Anthropology

The grand narratives of European music history are informed by the dichotomy of placements and displacements.

Modern Freemasonry in the United States and Great Britain celebrates its 300th anniversary in 2017 tracing its direct history from the Grand Lodge of England founded in 1717.

'One of the most articulate cultural anthropologists of this generation.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.

The Passage from Youth to Adulthood explores a society unanchored from culturally endorsed rites of passage, in which young people and adults appear to build their identities within a culture of dependency.

Deconstructing Prehumanity is an investigation into the role of archaeological perception in the construction of race.

Two thousand years ago, Antioch on the Orontes River was the third most important city in the Roman Empire.

As a fitting epilogue to a life intimately linked to Washington, D.

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society.

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human.

What is posthumanism and why does it matter?

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century.

Play & Culture Studies is a bi-annual, peer-reviewed series published by the Association for the Study of Play.

Extraordinary, Ordinary Women provides an intimate portrait of twenty American expatriate women currently residing in Paris.

In a set of stories about 17 American heroes and heroines, this book analyzes the hero concept in the nation's history.

In the 6th century BCE, Jerusalem and Judea were destroyed by the Babylonians.

A multidisciplinary and varied perspective on play, Play as Engagement and Communication continues the stimulating and informative volumes in the Play and Culture Studies series.

A growing number of Jews identify themselves as secular or "e;somewhat secular.

Literacy, Information, and Development in Morocco during the 1990s offers readers a two-level investigation of the culture of literacy.

Synergistic Collaborations is a valuable resource for Christian ministers and social workers seeking to extend outreach ministries and new ways to collaborate with community organizations as they serve hurting people.

Using a mixed-method approach, Unintended Consequences of Human Actions documents a wide range of unintended and unanticipated consequences of human actions.

Forgotten Origin is the third in a series of books dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people.

Flyover Country focuses on a group of baby boomers who graduated from high school in 1969 in the Midwest before setting off into the world in a time of turbulence to fight in Vietnam, to protest against that war, to find jobs, to have families, and to live lives throughout the United States and overseas.

The Third World cities have been reinvented by the forces of globalization as the destinations of new investments, causing the migration of a teeming million to the major urban centers without any corresponding increase in the creation of new jobs and other basic amenities required for decent living.

The Legacy: South Florida Museum is an account of the origins, founding, and development in twentieth-century Florida of a people's museum about archeology, Spanish exploration, manatees, and space.

Borderlands are often seen as zones of instability, uncertainty, marginality, and danger.

Exit Narratives examines what constitutes good teaching and engaged learning and how to use this knowledge to support teachers in their efforts to create learning environments that encourage academic mastery and nourish students as social beings.

Food and the Novel in Nineteenth-Century America revolves around the 1840 presidential election when, according to campaign slogans, candidates were what they ate.

Debunking the Myths of Colonization.

Mocombe and Tomlin explore the black/white achievement gap in America and Great Britain, gaining understanding through black bourgeois living and the labeled pathologies of the black underclass.

The Existence of God is an affirmation of faith in God and a warning of the dangers of a world guided by the religion of atheism.

Turning Adversity to Advantage is the story of the Lipan Apaches, who are now one of the forgotten Indian tribes of Texas and northern Mexico, yet they were once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region.

Ecce Educatrix Tua discusses the Apostolic Letter Novo millennio ineunte (NMI), wherein John Paul II outlined the path the Church should adopt in the third millennium.

Hidden Threads: A Christian Critique of Sociological Theory, provides a framework for making sense of the social world.

Igbo Culture and the Christian Missions 1857-1957: Conversion in Theory and Practice uses historical perspective to explore strategies and methods of the Protestant and the Roman Catholic missionaries in Igboland and the Igbo response during the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries.

The Desert Experience in Israel shares the responses of settlers, artists, poets, scientists, and educators who lived near the Blaustein Institute in the Negev Desert of Israel as they answer the question, "e;What difference has living in the desert year round made in your work?

Viewing an American Ethnic Community is a work based on the author's love of his heritage.

Although Lipan Apache culture was studied by one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century, many important questions remain.

The Hausa of Nigeria is the culmination of thirty-nine years of anthropological thought and research and many field trips to Nigeria.

Continuing Perspectives on the Black Diaspora is a response to a 1990 publication that studied the persistence and resilience of black (African) diasporic populations in the Caribbean, Latin America, North America, and the United Kingdom.

Partible Paternity and Anthropological Theory discusses the conception "e;partible paternity"e; within Amazonian Indian communities.

In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential to radically change how we think about cultural objects and groups in archaeology.

Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

From the Galapagos to the depths of Patagonia and up along the stark desert coast of Chile, Listening to Sea Lions empathic ethnography carries the reader directly into the heart of the ocean world of Latino coastal people.

This is Book 6 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

All peoples and cultures face environmental issues-but as this accessible text shows, how they respond to such issues varies widely around the world and across human history.

This is Book 7 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This is Book 4 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.

This book explores the international legal framework developed by UNESCO to identify and protect world heritage and its implementation at the national level.

This is Book 2 of 7 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit, Second Edition.