Title	Author	Imprint	Collection	Url	Annotation
Posthumanism	Nayar, Pramod K	Cambridge : Polity, 2014	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00097258	Prof. Pramod K Nayar เป็นศาสตราจาร์ผู้สนใจ ทฤษฎีวรรณกรรมและทฤษฎีวัฒนธรรม เคยได้รับรางวัล Visitor's Award for the Best Research ในประเภท Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences ประจำปี 2018             หนังสือนำเสนอและวิเคราะห์แนวความคิดหลังมนุษย์ที่ชัดเจนและครอบคลุมประเด็นพ้นมนุษย์ เริ่มจากการวิพากย์ปรัชญาลัทธิมนุษยนิยมแบบดั้งเดิม จริยธรรมแบบมนุษยนิยม ที่มองว่ามนุษย์เป็นศูนย์กลางของโลก มองความเป็นมนุษย์อยู่เหนือสรรพสิ่ง จากนั้นนำไปพัฒนาการของแนวคิดหลังมนุษย์โดยอธิบายในบริบทของการศึกษาทางชีวการแพทย์ วิศวกรรมศาสตร์ เทคโน-วิทยาศาสตร์และวัฒนธรรม โดยตั้งคำถามเกี่ยวกับร่างการ/รูปร่างมนุษย์ สัตว์ ธรรมชาติ เน้นการศึกษาความสัมพันธ์แบบพึ่งพาอาศัยกันของมนุษย์ที่ถูกพัฒนาและมีวิวัฒนาการร่วมกับกับสิ่งที่ไม่ใช่มนุษย์มาอย่างต่อเนื่องและยาวนาน หนังสือเล่มนี้เหมาะสำหรับ นักศึกษาด้านวัฒนธรรมศึกษา วรรณกรรมสมัยใหม่และร่วมสมัยที่สนใจในประเด็น Posthumanism
Siam Mapped: A History of the Geo-Body of a Nation	Thongchai Winichakul	Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, 1994	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00001337	This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern conception of a nation. Siam Mapped challenges much that has been written on Thai history because it demonstrates convincingly that the physical and political definition of Thailand on which other works are based is anachronistic.
The Taste of Ethnographic Things : The Senses in Anthropology	Paul Stoller	Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1989.	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00037882	Anthropologists who have lost their senses write ethnographies that are often disconnected from the worlds they seek to portray. For most anthropologists, Stoller contends, tasteless theories are more important than the savory sauces of ethnographic life. That they have lost the smells, sounds, and tastes of the places they study is unfortunate for them, for their subjects, and for the discipline itself. The Taste of Ethnographic Things describes how, through long-term participation in the lives of the Songhay of Niger, Stoller eventually came to his senses. Taken together, the separate chapters speak to two important and integrated issues. The first is methodological--all the chapters demonstrate the rewards of long-term study of a culture. The second issue is how he became truer to the Songhay through increased sensual awareness.
Material culture and mass consumption	Daniel Miller	Oxford, OX, UK ;Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1987	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00032347	Material Culture and Mass Consumption offers an in-depth exploration of objects, objectification, ideology, and materialism in modern society. Drawing from Hegel, Marx, Munn, and Simmel, the discussion delves into the physicality of the material world and attempts to understand materialism as a form of cultural expression. Targeting mass production as the root of mass consumption, rather than the result, this book positions material goods at odds with genuine social interaction and questions these relationships from the abstract to the intensely specific.
The buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of the amulets : a study in charisma, hagiography, sectarianism, andmillennial buddhism	Tambiah, Stanley jeyaraja, 1929-	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00000047	The central actors in this book are some reclusive forest-dwelling ascetic meditation masters who have been acclaimed as 'saints' in contemporary Thailand. These saints originally pursued their salvation quest among the isolated villages of the country's periphery, but once recognized as holy men endowed with charisma, they became the radiating centres of a country-wide cult of amulets. The amulets, blessed by the saints, are avidly sought by royalty, ruling generals, intelligentsia and common folk alike for their alleged powers to influence the success of worldly transactions, whether political, economic, martial or romantic.
Outline of a Theory of Practice	Pierre Bourdieu	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1977.	Books (7th floor)	https://lib.sac.or.th/catalog/BibItem.aspx?BibID=b00001099	Outline of a Theory of Practice is recognized as a major theoretical text on the foundations of anthropology and sociology. Pierre Bourdieu, a distinguished French anthropologist, develops a theory of practice which is simultaneously a critique of the methods and postures of social science and a general account of how human action should be understood. With his central concept of the habitus, the principle which negotiates between objective structures and practices, Bourdieu is able to transcend the dichotomies which have shaped theoretical thinking about the social world. The author draws on his fieldwork in Kabylia (Algeria) to illustrate his theoretical propositions. With detailed study of matrimonial strategies and the role of rite and myth, he analyses the dialectical process of the 'incorporation of structures' and the objectification of habitus, whereby social formations tend to reproduce themselves. A rigorous consistent materialist approach lays the foundations for a theory of symbolic capital and, through analysis of the different modes of domination, a theory of symbolic power.