Dans Les elucubrations d'un septuagenaire desenchante, l'auteur propose une analyse approfondie de notre monde moderne, qu'il explore a travers le prisme de son education, de ses multiples cultures et de ses experiences de vie.
This new, second edition of Primate Ethnographies: Fieldwork from Across the Globe is a collection of first-person accounts of immersive field studies of primates, people, and institutions, revealing the excitement of studying wild primates and the multi-faceted challenges involved in conducting field research.
This book provides an interdisciplinary exploration of how the humanities, social sciences, and health sciences can contribute to addressing the pressing challenges of the Anthropocene.
Tracing the survival of ancient magical practices into the nineteenth century, Modern Magic reveals how arcane traditions and old enchantments endure in the contemporary world.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
Situes aux confluences de la meditation, de la confession et du manifeste, les essais rassembles dans le present volume, concus et ecrits entre 2015 et 2020, couvrent un vaste espace epistemologique.
Pow-Wows; or, The Long Lost Friend gathers centuries-old spells, blessings, and symbolic rituals intended to safeguard individuals and households from harm or misfortune.
This book offers an autoethnographic exploration of the interplay of art, memory, and resilience in Eastern Europe, weaving together the personal and collective histories of Belarusians - those who survived two World Wars and their contemporaries, who are now looking for a way out of a political crisis in the region.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Ludwig Wittgenstein und Susan Sontag beschäftigten sich intensiv mit Fragen der Selbstsorge und Lebenskunst – teils im direkten Bezug aufeinander.
Au-dela d'une evocation des faits qui ont marque l'evolution de l'espece humaine et qui sont a l'origine de la lente transformation de sa condition, ce voyage, tel qu'il nous est raconte, nous entraine dans une reflexion plus profonde sur le sens et l'aboutissement du fabuleux voyage de l'Humanite dans lequel, a tour de role, nous sommes tous a la fois spectateurs et acteurs.
The foods Kentuckians love to eat todaybiscuits and gravy, country ham and eggs, soup beans and cornbread, fried chicken and shucky beans, and fried apple pie and boiled custardall were staples on the Kentucky family farms in the early twentieth century.
El libro es una guía estratégica, una sistematización de prácticas y una colaboración entre agentes especializados que dan cuenta de lo acontecido a propósito del 20 aniversario de la institucionalización de la formación de gestores culturales, no solo para dejar constancia de este proceso, sino para identificar logros y retos.
Rencontres et reflexions vous invite a la decouverte d'un univers foisonnant d'experiences, ou des individus issus d'horizons varies, tant familiers qu'exotiques, partagent a la fois des similitudes intrigantes et des differences captivantes.
Geospatial tools to Groundwater Resources explain the most recent methods in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and geostatistics as they apply to groundwater through complete case studies that demonstrate actual remote sensing applications in this field.
'A trenchant and invaluable people's history of the bottom of the pyramid in the world's most populous nation' Financial Times What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India?
Feminist and Anti-caste Activism in the Bodhgaya Land Movement of Rural Bihar examines the long-term social, spatial, and material impacts of the Bodhgaya Land Movement (BGLM) of the 1970s and 1980s on its participants and beneficiaries.
Initialement voue aux cultes de la nature et de ses forces, le chamanisme s'etendit plus tard aux cultes des esprits des objets inanimes et des etres vivants.
Also known as the Lemegeton, The Lesser Key of Solomon is a foundational grimoire of demonology, cataloguing the names, attributes, seals, and conjurations of 72 spirits said to have been summoned and commanded by King Solomon.
This book critically examines the ever-evolving relationship between gender, identity and technology, investigating how identity is shaped, expressed, and contested within virtual environments.
El viaje y la trama es un fascinante estudio etnográfico sobre la transformación de Todos Santos Cuchumatán, una comunidad indígena guatemalteca que ha experimentado cambios radicales debido al impacto de la guerra civil, la globalización y el flujo constante de migrantes hacia Estados Unidos.
New data from the past 25 years of research at animportant pre-Hispanic siteThesacred Andean site of Pachacamac, inhabited for over a thousand years beforethe Spanish Conquest, has an enduring presence in Peruvian history and plays apivotal role in the formation of current views about religion and thought inthe pre-Hispanic period.
Society for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book AwardThe first synthesis of the archaeological heritage of BaltimoreBelow Baltimore provides the first detailed overview of the rich archaeological heritage of the people and city of Baltimore.
Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.
Human Alterity: A Brief History of Anthropological Thought offers an introduction to the history of anthropological thought, encompassing eleven concise chapters that revolve around the concept of human alterity.
Exploring the meanings in the intricate symbolism of a rare Precolumbian manuscriptThis book explores the rich symbolism of the Codex Borgia, a masterpiece of Precolumbian art dating to the fifteenth century, one of the few surviving books from before the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Día a día los ciudadanos encaran la necesidad de tramitar documentos de diverso tipo para acreditar su identidad, conducir un automóvil o certificar una condición determinada; deben pagar los recibos de servicios públicos o asegurar la inscripción de una firma, un sello o un número en un papel que, de no encontrarse "en regla", puede obstaculizar su salida del país, el acceso a algún beneficio o servicio o la compra de un inmueble.
The role of place-making and architecture in mobile culturesThe relationship of hunter-gatherer societies to the built environment is often overlooked or characterized as strictly utilitarian in archaeological research.
The influence of baseball heritage in society and cultureBaseballs past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history.
In Ancient Andean Houses, Jerry Moore offers an extensive survey of vernacular architecture from across the entire length of the Andes, drawing on ethnographic and archaeological information from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta in Colombia to the Patagonia region of Argentina and Chile.
