Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: rodolfo maggio

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF PIERRE BOURDIEU'S OUTLINE OF A THEORY OF PRACTICE
    RODOLFO MAGGIO
    In Outline of a Theory of Practice, Bourdieu questions the preeminent ideas of social anthropologists such as Levi-Strauss who stressed the structural principles governing human action rather than the actions themselves and, Bourdieu asserts, doesn’t account for all observable nuances of behaviour. Drawing on his fieldwork in Algeria, he expresses the need for a theory of pract...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF JARED M. DIAMOND'S COLLAPSE
    RODOLFO MAGGIO
    American scholar Jared Diamond deploys his powers of interpretation to great effect in Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, which seeks to understand the meaning behind the available evidence describing societies that have survived and those that have withered and died. Why, for example, did the Norsemen of Scandinavia who colonized Greenland in the early tenth ce...

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  • AN ANALYSIS OF KAREN Z. HO'S LIQUIDATED
    RODOLFO MAGGIO
    Liquidated is a work of anthropology that treats an unusual, despised subculture – that of the Wall Street banker – much as anthropologists have traditionally treated remote ‘savage’ tribes. But using the techniques of ethnography, including interviews, analysis of daily lives, and fieldwork to investigate a modern western culture is not original; what sets Ho's work apart and ...

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