Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Queen of America Goes to Washington City(1997) BERLANT, LAURENFocuses on the need to revitalise public life and political agency in the United States. Delivering a devastating critique of contemporary discourses of American citizenship, this title addresses the triumph of the idea of private life over that of publicVezava: Mehka46,56 € -
Critical Sociolinguistic Research Methods(2017) HELLER, MONICA (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA.),PIETIKAINEN, SARI (UNIVERSITY OF JYVASKYLA, FINLAND),PUJOLAR, JOAN (UNIVERSITAT OBERTA DE CATALUNYA, SPAIN)This is a timely guide on conducting concrete ethnographic and discourse analytic research projects. Adopting a critical perspective focusing on the role of language in the construction of social difference and social inequality, the authors walk the readVezava: Mehka73,49 € -
Determining Death by Neurological Criteria(2020) HANLEY, MATTHEWThe neurological criteria for the determination of death remain controversial within secular and Catholic circles, even though they are widely accepted within the medical community. In Determining Death by Neurological Criteria, Matthew Hanley offers bothVezava: Mehka45,61 € -
Irish-American Autobiography(2017) ROGERS, JAMES SILASIs there still a distinct Irish identity in America? This highly original survey says yes, though it’s often an indirect one. Opening a new window on the meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century, this work also reveals how Catholicism, so key to tVezava: Mehka38,00 € -
Silent Cry(2016) GLASS, CATHYThe heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Introduction to Sociolinguistics(2021) WARDHAUGH, RONALD (UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO),FULLER, JANET M. (SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY CARBONDALE)Vezava: Mehka71,20 € -
Manhood in the Making(1991) GILMORE, DAVID D.In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality - is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness ofVezava: Mehka38,02 € -
I Am Someone(2022) CREEGAN, AISLINGA remarkable memoir about female cruelty, and ultimately female strength and endurance.Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology(2004) GRAEBER, DAVIDEverywhere anarchism is on the upswing as a political philosophy - everywhere, that is, except the academy. Anarchists repeatedly appeal to anthropologists for ideas about how society might be reorganized on a more egalitarian, less alienating basis. AnthVezava: Mehka19,52 € -
Rethinking Old Age(2015) HIGGS, PAUL (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON),GILLEARD, CHRIS (UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON, LONDON)This insightful re-examination of the nature of old age presents a unique theoretical account of the fourth age as the embodiment of the most feared and marginalized aspects of old age, addressing contemporary society's anxieties and offering opportunitieVezava: Mehka71,27 € -
Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans: Reimagining a Common Future(2013) IDRIS, A.The 2011 split of Sudan and the conflicts that have followed make it a case of ongoing significance for understanding state-building in Africa. Examining both the north-south divide and the spread of violence from Darfur, this study shows how colonial legVezava: Trda68,90 € -
How We Die(1997) NULAND, SHERWIN BAn explanation of what happens to us when we die. The author, a surgeon with more than 30 years' experience, describes in detail the processes which take place in the body and sets out to strip away many illusions about death.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
South Asian Borderlands(2022)Goes beyond the importance of borderlands as territorial or geopolitical entities, providing new perspectives on their historical, temporal and affective dimensions and how they manifest in a range of historical and contemporary experiences. It will be ofVezava: Trda136,50 € -
Organized Crime(2021) NICASO, ANTONIO,DANESI, MARCELThe book demystifies and deconstructs traditional notions of organized crime and offers an interdisciplinary textbook based on an analysis of its history, its codes, its language, symbols, rituals and lifestyles; in short, a cultural introduction to organVezava: Mehka72,22 € -
Health in a Fragile State(2019) JANZEN, JOHN M.Based on extensive field research in the Manianga region of the Lower Congo, Health in a Fragile State is an anthropological account of public health and health care after the collapse of the Congolese state in the 1980s and 1990s.Vezava: Trda112,00 €
