Das Buch bietet die erste systematische Einführung in das Werk des kürzlich verstorbenen, postkolonialen Autors Munasu Duala-Mʼbedy, ausgehend von der Analyse seines Hauptwerkes Xenologie.
Edmund Snow Carpenter (19222011), shaped by an early encounter with Marshall McLuhan, was a renegade anthropologist who would plumb the connection between anthropology and media studies over a thoroughly unconventional career.
Current anthropology uses expressions such as 'society as a whole', 'socio-cosmic relations', 'spatiotemporal extension', 'global ideology', and 'cosmomorphy' to establish that the clear-cut Western dichotomy between society and cosmos is not always to be found in the communities it studies.
Energy Capitol: The Waning of Regulatory Form explores the waning of regulatory politics surrounding large-scale energy systems in the United States at the turn of the millennium.
Volume II begins with their arrival in England in April 1920 and Malinowski's lectures on Trobriand Economics at the London School of Economics and goes on to detail their lives together, and apart, until Elsie's death in 1935.
This book presents the latest evidence-based approach in diagnosis and management of the aging of both individuals and society from a gerontology perspective.
This volume adopts an interdisciplinary approach to rethink the multiple dimensions of marginality - political, societal, economic, cultural, legal and spatial.
From an out-of-school perspective, the book studies private supplementary tutoring, also widely known as shadow education within the Chinese education landscape.
Communities of Practice and Ethnographic Fieldwork offers a new perspective on how ethnography might be learned in real time through participation in a supportive community of practice.
This completely revised and rewritten handbook gives an overview of international organization (IO) as a dynamic field of research that adds to our understanding of global and regional relations and related domestic politics.
In the early 1990s, "e;queer anthropology"e; represented a new and radically different approach to anthropological research on sexuality and gender, but it is now an established subfield of sociocultural anthropology.
This book aims to provide comprehensive ethnographic documentation of pastoralist childhood and child learning, based on the author's long-term fieldwork in pastoralist Maasai society in southern Kenya.
Marriage has always occupied a profound cultural and social significance in Zimbabwean society, but the forms and meanings attached to marriage have changed in recent decades.
"Viel zu wenig wird untersucht, wer weshalb mit welchen Medien Wissen auf Reisen schickt oder von Reisen mitbringt und wer auf welche Weise sich fremdes Wissen eigensinnig angeeignet, um das Eigene neu zu interpretieren.
This book aims to provide comprehensive ethnographic documentation of pastoralist childhood and child learning, based on the author's long-term fieldwork in pastoralist Maasai society in southern Kenya.
Yemeni Poetry on the Frontline investigates popular literary responses to conflict in the different regions of Yemen, comparing responses to, and expressions of, traditional conflict with those to the new externally fuelled conflict.
"Viel zu wenig wird untersucht, wer weshalb mit welchen Medien Wissen auf Reisen schickt oder von Reisen mitbringt und wer auf welche Weise sich fremdes Wissen eigensinnig angeeignet, um das Eigene neu zu interpretieren.
Laura Rival, antropóloga de Oxford, ofrece en este libro un aporte sustancial al conocimiento del pueblo huaorani, completando así el trabajo que se ha convertido en un clásico, publicado por Ediciones Abya-Yala en 1996, Hijos del sol y padres del jaguar.
The Routledge Companion to Practicing Anthropology and Design provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the relationship between these two fields and their current state, outlining key concepts and current debates as well as positing directions for future practice and research.
Against the backdrop of the global refugee crisis, Unsettled Families investigates the parameters that Global North governments and international humanitarian organizations use to classify most displaced families-more than 99% globally-as ineligible for resettlement, and often as fraudulent.
How children's non-belief and non-religion are formed in everyday lifeThe number of those identifying as ';non-religious' has risen rapidly in Britain and many other parts of Europe and North America.
Many believe that we are passing through a period during which, due largely to globalization's challenge to the idea and sovereignty of nation-states, there is now the intellectual and political space for the construction of new models of citizenship, involving new relations between individuals and their governments.
All that is central to the dynamic process in human society is evident in the study of hunter-gatherers - peoples whose subsistence way of life reflects the original form of human adaptation.
This four-volume, reset collection takes as its starting point the earliest substantial descriptions of tea as a commodity in the mid-seventeenth century, and ends in the early nineteenth century with two key events: the discovery of tea plants in Assam in 1823, and the dissolution of the East India Company's monopoly on the tea trade in 1833.
Originally published in 1993, as part of the Ethnoscapes: Current Challenges in the Environmental Social Sciences series, reissued now with a new series introduction, Housing: Design, Research and Education, demonstrated some of the diversity and richness of the research being undertaken in housing at time, which took as its starting point peoples' notion of home and the way in which a sense of home is captured distilled and expressed through various facets of design, and conversely the urgent need for architects and planners to take seriously the everyday scale and scope of peoples' home experience.
