The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors.
The essential role of ethnographic thought in the Roman empire and how it evolved in Late AntiquityEthnography is indispensable for every empire, as important as armies, tax collectors, or ambassadors.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Institut für Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Qualitative Methoden der Religionswissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit will die Frage beantworten, ob der Konsum psychedelischer Pilze durch den westlichen Menschen eine spirituelle, potentiell positive Handlung sein kann.
Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.
Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.
In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state.
Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact.
Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact.
"e;This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.
In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe.
Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition.
From 2004 to 2006 the Osage Nation conducted a contentious governmental reform process in which sharply differing visions arose over the new governments goals, the Nations own history, and what it means to be Osage.
Buddhism in the United States is often viewed in connection with practitioners in the Northeast and on the West Coast, but in fact, it has been spreading and evolving throughout the United States since the mid-nineteenth century.
In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlantas Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labors first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade.
Colostrum Unveiled: The Human and Animal Benefits of Bovine Colostrum is emerging as a groundbreaking topic in the fields of health and nutrition, and this book provides a comprehensive exploration of its biological, nutritional, and clinical applications.
In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.
Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.
Over the past 30 years, China's public parks have been turned into stages for amateur performances of socialist anthems by self-organized retirees who lived through the Mao era (1949-1976).
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Universität Augsburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Forschungsinteresse der vorliegenden Arbeit liegt darin, eine Tradition, bzw.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2021 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main (Ethnologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist es darzulegen, wie afghanische muslimische Frauen in Deutschland ihre Biografie verändern.
The uses of shame (and shamelessness) in spheres that range from social media and consumerism to polarized politics and mass violenceToday, we are caught in a shame spirala vortex of mutual shaming that pervades everything from politics to social media.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, FernUniversität Hagen, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit dem Missionsprojekt der Sophia Universität in Tokyo während des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts.
This volume explores the grammatical properties of body-part expressions across a range of languages and language families in the Americas, including Arawakan, Eastern Tukano, Mataguayan, Panoan, and Takanan.
