Anthropology

Die Historische Anthropologie beschäftigt sich mit den menschlichen Erfahrungshorizonten in ihren historischen Ausprägungen.

While courses in nutrition counseling teach providers to listen to their patients, this book gives registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs) a heads-up on what to listen for, with educational materials that address the everyday challenges many people, hence many RDNs, face.

This book provides a definition of the developing field of environmental memory studies.

Based on extensive original research, this book explores the history and current revival of Buddhism on the Indonesian island of Java.

In Incommunicable, Charles L.

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously.

Multimodal Methods in Anthropology develops several goals simultaneously.

Take your coffee art to the next level with 50 spectacular-yet-simple latte art designs to impress family and friends.

A surprising look at the meaningful social changes in Jordan as lived and navigated by educated women.

First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan.

First published in 1932, Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan is a general conspectus of the people, traditions, culture, and ways of thought in southern Sudan.

The Anthropology of Digital Practices connects for the first time three distinct research areas - digital ethnography, causal ethnography, and media practice theory - to explore how we might track the effects of new media practices in a digital world.

An intimate account of an anthropologist's relationship with his non-verbal son and how it has shaped and transformed his understanding of closeness and communication.

An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like her, choose to live and work in the wild.

Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation examines the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice and equity issues in today's societies across the world.

Software-based technologies deeply saturate our everyday lives.

Being a Woman and Being Tatar uses ethnographic research to explore the multifaceted and complex identities - such as gender, ethnicity, religion - of Tatar women in Siberia and Estonia.

Those who know about how spirituality plays into the world of drug smuggling have likely heard of Santa Muerte, Jesus Malverde, and Santer but the details of the more obscure African religions and Latin American folk saints and cults often remain a mystery.

First published in 1974, The Bantu-Speaking Peoples of Southern Africa is a revised and rewritten version of I.

The seventh edition of this classic book has been entirely revised and updated by one of the leading professors of human nutrition in the UK.

This book presents a groundbreaking study of the Kashmiri Sikh community, examining how identities are formed and negotiated across the intersections of religion, region, and nation.

This book offers a systematic historical analysis of the relationships between migration and the development of cities, including their physical, economic, and cultural evolution.

'The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing' DAILY TELEGRAPH-A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical beast deep in the Indonesian forest and a fascinating look at how fossils, folklore, and biodiversity converge.

This book presents Maingueneau's notion of paratopia and its application to literary discourse.

This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism.

Forgetting about Spain's civil war (1936-9) and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Franco's death in 1975.

How do social practices prefigure experiences, and how does embodied experience organize the performance of practices?

Received an honorable mention at the Wallerstein Memorial Book Awards Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping Africa poor and dependent, this book explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the New Scramble for Africa.

Culture and Customs of Haiti begins with an overview of the mountainous island that seemed forbidding to European colonizers.

This book analyzes the complex interplay between gesture, speech and other modal resources (e.

This book provides a historical-sociological analysis of recreational scuba diving practices.

Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den Fokus auf die Verbindungen zwischen Lebewesen untereinander und dem Unbelebten richten.

This volume offers a bold and long-overdue intervention into the field of psychological anthropology.

This book provides an ethnographic examination of the everyday lives and struggles of street-involved youth in Canada.

Es indudable que existen categorías sociales que, cuando se interseccionan, contribuyen a formar identidades sociales y crean relaciones de poder, dominación y resistencias específicas.

What was the cultural legacy of enslaved Africans in the American South, and how has that legacy been handed through generations?

This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources.

First published in 1970, The Sociological Study of Religion distinguishes the sociological from the philosophical or theological approach to religion.

This book is an ethnography that draws upon 25 years of qualitative research and shipboard fieldwork in the merchant cargo shipping sector.

A provocative study of contemporary Tantra as a dynamic living tradition.

The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields.

This book helps readers to understand the fast growing and timely concept of social metabolism.

Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.

First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness.

First published in 1961, The Malays reveals the Malay as the inheritor of an ancient and complex civilization made up of Mongolian shamanism; Assyrio-Babylonian and Tantric magic; art motifs from the steppes; Dong-so'n and India; the religions, folklore and literature of Buddhist, Hindu and Muslim; the laws of a peasantry who abandoned democracy for the feudal role of Hindu Rajas, the earthly incarnations of Indra.

Clusterkopfschmerz stellt noch immer eine unheilbare, äußerst belastende Erkrankung dar, bei der die Lebensqualität der Betroffenen enorm eingeschränkt ist.