Anthropology

From a multidisciplinary perspective grounded in psychoanalysis, this book explores the manifestations of mind that distinguish humans from other species, culture, civilization, and destructiveness.

This book reflects on South African literature from the perspective of 2020.

This book explores the roles of civil society organisations (CSOs) when engaging in public diplomacy activities and their impact on community development and change.

Based on ethnographic fieldwork conducted in an agricultural cooperative running a training programme for aspiring farmers, this book explores the possibilities of agrarian and land-based modes of livelihood in contemporary Japan.

Explores how creative digital technologies and artificial intelligence are embedded in culture and society.

An anthropologist's investigation of why some Brazilians choose to leave behind a booming economy and return to their villages.

For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region.

For residents living at national borders, the divisions between countries are rarely black and white, and often everyday interactions contribute to the creation of a cross-border region.

The working of the 1969 Children and Young Persons Act was the subject of much debate in the 1970s.

Cet essai considère l’espace public mexicain en tant que construction sociale hiérarchisée, révélatrice des rapports de pouvoir et des orientations idéologiques qui se manifestent depuis que les femmes autochtones, organisées collectivement, y jouent un rôle spécifique, tant économique que politique.

DHA is an essential building block of the membranes of brain cells and indeed each and every cell membrane in the body gains strength and flexibility from this omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid.

This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors.

This book deploys a long-term account of political corruption in Britain to explain the phenomenon of corruption as it resides within the state and the contemporary problem of corruption denial among members of the political class.

This book captures the hidden labour of migrant nightworkers in 24/7 London.

This book investigates the unique challenges faced by nomadic Indigenous peoples in claiming self-determination and rights to their ancestral lands.

Ante la gran exhibición mediática de las oportunidades y beneficios del emprendimiento y de la economía naranja o economía creativa como "fórmula para mejorar vidas en América Latina y el Caribe", y la decepción, el desconcierto o el rechazo fragmentario que este discurso y sus políticas han suscitado en el sector cultural y el sector académico, este libro emprende una indagación sobre la realidad de la economía naranja, sobre las economías creativas y sobre las modalidades de política pública y de desarrollo que se han venido estableciendo en América Latina, como consolidación de ciertas tendencias en lo económico, en lo político y en lo cultural que permiten hoy hablar de la hegemonía de un sentido común neoliberal, soporte y legitimación de estas propuestas.

El trabajo arqueológico sobre el que se basó la historia de Kinzha hace parte de los inicios de la arqueología preventiva en Bogotá y se relaciona con la construcción de una vía aledaña a la Autopista Sur, próxima a la avenida Boyacá, en el barrio La Delicias (transversal 63 entre las diagonales 44B sur y 43 sur), en el año 1990.

This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia.

This book offers a fresh social scientific analysis of how theologically conservative male clergy respond to the ordination of women to the priesthood and their consecration as bishops within the Church of England.

This volume seeks to explore pilgrimage studies as a distinctive sub-field of research, and to define its key methodological approaches and problems.

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare.

Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word-centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words.

This edited textbook explores the 17 UN SDGs through 12 works from the humanities, including films, novels, and photographic collections.

This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories.

Siguiendo el espíritu del ángel caído, inspírate en los valores afirmativos del satanismo que se oponen valientemente a la autoridad arbitraria y defienden el espíritu contestatario.

This landmark book provides a comprehensive anthropological introduction to contemporary Central Asia.

Extracting Reconciliation argues that reconciliation constitutes a critical contemporary mechanism through which colonialism is seeking to ensure continuing access to Indigenous lands and resources.

This book explores the origins of Butoh in post-war Japan through orality and transmission, in conjunction with an embodied research approach.

This book brings fresh perspectives to the anthropology of migration.

Practitioner Perspectives on Intangible Cultural Heritage provides an accessible introduction to the Intangible Cultural Heritage field.

This book focuses on the impacts of anthropogenic radiation on wildlife and ecosystems and provides an in-depth look at the approaches and available tools we can use to gain information about biological effects of radiation in the environment.

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the heart of their social life.

This book links world-literary studies with anthropology and ethnography.

In this primer, the authors introduce readers to the top ten natural therapies so they can determine which therapy is best for them.

Countless people around the world suffer from allergies and allergy-like symptoms.

Die Erkrankung Adipositas, starkes Übergewicht, betrifft viele Kinder.

Maya Imagery, Architecture, and Activity privileges art historical perspectives in addressing the ways the ancient Maya organized, manipulated, created, interacted with, and conceived of the world around them.

Esta publicación es acerca del patrimonio arqueológico de la ciudad, el patrimonio cultural enterrado que poco a poco ha salido a la luz para contar sobre la vida y la muerte en la ciudad, sobre la permanencia de prácticas indígenas y europeas en los oficios, como la producción cerámica o la preparación de alimentos, y las estrategias para la obtención de recursos, como el agua, en espacios que se hacen pequeños frente al aumento de población, propio de las urbes.

In this book, influential development practitioners reflect on their careers by writing letters of advice to their younger selves.

This book covers the wide range of malignant illness and where they intersect with environmental factors.

The book presents the results of an ethnographic study examining the post-deinstitutionalized organization and provision of acute mental health care in Italy.

This book, Multidisciplinary Knowledge Production and Research Methods in Sub-Saharan Africa: Language, Literature and Religion, contributes to the polemical conversations about existing architectures of knowledge and research practices in postcolonial sub-Saharan Africa.

The study of paleopathology has two very different constituencies, the medical scientist and the zoologist/paleontologist/anthropologist.

This Handbook is a collection of contributions of more than 300 researchers who have worked to grasp the Anthropocene, this new geological epoch characterised by a modification of the conditions of habitability of the Earth for all living things, in its biogeophysical and socio-political reality.

Geriatrics, Lifestyle Medicine and Healthy Aging: A Practical Guide is a book for those interested in promoting healthy aging through lifestyle approaches.

This book reveals the history of the Vatican's ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century.

This book provides an overview of the archaeological sites and cultural assemblages in the world and presents an archaeological database that has been established through two large-scale research projects conducted between 2010 and 2022.

Embodying Transnational Yoga is a refreshingly original, multi-sited ethnography of transnational yoga that obliges us to look beyond postural practice (asana) in modern yoga research.

This book explores the evolving relationship between fashion and transnational capitalism.

Elaborating with the concepts of culture and religious literacy, this volume examines theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of the practice and study of religion and non-religion, culture, spirituality and worldviews within healthcare.