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Rendering Houses in Ladakh - Personal Relations with Home Structures (Hardcover): Sophie Day Rendering Houses in Ladakh - Personal Relations with Home Structures (Hardcover)
Sophie Day
R4,045 Discovery Miles 40 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Sophie Day explores the houses that are imagined, built, repurposed, and dismantled among different communities in Ladakh, drawing attention to the ways in which houses are like and unlike people.A handful of in-depth 'house portraits' are selected for the insight they provide into major regional developments, based on the author's extended engagement since 1981. Most of these houses are Buddhist and associated with the town of Leh. Drawing on both image and text, collaborative methods for assembling material show the intricate relationships between people and places over the life course. Innovative methods for recording and archiving such as 'storyboards' are developed to frame different views of the house. This approach raises analytical questions about the composition of life within and beyond storyboards, offering new ways to understand a region that intrigues specialists and non-specialists alike.

Children and Material Culture (Hardcover): Joanna Sofaer-Derevenski Children and Material Culture (Hardcover)
Joanna Sofaer-Derevenski
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume focuses entirely on children and material culture. The contributors ask: what is the relationship between children and the material world?; is the material culture of children the same across all times and cultures, or does it vary?; and how can we access the actions and identities of children in the material records? The collection spans a period from the Palaeolithic to the late-20th century, and uses data from across Europe, Scandinavia, the Americas and Asia. The international contributors are from a range of disciplines including archaeology, cultural and biological anthropology, psychology and museum studies. All integrate theory and data to illustrate the significance and potential of studying children.

Closet Space - Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe (Paperback): Michael P. Brown Closet Space - Geographies of Metaphor from the Body to the Globe (Paperback)
Michael P. Brown
R1,333 Discovery Miles 13 330 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Is the closet just a metaphor? Closet Space, provides a highly original account of the spatial metaphor of "the closet", and is the first geography text to focus on this important issue. Using a variety of research techniques and materials, the book explores the closet through texts including:
* the oral histories of gay men in the UK and US
* the sexualised landscape of a New Zealand city
* the national census of Britain and the US
* international travel guides and travelogues
and refers to the work of Butler, Lefebure and Foucault.

Critiques of Everyday Life - An Introduction (Hardcover): Michael Gardiner Critiques of Everyday Life - An Introduction (Hardcover)
Michael Gardiner
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in the study of everyday life within the social sciences and humanities. In "Critiques of Everyday Life" Michael Gardiner proposes that there exists a counter-tradition within everyday life theorising. This counter-tradition has sought not merely to describe lived experience, but to transform it by elevating our understanding of the everyday to the status of a critical knowledge. In his analysis Gardiner engages with the work of a number of significant theorists and approaches that have been marginalized by mainstream academe, including: the French tradition of everyday life theorising, from the surrealists to Henri Lefebvre, and from the Situationist International to Michel de Certeau; Agnes Heller and the relationship between the everyday, rationality and ethics; carnival, prosaics and intersubjectivity in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; and Dorothy E. Smith's feminist perspective on everyday life. It demonstrates the importance of an alternative, multidisciplinary everyday life paradigm and offers a myriad of new possibilities for critical social and cultural theorising and empirical research.

Sufism, Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East (Paperback): Anders Hammarlund, Tord Olsson, Elisabeth Ozdalga Sufism, Music and Society in Turkey and the Middle East (Paperback)
Anders Hammarlund, Tord Olsson, Elisabeth Ozdalga
R1,466 Discovery Miles 14 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


After decades of prohibition, Mevlana ceremonies of whirling dervishes attract renewed interest as forms of sacral music, both in formal and popular genres. This trend runs parallel to an increasing concern for cultural, ethnic and religious identities, where the rising tide of religious revivalism sets the tone.

18th Century Japan - Culture and Society (Paperback, New Ed): C.Andrew Gerstle 18th Century Japan - Culture and Society (Paperback, New Ed)
C.Andrew Gerstle
R1,526 Discovery Miles 15 260 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection of essays on 18th-century Japan shows a fascination with the social context behind the development of aesthetics, drama, language, art and philosophy, whether it be the world of the pleasure quarters or the Shogun's court. Contributors include: Y. Teruoka, writing on the pleasure quarters; A. Gerstle, expanding on the Kabuki tradition; B. Torigoe, who explores the dominant Joruri narrative music; H. Clark, who surveys the development of the lively Edo language; M. Morris, exploring the relationship of poet/painter Buson with his patrons; T.J. Harper, who examines the role of social status as an influence on scholarship and the development of the National Learning tradition; M. Nakano, challenging the orthodox interpretation of high and popular culture in the 18th century; and R. Backus, who conveys the essence of the ideals of the samurai culture through his study of the political reformer Matsudaira Sadanobu.

The Sociology of Education - Major Themes (Hardcover): Stephen J Ball The Sociology of Education - Major Themes (Hardcover)
Stephen J Ball
R35,604 Discovery Miles 356 040 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This collection contains 100 papers drawn from the broad range of contemporary writing on the sociology of education. Major trends and developments from the 1970s through to the 1990s are represented. The text offers a comprehensive introduction to and overview of the field. The collection covers the key points of dispute and areas of controversy within the sociology of education and includes papers from many of the leading writers. Taken together, the papers constitute a sophisticated and versatile toolbox of ideas for theory-building and research. Theoretical and substantive research papers were selected for their conceptual richness and general relevance. The collection as a whole is set in context by a general introduction and each volume is introduced with some ideas for reading and integrating the different styles, perspectives, theories and methods represented.

Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations - Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Hardcover): Alan Bicker, Roy... Indigenous Enviromental Knowledge and its Transformations - Critical Anthropological Perspectives (Hardcover)
Alan Bicker, Roy Ellen, Peter Parkes
R3,921 Discovery Miles 39 210 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume provides a critical examination of the uses and abuses of indigenous knowledge. The contributors focus on a series of interrelated issues in their interrogation of indigenous knowledge and its specific applications within the localized contexts of particular Asian societies and regional cultures.In particular they explore: the problems of translation and mistranslation in the local-global transference of traditional practices and representations of resource management; the match and mismatch of practical reasoning in indigenous subsistence regimes and their depictions by outsiders; and the developmental and political consequences of contemporary ethnic and regional claims rooted in an ideology of "traditional" indigenous knowledge.

Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover): Bonnie Zimmerman Encyclopedia of Lesbian Histories and Cultures - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
Bonnie Zimmerman
R7,242 Discovery Miles 72 420 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: 0203801350

Anti-Racism (Hardcover): Alastair Bonnett Anti-Racism (Hardcover)
Alastair Bonnett
R3,913 Discovery Miles 39 130 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Much has been written on racism and ethic hatred. But what about traditions of racial tolerance and equality? "Anti-Racism" offers an historical and international introduction to the development of this topic. Drawing on sources from around the world, it explains the roots and illustrates the practice of anti-racism in Western and non-Western societies. The author introduces the contemporary dilemmas being tracked within anti-racist debate as well as the criticisms of anti-racism that have been heard within Western societies.
This is one of the first books to look at anti-racism as a topic of social, scientific, historical and geographical inquiry. This will prove a unique resource for anyone interested in issues of equality, race or ethnicity.

Orientalism: Early Sources (Hardcover): Professor Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner Orientalism: Early Sources (Hardcover)
Professor Bryan S. Turner, Bryan S. Turner; Introduction by Bryan Turner
R52,872 Discovery Miles 528 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This set publishes some of the leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the orient. The collection concentrates on those authors who have shaped the modern debate on orientalism, especially on Islam, the Middle-East and orientalism in the late and early twentieth centuries.

Early European Writings on Ainu Culture - Travelogues and Descriptions (Hardcover): Kirsten Refsing Early European Writings on Ainu Culture - Travelogues and Descriptions (Hardcover)
Kirsten Refsing
R32,552 Discovery Miles 325 520 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Series Information:
The Ainu Library

Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility (Hardcover): Dirk Hoyer Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility (Hardcover)
Dirk Hoyer
R4,044 Discovery Miles 40 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Retopia tells the story of social innovation in times of crisis, and through its cross-disciplinary narrative it goes beyond existing forms of future anticipation and maps out a practice-based approach to the creation of new realities. It explores how new imaginaries, social experiments, and laboratories of societies can create spaces of possibilities, revalidate the peripheries, and create new forms of social coherence. The peripheral regions in Europe are facing a crisis triangle: depopulation, the rise of the 'useless' class, and outdated social welfare systems. It is a crisis of political imaginaries and a lack of inspiring political stories. In response to this, the book specifically focuses on the concept of 'retopia', the idea of creating inclusive spaces of social innovation that encourage active participation. Through the creation of relocalized societies with a high degree of autonomy in 'left-over' spaces such as Sicily, Western Latvia or Northern Bulgaria, retopian redevelopment schemes offer new perspectives on 'ruined spaces'. Retopia uncovers the common links and limitations of utopian studies, future studies, degrowth, narratology, the commons, and political geography. Retopia: Creating New Spaces of Possibility is an articulation of the potentialities of social innovation, political imaginaries, and future images, provoking a stimulating discussion among scholars and students in the fields of Politics and Future and Anticipation Studies.

Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover): George Haggerty Encyclopedia of Gay Histories and Cultures - An Encyclopedia (Hardcover)
George Haggerty
R6,672 Discovery Miles 66 720 Ships in 12 - 17 working days




eBook available with sample pages: 0203801407

Contested Representations - Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' (Hardcover): Shelly R Butler Contested Representations - Revisiting 'Into the Heart of Africa' (Hardcover)
Shelly R Butler
R3,900 Discovery Miles 39 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an international, controversial touchstone for issues surrounding the politics of visual representation, such as the challenges to curatorial and ethnographic authority in multicultural and postcolonial contexts. Asking why the museum's exhibit failed so many people, the author examines such issues as institutional politics, the broad political and intellectual climate surrounding museums, the legacies of colonialism and traditions of representation of Africa, and the politics of irony.
By drawing upon anthropological and cultural criticism, the book offers a unique account of the ways in which an ambiguous exhibit about colonialism became the site of an expansiveInto the Heart of Africa."

Mind, Materiality and History - Explorations in Fijian Ethnography (Paperback): Christina Toren Mind, Materiality and History - Explorations in Fijian Ethnography (Paperback)
Christina Toren
R1,529 Discovery Miles 15 290 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


How do we become who we are? How is it that people are so similar in the ways they differ from one another, and so different in the ways they are the same?
Christina Toren's theory of mind as not only a physical phenomenon, but an historical one, sets out to answer these questions by examining how the material world of objects and other people informs the constitution of mind in persons over time.
This theory of embodied mind as a microhistorical process is set out in the first chapter, providing a context for the nine papers that follow. Questions explored include the way meaning-making processes reference an historically specific world and are responsible at once for continuity and change, how ritual informs children's constitution of the categories adults use to describe the world, and how people represent their relationships with one another and in so doing come to embody history.
Mind, Materiality and History has direct relevance to current debates on the nature of mind and consciousness, and demonstrates the centrality of the study of children to social analysis. It will be a valuable resource for students and scholars with an interest in anthropological theory and methodology, as well as those engaged in material culture studies.

Embodied Geographies (Paperback): Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather Embodied Geographies (Paperback)
Elizabeth Kenworthy Teather
R2,300 Discovery Miles 23 000 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Embodied Geographies provides a comprehensive account of different types of life crises which develop our identities and affect how we live our lives. Chapters focus on:
* pregnancy, childbirth, teenagers and parenthood
* migration
* the threat and reality of violence
* illness and disability
* bereavement, the ensuing family responsibilities and death itself.
It includes case studies from the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Canada and the USA.

People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East - Environments and Landscapes in the Bilad ash-Sham (Hardcover): Fidelity... People, Land and Water in the Arab Middle East - Environments and Landscapes in the Bilad ash-Sham (Hardcover)
Fidelity Lancaster
R3,953 Discovery Miles 39 530 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The result of 25 years of research with different tribal groups in the Arabian peninsula, this study focuses on ethnographic description of Arab tribal societies in five regions of the peninsula, with comparative material from others. Having become aware of the depth in time of Arab tribal structures, the authors have developed a view of Arabic tribal discourse where "tribe" is seen as essentially an identity that confers access to a social structure and its processes. This insight enables the authors to clarify tribal processes of land use and resource management which are normally "invisible," as they leave few written records and the archaeological remains are notoriously difficult to date. The contextual nature of description by local users leads to a reevaluation of social categories, and to an awareness of relationships between bedouin and peasant, tribesman and townsman. A detailed appreciation of the different agricultural, pastoral and fishing practices of the region is presented, together with the underpinning of indigenous theories of land use and resource management. This detailed monograph incorporates many theoretical aspects, including concepts of indigenous theories

Changing Food Habits - Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe (Hardcover): Carola Lentz Changing Food Habits - Case Studies from Africa, South America and Europe (Hardcover)
Carola Lentz
R3,928 Discovery Miles 39 280 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Fascinating case studies, the majority of which are based on original field work, are presented in this second volume of the "Food in History and Culture" book series. "Changing Food Habits" examines the integral connection between food and ongoing ecological, economic, political, and social transformations. This text also provides research on dietary changes resulting from direct interventions by individuals and food programs.
Among the topics discussed, authors consider rural and urban modes of food consumption, dietary changes in different societal contexts, and food-based rituals. Cases presented in this volume suggest alternative readings of some established models of changing food habits, and contribute to a more comprehensive history of dietary transformations.

Sport in Europe - Politics, Class, Gender (Hardcover): J.A. Mangan Sport in Europe - Politics, Class, Gender (Hardcover)
J.A. Mangan
R5,098 Discovery Miles 50 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationshop with politics, gender and class.

Sport in Europe - Politics, Class, Gender (Paperback): J.A. Mangan Sport in Europe - Politics, Class, Gender (Paperback)
J.A. Mangan
R1,655 Discovery Miles 16 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the cultural, social, political, economic and aesthetic history of Sport in Europe. As sport has grown, progressively replacing religion, in its power to excite passion, provide emotional escape, offer fraternal (and increasingly sororital) bonding, it has become an inescapable reality linking public environment with intimate experience and thus offers the historian an opportunity to inspect and attempt to grasp all the dimensions of the recent past and their relative share in individual and collective experience. This collection considers the evolution of modern sport in Europe and examines its relationshop with politics, gender and class.

Mary Douglas - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover): Richard Fardon Mary Douglas - An Intellectual Biography (Hardcover)
Richard Fardon
R3,927 Discovery Miles 39 270 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


This is the first full length account of the life and ideas of Mary Douglas, the British social anthropologist whose publications span the second half of the twentieth century.
Richard Fardon covers Douglas' family background, and the pervasive influence of her catholic faith on her writings before providing an analysis of two of her most influential works; Purity and Danger (1966) and Natural Symbols (1970). The final section deals with Douglas' more controversial writings in the fields of economics, consumption, religion and risk analysis in contemporary societies. Throughout, Fardon highlights the centrality of Douglas' role in the history of anthropology and the disciplines struggle to achieve relevance to contemporary, western societies.

Individual Quality of Life - Approaches to Conceptualisation and Assessment (Hardcover): C.R.B. Joyce, Hannah McGee, Ciaran... Individual Quality of Life - Approaches to Conceptualisation and Assessment (Hardcover)
C.R.B. Joyce, Hannah McGee, Ciaran O'Boyle
R3,920 Discovery Miles 39 200 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The rubric "Quality of Life" first came to the explicit attention of the medical profession a little over thirty years ago. Despite the undoubted fact that each one of us has his or her own Quality of Life, be it good or bad, there is still no general agreement about its definition, or the manner in which it should be evaluated. Although much has been written about quality of life, this work has been largely concerned with population-based studies, especially in health policy and health economics. The importance of "individual" quality of life has been neglected, in part because of a failure to define quality of life itself with sufficient care, in part perhaps because of a belief that it is impossible to develop a meaningful method of measuring individual variables.
The editors of this book believe that the primary focus of quality of life is and must continue to be the individual, who alone can define it and assess its changing personal significance. The challenge of presenting this belief

Representing the Nation: A Reader - Histories, Heritage, Museums (Hardcover): David Boswell, Jessica Evans Representing the Nation: A Reader - Histories, Heritage, Museums (Hardcover)
David Boswell, Jessica Evans
R3,993 Discovery Miles 39 930 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Full Contributors:
Richard D. Altick, Arjun Appadurai, Tony Bennett, Carol A. Breckenridge, James Clifford, Philip Dodd, Carol Duncan, David Goodman, Stuart Hall, Robert Hewison, Eric Hobsbawn, Kenneth Hudson, Sharon Macdonald, Colin Mercer, Kevin Robins, Chris Rojek, Robert W. Rydell, Raphael Samuel, Roger Silverstone, Anthony D. Smith, John Urry, Patrick Wright

France and the 1998 World Cup - The National Impact of a World Sporting Event (Paperback): Hugh Dauncey France and the 1998 World Cup - The National Impact of a World Sporting Event (Paperback)
Hugh Dauncey; Series edited by J.A. Mangan; Edited by Geoff Hare; Series edited by Boria Majumdar
R1,651 Discovery Miles 16 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines France's hosting of the soccer World Cup, held in ten cities in summer 1998. It covers the major socio-economic, political, cultural and sporting dimensions of this global sports event, including bidding for and organizing the Finals, the improvement of sporting and transport infrastructures, marketing, merchandzing and media coverage, policing and security during the month-long competition and building a national team. The analysis of France 98 is set within the sporting context of the recent history and organization of French football (the links between football, money and politics; the sporting public) and more broadly within the French tradition of using major cultural and sporting events to focus world attention of France as a leader in the international community. The book concludes with an evocation of the day-to-day impact of four weeks of sporting festivities, and the lessons to be drawn concerning sport and national identity in an era of increasing economic, political, cultural and sporting globalization.

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