Social and cultural anthropology

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

The contributors to Affective Trajectories examine the mutual and highly complex entwinements between religion and affect in urban Africa in the early twenty-first century.

In Migrants and City-Making Ayse Caglar and Nina Glick Schiller trace the participation of migrants in the unequal networks of power that connect their lives to regional, national, and global institutions.

From biometrics to predictive policing, contemporary security relies on sophisticated scientific evidence-gathering and knowledge-making focused on the human body.

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“The next best thing to actually seeing the prehistoric cave art of southern Franc[e] .

The Internet allows ethnographers to deposit the textual materials on which they base their writing in virtual archives.

Nigeria is famous for "e;419"e; e-mails asking recipients for bank account information and for scandals involving the disappearance of billions of dollars from government coffers.

In Cooking Data Crystal Biruk offers an ethnographic account of research into the demographics of HIV and AIDS in Malawi to rethink the production of quantitative health data.

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

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In Hydraulic City Nikhil Anand explores the politics of Mumbai's water infrastructure to demonstrate how citizenship emerges through the continuous efforts to control, maintain, and manage the city's water.

An interview with acclaimed European philosopher and political activist Srećko Horvat,friend and colleague of Slavoj Zizek and Yanis Varoufakis.

Drawing on methods and approaches from anthropology, media studies, film theory, and cultural studies, the contributors to Media, Erotics, and Transnational Asia examine how mediated eroticism and sexuality circulating across Asia and Asian diasporas both reflect and shape the social practices of their producers and consumers.

From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall.

This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before.

As Alan Klima writes in Ethnography #9, "e;there are other possible starting places than the earnest realism of anthropological discourse as a method of critical thought.

Here at last is a truly simple guide to finding lost energy, and with the rediscovery of energy, the ability to stick to a diet which encourages weight loss.

Rudolf Bahro: Vorlesungen 1990 – 1993 Humboldt-Universität Berlin.

How do people whose entire way of life has been destroyed and who witnessed horrible abuses against loved ones construct a new future?

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.

In Gesture and Power Yolanda Covington-Ward examines the everyday embodied practices and performances of the BisiKongo people of the Lower Congo to show how their gestures, dances, and spirituality are critical in mobilizing social and political action.

In Religion and the Making of Nigeria, Olufemi Vaughan examines how Christian, Muslim, and indigenous religious structures have provided the essential social and ideological frameworks for the construction of contemporary Nigeria.

Praise for Shades of DignityI read Shades of Dignity, the story of Parwen, her family and friends, with great interest.

From a dark mind to a light heart, a poetical journey of emotional and spiritual self-discovery through the years.

In Energy without Conscience David McDermott Hughes investigates why climate change has yet to be seen as a moral issue.

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Incisive essays on Patty Hearst and Reagan, the Central Park jogger and the Santa Ana winds, from the New York Times–bestselling author of South and West.

Malcolm Bradbury’s humorous look at Britain’s transition to midcentury modernity After spending a year teaching in an American university in the 1950s, Malcolm Bradbury returned to England only to realize that his native country had become nearly as mystifying to him as the American Midwest.

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

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Malkin is a vivid evocation of the trials of the Pendle Witches in 1612.

Esta obra propone desmitificar un tema de ayer, de hoy y de siempre, tan sugestivo, atrayente y lleno de misterio como ha sido y continúa siendo la brujería.

Vegetarisch leben – dies ist nicht nur eine gesunde, vollwertige Ernährungsweise, sondern auch Ausdruck eines bewussten Lebensstils.

Desde hace varias décadas, las actividades, ceremonias y rituales conocidos popularmente como "magia casera" se han venido extendiendo de una manera extraordinaria por diversos grupos y clases sociales.

Kos movilidad-intercultural es una apuesta resultado del sentipensar el "espacio geográfico" de procedencia del autor del libro en el contexto de los estudios interculturales.

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Es imprescindible para cualquier ritualista práctico, practique la magia o la brujería doméstica, que tenga o conozca los productos y pequeños secretos que actualmente pueden hallarse fácilmente a la venta, y que son utilizados en la magia de cada día.

"La situación de inseguridad alimentaria es un problema mundial que afecta a diferentes comunidades en contextos de pobreza y vulnerabilidad y requiere de la acción de los gobiernos, instituciones y la academia para brindar soluciones que proporcionen el mejoramiento en los factores de bienestar desde la disponibilidad, la calidad, y el acceso a los alimentos.

Este libro da cuenta de la capacidad de agencia de las personas desplazadas, principalmente en la ciudad de Popayán.