Anthropology

This volume evaluates the vitality of the term 'Afropolitan' within the fields of African and Afro-diasporic studies.

The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization.

Public Relations discuss the historical background, organization, definition, and promotion of the subject as a management function.

In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history.

This Routledge Handbook of Childhood Studies and Global Development explores how global development agendas and economic development influence children's lives.

This book presents an ethnographic investigation of intimate and reproductive behaviour in current Japanese society, grounded in the viewpoints of a group of Japanese mothers.

Selected Works of Mao Tse-Tung, Volume II focuses on the thoughts of Mao Tse-Tung on revolution, communism, war tactics, national unity, and patriotism.

This book makes a notable contribution to discussions of what anthropology is and should be in the twenty-first century through a reconsideration, from diverse sub-disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, of the interactions between sociality, matter, and the imagination.

The remarkable story of a "e;talking"e; chimp, a leading scientist, and the profound insights they have uncovered about our speciesHe has been featured in cover stories in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic, and has been the subject of a "e;NOVA"e; documentary.

Juggling Identities is an extensive ethnography of the crypto-Jews who live deep within the Hispanic communities of the American Southwest.

Before they were largely decimated and dispersed by the effects of European colonization, Arawak-speaking peoples were the most widespread language family in Latin America and the Caribbean, and they were the first people Columbus encountered in the Americas.

With his acclaimed Eat Right 4 Your Type diet series, Dr Peter D'Adamo started a health craze which proved that when it comes to dieting, one plan does not fit all.

Ethiopia, though remaining one of the least urbanised countries in the world, has taken impressive actions to transform the state into a more industrialized nation.

Why does ethnicity matter in certain societies and contexts but not in others?

This exciting and important book covers the impact on demography of the nutrition of populations, offering the view that the change from the hunter-gatherer to an agricultural life-style had a major impact on human demography, which still has repercussions today.

Curating in a Time of Ecological Crisis reaffirms the relevance and impactful role of art, revealing how contemporary art exhibitions can capture the zeitgeist and advance new and collaborative approaches to a more sustainable inhabitation of Earth.

In the post-9/11 environment, the figure of the Muslim woman is at the forefront of global politics.

Williams traces the South West Africa People''s Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

In this book Jan Blommaert discusses the changes in human language in an age of globalization.

Updated with the latest available research and the new 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines It's a scientific fact: You really are what you eat.

Aulino's work is a strong contribution to the study of aging in the field of medical anthropology specifically because of the focus on the embodied performativity of care evident in her research practice and analysis.

The fate of Sir Walter Raleighs 1587 Lost Colony on Roanoke Island has been one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of European settlement in North America.

Drawing from ethnographic work in five continents, this book demonstrates how different regimes of value in tourism can coexist, collide, and compete across a varied geographic terrain.

This book, together with a complementary volume 'Religion in Consumer Society', focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion.

During the 2000's, online literature in Arabic language was popular among a larger readership.

Finally, social scientists have begun to attempt to understand religious behavior rather than to discredit it as irrational, ignorant, or foolish-and Rodney Stark and Roger Finke have played a major role in this new approach.

This book aims to redefine Australia's earliest art history by chronicling for the first time the birth of the category "e;Aboriginal art,"e; tracing the term's use through published literature in the late eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

When Woodrow Wilson was elected as a ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in 1897, his preacher father allegedly remarked, "e;I would rather that he held that position than be president of the United States.

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas.

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From the softest caress to the harshest blow, touch lies at the heart of our experience of the world.

Robert Riley has been a renowned figure in landscape studies for over fifty years, valued for his perceptive, learned, and highly entertaining articles, reviews, and essays.

Understanding Rituals explores how ritual can be understood within the framework of contemporary social anthropology, and shows that ritual is now one of the most fertile fields of anthropological research.

This manuscript is the 4th Volume of the Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY) monograph sub-series.

This book is the first to explore the interconnections between ecology and performance in South Asia.

Reframing Pilgrimage argues that sacred travel is just one of the twenty-first century's many forms of cultural mobility.

Organized Naga military activity originally flourished under state patronage.

Methods, Mounds, and Missions offers innovative ways of looking at existing data, as well as compelling new information, about Florida's past.

Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work.

A collaboration between Native activists, professionals, and scholars, Re-Creating the Circle brings a new perspective to the American Indian struggle for self-determination: the returning of Indigenous peoples to sovereignty, self-sufficiency, and harmony so that they may again live well in their own communities, while partnering with their neighbors, the nation, and the world for mutual advancement.

Systematic Methods for Analyzing Culture is a practical manual that provides step-by-step instruction for collecting and analyzing cultural data.

This book chronicles an ethnographic teams involvement over a span of fifteen years with the people of a poor, largely Puerto Rican neighborhood in New York City.

Essays in this volume focus on Singapore, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, and the People's Republic of China as sites rife with discursive complexity.

The dynamics of globalization brought a radical change in megacities and tensions between the stakeholders and dwellers against top-down urban renewal policies.

Among the Songhay of Mali and Niger, who consider the stomach the seat of personality, learning is understood not in terms of mental activity but in bodily terms.

Violence and the Sacred is Ren Girard's landmark study of human evil.