Trance and Transfiguration in Rock Art and Literature (Paperback, 1)

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction: Between Visionary and Mystical Experiences

Trance and Transfiguration in Rock Art and Literature

A World without Selves: A Reply to Richard Alan Northover’s Lecture

John Taylor (1620) and the Shakespeare-Hemp-Cannabis Hypothesis: Was the “Noted Weed” a Source of Inspiration for Creativity (“Invention”)?

Sceptical Reflections on Hallucinogens and Other Worlds

Conclusion: Trance, Healing and Transgression

Additional Material: Five Blogs and a Critical Reading 

Critical Diaries

Blog 1: No 116 ? Where’s the Zol in Our Literature?

Ethicalanimal

Blog 2: Newgrange, Ireland: Neolithic Spirituality

Blog 3: Otherworldly Termites

Blog 4: Embodied Metaphors in Shamanic Art

Blog 5: The Axis Mundi, Shamanism and Trance States

Critical Reading

Altered States of Consciousness in Kim Stanley Robinson’s Shaman (2013)

Index

Cancer and Care in Cambodia Hospitals (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction??1. The ostentatious hospital??2. The hospital, vestige of the past??3. The domestic hospital??4. Thaumaturge money? 5. Medical DIY? 6. Divergent pain management? 7. Doctor, Family, Patient? 8. Conclusion? 9. Afterword

Narrating Trans in Socialist and Post-Socialist Poland (Hardcover, 1)

?01. Introduction 02. Moral genitals 03. The use of biography 04. Diagnosing society 05. Transitions 06. Creating a counterpublic 07. Conclusions.

Revolt Against the Dead (Paperback, 1)

1. Introduction? 2. The Regional Setting? 3. Studying the Aguacatecs? 4. Introduction to Aguacatan? 5. Traditional Aguacatan? 6. The Traditional Economy and its Transformation? 7. The Revolt Against the Dead? 8. The New Social Order? 9. Conclusion? 10. Epilogue??

Anthropology and the Riddle of the Sphinx (Paperback, 1)

List of Contributors.? Preface.? 1. The Riddled Course: Theories of Age and its Transformations Paul Spencer? 2. A Dangerous Age: From Boy to Young Man in Red Xhosa Youth Organisations Philip Mayer and Iona Mayer? 3. The Social Process of Adolescence in a Therapeutic Community Iain Edgar? 4. Coming of Age Among Jews: Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah Ceremonies Leonard Mars??5. Interpreting Life Texts and Negotiating Life Courses: Youth, Ethnicity and Culture Paul Yates? 6. The Notion of Adulthood in Rural Soviet Georgian Society Tamara Dragadze? 7. Metaphors the Chinese Age By Stuart Thompson? 8. Growing Old Gracefully: Physical, Social and Spiritual Transformations in Venda Society, 1956?66 John Blacking? 9. Dimensions of Adulthood in Britain: Long-term Unemployment and Mental Handicap Richard Jenkins? 10. The Social Construction of Parenthood in the People’s Republic of China Elisabeth Croll? 11. Old Master, Young Master: Retirement on Finnish Farms Ray Abrahams? 12. Strategies for Old Age Among the Berti of the Sudan Ladislav Holy? 13. Dimensions of Change: Three Studies of the Construction of Ageing Haim Hazan? 14. Clubs for le Troisieme Age: Communitas or Conflict Judith Okely.? Name Index.? Subject Index.

Southeastern Indigenous Australian Art as a Practice of Reclamation (Hardcover, 1)

Introduction: Sensing Narrm, Seeing Melbourne 1. River Reeds in the Maribyrnong River 2. Iuk/Eels Below Our Feet 3. “Into the Zone” 4. Working with Roadkill 5. Dreaming. Conclusion: Resistance (00′28)

Spaces of Solidarity : Karen Activism in the Thailand-Burma Borderlands (Paperback)

Breathing Hearts : Sufism, Healing, and Anti-Muslim Racism in Germany (Paperback)

An Anthropology of Intellectual Exchange : Interactions, Transactions and Ethics in Asia and Beyond (Paperback)

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Religion, Space and Place (Hardcover)

Perform or Else : From Discipline to Performance (Paperback, 2 ed)

Acknowledgments; Orientations; Preface to 25^th Anniversary Edition -Jon McKenzie; A User’s Guide to Perform or Else?- Tim Edkins; The Making of Perform or Else -?Tim Edkins and Jon McKenzie; Introduction: Challenges; PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS;?1. The Efficacy of Cultural Performance;?2. The Efficiency of Organizational Performance;?3. The Effectiveness of Technological Performance; PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE;?4. Challenger Lecture Machine;?5. Challenging Forth: The Power of Performance; 6. Professor Challenger and the Performance Stratum; PART III. PERFUMANCE;?7. Professor Challenger and the Disintegration Machine;?8. The Catachristening of HMS Challenger; 9. Professor Rutherford and Gay Sci Fi; 10. Jane Challenger, Disastronaut; 11. Sequel: The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3dj3r; Bibliography; Index

Perform or Else : From Discipline to Performance (Hardcover, 2 ed)

Acknowledgments; Orientations; Preface to 25^th Anniversary Edition -Jon McKenzie; A User’s Guide to Perform or Else?- Tim Edkins; The Making of Perform or Else -?Tim Edkins and Jon McKenzie; Introduction: Challenges; PART I. PERFORMANCE PARADIGMS;?1. The Efficacy of Cultural Performance;?2. The Efficiency of Organizational Performance;?3. The Effectiveness of Technological Performance; PART II. THE AGE OF GLOBAL PERFORMANCE;?4. Challenger Lecture Machine;?5. Challenging Forth: The Power of Performance; 6. Professor Challenger and the Performance Stratum; PART III. PERFUMANCE;?7. Professor Challenger and the Disintegration Machine;?8. The Catachristening of HMS Challenger; 9. Professor Rutherford and Gay Sci Fi; 10. Jane Challenger, Disastronaut; 11. Sequel: The Revelations of Dr. Kx4l3dj3r; Bibliography; Index

Coloniality in Gender and Development : Proposing an Epistemology of Disagreement (Hardcover)

Introduction: The Coloniality in Gender and Development Theory and Practice??1: The Global Dominance of a Western Euro-North American Feminist Epistemology and Gender Metaphysics??2: The Concept of Epistemic Communities and its Applicability to the Gender and Development sector??3: The Formation of a GAD Epistemic Community and its Consolidation through International Standard-setting, Paradigm-making and Co-option of Divergent Views? 4: Mainstreaming hegemonic GAD discourse through research, publishing and consultancy regimes: The role of ‘knowledge brokering’ institutions??5: The Role of State-level and Grassroots Actors and Their Links to the Hegemonic GAD Apparatus? 6: The Need for an Ethics and Epistemology of Disagreement: a Way forward for a Highly Contested GAD Sector??Conclusion

A Philosophy of Sweetness : Aesthetics in the Age of Sugarization (Hardcover)

Introduction??Part 1: An Aesthetic Genealogy of Sweetness??1. Sweet Taste? 2. Polysemic Sweetness??Part 2: On the Blurring Boundaries Between Art and Aesthetics??3. Can Pastry Be Art?? 4. Sweet Art? 5. Aesthetic Expression??Part 3: The Stickiness of Sweetness??6. Sweetish? 7. The Age of Sugarization? Conclusive Remarks: Sweetness as an Aesth-ethic Education

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For Freedom and Dignity : Historical Agency and Class Structure in the Coalfields of NSW (Hardcover)

1. Introduction Part 1 ? Dependence 2. The dependence of wage-labourers 3. Wage-labour and the mines 4. Miners, wage-labour and slave-labour Part 2 ? Opposition: the struggle to be human 5. The challenge to the miners’ humanity 6. The larrikin mode of class struggle 7. The respectable mode of class struggle 8. Reflections on the theory of class struggle Part 3 ?Opposition: violence and organisation 9. The significance of violence 10. Towards a theory of group practice 11. Terror and solidarity in the Coalfields Part 4 ? Opposition and dependence 12. The dull compulsion of economic relations 13. Conclusion: Society as unmastered history Appendix 1: Organisations in the Kurri ? Abermain district, 1927 ? 1930 Appendix 2: Characteristics of ALP branches in the Kurri ? Abermain district, 1950 ? 1981 Appendix 3: A glossary of mining and political terms

e-Topia : Localizing the Digital (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Technology, Power and Storytelling??2.?Infrastructure??3.?Social Media and Information Wars??4.?Digital Assets, Distributed Ledgers??5.?E-governance and Unique ID in India??6.?China’s Technopolitical Trajectory??7.?The Shock and Awe of Open AI??8.?The Digital, the Real and the Virtual

Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology : An Introduction (Hardcover)

1. Introduction??2. Death and Decay??3. Into the Field: Search??4. Into the Field: Recovery??5. Into the Lab: Osteoprofiling??6. Into the Lab: Disease and Trauma??7. Into the Lab: Biomolecular Analysis??8. Challenging Contexts: Now and in the Future??9. Conclusions

Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology : An Introduction (Paperback)

1. Introduction??2. Death and Decay??3. Into the Field: Search??4. Into the Field: Recovery??5. Into the Lab: Osteoprofiling??6. Into the Lab: Disease and Trauma??7. Into the Lab: Biomolecular Analysis??8. Challenging Contexts: Now and in the Future??9. Conclusions

The Energy Permacrisis : How Fossil Capitalism Produces System Failures and New Energy Poverty (Paperback)

1. Introduction: Days of Miracles and Plunder? Part I: Petro-Financialization?(2007-2015)?2. Car Crash: Oil Price, Automobility and the 2008 Financial Crisis 3. Gaslighting: The Financialized Fragility of Shale Gas (and Oil)? Part II: Energetic Kleptocracy?(2011-2019) 4.?Energy “Theft” as Resistance: Metabolic Disorders of the Greek Debt Crisis 5. Disempowered: Tracking the Fossil Debt behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout? Part III: Post-pandemic Energy Crises?(2020 -2025) 6.?When Texas Freezes Over: Legacies of Deregulation and Un-Natural Gas 7.?Europe’s Energy Permacrisis ? 2022 and its Sequelae 8. Short Circuit: LNG, Circular Debt and the Post-Pandemic Polycrisis??Part IV: Energy Weapon (2022 -2026) 9.?Carbon Sabotage: Fossil (In)Tensions behind Russia’s War in Ukraine?10. Unholy Land:?Gaza’s Forbidden Gas and Metabolic Siege 11. The Big One: War in Iran Crimps the Global Fuel Line? Anti-Conclusion 12.?To Fix Climate, We Have to Fix Energy

The Energy Permacrisis : How Fossil Capitalism Produces System Failures and New Energy Poverty (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Days of Miracles and Plunder? Part I: Petro-Financialization?(2007-2015)?2. Car Crash: Oil Price, Automobility and the 2008 Financial Crisis 3. Gaslighting: The Financialized Fragility of Shale Gas (and Oil)? Part II: Energetic Kleptocracy?(2011-2019) 4.?Energy “Theft” as Resistance: Metabolic Disorders of the Greek Debt Crisis 5. Disempowered: Tracking the Fossil Debt behind Puerto Rico’s Long Blackout? Part III: Post-pandemic Energy Crises?(2020 -2025) 6.?When Texas Freezes Over: Legacies of Deregulation and Un-Natural Gas 7.?Europe’s Energy Permacrisis ? 2022 and its Sequelae 8. Short Circuit: LNG, Circular Debt and the Post-Pandemic Polycrisis??Part IV: Energy Weapon (2022 -2026) 9.?Carbon Sabotage: Fossil (In)Tensions behind Russia’s War in Ukraine?10. Unholy Land:?Gaza’s Forbidden Gas and Metabolic Siege 11. The Big One: War in Iran Crimps the Global Fuel Line? Anti-Conclusion 12.?To Fix Climate, We Have to Fix Energy

Atlantic Perspectives : Places, Spirits and Heritage (Paperback)

Designing Knowledge Economies for Disaster Resilience : Case Studies from the African Diaspora (Paperback)

Contesting Moralities : Roma Identities, State and Kinship (Paperback)

Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables : Cross-Cultural Metalogues (Hardcover)

Ritual, Rapture and Rebellion : The Making of Market, Mercy and Meaning Amongst the Gitanos of El Rastro (Paperback)