentieth century, when a range of technologies--from fossil fuels to scientific plant breeding to nitrogen fertilizers--combined to nearly quadruple our population in a century, and to grow our food supply even faster. To some, these technologies are a sign of our greatness; to others, of our hubris. MacArthur fellow and Columbia University professor Ruth DeFries argues that the debate is the wrong one to have. Limits do exist, but every limit that has confronted us, we have surpassed. That cycle of crisis and growth is the story of our history; indeed, it is the essence of "The Big Ratchet." Understanding it will reveal not just how we reached this point in our history, but how we might survive it.

The Oku Trail (Ketiantian dbkuo) - Tracing Roots, Footprints and the Edification of a Cultural Space (Hardcover): Tatah Peter... The Oku Trail (Ketiantian dbkuo) - Tracing Roots, Footprints and the Edification of a Cultural Space (Hardcover)
Tatah Peter Taimah
R563 Discovery Miles 5 630 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Precarity in European Film - Depictions and Discourses (Hardcover): Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten, Hanna Prenzel Precarity in European Film - Depictions and Discourses (Hardcover)
Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten, Hanna Prenzel
R2,631 Discovery Miles 26 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume brings together renowned scholars and early career-researchers in mapping the ways in which European cinema -whether arthouse or mainstream, fictional or documentary, working with traditional or new media- engages with phenomena of precarity, poverty, and social exclusion. It compares how the filmic traditions of different countries reflect the socioeconomic conditions associated with precarity, and illuminates similarities in the iconography of precarious lives across cultures. While some of the contributions deal with the representations of marginalized minorities, others focus on work-related precarity or the depictions of downward mobility. Among other topics, the volume looks at how films grapple with gender inequality, intersectional struggle, discriminatory housing policies, and the specific problems of precarious youth. With its comparative approach to filmic representations of European precarity, this volume makes a major contribution to scholarship on precarity and the representation of social class in contemporary visual culture. Watch our talk with the editors Elisa Cuter, Guido Kirsten and Hanna Prenzel here: https://youtu.be/lKpD1NFAx2o

Raising the Dead - Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Paperback): Sharon Patricia Holland Raising the Dead - Readings of Death and (Black) Subjectivity (Paperback)
Sharon Patricia Holland
R745 Discovery Miles 7 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

"Raising the Dead" is a groundbreaking, interdisciplinary exploration of death's relation to subjectivity in twentieth-century American literature and culture. Sharon Patricia Holland contends that black subjectivity in particular is connected intimately to death. For Holland, travelling through "the space of death" gives us, as cultural readers, a nuanced and appropriate metaphor for understanding what is at stake when bodies, discourses, and communities collide.
Holland argues that the presence of blacks, Native Americans, women, queers, and other "minorities" in society is, like death, "almost unspeakable." She gives voice to--or raises--the dead through her examination of works such as the movie "Menace II Society, " Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved, " Leslie Marmon Silko's "Almanac of the Dead, " Randall Kenan's "A Visitation of Spirits, " and the work of the all-white, male, feminist hip-hop band Consolidated. In challenging established methods of literary investigation by putting often-disparate voices in dialogue with each other, Holland forges connections among African-American literature and culture, queer and feminist theory.
"Raising the Dead" will be of interest to students and scholars of American culture, African-American literature, literary theory, gender studies, queer theory, and cultural studies.

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