As a leading and respected Elder in the world of Wicca and Witchcraft, also as a teacher for over 50 years, I have assembled for the 21st century Solitary Wiccan or Witch all the training given to the Seeker prior to Initiation into a Traditional Coven or Clan.
Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living, working, and creating relationships in cities across Asia, this volume explores their contemporary lives, pressures, ideals, and aspirations.
Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy-and why people are so irrational about moneyHow did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders?
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork undertaken since 2006, the book addresses some of the most topical aspects of remote Aboriginal life in Australia.
Transforming Saints explores the transformation and function of the images of holy women within wider religious, social, and political contexts of Old Spain and New Spain from the Spanish conquest to Mexican independence.
Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.
Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil.
Water, Life, and Profit offers a holistic analysis of the people, economies, cultural symbolism, and material culture involved in the management, production, distribution, and consumption of drinking water in the urban context of Niamey, Niger.
Dealing with narratives of vulnerable populations, this book looks at how they deal with dimensions of their social life, especially in regards to health.
Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993).
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life.
Whether you're training for a marathon, preparing for some serious trekking or simply playing football, good nutrition is not just important; it can give you the edge to boost stamina and increase endurance.
Includes more than 100 recipes and spells, a guide to kitchen witchery, an appendix of herbs, and tons of practical advice on how to bring happiness and magic into your home.
Qu'aller chercher dans une Algérie qu'on ne connaît pas quand on appartient à une génération qui en apparence n'a rien subi de l'exil familial et de l'émigration en France ?
Caste, Entrepreneurship and the Illusions of Tradition is an ethnographic study of the potters of Kolkata's Kumartuli, an analysis of their lives and the related commodification and instrumentalization of caste.
" A l'âge où tout devrait lui sourire, un enfant de quatre ans connaît la séparation d'avec sa mère et les siens, la prison, puis le corridor de la mort qu'est le camp de Drancy, avec toutes les misères et les souffrances engendrées par la folie meurtrière des hommes.
Dans ce récit, le narrateur, ancien mécano, reçoit un manuscrit composé d'une douzaine de récits qui, de Ténérife à Hambourg, de Majorque à Moscou, de Sidney à Ostende ou Marseille, le font voyager dans l'univers si particulier des station managers.
« Parce qu'il est un temps où il devient urgent de transmettre le passé dont on a hérité, je ressentis dans les années 2000 la responsabilité d'offrir dans la mémoire de notre famille une place à ceux qui avaient disparu dans la Shoah ».
Cet ouvrage clôture une longue réflexion sur la soi-disant « question juive » européenne, qui se serait radicalisée sous le Reich allemand de 1871, après sa défaite militaire de 1918, au cours de la république de Weimar, pendant les premières années du IIIe Reich, pour culminer dans un génocide spécifique des populations juives durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Neighboring communities who once lived together in peace have committed some of the most disturbing genocidal violence in recent decades: ethnic cleansing in the former Yugoslavia; the slaughter of Tutsis in Rwanda; or Sunni-versus-Shia violence in today's Iraq.
Cet ouvrage présente l'assimilation française des Juifs séfarades d'après la vision personnelle des écrivains Albert Cohen, Albert Memmi et Naïm Kattan, qui la transposent dans leurs romans respectifs Solal, La statue de sel et Adieu Babylone.
Le présent ouvrage retrace l'histoire de la Zentrale Stelle de Ludwigsburg, une institution judiciaire qui fut chargée, dès 1958, de conduire dans l'Allemagne de l'ouest les enquêtes préliminaires des crimes nazis.
The key question for many anthropologists and historians today is not whether to cross the boundary between their disciplines, but whether the idea of a disciplinary boundary should be sustained.
