Social and cultural anthropology

The Anthropology of Corporate Social Responsibility explores the meanings, practices, and impact of corporate social and environmental responsibility across a range of transnational corporations and geographical locations (Bangladesh, Cameroon, Chile, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Peru, South Africa, the UK, and the USA).

Every year, countless young adults from affluent, Western nations travel to Brazil to train in capoeira, the dance/martial art form that is one of the most visible strands of the Afro-Brazilian cultural tradition.

At the forested edge of Cambodia s development frontier, the infrastructures of global development engulf the land and existing social practices like an incoming tide.

Urban Sustainability in the Arctic advances our understanding of cities in the far north by applying elements of the international standard for urban sustainability (ISO 37120) to numerous Arctic cities.

Why do so many people go on about queuing?

The Pakistan Army is a uniquely powerful and influential institution, with vast landholdings and resources.

"e;Garth's in-depth and intimate ethnography portrays the shortcomings in Cuba's welfare system, and the profound consequences for the way people eat.

Waste Siege offers an analysis unusual in the study of Palestine: it depicts the environmental, infrastructural, and aesthetic context in which Palestinians are obliged to forge their lives.

After three decades of massive rural-to-urban migration in China, a burgeoning population of over 35 million second-generation migrants living in its cities poses a challenge to socialist modes of population management and urban governance.

An accessible guide to decoding and understanding the divisive rhetoric implemented by the former president, and to resisting it.

Based on thirty-five years of fieldwork, Glassie's Vernacular Architecture synthesizes a career of concern with traditional building.

An ethnographic study of China's new elites and their rarified world of debauchery and corruption: "e;A must have book for China studies"e; (Choice).

On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean.

Philip Selznick's wide-ranging writings engaged with fundamental questions concerning society, politics, institutions, law, and morals.

Discussions of race are inevitably fraught with tension, both in opinion and positioning.

While most people live far from the sites of oil production, oil politics involves us all.

Human Rights and African Airwaves focuses on Nkhani Zam'maboma, a popular Chichewa news bulletin broadcast on Malawi's public radio.

This subtle and powerful ethnography examines African healing and its relationship to medical science.

"e;[This] artful ethnography .

Although Iraqi Jews saw themselves as Iraqi patriots, their community-which had existed in Iraq for more than 2,500 years-was displaced following the establishment of the state of Israel.

Charles Hill-Tout was born in England in 1858 and came to British Columbia in 1891.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays addresses idolatry, a contested issue that has given rise to both religious accusations and heated scholarly disputes.

Following on two previous collections- Write It on Your Heart: The Epic World of an Okanagan Storyteller (1989) and Nature Power: In the Spirit of an Okanagan Storyteller (2004)-Talonbooks is pleased to announce the release of this third volume of oral narratives by Okanagan storyteller Harry Robinson.

In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China.

This volume offers the first theoretical and experiential translation of Napo Runa mythology in English.

In Caribbean and Atlantic Diaspora Dance: Igniting Citizenship, Yvonne Daniel provides a sweeping cultural and historical examination of diaspora dance genres.

How do vision quests, river locations, and warriors relate to indigenous activism?

Most of us have become so immersed in a book or game or movie that the activity temporarily assumed a profound significance and the outside world began to fade.

Magnus Course blends convincing historical analysis with sophisticated contemporary theory in this superb ethnography of the Mapuche people of southern Chile.

Surrendering to Utopia is a critical and wide-ranging study of anthropology's contributions to human rights.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

Original oral and ethnographic sources inform this conceptual history of power in central Africa, imagined through the lens of Kitawala religious practices.

This powerful, wide-ranging history of the Nazi concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora is the first book to analyze how memory of the Third Reich evolved throughout changes in the German regime from World War II to the present.

This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province.

En una época de prisas, el éxito de los aforismos tal vez radique en su brevedad.

De sobra es conocido que el incremento de las enfermedades crónico–degenerativas está minando los recursos destinados a la salud en diversas naciones.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The Future in America - A Search After Realities (The original unabridged and illustrated edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The book uses an innovative prism of interorality that powerfully reevaluates Caribbean orality and innovatively casts light on its overlooked and fundamental epistemological contribution into the formation of Caribbean philosophy.

*; Offers traditional rituals and spells to help you connect with your ancestors, see your family's ancestral patterns, and change your destiny*; Examines the history of ancestor worship in the Slavic tradition and ancient Slavic burial and funeral customs, many of which are still practiced today in remote pockets of Russia*; Explores the similarities between ancestral beliefs in Haitian Vodou and the Slavic traditionRaised in the Soviet Union, where she grew up steeped in ancient Slavic magical traditions, occultist and hereditary witch Natasha Helvin reveals not only how you are continually and powerfully influenced by your ancestors but also how you can open the door to your ancestral connections in order to know who you truly are and change the course of your destiny.

Based on ethnographic research with asylum seekers living in a 'direct provision' centre in Ireland, and comprising participatory visual methods, this work offers a unique examination of the 'direct provision' system that analyses the tensions between exclusion and marginalization, and involvement and engagement with local communities.

'Mind-blowing - will change the way you eat forever.

The Salem witch trials were a series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts between February 1692 and May 1693.

This volume is addressed to scholars as well as a popular audience, aimed to bridge the gap between academia and the general public.

Dentro de las músicas populares, se está dando una tendencia a patrimonializar el pasado.

Dali is a small region on a high plateau in Southeast Asia.

El centro de Bogotá es un punto estratégico del comercio de esmeraldas colombianas.

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In 2002, after an altercation between Muslim vendors and Hindu travelers at a railway station in the Indian state of Gujarat, fifty-nine Hindu pilgrims were burned to death.