Dignity for the voiceless : Willem Assies' anthropological work in context / / edited by Ton Salman, Salvador Marti i Puig, and Gemma van der Haar ; contributors Geert Banck [and five others]
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Assies Willem
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| Titolo: |
Dignity for the voiceless : Willem Assies' anthropological work in context / / edited by Ton Salman, Salvador Marti i Puig, and Gemma van der Haar ; contributors Geert Banck [and five others]
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2014 |
| ©2014 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (348 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 306.098 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social movements - Latin America |
| Social structure - Latin America | |
| Indians of South America - Politics and government | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Latin America Social conditions 1982- |
| Latin America Politics and government 1980- | |
| Persona (resp. second.): | SalmanTon |
| Martí i PuigSalvador | |
| HaarGemma van der <1968-> | |
| BanckGeert | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | TOC; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I Intro; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Part II Intro; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Part II Intro; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Part IV Intro; Chapter 7; Chapter 8; Part V Intro; Chapter 9; Chapter 10; Contributors; Bibliography Willem Assies; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Willem Assies died in 2010 at the age of 55. The various stages of his career as a political anthropologist of Latin American illustrate how astute a researcher he was. He had a keen eye for the contradictions he observed during his fieldwork but also enjoyed theoretical debate. A distrust of power led him not only to attempt to understand "people without voice" but to work alongside them so they could discover and find their own voice. Willem Assies explored the messy, often untidy daily lives of people, with their inconsistencies, irrationalities, and passions, but also with their hopes, |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Dignity for the voiceless |
| ISBN: | 1-78238-293-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811622803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Latin America studies ; ; Volume 103.