Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791884703321 |
Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] | ||
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Land of the Unconquerable : The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women / / Jennifer Heath, Ashraf Zahedi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, California : , : University of California Press, , [2011] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (409 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.48/891593 |
Soggetto topico |
Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century
Women - Afghanistan - Social conditions - 21st century Women -- Afghanistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century Women - Social conditions - 21st century - Afghanistan |
Soggetto non controllato |
afghan women
afghan afghanistan agency al qaeda anthropology burqa community development domesticity education empowerment femininity feminism food security gender studies gender health islam justice marriage middle east muslim women nonfiction orientalism peace poetry politics prisoners prostitution religion religious fundamentalism religious women rural sex work social policy social science sociology urban war on terror war women womens studies |
ISBN |
1-283-27805-7
9786613278050 0-520-94899-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. The Politics of Zan from Amanullah to Karzai: Lessons for Improving Afghan Women's Status -- CHAPTER 2. Between Covered and Covert: Traditions, Stereo types, and Afghan Women's Agency -- CHAPTER 3. Centuries of Threat, Centuries of Resistance: The Lessons of Afghan Women's Resilience -- CHAPTER 4. Don't Say What, Who, and When, Say How: Community Development and Women -- CHAPTER 5. Afghanistan Blues: Seeing Beyond the Burqa on YouTube -- CHAPTER 6. Women's Political Presence: A Path to Promoting Gender Interests? -- CHAPTER 7. Voices of Parliamentarians: Four Women MPs Share Their Thoughts -- CHAPTER 8. Nothing Left to Lose: Women in Prison -- CHAPTER 9. Selling Sex in Afghanistan: Portraits of Sex Workers in Kabul -- CHAPTER 10. Between Choice and Force: Marriage Practices in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 11. The Hidden War against Women: Health Care in Afghanistan -- CHAPTER 12. Challenges to Cripple the Spirit: A Midwife's Experiences -- CHAPTER 13. Women with Disabilities: Recollections from Across the Decades -- CHAPTER 14. A Question of Access: Women and Food Security -- CHAPTER 15. Psychological Impacts of War: Human Rights and Mental Health -- CHAPTER 16. Mending Afghanistan Stitch by Stitch: How Traditional Crafts and Social Organization Advance Afghan Women -- CHAPTER 17. Rural Women's Livelihood: Their Position in the Agrarian Economy -- CHAPTER 18. Chadari Politics Translating Perceptions into Policy and Practice -- CHAPTER 19. When the Picture Does Not Fit the Frame: Engaging Afghan Men in Women's Empowerment -- CHAPTER 20. Empowering Women through Education: Recipe for Success -- CHAPTER 21. From Both Sides of the Mic: Women and the Media -- CHAPTER 22. Painting Their Way into the Public World: Women and the Visual Arts -- CHAPTER 23. A Hidden Discourse: Afghanistan's Women Poets -- CHAPTER 24. Hopes and Dreams: Interviews with Young Afghans -- Selected Bibliography -- About the Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818777003321 |
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Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface |
Autore | Goldstein Donna M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/68/098153 |
Collana | California Series in Public Anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Marginality, Social - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Poor - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Sex - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro |
Soggetto non controllato |
activism
black humor black humour brazil brazilian history brazilian society civic class cultural anthropology culture of poverty economic desperation engaging ethnicity ethnography historical history of brazil history joking latin america laughter minority studies page turner political politics postcolonial poverty race realistic retrospective rio de janeiro social abandonment social issues social justice social science sociology south america urban poverty urban shantytowns urbanism violence |
ISBN | 0-520-95541-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Domination. Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- Chapter 4. No Time for Childhood -- Chapter 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- Chapter 7. What's So Funny about Rape? -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787691903321 |
Goldstein Donna M
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Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface |
Autore | Goldstein Donna M |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (401 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.5/68/098153 |
Collana | California Series in Public Anthropology |
Soggetto topico |
Marginality, Social - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro
Poor - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro Sex - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro |
Soggetto non controllato |
activism
black humor black humour brazil brazilian history brazilian society civic class cultural anthropology culture of poverty economic desperation engaging ethnicity ethnography historical history of brazil history joking latin america laughter minority studies page turner political politics postcolonial poverty race realistic retrospective rio de janeiro social abandonment social issues social justice social science sociology south america urban poverty urban shantytowns urbanism violence |
ISBN | 0-520-95541-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Domination. Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- Chapter 4. No Time for Childhood -- Chapter 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- Chapter 7. What's So Funny about Rape? -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910822027503321 |
Goldstein Donna M
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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
Autore | Das Veena |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.60954 |
Collana | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
Soggetto topico |
Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India Suffering - India Violence - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
1947
1984 anthropologists anthropology case studies collective violence contemporary thought critical analysis ethnographers ethnography fieldwork gender studies gendered violence historical history of violence human condition india indira gandhi interdisciplinary massacre of sikhs men and women nonfiction partition of india philosophical political theory sectarian conflict social science understanding violence violent cultures violent societies |
ISBN |
9786612358401
1-282-35840-5 0-520-93953-0 1-4294-1914-8 1-60129-532-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784412003321 |
Das Veena
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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Life and words [[electronic resource] ] : violence and the descent into the ordinary / / Veena Das ; foreword by Stanley Cavell |
Autore | Das Veena |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 303.60954 |
Collana | A Philip E. Lilienthal book in Asian studies |
Soggetto topico |
Riots - India - History - 20th century
Sikhs - Crimes against - India Suffering - India Violence - India |
Soggetto non controllato |
1947
1984 anthropologists anthropology case studies collective violence contemporary thought critical analysis ethnographers ethnography fieldwork gender studies gendered violence historical history of violence human condition india indira gandhi interdisciplinary massacre of sikhs men and women nonfiction partition of india philosophical political theory sectarian conflict social science understanding violence violent cultures violent societies |
ISBN |
9786612358401
1-282-35840-5 0-520-93953-0 1-4294-1914-8 1-60129-532-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. The Event and the Everyday -- 2. The Figure of the Abducted Woman: The Citizen as Sexed -- 3. Language and Body: Transactions in the Construction of Pain -- 4. The Act of Witnessing: Violence, Gender, and Subjectivity -- 5. Boundaries, Violence, and the Work of Time -- 6. Thinking of Time and Subjectivity -- 7. In the Region of Rumor -- 8. The Force of the Local -- 9. The Signature of the State: The Paradox of Illegibility -- 10. Three Portraits of Grief and Mourning -- 11. Revisiting Trauma, Testimony, and Political Community -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827297903321 |
Das Veena
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2007 | ||
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The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader |
Autore | Nader Laura |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 340/.115 |
Soggetto topico | Law and anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
american democracy anthropology business corporations civic corporate interests democracy dispute resolution economic justice globalization lawyers legal anthropologists legal anthropology legal history legal issues legislation mediation modern law neoliberal ideology plaintiffs role political activists power of the law role of the law social activists social change social justice social science united states us judicial system |
ISBN |
0-520-93618-3
1-59734-713-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document -- 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists -- 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary -- 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780378603321 |
Nader Laura
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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The life of the law [[electronic resource] ] : anthropological projects / / Laura Nader |
Autore | Nader Laura |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Disciplina | 340/.115 |
Soggetto topico | Law and anthropology |
Soggetto non controllato |
20th century
american democracy anthropology business corporations civic corporate interests democracy dispute resolution economic justice globalization lawyers legal anthropologists legal anthropology legal history legal issues legislation mediation modern law neoliberal ideology plaintiffs role political activists power of the law role of the law social activists social change social justice social science united states us judicial system |
ISBN |
0-520-93618-3
1-59734-713-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evolving an Ethnography of Law: A Personal Document -- 2. Lawyers and Anthropologists -- 3. Hegemonic Processes in Law: Colonial to Contemporary -- 4. The Plaintiff: A User Theory -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808766103321 |
Nader Laura
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic |
Autore | Jokic Zeljko |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.898/92087 |
Soggetto topico |
Yanomamo Indians - Religion
Yanomamo mythology Shamanism - 87 (Venezuela and Colombia) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient phenomenon
anthropology biomedicine cosmology cultural change disease dreams engaging ethnographic material fieldwork firsthand experiential involvement healing holographic principle illness indigenous people indigenous studies initiatory ordeal native religions origin myths page turner regional study shamanism shamanistic activities social science sociology of religion spirit helpers spiritual unexplained phenomena villages yanomami shamanism |
ISBN | 1-78238-818-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- Postscript. Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797894803321 |
Jokic Zeljko
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The living ancestors : shamanism, cosmos and culture change among the Yanomami of the upper Orinoco / / by Zeljko Jokic |
Autore | Jokic Zeljko |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York ; ; Oxford : , : Berghahn Books, , 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (296 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.898/92087 |
Soggetto topico |
Yanomamo Indians - Religion
Yanomamo mythology Shamanism - 87 (Venezuela and Colombia) |
Soggetto non controllato |
ancient phenomenon
anthropology biomedicine cosmology cultural change disease dreams engaging ethnographic material fieldwork firsthand experiential involvement healing holographic principle illness indigenous people indigenous studies initiatory ordeal native religions origin myths page turner regional study shamanism shamanistic activities social science sociology of religion spirit helpers spiritual unexplained phenomena villages yanomami shamanism |
ISBN | 1-78238-818-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- The master shapori Ruweweriwë and his disciple Arawë singing in front of the ceremonial mast – Mountain of the ancestral hekura spirits -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Life on Top of the Old Sky: Yanomami Habitat, Ethnographic Setting and Local Histories -- Chapter 2. Inside the Boa’s Abdomen: The Yanomami Cosmos -- Chapter 3. Hekura, the Body and Illness -- Chapter 4. Hekuraprai: Corporeal Cosmogenesis -- Chapter 5. Oneiric Encounters -- Chapter 6. Shamanic Battlefield: The Pendulum of Life and Death -- Chapter 7. Two Pathways to Finding a Cure: Biomedical and Shamanic Treatment in the Life of Yanomami -- Chapter 8. Return of the Ancestors: The All-pervading Shawara, the End of the World and the Beginning of a New Epoch -- Postscript. Recent Developments -- Glossary of Yanomami Terms -- Bibliography -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808184503321 |
Jokic Zeljko
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