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Anthropology As Ethics: Non-dualism and the Conduct of Sacrifice

T. M. S. Evens

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Cutting directly across social science and the humanities, Anthropology as Ethics presents an intensive project in philosophical anthropology, which rethinks anthropology by rethinking ontology. It develops the ontological implications of the defining thesis of the Manchester School of Social Anthropology: that all social order necessarily betrays conflicting underlying principles. Drawing especially on Continental philosophy, such as the work of Wittgenstein, Merleau-Ponty, Levinas, Derrida, Bourdieu, Habermas, and Foucault, and pre-modern thought, such as that of the Nuer, the Dinka, the Azande, and the Hebrew bible, the book mounts a radical study of the ontology of self and other in relation to dualism, on the one hand, and non-dualism, on the other. At heart the book is a plea for a new kind of reason, one that bears on value.

Confronting the Present: Towards a Politically Engaged Anthropology (Global Issues)

Gavin Smith

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Anthropologists study other people and worry about it. In the past this took the form of a professional desire to make our politics always somewhere else and to do with persons characterized as in some way different from ourselves. Now distances shrink and old forms of difference melt as global forces give rise to new processes of differentiation and new possibilities for political collectivities. How does this affect the way we might design a politically relevant anthropology?This book examines these concerns in light of the author’s shift from the study of rather distant people to people and places closer to home – a trend to be found within the discipline as a whole. How should anthropology respond to this change, as it increasingly finds itself in stamping grounds where other disciplines are already well-entrenched? How will work being done in anthropology intersect with that in other disciplines? Will anthropologists have anything to offer debates that have been ongoing in these other disciplines, such as those relating to social citizenship and collective identity, regionalism and the constitution of space and place, hegemony and resistance, political organization and cultural expression? Conversely, what can anthropologists learn from the way other disciplines formulate these issues and problems?Written to provoke discussion, this timely book aims to initiate a dialogue not only with anthropologists, but also with those in related disciplines who share a concern with people, politics and modernity. As well as anthropologists, the issues it tackles will be of interest to geographers, economists, political scientists, social historians and sociologists.

The Risk of Being: What It Means to Be Good and Bad

Michael Gelven

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Attempts to forge a new language and a new way of reasoning about what it is like to be good and bad by focusing on existential phenomena that reveal what it means to be good and bad. The text puts an emphasis on understanding that "good" and "bad" can refer to ways of existing.

Anthropology and Anthropologists: The Modern British School

Adam Kuper

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When it was first published in 1973, with a revised edition in 1983, Adam Kuper's entertaining account of half a century of British social anthropology provoked strong reactions and filled an awning gap in the market for introductory texts to social anthropology.

During the last ten years, significant developments have occurred within British and European anthropology. In this substantially revised and updated third edition, Adam Kuper takes the story up to the present day: with a new Preface, and a new final chapter, he traces the emergence of a modern European social anthropology, setting it in opposition to modern developments in American cultural anthropology. Anthropology and Anthropologists thus provides a critical and historical account of modern British social anthropology. The author describes the careers of the major theorists, their ideas and their contributionism and analyzes the intellectual and institutional context.

This book is essential reading for all students of social anthropology and will also appeal to lay readers with an interest in the field.

The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History) (Brill's Studies in Intellectual History)

Willemien Otten

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This book deals with Eriugena's anthropology in the general context of his thinking on universal nature. At the outset the role of man seems to be conditioned by nature's dynamic development through the Neoplatonic stages of procession and return. As man is located at the turning- point between procession and return, he is not only governed by nature's unfolding, but can also exercise control over it. Thus it is shown that man should be seen as much more independent than the cosmological structure of Eriugena's philosophy of nature seems to indicate. The study of Eriugena's anthropology urges a re-evaluation of the position of man in the early medieval period. Although man characteristically possesses a sinful, created state, Eriugena shows that this does not prevent him from entertaining a free and direct relationship with God and the surrounding universe. In dealing with the problem of human sin, Eriugena brings out Christ's saving role, but it seems counterbalanced by man's intrinsic potential as the "divine image" to rehabilitate himself. In this respect Eriugena's flexible method of reasoning - his handling of negative theology, theophany and allegorical exegesis - serves as a remarkable example of human independence in what has so often been portrayed as the "static" early-medieval world.

Claude Lévi-Strauss (Twayne's World Authors Series, No. 792, French Literature)

Roland A. Champagne

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Loose Lips

Jamie Malanowski

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Ever wanted to be that fly on the wall? To listen in on conversations that were meant to be intimate, private affairs? To overhear, verbatim, the words of famous entertainers, distinguished politicians, princes, potentates, and petty criminals? Welcome to an eavesdropper's jamboree, where you can revel in the real, unexpurgated words of real people in all their astonishing, appalling, and hilarious entirely - taken from sources like transcripts of testimony that was sealed, depositions that had been buried, recordings of exchanges that were cut from the official broadcasts, conversations considered so confidential, so off-the-record, so privileged and personal that we thought, Hey, why not share them with the whole world? Here is: Michael Jackson's housekeeper describing life chez Jacko; Prince Charles telling his lover his fondest hopes regarding reincarnation; pickup lines from Clarence Thomas; Senators Bob Dole and Alan Simpson trying to reach out and touch Saddam Hussein; Tommy Lasorda revealing what managers really say to pitchers out on the mound; Spike Lee on the importance of higher education; tobacco executives who can't quite make the connection between smoking and lung cancer; and lots more, word for regrettable word - in short, a feast of the famous and infamous caught with their guards down and their mikes on.

Clinical Anthropology: An Application of Anthropological Concepts Within Clinical Settings

John A. Rush

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Health and the Human Condition: Practicing Anthropology 5 out of 5 stars.
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Medical anthropology, for the most pasrt, has remained an intellectual enterprise with numerous theories regarding how differing cultures experience and deal with illness and disease. This is the first work of its kind to outline the basic elements of our biological and cultural selves and then, using information categories, show the nature of illness and how differing cultures respond. This work also shows that Western biomedicine is no more or less scientific than and any other cultural tradition. In fact, Western biomedicine (excluding trauma medicine) is little interested in health but in economics and experimentation. This work sets the theoritical tone for the second volume in this series, Stress and Emotional Haalth: Applications of Clinical Anthropology, which outlines the similarities one finds when dealing with emotional issues in all cultures, and then presents techniques that anyone can apply. Necessary reading for anyone in anthropology, psychology, medicine, sociology, and nursing interesting in the nature of health and healing.

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This unique book applies concepts from the field of anthropology to clinical settings to result in a powerful and dynamic model/theory of clinical anthropology. These clinical settings could include hospitals, police and probation situations, individual and marriage and family counseling, as well as cross-cultural issues, governmental policy, and other instances of educational delivery of concepts and behaviors that allow individuals/groups to reduce stress and move toward personal/group health. In addition to appealing to anthropology and other social/behavioral science scholars, this book will be useful to clinicians of many specialities within Western biomedicine including physicians, nurses, and health care administrators.

Our Practices, Our Selves, Or, What It Means to Be Human

Todd May

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This title is an introduction to philosophy which seeks to show that philosophy is a distinctive form of lively conceptual activity that makes a contribution to showing the importance of our multifarious human practices to questions of selfhood and identity.

Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life

Laurence D. Cooper

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Excellent research, well thought-out 5 out of 5 stars.
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Don't be put-off by the title, this is no dusty, boring tome. Mr. Cooper obviously did his homework on this one, and communicates his interpretation of Rousseau's ideas in a way we residents of the 21st century can relate to. This should be required reading for George W. and Al Gore - and anyone else who thinks he/she can run a country!

Editorial Review:

A philosophical treatise arguing for the centrality of Rousseau's conception of nature in both his anthropological and political thought. Contending that his interpretation differs markedly from the major schools of thought regarding Rousseau, the author argues that nature's prescriptions towards the good life rest upon the qualities of human beings' self-love. Distinguishing from a civilized self-love which seeks preeminence over others, Rousseau argued for a natural self-love that is only motivated by self-preservation and well being. This interpretation is supported by readings from Emile and Reveries o fa Solitary Walker.