Also known as the Lemegeton, The Lesser Key of Solomon is a foundational grimoire of demonology, cataloguing the names, attributes, seals, and conjurations of 72 spirits said to have been summoned and commanded by King Solomon.
This book critically examines the ever-evolving relationship between gender, identity and technology, investigating how identity is shaped, expressed, and contested within virtual environments.
El viaje y la trama es un fascinante estudio etnográfico sobre la transformación de Todos Santos Cuchumatán, una comunidad indígena guatemalteca que ha experimentado cambios radicales debido al impacto de la guerra civil, la globalización y el flujo constante de migrantes hacia Estados Unidos.
New data from the past 25 years of research at animportant pre-Hispanic siteThesacred Andean site of Pachacamac, inhabited for over a thousand years beforethe Spanish Conquest, has an enduring presence in Peruvian history and plays apivotal role in the formation of current views about religion and thought inthe pre-Hispanic period.
Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book AwardThe first synthesis of the archaeologicalheritage of BaltimoreBelow Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeologicalheritage of the people and city of Baltimore.
This book explores contemporary issues in women's studies, focusing on the agency of marginalised and disenfranchised within political, cultural, and social spheres.
Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.
This comprehensive volume explores the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.
Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.
This book builds on the latest research on India's partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.
Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare PrecolumbianmanuscriptThisbook explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbianart dating to the fifteenth century, one of the few surviving books from beforethe Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Día a día los ciudadanos encaran la necesidad de tramitar documentos de diverso tipo para acreditar su identidad, conducir un automóvil o certificar una condición determinada; deben pagar los recibos de servicios públicos o asegurar la inscripción de una firma, un sello o un número en un papel que, de no encontrarse "en regla", puede obstaculizar su salida del país, el acceso a algún beneficio o servicio o la compra de un inmueble.
The role of place-making and architecturein mobile culturesTherelationship of hunter-gatherer societies to the built environment is oftenoverlooked or characterized as strictly utilitarian in archaeological research.
Gottlob Frege (1894) a observé que l'identité est indéfinissable : « Puisque toute définition est une identité, l'identité elle-même ne saurait être définie.
This book provides a comprehensive study of Japan's evolving relationship with China since 1949, tracing the shifting dynamics from a distant relationship during the early communist era to a more cooperative phase in the late 20th century, and finally to the growing tensions of the 21st century.
This comprehensive volume explores the role that nutraceuticals can play in addressing obesity, shedding light on their potential as tools to promote sustainable weight management strategies as well as addressing associated health risks.
This book builds on the latest research on India's partition and the politics of communal identity and explores the intricate relationship between community and religion on the one hand, and space or geography on the other.
La souveraineté numérique est relative au pouvoir et à la capacité d’un État à réglementer et contrôler l’infrastructure et les usages que ses citoyens font des technologies numériques.
Invisible Seasides positions the seaside as a lens for understanding lived utopia, pinned in a certain place, an immovable feature in a landscape where our hopes and fears continue to unfold.
Theinfluence of baseball heritage in society and cultureBaseballspast has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been writtenabout both the sport and its history.
In Ancient Andean Houses, Jerry Moore offers an extensive survey of vernacular architecture from across the entire length of the Andes, drawing on ethnographic and archaeological information from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia to the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile.
D’une visite de quelques semaines, en 1983, dans une petite communauté traditionnelle des collines de l’île de Palawan aux Philippines, l’auteur a pris sur le vif les notes qui constituent ce livre.
Con el fin de analizar la práctica de la educación democrática como un modo de convivencia escolar que trastoca los cimientos de la subjetividad política de los estudiantes, esta investigación etnográfica se adentra en las dinámicas cotidianas de la Escuela Mediática del Centro Educativo Libertad, un colegio de educación media alternativa.
Varied approaches to an overlooked timeperiod in the history and archaeology of the MediterraneanThisbook presents multidisciplinary perspectives on Greece, Corsica, Malta, andSicily from the fourth to the thirteenth centuries, an often-overlooked time inthe history of the central Mediterranean.
Post-Carbon Futures: Imagining (and Enacting) New Worlds through Transition Studies explores the multitude of possibilities for conceiving and creating fulfilling post-carbon ways of life.
Unravels the complexity of pervasive mistrust across the primary medical sectors of Niger Negotiating Mistrust examines a wide diversity of patients and healers-and interactions between them-in Niamey, Niger through the analytical prism of mistrust.
In Becoming a Plebeian Leader, Jose Antonio Villarreal Velasquez examines situations where ordinary women and men become plebeian leaders in urban-popular neighborhoods.
Fifty-five burials with their accompanying artifacts were uncovered during the excavation of the Dover Mound, located in Mason County, Kentucky, yielding new data on the cultural group known as the Adena which is reported in detail by the authors.
Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers.
This book probes the ethical, practical, and sociopolitical implications of leveraging innovative and disruptive means to address the world's various environmental crises.
This book considers how methodologies, theories and analytical frameworks from gender studies can be applied to African societies' cultural, social, and historical contexts.
Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil.
Hunters, Seamen, and Entrepreneurs: The Tuna Seinermen of San Diego is an ethnographic exploration of the lives, work, and cultural systems of the high-seas tuna fishermen from San Diego, California.
