Anthropology

This book describes the cultures of two closely related language groups in the Peruvian Amazon: the Shipibo and Conibo.

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.

This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.

This book presents the state of the art on cultural heritage and tourism globally.

This book takes a unique approach to the ethnographic and analytical explorations of ecologies in the making.

Widespread throughout Latin America, susto is a folk illness associated with a broad array of symptoms.

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.

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery.

The human sciences-including psychology, anthropology, and social theory-are widely held to have been born during the eighteenth century.

Popkin develops a model of rational peasant behavior and shows how village procedures result from the self-interested interactions of peasants.

In a completely new approach to borders and border crossing, this volume suggests a re-conceptualization of the nation in Southeast Asia.

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.

Health Without Bodies invites readers on an ethnographic exploration of the boundary between food and medicine.

The riveting, powerful and profoundly moving story of the AIDS epidemic.

This volume is about effective discipleship.

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.

Philosopher sérieusement nécessite de réfléchir à partir d'un lieu et d'un temps précis.

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.

A burial environment is a complex and dynamic system.

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.

This book presents new ways of understanding heritage and heritage work.

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.

This book offers a critical anthropological perspective on contemporary childhood in Haiti.

150 Rezepte- Stoffwechseldiät und Stoffwechselkur – was steckt hinter den neuen Wunderdiäten?

Temps et sujet : Sujet du temps ?

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.

Business Anthropology: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introductory text organized around key issues in the field.

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.