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""The visual is essentially pornographic, "" writes Fredric Jameson, ""films ask us to stare at the world as though it were a naked body."" In Signatures of the Visible, one of America's most influential critics explores film and the culture surrounding it, interrogating the rel…
The land and the people -- Marriage in Santa Lucia -- The bearing of burdens : suffering, containment, and healing -- Working to sweat : labor, narrative, and redemption -- Virtuous husbands, powerful wives : marriage and the dangers of power -- From innocence to knowledge.
"Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate - and often oppress - their native subjects. Looking through Taiwan is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens w…
Anthropologists have long sought to extricate their work from the policies and agendas of those who dominate - and often oppress - their native subjects. "Looking through Taiwan" is an uncompromising look at a troubling chapter in American anthropology that reveals what happens …
The rate of social change has speeded up in the last three decades, but how do we explain this? This volume ventures what the generative mechanism is that produces such rapid change and discusses how this differs from late Modernity. Contributors examine if an intensification of…
The drama of social life: a dramaturgical handbook
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Examines the myriad ways contemporary residents of Beijing understand and nurture the good life, practice the embodied arts of everyday well-being, and in doing so draw on cultural resources ranging from ancient metaphysics to modern media.
"Grew out of a one-day conference ... organized by the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in August 1999. Eight papers were presented at that conference, of which seven were selected, revised in 2001 and now appear as chapters in this book [together with] three more ... and al…
