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Impeccably researched and masterfully written this book explains how and why humanity is driving itself off the cliff Dahr Jamail author The End of Ice Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power tool making ability language social complexity and the ability to harness energy sources most significantly fossil fuels It asks whether we have at this point overpowered natural and social systems and if we have what we can do about it Has Homo sapiens one species among millions become powerful enough to threaten a mass extinction and disrupt the Earth s climate Why have we developed so many ways of oppressing one another Can we change our relationship with power to avert ecological catastrophe reduce social inequality and stave off collapse These questions and their answers will determine our fate

Sacred Ecology examines bodies of knowledge held by indigenous and other rural peoples around the world and asks how we can learn from this knowledge and ways of knowing Berkes explores the importance of local and indigenous knowledge as a complement to scientific ecology and its cultural and political significance for indigenous groups themselves With updates of relevant links for further learning and over 180 new references the fourth edition gives increased voice to indigenous authors and reflects the remarkable increase in published local observations of climate change

El grosor del polvo. Cultura popular en el ámbito hispánico reúne diez artículos que abordan formas narrativas tradicionales y manifestaciones actuales de la cultura, en un intento de mostrar algunos de los temas que se perfilan como centrales en la produccion cultural hispanica. Mediante una serie ...

Esta obra es un acercamiento a la filosofía de Karol Wojtyla. El autor parte de la experiencia como concepto clave del pensamiento de Wojtyla. Tal concepto pretende mostrar la relación cognoscitiva directa que permite acercarse a la persona y la accion como realidad dinamica. Wojtyla parte del h...

Tan bell i tan feréstec. Tan bell que, des que vam aprendre a domesticar-lo, ens ha permès desenvolupar tècniques artístiques i culinàries que ens han fet la vida més bonica. Tan feréstec que, sigui

Los grupos basados en el parentesco han constituido en las culturas preindustriales ‹que cubren todavía la mayor parte de la superficie de nuestro planeta‹ la clave de arco de la estructura social. A

¿Qué pasa con la aceleración del mundo de hoy? ¿Qué rumbo llevan los acontecimientos? ¿Qué haremos frente a los cambios de valores, significados y comportamientos? ¿Cómo asumiremos las transformaciones economicas y tecnologicas? ¿Significan algo las aspiraciones de las sociedades y los individuos en la mecanica de los acontecimientos actuales?Todos nos hacemos, ahora mas que nunca, estas preguntas y muchas mas. En este libro, a traves de diez cartas, el autor, Silo, nos ofrece muchas de sus repuestas.Frente a la crisis social y personal nos propone otro tipo de relacion entre las personas, hace hincapie en la intencionalidad humana (saber si se quiere vivir y en que condiciones hacerlo), reivindica la democracia real y el humanismo universalista. Plantea la relacion entre capital y trabajo, el rol de las Fuerzas Armadas en las sociedades de hoy, los procesos revolucionarios y la no violencia activa y los derechos humanos entre otros muchos temas de la mayor actualidad.El lector tiene en sus manos un libro que le sorprendera tanto por su sencillez como por su profundidad. El autor da un mensaje optimista a la vez que aporta las complejas claves historicas que nos han llevado al momento actual.

From the bestselling author of Awakenings The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Musicophilia

La consanguinidad es un fenómeno que en Occidente percibimos como algo marginal asociado a la deformidad física y moral. Pero ¿es realmente tan raro o perjudicial? Y si fuese dañino, ¿cómo se expresaria ese mal? ¿Quien lo haria? ¿Hasta que punto es perniciosa la relacion consanguinea? Estas paginas ofrecen respuestas desde una perspectiva genetica en buena medida sobre la base de las propias investigaciones de los autores, conscientes, con todo, de que la complejidad del tema trasciende el ambito estrictamente cientifico. Estudiar el rostro de la consanguinidad (y el rostro consanguineo) de manera transversal, sin ignorar su dimension historica, antropologica, filosofica, estetica, religiosa, cultural , exige enfrentarse a una naturaleza enigmatica, despiadada y extraña, como el rostro de la misma esfinge, gravido felino de sonrisa equivoca.

La tensión básica de la conciencia humana es el temor a la muerte personal y a la extinción de mi gente o mi pueblo. Los intentos de la cultura para resolver ese temor radical, están plasmados en sus creencias, su arte, su modo de organización y producción, su religiosidad y en sus mitos. Aquí se estudian dos mitos culturales: El hebreo de Abraham en que la trascendencia se resuelve a través de la descendencia, y el griego de Deméter, en que la trascendencia se resuelve a través de la unión de los principios generadores de la vida. Tanto el sacrificio de Isaac en el mito judío, como el secuestro de Perséfone en el mito helénico, sirven de base para comprender el nudo de sufrimiento de la culpa, y el temor al rechazo del ser que amo, como conflicto personal y cultural

This book argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources

How stigma derails well intentioned public health efforts creating suffering and worsening inequalities 2020 Winner Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R Ember Book Prize Shortlisted for the British Sociological Association s Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness Book PrizeStigma is a dehumanizing process where shaming and blaming are embedded in our beliefs about who does and does not have value within society In Lazy Crazy and Disgusting medical anthropologists Alexandra Brewis and Amber Wutich explore a darker side of public health that well intentioned public health campaigns can create new and damaging stigma even when they are otherwise successful Brewis and Wutich present a novel synthetic argument about how stigmas act as a massive driver of global disease and suffering killing or sickening billions every year They focus on three of the most complex difficult to fix global health efforts bringing sanitation to all treating mental illness and preventing obesity They explain how and why humans so readily stigmatize how this derails ongoing public health efforts and why this process invariably hurts people who are already at risk They also explore how new stigmas enter global health so easily and consider why destigmatiza

The anthropologist Jonah Lipton was in Freetown Sierra Leone when the largest Ebola outbreak in history hit In the Time of Ebola is his account of the epidemic centering on the residents of a neighborhood swept up in the emergency Lipton follows the lives of young men and women over a period of seven years revealing what the epidemic looked like on the ground He explores its causes impacts and legacies in a place where crisis might be considered the norm not the exception The emergency was disruptive and challenging not least due to the short term international response Yet for many youths Ebola was a time of unusual clarity on the ambiguities around care work and coming of age experienced in a context of vast economic and social inequalities Lipton shows how residents of this historically cosmopolitan West African city drew on centuries old frameworks for managing foreign intervention In the Time of Ebola questions dominant framings of crisis and offers ways of theorizing researching and responding to emergencies that make the home the family and ordinary life their starting point

Two neuroscientists trace a sweeping new vision of consciousness across eighteen increasingly intelligent minds from microbes to humankind and beyond

In this stunningly original book Richard Wrangham argues that it was cooking that caused the extraordinary transformation of our ancestors from apelike beings to Homo erectus At the heart of Catching Fire lies an explosive new idea the habit of eating cooked rather than raw food permitted the digestive tract to shrink and the human brain to grow helped structure human society and created the male female division of labour As our ancestors adapted to using fire humans emerged as the cooking apes Covering everything from food labelling and overweight pets to raw food faddists Catching Fire offers a startlingly original argument about how we came to be the social intelligent and sexual species we are today This notion is surprising fresh and in the hands of Richard Wrangham utterly persuasive Big new ideas do not come along often in evolution these days but this is one Matt Ridley author of Genome

In China the weather has changed Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather focusing on intersections among statecraft landscape atmosphere and society Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing and beyond this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making what would it mean to understand the rise of China literally as the country itself rises into the air