Making Things Better: A Workbook On Ritual, Cultural Values, And Environmental Behavior (Oxford Ritual Studies) - Couverture souple

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Napier, A. David

 
9780199969364: Making Things Better: A Workbook On Ritual, Cultural Values, And Environmental Behavior (Oxford Ritual Studies)
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ISBN 10 : 0199969361 ISBN 13 : 9780199969364
Editeur : Oxford University Press, Usa, 2013

Synopsis

In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. Such a fundamental transformation, Napier suggests, makes us automatons in globally integrated social circuits that generate a cast of a winners and losers engaged in hostile competition for wealth and power. Our impersonal relations to ''things''--and to people as well--are so ingrained in our being, we take them for granted as we sleepwalk through routine life. Like the surrealist artists of the 1920s who, through their art, poetry, films, and photography, fought a valiant battle against mind-numbing conformity, Napier provides exercises and practica designed to shock the reader from their wakeful sleep. These demonstrate powerfully the positively integrative social effects of more socially entangled, non-Western orientations to ''things'' and to ''people.'' His arguments also have implications for the rights and legal status of indigenous peoples, which are drawn out in the course of the book.

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À propos de l?auteur

A. David Napier is Professor of Medical Anthropology at University College London and founding Director of the University's Centre for Applied Global Citizenship.

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press, Usa
Date d'édition
2013
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199969361
ISBN 13 
9780199969364
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
206
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780199969357: Making Things Better: A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior

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ISBN 10 :  0199969353 ISBN 13 :  9780199969357
Editeur : Oxford University Press Inc, 2014
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