"The empirically rich and analytically provocative contributions to this volume focus on Africa and on the process through which commodities come into being. Commodifcation is shown to be a powerful tool towards understanding the modern world, especially South economies and Sout…
Social anthropology of work
by Wallman, Sandra, A.S.A. Conference, University of York)
fromASA monographs
"In recent decades international development has grown into a world-shaping industry. But how do aid agencies work and what do they achieve? How does aid appear to those who receive it? And why has there been so little improvement in the position of the poor? Viewing aid and dev…
The Juan Fernández Archipelago is located in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile at 33° S latitude. Robinson Crusoe Island is 667 km from the continent and approximately four million years old; Alejandro Selkirk Island is an additional 181 km west and only one million years old. The…
This book tells the remarkable story of the friendship between Liria Hernández, a Roma woman from Madrid, and Paloma Gay y Blasco, a non-Roma anthropologist. In this unique reciprocal experiment, the former informant returns the gaze to write about the anthropologist, her life a…
Artículos publicados entre 1992-1996 en el suplemento cultural "Revista" del diario oficial El Peruano (el suplemento ya no se publica). Se profundiza sobre personajes mitológicos como el dios andino Wiracocha, el Nakaq (degollador o sacaojos) y la Chununa (mujer pequeña fascina…
Papers presented at the symposium on Man the Hunter held at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, April 6-9, 1966 & sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Includes; Part I; Introduction; 2. The current status of the worlds hun…
Papers presented at the symposium on Man the Hunter held at the Center for Continuing Education, University of Chicago, April 6-9, 1966 & sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research; Includes; Part I; Introduction; 2. The current status of the worlds hun…
