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Becoming Salmon(2015) LIEN, MARIANNE ELISABETHExplores how the growth of marine domestication has blurred traditional distinctions between fish and animals, recasting farmed fish as sentient beings, capable of feeling pain and subject to animal-welfare legislation. This book focuses on the fragile anVezava: Mehka48,47 € -
Blueprint(2020) CHRISTAKIS, NICHOLAS A."A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times), Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we areVezava: Mehka12,82 € -
Beyond Nature and Culture(2014) DESCOLA, PHILIPPEDeals with a question central to both anthropology and philosophy: what is the relationship between nature and culture? Drawing on ethnographic examples from around the world, the author formulates a new framework, the "four ontologies" - animism, totemisVezava: Mehka58,93 € -
Performance Studies: The Basics(2021) MICU, ANDREEA S.Performance Studies: The Basics offers an overview of the multiple, often overlapping definitions of performance, from performance art, performance as everyday life, and ritual to the performative dimensions of identity, such as gender, race, and sexualitVezava: Mehka36,10 € -
On Insignificance(2019) LEONE, MASSIMO (UNIVERSITY OF TURIN, ITALY)Focussing on the anthropological consequences of the disappearing of materiality and sensory embodiment, On Insignificance highlights some of the most perturbing patterns of insignificance that have seeped into our everyday lives.Vezava: Mehka64,61 € -
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Configuring Contagion(2022)Expanding our understanding of contagion further than typical notions of infection and pandemics, this book widens the field to include biosocial epidemics. The chapters propose varied and detailed answers to questions about the epidemic and contagious poVezava: Trda170,54 € -
Fat in Four Cultures(2021) STURTZSREETHARAN, CINDI,BREWIS, ALEXANDRA,HARDIN, JESSICA,TRAINER, SARAH,WUTICH, AMBERThis unique comparative ethnography uses a systematic and nuanced approach to delve into the myriad meanings of "being fat" within and across different global sites.Vezava: Mehka35,63 € -
Claude Levi-Strauss(2018) GODELIER, MAURICEOne of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropologyVezava: Mehka46,32 € -
Claude Levi-Strauss(2018) GODELIER, MAURICEOne of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropologyVezava: Trda66,79 € -
Games in Everyday Life(2019) HULSEY, NATHAN (NAZARBAYEV UNIVERSITY, KAZAKHSTAN)In this book, Nathan Hulsey explores the links between game design, surveillance, computation, and the emerging technologies that impact our everyday lives at home, at work, and with our family and friends.Vezava: Trda136,49 € -
Intimacy and Mobility in an Era of Hardening Borders(2021)Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showingVezava: Trda136,80 € -
Absurdity of Bureaucracy(2020) VOHNSEN, NINA HOLMThe absurdity of bureaucracy is a contemporary implementation study that unveil how organisational complexity and inefficacy is fed and sustained by employees well-meant attempts and almost primal instinct to compensate for malfunctioning bureaucratic sysVezava: Mehka44,55 €
