Anthropology

The description for this book, Apparitions in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain, will be forthcoming.

The book provides a characteristic of sulfate karst, the features of its distribution and development in the Perm region, based on their own research and generalization of data accumulated in recent years.

The basic goal of the volume is to compile the most up to date research on the effect of ecotourism on Indonesia's primates.

This is the first book to shed light on the growing presence, influence and expansion of China in the daily life of Argentina.

This book presents a profile of the majority of hot springs in and around tourist destinations in Nepal.

This study addresses the corporate cultural practices of German companies in the host country Indonesia from the perspective of Indonesian employees, managers and German expatriates.

The volume features the work of leading scholars from the US, UK, Germany, China, Spain, and Russia and presents an important contribution to current debates on world literature.

This book presents a collection of old and new essays exploring the author's unique contributions to the sociology of science, mathematics, logic, robotics, brain, and god.

There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mean the various ways of managing the circumstances of the death, ritually acknowledging it and sensitively handling the disposal of the body and so on).

This edited collection explores forms of multi-religious cohabitation as well as the spatial arrangements that underpin and shape them through sixteen chapters that range across disciplines, historical periods, and global geographies.

Dieses Buch bewertet systematisch die politischen und sozialen Werte der mehr als 1,3 Milliarden Katholiken auf der ganzen Welt, der bei weitem größten Konfession des westlichen Christentums.

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork at the Caribbean Court of Justice, A Region among States explores the possibility of constituting a region on a geopolitical and ideological terrain dominated by the nation-state.

This book uses survey data in "e;hot spots"e; around the globe, to analyse various models of social justice, particularly the principle of equality, from a pragmatic perspective.

This book explores why human beings share food with others using a humanistic anthropological approach.

This book throws a spotlight on the under-explored African perspective on the mercurial concept of human dignity.

One of the most fundamental human urges is to form a pair.

Innovative research requires courageous methods.

This book offers a comprehensive depiction of the causes and consequences of the Rohingya crisis, based on detailed ethnographic narratives provided by hundreds of Rohingya people who crossed the border following the Clearance Operation in 2017.

This volume discusses the growing issue of global environmental microplastic pollution resulting from the industrial manufacturing of everyday products.

This book is about the flourishing scrap recycling industry, reconstruction, and state-making in Iraqi Kurdistan within the wider conditions of the war economy, ruination, and state disintegration in Iraq.

This book analyzes and discusses the U.

This book is an important contribution to narrative research and highlights how narratives can produce social change.

This book discusses problems, challenges, and mitigation strategies in the wake of environmental degradation.

In this collection leading anthropologists provide a comprehensive yet highly nuanced view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties.

';One of the world's most widely read social scientists' (New York Times) offers his most personal and accessible booka celebration of how ordinary people can resist oppression and injusticeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state.

The edited collection is a fresh contribution to the anthropological, sociological, and geographical explorations of time-space in Southeast Europe and Albania in particular.

In 1962 Norbert Elias was invited as a temporary professor at the University of Ghana in Legon, Accra.

This Palgrave Pivot provides an overview of rural labour relations in different regions of the State of Rio Grande do Sul, in southern Brazil.

Jana Türk untersucht in ihrer qualitativen Studie, wie Akteure in zwei ländlichen Alpengemeinden nachhaltige Entwicklung aushandeln.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of issues related to climate change in the Pacific and will be an invaluable reference for those working in this important field.

Der Band zeigt, dass heterogene und robuste soziale Netzwerke zum Schutz indigener Gemeinwälder beitragen.

This book tells the story of the German Democratic Republic from "e;the inside out,"e; using the lens of generational change to deconstruct an intriguing array of social identities that had little to do with the "e;official GDR"e; version authoritarian rulers regularly sought to impose on their citizens.

This book describes how malaria both frustrates and facilitates life for Indigenous Palawan communities living in the forested foothills of the municipality of Bataraza on the island of Palawan in the Philippines.

This book investigates the neuroscientific knowledge on addiction as an epistemic project.

This book presents a discussion on Chinese people's internal and external psychologies and logics, as well as the respective stage of social development and cultural context they were raised in, and from sociological, social psychological, and cultural anthropological perspectives.

This book critically examines the association between the notions of crisis and migration in the context of Latin America, and from three different perspectives: first, it analyzes the discourses based on the concept of crisis employed by the media, academic researchers, civil society organizations and the state to frame human mobility issues; second, it investigates migrants' agency under conditions of crisis; and third, it discusses whether "e;migration crisis"e; is a conjunctural or structural phenomenon in the region.

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level.

In present-day Greece many people still speak of exotikNB--mermaids, dog-form creatures, and other monstrous beings similar to those pictured on medieval maps.

This introductory textbook familiarizes students with ideas of key thinkers and perspectives related to postmodern thought and everyday life.

On November 24, 2016, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia signed a revised peace accord that marked a political end to over a half-century of war.

There has recently been a renewed interest in both casual use of psychedelics as well as experimental use and attempts to discover therapeutic value.

A groundbreaking account of the origins and history of the idea of fetishism.

This book examines the experiences of global healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This edited volume provides an anthropological study of family businesses and business families.

​Wie wird Begabung im Alltag der Grundschule hervorgebracht und relevant gesetzt?

This book discusses many aspects of fetuses and motherhood from fields as wide as sociology and medicine.

This book examines food resistance movements as a form of alternative food network, charting the author's journey as a cultural anthropologist through three food resistance movements.