Graham Harvey: 13 books
Grass-Fed Nation
Getting Back the Food We Deserve
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
For years we’ve been told that traditional foods are unhealthy because of their saturated fat content. In place of grass-fed meat, grass-fed dairy products, and eggs from hens running on pasture, we now mostly eat grain-fed meat and processed factory foods – and we’ve witnessed an epidemic of...
Food, Sex and Strangers
Understanding Religion as Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Religion is more than a matter of worshipping a deity or spirit. For many people, religion pervades every part of their lives and is not separated off into some purely private and personal realm. Religion is integral to many people's relationship with the wider world, an aspect of their dwelling among...
by Graham Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2011
Over then past fifty years the British countryside has changed out of all recognition. A wide range of wildlife species are disappearing - victims of modern intensive farming, of pesticides and fertilisers and the sheer relentless pressure to maximise output from every hedge bank and field corner....
by Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Few religious traditions have generated such diversity and stirred imaginations as shamanism. In their engagements with other worlds, shamans have conversed with animals and ancestors and have been empowered with the knowledge to heal patients, advise hunters, and curse enemies. Still other shamans,...
Who's Who in The Archers 2011
An A-Z of Britain's Most Popular Radio Drama
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2010
Now fully updated, Who's Who in The Archers has become the indispensable companion to life in Britain's best-known village. Whether you need a quick run-down on a new character or a reminder about an on-going relationship, this handy guide is your first reference point. It'll tell you all you need...
Who's Who in The Archers 2012
An A-Z of Britain's Most Popular Radio Drama
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The insider's guide to Ambridge life is back for a special 60th Anniversary edition, fully-updated and packed with indispensable facts about the nation's favourite village. Whether it's information about an on-going relationship you're looking for - or a background briefing on a new character - Who's...
Religions in Focus
New Approaches to Tradition and Contemporary Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
"Religions in Focus" engages with the religious lives of members of some of the most significant religions today. It presents religions as contemporary ways of life that motivate and inspire people. Because religious people refer to sacred texts, honour the founders of their religions, learn...
by Graham Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
The Handbook of Contemporary Animism brings together an international team of scholars to examine the full range of animist worldviews and practices. The volume opens with an examination of recent approaches to animism. This is followed by evaluations of ethnographic, cognitive, literary, performative,...
Law and Religion in Contemporary Society
Communities, Individualism and the State
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
The relationship between law and religion has traditionally been analysed according to two basic paradigms. One has focused on the relationship between religious communities and the State (the Church/State paradigm), while the other has concentrated on the relationship between the State and the individual...
by Graham Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Celebrating the diversity of indigenous nations, cultures and religions, the essays which comprise this volume discuss the musics performed by a wide variety of peoples as an integral part of their cultural traditions. These include examinations of the various styles of Maori, Inuit and Australian...
by Graham Harvey, Robert J. Wallis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
A remarkable array of people have been called shamans, while the phenomena identified as shamanism continues to proliferate. This second edition of the Historical Dictionary of Shamanism contains with examples from antiquity up to today, and from Siberia (where the term “shaman” originated) to...
Open Development
Networked Innovations in International Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Experts explore current theory and practice in the application of digitally enabled open networked social models to international development.
The emergence of open networked models made possible by digital technology has the potential to transform international development. Open network structures...
Toward a Political Economy of Culture
Capitalism and Communication in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2003
Several of the most important and influential political economists of communication working today explore a rich mix of topics and issues that link work, policy studies, and research and theory about the public sphere to the heritage of political economy. Familiar but still exceedingly important topics...