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Religious Commodifications in Asia - Marketing Gods (Hardcover): Pattana Kitiarsa Religious Commodifications in Asia - Marketing Gods (Hardcover)
Pattana Kitiarsa
R4,219 Discovery Miles 42 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book addresses the growing academic concerns of the market-religion convergences in Asia.

Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, it discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia's diverse religious traditions. Covering key issues in the anthropology and sociology of contemporary Asian religion, it draws theoretical implications for the study of religions in the light of the shift of religious institutions from traditional religious beliefs to material prosperity. The fact that religions compete with each other in a 'market of faiths' is also at the core of the analysis. The contributions show how ordinary people and religious institutions in Asia adjusted to, and negotiated with, the penetrative forces of a global market economy into the region's changing religio-cultural landscapes.

An excellent contribution to the growing demands of ethnographically and theoretically updated interpretations of Asian religions, Religious Commodifications in Asia will be of interest to scholars of Asian religion and new religious movements.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization (Paperback): Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss, Gerald Roche The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization (Paperback)
Leanne Hinton, Leena Huss, Gerald Roche
R1,404 Discovery Miles 14 040 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.

A War Of Witches - A Journey Into The Underworld Of The Contemporary Aztecs (Paperback): Timothy J. Knab A War Of Witches - A Journey Into The Underworld Of The Contemporary Aztecs (Paperback)
Timothy J. Knab
R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book presents a tale with a complete, concise, compelling narrative that conveys some of the essence of the discovery, adventure, and learning of twenty years of field work of the author about the ancient religion of the Aztecs in Mexico. .

The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (Hardcover): Rikke Andreassen, Catrin... The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies (Hardcover)
Rikke Andreassen, Catrin Lundström, Suvi Keskinen, Shirley Anne Tate
R6,443 Discovery Miles 64 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical approaches. Gathering these new and global perspectives, this book presents a much-needed collection of the various forms, sophisticated theoretical developments and nuanced analyses that the field of critical race and whiteness theories and studies offers today. Organized around the themes of emotions, technologies, consumption, institutions, crisis, identities and on the margin, this presentation of critical race and whiteness theories and studies in its true interdisciplinary and international form provides the latest empirical and theoretical research, as well as new analytical approaches. Illustrating the strength of the field and embodying its future research directions, The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and Whiteness Studies will appeal to scholars across the social sciences and humanities with interests in race and whiteness.

The Anthropology of Drugs (Hardcover): Neil Carrier, Lisa L. Gezon The Anthropology of Drugs (Hardcover)
Neil Carrier, Lisa L. Gezon
R4,060 Discovery Miles 40 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

An ideal book for those coming to the anthropology of drugs for the first time, filling a surprisingly big gap in the literature Includes many case studies, such as drug tourism, the opioid crisis and 'county lines' in the UK as well as global examples from the Philippines, Mexico, North America and Europe Helps connect the anthropology of drugs to issues highly relevant to professional working in drug treatment, health, social work and mental health

Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity (Hardcover): David Chapman Zainichi Korean Identity and Ethnicity (Hardcover)
David Chapman
R4,206 Discovery Miles 42 060 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shedding light on contemporary Japanese society in an international context, Japanese-Korean relations and modern day notions of a multicultural Japan, this book addresses the broad notions and questions of citizenship, identity, ethnicity and belonging through investigation of Japan's Korean population (zainichi). Despite zainichi Korean existence being integral to, and interwoven with, recent Japanese social history, the debates and discussions of the Korean community in Japan have been largely ignored. Moreover, as a post colonial context, the zainichi Korean situation has drawn scant attention and little investigation outside of Japan. In Zainichi Korean Ethnicity and Identity David Chapman seeks to redress this balance, engaging with recent discourse from within Japan's Korean population. By taking a close look at how exclusion, marginalisation and privilege work, the book brings insight into the mechanisms of discrimination, and how discourse not only marginalizes individuals and groups, but also how it can create social change and enhance the sense of self. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian studies and of Japanese and Korean politics, culture and society, but also to those with a broader interest in migration studies and the study of identity and ethnicity.

Japanese Proverbs - Wit and Wisdom: 200 Classic Japanese Sayings and Expressions in English and Japanese text (Paperback, First... Japanese Proverbs - Wit and Wisdom: 200 Classic Japanese Sayings and Expressions in English and Japanese text (Paperback, First Edition, Bilingual edition)
David Galef; Illustrated by Jun Hashimoto; Foreword by Edward G. Seidensticker
R463 R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Save R117 (25%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

"Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain."--"Japanese proverb"
This is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanations for each saying.
Go beyond speaking Japanese-peek into the soul of Japan. "Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom" is a delightfully illustrated compilation of traditional Japanese proverbs and sayings. Some of the classic Japanese quotes and quotations, like "Fall down seven times, get up eight," capture the dogged perseverance of the Japanese heart. Others, such as "A red lacquer dish needs no decoration" illuminate both a universal truth and Japan's unique, aesthetic traditions. "Japanese Proverbs: Wit and Wisdom" has proverbs of great cultural significance as well as proverbs on matters of daily life and customs.
Pleasing to expert and new-comer alike, the 200 traditional proverbs in this unique collection are presented in Japanese script ("kana and kanji") and romanized ("romaji") form, along with direct English translations. Similar proverbs are given from English, and the "sumi-e" style ink drawings are a delight in their own right.
You'll speak Japanese with the verve and nuance of a native when you use these apt and witty expressions.

Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development - An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans (Hardcover): Marco... Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development - An Economic Analysis of the Wealth from the Oceans (Hardcover)
Marco Colazingari
R4,214 Discovery Miles 42 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity that is necessary to sustain a growing human population. Colazingari pinpoints the contentious issues relevant to oceans' natural resources management and protection. He examines the cutting edge technology used for the exploration of the oceans' living and non living resources (fisheries, bio-products, energy resources, mineral deposits) and identifies the significant emerging patterns that will determine the development of ocean economics in the future. Problems require timely action by politicians and policymakers at an international level, while scientists and researchers must assist in providing reliable information and investigating viable options.

With writing that is straightforward but comprehensive, this book will appeal to professionals, academics, students, as well as anyone interested in marine environment.

Deciphering the Global - Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects (Hardcover): Saskia Sassen Deciphering the Global - Its Scales, Spaces and Subjects (Hardcover)
Saskia Sassen
R4,818 Discovery Miles 48 180 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Breaking with prevailing scholarship, 'Deciphering the Global' relocates the terms of debate surrounding globalisation from the heights of global markets, states, and international corporations to the messier, more complex ground of the local, where broad globalisation trends are negotiatied in interesting and often unexpected ways.

The Emotions - A Cultural Reader (Paperback): Helena Wulff The Emotions - A Cultural Reader (Paperback)
Helena Wulff
R1,198 Discovery Miles 11 980 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Emotions are a loaded topic. From love and hate to grief, fear and envy, emotions are increasingly understood as driving forces in social life. The Emotions: A Cultural Reader applies a cross-cultural perspective on emotions. It examines the fact that emotions are socially and culturally constructed, while highlighting problems of comparison and translation of local terms and emotional experiences.
Are emotions cultural or universal? To what extent are there culturally distinct emotions? The Emotions closes the traditional Western gap where emotions are separated from rationality and thought: the heart versus mind debate. By presenting both classic essays and new cutting-edge chapters from anthropology, sociology and psychology with important contributions from philosophy and neuroscience, the volume connects a rich range of cross-cultural studies to form a thriving interdisciplinary debate on emotions.

From Post-Democracy to Neo-Democracy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018): Klaus Von Beyme From Post-Democracy to Neo-Democracy (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Klaus Von Beyme
R1,876 Discovery Miles 18 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book of a renowned political scientist and specialist in political theory fundamentally challenges the new fashion of post-democracy by offering an outlook on 'neo-democracy'. The political periods are similar to epochs in modern art, where 'neo' succeeded Post-impressionism and Post-expressionism. This book reviews the topical debate on postdemocracy and scenarios of decline in democratic theory without the alternative of dictatorship. It discusses criticism of politics in the old and new media and a new culture of protest. It addresses new forms of participation and the dangers of populism and right-wing extremism. It proposes institutional reforms of democracy, of the parliamentary system and the party state, in negotiations of coalition-building, in governmental declarations and for the policy output. The book concludes with a debate of normative models of democracy from 'Post-democracy' to 'Neo-democracy', models of justice and theories of democratic reform.

Right Where We Belong - How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education (Hardcover): Sarah... Right Where We Belong - How Refugee Teachers and Students Are Changing the Future of Education (Hardcover)
Sarah Dryden-Peterson
R794 Discovery Miles 7 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A leading expert shows how, by learning from refugee teachers and students, we can create for displaced children-and indeed all children-better schooling and brighter futures. Half of the world's 26 million refugees are children. Their formal education is disrupted, and their lives are too often dominated by exclusion and uncertainty about what the future holds. Even kids who have the opportunity to attend school face enormous challenges, as they struggle to integrate into unfamiliar societies and educational environments. In Right Where We Belong, Sarah Dryden-Peterson discovers that, where governments and international agencies have been stymied, refugee teachers and students themselves are leading. From open-air classrooms in Uganda to the hallways of high schools in Maine, new visions for refugee education are emerging. Dryden-Peterson introduces us to people like Jacques-a teacher who created a school for his fellow Congolese refugees in defiance of local laws-and Hassan, a Somali refugee navigating the social world of the American teenager. Drawing on more than 600 interviews in twenty-three countries, Dryden-Peterson shows how teachers and students are experimenting with flexible forms of learning. Rather than adopt the unrealistic notion that all will soon return to "normal," these schools embrace unfamiliarity, develop students' adaptiveness, and demonstrate how children, teachers, and community members can build supportive relationships across lines of difference. It turns out that policymakers, activists, and educators have a lot to learn from displaced children and teachers. Their stories point the way to better futures for refugee students and inspire us to reimagine education broadly, so that children everywhere are better prepared to thrive in a diverse and unpredictable world.

Northern Plainsmen - Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life (Paperback): John W. Bennett Northern Plainsmen - Adaptive Strategy and Agrarian Life (Paperback)
John W. Bennett
R1,377 Discovery Miles 13 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A study of a rural region and plural society, this book is a distinctive contribution to anthropology, in that it brings the conceptual framework of that discipline to bear on a contemporary agrarian society and its historical development, rather than on peasant or tribal peoples; cultural ecology, in that it shows the nature of the adaptations of four distinctive social groups to the environment of the Canadian Great Plains; the study of social and economic change, as it describes cultural patterns and mechanisms that are relevant to agrarian development the world over; and North American studies, in as much as it deals with community life in the classic sequence of settlement of the Western Plains.

The book is, focused throughout on the adaptation of human societies to their environment. Four groups are described: the Cree Indians, the aboriginal inhabitants of the area who have lost all organic relationship to natural resources and who have devised ingenious methods for manipulating the social environment; ranchers, whose specialized production is based upon resources used in their natural state; homestead farmers, whose maladjusted small-farm economy, after initial setbacks, achieved a degree of stability through interventions by government in their adaptations to nature and the market economy; and the Hutterian Brethren, whose adaptation consisted primarily of the introduction to the region of a new kind of social organization.

This book combines the anthropological concept of culture and the framework of ecology in the study of a modern social milieu; it focuses on a region rather than on a single culture, people, or community, so that the interplay of several social groups can be appreciated; and it elaborates contemporary anthropological and ecological theory in a manner that makes it applicable to the understanding of contemporary agrarian societies.

"John W. Bennett" was emeritus professor of anthropology at Washington University, St. Louis. He served as president of the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Applied Anthropology, and was a member of the editorial boards of the "Annual Review of Anthropology" and "Reviews in Anthropology." Among his books are "The Ecological Transition: Cultural Anthropology and Human Adaptation" (1976, 2005), "Classic Anthropology: Critical Essays," 1944-1996 (1997), and "Human Ecology as Human Behavior: Essays in Environmental and Development Anthropology" (1995).

Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance in North East India (Hardcover): Ralph Buck, Barbara Snook,... Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra - Celebrating Dance in North East India (Hardcover)
Ralph Buck, Barbara Snook, Debarshi Prasad Nath
R4,073 Discovery Miles 40 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, firsthand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival.

Performance and the Culture of Nationalism - Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South, Central and Southeast Asia... Performance and the Culture of Nationalism - Tracing Rhizomatic Lived Experiences of South, Central and Southeast Asia (Hardcover)
Sarvani Gooptu, Mimasha Pandit
R4,063 Discovery Miles 40 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book studies the intersection of performance and nationalism in South Asia.It traces the emergence of the culture of nationalism from the late nineteenth century through to contemporary times. Drawing on various theatrical performance texts, it looks at the ways in which performative narratives have reflected the national narrative and analyses the role performance has played in engendering nationhood. The volume discusses themes such as political martyrdom as performative nationalism, the revitalisation of nationalism through new media, the sanitisation of physical gestures in dance, the performance of nationhood through violence in Tajiki films, as well as K-Pop and the new northeastern identity in India. A unique contribution to the study of nationalism, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of history, theatre and performance studies, cultural studies, postcolonial studies, modern India, Asian studies, political studies, social anthropology and sociology.

Activist Affordances - How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Paperback): Arseli Dokumaci Activist Affordances - How Disabled People Improvise More Habitable Worlds (Paperback)
Arseli Dokumaci
R712 Discovery Miles 7 120 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

For people who are living with disability, including various forms of chronic diseases and chronic pain, daily tasks like lifting a glass of water or taking off clothes can be difficult if not impossible. In Activist Affordances, Arseli Dokumaci draws on ethnographic work with differently disabled people whose ingenuity, labor, and artfulness allow them to achieve these seemingly simple tasks. Dokumaci shows how they use improvisation to imagine and bring into being more habitable worlds through the smallest of actions and the most fleeting of movements---what she calls "activist affordances." Even as an environment shrinks to a set of constraints rather than opportunities, the improvisatory space of performance opens up to allow disabled people to imagine that same environment otherwise. Dokumaci shows how disabled people's activist affordances present the potential for a more liveable and accessible world for all of us.

Ultras - The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (Paperback): Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski,... Ultras - The Passion and Performance of Contemporary Football Fandom (Paperback)
Mark Doidge, Radoslaw Kossakowski, Svenja-Maria Mintert
R633 R571 Discovery Miles 5 710 Save R62 (10%) Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Since its emergence in Italy in 1968, one model of football fandom has become the most dominant in the world: the ultras. Producing choreography, chants, banners and pyrotechnics, ultras represent a highly organised style of fandom that has an increasing global reach and visibility. Over the last fifty years, ultras fandom has spread from Southern Europe across North Africa to Northern and Eastern Europe, South East Asia and North America. Their collective performance not only distinguishes ultras from other football fans, but from many other forms of group behaviour. Focusing on their common form of expression, this book shows how members build an emotional attachment to their club that valorises the insignia of that team while mobilising members against opponents. As a collective with a shared, coherent sense of identity based on an act of consumption, ultras represent an important site of enquiry into masculinity and nationalism in contemporary society. -- .

Infertile Environments - Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men (Paperback): Janelle Lamoreaux Infertile Environments - Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men (Paperback)
Janelle Lamoreaux
R594 Discovery Miles 5 940 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Infertile Environments, Janelle Lamoreaux investigates how epigenetic research into the effects of toxic exposure conceptualizes and configures environments. Drawing on fieldwork in a Nanjing, China, toxicology lab that studies the influence of pesticides and other pollutants on male reproductive and developmental health, Lamoreaux shows how the lab's everyday research practices bring national, hormonal, dietary, maternal, and laboratory environments into being. She situates the lab's work within broader Chinese history as well as the contemporary cultural and political moment, in which declining fertility rates and reproductive governance and technology are growing concerns. She also points to how toxicology in China is a transnational endeavor tied to both local conditions and international research agendas and infrastructures, which highlights the myriad scales and scope of epigenetic environments. At a moment of growing concerns about toxins, endocrine-disrupting chemicals, and climate change, Lamoreaux demonstrates that epigenetic research's proliferation of environments produces new kinds of toxic relations that impact multiple generations of humans.

Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Hardcover): Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves Physical Culture, Power, and the Body (Hardcover)
Patricia Vertinsky, Jennifer Hargreaves; Series edited by Ian McDonald
R5,089 Discovery Miles 50 890 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the 'natural' body, the 'constructed' body and the 'alien' or 'virtual' body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author's muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

Protecting Catalhoeyuk - Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard (Paperback): Sadrettin Dural Protecting Catalhoeyuk - Memoir of an Archaeological Site Guard (Paperback)
Sadrettin Dural
R1,165 Discovery Miles 11 650 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

They are essential to every major archaeological excavation but rarely acknowledged by the visiting researchers once the artifacts have been shipped. As part of the innovative, multivocal output from the famous Turkish Neolithic site of Catalhoeyuk, we hear from one of the site guards, Sadrettin Dural, who tells the story of the excavation from the point of view of the "Other." He offers tales of the strange habits of archaeologists, describes the local in-fighting that scholars never see, and explains how scientists can be protected from the Yatirs, spirits of the dead who guard the mound. Ian Hodder, director of the Catalhoeyuk project, provides explanatory notes for the reader and an interview with the author, exploring indigenous interpretations of ancient sites and the archaeologists who excavate them. For the archaeologist, this offers a revolutionary new viewpoint on their work. For the cultural anthropologist, Dural's role as site guard is only a small part of his life as a Turkish villager. The author recounts the daily lived experience of one man in a contemporary Turkish village, including changing economic strategies for supporting his family, brushes with the law, trips to the beach and the city, and Turkish phone sex.

Talking it Out - Stories in Negotiating Human Relations (Hardcover): Francis Deng Talking it Out - Stories in Negotiating Human Relations (Hardcover)
Francis Deng
R4,236 Discovery Miles 42 360 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This innovative work by the noted scholar, diplomat, legal expert and writer Francis Deng moves the study of negotiation out of the limited traditional context of industrial relations and resituates it in a broader cultural framework, that includes the values and patterns of behaviour relevant to negotiating both personal and international diplomatic relations, and embraces both tribal culture and the complexities of international foreign affairs. Negotiation, the management of human relations in order to facilitate cooperation and the harmonisation of incompatible or conflictual positions, is a vitally important concern in contemporary life. Deng draws upon his own wide experience to explore the ways in which personal initiatives, fundamental cultural values and political factors can contribute towards the improvement of interpersonal and intergroup relations at the local, national and global levels. This unique work includes elements of traditional Sudanese Dinka culture that have shaped Deng's own perspective. The wealth of the author's experience, and the narrative strength of the negotiating stories he presents, greatly enrich our understanding of societies, and present a policy-oriented personalised approach to the cultural dimension of conflict management and resolution in future that has wide relevance. This is an exceptional work by one of the most remarkable cultural experts of our time.

Highland Homecomings - Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora (Paperback): Paul Basu Highland Homecomings - Genealogy and Heritage Tourism in the Scottish Diaspora (Paperback)
Paul Basu
R1,360 Discovery Miles 13 600 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The first full-length ethnographic study of its kind, Highland Homecomings examines the role of place, ancestry and territorial attachment in the context of a modern age characterized by mobility and rootlessness. With an interdisciplinary approach, speaking to current themes in anthropology, archaeology, history, historical geography, cultural studies, migration studies, tourism studies, Scottish studies, Paul Basu explores the journeys made to the Scottish Highlands and Islands to undertake genealogical research and seek out ancestral sites. Using an innovative methodological approach, Basu tracks journeys between imagined homelands and physical landscapes and argues that through these genealogical journeys, individuals are able to construct meaningful self-narratives from the ambiguities of their diasporic migrant histories, and recover their sense of home and self-identity. This is a significant contribution to popular and academic Scottish studies literature, particularly appealing to popular and academic audiences in USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Scotland

Popular Spiritualities - The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment (Hardcover, New Ed): Kathleen Mcphillips Popular Spiritualities - The Politics of Contemporary Enchantment (Hardcover, New Ed)
Kathleen Mcphillips; Lynne Hume
R4,210 Discovery Miles 42 100 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In our contemporary post-modern world, popular forms of spirituality are increasingly engaging with notions of re-enchantment - of self and community. Not only are narratives of re-enchantment appearing in popular culture at the personal and spiritual level, but also they are often accompanied by a pragmatic approach that calls for political activism and the desire to change the world to incorporate these new ideas. Drawing on case studies of particular groups, including pagans, witches, radical faeries, post-modern tourists, and queer and goddess groups, contributors from Australia, the UK and North America discuss various forms of spirituality and how they contribute to self-knowledge, identity, and community life. The book documents an emerging engagement between new quasi-religious groups and political action, eco-paganism, post-colonial youth culture and alternative health movements to explore how social change emerges.

Rituality and Social (Dis)Order - The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Paperback): Alessandro Testa Rituality and Social (Dis)Order - The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Paperback)
Alessandro Testa
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture, bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure, but its stratified and complex history, rich symbolic diversity, and sundry social configurations make it an exceptional object of cultural analysis. The product of more than 12 years of research, this book is the first comparative historical anthropology of popular European Carnival in the English language, with a focus on its symbolic, religious, and political dimensions and transformations throughout the centuries. It builds on a variety of theories of social change and social structures, questioning existing assumptions about what folklore is and how cultural gaps and differences take shape and reproduce through ritual forms of collective action. It also challenges recent interpretations about the performative and political dimension of European festive culture, especially in its carnivalesque declension. While presenting and exploring the most important features and characteristics of European pre-modern Carnival and discussing its origins and developments, this thorough study offers fresh evidence and up-to-date analyses about its transversal and long-lasting significance in European societies.

Tracing Silences - Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable (Hardcover): Ana Dragojlovic, Annemarie Samuels Tracing Silences - Towards an Anthropology of the Unspoken and Unspeakable (Hardcover)
Ana Dragojlovic, Annemarie Samuels
R4,037 Discovery Miles 40 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Silence is crucial to our social world. Responding to the growing scholarly interest in social sciences and humanities for more in-depth engagements with social silence, this book explores what it means to trace silences and to include traces of silences in our scholarly representations. What qualifies as silence, and how does it relate to articulation, to voice, visibility and representation? How can silences be sensed and experienced viscerally as well as narratively? And how do we think with and interpret silences in the face of potential unknowability? Grounded in ethnographic research in the Netherlands, Israel, Turkey, China, and Indonesia, the chapters all contribute to a theorization of silence that embraces multivocality, unintelligibility and uncertainty of interpretation. As a collection of cutting-edge scholarly work at the intersection of anthropology and history, Tracing Silences argues for an in-depth engagement with the unspeakable and unspoken, through a range of modes and methods, and in the historical, social, and political ways in which they emerge and are enacted in the particularities of people's lives. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of history, anthropology, sociology, political science and archival studies. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of History and Anthropology.

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