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Godless Intellectuals?

The Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred Reinvented

by Alexander Tristan Riley
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010

The Durkheimians have traditionally been understood as positivist, secular thinkers, fully within the Enlightenment project of limitless reason and progress. In a radical revision of this view, this book persuasively argues that the core members of the Durkheimian circle (Durkheim himself, Marcel...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007

Informative as well as entertaining, this volume offers many interesting facets of the first hundred years of anthropology at Oxford University.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013

By working with underserved communities, anthropologists may play a larger role in democratizing society. The growth of disparities challenges anthropology to be used for social justice. This engaged stance moves the application of anthropological theory, methods, and practice toward action and activism....

Social Quality Theory

A New Perspective on Social Development

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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015

Social quality thinking emerged from a critique of one-sided policies by breaking through the limitations previously set by purely economistic paradigms. By tracing its expansion and presenting different aspects of social quality theory, this volume provides an overview of a more nuanced approach, ...

Modern Babylon?

Prostituting Children in Thailand

by Heather Montgomery
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001

Child prostitution became one of the key concerns of the international community in the 1990s. World congresses were held, international and national laws were changed and concern over "cemmercially sexually exploited children" rose dramatically. Rarely, however, were the children who worked...

Landscape, Process and Power

Re-evaluating Traditional Environmental Knowledge

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009

In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning of some of its basic assumptions. This has included reassessing notions that scientific methods can accurately elicit and describe...

Envisioning Eden

Mobilizing Imaginaries in Tourism and Beyond

by Noel B. Salazar
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010

As tourism service standards become more homogeneous, travel destinations worldwide are conforming yet still trying to maintain, or even increase, their distinctiveness. Based on more than two years of fieldwork in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and Arusha, Tanzania, this book offers an in-depth investigation...

Media and Nation Building

How the Iban became Malaysian

by John Postill
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006

With the end of the Cold War and the proliferation of civil wars and "regime changes," the question of nation building has acquired great practical and theoretical urgency. From Eastern Europe to East Timor, Afghanistan and recently Iraq, the United States and its allies have often been...

Engaging with Strangers

Love and Violence in the Rural Solomon Islands

by Debra McDougall
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016

The civil conflict in Solomon Islands (1998-2003) is often blamed on the failure of the nation-state to encompass culturally diverse and politically fragmented communities. Writing of Ranongga Island, the author tracks engagements with strangers across many realms of life—pre-colonial warfare, Christian...

Unveiling the Whale

Discourses on Whales and Whaling

by Arne Kalland†
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009

Whaling has become one of the most controversial environmental issues. It is not that all whale species are at the brink of extinction, but that whales have become important symbols to both pro- and anti-whaling factions and can easily be appropriated as the common heritage of humankind. This book,...

Virtualism, Governance and Practice

Vision and Execution in Environmental Conservation

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2009

Many people investigating the operation of large-scale environmentalist organizations see signs of power, knowledge and governance in their policies and projects. This collection indicates that such an analysis appears to be justified from one perspective, but not from another. The chapters in this...

World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives

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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly...

Ethical Consumption

Social Value and Economic Practice

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics. Extending beyond the...

Waterworlds

Anthropology in Fluid Environments

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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015

In one form or another, water participates in the making and unmaking of people’s lives, practices, and stories. Contributors’ detailed ethnographic work analyzes the union and mutual shaping of water and social lives. This volume discusses current ecological disturbances and engages in a world...
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