Anthropology

Während der Weihnachtstagung zur Begründung der Allgemeinen Anthroposophischen Gesellschaft versenkte Rudolf Steiner gemeinsam mit den Anwesenden den spirituellen Grundstein dieser Gesellschaft «in die Herzen» der Menschen.

On a cold February morning in 1987, amidst freezing rain and driving winds, a group of protesters stood outside of the Unitarian Universalist Church in Amherst, Massachusetts.

Over the past two decades, Japan's socioeconomic environment has undergone considerable changes prompted by both a long recession and the relaxation of particular labour laws in the 1990s and 2000s.

The popular appeal of the ballad is perennial, and few literary genres give so much pleasure to so many kinds of people.

The story of Devil from antiquity to the present.

School lunch is often regarded as a necessary but inconvenient distraction from the real work of education.

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence.

This book describes a researcher's journey to carry out an ethnographic study.

Throughout history, the world's great religions have been profoundly shaped by their encounters with successive empires.

Japanese Diasporas examines the relationship of overseas Japanese and their descendents (Nikkei) with their home and host nations, focusing on the political, social and economic struggles of Nikkei.

Archimedes is held in high esteem by mathematicians, physicists and engineers as one of the most brilliant scientists of all time.

A comprehensive biosocial synthesis of homosexuality in humans, other mammals and birds, reviewing current knowledge and proposing new hypotheses.

How do ordinary Muslims deal with and influence the increasingly pervasive Islamic norms set by institutions of the state and religion?

What is tango?

In Genres of Listening Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explores a unique culture of listening and communicating in Buenos Aires.

Since its invention by Renaissance humanists, the myth of the Middle Ages has held a uniquely important place in the Western historical imagination.

This book presents an introduction to strategies for qualitative digital social research on emotions in a digital world.

Bringing together original essays by distinguished scholars from diverse disciplines, this volume constitutes an important contribution to the private-public debate.

In Harmony: The Complementary Musical Tales of the Brockton Symphony Orchestra, Sharon Civic Orchestra, and Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra is a stirring, historical account of these three Massachusetts ensembles.

The expansion of the European Union in May 2004 through the entry of ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe, has generated considerable media interest - interest which was revived by further expansion in January 2007 when Bulgaria and Romania became the latest nations from the east to join.

Orthodox Churches, like most religious bodies, are inherently political: they seek to defend their core values and must engage in politics to do so, whether by promoting certain legislation or seeking to block other legislation.

Sheds new light on the relationship between tolerance and religion, concluding that local religious minorities are most likely to protect pluralism.

This book provides an overview of various traditional Middle Eastern food products and beverages and investigates their chemical, microbial and physical profiles.

The purchase and consumption of wine, whether in hospitality environments or domestic settings, has huge anthropological significance underpinned by a discourse of wine appreciation.

Religion and the Public Sphere: New Conversations explores the changing contribution of religion to public life today.

This book provides an overview of the metabolism of dietary compounds by the intestinal microbiota, and on the consequences of such metabolic activity on host metabolism and physiological functions; both in intestinal and peripheral tissues.

This book is an in-depth account of people's cultural and religious life in the Jammu region of Jammu and Kashmir, India.

Using ethnographic field data from the Larzac plateau in Southern France, Alexander and Sonia Alland document one of the longest and most successful popular protests in modern French history - the Larzac movement.

This work, written by an ex-Ambassador to Japan, is a first-hand account and observation of the various aspects of Japanese society - political, historical, social and economic.

In today's fast-paced and modern world, our lifestyles have undergone a dramatic shift.

Globalisation and migration have created a vibrant yet dysphoric world fraught with different, and sometimes competing, practices and discourses.

Grounded in anthropological comparison and the concept of materiality, this book offers an in-depth ethnographic study of the similarities and differences among various forms of religious practices in a Pentecostal Church (Christ Embassy) and an Islamic group (NASFAT) in the Nigerian capital of Abuja.

This book interrogates contemporary processes of neoliberal urban renewal in the Global South by studying the model of chawl redevelopment in Mumbai, India.

Oral health loss is one of the major problems existing all over the world and is one of the top causes of death when unmanaged.

Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data.

From Canada's profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada.

This innovative book is an open invitation to a rich and copious meal of imagination, senses and desires.

Based on long-term medical anthropological research in northern Ghana, the author analyses issues of health and healing, of gender, and of the control and use of money in a changing rural African setting.

Meaning seems to shift from context to context; how do we know when someone says "e;grab a chair"e; that an ottoman or orange crate will do, but when someone says "e;let's buy a chair,"e; they won't?

Traditional cultures have a long and vital association with wetlands as sacred places imbued with spiritual and ceremonial significance that provide physical sustenance and sources of materials in paludiculture.

Health and Other Unassailable Values sets out to examine health as a core cultural value.

Mountains cover a quarter of the Earth's land surface and a quarter of the global population lives in or adjacent to these areas.

This presents twenty specially commissioned case studies of farmer participatory approaches to agricultural innovation initiated by NGOs in Africa.

Allopathy is often described as 'western' medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy, yet all medical systems are infused with culture-specific values, ideas and beliefs.

This handbook provides an authoritative account of social work field education in the global south.

RLE Social and Cultural Anthropology brings together a collection of key titles from a range of historic imprints.

Reform, Identity and Narratives of Belonging focuses on the Heraka, a religious reform movement, and its impact on the Zeme, a Naga tribe, in the North Cachar Hills of Assam, India.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has had a long and tortuous relationship with religion over almost the entirety of its existence.