Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence - particularly terrorism - are staged, circulated, and remembered.
Traditional Midwives: Cross-Cultural Perspectives is a pioneering work that delves deeply into the worlds of traditional midwives, shedding light on their practices, roles, and the immense cultural value they hold within their respective communities wherever they are still allowed to practice.
For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.
This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi colonial power interaction and cross cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China.
Living Indigenous Archives invites readers to consider new pathways for developing and sustaining archival landscapes that are embedded with respect for Indigenous worldviews and cultural flows of knowledge.
This book provides a comparative, theoretical, and empirical understanding of the possible role of elections to minority councils and self-governments, local variants of national-cultural autonomy bodies in five East-Central European countries.
This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.
Quechua, with nearly ten million speakers living primarily across the Andes, stands as the most widely spoken Indigenous language of the Americas today.
Performing Stragismo and Counterspectacularisation offers a new theoretical lens on political violence as spectacle, drawing on performance theory to explore how acts of violence - particularly terrorism - are staged, circulated, and remembered.
With this book, Bernd Reiter reflects on over three decades of research on race, exclusion, inequality, white supremacy, and the defense of privilege in Brazil to explore how social hierarchies, honor, and dignity perpetuate systemic disparities in Latin America.
For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago.
Amidst rising global inequality, intensifying geopolitical frictions, and the renewed force of colonial logics, this volume offers a critical interrogation of coloniality, decolonial practices, global capitalism, and the technologies of governance that entrench social and environmental injustice.
This book examines the ways in which Nigeria's borders are used as instruments of soft and hard power in the country's relations with other African states.
For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context.
This book explores the architectural history of Christian universities in China, revealing how quasi colonial power interaction and cross cultural communication of meaning were channelled through religious and educational architecture in modern China.
Involving contributions from archaeology, geology, ethnography, anthropology and prehistory, The World at 18 000 BP: Low Latitudes (second of the two volumes, and originally published in 1990) surveys the world scene 18,000 years ago.
Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.
Focusing on masks and faces as figures and objects that carry ethical and political meanings, this volume examines the scientific, cultural, visual, and philosophical histories and traditions in which they are imbricated and which allow them to gather force and to become central to how human relationships are made.
This book examines the identification choices of a group of biracial college women and explores how these identifications relate to their choices and constructions of different social contexts.
This book uncovers the controversies around the suspended prison sentence, its main aims and features, and the role that it occupies within the wider criminal justice context.
Mi segunda piel, escrito por Alejandro Villanueva Bustos y David Leonardo Quitian Roldan, se presenta como un testimonio polifonico y visual que explora el fenomeno de las barras de futbol en Colombia y otras regiones latinoamericanas.
Quiero imaginar De cuerpos y travesias de esta manera: como un libro-experiencia, que revela algo de mis investigaciones en curso, no solo subrayando mis indagaciones y movimientos, sino tambien registrando las transformaciones por las que pase; en cierta forma, trazando una cartografia de afecciones y afectos.
This book explores human biomonitoring (HBM) as a method to evaluate chemical exposure and its related health effects, with a specific focus on short half-life chemicals and mycotoxins.
This book explores the multispecies triad of cattle ranching, focusing on how humans, horses, and cattle meet, interact, and shape a common multispecies culture.
One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, "e;Future of Healthcare in Asia"e; comprehensively examines the dramatic and accelerating impact of technological innovation on healthcare systems across the region.
One of a series of titles on the Futures of Asia, "e;Future of Healthcare in Asia"e; comprehensively examines the dramatic and accelerating impact of technological innovation on healthcare systems across the region.
Killing the Model Minority Stereotype comprehensively explores the complex permutations of the Asian model minority myth, exposing the ways in which stereotypes of Asian/Americans operate in the service of racism.
Filipino Americans have a long and rich history with and within the United States, and they are currently the second largest Asian group in the country.
This book examines the identification choices of a group of biracial college women and explores how these identifications relate to their choices and constructions of different social contexts.
