Anthropology

Mitzvah Girls is the first book about bringing up Hasidic Jewish girls in North America, providing an in-depth look into a closed community.

How the sciences of the mind can advance the study of religionThe essence of religion was once widely thought to be a unique form of experience that could not be explained in neurological, psychological, or sociological terms.

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.

During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after twenty years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, corruption scandals, political protest, and intense electoral contention.

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

Manic behavior holds an undeniable fascination in American culture today.

In the popular misconception fostered by blockbuster action movies and best-selling thrillers--not to mention conventional explanations by social scientists--violence is easy under certain conditions, like poverty, racial or ideological hatreds, or family pathologies.

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

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.

For the Balinese, the whole of nature is a perpetual resource: through centuries of carefully directed labor, the engineered landscape of the island's rice terraces has taken shape.

Clifford Geertz, one of the most influential thinkers of our time, here discusses some of the most urgent issues facing intellectuals today.

How can we best forge a theoretical practice that directly addresses the struggles of once-colonized countries, many of which face the collapse of both state and society in today's era of economic reform?

Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life.

How does an ethnographer write about violence?

From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education, and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier assertions in race relations scholarship that the country is a "e;racial democracy.

In recent years the popular media have described Vietnamese Americans as the quintessential American immigrant success story, attributing their accomplishments to the values they learn in the traditional, stable, hierarchical confines of their family.

Are we what we eat?

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist.

As new states in the former East bloc begin to reckon with their criminal pasts in the years following a revolutionary change of regimes, a basic pattern emerges: In those states where some form of retributive justice has been publicly enacted, there has generally been much less of a recourse to collective retributive violence.

In Culture on the Margins, Jon Cruz recounts the "e;discovery"e; of black music by white elites in the nineteenth century, boldly revealing how the episode shaped modern approaches to studying racial and ethnic cultures.

Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation.

What the struggle over the Indonesian rainforests can teach us about the social frictions that shape the world around usRubbing two sticks together produces heat and light while one stick alone is just a stick.

A sweeping new account of ancient Greek culture and its remarkable diversityCovering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking.

How do the ways we argue represent a practical philosophy or a way of life?

Almost a hundred years ago, the German sociologist Georg Simmel published his important study on combat (Simmel 1908).

9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries.

Over the past 15 years, the project of advanced European integration has followed a complex secular and cosmopolitan agenda.

The Funeral Casino is a heretical ethnography of the global age.

Kolonisation: Brückenkopf in eine Zivilisation der Barbarei, aus der jederzeit die schiere Negation der Zivilisation hervorbrechen kann.

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race.

Black Atlantic Religion illuminates the mutual transformation of African and African-American cultures, highlighting the example of the Afro-Brazilian Candomble religion.

In the summer of 1991, population geneticists and evolutionary biologists proposed to archive human genetic diversity by collecting the genomes of "e;isolated indigenous populations.

How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America?

How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiencesIn Code Work, Hector Beltran examines Mexican and Latinx coders' personal strategies of self-making as they navigate a transnational economy of tech work.

Learn the methodology, skills, techniques, tools and applications of Linguistic Anthropology with THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF LANGUAGE: AN INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY.

INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY brings the study of physical anthropology to life!

Using engaging stories and clear writing, HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, Eleventh Edition, introduces cultural anthropology within a solid framework centered on globalization and culture change.

CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, Ninth Edition, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples of art, music, philosophy, and literature, from the beginnings of civilization to today.

CULTURE AND VALUES: A SURVEY OF THE HUMANITIES, NINTH EDITION, takes you on a tour of some of the world's most interesting and significant examples of art, music, philosophy, and literature, from the beginnings of civilization to today.

Explore cultural anthropology and its relevance in today's world with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: AN APPLIED PERSPECTIVE, Eleventh Edition.

Explore the most fascinating, creative, dangerous, and complex species alive today: you and your neighbors in the global village.

El deseo de entender a los demas y sus mundos no es solo una ambicion del antropologo, sino tambien de todos los profesionales centrados en las relaciones cara a cara, ya que necesitan tanto un conocimiento "e;intelectualmente critico"e; de los propios destinatarios y de su mundo como una conciencia critica de sus efectos en la interaccion con ellos.

La fascinación con la que los arqueólogos y arqueólogas interpretan el pasado a través de los estudios que realizan de los vestigios que encuentran como producto de las excavaciones resulta a veces difícil de ser transmitida.

Terence McKenna erinnert uns mit diesem Kultwerk der psychedelischen Literatur daran, dass der Mythos unserer Kultur mit dem Verspeisen der Frucht vom Baum der Erkenntnis im Garten Eden beginnt.

Discover an exciting survivor of the Pleistocene and ingenious creator of the Anthropocene -- Homo sapiens.

Filled with current examples, THE ESSENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY brings to life anthropology's key concepts and their great relevance to today's complex world.

Este recetario es resultado de un trabajo conjunto entre la Universidad Nacional de Colombia y la comunidad arhuaca del resguardo de Jimain, en el marco del proyecto de extension solidaria, relacionado con produccion agroacuicola.

All three volumes of the occult classic available together as a deluxe boxed set for the first timeVolume I includes translations of rare texts alongside rites, practices, and arcane magical knowledge Volume II offers studies of mystery traditions throughout history and shares authentic initiatic wisdom and a rigorous selection of initiatory exercises Volume III explores esoteric practices for individual development and realization of immortal and divine potential, handed down from a primordial tradition In 1927 Julius Evola and other leading Italian esotericists formed the mysterious UR group.

Why and how local coffee bars in Italythose distinctively Italian social and cultural spaceshave been increasingly managed by Chinese baristas since the Great Recession of 2008Italians regard espresso as a quintessentially Italian cultural productso much so that Italy has applied to add Italian espresso to UNESCO's official list of intangible heritages of humanity.