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  • Trail of an Intellectual Nomad
    Brian Morris
    Leaving school at fifteen, Brian Morris has had a and varied career in Malawi, before becoming a university teacher. Now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, he is the author of numerous articles and books on anthropology, religion and symbolism, hunter gatherer societies, concepts of the individual and radical politics. His most recen...
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    69,21 €

  • The Terrors
    Brian K. Morris
    The BLACK TERROR returns! But NOT as you remember him...In 1940, the U.S. Government forced the super-heroic Terror Twins to give up their costumed identities and keep their loved ones safe. Thus, The Terror and Kid Terror retired to a mundane life of work, school, and home.And to see their adventures whitewashed and reduced to comic book propaganda as 'The Black Terror.'But tw...
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    22,08 €

  • CHASED BY THE DRAGON CAUGHT BY THE LAMB
    BRIAN MORRIS / TBD
    This fast moving and sometimes disturbing book starts at the point where Brian is about to be arrested for smuggling a kilogram of cocaine into the country in 1995 worth a police estimate of one and a half million pounds, earning him a prison sentence of 12 years.The book continues by telling how he arrived at that point - his disadvantaged life, growing up in Wales in impoveri...
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    14,97 €

  • Anthropology and Dialectical Naturalism
    Brian Morris
    Is the world just a cultural construct where people create their own realities? In this illuminating and wide-ranging philosophical treatise, Brian Morris critiques broad swathes of recent theory as he seeks to reclaim anthropology as a historical social science. He achieves this by grounding it within a metaphysic of 'dialectical naturalism' or 'evolutionary realism'-a traditi...
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    34,07 €

  • Forest Traders
    Brian Morris
    The first ethnographic study of a community with structured trading relationships, the nomadic forest community of the Hill Pandarm. ...
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    82,77 €

  • An Environmental History of Southern Malawi
    Brian Morris
    This book is a pioneering and comprehensive study of the environmental history of Southern Malawi. With over fifty years of experience, anthropologist and social ecologist Brian Morris draws on a wide range of data - literary, ethnographic and archival - in this interdisciplinary volume. Specifically focussing on the complex and dialectical relationship between the people of So...
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    102,82 €

  • Anthropology and the Human Subject
    Brian Morris
    The German philosopher Immanuel Kant famously defined anthropology as the study of what it means to be a human being. Following in his footsteps 'Anthropology and the Human Subject' provides a critical, comprehensive and wide-ranging investigation of conceptions of the human subject within the Western intellectual tradition, focusing specifically on the secular trends of the tw...
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    31,53 €

  • Nightmare at Sea
    Brian Morris
    Special Forces team is in for a ride on this pleasure cruise. Fighting to survive a living nightmare. Will the team prove themselves to be the best they were trained to be? Or will the team fail for the final test? Who can they trust? Who will live? and Who will die? ...
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    9,85 €

  • Wildlife and Landscapes in Malawi
    Brian Morris
    ABOUT THE BOOKA pioneer ethnobiologist Brian Morris has been studying the wildlife of Malawi for over forty years, and has spent more than a decade of his life living and researching in the country. Always engaged in exploring the relationship of the matrilineal peoples of Malawi to its wildlife, Morris has written several important and seminal studies that focus on this relati...
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    24,96 €

  • The Secret Of Lizard Mountain
    Brian E Morris
    It’s the start of the school holidays and four friends, Bob Hughes, Steve Martin, Nick Russel and Billy Price are on their way to Lizard Mountain to catch newts in their jam jars. But something strange happens when Christine Brown and Pam Martin arrive which plunges them into another world to begin a fight for their survival. ...
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    16,69 €

  • Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision
    Brian Morris
    Richard Jefferies and the Ecological Vision provides an illuminating account of one of Britain’s best-loved nature writers, the incomparable Richard Jefferies. Lucid and comprehensive the book critically explores the diversity of Jefferies’ literary talents, for this Wiltshire naturalist was without doubt a many sided and comprehensive genius. As a prose poet of nature Jefferie...
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    33,96 €

  • History and Conservation of Mammals in M
    Brian Morris
    This book, the first of its kind to be published in Malawi, considers the role of animals in African human culture and history, taking Malawi as a case study. It examines the relationship between humans and mammals from the time of the first inhabitants of Malawi through to the present day. It explains how game parks and protected species came into existence, the reasons why ma...
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    63,12 €

  • Religion and Anthropology
    Brian Morris
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    77,26 €

  • Insects and Human Life
    Brian Morris
    This pioneering book looks at the importance of insects to culture. While in the developed West a good deal of time and money may be spent trying to exterminate insects, in other cultures human-insect relations can be far more subtle and multi-faceted. Like animals, insects may be revered or reviled - and in some tribal communities insects may be the only source of food availab...
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    76,91 €

  • The Power of Animals
    Brian Morris
    The multiple ways in which people relate to animals provide a revealing window through which to examine a culture. Western cultures tend to view animals either as pets or food, and often overlook the vast number of roles that they may play within a culture and in social life more generally: their use in medicine, folk traditions and rituals. ...
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    73,12 €

  • Animals and Ancestors
    Brian Morris
    Ever since the emergence of human culture, people and animals have co-existed in close proximity. Humans have always recognized both their kinship with animals and their fundamental differences, as animals have always been a threat to humans’ well-being. ...
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    77,06 €

  • Anthropology of the Self
    Brian Morris
    This book looks at the ’self’ in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African philosophy and ending with contemporary feminism. Scholarly and written in a lucid style, free of jargon, this work is written from an anthropological perspective with an interdisciplinary approach. Morris emphasises the varying ...
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    44,79 €

  • Bakunin
    Brian Morris
    The life and thought of Bakunin has contemporary relevance, particularly for his definitions of freedom. This book confirms Bakunin as an important and influential political theorist whose anarchism was dominated by a desire to achieve a unity of theory and practice. Everything about him is colossal...he is full of a primitive exuberance and strength. Richard Wagner He was n...
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    29,90 €

  • Western Conceptions of the Individual
    Brian Morris
    This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition. ...
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    76,03 €

  • Anthropological Studies of Religion
    Brian Morris
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    50,13 €

  • Surrealsm and Spain 1920 1936
    C. B. Morris / CBMorris / Cyril Brian Morris / Cyril Morris
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    54,12 €

  • Who Decides What
    Brian Morris / Klaus Boehm
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    34,93 €