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  • Distortion
    Nigel Rapport
    Distortion occurs between the intentions of actions and their outcomes. Escaping the bounds of relationality, of structuration and of systemics, distortion is a form of complex connectedness that has seldom been addressed in the social sciences as a phenomenon in its own right. This book argues that instances of distortion are an important and, ...
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    82,96 €

  • Social and Cultural Anthropology
    Nigel Rapport
    Social and Cultural Anthropology: the Key Concepts is an easy to use A-Z guide to the central concepts that students are likely to encounter in this field. With full cross-referencing and revised further reading to point students towards the latest writings in Social and Cultural Anthropology, this is a superb reference resource for anyone studying or teaching in this area. ...
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    73,11 €

  • Anyone
    Nigel Rapport
    The significance that people grant to their affiliations as members of nations, religions, classes, races, ethnicities and genders is evidence of the vital need for a cosmopolitan project that originates in the figure of Anyone - the universal and yet individual human being. Cosmopolitanism offers an alternative to multiculturalism, a different vision of identity, belonging, so...
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    44,58 €

  • Human Nature as Capacity
    Nigel Rapport
    What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as an Enlightenment science. This book argues that it is again appropriate to bring 'the human' to the fore, to reclaim the singularity of the word as central to the anthropological endeavor, not on the basis of the substance of a human n...
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    44,54 €

  • Community, Cosmopolitanism and the Problem of Human Commonality
    Nigel Rapport / Vered Amit
    Do notions of community remain central to our sense of who we are, or can we see beyond community closures to a human whole? This volume explores the nature of contemporary sociality. It focuses on the ethical, organisational and emotional claims and opportunities sought or fashioned for mobilising and evading social collectivities in a world of mobile subjects. Vered Amit and ...
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    47,41 €

  • I Am Dynamite
    Nigel Rapport
    Focusing on the lives and works of eminent figures such as Levi and Nietzsche, anthropologist Nigel Rappaport shows how we can avoid the structures of ideology and institution through the formulation of ’life projects’. ...
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    85,14 €

  • The Trouble With Community
    Nigel Rapport / Vered Amit
    'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption, of much social science, has been that it is in communities -- and to communities -- that human individuals, as social and cultural beings, belong. Communities are said to embody that interactive environment from which individuals' identities and senses of self derive, and in which ...
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    51,53 €

  • British Subjects
    Nigel Rapport
    The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be ’British’, and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. ...
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    75,61 €

  • Transcendent Individual
    Nigel Rapport
    Transcendent Individual argues for a reappraisal of the place of the individual in anthropolgical theory and ethnographic writing. A wealth of voices illustrate and inform the text, showing ways in which individuals creatively ’write’, narrate and animate cultural and social life. This is an anthropology imbued with a liberal morality which is willing to make value judgements o...
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    77,39 €