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Este libro es el resultado de la investigación más completa que se haya hecho sobre la serranía de Chiribiquete y el tesoro ancestral que alberga. Su contenido causa admiración y sorpresa, y reta a saber más y comprender mejor el pasado inédito. Desde las teorías sobre la fecha de la llegada del hombre a América, muy anterior a lo que la antropología ha dicho, hasta el significado ritual de más de 70 mil dibujos pintados sobre las rocas...
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In his introduction to this 1865 volume, the author indicates his method by writing that "civilization, being a process of long and complex growth, can only be understood when studied through its entire range." His thesis is that all cultures-both in the present and long ago-have to be studied as parts of a single history of human thought. The result, said the New York Times in a contemporary review, is "a most entertaining and instructive collection...
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This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue...
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Por varios años, los autores se dedicaron a acompañar las experiencias de las mujeres peruanas que viven, transitan y trabajan entre las ciudades fronterizas de Arica (Chile) y Tacna (Perú). Con enorme generosidad, ellas les abrieron las puertas de sus casas y les contaron sus historias de vida, las de sus madres y las de sus abuelas. La narrativa de estas mujeres, el tiempo y las escenas que ellas compartieron, condujeron al tema central de este...
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Este libro presenta el marco conceptual para los estudios transnacionales desarrollado desde la experiencia de la práctica antropológica y etnográfica del Seminario de Estudios Transnacionales de la Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. El libro revisa los orígenes multidisciplinarios de la perspectiva teórica, y su relación con el desarrollo de los estudios culturales y el feminismo. Organizada en torno a palabras clave, esta obra reflexiona...
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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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Iraq's healthcare has been on the edge of collapse since the 1990s. Once the leading hub of scientific and medical training in the Middle East, Iraq's political and medical infrastructure has been undermined by decades of U.S.-led sanctions and invasions. Since the British Mandate, Iraqi governments had invested in cultivating Iraq's medical doctors as agents of statecraft and fostered connections to scientists abroad. In recent years, this has been...
69) Island of Bali
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Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience. First published in 1937, Island of Bali is still regarded by many as the most authoritative text on Bali and its fascinating people. Included is a wealth of information on the daily life, art, customs and religion of this magical "Island of the Gods." In the author's own words it presents a "bird's-eye view of Balinese...
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"¿Se puede pensar en un periódico? Esta es la pregunta que me hice cuando Nacho Escolar me invitó a colaborar en el nuevo diario Público en 2007. El periódico me parecía un buen lugar desde el que dialogar con la ola de fondo que se expresaba en movilizaciones como el "No a la guerra", la reacción social tras el atentado terrorista del 11 de marzo de 2004 o las sentadas por una vivienda digna más conocidas como V de Vivienda. Una ola de fondo...
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Book Preview: #1 Heroification is a process that makes people over into heroes. Through this process, our educational media turn flesh-and-blood individuals into pious, perfect creatures without conflicts, pain, credibility, or human interest.
#2 Helen Keller was a radical socialist who joined the Socialist party in 1909. She had become a social radical even before she graduated from...
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Jon Cruz is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the coeditor of Viewing, Reading, Listening: Audiences and Cultural Reception.
In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "discovery" of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures. Slave owners had long heard black song making as meaningless...
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La reflexión de Carlos Ruiz desemboca, finalmente, en la formulación del principio del valor humano agregado que sintetiza su aportación al debate contemporáneo sobre el tema. El autor concluye, a partir de estos elementos, que cuando la empresa no logra cumplir satisfactoriamente con la vocación antropológica que le es inherente, entonces corre el riesgo de autodestruirse. La comprensión del alcance de esta afirmación supone una lectura cuidadosa...
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La modernidad argentina puede identificarse con la expansión de modelos del capitalismo europeo condensados en modos de producción económica y en lógicas de organización cultural (un territorio, una lengua, una religión). El proceso histórico nacional invisibilizó las denominadas "minorías religiosas", construyendo una ideología donde rasgos diferentes de los del catolicismo estaban ausentes de los diacríticos simbólicos de la argentinidad.
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Originally published in 1920. Author: Sir George Grierson, K.C.I.E Language: English Keywords: Social Sciences / Kashmir Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Obscure Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Esta obra estudia la relación memoria/olvido en la tradición occidental, poniendo énfasis en que la historia ha sido articulada principalmente a partir del discurso del "vencedor", silenciando, muchas veces, las voces de los vencidos. Pese al deliberado propósito de acallar tales voces, se advierten, en ocasiones, huellas de discursos preteridos que es forzoso recuperar para la construcción, lo más veraz posible, de la historia, tal como sostiene...
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"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1994" One of the leading members of the well-known Subaltern Studies collective of scholars, Partha Chatterjee is Professor of Political Science at the Centre for Studies in Social Sciences in Calcutta. His other works include Nationalist Thought and the Colonial World (Zed/Minnesota).
In this book, the prominent theorist Partha Chatterjee looks at the creative and powerful results of the nationalist...
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Le développement des technologies informatiques, à l'exemple de la ville connectée, des données massives (big data) et de l'intelligence artificielle est appuyé par un ensemble de discours à visée persuasive. Par divers procédés de langage, figures et stratégies rhétoriques, ces argumentaires visent notamment à légitimer une numérisation de plus en plus croissante des sociétés. Les métaphores jouent à ce sujet un rle crucial. Bien...
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This book opens a window on our historical past. We find antiquity has drawn a blind over earlier and more humanitarian cultures, writing off their artistic and egalitarian practices while antiquitys social habits escalated stress. Psychologists have recently made us aware that stress has very negative results for community life. Simultaneously, archaeologists have uncovered information about Neolithic cultures and art that makes no sense seen beside...
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The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps Anthropology and the Human Subject provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western intellectual tradition, focusing specifically on the secular trends of the twentieth century. Encyclopaedic in scope, lucidly and engagingly written,...
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