Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Paramedics on and Off the Streets(2017) CORMAN, MICHAEL K.In Paramedics On and Off the Streets, Michael K. Corman embarks on an institutional ethnography of the complex, mundane, intricate, and exhilarating work of paramedics in Calgary, Alberta.Vezava: Mehka49,88 € -
Long Night at the Vepsian Museum(2017) DAVIDOV, VERONICADavidov uses a tour of the local museum to introduce a cast of human and non-human characters from traditional Vepsian culture, and to explore various time periods under Russian, Finnish, Soviet, and post-Soviet rule.Vezava: Mehka46,32 € -
Digital Playgrounds(2021) GRIMES, SARADigital Playgrounds makes the argument that online games play a uniquely meaningful role in children’s lives, with profound implications for children’s culture, agency, and rights in the digital era.Vezava: Mehka58,81 € -
Analysis of Karen Z. Ho's Liquidated(2017) MAGGIO, RODOLFOLiquidated uses ethnographic research, traditionally used to study distant societies, to dissect the culture of high finance on New York’s famous Wall Street.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions(2017) HEDESAN, JO,TENDLER, JOSEPHMore than a classic work on the history and philosophy of science, Kuhn’s 1962 book is considered by many to be one of the greatest works of the 20th century. Kuhn helped change the way everyone looks at science.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks(2017) DINI, RACHELEFrantz Fanon’s explosive Black Skin, White Masks is a merciless exposé of the psychological damage done by colonial rule across the world. It is both a crucial text in post-colonial theory, and a lesson in the power of analytical skills to reveal the realVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak's Can the Subaltern Speak?(2017) RIACH, GRAHAMA critical analysis of Spivak's classic 1988 postcolonial studies essay, in which she argues that the poorest and most marginalized in society (the subalterns) have no platform or voice to affect policy debates or demand a fairer share of society’s goods.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Clifford Geertz's The Interpretation of Cultures(2017) DADZE-ARTHUR, ABENAUp to the mid 20th century, generations of anthropologists had imported their own value systems into their work, regardless of where they were studying.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of Gustavo Gutierrez's A Theology of Liberation(2017) HESSELMANS, MARTHEGutiérrez’s 1971 book provides an inspiring argument as to how Christians and the Roman Catholic Church should support the poor. The Catholic Church had traditionally seen itself as politically neutral but in the 1960s and 70s reformers, such as GutiérrezVezava: Mehka11,59 € -
Analysis of C. Wright Mills's The Sociological Imagination(2017) PUGA, ISMAEL,EASTHOPE, ROBERTThe Sociological Imagination provoked hostile reaction when it appeared for its hard-hitting attack on how sociology was practiced, and on several leading sociologists.Vezava: Mehka11,59 € -
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Language, Capitalism, Colonialism(2017) HELLER, MONICA,MCELHINNY, BONNIEHeller and McElhinny reinterpret sociolinguistics for the twenty-first century with an original approach to the study of language that is situated in the political and economic contexts of colonialism and capitalism.Vezava: Mehka71,27 € -
Levels of Organic Life and the Human - An Introduction to Philosophical Anthropology(2019) HELMUTH PLESSNERVezava: Mehka51,56 € -
Roots Quest(2019) HOGAN, JACKIEIn Roots Quest, sociologist Jackie Hogan digs into our current genealogy boom to ask why we are so interested in our family history. She shows how the surging popularity of genealogy is a response to large-scale social changes, and she explores the way ouVezava: Trda37,42 € -
Five Days at Memorial(2014) FINK, SHERIPulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink's gripping and riveting true story of the hospital doctors who struggled to survive and maintain life in a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Identity Politics and the New Genetics(2014)Racial and ethnic categories have appeared in recent scientific work in novel ways and in relation to a variety of disciplines: medicine, forensics, population genetics and also developments in popular genealogy. Once again, biology is foregrounded in theVezava: Mehka48,15 € -
Creating Person-Centred Organisations(2012) STIRK, STEPHEN,SANDERSON, HELENA guide for charities and private sector organisations in health and social care on how to become a person-centred organisation, which provides strategies and tools rooted in experience.Vezava: Mehka68,69 € -
Once and Future Liberal(2018) LILLA, MARKAn impassioned and biting critique of the failure of American liberalism.Vezava: Mehka26,60 €
