Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brian morris

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  • WESTERN CONCEPTIONS OF THE INDIVIDUAL
    BRIAN MORRIS
    This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutiniz...

    $1,160.00

  • HANDS-ON SMART CONTRACT DEVELOPMENT WITH HYPERLEDGER FABRIC V2
    MATT ZAND / XUN (BRIAN) WU / MARK ANTHONY MORRIS
    Blockchain technology continues to disrupt a wide variety of organizations, from small businesses to the Fortune 500. Today hundreds of blockchain networks are in production, including many built with Hyperledger Fabric. This practical guide shows developers how the latest version of this blockchain infrastructure provides an ideal foundation for developing enterprise blockchai...

    $801.00

  • THE POWER OF ANIMALS
    BRIAN MORRIS
    The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. This comprehensive and very readable...

    $1,100.00

  • FOREST TRADERS
    BRIAN MORRIS
    The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm. ...

    $1,140.00

  • INSECTS AND HUMAN LIFE
    BRIAN MORRIS
    This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted. Like animals, insects may be revered or reviled - and in some tribal communities insects may be the only source of food availab...

    $1,160.00

  • ANIMALS AND ANCESTORS
    BRIAN MORRIS
    Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity. Humans have always recognized both their kinship with animals and their fundamental differences, as animals have always been a threat to humans' well-being. The relationship, therefore, has been complex, intimate, reciprocal, personal, and -- crucially -- ambivalent. It is hardly s...

    $1,160.00