Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: moore henrietta

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  • THOSE WHO PLAY WITH FIRE
    HENRIETTA L. MOORE / TODD SANDERS / BWIRE KAARE
    Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world. Those Who Play With Fire introduces recent gender theory to the analysis of African ethnography, exploring the ways i...

    $1,060.00

  • THE FUTURE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE
    MOORE, HENRIETTA
    The Future of Anthropological Knowledge the chapters explore the question of the nature of social knowledge from a variety of perspectives and locations such as China, Africa, the USA and elsewhere. By examining the changing nature of anthropological knowledge and of the production of that knowledge, this book challenges the notion that only western societies have produced soci...

    $1,280.00

  • MAGICAL INTERPRETATIONS, MATERIAL REALITIES
    MOORE, HENRIETTA L. / SANDERS, TODD
    'Magical Interpretations, Material Realities brings together many of today's best scholars of contemporary Africa. The theme of "witchcraft" has long been associated with exoticizing portraits of a "traditional" Africa, but this volume takes the question of occult as a point of entry into the moral politics of some very modern African realities.' - James Ferguson, University of...

    $1,480.00