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  • Mikidadi wa Mafia. Maisha ya Mwanaharakati na Familia Yake Nchini Tanzania
    Pat Caplan
    Pat Caplan is a social anthropologist who began doing research on Mafia Island for her Ph.D. in the 1960s when Mikidadi and his relatives made her part of their family . She has continued to revisit the island periodically since then and has published several books and written many articles based on her research. Her books include ’African Voices, African Lives’ and she has als...
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    44,43 €

  • The Ethics of Anthropology
    Pat Caplan
    Combining theoretical papers and case studies from leading scholars, this book demonstrates how the topic of ethics goes to the heart of anthropology and raises the debatable question of why, and for whom, the anthropological discipline functions. ...
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    89,44 €

  • Risk Revisited
    Pat Caplan
    This book looks at the concept of risk from a cross-cultural perspective, the contributors challenge the Eurocentric frameworks within which notions of risk are more commonly considered. They argue that perceptions of danger, and sources of anxiety, are far more socially and culturally constructed - and far more contingent - than risk theorists generally admit. Topics covered i...
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    60,34 €

  • Food, Health and Identity
    Pat Caplan
    By addressing the issue of food and eating in Britain today, this book considers the way in which our food habits are changing, and shows how social and personal identities and perceptions of health and risk influence choices. ...
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    91,96 €

  • African Voices, African Lives
    Pat Caplan
    By utilising a mixture of styles - narrative and life history, ethnographic observation and the diary kept by Mohammed, a Swahili peasant, this book grapples with issues raised by personal narratives, authorial authority and reflexivity. ...
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    85,26 €

  • Understanding Disputes
    Pat Caplan
    Some of the foremost specialists in the anthropology of law and disputing behaviour examine how people in a variety of social settings, ranging from Ireland to East Africa, deal with quarrels and seek to resolve or accommodate them. ...
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    77,19 €

  • Feasts, Fasts, Famine
    Pat Caplan
    This study deals with three domains of food which raise complex epistemological, political and moral issues. Through an examination of a wide range of material drawn from anthropology, history, literature and political economy, the author discusses the relationship between food and entitlement, gender, notions of the body and development. ...
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    67,33 €