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Télécharger le livre : Yabar
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Yabar
David Lipset
This book analyses the dual alienations of a coastal group rural men, the Murik of Papua New Guinea. David Lipset argues that Murik men engage in a Bakhtinian dialogue: voicing their alienation from both their own, indigenous masculinity, as well as from the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2017-03-27
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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26,36 €
Télécharger le livre : Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves
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Possessing Spirits and Healing Selves
R. Seligman
Spirit possession involves the displacement of a human's conscious self by a powerful other who temporarily occupies the human's body. Here, Seligman shows that spirit possession represents a site for understanding fundamental aspects of human experience, especially...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-09-11
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : Sleep Around the World
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Sleep Around the World
R. Chenhall , K. Glaskin
Although humans slumber for approximately one third of our lives, sleep itself is vastly understudied. This volume provides a comparative frame through which we can understand the myriad ways in which sleep reflects and embodies culture as contributors examine aspects...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2013-06-05
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Objects of Time
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Objects of Time
K. Birth
This is a book about time, but it is also about much more than time—it is about how the objects we use to think about time shape our thoughts. Because time ties together so many aspects of our lives, this book is able to explore the nexus of objects, cognition, culture,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-10-10
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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79,11 €
Télécharger le livre : The Anthropology of Ignorance
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The Anthropology of Ignorance
C. High , A. Kelly , J. Mair
The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. This volume argues that the concept of ignorance has largely been pursued as the opposite of knowledge or even its obverse. Though they cover wide empirical ground - from clients...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2012-03-27
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : The Cultural Context of Emotion
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The Cultural Context of Emotion
K. Heider
Based on the author's second stage of research on emotions of the matrilineal Moslem Minangkabau of West Sumatra, Indonesia, this book is a continuation of Heider's groundbreaking 1991 book, Landscapes of Emotion . This work demonstrates how situating emotion at the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-09-26
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : An Ethnography of Stress
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An Ethnography of Stress
V. Burbank
Health inequality is a global issue. This book examines the problem through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of premature morbidity and mortality similar to that in other disadvantaged populations. Its synthesis of...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-01-31
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy
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Psychotherapy, American Culture, and Social Policy
E. Throop
A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2009-01-05
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture
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Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture
S. Parish
Winner ofThe Boyer Prize from the Society for Psychological Anthropology!!! This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on the nature of the human self. Using an intimate life history approach, it examines ways people struggle to cope with...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2008-06-23
Collection : Culture, Mind, and Society
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58,01 €