Anthropology

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

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In this compelling, and important book, John Schmitz brings order to the world of chaos that surrounds us.

Transnational Leadership Development acquaints readers with the paradoxes and mental processes leaders need to relate successfully to people with different backgrounds, cultures, and societal identities.

Demographics not only define who we are, where we live, and how our numbers change, but they open up hidden business opportunities that lie ahead.

Este libro analiza los diferentes espacios geográficos, maneras de operación diversas, estrategias técnico-administrativas y jurídicas, así como objetos de intervención en los que se evidencia la impronta eugenésica.

Written in a highly accessible (and often witty) style, this groundbreaking book addresses a number of generational issues.

El Palo del Ahorcado es un árbol de eucalipto que nació y se arraigó en la cima de Cerro Seco en el barrio Potosí en Ciudad Bolívar, y se convirtió en símbolo local que recoge la memoria y la experiencia de vida de los y las habitantes de la localidad en el borde sur de la ciudad de Bogotá.

A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary lifeDeath in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution.

DISCOVER THE BOOK WITH THE PLOT TWIST THAT BROKE THE INTERNET Sail the seas.

Through an intensive examination of photographs and engravings from European, Peruvian, and U.

A look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcastingEvery day thousands of people broadcast their gaming live to audiences over the internet using popular sites such as Twitch, which reaches more than one hundred million viewers a month.

Humanity has often found itself on the precipice.

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'A compelling, prescient tale of an alternate world with far too many scary similarities to our own.

This book is a new introduction to the history and practice of economic anthropology by two leading authors in the field.

The images of migrants and refugees arriving in precarious boats on the shores of southern Europe, and of the makeshift camps that have sprung up in Lesbos, Lampedusa, Calais and elsewhere, have become familiar sights on television screens around the world.

White identity is in ferment.

Most incidents of urban unrest in recent decades - including the riots in France, Britain and other Western countries - have followed lethal interactions between the youth and the police.

In this lively and accessible study, David Lyon explores the relationship between religion and postmodernity, through the central metaphor of 'Jesus in Disneyland.

This highly topical book is a concise and accessible account of the relationship between technology and work.

In this book Paul Willis, a renowned sociologist and ethnographer, aims to renew and develop the ethnographic craft across the disciplines.

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths as well as gambling, the taverns, theatre and carnivals.

In this major new assessment of Zygmunt Bauman's work, Smith gives a clear introduction to this controversial and challenging sociologist.

This is an innovative contribution to the study of popular culture, focusing on the youth cultures that revolve around dance clubs and raves.

In an age where film stars become presidents and politicians appear in pop videos, politics and popular culture have become inextricably interlinked.

This major new textbook explores the relations between gender and archaeology, providing an innovative and important account of how material culture is used in the construction of gender.

Democracy and democratization are now high on the political agenda, but there is growing indifference to the gap between rich and poor.

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex, gender and sexuality.

This is the first book which examines the nature and significance of a feminist critique in anthropology.

A Theory of Shopping offers a highly original perspective on one of our most basic everyday activities - shopping.

In this book Jorge Larrain discusses three of the most important concepts in the social sciences: ideology, reason and cultural identity.

The writings of Harold Garfinkel have had a major impact on the social sciences and linguistics.

The aim of this book is both to illustrate and to discuss some of the main varieties of cultural history which have emerged since the questioning of what might be called its "e;classic"e; form, exemplified in the work of Jacob Burckhardt and Johan Huizinga.

The Art of Conversation is a major contribution to the social history of language - a relatively new field which has become the focus of lively interdisciplinary debate in recent years.

In everyday life we are not, for the most part, actively conscious of our bodies or the bodies of others we simply take them for granted.

The idea of long-term European dominance is characteristic of most evolutionary theories of human culture and society in the nineteenth century.

This vigorously argued book reveals the central role that Islam has played in European history.

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression.

Globalization is now widely discussed but the debates often remain locked within particular disciplinary discourses.

In this ambitious new book, Henrietta Moore draws on anthropology, feminism and psychoanalysis to develop an original and provocative theory of gender and of how we become sexed beings.

Modern civilization, Bauman argues, promised to make our lives understandable and open to our control.

This book provides a long-overdue account of online technology and its impact on the work and lifestyles of professional employees.

By examining the ongoing tension between popular and official religion in Europe, this collection of essays contributes significantly to the continuing effort to understand the religious experience of ordinary people.

The shocking untold story of how the FBI partnered with white evangelicals to champion a vision of America as a white Christian nationOn a Sunday morning in 1966, a group of white evangelicals dedicated a stained glass window to J.

How the medieval church drove state formation in EuropeSacred Foundations argues that the medieval church was a fundamental force in European state formation.

Tierisch glücklich sein in einer komplexen WeltTrotz seiner mentalen Leistungsfähigkeit und des technischen Fortschritts ist der Mensch im Laufe der Evolution nicht gleichsam zufriedener geworden.

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In this political essay, Ivan Illich calls for the right to useful unemployment: a positive, constructive, and even optimistic concept dealing with that activity by which people are useful to themselves and others outside the production of commodities for the market.

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