An Introduction to the Amphibians of Ecuador is the first of four volumes, which are comprehensive, well-illustrated, and authoritative works, making them invaluable to biologists, conservationists, and others.
Was haben die Oberflächenspannung des Wassers, die biologische Zellmembran, die Bildung gesellschaftlicher Gruppen und die psychologische Grenze zwischen Ich und Du gemeinsam?
The Dream of Social Justice and Bad Moral Luck examines the intertwined lives of five women and three men, Russian Jews in the first half of the twentieth century, as their belief in social transformation unraveled.
Homemaking studies have consistently demonstrated a lack of attention to different meanings of practices within immigrant groups, creating a biased picture which orients immigrants towards their country of origin when making home in the receiving society.
This book explores the phenomenon of familyhood across borders, examining the experience of translocal familyhood and the manner in which lifelines in and between countries are formed when individual family members spend long periods away from home.
This reintroduction to the life and work of Marcel Mauss highlights his coherent and original thought both as an academic and an engaged intellectual of his time.
This book examines the relationship between social practices and built space, focusing on current cooperative/participative and posthuman approaches to its production and management.
Inclusion and Exclusion of the Urban Poor in Dhaka explores how the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Dhaka, Bangladesh, gain inclusion in the city at the face of exclusion.
This book explores 'efficacious intimacy' as an embodied concept of worldmaking, and a framework for studying belief practices in religious and political domains.
For coffee enthusiasts everywhere, a charming handbook to becoming your own favorite barista More than 100 million Americans start each day with a cup of coffee (many at no small price)!
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.
Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland.
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, 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.
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 provides a comprehensive analysis of the current directions in social rehabilitation scholarship and research by bringing together the voices of legal scholars, criminal justice professionals, social scientists, and people directly impacted by criminal justice in a comparative, international, and interdisciplinary fashion.
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.
This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the social sciences.
Combining ethnographic research with theological analysis, this book explores how the Catholic Charismatic Renewal (CCR), one of the largest new movements within the global Catholic Church, has developed in contemporary Britain and Northern Ireland.
This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.
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.
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 ethnographic research project examines the generation of post-tariqa Tasavvuf (Sufism: a spiritual practice and philosophy recognised as the inner dimension of Islam) in a variety of private, semi-public, public, secular and sacred urban spaces in present-day Turkey.
This book provides scholars and non-specialists alike with a roadmap for effectively conducting culturally aware, historically relevant research on African dance and on any dance style that contains African elements.
The Collaborative Body in Qualitative Research challenges normative philosophies that have frequently neglected the body's place in research and then illustrates how the body is essential for all meaning making.
This book critically examines the new middle class and the emergence of neo-urban spaces in India within the context of rapid urbanisation and changing socio-spatial dynamics in urban areas in the country.
This collection brings together social semiotic, ethnographic, and conversation analytic approaches to multimodality in global studies of shopping, drawing on the rich diversity of the latest multimodal methods to critically reflect on shopping as a cornerstone of contemporary social life.
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.
This book examines the relationship between cultural difference and practical knowledge and its implications for the study of humanities and the social sciences.
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.
