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Product Description: President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions...read more
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9780812246025 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 28, 2014, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: President Theodore Roosevelt once proclaimed, "Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions, and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with those institutions.
Product Description: It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold. It is another thing altogether, as Greg Urban demonstrates, to think about cultural motion when something new is created-a new song or a new story...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780816638413 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 1, 2001, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold.
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9780816638420 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, November 15, 2001, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: It is one thing to comprehend how culture makes its way through the world in those cases where something old is reproduced in the same physical shape-where, for example, a song is sung or a story retold.
Product Description: While guiding us into the rainforests and savannas of lowland South America on a quest to understand Amerindian myths and rituals, A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture is simultaneously an intellectual journey into the theory of culture, and an endeavor to fathom the human differences that are attributable to culture, from consciousness of the physical world and time to the ritual practices of chanting and speaking in secret languages...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780292715622 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: While guiding us into the rainforests and savannas of lowland South America on a quest to understand Amerindian myths and rituals, A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture is simultaneously an intellectual journey into the theory of culture, and an endeavor to fathom the human differences that are attributable to culture, from consciousness of the physical world and time to the ritual practices of chanting and speaking in secret languages.
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9781587360114 | 2 edition (Hats Off Books, September 1, 2000), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: While guiding us into the rainforests and savannas of lowland South America on a quest to understand Amerindian myths and rituals, A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture is simultaneously an intellectual journey into the theory of culture, and an endeavor to fathom the human differences that are attributable to culture, from consciousness of the physical world and time to the ritual practices of chanting and speaking in secret languages.
9780292785267 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, March 1, 1993), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: While guiding us into the rainforests and savannas of lowland South America on a quest to understand Amerindian myths and rituals, A Discourse-Centered Approach to Culture is simultaneously an intellectual journey into the theory of culture, and an endeavor to fathom the human differences that are attributable to culture, from consciousness of the physical world and time to the ritual practices of chanting and speaking in secret languages.
Product Description: Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read? Since the early 1970s, the notion of culture-as-text has animated anthropologists and other analysts of culture. Michael Silverstein and Greg Urban present this stunning collection of cutting-edge ethnographies arguing that the divide between fleeting discursive practice and formed text is a constructed one, and that the constructional process reveals "culture" to those who can interpret it...read more
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9780226757698 | Univ of Chicago Pr, July 15, 1996, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: Is culture simply a more or less set text we can learn to read?
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9780226757704 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1996, cover price $35.00
'Leading exponent of discourse-centered approach examines social organization of the Shokleng, Gãe-speaking peoples of southern Brazil. Author suggests a reading in terms of the problematic of knowledge: the theme of intelligibility and sensibility and their interrelations; logical empiricism and its connection to the world; the attachment of circulating discourse to sensible space; the relation of discourse and power relations; and the relation of discourse to reference'--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
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9780292785281 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: 'Leading exponent of discourse-centered approach examines social organization of the Shokleng, Gãe-speaking peoples of southern Brazil.
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9780292785298 | Univ of Texas Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Starting with the post-structuralist idea that truth systems are lodged in discourse, and that discourse varies from society to society, Greg Urban seeks to discover the nature and extent of that variation.
Product Description: What happens to Amerindian cultures when they come into contact with the Europe-derived nation-states of Latin America? How are the nation-states in turn affected by this experience? These questions motivate the essays in Nation-States and Indians in Latin America...read more
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9781587360343 | E-Book Pub, March 1, 2001, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: What happens to Amerindian cultures when they come into contact with the Europe-derived nation-states of Latin America?
9780292785250 | Reprint edition (Univ of Texas Pr, September 1, 1992), cover price $16.95 | also contains Una Vida con Proposito / The Purpose Driven Life: Para que Estoy Aqui en la Tierra? / What on Earth Am I Here For?
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9780899255606 | Mouton De Gruyter, February 1, 1990, cover price $97.95
9783110119787, titled "Semiotics, Self, and Society" | Reprint edition (Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 1989), cover price $154.00
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9780899250601 | Mouton De Gruyter, September 1, 1986, cover price $49.95
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9783110105117 | Mouton De Gruyter, July 1, 1986, cover price $224.00
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