Anthropology

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Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian peoples.

There is a man who wakes up one morning as the only person left on Earth who can speak his own native language.

This study of a northern Spanish community shows how the residents of Santa MarAa del Monte have acted together at critical times to ensure the survival of their traditional forms of social organization.

Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "e;cargo cults"e; of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s.

The premise of The Tao of Zen is that Zen is really Taoism in the disguise of Buddhisman assumption being made by more and more Zen scholars.

A wide range of expert opinion on current demographic problems is presented in this book, based on the proceedings of the 1949 meeting of the Population Association of America.

Michael Burns charts the rural impact of the two political watersheds"e; of fin-de-siecle France--Boulangism and the Dreyfus Affair.

Based on the day-to-day record of an American sociologist imprisoned for three years in a Japanese concentration camp in the seaport town of Bacolod, Negros Island, Philippines, this book deals with the relations between people in a situation of stress.

The New World primates have radiated widely in tropical America, evolving a variety of adaptations to cope with different ways of life.

In this compelling narrative of antisemitism in German thought, Paul Rose proposes a fresh view of the topic.

Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A.

This study opposes the prevailing view that Indian villages have little social solidarity and points out the relationship between village solidarity and the potentially centrifugal factors of caste, conflict, and power.

In 1870 the Welsh ironmaster John James Hughes left his successful career in England and settled in the barren and underpopulated Donbass region of the Ukrainian steppe to found the town of Iuzovka and build a large steel plant and coal mine.

Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America.

Robin Dunbar uses economic models to explore the social behavior of the gelada baboon (Theropithecus gelada), a unique species, whose social system is one of the most complex among the primates.

This richly documented work focuses on the parentela (extended family), including Epitacio's, to illustrate the role bonds of blood, marriage, and friendship played in formal politics at local, state, and national levels throughout the Old Republic (1889-1930).

By examining the relationship between the notaires, members of a significant French legal profession with deep roots in French history, and the state, Ezra Suleiman demonstrates that clientelism exists and may be more dangerous in a centralized state than in a decentralized one.

Commander Leighton is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who was assigned to go to the Japanese Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona, and "e;apply the methods of social science"e; to that community-find out in terms of human relationships what was working well and why, what was going wrong and why, and attempt to draw general principles from that experience.

A groundbreaking work that transformed the way we understand life on Earth.

A founder of and leading thinker in the field of modern ethnobiology looks at the widespread regularities in the classification and naming of plants and animals among peoples of traditional, nonliterate societies--regularities that persist across local environments, cultures, societies, and languages.

Explore les relations soignants-soignés et les normes éthiques dans le contexte médical contemporain des soins intensifs durant la syndémie de COVID-19.

Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine.

Do you ever wonder what life was like for the one Black child or few Black children, you knew growing up in Scotland?

Why are religious visions believed only in certain times and places?

From the first apes to the first cities, HUMANS: FROM THE BEGINNING is the definitive guide to our distant pastIn just a few years, our understanding of the human past has changed beyond recognition as new discoveries and advances in genetic techniques overturn long-held beliefs and make international news.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,6, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germanistik und Kunstwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Filmischer Master Space und Genderstereotype, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der 2004 erschienene Film "Barbie als die Prinzessin und das Dorfmädchen" ist hier der zentrale Untersuchungsgegenstand.

This handbook represents the first structured, academic overview of constructed languages, including not only well-known examples like Esperanto and Klingon, but also those created for educational, philosophical, and communication purposes.

Epigenetic variation has become an important complement to traditional forensic genetics, offering new ways to interpret biological traces and extract investigative information beyond sequence based DNA profiling.

Epigenetic variation has become an important complement to traditional forensic genetics, offering new ways to interpret biological traces and extract investigative information beyond sequence based DNA profiling.

Your culture affects your body and your choices in profound and unexpected ways.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Passau, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Bachelorarbeit untersucht die Berichterstattung des öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland über die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Verhältnisse in Argentinien während der Fußball-Weltmeisterschaft 1978.

Do you ever wonder what life was like for the one Black child or few Black children, you knew growing up in Scotland?

Your culture affects your body and your choices in profound and unexpected ways.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Universität Bremen (Kulturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Hausarbeit untersucht die Reden von Swami Vivekananda auf dem Weltparlament der Religionen 1893 in Chicago und deren Einfluss auf die Wahrnehmung des Hinduismus im Westen.

This handbook represents the first structured, academic overview of constructed languages, including not only well-known examples like Esperanto and Klingon, but also those created for educational, philosophical, and communication purposes.

Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Lehrstuhl für Europäische Ethnologie / Empirische Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Alltagswelten ethnografieren − Flusswelten.

The Nuer conquest entailed a fourfold increase in territorial domain achieved during the short span of seventy years (ca.

In Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially in the Odyssey.

In Sardonic Smile: Nonverbal Behavior in Homeric Epic, Donald Lateiner examines every major variety of Homeric nonverbal behavior, especially in the Odyssey.

Kenya's central highlands are the elevated portions of East Africa that European colonists entered from the beginning of the twentieth century to make Kenya a white settlement area.

Puppets of Nostalgia is the first major work in any Western language to examine the ritual origins and religious dimensions of puppetry in Japan.

The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the "e;head of state"e; but as the center or navel of the world.

The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America is a timely examination of critical cases of land degradation, deforestation, and resource depletion in Central and South America.

By the early twenty-first century, the United States will experience a demographic change as those groups previously thought of as minorities become the majority.

By the early twenty-first century, the United States will experience a demographic change as those groups previously thought of as minorities become the majority.

The first three decades of the twentieth century in late-colonial Vietnam -- the period that also marked the transition between the dominant Confucian and nascent Western worldviews -- generated an abundance of political literature in that country.