Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jon p mitchell

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  • RITUAL, PERFORMANCE AND THE SENSES
    MICHAEL BULL / ‎JON P. MITCHELL
    Ritual has long been a central concept in anthropological theories of religious transmission. Ritual, Performance and the Senses offers a new understanding of how ritual enables religious representations – ideas, beliefs, values – to be shared among participants. Focusing on the body and the experiential nature of ritual, the book brings together insights from three distinct ar...

    $1,099.00

  • AMBIVALENT EUROPEANS
    JON P. MITCHELL
    Ambivalent Europeans examines the implications of living on the fringes of Europe. In Malta, public debate is dominated by the question of Europe, both at a policy level - whether or not to join the EU - and at the level of national identity - whether or not the Maltese are 'European'. Jon Mitchell identifies a profound ambivalence towards Europe, and also more broadly to the k...

    $1,099.00

  • GLOBAL AND LOCAL FOOTBALL
    GARY ARMSTRONG / JON P. MITCHELL
    What can the history of a nation's football reveal about that nation's wider political and socio-cultural identity? How can the study of local football culture help us to understand the powerful international forces at play within the modern game? Based on long-term and detailed ethnographic research, this book uses Malta as a critical case study to explore the dynamics of cont...

    $1,399.00

  • HUMAN RIGHTS IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
    MITCHELL, JON P. / WILSON, RICHARD A.
    In the West we frequently pay lip service to universal notions of human rights. But do we ever consider how these work in local contexts and across diverse cultural and ethical structures? Do human rights agendas address the problems many people face, or are they more often the imposition of Western values onto largely non-Western communities? Human Rights in a Global Perspecti...

    $1,179.00