Historien et chroniqueur au journal ##Le Monde##, l'auteur poursuit avec ce volume une réflexion consacrée avec ##L'invention de la France## (1981). Conjoignant anthropologie familiale et sociologie politique, il prétend faire table rase des diverses lectures économiques de l'hi…
Vous pensez que la vie privée de tout un chacun ne regarde personne? Détrompez-vous : depuis quelques années, les économistes se passionnent pour elle et la décortiquent méthodiquement. Sexualité, drogue, éducation, mondes virtuels, bonheur, attitudes irrationnelles, voies crimi…
Proposing a new kind of feminism that is genuinely international, Martha Nussbaum argues for an ethical underpinning to all thought about development planning and public policy, and dramatically moves beyond the abstractions of economists and philosophers to embed thought about …
Participation: the new tyranny?
In many countries around the world, in NGOs, private concerns and other organisations, participation is a buzz-word that fails to live up to expectations. These essays explore how participatory schemes fail and how to rectify the situation.
The papers in this volume were delivered at the first international colloquium by the Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology at Bar Ilan University, held in February 1995. Concepts of Self, Soul and Body are so close to the physiological layers of life that we ma…
Une histoire intellectuelle de la civilisation occidentale, par le biais du thème de l'individualisme, depuis les débuts de l'ère chrétienne. Insistance sur les composantes religieuses et politiques. Dans le cadre d'une anthropologie sociale inspirée des théories de Marcel Mauss…
The theory of choice: a critical guide
"This new book examines the relationship between culture and respect for human rights. It departs from the oft-made assumption that culture is closely linked to ideas about community. Instead, it reveals culture as a quality possessed by the individual with a serious impact on h…
"Organization and Identity provides an exploration of identity as a contemporary concern in everyday life and as a key concept in the social sciences, particularly focusing on how ideas about identity can be applied to organization and management studies. The contributors to thi…