Assessment and Culture challenges the classical approach to the assessment of minority populations by pointing out the deficiencies in this approach and offers instead a bio-cultural model of assessment.
How craigslist champions openness, democracy, and other vanishing principles of the early webBegun by Craig Newmark as an e-mail to some friends about cool events happening around San Francisco, craigslist is now the leading classifieds service on the planet.
Ritualisierung, Mediatisierung und Performance dienen als konzeptionelle Hilfsmittel, um Veränderungen und Kontinuitäten im Alltagsleben sozialer Akteurinnen und Akteure sowie in spezifischen Kontexten zu situieren.
One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos.
An anthology of original essays that examine white supremacy around the globe through the lens of anthropologyWhite supremacy, an entrenched global system that emerged alongside European colonialism, is based on presumed biological and cultural differences, racist practices, the hypervaluation of whiteness, and the devaluation of nonwhites.
An experiential journey into the heart of Buddhist practiceand companion volume to the beloved Words of My Perfect Teacherthis revered Tibetan practice manual illuminates the practical methods that lead to the wholeness and freedom of the Great Perfection.
A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth and the lack of it shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi.
The commodification and marketing of nationalism in a populist-governed countryMost accounts of populist politics revolve around political parties, electoral politics, eroding democratic institutions, media, and political propaganda.
The commodification and marketing of nationalism in a populist-governed countryMost accounts of populist politics revolve around political parties, electoral politics, eroding democratic institutions, media, and political propaganda.
A philosophical framework for resistance that connects Socrates to the streetDoes social change happen ';top down' or ';bottom up'brought about by those who hold power or by those who struggle against the powerful?
A philosophical framework for resistance that connects Socrates to the streetDoes social change happen ';top down' or ';bottom up'brought about by those who hold power or by those who struggle against the powerful?
How material conditions and social contradictions remake indigeneity Indigenous studies struggles to analyze class, yet class reshapes the cultural, political, and economic terrain of indigeneity.
How material conditions and social contradictions remake indigeneity Indigenous studies struggles to analyze class, yet class reshapes the cultural, political, and economic terrain of indigeneity.
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary LondonAn Honest Death is an intimate and moving ethnographic account of funerals for people who don't believe in God or an afterlife.
A fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at non-religious funerals in contemporary LondonAn Honest Death is an intimate and moving ethnographic account of funerals for people who don't believe in God or an afterlife.
