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.
For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the "e;heart"e; of their social life.
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.
Abortion and Reproductive Rights in Slovenia: A Case of Resistance provides a detailed and in-depth analysis of the situation of sexual and reproductive rights in Slovenia.
Politics of Socio-Spatial Transformation in Pakistan analyses the relationship between socio-spatial transformation, styles of leadership and nature of constituents in Pakistan.
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.
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.
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.
Vor dem Hintergrund der Tatsache, dass innovatives Handeln in der Gegenwart eine große Wertschätzung erfährt, unternimmt das Buch eine Untersuchung des Begriffs, des Ursprungs, des Werts und der Spielarten der Kreativität.
Matriliny and Modernity (1996) explores the situation both past and present of women living in the matrilineal society of Negeri Sembilan in a rapidly modernising Malaysia.
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 book examines the history of Belgian physical anthropology in the long nineteenth century and discusses how the notion of 'race' structured Belgian pasts and presents as well as relations between metropole and empire.
Hydrofeminist Thinking with Oceans brings together authors who are thinking in, with and through the spaces of ocean/s and beaches in South African contexts to make alternative knowledges towards a justice-to-come and flourishing at a planetary level.
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.
This book offers an interpretation of the French Revolution and modern democracy, arguing that the revolution gave rise to a democratic power that is liminal by nature, and therefore unlimited, unaccountable on principle, and the basis for a state religion of continuous transformation.
El cinabrio, un pigmento rojo vivo, ha sido utilizado por muchas culturas antiguas de todo el mundo, el hallazgo de cinabrio y de mercurio en el tunel excavado recientemente bajo el Templo de la Serpiente Emplumada, confirma la importancia simbolica de estos dos elementos y su vinculacion con el pensamiento cosmogonico de las antiguas culturas mesoamericanas.
This book offers an interpretation of the French Revolution and modern democracy, arguing that the revolution gave rise to a democratic power that is liminal by nature, and therefore unlimited, unaccountable on principle, and the basis for a state religion of continuous transformation.
Seeking Transcendence examines the various paths taken by those who have detached themselves from their traditional, institutional religious roots but are seeking non-traditional paths to spiritual experiences.
Als Mittel zur Orientierung -werden mit dem Werkzeug der "Drei Blickwinkel"-nacheinander die individuelle, soziale und die Sachperspektive eingenommen.
Die geheimnisvolle Welt des Golden Dawn, durchzogen von mächtigen Symbolen, rituellen Zeremonien und intensiven Initiationsverfahren, hat seit jeher die Fantasie von Suchenden, Mystikern und Historikern gleichermaßen ergriffen.
Zwischen Zivilisation und Niemandsland – eine herausragende Reportage von der letzten Frontier der USADie meisten Amerikanerinnen und Amerikaner haben noch nie vom San Luis Valley gehört: einer flachen, weiten Prärielandschaft mitten im Nirgendwo.
El multinaturalismo del antropólogo brasilero Eduardo Viveiros de Castro y el animismo del francés Philippe Descola se han popularizado más o menos juntos bajo el nombre de perspectivismo amerindio y se están expandiendo viralmente desde la Amazonia al resto de la academia de las ciencias sociales.
A Radio 4 Book of the Week'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' - Telegraph'Fascinating, funny, illuminating' - Adam Hills'Riveting .
"Este libro expone las líneas epistemológicas y metodológicas de construcción del territorio, confrontando desarrollos específicos de dialogía socio-espacial (prácticas, nominaciones, relatos, memoria, historias) a las políticas de identidad, integrando en el análisis la escalaridad desigual del sujeto desplazado y arraigado (por la guerra) que procesa memorias retro-proyectivas en búsqueda de sentido como horizonte espacio-temporal para reterritorializar en el posconflicto.
Esta investigación etnográfica, parte de la búsqueda del origen de la memoria de la tradición católica de las fiestas patronales y peregrinaciones populares de la época colonial alrededor del culto mariano, en diferentes localidades del departamento de Boyacá.
