Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta.
In this widely-praised study, Carol Laderman provides a vivid picture of the daily life of rural Malays as she focuses on their dietary practices and the ritual and medical aspects of childbirth procedures.
The Routledge Companion to the Anthropology of Performance provides a cutting-edge, comprehensive overview of the foundations, epistemologies, methodologies, key topics and current debates, and future directions in the field.
Terrapsychological Inquiry is a path of storied, imaginative research that takes seriously our intense inner responses to the state of the natural world.
Taking the shifting global drug policy terrain as a starting point, this collection moves beyond debates about whether to reform drug policies to a focus on delivering 'drug policy justice' - repairing the damage caused by the war on drugs as a component of reform efforts and safeguarding against future harms in legal markets.
The Universities of Ancient Greece (1912) examines Greek education in the Classical world, from the pre-Alexandrian times to the last three centuries B.
L'identité culturelle est ce par quoi se reconnaît une communauté humaine en termes de valeurs, de pensées et d'engagement, de langue et de lieu de vie, de pratiques, de traditions et de croyances, de vécu en commun et de mémoire historique.
Dans les années 90, avec plus de 130 groupes ruraux revendiquant des spécificités ethnolinguistiques et historiques particulières, la mosaïque ethnique du Laos est unique.
Ce livre prolonge et approfondit l’ambition du troisième volume de Bumuntu ou la culture de l’excellence, celle d’ériger les différents principes du bumuntu en une architectonique de la bumuntulogie.
The Trauma Mantras is a memoir by medical anthropologist, teacher, and writer Adrie Kusserow, who has worked with refugees and humanitarian projects in Bhutan, Nepal, India, Uganda, South Sudan, and the United States.
Whilst there is an extensive body of research exploring the barriers to gender equality and female empowerment in high-income states, there are far fewer systematic analyses within lower-income settings.
Bushnell and Moody present a rich investigation into the navigation of friendships, adopting discursive and ethnographic perspectives to examine Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and English interactional data.
Dans les années 90, avec plus de 130 groupes ruraux revendiquant des spécificités ethnolinguistiques et historiques particulières, la mosaïque ethnique du Laos est unique.
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.
This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview.
Repatriation, Science, and Identity explores the entanglement of race, history, identity and ethics inherent in the application of scientific techniques to determine the provenance of Indigenous Ancestral Remains in repatriation claims and processes.
This book sheds light on the structure of "e;a unity with diversity"e; developed in the Qing imperial formation (1636-1912) by a case study of the Qing-Tibetan encounters in the eighteenth century.
Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens, seen through the lenses of casting, design, and adaptation, with attention paid to why these patterns persist, and what wishes they fulfil.
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.
Notre appartenance au monde du vivant en tant qu’Homo sapiens s’inscrit dans l’observation des objets du monde participant de notre environnement et est à l’origine de l’expérience du miroir chez les grands primates.
This book is a selection of articles by David Zilberman, a prolific author, whose tragic untimely death did not allow to finish many of his undertakings.
Mine areas left behind by companies that no longer exist are defined as derelict mines - those that were operated and closed at a time when most countries did not have adequate regulations requiring rehabilitation of the impacted mine areas.
In Jonah Blank's important, myth-shattering book, the West gets its first look at the Daudi Bohras, a unique Muslim denomination who have found the core of their religious beliefs largely compatible with modern ideology.
The twin concepts of Culture and Identity are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested.
This is both the first systematic introduction to Discourse Studies for students and scholars of social movements and a study of discourses on the European "e;refugee crisis"e;, by leading theorist, Teun A.