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  • - Consumption, Commoditization and Everyday Practice
    av B Weiss
    368,-

    Suitable for historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars of cultural studies, this book explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time.

  • - Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
     
    1 559,-

    Over the years, scholars in both the social sciences and humanities have moved beyond the idea that there is a "body proper": a singular, discrete biological organism with an individual psyche. This book includes nine sections conceptually organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science.

  • - Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
     
    1 111,-

    Advances earlier studies on medicine's social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients' lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.

  • - Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
     
    1 111,-

    Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. This work shows how the body and its adornment have been used to construct and contest social and individual identities in African societies during both colonial and post-colonial times.

  • - Consumption, Commoditization, and Everyday Practice
    av Brad Weiss
    1 104,-

    Suitable for historians, anthropologists, ethnographers, and scholars of cultural studies, this book explores Haya ways of constructing and inhabiting their community, and examines the forces that shape and transform these practices over time.

  • - Triage and Sovereignty in West Africa's Time of AIDS
    av Vinh-Kim Nguyen
    358 - 1 111,-

    The story of the global response to the HIV epidemic, told from the perspective of community organizers, activists, and people living with HIV in West Africa between 1994 and 2000.

  • - Ayurvedic Remedies for Postcolonial Imbalance
    av Jean M. Langford
    303 - 1 156,-

    An ethnography of Ayurvedic medicine which argues the ills it cures are largely effects of postcolonial identity.

  • - Producing Pathology in Victorian Culture
    av Erin O'Connor
    344 - 1 111,-

    Analyses how Victorians used the pathology of disease to express deep-seated anxieties about a rapidly industrialising England's relationship to the material world. Drawing on medicine, literature, political economy, sociology, anthropology, and popular advertising, the author explores the industrial logic of disease.

  • - A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel
    av Susan Martha Kahn
    279 - 1 104,-

    Reveals how unmarried Jewish women are explicitly valued as reproductive resources in Israel, whether they are encouraged to donate eggs for married Jewish women when undergoing their own fertility treatments, privileged as surrogate mothers in Israel's surrogacy legislation, or encouraged to reproduce autonomously via reproductive technologies.

  • - The Miao and the Feminine in China's Cultural Politics
    av Louisa Schein
    318,-

    Talks about gender, ethnicity, and nation in China, as seen through an ethnography of the changing cultural production of the Miao, a minority population.

  • - Narrative, Representation, and Power in Modern China
    av Ann Anagnost
    277 - 1 111,-

    Explores the fashioning and refashioning of modern Chinese subjectivity as it relates to the literal and figurative body of the nation. This book contains essays that reveal the particular temporality of the modern Chinese nation-state.

  • - Translating the Pathological Body between China and the West
    av Ari Larissa Heinrich
    279 - 1 209,-

    An investigation of the creation and circulation of Western medical discourses linking ideas about disease to Chinese identity, beginning in the eighteenth century.

  • - Reading the Anthropology of Material Life
     
    414,-

    Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts focused on bodies using tools and participating in rituals, on bodies walking and eating, and on the female circumcision controversy, as well as pieces on medical classifications, and spirit possession.

  • - The Work of Diagnosis in the Age of Noninvasive Cutting
    av Barry F. Saunders
    409 - 1 242,-

    Presents an ethnographic account of how a particular diagnostic technology, the computed tomographic (CT) scanner, shapes social relations and intellectual activities in and beyond the CT Suite, the unit where CT images are made and interpreted within the diagnostic radiology department of a large teaching hospital.

  • - Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
     
    292,-

    Examines the dynamic relationship between the body, clothing, and identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Drawing from the insights of anthropology and history and influenced by developments in cultural studies, this volume investigates the relations between ideas about the self and those about the family, gender, and national groups.

  • - Unraveling Practices, Techniques, and Bodies
     
    292,-

    Advances earlier studies on medicine's social diversity and regional variations to expose significant differences in the presumptions and decisions that affect patients' lives, and marks a dramatic development in both the study of medicine and in science studies generally.

  • - Food and Sex in Post-Socialist China
    av Judith Farquhar
    318 - 1 163,-

    Shows how new forms of desire, pleasure, anxiety and curiosity emerged as capitalist reforms advanced in post-Maoist China.

  • - Gender and Power at a Treatment Center
    av Helen Gremillion
    303 - 1 156,-

    Challenges prevailing assumptions regarding the notorious difficulty of curing anorexia nervosa. This title reveals how the therapies participate unwittingly in culturally dominant ideals of gender, individualism, physical fitness, and family life that have contributed to the dramatic increase in the incidence of anorexia since the 1970s.

  • - Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand
    av Rosalind C. Morris
    316 - 1 189,-

    A theoretical account of how spirit mediums mediate the Thai experience of capitalist modernity.

  • - Civic Display and Labor in Industrial Pittsburgh
    av Edward Steven Slavishak
    316 - 1 156,-

    Cultural history of the relationship between labor and the city in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh

  • - Of Birth Ritual, Medicalization, and Mobility in the Congo
    av Nancy Rose Hunt
    344 - 1 294,-

    Investigates how childbirth became medicalized in Africa. Featuring stories about autopsies and bicycles, obstetric surgery and male initiation, this title reveals how concerns about strange objects and procedures fashioned the hybrid social world of colonialism and its aftermath in Mobutu's Zaire.

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