Anthropology

Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom.

The study considers two generations of Anglo-Indian women in post-colonial India, and their social interaction with their community.

How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa?

Bridging the gap between migration studies and the anthropological tradition, Ghassan Hage illustrates that transnationality and its attendant cultural consequences are not necessarily at odds with classic theory.

This book highlights the important, yet often forgotten, roles that Jamaican women played in the World Wars.

Pop culture portrayals of medieval and early modern monarchs are rife with tension between authenticity and modern mores, producing anachronisms such as a feminist Queen Isabel (in RTVE's Isabel) and a lesbian Queen Christina (in The Girl King).

First Edition Designated a Doody's Core Title and Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

This book presents a groundbreaking exploration of masculinities and homosexualities amongst Chinese gay men.

This is a book on how home is made when care enters the lives of people as they grow old at home or in 'homely' institutions.

This book, a collection of previously published articles, focuses on the role of the Singaporean State in social cultural engineering.

This book discusses management philosophy based on case studies in companies in Japan, Korea and China.

Silk Road: The Study of Drama Culture is the translated edition of the Chinese academic book of the same title written by Professor LI Qiang from Shaanxi Normal University, China.

International relations, as a discipline, is overwhelmingly top-down.

A groundbreaking work that explores human size as a distinctive cultural marker in Western thought Author, scholar, and editor Lynne Vallone has an international reputation in the field of child studies.

For Americans entering the twenty-first century, it is the best of times and the worst of times.

Dermatologists are often the first medical professionals to see patients with HIV infection, as skin diseases are common in acquired immunodeficiency syndrome.

This book addresses issues of how the cultures in Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia have been Englishized in postcolonial and globcalized contexts, not just in terms of language, but also in writers'/people's subjectivity.

In this culmination of his search for anthropological concepts and practices appropriate to the twenty-first century, Paul Rabinow contends that to make sense of the contemporary anthropologists must invent new forms of inquiry.

In the early 2000's, Mark Achtemeier embarked on a personal journey with the Bible that led him from being a conservative, evangelical opponent of gay rights to an outspoken activist for gay marriage and a fully inclusive church.

Many observers of Kenya's complicated history see causes for concern, from the use of public office for private gain to a constitutional structure historically lopsided towards the executive branch.

What distinguishes humans from nonhumans?

A sweeping history of Ethiopian musicians during and following the 1974 Ethiopian revolution.

The massive scale and complexity of international migration today tends to obscure the nuanced ways migrant families seek a sense of belonging.

Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war.

Audiences love the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, but beyond the red carpet and behind the velvet curtain exists a legion of individuals who make showbiz work: agents.

A meticulous and thought-provoking look at how Tribes use language to engage in "e;cooperation without submission.

In 1999, off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, the first gray whale in seven decades was killed by Makah whalers.

All coordination between cells, organs, and organisms depends on successful biocommunicative processes.

We humans value a great variety of plant and animal species for their usefulness to us.

In this groundbreaking book Andrew Sluyter demonstrates for the first time that Africans played significant creative roles in establishing open-range cattle ranching in the Americas.

Language is an essential part of what makes us human.

An accessible exploration of how diverse cultures have explained humanity's origins through narratives about the natural environment Drawing from a vast array of creation myths-Babylonian, Greek, Aztec, Maya, Inca, Chinese, Hindu, Navajo, Polynesian, African, Norse, Inuit, and more-this short, illustrated book uncovers both the similarities and differences in our attempts to explain the universe.

A revised and updated edition of a classic book that defines the field of historical ecologyPeople and the Land through Time, first published in 1997, remains the only introduction to the field of historical ecology from the perspective of ecology and ecosystem processes.

Mexico is at the center of the global battle over abortion.

The Baiga tribe is one of the important tribes in India.

This book builds upon Irina Carlota [Lotti] Silber's nearly 25 years of ethnographic research centered in Chalatenango, El Salvador, to follow the trajectories-geographic, temporal, storied-of several extended Salvadoran families.

The future of Honduras begins and ends on the white sand beaches of Tela Bay on the country's northeastern coast where Garifuna, a Black Indigenous people, have resided for over two hundred years.

This book examines ways of conserving, managing, and interacting with plant and animal resources by Native American cultural groups of the Pacific Coast of North America, from Alaska to California.

This book is grounded in an extended analogy between the 19th century story of the Underground Railroad in North America, transporting fugitive slaves to safety in the North, and the 21st century routes and trails of migrant passages to and within Europe.

This book takes an ethnographic approach to discuss the policy practices within China's broadcasting industry.

The Title Tribes and Races: a Descriptive Ethnology of Asia, Africa & Europe (1St Vol) written/authored/edited by R.

The stimulating compilation of research contribution accommodated in ';Dimensions of Anthropological Research in Northeast India' includes seventeen research articles by eminent and experienced academicians and schola rs highlighting various issues covering socio-cultural, biological, demographic, prehistoric, ethnoarchaeological and several other aspects of diverse ethnic groups of Northeast India.

This book gives a deep insight on intangible cultural heritage of South India.

This book examines the intersecting forces of nationalism, terrorism, and patriotism that normalize an acceptance of the global war on terror as essential to maintaining freedom and democracy as defined by white nation-states.

This topical book shows that racism by skin color is much more embedded and prevalent in the modern world than racism by race.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

Although the study of traditional Chinese medicine has attracted unprecedented attention in recent years, Western knowledge of it has been limited because, until now, not a single Chinese classical medical text has been available in a serious philological translation.

The little-known history of public school teachers across the Arab worldand how they wielded an unlikely influence over the modern Middle EastToday, it is hard to imagine a time and place when public school teachers were considered among the elite strata of society.