Social and cultural anthropology

Eine zu Herzen gehende Geschichte über Schuld, Liebe, Sünde und Verrat.

The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general.

'Eleanor Porter is a major new voice in historical fiction.

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them.

Identity has become the watchword of our times.

I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure (Psalm 119:162 NKJV).

What are the traditions and special family celebrations that you celebrate in your part of the world?

In Diaspora and Trust Adrian H.

Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar.

Throughout West African societies, at times of social crises, postmenopausal women-the Mothers-make a ritual appeal to their innate moral authority.

Everything cookbooks are a popular choice for home cooks looking for fresh, original recipes that only taste like you've spent all day in the kitchen.

Celery juice is the new wonder ingredient on everybody's lips - in Celery Juice: Everything You Need to Know, Hannah Ebelthite investigates this humble super vegetable, explains the nutritional facts and offers a gut-healthy, anti-inflammatory 7-day wellness plan to help boost your energy, beat the bloat and feel ready for anything.

An anthology published in celebration of the 60th anniversary of Gerald Gardner''s seminal work, Witchcraft Today.

Marred by political tumult and violent conflict since the early twentieth century, Gaza has been subject to a multiplicity of rulers.

The Licit Life of Capitalism is both an account of a specific capitalist project-U.

In 2011 the Philippines surpassed India to become what the New York Times referred to as "e;the world's capital of call centers.

This study analyses Kurdish Hizbullah as a social movement, charting Hizbullah's development from its origins in violent militancy to its move towards a more ambiguous 'civic' mode of engagement.

Based on fieldwork among state officials, NGOs, politicians, and activists in Costa Rica and Brazil, A Future History of Water traces the unspectacular work necessary to make water access a human right and a human right something different from a commodity.

Thirty-five years after its initial success as a form of technologically assisted human reproduction, and five million miracle babies later, in vitro fertilization (IVF) has become a routine procedure worldwide.

Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge?

Can a political project exist outside of the power relations from which it is trying to emerge?

Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known as Proto-Indo-European.

In Downwardly Global Lalaie Ameeriar examines the transnational labor migration of Pakistani women to Toronto.

Think all diets have to be boring and bland?

This is a thoroughly updated and revised edition of a popular classic of modern anthropology.

The Arab Revolutions that began in 2011 reignited interest in the question of theory and practice, imbuing it with a burning political urgency.

In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.

How does protest become criminalised?

Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia provides valuable new ethnographic insights into life along some of the most contentious borders in the world.

This volume's contributors explore the links among sexuality, ethnography, race, and colonial rule through an examination of ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes.

In Negro Soy Yo Marc D.

I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure (Psalm 119:162 NKJV).

During the Khmer Rouge's brutal reign in Cambodia during the mid-to-late 1970s, a former math teacher named Duch served as the commandant of the S-21 security center, where as many as 20,000 victims were interrogated, tortured, and executed.

In the last forty years anthropologists have made major contributions to understanding the heterogeneity of reproductive trends and processes underlying them.

The 17 Day Diet offers a lifetime plan for shedding pounds fast in a safe and lasting way.

Liz Earle provides a clear guide to all of the nutrients that our bodies need and explains how you can use diet and supplements to stay strong, energetic and healthy.

Since its inception in 2001, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has been met with resistance by various African states and their leaders, who see the court as a new iteration of colonial violence and control.

Born in 1921, Manuel Llamojha Mitma became one of Peru's most creative and inspiring indigenous political activists.

In this masterly, state of the art work, Ulf Hannerz maps the contemporary social world of anthropologists and its relation to the wider world in which they carry out their work.