Anthropology

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The Holocene is unique when compared to earlier geological time in that humans begin to alter and manipulate the natural environment to their own needs.

Anja Schmidt's thesis is a unique and comprehensive evaluation of the impacts of tropospheric volcanic aerosol on the atmosphere, climate, air quality and human health.

This thesis presents a comprehensive analysis of the globalhealth impacts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in ambient air,conducted on the basis of a high-resolution emission inventory, global chemicaltransport modeling, and probabilistic risk assessment.

In this accessible overview of current knowledge, an expert team of editors and authors describe experimental approaches to consciousness.

In a Darwinian world, religious behavior - just like other behaviors - is likely to have undergone a process of natural selection in which it was rewarded in the evolutionary currency of reproductive success.

2022 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleThe Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere is a reclaimed history of the deep past of Indigenous people in North and South America during the Paleolithic.

This book guides instructors and students through an intersectional and comparative approach to understanding key theories, concepts, practices, and movements in Ethnic Studies.

This book explores critical and thought- provoking questions about the role and impact of psychotherapy in addressing societal, environmental, and economic challenges.

La obra propone una reflexion metodologica y comparativa sobre la relacion entre las sociedades prehispanicas y los pueblos indigenas contemporaneos.

En el Totonacapan, el diluvio y la tormenta no son solo fenomenos del pasado: son memoria viva, nombres que vuelven cada ano y relatos que anudan cerros, rios y cuencas a la experiencia historica de los pueblos totonacos.

Séances, Spirits, and Discernment: A Scholarly Investigation explores the cultural history of spiritualism and the human search for meaning beyond the material world.

WaswasaStep into the shadows of Islamic thought and uncover the secrets of the most enigmatic figure in spiritual history—Iblis.

Some women were feared as tempters.

The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historical structures of subordination like caste or race.

The Monster in Your Path is an original and provocative look at why the global Left stumbles when dealing with historical structures of subordination like caste or race.

Deadwood fue descrita en su dia como la ciudad mas diabolica sobre la faz de la tierra , un ombligo de pecado que emergio a comienzos de 1876 en las Black Hills (Dakota del Sur), excrecencia de la fiebre del oro que convoco alli a miles de mineros, buscavidas, pistoleros, prostitutas y mercachifles.

For decades, the human family tree seemed relatively straightforward: Homo sapiens outcompeted the Neanderthals and claimed the globe.

Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives introduces students to the dynamic field of the anthropology of reproduction, examining how human reproduction is shaped by cultural, historical, and political forces.

The Moral Economy of Trade (1994) investigates the agents of trade during the process of transformation from an indigenous rural subsistence economy into a cash-crop-producing market economy and a more-or-less integrated market-system in Southeast Asia.

This book studies the role, representation, and materiality of weapons, focusing on what they mean to communities and individuals in various cultural, social, political, and religious settings.

Exploring Reproduction: Anthropological Perspectives introduces students to the dynamic field of the anthropology of reproduction, examining how human reproduction is shaped by cultural, historical, and political forces.

This book introduces the Neapolitan 'femminielli', their customs and practices through a series of essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English.

This book introduces the Neapolitan 'femminielli', their customs and practices through a series of essays originally published in Italian and newly translated into English.

This book seeks to broaden the conversation in migration studies by incorporating a collective perspective, as illustrated by the case study of Hadiya migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa.

The Moral Economy of Trade (1994) investigates the agents of trade during the process of transformation from an indigenous rural subsistence economy into a cash-crop-producing market economy and a more-or-less integrated market-system in Southeast Asia.

The fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives offers a clear and readable introduction to the field of cultural anthropology, with a special focus on how digital technologies and social media function as prime global forces that are nevertheless used, adapted, transformed, or ignored by people in their everyday local lives.

Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries (1984) is an attempt to encourage the collection of analytically appropriate data that can be used to help in the design of migration-related policies.

This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.

Bringing Up Children in Ghana (1962) covers a whole spectrum of child training from birth to maturity, including nursing and feeding, sibling relationships, parental discipline, sexual behaviour, puberty rites, children's household chores.

This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.

This book studies the role, representation, and materiality of weapons, focusing on what they mean to communities and individuals in various cultural, social, political, and religious settings.

Bringing Up Children in Ghana (1962) covers a whole spectrum of child training from birth to maturity, including nursing and feeding, sibling relationships, parental discipline, sexual behaviour, puberty rites, children's household chores.

The fifth edition of Cultural Anthropology: Global Forces, Local Lives offers a clear and readable introduction to the field of cultural anthropology, with a special focus on how digital technologies and social media function as prime global forces that are nevertheless used, adapted, transformed, or ignored by people in their everyday local lives.

Migration Surveys in Low Income Countries (1984) is an attempt to encourage the collection of analytically appropriate data that can be used to help in the design of migration-related policies.

Funerary practices have long been a classic topic of anthropological inquiry, which has tended to focus on death rituals as expressions and reinforcers of community ties and values.

Within the context of globalization, cultural transformations are increasingly analyzed as hybridization processes.

This book examines some of the social dimensions of Indian society and the challenges therein.

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies.

This book examines some of the social dimensions of Indian society and the challenges therein.

This book offers an anthropological exploration of the lullaby, a type of music found in nearly all human societies.

This book seeks to broaden the conversation in migration studies by incorporating a collective perspective, as illustrated by the case study of Hadiya migration from Southern Ethiopia to South Africa.