Anthropology

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday life.

Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest?

Drawing from ethnographic data collected in Indonesia from 2009 to 2022, this book explores how an English-medium Indonesian PhD program in interreligious studies and three Muslim scholar-activists activate knowledge where languages intersect, a process mediated by material circumstances within Indonesia and voices past, present, and future that both are audience to and transcend the traditional geographic and discursive borders associated with them.

Why did a rural dialect from the heart of Norwegian farm country win a national dialect popularity contest?

Since Spring 2013, Francesca Hornak has been writing a hugely popular column in the Sunday Times Style section, 'History of the World in 100 Modern Objects'.

Embrace the vibrant world of rainbow magic with this captivating guide to the mystical powers of colors.

This book offers ethnographic accounts of Aymara language media activism in Bolivia during the presidency of Evo Morales (2006 2019).

This collection spotlights the diachronic dimensions of the linguistic landscape, the importance of exploring temporal dissonances in historical events in order to better understand semiotic, political, and social transformations across different communities over the last century.

Poverty, Gender and Health in the Slums of Bangladesh provides comprehensive ethnographic accounts that depict the daily life experiences and health hardships encountered by young women and their families living in the slums of Dhaka city and the injustices they face.

The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question 'What do you want to be when you grow up?

This book examines the dynamics underpinning the implementation of Zimbabwe's fast track land reforms.

The latest installment in the New York Times bestselling Politically Incorrect Guide series expands on the pro-South slant of the hugely successful Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.

Over the past decade, people have learned about oil contamination in the Ecuadorian Amazon through toxic tours in which a guide brings participants - students, lawyers, environmental activists, journalists, and foreign tourists - to visit contaminated sites.

The Ethnographer's Way guides researchers through the exciting process of turning an initial idea into an in-depth research project.

This book examines the ways in which indigeneity interacts with climate change politics at multiple levels and at the same time offers a self-critical reflection on the role of ethnographic research (and researchers) in this process.

How do people make sense of their past, and look forward into their future, through practices religious, spiritual or otherwise in places of both modernity and political trauma?

"e;Jane Clarke is an exceptional nutritionist.

The fourth edition of Teaching Culture and Psychology (previously Cross-Cultural Explorations) provides an array of carefully designed instructor resources and student activities that support the construction and implementation of courses on culture and psychology.

A 'sun sign' or 'star sign' is the sign of the zodiac that you are born under; Everyday Astrology For A Better Life shows how sun-sign astrology, the most straightforward form of ancient science, can unlock your hidden potential and reveal your true personality.

Tribal societies in India observe a diverse set of religious practices which are a quintessential part of their community life.

This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and warfare.

This book presents a very short introduction to the Aztecs using interpretive tools from religious studies and anthropology to uncover the paradox of Aztec life; on the one hand a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry and philosophic rhetoric while on the other hand a people profoundly committed to cosmic regeneration through the thrust of the ceremonial knife and warfare.

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'Brimming with ideas and insights, this is a welcome, important and clear-eyed view of how understanding the past can help us better prepare for the future' - Peter Frankopan, bestselling author of The Earth Transformed and The Silk Roads'Enlightening and thrilling.

Andrés Pérez de Ribas llegó a la Nueva España en 1604 y vivió durante 16 años entre los indios zuaques, ahomes y yaquis del noroeste de México.

Based on interviews and conversations in the Bosnian Federation with women survivors of war rape, children born of armed conflict, leaders of NGOs who work with survivors, and people who lived through the war and who experienced it in different ways, this book challenges one-dimensional representations of the Yugoslav war and subsequent peacebuilding processes.

In 'Sign Language of the North American Indians (Illustrated Edition)' by Garrick Mallery, the author delves into the fascinating world of sign language used by various Native American tribes.

This book is the first of its kind to fully explain how to use photographs for research within Practical Theology.

In Disability Worlds, Faye Ginsburg and Rayna Rapp chronicle and theorize two decades of immersion in New York City's wide-ranging disability worlds as parents, activists, anthropologists, and disability studies scholars.

In Making Value, Timothy D.

A powerful ethnographic study of South Baltimore, a place haunted by toxic pasts in its pursuit of better futures.

Bogotá es una criatura de constantes alteraciones.

Los inventarios de patrimonio cultural inmaterial son procesos participativos que invitan a la ciudadanía a reflexionar, explorar y comprender su patrimonio, activando la salvaguardia desde un modelo de gestión comunitaria.

El capitalismo digital ha emergido como una manifestación tardía y avanzada del capitalismo global convulsionado y de la crisis del modelo neoliberal.

Solsticio de invierno del año 2001: en un paraje deshabitado de La Pampa, una multitud contempla la restitución del cráneo del cacique Mariano Rosas a su antigua morada, tras haber sido exhibido durante un siglo en el Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata.

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