An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common World

An Anthropological Trompe L'Oeil for a Common WorldOur political age is characterized by forms of description as big as the world itself: talk of public knowledge and public goods, the commons or global justice create an exigency for modes of governance that leave little room for smallness itself. Rather than question the politics of adjudication between the big and the small, this book inquires instead into the cultural epistemology fueling the aggrandizement and miniaturization of description

and the institutionalized rape of enslaved women

same-sex desires among Indonesian domestic workers are often not realized until they leave home

These include an interview with Gary Snyder

The book deals with all the core areas of contract law

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powerful meditations

and media reports collected over ten years

this book interweaves theory

and some potential responses are considered

Dreamworlds of Shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism explores the fertile interaction of Buddhism

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This feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self