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 W…
"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."--BOOK JACKET. "Tho…
Words and Worlds: A Lexicon for Dark Times
by De Waal, Alex, Müller, Jan-Werner, Kanbur, Ravi, Fassin, Didier, Ghamari-Tabrizi, Behrooz, Pugh, Jonathan, Bargu, Banu, Geschiere, Peter, Humphrey, Caroline, Sanders, Todd, Das, Veena, Lemaitre, Julieta, Mehta, Uday S., Sanders, Elizabeth F.
Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a political lexicon of commonsense words, ranging from democracy and revolution to knowledge and authority, from inequality and toleration to …
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This second edition of the widely praised Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology, features a variety of updates, revisions, and new readings in its comprehensive presentation of issues in the history of anthropological theory and epistemology over the past century. Provi…