california university press berkeley 2005 (10 Ergebnisse)

Borofsky, Robert, 1944-. Yanomami: the fierce controversy and what we can learn from it. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, 3d printing, xix, 372pp., PAPERBACK, very good, fresh attractive copy. California series in public anthropology, 12. - Yanomami raises questions central to the field of anthropology--questions concerning the practice of fieldwork, the production of knowledge, and anthropology's intellectual and ethical vision of itself. Using the Yanomami controversy--one of anthropology's most famous and explosive imbroglios--as its starting point, this book draws readers into not only reflecting on but refashioning the very heart and soul of the discipline. It is both the most up-to-date and thorough public discussion of the Yanomami controversy available and an innovative and searching assessment of the current state of anthropology. The Yanomami controversy came to public attention through the publication of Patrick Tierney's best-selling book, Darkness in El Dorado, in which he accuses James Neel, a prominent geneticist who belonged to the National Academy of Sciences, as well as Napoleon Chagnon, whose introductory text on the Yanomami is perhaps the best-selling anthropological monograph of all time, of serious human rights violations. This book identifies the ethical dilemmas of the controversy and raises deeper, structural questions about the discipline. A portion of the book is devoted to a unique roundtable in which important scholars on different sides of the issues debate back and forth with each other. This format draws readers into deciding, for themselves, where they stand on the controversy's--and many of anthropology's--central concerns. - CONTENTS: PART I: The controversy and the broader issues at stake -- Chagnon and Tierney in their own words -- How the controversy has played out within American anthropology -- Broader issues at stake in the controversy -- Keeping Yanomami perspectives in mind -- You decide -- A platform for change -- Photographic interlude -- PART II: Round one -- Round two -- Round three -- Three assessments -- Appendix: Summary of the roundtable participants' positions. 9780520244047 ISBN 0520244044.

20.5 x 15.0cms 456pp very good+ paperback & cover This book begins with: the dark beginning and the cross the crescent & the star. It ends with Franco''s legacy order & progress; Spain today the impossible dream: a society in transition.

22.5 x 14.0cms360pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover Ibn Battuta travelled from Tangier to Mecca central Asia India and China. He was the only medieval traveller to have visited every Muslim country as well as Istanbul Ceylon / Sri Lanka and China. Dunn retells Ibn Battuta''s story for a general audience and introduces the late medieval Islamic world.

23.0 x 15.0cms 318pp b/w illusts very good paperback & cover This book shows how religious images and visual practice order spaces and time communicate with the transcendent and embody forms of communion with the divine.

Bazin, André, 1918-1958. What is Cinema. Essays - Two Volumes. Selected and Translated by Hugh Gray. New Foreword by Dudley Andres. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, xxiv, 183, xxvi, 200pp., PAPERBACK, two volumes, very good. Volume One: ISBN 0520242270 - Volume Two: ISBN 0520242289.

Bazin, André, 1918-1958. What is Cinema. Essays - Two Volumes. Selected and Translated by Hugh Gray. New Foreword by Dudley Andres. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005, xxiv, 183, xxvi, 200pp., PAPERBACK, two volumes, very good. Volume One: ISBN 9780520242272 - Volume Two: ISBN 0520242289.

Oktav. Goldgepr. Org.-Ganzleinen mit illustr. Org.-SU. xiii (+i), 241 (+5) S., wohlerhaltenes Exemplar. Erste Ausgabe. - ISBN 0520245539. - ENGLISH: Octavo. Publisher's gilt full cloth with publicher's illustrated dustjacket. xiii (+i), 241 (+5) pp., a fine copy. Erste Ausgabe. - ISBN 0520245539. - ENGLISH: Octavo. Publisher's gilt full cloth with publicher's illustrated dustjacket. xiii (+i), 241 (+5) pp., a fine copy. 5000 g.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fine dj. Illustrated by (dj design) Victoria Kuskowski (illustrator). First Edition. [nice tight clean copy, appears unread, with no significant wear to either book or jacket]. (B&W photographs) INSCRIBED briefly ("To _____ / Blessings & Peace") and SIGNED by the author on the title page. "This splendid book, at once sweeping in its historical reach and intimate in its evocation of everyday life, is the first full account of Los Angeles's black community in the half century before World War II. Filled with moving human drama, it brings alive a time and place largely ignored by historians until now, detailing African American community and political activism during the city's emergence from a small town to a sprawling metropolis." **** NOTE that additional shipping charges will be assessed for international shipping of this moderately heavy book, or for Priority Mail service to U.S. destinations. If this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order. **** Signed by Author.

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Softcover. Zustand: Fine. First edition. Trade paperback original. A trifle rubbed, still fine in wrappers. Inscribed by Antin to the playwright and poet Rochelle Owens and her husband, the poet George Enonomou: "for George & Rochelle old friends and comrades in art. love, David.".