Outputs (433)
Listening With Non-human Others (2016)
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Indeterminacy: waste, value and the imagination. (2018)
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The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (2015)
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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the complex and conflicted topic of beauty in cultural, arts and medicine, looking back through the long cultural history of beauty, and asking whether it is possible to 'recover beauty'.
Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches. (2017)
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Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches unites sociocultural, biological, and archaeological anthropological scholarship to spark new conversations and research about breastfeeding. While breastfeeding has become the subject of intense debate i... Read More about Breastfeeding: New Anthropological Approaches..
Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance (2014)
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The contributors explore diverse contexts of performance to discuss peoples' own reflections on political subjectivities, governance and development. The volume refocuses anthropological engagement with ethics, aesthetics, and politics to examine the... Read More about Anthropology, Theatre, and Development: The Transformative Potential of Performance.
Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking (2015)
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This interdisciplinary volume questions one of the most fundamental tenets of social theory by focusing on detachment, an important but neglected aspect of social life. Going against the grain of recent theoretical celebrations of ‘engagement’, this... Read More about Detachment: essays on the limits of relational thinking.
Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds (2015)
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Following the birth of the first “test-tube baby” in 1978, Assisted Reproductive Technologies became available to a small number of people in high-income countries able to afford the cost of private treatment, a period seen as the “First Phase” of AR... Read More about Assisted Reproductive Technologies in the Third Phase: Global Encounters and Emerging Moral Worlds.
The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America (2015)
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Described as a 'master plant' by many indigenous groups in lowland South America, tobacco is an essential part of shamanic ritual, as well as a source of everyday health, wellbeing and community. In sharp contrast to the condemnation of the tobacco i... Read More about The Master Plant: Tobacco in Lowland South America.