Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jonathan parry

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  • THE ETHICS OF HUMANITARIAN INTERVENTION
    JONATHAN PARRY
    Few topics generate as much controversy and debate as armed humanitarian intervention. Military force involves death and destruction, as well as interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs. But, crucially, non-intervention is also controversial. When confronted with humanitarian crises abroad, many feel that outsiders are not only justified in using force to halt the abuse...

    $979.00

  • QUESTIONS OF ANTHROPOLOGY
    RITA ASTUTI / ‎JONATHAN PARRY / ‎CHARLES STAFFORD
    Anthropology today seems to shy away from the big, comparative questions that ordinary people in many societies find compelling. Questions of Anthropology brings these issues back to the centre of anthropological concerns.Individual essays explore birth, death and sexuality, puzzles about the relationship between science and religion, questions about the nature of ritual, work,...

    $920.00

  • CLASSES OF LABOUR
    JONATHAN PARRY
    Classes of Labour: Work and Life in a Central Indian Steel Town is a classic in the social sciences. The rigour and richness of the ethnographic data of this book and its analysis is matched only by its literary style. This magnum opus of 732 pages, an outcome of fieldwork covering twenty-one years, complete with diagrams and photographs, reads like an epic novel, difficult to ...

    $1,260.00

  • PERSISTENCE OF POVERTY IN INDIA
    NANDINI GOOPTU AND JONATHAN PARRY
    What distinguishes Persistence of Poverty from most other poverty studies is the way in which it conceptualises the problem. This volume offers a variety of alternative analytical perspectives and fresh insights into poverty that are key to addressing the problem. In looking at the day to day lived realities of the poor the volume points out that in order to understand poverty ...

    $1,200.00

  • CASTE AND KINSHIP IN KANGRA
    JONATHAN P. PARRY
    This study is a major addition to understanding the problems of social inequality and the nature of caste and kinship. A full account is given of the social structure of the region, emphasizing the continuity of principles, which govern relations between castes and relationships within castes.The ethnographic data bear in particular on: the nature of untouchability; models of c...

    $1,320.00