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A history of anthropology
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ISBN: 9781849649186 1849649189 9781849649193 1849649197 9781849649209 1849649200 9780745333533 9780745333526 0745333532 0745333524 1785390767 Year: 2013 Publisher: London : Pluto Press,

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This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology. Avoiding geographical bias, the authors provide summaries of Enlightenment, Romantic and Victorian anthropology, from the cultural theories of Morgan and Taylor to the often neglected contributions of German scholars. The ambiguous relationship between anthropology and national cultures is also considered, and the growth of distinctive national styles in anthropological research is highlighted.A History of Anthropology is an unparalleled account of theoretical developments in anthropology from the 1920s to the present, including functionalism, structuralism, hermeneutics, neo-Marxism and discourse analysis. Major anthropologists are provided with brief biographies and key debates are covered such as those concerning totemism, kinship and globalisation.This essential text on anthropology is highly engaging, authoritative and suitable for students at all levels.


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Benjamin's passages : dreaming, awakening
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ISBN: 9780823262564 0823262561 9780823262571 082326257X 0823266567 0823262596 0823264165 1322965412 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press,

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In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a “macroscosmic journey” of the individual sleeper to “the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides.” Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The “passages” are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin’s later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin’s undertaking.


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Of rule and revenue
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ISBN: 9780520909540 0520909542 1282355562 9786612355561 Year: 1989 Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press

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Margaret Levi's wide-ranging theoretical and historical study demonstrates the importance of political relative to economic factors in accounting for revenue production policies.


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The perils of populism
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ISBN: 197882534X 1978825323 Year: 2022 Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey ; London, England : Rutgers University Press,

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"Contemporary right-wing populist movements have propelled authoritarian leaders into power, championed reactionary forms of nationalism as solutions to economic and social crisis, and scapegoated vulnerable populations, leading to violence, harassment, and hate speech directed against immigrants, people of color, Muslims, Jews, LGBT people and other marginalized communities. The Perils of Populism gathers the writing of leading theorists and activists to explore how a feminist lens can help diagnose the global rise of populism and resist threats to democracy. It reflects on the roots of the current political crisis, shows how feminist and queer activists are challenging reactionary populism, and explores feminist visions of a more just, democratic future. Featuring interdisciplinary essays on the United States, the Middle East, Europe, and India, the volume contributes to a rapidly expanding literature on gender and the far right"--


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The essential Hirschman
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ISBN: 0691159904 1299870457 069116567X 1400848407 9780691165677 Year: 2015 Publisher: Princeton: Princeton university press,

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"The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice.Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book"--

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Industrialization. --- Economists --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays. --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Hirschman, Albert O. --- Hirschmann, Otto A. --- Хиршман, Альберт Отто --- Khirshman, Alʹbert Otto --- He-xi-man, A-er-bo-te O. --- 赫希曼, 阿尔伯特 O. --- Economics --- Economists - United States --- Industrialization --- Hirschman, Albert Otto, - 1915-2012 --- A Bias for Hope. --- Albert O. Hirschman. --- Colombian violence. --- European integration. --- James L. Payne. --- John Womack. --- Latin America. --- Mexican revolution. --- North American social science. --- William Arthur Lewis. --- analogical structures. --- apprehension. --- balanced growth. --- behavior. --- capitalism. --- capitalist development. --- citizens' voice. --- cognitive style. --- competition. --- complex phenomena. --- consumer goods. --- creativity. --- cumulative change. --- customs unions. --- democracy. --- democratic life. --- development economics. --- development theories. --- development. --- doux-commerce thesis. --- economic development. --- economic discourse. --- economic forces. --- economic integration. --- economics. --- emotions. --- enlarged political economy. --- envy. --- essays. --- explicit models of possibilities. --- feudal-shackles thesis. --- freedom. --- growth sectors. --- identity. --- import-substituting industrialization. --- income inequality. --- indifference. --- industrial growth. --- industrialization. --- inequality. --- intellectual leadership. --- intellectual. --- interest. --- late-late industrializing. --- linkage approach. --- linkage effects. --- literary imagination. --- little traditions. --- love. --- major polemical maneuvers. --- market society. --- marketplace. --- micro-Marxism. --- models. --- modern capitalist society. --- mutual-benefit claim. --- neo-Marxism. --- opinionated opinions. --- opinions. --- orthodox monoeconomics. --- paradigms. --- perception of change. --- personal welfare. --- perverse effect. --- political economy. --- political forces. --- political integration. --- political leadership. --- political participation. --- political power. --- political protest. --- political science. --- politics of integration. --- preference changes. --- primary exports. --- production. --- progressives. --- psychological effects. --- psychology. --- quality of life. --- reaction. --- reactive movements. --- real change. --- reformers. --- routine thinking. --- self-destruction thesis. --- self-interest. --- simple explanations. --- social change. --- social phenomena. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- sociopolitical consequences. --- staples. --- state power. --- statecraft. --- strong opinions. --- structural causes. --- theorizing. --- tunnel effect. --- underdevelopment. --- une conomie politique largie.

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