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Published in Association with Theory Culture & Society: Intensive Culture: Social Theory Religion and Contemporary Capitalism (Paperback)

Contemporary culture today′s capitalism - our global information society - is ever-expanding-- is ever more extensive. And yet we seem to be experiencing a parallel phenomenon which can only be characterized as intensive. This book is dedicated to... more

Pre-Owned Culture and Agency : The Place of Culture in Social Theory 9780521346238

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Pre-Owned Religion and Social Theory: 10 (Published in association with Theory Culture & Society) Paperback

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Published in Association with Theory Culture & Society: French Post-War Social Theory: International Knowledge Transfer (Hardcover)

French social and philosophical thought has played a very significant role in the development of European and American social theory. This detailed timely book provides a map of the production and reception of French social thought within a global... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology Culture and Society: Small Places Large Issues : An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Edition 5) (Paperback)

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Pre-owned Culture/Power/History : A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Paperback by Dirks Nicholas B. (EDT); Eley Geoff (EDT); Ortner Sherry B. (EDT) ISBN 0691021023 ISBN-13 9780691021027

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Pre-Owned Intensive Culture : Social Theory Religion and Contemporary Capitalism 9781412945172 Used

A diverse detailed and thought provoking exploration of modern society focusing on Scott Lashs concept of intensive (as opposed to expansive) culture. An innovative new work from a major theorist. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Critical Studies of Education: Unlocking Social Theory with Popular Culture: Remixing Theoretical Influencers (Paperback)

This book demonstrates how pop culture examples can be used to demystify complex social theory. It provides tangible metaphorical examples that shows how it is possible to do philosophy rather than subscribe to a theorist by showing that each theorist... more

Pre-owned Contemporary Cultures and Societies of Latin America : A Reader in the Social Anthropology of Middle and South America Paperback by Heath Dwight B. (EDT) ISBN 1577661907 ISBN-13 97815776

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Pre-Owned Other Cultures : Aims Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology 9780029020401 /

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Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums: Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice (Hardcover)

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the... more

Published in Association with Theory Culture & Society: Contested Natures (Paperback)

Demonstrating that all notions of nature are entangled in different forms of social life the text elaborates the ways in which the apparently natural world has been produced from within particular social practices. These are analyzed in terms of... more

Pre-Owned Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists (Paperback) 0759122180 9780759122185

This classic textbook now in its fourth edition offers anthropology students a succinct clear and balanced introduction to theoretical developments in the field. The key ideas of 25 major theorists are briefly described and--unique to this... more

Colonial Urban Development: Culture Social Power and Environment (Paperback)

The Study focuses on the social and more especially the cultural processes governing colonial urban development and develops a theory and methodology to do this. The author demonstrates how the physical and spatial arrangements characterizing urban... more

Visions of Culture : An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists 9780759122185 Used / Pre-owned

This classic textbook now in its fourth edition offers anthropology students a succinct clear and balanced introduction to twenty-five major theorists and theoretical developments in the field. CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better... more

Pre-Owned Culture Centers in Higher Education: Perspectives on Identity Theory and Practice (Paperback) by Lori D Patton

Are cultural centers ethnic enclaves of segregation or safe havens that provide minority students with social support that promotes persistence and retention? This book provides perspectives on culture centers from the point of view of various... more

Pre-Owned Visions of Culture: An Introduction to Anthropological Theories and Theorists (Paperback 9780759122185) by Jerry D Moore

9780759122185. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. 4th ed. Annotated. Language: English. Pages: 359. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 359 p. This classic textbook now in its fourth edition offers anthropology students a succinct clear and... more

Empowerment Evaluation and Social Justice : Confronting the Culture of Silence (Hardcover)

From the founder of empowerment evaluation (EE) a framework uniquely suited to advancing social justice causes this book explains the theories principles and steps of conducting EE from scratch or within a preexisting evaluation or work plan. David M.... more

Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: True Believers and the Great Replacement: Understanding Anomie and Alienation (Hardcover)

True Believers and the Great Replacement explores the responses of segments of Western cultures who fear that changes in the racial religious and ethnic makeup of society threaten their way of life. The Great Replacement Theory (that suggests that the... more

The Palgrave Handbook of Macrophenomenology and Social Theory (Hardcover)

This Palgrave Handbook showcases how the phenomenological approach especially but not only as developed by Alfred Schutz can make important contributions to the theoretical analysis of macro-social phenomena such as the state history culture and... more

The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection (Hardcover)

In The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection W. G. Runciman presents an original and wide-ranging account of the fundamental process by which human cultures and societies come to be of the different kinds that they are. Drawing on and extending... more

Pre-Owned Coffee Culture: Local Experiences Global Connections (Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology) (Paperback) 0415800250

The Anthropology of Stuff is part of a new Series dedicated to innovative unconventional ways to connect undergraduate students and their lived concerns about our social world to the power of social science ideas and evidence. Our goal with the project... more

Culture Mind and Society The Anthropology of Ignorance (Hardcover)

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... more

Small Places Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)

9780745309514. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 336. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 336 p. Anthropology Culture and Society (Paperback). An introductory text on social and cultural anthopology this book covers such topics... more

Routledge Studies in Cultural History Rituality and Social (Dis)Order: The Historical Anthropology of Popular Carnival in Europe (Paperback)

Carnival has been described as one of the foundational elements of European culture bearing an emblematic and iconic status as the festive phenomenon par excellence. Its origins are partly obscure but its stratified and complex history rich symbolic... more

European Association of Social Anthropol Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge (Paperback)

Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: The History of Anthropology : A Critical Window on the Discipline in North America (Hardcover)

This volume on the history of anthropology emphasizes schools of theory institutional connections social networks and collaborative research with North American Indigenous communities. Regna Darnell a fifty-year veteran of the field brings unsurpassed... more

Trubner s Oriental Racial Synthesis in Hindu Culture (Paperback)

This is Volume XI out of eleven that form a collection on India its History Economy and Society. First published in 1928 based on a series of lectures the author has dealt with the subject from the viewpoint of social and cultural anthropology. The... more

Routledge Focus on Sport Culture and So Sport Forced Migration and the Refugee Crisis (Hardcover)

Drawing on original research this book looks at what sport can tell us about the social processes patterns and outcomes of forced migration and the refugee crisis . Adopting a systems theory framework and examining different sport disciplines... more

Mediating Human Rights: Media Culture and Human Rights Law (Hardcover)

Drawing on social-legal cultural and media theory this book is one of the first to examine the media politics of human rights. It examines how the media construct the story of human rights investigating what lies behind the apparent media hostility to... more

BAR British: Rebuilding the Britons: The postcolonial archaeology of culture and identity in the late antique Bristol Channel region (Paperback)

This study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse of Roman authority. It draws on post-colonial theory to examine local social and cultural responses... more

Pre-Owned Humanity: An Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (Paperback) 1285733371 9781285733371

Using engaging stories and clear writing HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY Tenth Edition introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered on globalization and culture change. Peoples and Bailey focus on the social and... more

Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Stud A Sociology of Japanese Youth (Paperback)

Over the past thirty years whilst Japan has produced a diverse set of youth cultures which have had a major impact on popular culture across the globe it has also developed a succession of youth problems which have led to major concerns within the... more

Pre-Owned Emile Durkheim - Selected Writings 9780521097123

This 1972 book is a collection of Durkheim s writings drawing upon the whole body of his work. The book is for students at any level taking courses in sociology social anthropology and social theory in which Durkheim is one of the major writers... more

Philosophy (Methodological Guide). Bishkek-2018 (Paperback)

Methodical manual on Philosophy discipline has been compiled in accordance with the requirements of the State Educational Standard at the Department of Philosophy Theory and History of Culture at the Faculty of Social-Humanitarian Sciences of KNU named... more

Pre-Owned In a Queer Country: Gay & Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context (Paperback) 1551521059 9781551521053

A groundbreaking collection of fourteen essays on the struggles pleasures and contradictions of queer culture and public life in Canada. Versed in queer social history as well as leading-edge gay and lesbian studies queer theory and post-colonial... more