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The Exotic and the Mundane

Author : Joyce Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781980844280
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (442 download)

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Download or read book The Exotic and the Mundane written by Joyce Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2018-04-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2011, Joyce & Daryle were approaching 40 and had been married for almost ten years. From the day they met, they'd been talking about "travelling more", but in ten years they hadn't advanced very far toward that dream and it had become more of a nagging dissatisfaction than an inspiring goal. Every time they returned from one of their brief yearly vacations, Joyce would spend weeks depressed, thinking there had to be a way to do more than this. They gradually came to the somewhat obvious realization that "travelling more" wasn't just going to happen, they would need to decide what exactly they wanted, make a plan and commit to a lot of work. In early 2012, they made a decision to go all in on their travel dream, sell everything, and hit the road for an open-ended period of time.On March 31, 2013, they locked up their house one last time and left on a tour that would take them to 23 countries and 23 U.S. states over the next 14 months. This book is the chronicle of the first six months, spent in Central America and Africa, as they learned to slow down, look around and embrace wherever the heck they were. Alternately funny, frustrating and inspiring, their journey proves that anyone can travel more and that you don't have to be rich, young or all that brave to get out and see the world.

AIDS and Accusation

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520083431
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book AIDS and Accusation written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book ethnographic, historical and epidemiologic data are brought to bear on the subject of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in Haiti. The forces that have helped to determine rates and pattern of spread of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) are examined, as are social responses to AIDS in rural and urban Haiti, and in parts of North America. History and its calculus of economic and symbolic power also help to explain why residents of a small village in rural Haiti came to understand AIDS in the manner that they did. Drawing on several years of fieldwork, the evolution of a cultural model of AIDS is traced. In a small village in rural Haiti, it was possible to document first the lack of such a model, and then the elaboration over time of a widely shared representation of AIDS. The experience of three villagers who died of complications of AIDS is examined in detail, and the importance of their suffering to the evolution of a cultural model is demonstrated. Epidemiologic and ethnographic studies are prefaced by a geographically broad historical analysis, which suggests the outlines of relations between a powerful center (the United States) and a peripheral client state (Haiti). These relations constitute an important part of a political-economic network termed the "West Atlantic system." The epidemiology of HIV and AIDS in Haiti and elsewhere in the Caribbean is reviewed, and the relation between the degree of involvement in the West Atlantic system and the prevalence of HIV is suggested. It is further suggested that the history of HIV in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Bahamas is similar to that documented here for Haiti.

Infections and Inequalities

Author : Paul Farmer
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520229136
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Infections and Inequalities written by Paul Farmer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001-02-23 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A report from the front lines of the war against the most deadly epidemics of our times, by a physician-anthropolpgist who has for over 15 years sought to serve the poor of rural Haiti and other settings in the Americas.

Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature

Author : Mike Michael
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134635214
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (346 download)

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Download or read book Reconnecting Culture, Technology and Nature written by Mike Michael and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connections between a wide range of literature including those concerned with the environment, consumption and the body.

Surveillance and Security

Author : Torin Monahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135447357
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)

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Download or read book Surveillance and Security written by Torin Monahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a volume of original contributions from scholars in eight different humanities and social science disciplines. The aim of the book is to present a range of surveillance technologies used in everyday life and investigate the politics of their use. It is truly an interdisciplinary project that will find purchase in courses on security studies and the sociology of culture and the sociology of science. Courses on security studies and its impact on culture can be found in a variety of academic departments including STS, criminology, sociology, women's studies, anthropology, political science and justice studies.

The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy

Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770487549
Total Pages : 1056 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy is a comprehensive anthology that surveys core topics in Western philosophy, including philosophy of religion, theories of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, social-political philosophy, and issues of life, death, and happiness. Unlike other introductory anthologies, the Broadview offers considerable apparatus to assist the student reader in understanding the texts without simply summarizing them. Each selection includes an introduction discussing the context and structure of the primary reading, as well as thorough annotations designed to clarify unfamiliar terms, references, and argument forms. Canonical texts from the history of philosophy are presented alongside contemporary scholarship; women authors are included throughout.

Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics

Author : Rajendra Singh
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110211505
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics written by Rajendra Singh and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-19 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings together empirical and theoretical research and serves as a testing ground for the articulation of new ideas and approaches which may be grounded in a study of South Asian languages but which have universal applicability. Each volume will have three major sections: I. Invited contributions consisting of state-of-the-art essays on research in South Asian languages. II. Refereed open submissions focusing on relevant issues and providing various viewpoints. III. Reports from around the world, book reviews and abstracts of doctoral theses.

Occidentalism : Images of the West

Author : James G. Carrier
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191590843
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Occidentalism : Images of the West written by James G. Carrier and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1995-04-13 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an investigation of Western cultural identity. It shows how people's images of themselves and others reflect the power that different groups in a society have to shape these images. The contributors describe these images in Western academic writing, popular Western culture, and societies outside the West, in this counterpart to Edward Said's Orientalism. - ;Occidentalism is an investigation of images of Western cultural identity. Edward Said's Orientalism revolutionized Western understanding of non-Western cultures by showing how Western projected images shaped the Occidental of the Orient, but those who follow Said have not until now reflected that understanding back onto Western societies. Occidentalism shows how images of the West shape people's conceptions of themselves and others, and how these images are in turn shaped by members of Western and non-Western societies alike. The contributors describe and explicate these images in a variety of areas, from Western academic writing to popular Western culture, from societies within and outside the West, to show how power and conflict shape such conceptions. -

Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?

Author : Geoffrey Beattie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136889086
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Why Aren't We Saving the Planet? written by Geoffrey Beattie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book follows one psychologist’s mission to find out why we aren't saving the planet.

The Case for Qualia

Author : Edmond Leo Wright
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262731886
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book The Case for Qualia written by Edmond Leo Wright and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophical and scientific defenses of Indirect Realism and counterarguments to the attacks of qualiaphobes. Many philosophers and cognitive scientists dismiss the notion of qualia, sensory experiences that are internal to the brain. Leading opponents of qualia (and of Indirect Realism, the philosophical position that has qualia as a central tenet) include Michael Tye, Daniel Dennett, Paul and Patricia Churchland, and even Frank Jackson, a former supporter. Qualiaphiles apparently face the difficulty of establishing philosophical contact with the real when their access to it is seen by qualiaphobes to be second-hand and, worse, hidden behind a "veil of sensation"--a position that would slide easily into relativism and solipsism, presenting an ethical dilemma. In The Case for Qualia, proponents of qualia defend the Indirect Realist position and mount detailed counterarguments against opposing views. The book first presents philosophical defenses, with arguments propounding, variously, a new argument from illusion, a sense-datum theory, dualism, "qualia realism," qualia as the "cement" of the experiential world, and "subjective physicalism." Three scientific defenses follow, discussing color, heat, and the link between the external object and the internal representation. Finally, specific criticisms of opposing views include discussions of the Churchlands' "neurophilosophy," answers to Frank Jackson's abandonment of qualia (one of which is titled, in a reference to Jackson's famous thought experiment, "Why Frank Should Not Have Jilted Mary"), and refutations of Transparency Theory. Contributors Torin Alter, Michel Bitbol, Harold I. Brown, Mark Crooks, George Graham, C.L. Hardin, Terence E. Horgan, Robert J. Howell, Amy Kind, E.J. Lowe, Riccardo Manzotti, Barry Maund, Martine Nida-Rümelin, John O'Dea, Isabelle Peschard, Matjaz Potrc, Diana Raffman, Howard Robinson, William S. Robinson, John R. Smythies, Edmond Wright

Explorations in Cultural Anthropology

Author : Colleen E. Boyd
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493082272
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Explorations in Cultural Anthropology written by Colleen E. Boyd and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations in Cultural Anthropology is a collection of readings chosen to demonstrate the varied and valuable applications of the anthropological perspective to real-world problems on local, regional, and global scales. It introduces undergraduates to the exciting, perplexing, and troubling issues that socio-cultural anthropologists confront in their work in academia and beyond. Students now have a one-stop source for a variety of key ethnographic and cultural materials without having to buy or search for numerous texts. Explorations in Cultural Anthropology offers 31 classic readings and contemporary anthropological essays as well as pieces written by journalists, scholars from other disciplines, cultural consultants, and community leaders. The selections are meant to thoughtfully challenge students and provoke further discussion within introductory-level classrooms. The book is organized into nine parts that reflect significant themes and current trends in cultural anthropology: Culture; Fieldwork and Ethnography; Language, Communication, and Expressive Culture; Socio-economic and Political Systems in a Changing World; Race and Ethnicity; Gender and Sexuality; Marriage, Family, and Kinship; Belief Systems; and Applied and Future Anthropologies. Each part introduces the articles therein and provides probing questions per article for student response. This outstanding collection perfectly complements Luke Eric Lassiter's Invitation to Cultural Anthropology textbook but has wide appeal for all introductory cultural anthropology courses.

The Body

Author : Mariam Fraser
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100014318X
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Body written by Mariam Fraser and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body has become an increasingly significant concept in recent years and this Reader offers a stimulating overview of the main topics, perspectives and theories surrounding the issue. This broad consideration of the body presents an engagement with a range of social concerns, from the processes of racialization to the vagaries of fashion and performance art, enacted as surgery on the body. Individual sections cover issues such as: the body and social (dis)order bodies and identities bodily norms bodies in health and dis-ease bodies and technologies. Containing an extensive critical introduction, contributions from key figures such as Butler, Sedgwick, Martin Scheper-Huges, Haraway and Gilroy, and a series of introductions summarizing each section, this Reader offers students a valuable practical guide and a thorough grounding in the fascinating topic of the body.

The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume I: Knowledge and Reality

Author : Andrew Bailey
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1460407091
Total Pages : 579 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)

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Download or read book The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy Volume I: Knowledge and Reality written by Andrew Bailey and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 579 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume of The Broadview Introduction to Philosophy offers a thoughtful selection of readings in epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of religion. Substantial selections from important historical texts are provided (including the entirety of Descartes’s Meditations), as are a number of contemporary readings on each topic. Unlike other introductory anthologies, the Broadview offers considerable apparatus to assist the student reader in understanding the texts without simply summarizing them. Each selection includes an introduction discussing the context and structure of the primary reading, as well as thorough annotations designed to clarify unfamiliar terms, references, and argument forms.

Recovery from Cults

Author : Michael D. Langone
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393313215
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Recovery from Cults written by Michael D. Langone and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1995 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the clinical expertise of professionals and the personal experiences of those formerly involved in high-intensity mind-control groups, this book is a comprehensive guide to the cult experience. Michael Langone and his colleagues provide practical guidelines for helping former cult members manage the problems they encounter when leaving cults.

Learning Disabilities

Author : Suzanne Gage Brainard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Learning Disabilities written by Suzanne Gage Brainard and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Marshall McLuhan: Theoretical elaborations

Author : Gary Genosko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415321716
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Marshall McLuhan: Theoretical elaborations written by Gary Genosko and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2005 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection contains key critical essays and assessments of the writings of Canadian communications thinker Marshall McLuhan selected from the voluminous output of the past forty years. McLuhan's famous aphorisms and uncanny ability to sense megatrends are once again in circulation across and beyond the disciplines. Since his untimely death in 1980, McLuhan's ideas have been rediscovered and redeployed with urgency in the age of information and cybernation.Together the three volumes organise and present some forty years of indispensable critical works for readers and researchers of the McLuhan legacy. The set includes critical introductions to each section by the editor.Forthcoming titles in this series include Walter Benjamin (0-415-32533-1) December 2004, 3 vols, Theodor Adorno (0-415-30464-4) April 2005, 4 vols and Jean-Francois Lyotard (0-415-33819-0) 2005, 3 vols.

ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks

Author : Firmino, Rodrigo J.
Publisher : IGI Global
ISBN 13 : 1609600533
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book ICTs for Mobile and Ubiquitous Urban Infrastructures: Surveillance, Locative Media and Global Networks written by Firmino, Rodrigo J. and published by IGI Global. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book investigates how a shift to a completely urban global world woven together by ubiquitous and mobile ICTs changes the ontological meaning of space, and how the use of these technologies challenges the social and political construction of territories and the cultural appropriation of places"--Provided by publisher.