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The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor

  Author(s): Sharryn Kasmir (editor), Lesley Gill (editor) Series: Routledge Anthropology Handbooks Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022 ISBN: 036774550X,9780367745509 The Routledge Handbook of the Anthropology of Labor offers a cross-cultural examination of labor around the world and presents the breadth of a growing and vital subfield of anthropology. As we enter a new crisis-ridden age, some laboring people are protected, while others face impoverishment and death, as they work in unsafe conditions, migrate to gain livelihoods, languish in the unwaged sector, and become targets of law enforcement. The contributions to this volume address questions surrounding the categorization and visibility of work, the relationship of labor to the state, and how divisions of labor map onto racial, gendered, sexual, and national inequalities. In addition to the emotional dimensions and subjectivities of labor, the book also examines how laborers can articulate common experiences and identitie...
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Kant on the Human Animal: Anthropology, Ethics, Race

  Author(s): David Baumeister Publisher: Northwestern University Press, Year: 2022 ISBN: 0810144670,9780810144675 While Immanuel Kant’s account of human reason is well known and celebrated, his account of human animality ( Thierheit ) is virtually unknown. Animality and reason, as pillars of Kant’s vision of human nature, are original and ineradicable. And yet, the relation between them is fraught: at times tense and violent, at other times complementary, even harmonious.  Kant on the Human Animal  offers the first systematic analysis of this central but neglected dimension of Kant’s philosophy.   David Baumeister tracks four decades of Kant’s intellectual development, surveying works published in Kant’s lifetime along with posthumously published notes and student lecture transcripts. They show the crucial role that animality plays in many previously unconnected areas of Kant’s thought, such as his account of the human’s originally quadrupedal posture, his theory of ...

Re-creating Anthropology: Sociality, Matter, and the Imagination

  Author(s): David N. Gellner (editor), Dolores P. Martinez (editor) Series: ASA Monographs Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022 ISBN: 1032131888,9781032131887 This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination. It explores the imagination in its social contexts, how it is put to work, and how, in its embodied and material forms, it works in practice. The chapters provide detailed case studies, including film-making in Egypt; spirit-possession/exorcism in Italy; Theosophy and the production of knowledge about UFOs; the role of mistakes or glitches in public performances; humans' varying relationships to the environment; post-coloniality, time, and crisis in anthropology; and artistic creativity.

Applying Anthropology to General Education: Reshaping Colleges and Universities for the 21st Century

  Author(s): Jennifer R. Wies (editor), Hillary J. Haldane (editor) Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022 ISBN: 036764214X,9780367642143 The current higher education policy and practice landscape is simultane-ously marked by uncertainty and hope, and nowhere are these tensions more present than in discussions and actions around general education. This volume uses an anthropological approach to contemplate ways of re-imagining general education for the 21st century and how faculty, teach-ers, administrators, and others can transform the educational endeavor to be holistic, comprehensive, and aligned with the needs of people and the planet in the decades to come. Included are analyses of general education concepts such as diversity, case studies of general education and con-necting curricula, opportunities for faculty development, unique general education student populations, assessment strategies, and philosophical/ pedagogical challenges. Contributors make the case that far from recedin...

Negotiating the Pandemic: Cultural, National, and Individual Constructions of Covid-19

  Author(s): Inayat Ali (editor), Robbie Davis-Floyd (editor) Series: Routledge Studies in Health and Medical Anthropology Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022 ISBN: 1032028408,9781032028408 This book centers on negotiations around cultural, governmental, and individual constructions of COVID-19. It considers how the coronavirus pandemic has been negotiated in different cultures and countries, with the final part of the volume focusing on South Asia and Pakistan in particular. The chapters include auto-ethnographic accounts and ethnographic explorations that reflect upon experiences of living with the pandemic and its implications for all areas of life. The book explicates people’s dealings with COVID-19 at various levels, situates the spread of rumors, conspiracy theories, and new social rituals within micro- and/or macro-contexts, and describes the interplay between the virus and various institutionalized forms of inequalities and structural vulnerabilities. Bringing together a ...

T. F. Torrance’s Christological Anthropology: Discerning Humanity in Christ

  Author(s): Christopher G. Woznicki Series: Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies Publisher: Routledge, Year: 2022 ISBN: 1032201347,9781032201344 This book demonstrates the promise of Christology for developing Scottish theologian T. F. Torrance's theological anthropology. T. F. Torrance's Christological Anthropology:  Discerning Humanity in Christ  engages with several key themes in Torrance's theological anthropology and considers how each one of these topics--anthropological method, the metaphysics of human nature, the  imago Dei , personhood, vocation, human destiny--can be further developed in light of Christ. Christopher Woznicki argues that Christology not only holds promise for the task of developing Torrance's insights on humanity but also for developing a constructive account of humanity. The volume is valuable reading for scholars of T. F. Torrance's theology and for those who are interested in the role of Christology...

The Palgrave Handbook of the Anthropology of Technology

  Author(s): Maja Hojer Bruun (editor), Ayo Wahlberg (editor), Rachel Douglas-Jones (editor), Cathrine Hasse (editor), Klaus Hoeyer (editor), Dorthe Brogård Kristensen (editor), Brit Ross Winthereik (editor) Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2022 ISBN: 9811670838,9789811670831 This Handbook offers an overview of the thriving and diverse field of anthropological studies of technology. It features 39 original chapters, each reviewing the state of the art of current research and enlivening the field of study through ethnographic analysis of human-technology interfaces, forms of social organisation, technological practices and/or systems of belief and meaning in different parts of the world. The Handbook is organised around some of the most important characteristics of anthropological studies of technology today: the diverse knowledge practices that technologies involve and on which they depend; the communities, collectives, and categories that emerge around technologies; anthropolo...