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Sharon Stephens is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and School of Social Work at the University of Michigan and is Senior Research Associate at the Norwegian Centre for Child Research in Trondheim, Norway.
The bodies and minds of children--and the very space of children--are under assault. This is the message we receive from daily news headlines about violence, sexual abuse, exploitation, and neglect of children, and from a...
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Plusieurs formes anciennes fondent le théâtre autochtone des trois Amériques. Certaines ont survécu au génocide entrepris par les puissances coloniales au cours des derniers siècles. Elles partagent les liens sacrés qui nous unissent à nos ancêtres et aux Esprits de la Terre. Le Xajoj Tun Rabinal Achi, inscrit depuis 2008 sur la liste du patrimoine culturel immatériel de l'humanité par l'UNESCO, est exceptionnel. Il est le seul vestige...
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Nicholas B. Dirks is Professor of Anthropology and History, Geoff Eley is Professor of History, and Sherry B. Ortner is Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies, all at the University of Michigan.
The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology...
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In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. Exploring the ways in which sexual identity is constructed, these authors discuss, for example, how going out for coffee embodies dominant ideas about female sexuality, moral virtue, and autonomy; why men in a Lesbos village maintain...
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An important human trait is our inclination to develop complex relationships with numerous other species. In the great majority of cases however, these mutualistic relationships involve a pair of species, whose co-evolution has been achieved through behavioral adaptation driving positive selection pressures. Humans go a step further, opportunistically and, it sometimes seems, almost arbitrarily elaborating relationships with many other species, whether...
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This volume investigates the archaeology of death and commemoration through thematically linked case studies drawn from the Classical world. These investigations stress the processes of burial and commemoration as inherently social and designed for an audience, and they explore the meaning and importance attached to preserving memory. While previous investigations of Greek and Roman death and burial have tended to concentrate on period- or regionally-specific...
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El cuidado comunitario es una buena defensa que tienen las mujeres mayores para resistir los embates de lo que ha significado una vida dedicada al cuidado de los demás: de sus hijos e hijas, de su marido, de sus nietos y nietas, de sus familiares. Esta atención hacia otras personas estructura la vida de las mujeres, condiciona sus tiempos, sus actividades, su participación en la sociedad. Los clubes proporcionan un espacio y un tiempo que las mujeres...
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How did human beings originate? What, if anything, makes us unique? These questions have long been central to philosophers, theologians, and scientists. This book continues that robust interdisciplinary conversation with contributions from an international team of scholars whose expertise ranges from biology and anthropology to philosophical theology and ethics.
The fourteen chapters in this volume are organized around Wentzel van Huyssteen's pioneering...
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From a Christian perspective, it could well be said that humanity, a good gift of God, is being undermined by the technology and thought-patterns and practices of contemporary Western culture. In response to what is seen as an attack, many books have been written on the harm of these technologically driven practices. These articles and books focus on what is wrong: with euthanasia, with surrogate motherhood, with the denial of the male-female difference,...
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La confianza, los personajes del horror andino, la informalidad, la marginalidad, el miedo urbano, el género, el conflicto armado interno peruano y la identidad juvenil se encuentran plano contra plano en nueve ensayos en los que sus autores examinan —con un lenguaje sencillo y con el apoyo de historias y personajes de películas peruanas, de diversos géneros y con variado éxito de taquilla— diferentes maneras de hacer, sentir y pensar con...
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Through time people have lived with darkness. Archaeology shows us that over the whole human journey people have sought out dark places, for burials, for votive deposition and sometimes for retreat or religious ritual away from the wider community. Thirteen papers explore Palaeolithic use of deep caves in Europe and the orientation of mortuary monuments in the Neolithic and Bronze Age. It examines how the senses are affected in caves and monuments...
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How do children construct, negotiate and organize space? The study of social space in any human group is fraught with limitations, and to these we must add the further limits involved in the study of childhood. Here specialists from archaeology, history, literature, architecture, didactics, museology and anthropology build a body of theoretical and methodological approaches about how space is articulated and organized around children and how this...
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For two millennia Christians have thought about what human impairment is and how faith communities and society should respond to people with perceived impairments. But never has one volume collected the most significant Christian writings on disability. This book fills that gap.
Brian Brock and John Swinton's Disability in the Christian Tradition brings together for the first time key writings by thinkers from all periods of Christian history -...
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This book comprises a number of cultural-historical and ethnographic studies of the history of sport in the Nordic countries. The studies examine the contribution made by sport to the development of Scandinavian nationalism in the nineteenth century, and analyze the ways in which sport became interwoven with the social life of citizens in the various Scandinavian countries in the twentieth century. The main focus of this volume, therefore, is not...
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Within anthropology, as elsewhere in the human sciences, there is a tendency to divide knowledge making into two separate poles: conceptual (theory) vs. empirical (ethnography). In Theory Can Be More than It Used to Be, Dominic Boyer, James D. Faubion, and George E. Marcus argue that we need to take a step back from the assumption that we know what theory is to investigate how theory-a matter of concepts, of analytic practice, of medium of value,...
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La exploración, en este volumen, de los archivos como lugares antropológicos a través de distintos estudios de caso con enfoques interdisciplinarios nos remite a las lógicas de la memoria y el olvido, así como a las lógicas de acceso y activación que los constituyen como tales. Desde una perspectiva regional de las Américas las diversas contribuciones discuten colecciones audiovisuales producidas en el marco de proyectos institucionales de...
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Esta publicación recoge las reflexiones de la unidad de investigación Econcult en el marco del proyecto europeo 3C4 Incubators. Centrada en las relaciones de interdependencia que se dan entre los espacios, la innovación, la creatividad y la cultura, se presenta como un cuerpo teórico que hila y pone en relación diferentes tendencias y planteamientos, que a su vez son ilustrados a través de una amplia selección internacional de 48 casos de estudio...
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El gobierno colectivo de la tierra es múltiple y sumamente complejo. Desde esta perspectiva, el proyecto "Gobierno colectivo de la tierra desde abajo" tuvo la finalidad de analizar y comprender las diversas formas de acceso y control del recurso con el objetivo de contribuir a la discusión académica, pero también a la elaboración de políticas sobre temas de derechos colectivos.
Este libro, editado por Alejandro Diez, sistematiza y analiza casos...
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Thomas F. Torrance invites evangelicals to think more Christianly
Thomas F. Torrance and Evangelical Theology: A Critical Analysis brings Torrance into closer conversation with evangelical theology on a range of key theological topics.
• Thomas F. Torrance and the Evangelical Tradition (Thomas A. Noble)
• Torrance, The Tacit Dimension, and The Church Fathers (Jonathan Warren P. (Pagán))
• Torrance and the Doctrine of Scripture (Andrew T. B....
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Deadhead Social Science is a collection of papers examining various aspects of the complex subculture surrounding the rock band, the Grateful Dead. Deadheads, as Grateful Dead fans are called, followed the band from venue to venue until the band announced their dissolution in December of 1995 and have continued to follow bands including various surviving members of the Grateful Dead since then. Deadhead Social Science addresses the questions: What...
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