Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge

Author: Kirsten Hastrup

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134843895

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Anthropology poses an explicit challenge to standard notions of scientific knowledge. It claims to produce genuine insights into the workings of culture in general on the basis of individual social experience in the field. Social Experience and Anthropological Knowledge traces the process from the ethnographic experience to the analytical results, showing how fieldwork enables the ethnographer to arrive at an understanding, not only of `culture' and `society', but also of the processes by which cultures and societies are transformed. The contributors challenge the distinction between subjectivity and objectivity, redefine what we should mean by `empirical' and demonstrate the complexity of present-day epistemological problems through concrete examples. By demystifying subjectivity in the ethnographic process and re-emphasizing the vital position of fieldwork, they do much to renew confidence in the anthropological project of comprehending the world.


Adult Education in Communities

Adult Education in Communities

Author: Emilio Lucio-Villegas

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-06-25

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 9463000437

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Participation can be a double-edged sword in that it can be used to bind people into agendas and policies they have little control over or it can help enable them to give voice to real and significant issues. Drawing on the work of Raymond Williams, genuine participation has to be an open and democratic process which enables all to contribute to the creation of meanings. Adult education in communities can then be involved in the process of creating ‘really useful knowledge’, that is, knowledge which enables people – individuals and collectivities who experience systematic forms of oppression, domination and exploitation – to think about, analyse and act on their situation individually and severally. By drawing on contemporary accounts of emancipatory action and participatory research the author elaborates on the role of adult educators in this context. (From the Preface) This book tries to reflect on adult education and its close relationships with communities. It is a modest attempt to maintain adult education in the scope of the community life against the growing schooling, the focus on employability, and on the labour market. In the last years it seems that adult education has become a kind of provider of diplomas, skills and competences and has forgotten its role to enlighten individuals and help them to share their community life with an abundance of richness, diversity, sadness and happiness. Adult Education is intrinsically connected to daily life, and the life that individuals constantly edify in their interactions. If adult education is connected to daily life, one of the major tasks is to recover this feeling and to link daily life and education. I think that at present time, in a moment of intense reductionism, reality is usually presented as very plain, losing its complexity and diversity that are related to the fact that life is being lived everyday by men and women as creators and relational beings.


Spanish Study Guide For the National Social Work Exam

Spanish Study Guide For the National Social Work Exam

Author: Dr. Linton Hutchinson

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-04-10

Total Pages: 570

ISBN-13: 1300924764

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La guia de estudio para el examen nacional del trabajo social es un libro de 550 paginas con el especifico MATERIAL CONTENIDO PARA EL EXAMEN: LA CONSTRUCCION DEL EXAMEN CAPITULO 1: DESARROLLO HUMANO CAPITULO 2: TEMAS DE DIVERSIDAD CAPITULO 3: DIAGNOSTICO Y EVALUACION CAPITULO 4: PSICOTERAPIA/PRACTICA CAPITULO 5: COMUNICACIONES CAPITULO 6: RELACIONES TERAPEUTICAS CAPITULO 7: PROFESIONALISMO/ETICA CAPITULO 8: SUPERVISION, CONSULTA Y DESARROLLO DEL PERSONAL CAPITULO 9: EVALUACION, INVESTIGACION CAPITULO 10: ENVIO DEL SERVICIO CAPITULO 11: PRACTICA/GERENCIA CAPITULO 12: EJEMPLOS DE EXAMENES CAPITULO 13: DEFINICIONES/TERMINOS


A Universal History of the Destruction of Books

A Universal History of the Destruction of Books

Author: Fernando Báez

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13:

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Examines the many reasons and motivations for the destruction of books throughout history, citing specific acts from the smashing of ancient Sumerian tablets to the looting of libraries in post-war Iraq.


Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII-VIII ane)

Contacto cultural entre el Mediterráneo y el Atlántico (siglos XII-VIII ane)

Author: Sebastián Celestino Pérez

Publisher: Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 632

ISBN-13: 9788400086893

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Este libro ofrece una aproximación, desde perspectivas diversas y en ocasiones contrapuestas, a uno de los temas más controvertidos de la arqueología protohistórica de los últimos años, el de la llamada precolonización{OCLCbr#BB}. El debate en torno a la pertinencia y significado de este concepto supone un extenso tratamiento de las dos principales cuestiones suscitadas por el mismo: las dinámicas de contacto cultural entre comunidades atlánticas y mediterráneas durante el Bronce Final y los orígenes de las colonizaciones históricas en el Mediterráneo centro-occidental. La monografía se estructura en varias partes claramente complementarias. La primera aborda diversos aspectos generales, centrándose especialmente en los modelos teóricos y los problemas cronológicos de este período. La segunda parte constituye una sistemática puesta al día de la cuestión precolonial{OCLCbr#BB} en todas las áreas afectadas por la misma desde el Mediterráneo central hasta el ámbito atlántico. En la tercera se ofrecen algunas aproximaciones a la cultura material, con particular atención a la broncística, la orfebrería y los carros representados en las estelas del Suroeste. Por último, la cuarta parte contiene una valoración general de los editores, en español e inglés, así como un epílogo a cargo de una de las mayores especialistas en colonialismo antiguo. Aunque se ha buscado de forma decidida la incorporación de distintos enfoques, a nivel general el principal cambio de paradigma que reflejan las páginas de este volumen consiste en la valoración del papel desempeñado por las comunidades locales. Se supera definitivamente el análisis de la precolonización{OCLCbr#BB} como un proceso protagonizado por una parte activa –las sociedades del Mediterráneo oriental– frente a otra pasiva –las comunidades locales–. Desde la pluralidad de perspectivas, todos los autores coinciden en valorar los contactos precoloniales desde la idea de interacción y desde el análisis del registro arqueológico y el contexto socioeconómico de las poblaciones autóctonas.