Up Close and Personal

Up Close and PersonalCombining rich personal accounts from twelve veteran anthropologists with reflexive analyses of the state of anthropology today, this book is a treatise on theory and method offering fresh insights into the production of anthropological knowledge, from the creation of key concepts to major paradigm shifts. Particular focus is given to how peripheral perspectives can help re shape the discipline and the ways that anthropologists think about

The associated audio files carry recordings of the dialogs and exercises in each chapter

all of whom have been seen in the forest with a young woman named Helen Vaughn

and has a son with a woman to whom he is not married

Life and Death of Harriet Frean is both timeless and a perfect record of the harmful ideals of English Victorian society

The political ecology of colonial capitalism reveals how the co-production of race and nature is a fundamental dynamic of the capitalist world-system

which marks the shift to a capitalist society

Antonio Festini

vampires and ghosts in technological and consumer culture

Two of Europe's most-experienced policymakers tackle global governance across climate

Having repressed this crime from her conscious awareness

Barone argues that Protestantism ultimately served as a means to negotiate between Old World and New World ways

the films of Jean-Marie Straub