{"title":"Roger Bartra","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"mexican-transition-book-roger-bartra-9780708325537","title":"The Mexican Transition","description":"This book is a collection of essays on the Mexican transition to democracy that offers reflections on different aspects of civic culture, the political process, electoral struggles, and critical junctures. They were written at different points in time and even though they have been corrected and adapted, they have kept the tension and fervour with which they were originally created. They provide the reader with a vision of what goes on behind those horrifying images that depict Mexico as a country plagued by narcotrafficking groups and subjected to unbridled homicidal violence. These images hide the complex political reality of the country and the accidents and shocks democracy has suffered.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49518880456977,"sku":"GOR011163132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52474142720273,"sku":"NLS9780708325537","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/070832553X.jpg?v=1751231239"},{"product_id":"agrarian-structure-and-political-power-in-mexico-book-roger-bartra-9780801845420","title":"Agrarian Structure and Political Power in Mexico","description":"Identifying the inadequacies of older models regarding peasants and agrarian development, this book shows how the Mexican peasant economy has made important steps in the accumulation of capital - an essential phase in the development towards capitalism.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49578844520721,"sku":"GOR011938776","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801845424.jpg?v=1751296634"},{"product_id":"blood-ink-and-culture-book-roger-bartra-9780822329237","title":"Blood, Ink, and Culture","description":"Bartra offers commentary on connections between popular culture, national ideology, and the state, assessing socio-cultural events and processes in Mexico and analyzing Mexico's cultural and political relationship to the US.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49862167789841,"sku":"CIN0822329239G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0822329239.jpg?v=1763482432"},{"product_id":"anthropology-of-the-brain-book-roger-bartra-9781107629820","title":"Anthropology of the Brain","description":"In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for neurologists, cognitive scientists and anthropologists alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379058577681,"sku":"CIN1107629829G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50870140862737,"sku":"GOR014099736","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52474147832081,"sku":"NLS9781107629820","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1107629829.jpg?v=1750822777"},{"product_id":"shamans-and-robots-book-roger-bartra-9781517917494","title":"Shamans and Robots","description":"A profound exploration of the external influences that shape human consciousness, from healing rituals to digital devices   In this voyage through thousands of years of psychosomatic healing, distinguished anthropologist and sociologist Roger Bartra examines the placebo effect as a key to our understanding of human consciousness. Shamans and Robots demonstrates how biology and technology become intertwined within human culture by using the various histories of ritual and symbolic healing to speculate about future developments in artificial intelligence.    Charting the extensive history of the placebo effect through medieval healing, shamanism, and early psychoanalytic practices, Bartra posits that consciousness is not simply the province of the mind but something equally shaped by external systems and objects. He finds evidence of this “exocerebrum”-the extension of our brains outside the body-in the shamanistic concept of the placebo, in which external objects heal our bodies, and in modern technical devices like prostheses or robots, whose development of a mechanical consciousness would have to mimic, and in turn elucidate, the processes involved in the creation of consciousness in humans. Through this radical concept, he analyzes digital media’s relationship to the functions of the human brain and probes the possibility of artificial consciousness.    Both a look at the human body’s potential to restore itself and a profound reflection on the curative power of symbolic structures, Shamans and Robots explores how our technologies increasingly serve as extensions of our cognitive selves.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51606322348305,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51606323593489,"sku":"NGR9781517917494","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1517917492.jpg?v=1764845526"},{"product_id":"myth-of-the-werewolf-book-roger-bartra-9783031749421","title":"The Myth of the Werewolf","description":"This is a historical and anthropological study of the myth of the werewolf aimed at reflecting on the metamorphoses of evil and understanding the long evolution of a mythical structure. Legends and folklore allow us to explore the brutal bestiality of a figure loaded with sexuality, eroticism, and desire. From ancient times to the present day, the tragic narrative universe of a strange and dangerous wild world is unfolded, with elements of tenderness, that has contributed to defining the profile of civilization as its opposite. The myth was contaminated with religious fanaticism when werewolves were persecuted and burned during the times of the witch hunts.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51608206704913,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51608206934289,"sku":"NIN9783031749421","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52595848741137,"sku":"NLS9783031749421","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3031749421.jpg?v=1750934182"},{"product_id":"anthropology-of-the-brain-book-roger-bartra-9781107060364","title":"Anthropology of the Brain","description":"In this unique exploration of the mysteries of the human brain, Roger Bartra shows that consciousness is a phenomenon that occurs not only in the mind but also in an external network, a symbolic system. He argues that the symbolic systems created by humans in art, language, in cooking or in dress, are the key to understanding human consciousness. Placing culture at the centre of his analysis, Bartra brings together findings from anthropology and cognitive science and offers an original vision of the continuity between the brain and its symbolic environment. The book is essential reading for neurologists, cognitive scientists and anthropologists alike.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52145735139601,"sku":"NLS9781107060364","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781107060364.jpg?v=1757594916"},{"product_id":"melancholy-and-culture-book-roger-bartra-9780708320105","title":"Melancholy and Culture","description":"Focuses on the subject of 'melancholy madness' in Spain. This work demonstrates that the subject of melancholy in the Spanish Golden Age is an indispensable link in a chain which may help us to understand the appearance of sadness and malcontent in Europe at the dawn of modernity.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52487487619345,"sku":"NLS9780708320105","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780708320105.jpg?v=1759860948"},{"product_id":"regreso-a-la-jaula-book-roger-bartra-9786073803663","title":"Regreso a la jaula","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52739684073745,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52739684499729,"sku":"CIN6073803664G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9786073803663.jpg?v=1763475201"},{"product_id":"oficio-de-ser-extranjero-el-z-book-roger-bartra-9788433948878","title":"Oficio de Ser Extranjero, El -Z","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53614893269265,"sku":"NIN9788433948878","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9788433948878.jpg?v=1780377885"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-ie\/collections\/author-books-by-roger-bartra.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}