Anthropology

Gods and Heroes of the Greeks (1957) looks at the chief stories of Ancient Greece and how they influenced European literature for centuries.

Greek and Roman Jewellery (1961) covers jewellery from the Classical lands from the early Bronze Age to the late Roman period, almost 3,000 years of continuous development and innovation in the craft.

In Thailand's Far South, Kee Howe Yong sheds light on the Malay Muslims in Thailand's far south.

This fully updated new edition of Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective carefully introduces and responds to changes in anthropological approaches to and perspectives on gender.

Analyzes the Jewish communities in Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey, covering Hellenistic, Roman, and Ottoman rule, as well as the present.

This book provides a unique insider's look at the world's largest film industry, now globally known as 'Bollywood' and challenges existing notions about Indian films.

This accessible book offers a unique, evidence-based perspective on the art and science of giving.

This book uniquely examines, across cultures, the health benefits and detriments of religious beliefs, with important implications for individual wellbeing and human survival.

This book fills a unique gap in the research on the cultural history of vegetarianism and veganism, children's literature and Victorian periodicals, and it is the first publication to systematically describe the phenomenon of Victorian children's vegetarianism and its representations in literature and culture.

This reader presents a comprehensive review of the research on mass incarceration as it relates to causes, impact, and solutions.

Ce numéro de Confluences Méditerranée cherche à contribuer à la réflexion sur l'évolution des systèmes de santé au Moyen-Orient et dans l'espace méditerranéen, dans une perspective associant approches d'économie politique, de santé publique et d'anthropologie.

The Roman Villa in Britain (1969) is a comprehensive examination of Roman villas in Romano-Britain in a series of essays by six specialists.

This book combines documentation and analysis of the contents of exhibits in 12 museums (Part 1) with interviews with experts involved in the creation of exhibits (Part 2) to explore variation in human evolution exhibits.

Beyond Liminality: Ontologies of Abundant Betweenness examines the concept of liminality in the social sciences and humanities, and advocates for a more critical use of the concept while offering more precise alternatives.

Paulina Hidalgo, nos regala una nueva y virtuosa comprensión antropológica de Wachuma o Cactus San Pedro, bajo la figura de un ser Caminante en Espiral, como ser vegetal con trayectoria y agencia propia, a la vez como conviviente del ser humano desde antes de la mal llamada historia latinoamericana y su mal habida conquista.

The Ancient City of Athens (1953) contains both definite reports of the actual discoveries in the excavations which revolutionised previous topographical views of Athens, and articles and discussions to which these new discoveries gave rise.

How can qualitative research methods be a tool for social change?

For the Foi people who live on the edge of the central highlands of Papua New Guinea, the flow of pearl shells is the heart of their social life.

A History of the Roman World from 753 to 146 B.

Life and Thought in the Greek and Roman World (1961) aims to provide a brief but comprehensive outline sketch of Greek and Roman civilization.

Reconocer la pluralidad cultural supone buscar formas igualitarias de articulación entre miembros de tradiciones diferentes.

The book depicts the life and aspirations of the Tribal in the two newly created states of Jharkhnad and Uttaranchal, and the radio of the development progress through government and NGOs and finally the study shows as to how far we have yet to go in the sphere of tribal development.

Exploring the difficult and contested sites of deindustrialized society on the brink of transformation to either heritage or wasteland, this volume looks at the creative ways that such sites are (re)used and suggests that they are not always merely abject or abandoned.

This work argues that a component part of US neoliberalism involves adaptive accumulation, a process in which capital seeks to enlarge public programs, as a means to reroute public revenues into private revenue streams.

This book is the first monograph of its kind in the academic world which comprehensively expounds the new methodology of humanities.

Indian Anthropology owes its origin to the Asiatic Society of Calcutta.

This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday life.

In 'Totem and Taboo,' Sigmund Freud delves into the realms of psychological anthropology, exploring the origins of civilization through the lens of psychoanalysis.

L’auteur de cette recherche est parti du cas hors du commun du génocide des Batutsi de 1994, qualifié de « génocide populaire ».

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?

'Well-being' is a contemporary term used by people around the globe to address how comfortable their lives are.

Comment un culte s’articule-t-il autour de circulations de pèlerins entre la France, l’Espagne et l’Algérie ?

Développer son pouvoir d’agir en protection de l’enfance, est-ce bien réaliste ?

This book explores, from a feminist and intersectional perspective, how masculinities have been (re)negotiated in today's European digital sphere.

'Well-being' is a contemporary term used by people around the globe to address how comfortable their lives are.

Building from a range of essays representing multiple fields of expertise and traversing multiple religious traditions, this important text provides analytic rigor to a question now pressing the academic study of religion: what is the relationship between the material and the digital?

This book explores how the landscapes in indigenous territories are rapidly changing due to increased global industrial demand.

Decolonizing Medicine examines Bolivian state-led efforts to decolonize health services during the administration of Evo Morales, Bolivia's first Indigenous president.

"e;Tribes"e; appear worldwide today as vestiges of a pre-modern past at odds with the workings of modern states.

This accessible book offers a unique, evidence-based perspective on the art and science of giving.

Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the 'rationality debate' has developed over the last century, from E.

Magic, Science and Society investigates the way the 'rationality debate' has developed over the last century, from E.

How does immigration transform societies and relations between ethnic and racial groups?

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients' health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry.

This volume addresses the diversification of mental healthcare provision and patients' health-seeking behavior by putting Brazilian Spiritism and its translocal relations at the center of its inquiry.

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This book considers David Hanson's robots as a performative expression of our cultural moment, serving as a paradigm for the evolution of humanoid social robots.

Playing with the relation between truth and representation in the stories we tell as ethnographers and theater makers, this book contributes to the current debates around experimental research methodologies and ethnographically grounded theatrical forms.

Patrick West's Architectures of Occupation in the Australian Short Story cultivates the potential for literary representations of architectural space to contribute to the development of a contemporary politics of Australian post-colonialism.