The Continuum Concept introduces the idea that in order to achieve optimal physical, mental and emotional development, human beings - especially babies - require the kind of instinctive nurturing as practiced by our ancient relatives.
For a generation adjusting painfully to the demands of a modern industrial and commercial society, Asia came to represent an alternative vision of the good life: aesthetically austere, socially aristocratic, and imbued with spirituality.
Witchcraft, astrology, divination and every kind of popular magic flourished in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, from the belief that a blessed amulet could prevent the assaults of the Devil to the use of the same charms to recover stolen goods.
'Suzi Grant knows the secrets of youth' The TimesLOOK AND FEEL YOUR BEST IN 2020 WITH ALTERNATIVE AGEING - THE NATURAL WAY TO FEEL YOUNG AGAINSuzi Grant is in her late sixties but you wouldn't know it.
WINNER OF THE ORION BOOK AWARD Part travelogue, part manifesto for wildness as an essential character of life, Wild is a one-of-a-kind book from a one-of-a-kind author'Undefinable, untameable, profound and extraordinary' Observer _________________________'I took seven years over this work, spent all I had, my time, money and energy.
A sparkling new translation of the classic work on violence and revolution as seen through mythology and artThe Ruin of Kasch takes up two subjects: "e;the first is Talleyrand, and the second is everything else,"e; wrote Italo Calvino when the book first appeared in 1983.
An exploration of the ways that shifting relations between materiality and language bring about different forms of politics in TehranIn Revolution of Things, Kusha Sefat traces a dynamism between materiality and language that sheds light on how the merger of the two permeates politics.
How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China-and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions.
An in-depth look at why non-Jewish Poles are trying to bring Jewish culture back to life in Poland todaySince the early 2000s, Poland has experienced a remarkable Jewish revival, largely driven by non-Jewish Poles with a passionate new interest in all things Jewish.
When Siraj, the ruler of Bengal, overran the British settlement of Calcutta in 1756, he allegedly jailed 146 European prisoners overnight in a cramped prison.
In analyzing the obstacles to democratization in post- independence Africa, Mahmood Mamdani offers a bold, insightful account of colonialism's legacy--a bifurcated power that mediated racial domination through tribally organized local authorities, reproducing racial identity in citizens and ethnic identity in subjects.
A compelling account of how a group of Hasidic Jews established its own local government on American soilSettled in the mid-1970s by a small contingent of Hasidic families, Kiryas Joel is an American town with few parallels in Jewish historybut many precedents among religious communities in the United States.
"e;If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy,"e; says one of the participants in the Anastenaria.
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.
In this first book-length treatment of Maya intellectuals in national and community affairs in Guatemala, Kay Warren presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism through the voices, writings, and actions of its participants.
An important look at the hopeful rise and tragic defeat of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011The Egyptian Revolution of 2011 began with immense hope, but was defeated in two and a half years, ushering in the most brutal and corrupt regime in modern Egyptian history.
Bringing the hard-to-quantify aspects of lived experience to analysis, and emphasizing what might be lost in interventions if cultural insights are absent, this book includes case studies from across the Asia and Pacific regions -Bangladesh, Malaysia, New Guinea, Indonesia, Thailand, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Tuvalu and the Cook Islands.
A revolutionary approach to how we view Europe's prehistoric cultureThe peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and elaborate rituals and ceremonies.
How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society.
While diet has long been recognized as having potential to alleviate symptoms of inflammatory diseases including arthritis, lupus and fibromyalgia, research indicates that specific foods offer particular benefits in preventing or mitigating specific symptoms.
Since German reunification in 1990, there has been widespread concern about marginalized young people who, faced with bleak prospects for their future, have embraced increasingly violent forms of racist nationalism that glorify the country's Nazi past.
In the past decade, South Africa's "e;miracle transition"e; has been interrupted by waves of protests in relation to basic services such as water and electricity.
The last three decades have seen a massive expansion of China's visual culture industries, from architecture and graphic design to fine art and fashion.
One of the world's preeminent cultural anthropologists leaves a last work that fundamentally reconfigures how we study most other culturesFrom the perspective of Western modernity, humanity inhabits a disenchanted cosmos.
How the prized matsutake mushroom is remaking human communities in China-and providing new ways to understand human and more-than-human worldsWhat a Mushroom Lives For pushes today's mushroom renaissance in compelling new directions.
Publicada por primera vez en 1919, el pormenorizado diario del viaje que Katherine Routledge y su marido realizaron en 1914 con fines de investigación a la isla de Pascua, Sudamérica y la Patagonia no tardó en revelarse clave para el avance de muchas teorías sociales, culturales y antropológicas relacionadas con la isla.
When the 2010 earthquake struck Haiti, Raymond Joseph, the former Haitian ambassador to the United States, found himself rushing back to his beloved country.
Generación idiota nos ofrece una inmersión profunda en la desaparición de la sociedad intergeneracional y el auge de la mentalidad adolescente, que ha causado un gran daño a la política y a la sociedad.
