This book presents the latest evidence-based approach in diagnosis and management of the aging of both individuals and society from a gerontology perspective.
In dem durch politische Extreme geprägten Jahrzehnt von 1937 bis 1947 suchen nonkonformistische Kreise in Frankreich nach Alternativen zur Entscheidung zwischen Liberalismus und Barbarei.
Los ensayos que integran el libro que el lector tiene ahora entre sus manos se plantean como objetivo contribuir a desentrañar las relaciones existentes entre demonología cristiana y cultura folklórica en un escenario específico –España y el mundo ibérico– y, en un período determinado, los siglos de la primera modernidad.
Menschen mit Migrationshintergrund werden in der deutschen Berichterstattung zahlreichen Analysen zufolge überproportional in Problemzusammenhängen dargestellt.
In order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced.
In order to understand positionality as it relates to research, it is important to learn how to identify and reflect on how knowledge is produced and reproduced.
A new selection of foundational works from the influential philosopher who developed the theory of mimetic desireWhy do humans have such a remarkable capacity for conflict?
This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition.
In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of Texas Monthly, a collection of original essays and portraits of fifty groundbreaking Texans who have shaped the Lone Star Stateand the nationover the past half century.
Este libro analiza el surgimiento, en los últimos años, de una serie de protestas, redes y organizaciones transnacionales comúnmente denominados movimiento anti-globalización, movimiento alter-globalización, o simplemente Global Solidarity Movement.
The book presents a broad survey of Greek votive terracotta figurines, a class of votives where previous scholarship has mainly consisted of research in specific sites and collections.
This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers.
Originally published in 1986, Coping with Hunger demonstrates that effective agricultural development in resource-poor regions must be based in a respect for the indigenous farmer's understanding of the environment.
Originally published in 1986, Coping with Hunger demonstrates that effective agricultural development in resource-poor regions must be based in a respect for the indigenous farmer's understanding of the environment.
This book explores the growth and operations of the Japanese restaurant in Australia since the early 2000s from perspectives of both restaurant workers and consumers.
This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as 'craft.
This book reflects on the methodological challenges and possibilities encountered when researching practices that have been historically defined and classified as 'craft.
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians.
This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into human-environmental relationships and ecologies, together with a set of theoretical innovations.
The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.
The Porous Museum examines questions of museum practice, aesthetics and politics through a focused study of The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant in Bucharest.
Based on religious ethnography, in-depth interviews and archival data, Indigeneity in African Religions explores the historical origins, worldviews, cosmologies, ritual symbolism and praxis of the indigenous Oza people in South West Nigeria.
This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.
This book draws on ethnographic studies in Southeast Asia to provide new insights into human-environmental relationships and ecologies, together with a set of theoretical innovations.
This book explores language maintenance and development in the linguistic lives of second-, third-, and fourth-generation immigrants as they navigate migration and diaspora, highlighting the role of women in acting as custodians and gate-keepers of family languages towards creating a sense of home.
La convergencia crítica se definiría por la emergencia histórica de articulaciones ontológicas, epistemológicas, éticas, estéticas y políticas producidas por las problematizaciones sociales de la actualidad.
Repatriation of Indigenous Cultural Heritage examines how returned materials - objects, photographs, audio and manuscripts - are being received and reintegrated into the ongoing social and cultural lives of Aboriginal Australians.
This book is an essential guide to scientifically conducting contemporary ethnographic research at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels in the social sciences, the humanities, and business studies.
This book is an essential guide to scientifically conducting contemporary ethnographic research at undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral levels in the social sciences, the humanities, and business studies.
Introducing readers to debates underpinning the uses of visual technology in educational ethnography, this book takes actual research projects across different country contexts to discuss how research designs can use visual technology in educational ethnography; to show connections between theory, method and research problems.
Drawing on the author's extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dong's buildings and techniques, with new insights into the Dong's cosmology and rituals of everyday life meshed with the architecture, and the symbolic meanings.
Explores how, over centuries, Amazonian people and their cultures have interacted with rainforests William Balee is a world-renowned expert on the cultural and historical ecology of the Amazon basin.
