Social and cultural anthropology

The goddess origins of the Statue of Liberty and her connections with the founding and the future of America *; Examines Lady Liberty's ties to Native American spiritual traditions, the Earth Mother, Roman goddesses, Black Madonnas, and Mary Magdalene *; Reveals the sharp contrast between depicting ';liberty' as a female and the reality of women and other suppressed classes even today *; Explains how this Goddess of the New World inspires all people toward equality, compassion, peace-keeping, and environmental stewardship Uncovering the forgotten lineage of the Statue of Liberty, Bob Hieronimus and Laura Cortner explain how she is based on a female symbol representing America on the earliest maps of the continent in the form of a Native American ';Queen.

Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the world.

The Sikh community is one of the largest groups of Indians abroad and many studies of these migrants have been conducted.

Provides a way of accounting for the relationship between language and a variety of social phenomena.

Over 60 pumpkin spiced recipes to warm you up all year round!

This concise and accessible textbook overviews the place and continuing centrality of the concept of class in cultural studies and sociology.

In Mexican American communities in the central United States, the modern tradition of playing fastpitch softball has been passed from generation to generation.

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race.

There is a growing body of knowledge revealing a sweeping array of connections between public health and green infrastructure - but not until now have the links between them been brought together in one comprehensive book.

This book, at the intersection of early childhood and reconceptualizing practice, looks at how practitioners, theorists, and teachers are supporting young children to care about the environment differently.

This book proposes that Americans form views on immigration and social welfare programs from conventional ways of speaking rather than from ideologies.

Adopting an evidence-based approach, this book uses two state-of-the-art experimental studies to explore nature's therapeutic benefits in healthcare environments, emphasizing how windows and transparent spaces can strengthen people-nature interactions.

The Darfur conflict exploded in early 2003 when two rebel groups, the Sudan Liberation Movement and the Justice and Equality Movement, struck national military installations in Darfur to send a hard-hitting message of resentment over the region's political and economic marginalization.

This comprehensive volume explores the remarkable expansion of higher education systems and institutions in Asia in recent decades, alongside changing forms of consumerism, mobility and global economic conditions.

This two-volume work discusses environmental health, the branch of public health concerned with all aspects of the natural and built environment affecting human health, and addresses key issues at the global and local scales.

This new edition outlines how sustainability can be incorporated into midwifery practice, education and research.

The Graves of Tarim narrates the movement of an old diaspora across the Indian Ocean over the past five hundred years.

Culture and Customs of Haiti begins with an overview of the mountainous island that seemed forbidding to European colonizers.

This book uncovers the contradictions and convergences of racism, decolonisation, migration and living international relations that were shaped by the shift from colonialism to postcolonialism and from nationalism to transnationalism between the 1950s and the present.

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.

This book provides a broad overview of the chemicals in food that have the potential to induce adverse health effects.

This is a study of how Donald J.

In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnams remote northern highlands.

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries.

Creative Lives and Works: Raymond Firth, Audrey Richards, Lucy Mair, Meyer Fortes and Edmund Leach is a collection of interviews conducted by one of England's leading social anthropologists and historians, Professor Alan Macfarlane.

This is Book 7 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

Spider Woman Walks This Land is a lively and accessible introduction to issues of traditional cultural properties and cultural resource management among native peoples in the United States.

The Routledge History of Death Since 1800 looks at how death has been treated and dealt with in modern history - the history of the past 250 years - in a global context, through a mix of definite, often quantifiable changes and a complex, qualitative assessment of the subject.

The American People and Science Policy: The Role of Public Attitudes in the Policy Process examines and evaluates the structure and efficacy of public participation in the formulation of science policy in the United States.

What might we learn if the study of ethics focused less on hard cases and more on the practices of everyday life?

Dreaming of Michelangelo is the first book-length study to explore the intellectual and cultural affinities between modern Judaism and the life and work of Michelangelo Buonarroti.

This book challenges the perception of Japan as a 'copying culture' through a series of detailed ethnographic and historical case studies.

This collection brings together leading thinkers on human beings in urban spaces and inequalities therein.

Both Yuk-ling, a busy Hong Kong mother of two, and Chi-ying, a young single woman from a remote village in northern China, work in electronics factories owned by the same foreign corporation, manufacturing identical electronic components.

In this rich, evocative study, Rhoda Ann Kanaaneh examines the changing notions of sexuality, family, and reproduction among Palestinians living in Israel.

The writings in this edition explore historical and contemporary issues in Ethiopia as the country underwent change and celebrated its new millennium.

Age as Disease explores the foundations of gerontology as a discipline to examine the ways contemporary society constructs old age as a disease-state.

The Global Intercultural Communication Reader is the first anthology to take a distinctly non-Eurocentric approach to the study of culture and communication.

An exemplary investigation into music and sustainability, Singing and Survival tells the story of how music helped the Rapanui people of Easter Island to preserve their unique cultural heritage.

Access the power of the Wiccan religion in this beautiful handbook featuring the history of the craft that includes a primer of its symbols, festivities, ceremonies, tools, elements, and practices.

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful.