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The looking machine
Essays on cinema, anthropology and documentary filmmaking
By David MacDougall
This new collection of essays presents the latest thoughts of one of the world's leading ethnographic filmmakers and writers on cinema. It will provide essential reading for students in cinema ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3411-0
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Buy NowDetachment
Essays on the limits of relational thinking
Edited by Thomas Yarrow, Matei Candea, Catherine Trundle and Jo Cook
This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3386-1
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£25.00
Buy NowLabour, state and society in rural India
A class-relational approach
By Jonathan Pattenden
Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork in rural South India, the book uses a 'class-relational' approach to analyse continuity and change in processes of accumulation, exploitation and domination. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3383-0
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Buy NowAn ethnography of NGO practice in India
Utopias of development
By Stewart Allen
Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9299-6
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£80.00
Buy NowHuman remains and identification
Mass violence, genocide, and the ‘forensic turn’
Edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Human remains and identification presents a pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1675-8
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£27.50
Buy NowDestruction and human remains
Disposal and concealment in genocide and mass violence
Edited by Élisabeth Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1673-4
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Buy NowHuman remains and mass violence
Methodological approaches
Edited by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Anstett
This book outlines for the first time in a single volume the theoretical and methodological tools for a study of human remains resulting from episodes of mass violence and genocide. Despite the ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1674-1
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£25.00
Buy NowThe autonomous life?
Paradoxes of hierarchy and authority in the squatters movement in Amsterdam
By Nazima Kadir
The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' community for over three years. During that time ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9411-2
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Buy NowFraming cosmologies
The anthropology of worlds
Edited by Allen Abramson and Martin Holbraad
How might the anthropological study of cosmologies - the ways in which the horizons of human worlds are imagined and engaged - illuminate understandings of the contemporary world? This book ... More
ISBN: 978-1-5261-0718-3
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£24.99
Buy NowGoverning the dead
Sovereignty and the politics of dead bodies
Edited by Finn Stepputat
In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of authority. Focusing on the relationship between bodies and sovereignty, ... More
ISBN: 978-1-7849-9380-1
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£17.99
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