Au Laos, les deux guerres d’Indochine, suivies de la fermeture des frontières chinoises et thaïlandaises jusqu’en 1991, ont eu comme conséquence de préserver la diversité ethnique des forces du marché régional et de l’industrialisation.
As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthropologists throughout the world.
This finely drawn portrait of a complex, polycultural urban community in Madagascar emphasizes the role of spirit medium healers, a group heretofore seen as having little power.
Aesthetic Practices in African Tourism explores "e;Rastahood"e;, a community, youth culture, and new tourist art form created by young men on the margins of the Ghanaian economy as they came of age at the turn of the millennium.
L’identité est de plus en plus inscrite dans une dynamique avec laquelle elle est d’autant plus amenée à « composer », qu’elle est insérée dans un espace mondial plus étendu, et un espace local sorte d’outil d’un ancrage identitaire fort, qui ne cesse de se rétrécir.
Taking care of the caregivers-a compassionate guide to healing secondary traumaA traumatic experience can have profound impacts on the people directly involved.
This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes-or obentos-that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons.
In her groundbreaking ethnography The Asian Gang, published in 2000, Claire Alexander explored the creation of Asian Muslim masculinities in South London.
Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this ground-breaking new work examines Indian womens political activism.
The events of the Arab Spring presented a dramatic reconstitution of politics and the public sphere through their aesthetic and performative uses of public space.
This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community.
Si pour certains le substrat naturel, l'instinct de survie et de thanatos sont les causes de la violence, pour d’autres elle est causée par l’injustice et les inégalités sociales et politiques.
Anthropology of Reproduction: The Basics is a clear and accessible guide to topics in reproduction from the perspective of anthropology, emphasizing the central importance of reproduction in human sociocultural and biological experience.
This provocative study of gender and sexuality in contemporary Japan investigates elements of Japanese popular culture including erotic comic books, stories of mother-son incest, lunchboxes-or obentos-that mothers ritualistically prepare for schoolchildren, and children's cartoons.
The new and updated edition of The Archaeology of Religion explores how archaeology interprets past religions, offering insights into how archaeologists seek out the religious, ritual, and symbolic meaning behind what they discover in their research.
This new volume explains in detail the properties of micronutrients and macronutrients and their diverse uses as nutraceuticals for their beneficial properties, such as their antioxidant activity and immunity-boosting properties and how they can be incorporated into the human diet for optimum health, for growing beneficial bacteria in the gut, and inhibition of pathogens.
Design and the Vernacular explores the intersection between vernacular architecture, local cultures, and modernity and globalization, focussing on the vast and diverse global region of Australasia and Oceania.
Charlotte Hogg takes a close look, through the example of White university sororities, at how we create and cling to subcultures through the notion of belonging, and how spoken and unspoken rhetorics contribute to this notion.
Over the course of their history, the Navajo (Dine) have constructed many types of architecture, but during the 20th century, one building emerged to become a powerful and inspiring symbol of tribal culture.
La vision africaine du mariage est, de très loin, différente de celle occidentale qui résume souvent le mariage à un simple contrat à durée déterminée ou indéterminée, conclu entre deux personnes de même sexe ou de sexes opposés.
The book describes the experience of four Social Dreaming Matrices held online between March and May 2020, during the first lockdown caused by the Covid 19 emergency.
Translation and Race brings together translation studies with critical race studies for a long-overdue reckoning with race and racism in translation theory and practice.
As conflict resolution becomes increasingly important to urban and rural peoples around the globe, the value of this classic anthology of studies of process, structure, comparison, and perception of the law is acclaimed by policy makers as well as anthropologists throughout the world.
Japanese two-year-olds are indulged, dependent, and undisciplined toddlers, but by the age of six they have become obedient, self-reliant, and cooperative students.
THE FIRST IN A FANTASY ROMANCE SERIES FROM THE AUTHOR OF TIKTOK SENSATION MAGNOLIA PARKS"e;There is a boy of legend in the tales passed down in my family.
This book introduces readers to the rich and fascinating history of West Africa, stretching all the way back to the stone age, and right up to the modern day.
