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Télécharger le livre :  Children, Social Class, and Education
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Children, Social Class, and Education


K. Brison


Class-based self-perception is a rising issue worldwide. Through observation in kindergartens in Fiji, Brison examines how schools instil these ideas in Suva children. Teachers have different goals depending on the social background of the families while students create...

Parution : 2014-11-06
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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...

Parution : 2014-09-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Attachment Reconsidered
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Attachment Reconsidered


J. Mageo , N. Quinn


Since the 1950s, the study of early attachment and separation has been dominated by a school of psychology that is Euro-American in its theoretical assumptions. Based on ethnographic studies in a range of locales, this book goes beyond prior efforts to critique...

Parution : 2013-12-18
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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...

Parution : 2013-06-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche
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Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche


A. Kipnis


Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of...

Parution : 2012-12-18
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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,...

Parution : 2012-10-10
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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...

Parution : 2012-03-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Dreaming Culture
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Dreaming Culture


J. Mageo


Dreams seem the most private territory of experience. Yet Dreaming Culture argues they are a space in which we practice, consider, question, and adapt cultural models of the self, gender, sexuality, relationships, and agency. Through an innovative "dream ethnography"...

Parution : 2011-11-07
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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...

Parution : 2011-09-26
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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...

Parution : 2011-01-31
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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...

Parution : 2009-01-05
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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...

Parution : 2008-06-23
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Télécharger le livre :  A Study of Personal and Cultural Values
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A Study of Personal and Cultural Values


R. D'andrade


This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in personal values...

Parution : 2008-04-14
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Télécharger le livre :  Becoming Muslim
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Becoming Muslim


A. Mansson Mcginty


While Islam has become a controversial topic in the West, a growing number of Westerners find powerful meaning in Islam. Becoming Muslim is an ethnographic study based on in-depth interviews with Swedish and American women who have converted to Islam.

Parution : 2006-10-02
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