Anthropology

The venerable Dixie Hummingbirds stand at the top of the black gospel music pantheon as artists who not only significantly shaped that genre but, in the process, also profoundly influenced emerging American pop music genres from Rhythm & Blues and Doo-Wop to Rock 'n' Roll, Soul, and Hip-Hop.

South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims.

South Asia is home to more than a billion Hindus and half a billion Muslims.

Seeing Depression Through a Cultural Lens, the collaborative work of a clinical neuroscientist and a scholar of comparative culture, examines the effects of cultural identity on the epidemiology, phenomenology, and narratives of depression, the bipolar spectrum, and suicide.

The Oxford Guide to Australian Languages is a wide-ranging reference work that explores the more than 550 traditional and new Indigenous languages of Australia.

Developments in the law, scholarship, and research since 2006 form a substantial part of the second edition of this book which sets the governance of personal relationships in the context of the exercise of social and personal power.

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world.

Humans are unique among animals for the wide diversity of foods and food preparation techniques that are intertwined with regional cultural distinctions around the world.

This volume presents the first book-length overview of the Atlantic languages, a small family of languages spoken mainly on the Atlantic coast of West Africa.

Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "e;Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?

The United States is in the midst of a demographic revolution.

The United States is in the midst of a demographic revolution.

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In today's crazily busy world the importance of making time for leisure is more vital than ever.

In this collection of new essays, an international group of experts explores the significance of reciprocity (the principle and practice of voluntary requital, of benefit for benefit or harm for harm) in ancient Greek culture.

Using cultural anthropology to analyze debates that reverberate throughout the human sciences, George E.

Of Revelation and Revolution is at once a highly imaginative, richly detailed history of colonialism, Christianity, and consciousness in South Africa, and a theoretically challenging consideration of the most difficult questions posed by the nature of social experience.

How does religious faith contribute to happiness?

This volume presents emerging scholarly perspectives on transcultural entanglements from the fields of Intercultural Theology, Religious Studies, and related disciplines.

Over the last decades of the 20th century, Alevi identity, religion and culture have gained an increasingly public character in both Turkey and Western Europe.

Schmerzen lindern und Lebensqualitat zuruckgewinnenTrotz Rheuma ein selbstbestimmtes Leben fuhren: In Deutschland leiden rund 1,5 Millionen Menschen unter entzundlich-rheumatischen Erkrankungen.

Over the last decades of the 20th century, Alevi identity, religion and culture have gained an increasingly public character in both Turkey and Western Europe.

This volume presents emerging scholarly perspectives on transcultural entanglements from the fields of Intercultural Theology, Religious Studies, and related disciplines.

Dieses Buch untersucht die Vermittlung handwerklichen Wissens im Museums- und Ausstellungskontext am Beispiel der Keramik.

Dieses Buch untersucht die Vermittlung handwerklichen Wissens im Museums- und Ausstellungskontext am Beispiel der Keramik.

The first national recognition of disparities in access to information technologies - a digital divide - surfaced in a 1995 report by The National Telecommunication and Information Administration.

The first national recognition of disparities in access to information technologies - a digital divide - surfaced in a 1995 report by The National Telecommunication and Information Administration.

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality.

Sojiji is one of the two head temples of Soto Zen, the largest sect of Japanese Buddhism.

This book critically examines the exchange of enclaves, or chhitmohols, between India and Bangladesh, challenging assumptions that have accreted to constitute its popular discernment.

This book critically examines the exchange of enclaves, or chhitmohols, between India and Bangladesh, challenging assumptions that have accreted to constitute its popular discernment.

All across the humanities fields there is a new interest in materials and materiality.

The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised.

With the rise of urban living and the digital age, many North American healers are recognizing that traditional medicinal knowledge must be recorded before being lost with its elders.

In the waning years of Latin Americas longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit.

In the waning years of Latin Americas longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit.

Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas.

Against Amnesia provides a personal perspective on the French-speaking tradition in administrative sciences.

The late Dwight Conquergood's research has inspired an entire generation of scholars invested in performance as a meaningful paradigm to understand human interaction, especially between structures of power and the disenfranchised.

Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile.

In the nineteenth century the predominant focus of American anthropology centered on the native peoples of North America, and most anthropologists would argue that Korea during this period was hardly a cultural area of great anthropological interest.

The history of anthropology has been written from multiple viewpoints, often from perspectives of gender, nationality, theory, or politics.