Search Results - "Subjectivity"

Human no more digital subjectivities, unhuman subjects, and the end of anthropology /

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Anyone the cosmopolitan subject of anthropology / by Rapport, Nigel, 1956-

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Forging the Ideal Educated Girl : The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia / by Khoja-Moolji, Shenila, 1982-

Table of Contents: “…Girls education as a unifying discourse -- Forging sharif subjects -- Desirable and failed citizen-subjects -- The empowered girl -- Akbari and Asghari reappear -- Tracing storylines.…”
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Chinese Heritage in the Making : Experiences, Negotiations and Contestations /

Subjects: “…Reference, information and interdisciplinary subjects. bicssc 150244…”
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Scale : Discourse and Dimensions of Social Life /

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A Landscape of Travel : The Work of Tourism in Rural Ethnic China / by Chio, Jenny

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Building Green : Environmental Architects and the Struggle for Sustainability in Mumbai / by Rademacher, Anne

Table of Contents: “…City ascending, city imploding -- The integrated subject -- Ecology in practice : environmental architecture as good design -- Rectifying failure : imagining the new city and the power to create it -- More than human nature and the open space predicament -- Consciousness and Indian-ness : making design "good" -- A vocation in waiting : ecology in practice -- Soldiering sustainability.…”
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Locating Bourdieu by Reed-Danahay, Deborah

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Bourdieu's point of view -- Education -- Insider/outsider ethnography in Algeria and France -- Habitus and emotion -- Situated subjectivities -- Conclusion.…”
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American Dolorologies : Pain, Sentimentalism, Biopolitics / by Strick, Simon, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…-- Sublime pain and the subject of sentimentalism -- Anesthesia, birthpain and civilization -- Picturing racial pain -- Late modern pain.…”
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The experiment must continue : medical research and ethics in East Africa, 1940/2014 / by Graboyes, Melissa

Table of Contents: “…The experiment begins : medical research past and present -- East African perceptions of medical research -- First encounters, first impressions -- Ethical recruitment and gathering human subjects -- Finding an ethical balance -- Coming to an ethical end -- The experiment ends : modern medical research and historical residue.…”
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The Light of Knowledge : Literacy Activism and the Politics of Writing in South India / by Cody, Francis, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : of light, literacy, and knowledge in the Tamil countryside -- On being a "thumbprint" : time and space in Arivoli activism -- Feminizing enlightenment : the social and reciprocal agency -- Labors of objectification : words and worlds of pedagogy -- Search for a method : the media of enlightenment -- Subject to citizenship : petitions and the performativity of signature -- Epilogue : reflections on a time of charismatic enlightenment.…”
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The Hirschfeld Archives : Violence, Death, and Modern Queer Culture / by Bauer, Heike

Table of Contents: “…From fragile solidarities to burnt sexual subjects: at the Institute of Sexual Science -- 5 Lives that are spoken for: queer in exile -- Coda.…”
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The Mathematical Imagination : On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory / by Handelman, Matthew

Table of Contents: “…Infinitesimal Calculus: Subjectivity, Motion, and Franz Rosenzweig's Messianism; 4. …”
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Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / by Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford)

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Realism's explanatory framework -- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems -- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system -- The myth of cultural integration -- The vexatious fact of society -- Morphogenesis versus structuration -- For structure : its reality, properties and powers -- The private life of the social agent -- The ontological status of subjectivity -- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life -- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative -- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors -- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity -- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform -- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach -- Interview with Maggie -- Annotated bibliography -- Index.…”
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Anthropology and the will to meaning a postcolonial critique / by Argyrou, Vassos

Table of Contents: “…What the Natives Don't Know 60 -- The Sociocultural Unconscious 60 -- Heterodox Consciousness 74 -- The 'Heroisation' of the Thinking Subject 82 -- 5. The Ethnological Will to Meaning 92 -- The Impossible 92 -- Sameness and the Beyond 105 -- The Will to Meaning 112 -- At the End of the Game 117.…”
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Locating the field space, place and context in anthropology /

Table of Contents: “…Studying down, up, sideways, through, backwards, forwards, away and at home : reflections on the field worries of an expansive discipline / Ulf Hannerz -- Beyond the verandah : fieldwork, locality and the production of knowledge in a South African city / Leslie Bank -- Fieldwork on foot : perceiving, routing, socializing / Jo Lee and Tim Ingold -- Rendering and gendering mobile subjects in a globalized world of mountaineering : between localizing ethnography and global spaces / Susan Frohlick -- Post-diasporic Indian communities : a new generation / Anjoom Mukadam and Sharmina Mawani -- The Internet, cybercafés and the new social spaces of Bangalorean youth / Nicholas Nisbett -- Out of proportion? …”
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Practicing materiality /

Table of Contents: “…From banned bodies to political subjects : immigrants in protest bundles / Jessica Santos -- Chapter 8. …”
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Thinking About Dementia : Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility /

Table of Contents: “…Kontos -- Normality and difference : institutional classification and the constitution of subjectivity in a Dutch nursing home / Roma Chatterji -- Divided gazes : Alzheimer's disease, the person within, and death in life / Annette Leibing -- Being a good rōjin : senility, power, and self-actualization in Japan / John W. …”
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Orphaned Landscapes : Violence, Visuality, and Appearance in Indonesia / by Spyer, Patricia, 1957-

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Being and Dwelling through Tourism : An anthropological perspective / by Palmer, Catherine

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