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Book Power   Its Disguises

Download or read book Power Its Disguises written by John Gledhill and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological perspectives on politics.

Book Power and Its Disguises

Download or read book Power and Its Disguises written by John Gledhill and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A very good introduction to political anthropology for any student of power and politics.' Journal of Peace Research

Book Power And Its Disguises   Second Edition

Download or read book Power And Its Disguises Second Edition written by John Gledhill and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 2000-07-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this fully updated edition of Power and Its Disguises, John Gledhill explores both the complexities of local situations and the power relations that shape the global order. He shows how historically informed anthropological perspectives can contribute to debates about democratisation by incorporating a ‘view from below’ and revealing forces that shape power relations behind the formal facade of state institutions. Examples are drawn from Brazil, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Guatemala, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Peru, Sierra Leone, South Africa and Sri Lanka, amongst others.

Book Power and its Disguises

Download or read book Power and its Disguises written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Woman Between Two Worlds

    Book Details:
  • Author : Judith V. Olmstead
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780252065873
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Woman Between Two Worlds written by Judith V. Olmstead and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamic, opinionated, gritty, and charismatic, Chimate Chumbalo successfully navigated male-dominated factional politics, experimenting with different strategies to create for her people the society that she wanted for herself.

Book Power   Its Disguises

Download or read book Power Its Disguises written by John Gledhill and published by Pluto Press (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rethinking of popular political movements, this book looks at new, emerging, mass visions and analyses their impact and potential in new ways.

Book The Disguises of the Demon

Download or read book The Disguises of the Demon written by Gail Hinich Sutherland and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1991-07-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the most ancient deities of South Asia, the yaksha straddle the boundaries between popular and textual traditions in both Hinduism and Buddhism and both benevolent and malevolent facets. As a figure of material plenty, the yaksis epitomized as Kubera, god of wealth and king of the yaks In demonic guise, the yaksis related to a large family of demonic and quasi-demonic beings, such as nagas, gandharvas, raks, and the man-eating pisaacas. Translating and interpreting texts and passages from the Vedic literature, the Hindu epics, the Puranas, Kālidāsa's Meghadūta, and the Buddhist Jātaka Tales, Sutherland traces the development and transformation of the elusive yaksfrom an early identification with the impersonal absolute itself to a progressively more demonic and diminished terrestrial characterization. Her investigation is set within the framework of a larger inquiry into the nature of evil, misfortune, and causation in Indian myth and religion.

Book Evil in All Its Disguises

Download or read book Evil in All Its Disguises written by Hilary Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling new tale by the winner of the Anthony Award

Book The 48 Laws of Power

    Book Details:
  • Author : Robert Greene
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2023-10-31
  • ISBN : 0670881465
  • Pages : 481 pages

Download or read book The 48 Laws of Power written by Robert Greene and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive, this multi-million-copy New York Times bestseller is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control – from the author of The Laws of Human Nature. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. Some laws teach the need for prudence (“Law 1: Never Outshine the Master”), others teach the value of confidence (“Law 28: Enter Action with Boldness”), and many recommend absolute self-preservation (“Law 15: Crush Your Enemy Totally”). Every law, though, has one thing in common: an interest in total domination. In a bold and arresting two-color package, The 48 Laws of Power is ideal whether your aim is conquest, self-defense, or simply to understand the rules of the game.

Book The Little Witch s Black Magic Book of Disguises

Download or read book The Little Witch s Black Magic Book of Disguises written by Linda Glovach and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1973 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directions for making such disguises as Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, a ski accident, and various holiday costumes requiring inexpensive materials and no sewing.

Book On the Disguises of Nature  being an inquiry into the laws which regulate external form and colour in plants and animals     From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal

Download or read book On the Disguises of Nature being an inquiry into the laws which regulate external form and colour in plants and animals From the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal written by Andrew Murray and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book People and Politics in France  1848   1870

Download or read book People and Politics in France 1848 1870 written by Roger Price and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 489 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2004 book is about politicisation and political choice in the aftermath of the February Revolution of 1848, and the emergence of democracy in France. The introduction of male suffrage both encouraged expectations of social transformation and aroused intense fear. In these circumstances the election of Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte as President of the Republic - and his subsequent coup d'état - were the essential features of a counter-revolutionary process which involved the creation of a system of democracy as the basis of regime legitimacy and as a prelude to greater liberalisation. The state positively encouraged the act of voting. But what did it mean? How did people perceive politics? How did communities and groups participate in political activity? These and many other questions concern the relationships between local issues and personalities, and the national political culture, all of which impinged on communities increasingly as a result of substantial social and political change.

Book Arguing With Anthropology

Download or read book Arguing With Anthropology written by Karen Sykes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing with Anthropology is a fresh and wholly original guide to key elements in anthropology, which teaches the ability to think, write and argue critically. Using the classic 'question of the gift' as a master-issue for discussion, and drawing on a rich variety of Pacific and global ethnography, it provides a unique course in methods, aims, knowledge, and understanding. The book's highly original hypothetical approach takes gift-theory - the science of obligation and reciprocity - as the paradigm for a virtual enquiry which explores how the anthropological discipline has evolved historically, how it is applied in practice and how it can be argued with critically. By asking students to participate in projected situations and dilemmas, and in arguments about the form and nature of enquiry, it offers working practice of dealing with the obstacles and choices involved in anthropological study. * From an expert teacher whose methods are tried and tested * Comprehensive and fun course ideal for intermediate-level students * Clearly defines the functions of anthropology, and its key theories and arguments * Effectively teaches core study skills for exam success and progressive learning.

Book Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law

Download or read book Criminological Approaches to International Criminal Law written by Ilias Bantekas and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to what motivates international crimes and how these are structured and investigated in theory and practice.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Leadership written by R. A. W. Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 801 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political leadership has returned to the forefront of research in political science in recent years, after several years of neglect. This Handbook provides a broad-ranging and cohesive examination of the study of political leadership.

Book Global Media Studies

Download or read book Global Media Studies written by Marwan Kraidy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-02-24 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasising the connection of globalisation to local culture, this collection considers the diversity of modes of reception, reception contexts, uses of media content, and the performative and creative relationships that audiences develop.

Book Beyond the State in Rural Uganda

Download or read book Beyond the State in Rural Uganda written by Ben Jones and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative study, Ben Jones argues that scholars too often assume that the state is the most important force behind change in local political communities in Africa. Studies look to the state, and to the impact of government reforms, as ways of understanding processes of development and change. Using the example of Uganda, regarded as one of Africa's few "e;success stories"e;, Jones chronicles the insignificance of the state and the marginal impact of Western development agencies. Extensive ethnographic fieldwork in a Ugandan village reveals that it is churches, the village court, and organizations based on family and kinships obligations that represent the most significant sites of innovation and social transformation.Groundbreaking and critical in turn, Beyond the State offers a new anthropological perspective on how to think about processes of social and political change in poorer parts of the world. It should appeal to anyone interested in African development.