Making Things Better - A Workbook on Ritual, Cultural Values, and Environmental Behavior

Informationen zum Autor A. David Napier is Professor of Medical Anthropology at University College London and founding Director of the University's Centre for Applied Global Citizenship. Klappentext In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities. Zusammenfassung In Making Things Better, A. David Napier demonstrates how anthropological description of non-Western exchange practices and beliefs can be a tonic for contemporary economic systems in which our impersonal relationship to ''things'' transforms the animate elements of social life into inanimate sets of commodities.

Product details

• Authors: A. David Napier, A.david Napier
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.12.2013
• EAN: 9780199969357
• ISBN: 978-0-19-996935-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Oxford Ritual Studies Series; Oxford Ritual Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, Archaeology / Anthropology, RELIGION / Philosophy, RELIGION / Devotional, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Worship, rites & ceremonies, Religious life and practice, Worship, rites, ceremonies and rituals, Religious life & practice