Jeanette L Edwards

Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

The Paint Man, My Life in Living Color

" The Paint Man" by Joe Cox, Founder of H-I-S Paint Mfg. Company in Oklahoma City. Joe shares his Christian Testimony, How he started H-I-S Paint and personal Life-Lessons.It's truth that sets us free. Choosing freedom takes courage, if we are to face life as it really is, in order to arrive at the ...

Glimpses of Light: Stories and poems of imagination and hope

Be challenged, captivated and moved by these imaginative reflections on faith, help in time of need, joy in the midst of tragedy, and surprising encounters with God. During 2015, the International Year of Light, twenty-one authors from Australia and the United States have come together to explore th...

Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice (ASA Monographs)

What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic examples from across the world, and from the virtual a...

Technologized Images, Technologized Bodies

The modern world is saturated with images. Scientific knowledge of the human body (in all its variety) is highly dependent on the technological generation of visual data - brain and body scans, x-rays, diagrams, graphs and charts. New technologies afford scientists and medical experts new possibilit...

Born and Bred: Idioms of Kinship and New Reproductive Technologies in England (Oxford Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)

Born and Bred is an ethnography of Bacup in the north-west of England. At the heart of the cotton industry in the nineteenth century, this Lancashire town has undergone deep social and economic change during the twentieth, yet it remains a hive of social activity. The book focuses on the way in whic...

Technologies of Procreation: Kinship in the Age of Assisted Conception

Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological perspective.

Ship ashore!: A record of maritime disasters off Montauk and eastern Long Island, 1640-1955