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Escolios a un texto implicito: Obra completa

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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Latino Book Award 2006 - Mariposa Award (Best First Book)

Presented for the first time in its entirety, this luxurious edition contains the complete collection of Nicolás Gómez Dávila's Escolios. The aphorisms, or modestly named "annotations," are distillations of the thought of one of the America's most outstanding conservative philosophers. Compared, among others, with Pascal, Rivarol, Joubert, Jürgen, and Cioran, Gómez Dávila is now recognized as a thinker of world stature with a shocking sense of clarity and originality of thought.

Presentado por la primera vez en su totalidad, esta hermosa edición de lujo contiene la colección completa los Escolios de Nicolás Gómez Dávila. Considerados como ejemplo inagotable de lucidez y profundidad, estos escolios son la destilación resultante de muchos años de reclusión voluntaria en los que el pensador se dedicó por entero a la lectura y a la reflexión. Comparado, entre otros, con Pascal, Rivarol, Joubert, Jürgen y Cioran, Gómez Dávila es ahora considerado el pensador de nivel más alto, alguien con una claridad y originalidad extraordinaria en su escritura filosófica.

Margaret Mead: A Life

Jane Howard

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Howard's definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead's professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert.

History of Anthropological Theory, A

Paul A. Erickson, Liam D. Murphy

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An excellent introduction to the history of Anthropology 5 out of 5 stars.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I found this to be a highly readable introductory text, which outlines all the major developments in anthropology, from antiquity to postmodernism. The work is, in my opinion, suitable for anyone interested in the broad study of human origins, and of the societies and cultures humans create. I would DEFINITELY buy this book if I were taking an introductory course. A real undiscovered gem for most readers!

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Recognizing that anthropology -- the study of human beings and culture -- has deep roots in Western experience, this concise introduction to the topic begins in antiquity, with such writers as Herodotus and Aristotle, then moves forward through the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and the nineteenth century, when anthropological thought took on a more disciplined form. The twentieth century is, however, the central focus of the text -- the authors cover all of the main stands, including American, British, and French anthropological traditions. It also features chapters on the theory of archaeology, physical anthropology, and cultural anthropology. A History of Anthropological Theory is thus a remarkably comprehensive, accessible introduction to the field.

To Double Business Bound: Essays on Literature, Mimesis and Anthropology

René Girard

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Mimetic Shmimetic 5 out of 5 stars.
5 of 10 people found this review helpful.

OK, I admit that I think that everything Girard has ever written is lights out brilliant, and my unceasing mantra is "all desire is mimetic" and I'm always on the lookout for my double (I'm not in the business of being bound you see). All desire is mimetic. All desire is mimetic.

This is a superior book for someone who might care to dabble, a series of essays, all of them proverbial juggernauts, all desire is mimetic. Freud and his Oedipus complex get the bunk debunked out of them, and then there's poor Nietzsche. The poor guy went insane and killed himself, but that isn't enough for Girard. Turns out Nietzsche couldn't even figure out if he was Dionysius or the Crucified. And you think you have problems! All desire is mimetic!

The Levi-Strauss essays are VITAL, and then you even get an interview at the end. All in a couple hundred pages! All desire is mimetic! May all your triangles have happy mediators, don't forget intra-literary criticism, and most of all, don't get your subjects and objects mixed up.

Girard is the only literary critic you'll ever need, the only anthropologist you'll ever need, and also the only Frenchman you'll ever need. He is not my Richard Wagner, I prefer portly walrus-types with spectacles and tweed suits who play super-chess. All desire is mimetic. You should probably read everything by Dostoevsky and Cervantes and Proust before tackling these essays. And Camus, don't foget Camus, never forget Camus.

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An individual desires an object, not for itself, but because another individual also desires it. This mimetic desire, Rene Girard contends, lies at the source of all human disorder and order. In brilliant readings of Dante, Camus, Nietzsche, Dostoevski, Levi-Strauss, Freud, and others, Girard draws out the thesis of mimetic desire -- and ponders its suppression in the West since Plato: "The historical mutilation of mimesis ... was no mere oversight, no fortuitous 'error.' Real awareness of mimetic desire threatens the flattering delusion we entertain not only about ourselves as individuals but also about the nature and origin of that collective self we call our society."

Personal Identity in Theological Perspective

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The turbulence and confusion of contemporary life should motivate us to ask the big questions of life anew and to reexamine the disastrous naturalism of the twentieth century. This volume gathers well-known thinkers from a breadth of confessional Christian traditions who share a passionate interest in better understanding the nature of persons. The contributors to Personal Identity in Theological Perspective aim to recover the ancient biblical account of human beings as made "in the image of God." Their essays fall naturally into three divisions - retrieving historical discussions of human identity, presenting contemporary challenges to a distinctively Christian anthropology, and offering constructive proposals toward a richer understanding of persons. This volume will provoke discussion and debate on the fundamental question What does it mean to be human? Contributors: Stanley J. Grenz Michael S. Horton Stanton L. Jones David H. Kelsey Richard Lints Nancey Murphy Mark R. Talbot William C. Weinrich Robert Louis Wilken Mark A. Yarhouse

Darkness in El Dorado: How Scientists and Journalists Devastated the Amazon

Patrick Tierney

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Since Napoleon Chagnon set foot in the Amazon in 1964, the Yanomami Indians have been an emblem of savage primitive man, as well as a staple of anthropology classes. Chagnon's Yanomami: The Fierce People is the all-time bestselling anthropology book, and his award-winning documentaries brought images of brutish, wife-stealing, naked Indians into classrooms around the world. Chagnon, however, has been dogged by criticism and controversy for years, and with the publication of Patrick Tierney's Darkness in El Dorado, the debate has erupted, forcing what may be the most tragic and shameful chapter of anthropological history into public view. Tierney's allegations, if true, are devastating. While Chagnon made the Yanomami synonymous with aggression, Tierney charges that Chagnon himself fomented wars through his tactics of creating false alliances, giving away machetes, and staging scenes in order to substantiate his own belief in male aggression. Even worse, Tierney believes that Chagnon and his mentor, the famous geneticist James Neel, actually started the measles epidemic that decimated up to 20 percent of the tribe's population by administering a contraindicated "dinosaur vaccine" to a highly vulnerable population. Tierney paints a horrific picture of Neel and his team of scientists rushing to get their samples of blood, urine, and saliva out of the tropical heat--and Chagnon choreographing his documentary--while the Yanomami fall like flies around them.

Tierney's research is meticulous and exhaustive (and includes the discovery of sound recording outtakes never before heard). He has penned a riveting story backed by a flood of facts that condemn Chagnon and his cohorts, and those who continue to abuse the Yanomami:

In the economics of exoticism the more remote and more isolated a tribal group is, the greater its market value. As the last intact aboriginal group, the Yanomami were in a class by themselves, poster people whose naked, photogenic appeal was matched by their unique genetic inheritance. Their blood was as coveted by scientists as their image was by photographers.

Anthropologists have been fearful of public reaction to the Chagnon scandal, and for good reason. As Yanomami spokesman Davi Kopenawa says, "For many years now anthropologists have been saying how exotic we Yanomami are. But when we finally tell our story the world will find out who is truly exotic." --Lesley Reed

Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology

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Ethnographic Artifacts: Challenges to a Reflexive Anthropology examines anthropological practice and product, confronting issues of representation and the power of discourse in the lives and practice of both those doing research and those being researched. Can the anthropologist represent the lives of others at all, and what are the conditions under which this can occur? These questions require a serious look at the nature of ethnography itself.

World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Systems of Power (Wenner-Gren International Symposium Series)

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Can a planetary anthropology cope with both the "provincial cosmopolitanism" of alternative anthropologies and the "metropolitan provincialism" of hegemonic schools? How might the resulting "world anthropologies" challenge the current panorama in which certain allegedly national anthropological traditions have more paradigmatic weight--and hence more power--than others? Critically examining the international dissemination of anthropology within and across national power fields, contributors address these questions and many others.

Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social (Explorations in Anthropology)

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In departing from the traditional stance taken by anthropologists, who study 'others' ethnographically, this timely book explores forms of self-inscription on the part of both the ethnographer and those 'others' who are studied. Informed by developments in postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism, this is an original contribution to the growing dialogue across disciplinary boundaries. The chapters build upon recent reconsiderations of the uses and meaning of personal narrative to examine the ways in which selves and social forms are culturally constituted through biographical genres. Ethnic autobiography, self-reflexivity in ethnography, and native ethnography raise provocative questions about a range of issues for the contemporary scholar: authenticity of voice; ethnographic authority; and the degree to which autoethnography constitutes resistance to hegemonic bodies of discourse. Examined here in a variety of cultural and political contexts, writing about the self offers challenging insights into the construction and transformation of identities and cultural meanings.

A Laboratory for Anthropology: Science and Romanticism in the American Southwest, 1846-1930 (University of Arizona Southwest Centre)

Don D. Fowler

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This sweeping history tells the story of an idea, 'The Southwest', through the development of American anthropology and archaeology. For eighty years, anthropology more than any other discipline described the people, culture, and land of the American Southwest to cultural tastemakers and consumers on the East Coast. The author uses biographical vignettes to recreate the men and women who pioneered American anthropology and archaeology in the Southwest and explores institutions such as the Smithsonian, University of Pennsylvania Museum, School of American Research, and American Museum of Natural History that influenced south-western research agenda, published results, and exhibited artefacts. Equally influential were the 'Yearners' -- novelists, poets, painters, photographers, and others -- such as Alice Corbin, Oliver La Farge, Mabel Dodge Luhan, and Laura Adams Armer whose literature and art incorporated southwestern ethnography, sought the essence of the Indian and! Hispano world, and substantially shaped the cultural impression of 'The Southwest' to the American public.