Social and cultural anthropology

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

'Until now, there has been little authoritative and practical information about this issue.

Combining the ethical clarity of Jonathan Safran Foers Eating Animals with the disquieting vision of Alan Weissmans bestseller The World Without Us, a thought-provoking, entertaining exploration of a future where animal consumption is a thing of the past.

Este libro es producto del ejercicio de cooperacion que un grupo de profesores y estudiantes, con el apoyo de la Secretaria de Ciencia, Tecnologia e Innovacion de la Ciudad de Mexico y de la UACM, llevamos a cabo con la participacion, durante mas de un ano, de diversas organizaciones culturales y comunidades de Cuautepec.

Este análisis producido en un contexto de multiculturalidad profundiza en cómo la comunicación se ha convertido en un espacio de lucha y un instrumento de resistencia para los pueblos indígenas en Argentina, particularmente en el norte de la provincia de Salta.

Today's global knowledge economy requires individuals and companies alike to quickly adapt to new tools and strategies.

Producto de años de investigación y debate, "Costumbres en común" describe la compleja cultura de la que surgieron las instituciones de la clase trabajadora en Inglaterra, una serie de tradiciones y costumbres que la nueva clase trabajadora luchó para preservar hasta la época victoriana.

Un relato audaz y épico sobre cómo la coevolución de la psicología y la cultura creó la peculiar mente occidental que ha moldeado profundamente el mundo moderno.

Mira una imagen de satélite de la Tierra.

Como botánica, Kimmerer formula preguntas sobre la naturaleza con las herramientas de la ciencia.

"La noción misma de la dominación de la naturaleza por el hombre se deriva del dominio muy real de lo humano por lo humano".

Un elegante y absorbente recorrido por Tokio y sus habitantes.

Tenemos un fuerte instinto, como especie, de vivir en pequeños grupos definidos por un claro propósito y entendimiento, de treinta a cincuenta personas que dependen enteramente unas de otras, por seguridad y comodidad.

En su ensayo, Peter Waldmann sigue la evolución de los clanes familiares de capas altas en los Estados de Chile, Argentina, Brasil, Perú y México desde el período colonial temprano hasta el siglo xx.

La relación entre el amor y el conocimiento ha sido estudiada a lo largo de la historia de la Filosofía desde distintos matices y definiciones.

A practical guide to building the ultimate immune system naturally*; Explores specific immune-boosting essential oils, herbs, and mushrooms in depth, revealing their multilayered effectiveness in supporting health*; Discusses probiotics and specific foods that boost immunity, as well as foods common in the modern diet that can temporarily put the immune system out of commission*; Looks at behaviors that can sabotage your immune system as well as the best habits for maintaining super-powered immunity for lifeViruses and superbugs have become a part of day-to-day living, but that doesn't mean you have to live in fear of catching one.

*; Shares insights from herbalism, ecology, neurobiology, psychology, Irish history, and magical tradition to show how to tap into the flow of communication from the wild world*; Explores the seven principles of animist herbalism and the ancient Irish understanding of the ';three cauldrons' of the body, showing how they can be applied to the practice of modern herbalism*; Introduces thirteen important plant and fungi allies and provides simple practices for deepening your connections with wild plants and your ancestorsTo our ancestors, the wild world around them was filled with meaning, guidance, and insight.

A practical guide to using flowers in magical practice*; Provides detailed instruction on every stage of the harvesting, crafting, and practical use of flower magic potions, including a comprehensive herbarium of all the flowers that may be used*; Discusses what type of flower and form of flower magic is best for specific enchantments and rituals in the areas of love and sex magic, healing and focusing, and protection*; Looks at the physical and spiritual gifts of bees and the importance of bee culture in Druidic flower magicFlowers are found in magic traditions around the world, from those in ancient Egypt, China, and India to the traditions of the Norse and Native Americans.

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¿Qué información sobre ciencia debe tener una persona que no se dedica profesionalmente a ella?

El interés fundamental de este trabajo se basa no solo en desarrollos conceptuales que han caracterizado la imagen del pensar político académico, sino también en expresar por qué hoy una transmisión antropológica evidencia un compromiso ético–político en estrecha relación con la deconstrucción de los paradigmas educativos de la Modernidad.

An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy*; Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operations*; Explains how to work with and transmute alchemical energies for increased levels of insight, intuition, and imaginative expression*; Explores the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and complicated symbolism of alchemical artIn this initiatory guide to the Hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveals how the alchemical opus, the Great Work, offers a practical means for liberating the authentic creator within and attaining gnosis, or true self-knowledge.

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects.

Día a día los ciudadanos encaran la necesidad de tramitar documentos de diverso tipo para acreditar su identidad, conducir un automóvil o certificar una condición determinada; deben pagar los recibos de servicios públicos o asegurar la inscripción de una firma, un sello o un número en un papel que, de no encontrarse "en regla", puede obstaculizar su salida del país, el acceso a algún beneficio o servicio o la compra de un inmueble.

En el Rio de la Plata como en México la construcción del estado nación sobre la base de la ciudadanía y de la supresión del corporatismo, implicó para las poblaciones indígenas la pérdida de las tierras comunitarias, de los municipios y de los territorios autónomos.

Los conocimientos del Culto Xangô de Recife que sirven de base para lo que se indaga a lo largo de las páginas de Santos y Daimones.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Men are responsible for all unwanted pregnancies.

Dieses Buch richtet sich an alle, die sich für die neue Generation interessieren und verstehen möchten, wie sie tickt und welche Auswirkungen sie auf die Welt hat.

Give and Take looks at local drug manufacturing in Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, from the early 1980s to the present, to understand the impact of foreign aid on industrial development.

An intimate and moving portrait of daily life in New York's oldest institution of traditional rabbinic learningNew York City's Lower East Side has witnessed a severe decline in its Jewish population in recent decades, yet every morning in the big room of the city's oldest yeshiva, students still gather to study the Talmud beneath the great arched windows facing out onto East Broadway.

Producing Culture and Capital is a major theoretical contribution to the anthropological literature on capitalism, as well as a rich case study of kinship and gender relations in northern Italy.

A remarkable look at an understudied feature of the Iranian justice system, where forgiveness is as much a right of victims as retributionIran's criminal courts are notorious for meting out severe sentencesaccording to Amnesty International, the country has the world's highest rate of capital punishment per capita.

A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production How did China's mass manufacturing and "e;copycat"e; production become transformed, in the global tech imagination, from something holding the nation back to one of its key assets?

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara.

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries.

The description for this book, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, will be forthcoming.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women.

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Socialism and the Family or Socialism and the Middle Classes (A rare essay)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional table of contents.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

While diet has long been recognized as having potential to alleviate symptoms of inflammatory diseases including arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia, research indicates that specific foods offer particular benefits in preventing or mitigating specific symptoms.

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab worldand how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society.

The description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.

Recorrer la Ciudad de México representa un asalto a los sentidos.

Desde una mirada socioantropológica, esta obra ofrece nuevas herramientas y perspectivas teórico-metodológicas para discutir problemáticas vinculadas a los procesos de organización y subjetivación indígenas, así como para analizar procesos de memorias colectivas en contextos diversos.

David Le Breton es un investigador sensible que ahonda en la temática del cuerpo desde la dimensión humana.

Historiadores y antropólogos registran procesos históricos de formación de comunidades indígenas en la Patagonia, con el objetivo de observar la manera en que se redefinen, sobre el territorio, comunidades y colectivos mapuches y tehuelches a causa del arrinconamiento y desplazamiento constantes a las que fueron y son sometidas.

Estos textos buscan reflexionar acerca de algunas representaciones, discursos y prácticas que construyen la Patagonia, al abordar la relación entre cultura-naturaleza como reflexión política, la religiosidad de migrantes latinoamericanos, la producción de territorialidad a partir de la cartografía colonial, y el desierto y política pública.