Anthropology

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Europa-Universitat Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Kulturwissenschaften), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In einer sich stetig wandelnden Welt ist die Suche nach Kategorien und Zuschreibungen prasent wie nie.

For many years before the coming of the Europeans, Algonquin peoples held the northern reaches of the New 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.

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

Being part of a violent community in revolt can be addictive--it can be fun.

"e;A richly entertaining series of Hawaiian tales with explanatory facts, which will delight and inform both the folklore fan and the general reader"e; The Honolulu AdvertiserHawaiian Legends of Volcanoes made its first appearance in 1916, in both American and British editions, as the third in a series that represented a pioneering study of Hawaiian folklore.

The history of Tokyo is as eventful as it is long.

Why do hotels skip the 13th floor?

Diplomas and Thatch Houses examines the people of Pulap, a tiny atoll just north of the Equator in the western Pacific.

In recent years, most of the economies of Eastern Asia have been absorbed into global capitalism.

The Attraction of Opposites considers a puzzling phenomenon: Why do societies all over the world organize their social thought and institutions in patterns of opposites?

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important and intensively studied world regions?

Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B.

A fascinating exploration into the world of the Saramaka Maroons of the Suriname rain forest, Co-wives and Calabashes examines the status of women in this polygynous and matrilineal society as reflected in its social structure and in its art.

A fascinating exploration into the world of the Saramaka Maroons of the Suriname rain forest, Co-wives and Calabashes examines the status of women in this polygynous and matrilineal society as reflected in its social structure and in its art.

Double Passage presents, in their own words, the lives and experiences of thirteen men and women from the island of Barbados who emigrated to North America and Britain and then years later returned home.

Diplomas and Thatch Houses examines the people of Pulap, a tiny atoll just north of the Equator in the western Pacific.

Having unfolded in the diverse communities of the diaspora, Jewish experience lends itself almost effortlessly to comparative treatment.

This book departs from stereotypes that often dominate Western discourse about Muslim societies.

In Peace: An Idea Whose Time Has Come, noted mathematician and peace researcher Anatol Rapoport explores the evolution of the idea of peace and explains why it is displacing war as a viable institution.

Double Passage presents, in their own words, the lives and experiences of thirteen men and women from the island of Barbados who emigrated to North America and Britain and then years later returned home.

Colonialism and Culture, edited by Nicholas B.

In The Pigs that Ate the Garden, Peter D.

This book departs from stereotypes that often dominate Western discourse about Muslim societies.

The Ecology of Kalimantan is a comprehensive ecological survey of one of Indonesia's largest and most diverse islands.

In Constructing Inequality, Raymond C.

In Constructing Inequality, Raymond C.

The Attraction of Opposites considers a puzzling phenomenon: Why do societies all over the world organize their social thought and institutions in patterns of opposites?

In The Pigs that Ate the Garden, Peter D.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject Ethnology / Cultural Anthropology, grade: 2,3, University of Heidelberg (Sudasien Institut, Abteilung Ethnologie), course: Gender, Gesundheit und Politik in Sudasien, language: English, abstract: Suicide is the intentional destruction of one's own life.

Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world.

Placing theories of ethnicity and religious pluralism in relation to theories of the state, Rita Smith Kipp in Dissociated Identities situates a particular Indonesian people, the Karo, in the modern world.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Gesellschaftswissenschaften und Philosophie), Veranstaltung: Kultur- und Religionstheorien, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit untersucht die Bedeutung des Klangs aus kultur- und sozialanthropologischer Perspektive.

Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author's search for the disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living.

Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author's search for the disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tohoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living.

Mass Performance: Systems and Citizens examines mass performance systems from the first major festival of the French Revolution through the democratic and socialist movements of the nationalizing nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe, to totalitarian communist and socialist regimes in the twentieth century, ending with contemporary North Korea.

Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject Health - Mental Health, grade: 1,3, Fresenius University of Applied Sciences Dusseldorf (Wirtschaft und Medien), course: Intercultural Competences, language: English, abstract: This scientific paper presents the different cultural perspectives on mental health, with the cultures compared being Norwegian and Chinese.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Vechta; früher Hochschule Vechta, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die vorliegende Arbeit trägt den Titel „Maja Lundes ‚Der Traum von einem Baum‘ als Teil eines naturkulturellen Gedächtnisses?

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (Lehrstuhl für Europäische Ethnologie / Empirische Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Follow the Food: Europäische Ethnologie im Kontext glokaler Lebensmittel, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Portfolio „Follow the Silvaner: Vom Rebstock bis zur Vinothek“ dokumentiert ein ethnografisches Forschungsprojekt im Rahmen des Seminars "Follow the Food" an der Universität Würzburg.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.

Nag Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.

Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.

The Primeiro Comando do Capital (PCC) is a So Paulo prison gang that since the 1990s has expanded into the most powerful criminal network in Brazil.

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din) popular music culture, Kristina M.

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form.

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present.

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An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Natures State looks behind the myth of Alaska as Americas last frontier, a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination.