Anthropology

Island of Bali is now available with a foreword by Professor Adrian Vickers which puts the book into context for a modern audience.

"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.

Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.

The last quarter century has been marked by the ascension of neoliberalism--market deregulation, state decentralization, and reduced political intervention in national economies.

When James Faubion visited the site of the Branch Davidian compound after its conflagration, what he found surprised him.

This tried and tested book provides practical guidance with specific writing samples and guidelines for producing strong reports in criminal justice-related professions.

Mathematics Elsewhere is a fascinating and important contribution to a global view of mathematics.

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

Theorizing Self in Samoa develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa.

In When Women Have Wings, Donna F.

Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years.

Architectures of Hope examines how communal idealism, electoral politics, and low-income consumer markets made first-time homeownership a reality for millions of low-income Brazilians over the last ten years.

In Italy as in other Western societies, the medicalization of basic biological functions contributes to the loss of personal confidence in the care of the body.

Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country.

Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.

This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain fundamental insights which should be beneficial to any sensitive scientist and makes it available to the English-speaking world for the recognition it deserves.

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

Everyone "e;knows"e; the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.

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"e;The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists.

In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire.

This tried and tested book provides practical guidance with specific writing samples and guidelines for producing strong reports in criminal justice-related professions.

Archie Green shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist was a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies.

Theorizing Self in Samoa develops a new theory of the self in culture through a psychological and historical ethnography of Samoa.

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America.

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

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

Lydia Cabrera (19001991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent.

Relationality is a core principle of Indigenous studies, yet there is relatively little work that assesses what building relations looks like in practice, especially in the messy context of Native nations' governance.

This book explores the complex socio-cultural histories of the rivers of West Bengal in India.

When Bombay changed its name to Mumbai in 1995, it was the culmination of a long process that transformed India's primary symbol of modernity and cultural diversity into a site of intense ethnic conflict and violent nationalism.

In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet.

In this follow-up to the celebrated Hoi Toide on the Outer Banks, Jeffrey Reaser, Walt Wolfram, and Candy Gaskill have produced the most comprehensive linguistic look at Ocracoke yet.

Women's status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture.

Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.

Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago.

Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre''s best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change.

Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences.

A Financial Times Business Book of the MonthEye-opening.

This book analyzes in vivid detail the German debate about the importance and meaning of work as it changed under the impact of industrialization, with special emphasis on the period between the two world wars.

China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Universität Kassel (Uni Kims), Veranstaltung: Empirische Forschungsmethoden, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der vorliegenden Hausarbeit soll auf Basis eines fiktiven Fallbeispiels, in dem die Genehmigungsbehörde eine Vollerhebung untersagt, ein geeignetes Stichprobenverfahren ausgewählt und durchgeführt werden.

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.

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'is ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion.

Hilbert demonstrates the historical connection between the nineteenth-century theory of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, in which sociology had its origins, and the ethnomethodological approach articulated in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel.

Aloha is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

The author analyzes data on workers in five privately-owned factories in Poona, India.

A major source of political instability in Southeast Asia has been ethnic diversity and the lack of congruence between ethnic distributions and national boundaries.