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  • Folklore: The Basics

    Series series The Basics
    Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for ... Leer más

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  • Comparative Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Comparative Literature is both the past and the future of literary studies. Its history is intimately linked to the political upheavals of modernity: from colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century, via the Jewish diaspora of the twentieth century, to the postcolonial culture wars of the twenty-first century, attempts at 'comparison' have defined the international agenda of literature. But ... Leer más

    $138 MXN

  • An Analysis of E.E. Evans-Pritchard's Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande

    de Kitty Wheater ...
    Series series The Macat Library
    The history of anthropology is, to a large extent, the history of differing modes of interpretation.As anthropologists have long known, examining, analyzing and recording cultures in the quest to understand humankind as a whole is a vastly complex task, in which nothing can be achieved without careful and incisive interpretative work. Edward Evans-Pritchard’s seminal 1937 Witchcraft, Oracles, and ... Leer más

    $155 MXN

  • Everybody's Autonomy

    Connective Reading and Collective Identity

    Series series Modern and Contemporary Poetics
    Experimental texts empower the reader by encouraging self-governing approaches to reading and by placing the reader on equal footing with the author. Everybody's Autonomy is about reading and identity.Contemporary avant garde writing has often been overlooked by those who study literature and identity. Such writing has been perceived as unrelated, as disrespectful of subjectivity. But Everybody's ... Leer más

    $311 MXN

  • Postmodern Literature and Race

    Edición de Len Platt, Sara Upstone ...
    Postmodernism Literature and Race explores the question of how dramatic shifts in conceptions of race in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries have been addressed by writers at the cutting edge of equally dramatic transformations of literary form. An opening section engages with the broad question of how the geographical and political positioning of experimental writing informs its ... Leer más

    $1,886 MXN

  • Humble Theory

    Folklore's Grasp on Social Life

    de Dorothy Noyes ...
    A collection of fifteen essays exploring what folklore is, its history, and how it all connects to the world.Celebrated folklorist, Dorothy Noyes, offers an unforgettable glimpse of her craft and the many ways it matters. Folklore is the dirty linen of modernity, carrying the traces of working bodies and the worlds they live in. It is necessary but embarrassing, not easily blanched and made ... Leer más

    $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory

    Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theoryUpdated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic ... Leer más

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  • The Need to Help

    The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism

    In The Need to Help Liisa H. Malkki shifts the focus of the study of humanitarian intervention from aid recipients to aid workers themselves. The anthropological commitment to understand the motivations and desires of these professionals and how they imagine themselves in the world "out there," led Malkki to spend more than a decade interviewing members of the international Finnish Red Cross, as ... Leer más

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  • Grand Theory in Folkloristics

    Edición de Lee Haring ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    Essays arguing diverse positions on the concept of a grand theory in American folklore.Why is there no "Grand Theory" in the study of folklore? Talcott Parsons (1902–1979) advocated "grand theory," which put the analysis of social phenomena on a new track in the broadest possible terms. Not all sociologists or folklorists accept those broad terms; some still adhere to the empirical level. Through ... Leer más

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  • Studies in Trans-Disciplinary Method

    After the Aesthetic Turn

    Series series Interventions
    This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be understood in much broader and more interesting ways.Drawing on a broad range of philosophical and methodological theory as well as a wide variety of artistic sources from fine art to cinema and from ... Leer más

    $1,280 MXN

  • Dynamics Of Folklore

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    de Barre Toelken ...
    One of the most comprehensive and widely praised introductions to folklore ever written. Toelken's discussion of the history and meaning of folklore is delivered in straightforward language, easily understood definitions, and a wealth of insightful and entertaining examples.Toelken emphasizes dynamism and variety in the vast array of folk expressions he examines, from "the biology of folklore," to ... Leer más

    $360 MXN

  • The Rebirth of American Literary Theory and Criticism

    Scholars Discuss Intellectual Origins and Turning Points

    This book is the first collection of unified interviews with the great figures of the golden age of American celebrity literary and cultural critics. While many of these celebrity critics have been interviewed elsewhere, this collection is different. The 18 critics interviewed here are all asked the same questions, whereas usually interviews are one-offs, each one unique and incomparable. By ... Leer más

    $498 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus