This book develops a theory of collective empowerment that looks for change both from the bottom up, in civil society, and from the top down, from state interventions responding to such pressure.
Los ensayos reunidos en Crítica cultural entre política y poética fueron escritos, en su mayoría, al calor de acontecimientos traumáticos cuyos ecos aún resuenan en el presente.
Este libro está dirigido estudiantes o profesionales de las áreas de la nutrición, la actividad física y la salud, a deportistas que buscan una estrategia de alimentación para asegurar una adecuada recuperación muscular y un máximo rendimiento y a personas físicamente activas, interesadas en promover su salud y mejorar su composición corporal.
Demons in the USA argues that the discourse on the demonic that developed in the nineteenth century continues to exert a powerful hold over the American spiritual imagination.
This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms.
Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.
Redesigning the Unremarkable is a timely and necessary reminder that the often neglected elements and spaces of our built environment - from trash bins, seats, stairways, and fences to streets, bikeways, underpasses, parking lots, and shopping centres - must be thoughtfully redesigned to enhance human and planetary health.
This timely collection of essays by leading international scholars across religious studies and the environmental humanities advances a lively discussion on materialism in its many forms.
'GAVE ME SERIOUS WRITER ENVY' KIRSTY LOGAN'ONE OF MY FAVOURITE STORYTELLERS' KIRAN MILLWOOD HARGRAVE'AN INCREDIBLE AND UNIQUE IMAGINATION' IRISH TIMES'I WAS DELICIOUSLY HORRIFIED' JENN ASHWORTHThe belly groan of a face unpeeled.
Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011, tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan's Pacific Coast, leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986.
Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption, this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people, families, houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other.
The Palgrave Handbook of Disability and Communication covers a broad spectrum of topics related to how we perceive and understand disability and the language, constructs, constraints and communication behavior that shape disability discourse within society.
This edited volume presents, for the first time, a history of anthropology regarding not only the well-known European and American traditions, but also lesser-known traditions, extending its scope beyond the Western world.
Postkoloniale Ansätze in der Ethnologie zeichnen sich durch eine kritische Reflexion der eigenen Wissenschaftsgeschichte aus und denken dabei theoretische und methodologische Ansätze des Faches weiter.
Für eine erfolgreiche Schulkooperation sollen die Schulen möglichst viele strukturelle Gemeinsamkeiten und gemeinsame pädagogische Grundvorstellungen aufweisen, so lauten bisherige Befunde aus der Schulnetzwerkforschung.
"Cada pueblo debe ser percibido no a partir de la diferencia de un patrimonio substantivo, estable, permanente y fijo de cultura, o una episteme cristalizada, sino como un vector histórico.
This book puts forward the concept of "e;subjective anthropology"e; and outlines a theoretical system that will allow subjective anthropology to qualify as a new academic discipline in its own right.
A Forged Glamour, which takes its title from a poem, is an exploration of the lives and deaths of ironworking communities renowned for their spectacular material culture, who lived in modern-day East and North Yorkshire, between the 4th and 1st centuries BC.
"Das große Cholesterin Kochbuch" von Hermine Krämer ist Ihr Schlüssel zur natürlichen Senkung des Cholesterinspiegels und zur Verbesserung Ihrer Blutwerte.
Beer is made up of various bioactive substances containing antioxidants and specific ingredients with potentially beneficial effects on the human body if consumed in moderation.
Beer is made up of various bioactive substances containing antioxidants and specific ingredients with potentially beneficial effects on the human body if consumed in moderation.
The radically humanistic essays in Arc of Interference refigure our sense of the real, the ethical, and the political in the face of mounting social and planetary upheavals.
In The Prescription-to-Prison Pipeline Michelle Smirnova argues that the ongoing opioid drug epidemic is the result of an endless cycle in which suffering is medicalized and drug use is criminalized.
In recent years, social scientists have turned their critical lens on the historical roots and contours of their disciplines, including their politics and practices, epistemologies and methods, institutionalization and professionalization, national development and colonial expansion, globalization and local contestations, and public presence and role in society.
In Waste Works, Brenda Chalfin examines Ghana's planned city of Tema, theorizing about the formative role of waste infrastructure in urban politics and public life.
A finales de los años cincuenta del siglo pasado, Claude Lévi-Strauss organizó de modo creativo una serie de ensayos para dar a luz un volumen que resultaría un clásico: Antropología estructural.
El cabello rubio y su significado en la sociedad limeña, las nuevas musculaturas masculinas que cuestionan los modelos de cuerpos de fisicoculturista, el dolor y placer de los practicantes de lucha libre que terminan en las emergencias hospitalarias, los jóvenes varones locos por la moda que temen ser tildados de femeninos u homosexuales, y extraordinarias fotografías de mujeres marginales que buscan comunicar sus experiencias de vida a través de sus cuerpos; todos ellos representan temas apasionantes y son creativamente abordados por la comunicación, la antropología, la sociología y las artes escénicas.
Anin-depth and wide-ranging approach to the study of older adults in societyTaking a holisticapproach to the study of aging, this volume uses biological, archaeological,medical, and cultural perspectives to explore how older adults have functionedin societies around the globe and throughout human history.
This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds.
This book explores considerations of method in the field of political anthropology, contending that this constitutes a distinct approach within the broader area of the human, social and political sciences.
