Anthropology

Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied.

Much has changed for the priests at the Minakshi Temple, one of the most famous Hindu temples in India.

In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka.

The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries.

Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public.

In Marking Time, Paul Rabinow presents his most recent reflections on the anthropology of the contemporary.

Civil Islam tells the story of Islam and democratization in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim nation.

The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

The description for this book, Local Religion in Sixteenth-Century Spain, will be forthcoming.

Turkey has leapt to international prominence as an economic and political powerhouse under its elected Muslim government, and is looked on by many as a model for other Muslim countries in the wake of the Arab Spring.

The Amazon is not what it seems.

Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation.

Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women.

Politics of Piety is a groundbreaking analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt.

What teeth can teach us about the evolution of the human speciesWhether we realize it or not, we carry in our mouths the legacy of our evolution.

With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi'i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East.

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;Socialism and the Family or Socialism and the Middle Classes (A rare essay)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional table of contents.

This book explores contemporary issues in sexuality and relationship education for young people.

Why the pursuit of state recognition by seemingly marginal religious groups in Egypt and elsewhere is a devotional practiceOver the past decade alone, religious communities around the world have demanded state recognition, exemption, accommodation, or protection.

Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn's, allergies, and colitis among others.

While diet has long been recognized as having potential to alleviate symptoms of inflammatory diseases including arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia, research indicates that specific foods offer particular benefits in preventing or mitigating specific symptoms.

The role of diet in the prevention, control and treatment of diabetes continues to provide significant opportunity for non-pharmaceutical interventions for many of the over 20 million people who live with this disease.

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.

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

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.

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.

Recorrer la Ciudad de México representa un asalto a los sentidos.

Desde una mirada socioantropológica, esta obra ofrece nuevas herramientas y perspectivas teórico-metodológicas para discutir problemáticas vinculadas a los procesos de organización y subjetivación indígenas, así como para analizar procesos de memorias colectivas en contextos diversos.

David Le Breton es un investigador sensible que ahonda en la temática del cuerpo desde la dimensión humana.

Historiadores y antropólogos registran procesos históricos de formación de comunidades indígenas en la Patagonia, con el objetivo de observar la manera en que se redefinen, sobre el territorio, comunidades y colectivos mapuches y tehuelches a causa del arrinconamiento y desplazamiento constantes a las que fueron y son sometidas.

Estos textos buscan reflexionar acerca de algunas representaciones, discursos y prácticas que construyen la Patagonia, al abordar la relación entre cultura-naturaleza como reflexión política, la religiosidad de migrantes latinoamericanos, la producción de territorialidad a partir de la cartografía colonial, y el desierto y política pública.

¿Cómo se construye la memoria en contextos de subordinación?

Obra del periodista y escritor, Miguel G.

Este libro examina las experiencias históricas, subjetividades y formas de resistencia de grupos indígenas del Gran Chaco y el rol que ha tenido la antropología en analizar y al mismo tiempo silenciar estos procesos.

La política, como toda actividad humana, necesariamente se espacializa y produce espacios sociales en su propio devenir.

Es imprescindible para cualquier ritualista práctico, practique la magia o la brujería doméstica, que tenga o conozca los productos y pequeños secretos que actualmente pueden hallarse fácilmente a la venta, y que son utilizados en la magia de cada día.

Desde hace varias décadas, las actividades, ceremonias y rituales conocidos popularmente como "magia casera" se han venido extendiendo de una manera extraordinaria por diversos grupos y clases sociales.

¿Quién es y cómo es una bruja actual?

Hecho en Chile.

Infuse your favourite drinks and dishes with your best-loved flavours of tea!

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.

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?

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 ultimos anos, de una serie de protestas, redes y organizaciones transnacionales comunmente denominados movimiento anti-globalizacion, movimiento alter-globalizacion, o simplemente Global Solidarity Movement.

Dada la evolución de los procesos de producción de alimenots y el papel que desempeña el Ingeniero de Alimentos, la maquinaria y los equipos son elementos indispensables para la optimización de las operaciones en planta y el aseguramiento de la calidad.

Este libro compila el esfuerzo del Semillero de Investigacion en Primatologia y Conservacion de sus Ecosistemas (SIPCE) y el Laboratorio de Historia Natural (IZBD) del Museo de Historia Natural de la Universidad de Caldas por resaltar y divulgar informacion asociada a las especies de primates y otros vertebrados que habitan en el departamento con miras a su conservacion.

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Auseinandersetzung um den Mythos als Gegenbegriff zum heutigen wissenschaftlichen Denken.

A delicious feast of ancient Greek and Roman writings on living well by eating well Today, we're stuffed with dietary recommendations from every direction.