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Making things better : a workbook on ritual, cultural values, and environmental behavior /
Napier demonstrates how non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can redress the ills of contemporary economic systems in which our relationship to material things transforms animate elements of social life into inanimate commodities. Such processes separate objects from domains of deep meaning an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Oxford ritual studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Making Things Better; Copyright; Dedication; CONTENTS; Preface: Things in Themselves; Introduction ; Preamble to the Workbook: Rights or Rites? ; PART I Things and People ; EXERCISE 1 Shaping Behavior ; CHAPTER 1 Meaning and Property ; PRACTICUM 1 Securing Indigenous Rights ; PART II Things and Places.
- EXERCISE 2 Creating Local Value CHAPTER 2 A Sense of Place ; PRACTICUM 2 Valuing Indigenous Property ; PART III Things Across Cultures ; EXERCISE 3 Giving and Receiving ; CHAPTER 3 Exchange and Value ; PRACTICUM 3 Responding to Global Forces, or Kula International.
- PART IV Realizing Ritual EXERCISE 4 Changing Paradigms ; CHAPTER 4 Why Animism Matters ; PRACTICUM 4 Assessing Cognitive Diversity ; Epilogue ; Postscript: The Value of Public Anthropology ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.