Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: hastrup kirsten

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  • EARLY ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE AMERICAN ARCTIC
    KIRSTEN HASTRUP
    This book offers a portrait of early ethnographic work in the American Arctic, with a focus on understanding the mutual constitution of the Inuit and their early ethnographers. It draws mainly on a rich repository of written testimonies from the early twentieth century, the ‘great ethnographic period’ when new scholarly interest in the region took off. Supplementing the movemen...

    $1,160.00

  • ANTHROPOLOGY AND NATURE
    KIRSTEN HASTRUP
    On the basis of empirical studies, this book explores nature as an integral part of the social worlds conventionally studied by anthropologists. The book may be read as a form of scholarly "edgework," resisting institutional divisions and conceptual routines in the interest of exploring new modalities of anthropological knowledge making. The present interest in the natural worl...

    $1,160.00

  • A PASSAGE TO ANTHROPOLOGY
    KIRSTEN HASTRUP
    The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting the critique and turning it into a vital part of the anthropological debate, A Passage to Anthropology provides a rigorous discussion of central theoretical problems in anthropology th...

    $1,340.00

  • OTHER HISTORIES
    KIRSTEN HASTRUP
    The historization of anthropology has entailed a radically new view upon history and the nature of history. This collection of papers from the first conference of the newly formed European Association of Social Anthropologists demonstrate how ways of thinking about history are important features of any production of history, and how cultural concepts enter as forcs of historica...

    $1,480.00

  • THE SOCIAL LIFE OF CLIMATE CHANGE MODELS
    KIRSTEN HASTRUP
    Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of...

    $1,560.00

  • SITING CULTURE
    HASTRUP, KIRSTEN / OLWIG, KAREN FOG
    Culture has been subject to critical debate in anthropology during the past decade and this is related to a shift in emphasis from the bounded local culture to transnational cultural flows. At the same time that cultural mobility is being emphasized, the people studied by anthropologists are recasting culture as a place of belonging as they construct local identities within glo...

    $1,280.00