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Journeyman Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
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During a period of record low rainfall in northern Kenya, the Turkana tribe faces growing violent clashes with rival tribes and encroaching wild predators hunting their livestock. Kolei, a sensitive shepherd boy whose name translates to “living amongst the goats”, questions not only his path as a warrior, but also the erosion of the culture that has shaped every aspect of his life.
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Women Make Movies
Pub. Date
2022.
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Explores the life and times of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. The film tells her story of awakening to gay life in the 1950’s, the women’s liberation movement and lesbian-feminism, drag culture, and forging a butch identity that for her is in conversation with trans-masculinity. Keenly attuned to the societal forces that shaped her life, Esther guides us through an anthropology of herself, a study influenced by her love for a sport –...
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Theological anthropology is a vast and complex doctrinal subject that needs to be elaborated with careful attention to its relation to other major doctrines. It must confess the glory and misery of humanity, from creation in the image of God to the fall into a state of sin. It must reckon with a holism that spans distinctions between body, soul, and spirit, and a unity that encompasses male and female, as well as racial and cultural difference. The...
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Este libro es un viaje conceptual y etnográfico por nociones como espacio, tiempo, territorio y desarrollo que para el sentido común aparecen como autoevidentes, claras, y como algo dado inmediatamente a la experiencia. A lo largo de estas páginas se descubre que estas nociones, como cualquier término de esos usuales que pueblan las conversaciones cotidianas —y que también adquieren estatura de conceptos usados por ciencias como la física,...
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What does it mean to be "truly human?" In Christological Anthropology in Historical Perspective, Marc Cortez looks at the ways several key theologians-Gregory of Nyssa, Julian of Norwich, Martin Luther, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Karl Barth, John Zizioulas, and James Cone-have used Christology to inform their understanding of the human person. Based on this historical study, he concludes with a constructive proposal for how Christology and anthropology...
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Los trabajos que conforman este libro responden a dos inquietudes relacionales: por un lado, ampliar los diálogos y debates existentes acerca de la visión y la visualidad, como también acerca de desplazamientos, tránsitos, transiciones empíricas y simbólicas de sujetos, objetos y saberes, tanto históricos como contemporáneos. Ello deriva en enfoques que van desde la literatura, la filosofía, la historia, la etnografía, la estética, a los...
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Australia's leading social psychologist examines our society today and asks timely and urgent questions about its future
Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. Yet none of our differences-whether based on ethnicity, politics, religion, cultural tastes and preferences, or gender-are nearly as significant as the humanity we share.
Amidst our epidemics of loneliness, anxiety and depression, and the impacts of entrenched...
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In anthropology, a field that is known for its critical edge and intellectual agility, few books manage to maintain both historical value and contemporary relevance. Roy Wagner's The Invention of Culture, originally published in 1975, is one.
Wagner breaks new ground by arguing that culture arises from the dialectic between the individual and the social world. Rooting his analysis in the relationships between invention and convention, innovation...
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La propuesta de este libro no se detiene en una exploración sobre el arte literario, sino que considera la experiencia social como teatralidad, repleta de escenas, escenarios, actores, personajes y diversidad de diálogos.
Se inicia con un tratamiento epistémico sobre esta condición teatral, factor indispensable para caracterizar el mundo chamánico. La teatralidad se plantea también como metodología articuladora de las técnicas aplicadas en...
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Valiéndose del diario de campo en la localidad mexicana de Pinola de la antropóloga Esther Hermitte, sus cuadros, esquemas e informes temáticos y de avance, junto a la tesis doctoral, Rosana Guber nos propone reconocer los dilemas que se nos presentan a los investigadores que elegimos la etnografía como perspectiva privilegiada para el conocimiento social. La articulación etnográfica indaga una etnografía por dentro, las lógicas que conducen...
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Con notable precisión etnográfica y fidelidad a mandatos ancestrales, Amalia Vargas describe y analiza los rituales mortuorios andinos en el noroeste argentino que forman parte de su propia cultura. Vargas ofrece no solo una aproximación a las creencias sobre la muerte, sino también, y fundamentalmente, al sentido que una comunidad da a la vida. Este sentido se teje a partir de la celebración del culto que las personas dan a sus ancestros que...
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In his latest book, the prolific writer and thinker Alphonso Lingis brings interdisciplinarity and lyrical philosophizing to the weight of reality, the weight of things, and the weight of life itself. Drawing from philosophy, anthropology, psychology, religion, and science, Lingis seeks to uncover what in our reality escapes our attempts at measuring and categorizing. Writing as much from his own experiences and those of others as from his longstanding...
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The early chapters of Genesis tell the story of how humanity became reasonable and self-conscious; how humans moved into agriculture; how humans faced hardship during the early stages of sedentary living, and how they started to build civilization by working together. It is simultaneously a reflection on human history and what it means to be human.Roughly, Genesis 2-11 represents three phases in human history: 1) The distant past, 2) The early era...
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The term "Caucasian" is a curious invention of the modern age. Originating in 1795, the word identifies both the peoples of the Caucasus Mountains region as well as those thought to be "Caucasian". Bruce Baum explores the history of the term and the category of the "Caucasian race" more broadly in the light of the changing politics of racial theory and notions of racial identity. With a comprehensive sweep that encompasses the understanding of "race"...
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The discovery of a limestone burial box with the inscription "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus" set the world of biblical archaeology abuzz. Could this be the first tangible proof of Jesus' existence? Hershel Shanks, celebrated for making biblical archaeology accessible to general readers, and Ben Witherington III, leading New Testament expert, reveal not only what the discovery means for understanding the Bible, but what it shows about the...
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We live in a world where seemingly everything can be measured. We rely on indicators to translate social phenomena into simple, quantified terms, which in turn can be used to guide individuals, organizations, and governments in establishing policy. Yet counting things requires finding a way to make them comparable. And in the process of translating the confusion of social life into neat categories, we inevitably strip it of context and meaning-and...
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Este libro se propone conciliar la corriente académica conocida como "transpersonalismo" con aquella otra denominada "giro decolonial". La segunda se aleja del eurocentrismo universalista y hace notar que el paradigma epistémico de la modernidad occidental encubre su lado oscuro, el colonialismo, y su posterior "colonialidad" del poder, el ser, el saber, los géneros, las sexualidades, las formas de autoridad y la misma naturaleza. El transpersonalismo...
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2012 Americo Paredes Book Award Winner for Non-Fiction presented by the Center for Mexican American Studies at South Texas College
Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries
A complex rendering of the upbringing of Olivia--the daughter of a live-in maid to a wealthy family
This is Olivia's story. Born in Los Angeles, she is taken to Mexico to live with her extended family until...
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El mundo sobrenatural forma parte de lo cotidiano por muy racionales y escépticos que pretendamos ser, puesto que no sólo siguen activas creencias y prácticas, sino que forman parte de nuestra cultura y de nuestra historia. "Historia de la hechicería y de las brujas" nos presenta a hechiceros y brujas de todas las latitudes y épocas, pero también de su impacto en las sociedades donde se han manifestado. Aborda el tema desde una doble perspectiva:...
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The 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program was supposed to be a stepping stone, a policy innovation announced by the White House designed to put pressure on Congress for a broader, lasting set of legislative changes. Those changes never materialized, and the people who hoped to benefit from them have been forced to navigate a tense and contradictory policy landscape ever since, haunted by these unfulfilled promises. Legal Phantoms...
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