Gaia-Ästhetiken entwerfen Figurationen der Erde und ihrer Lebensformen, welche die Menschen dezentrieren und den Fokus auf die Verbindungen zwischen Lebewesen untereinander und dem Unbelebten richten.
Es indudable que existen categorías sociales que, cuando se interseccionan, contribuyen a formar identidades sociales y crean relaciones de poder, dominación y resistencias específicas.
This book bridges the gap on the critical issues of ecotourism and direct economic assistance to the conservation of local ecological and human resources.
Effective urban governance is essential in responding to the challenges of inequality, migration, public health, housing, security, and climate change.
Inside OUT: Human Health and the Air-Conditioning Era focuses on the enclosed environment of fully conditioned buildings, revealing a unique ecosystem with broad implications for human life and a rapidly expanding global footprint.
This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.
This book sets up a rich intercultural dialogue between the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and Michel Foucault, and that of key African thinkers such as Kwame Anthony Appiah, Achille Mbembe, Kwasi Wiredu, Kwame Gyekye, Tsenay Serequeberhahn, and Henry Odera Oruka.
The rapprochement of anthropology and literary studies, begun nearly fifteen years ago by such pioneering scholars as Clifford Geertz, Edward Said, and James Clifford, has led not only to the creation of the new scholarly domain of cultural studies but to the deepening and widening of both original fields.
Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.
First published in 1990, Deconstructing America breaks new ground by locating the European discovery of America within the study of representations of Otherness.
Clusterkopfschmerz stellt noch immer eine unheilbare, äußerst belastende Erkrankung dar, bei der die Lebensqualität der Betroffenen enorm eingeschränkt ist.
This volume focuses on African indigenous women legends and their potential to serve as midwives for gender empowerment and for contributing towards African feminist theories.
This edited book contests that if design's raison d'etre is to make things better, then the object of design has always been, remains and can only be a changed world and our relationship to it - the world-for-us.
In diesem Buch wird ein interdisziplinärer Ansatz für die Welt des Konsums gewählt, der verschiedene Themen abdeckt und soziologische, wirtschaftliche und marketingbezogene Aspekte einbezieht.
This book offers a political anthropological perspective on the problematic character of science, combining insights from historical sociology, political theory, and cultural anthropology.
In Silicon Valley Imperialism, Erin McElroy maps the processes of gentrification, racial dispossession, and economic predation that drove the development of Silicon Valley in the San Francisco Bay Area and how that logic has become manifest in postsocialist Romania.
This fascinating urban anthropological analysis of Sarajevo and its cultural complexities examines contemporary issues of social divisiveness, pluralism, and intergroup dynamics in the context of national identity and state formation.
Clusterkopfschmerz stellt noch immer eine unheilbare, äußerst belastende Erkrankung dar, bei der die Lebensqualität der Betroffenen enorm eingeschränkt ist.
Ausgehend von einer multi-lokalen Studie, die biografische Interviews und ethnografische Beobachtungen vereint, untersucht dieses Buch intergenerationelle Transmissionsprozesse in Familien marokkanischer Herkunft in Frankreich und Deutschland.
This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.
Pragmatic Imagination and the New Museum Anthropology shifts museum anthropology's relationship to the broader field from marginal to central by revealing the sophisticated transdisciplinary praxis (theory + practice) at the heart of current museum anthropologies.
Focusing on complex entanglements of religion and gender from a diversity of perspectives, this book explores how women enact agencies in transcultural Hindu and Buddhist settings.
Received an honorable mention at the Wallerstein Memorial Book Awards Explaining how the legacy of colonialism and the nature of the liberal economy play a significant role in the development of Africa today, keeping Africa poor and dependent, this book explains how trade liberalization, deregulation, and privatization had opened doors for the New Scramble for Africa.
Dans les années 90, avec plus de 130 groupes ruraux revendiquant des spécificités ethnolinguistiques et historiques particulières, la mosaïque ethnique du Laos est unique.
This book provides the first systematic assessment from a human rights law perspective of the landmark contributions of the renowned legal anthropologist, Sally Engle Merry.
Only 15 kilometres away from the border of Zimbabwe, Musina is an obscure town in South Africa that the media cast into the public eye in the wake of the 2008 Zimbabwean economic crisis.
Forgetting about Spain's civil war (1936-9) and subsequent dictatorship was long seen as a necessary safeguard for the democracy that emerged after General Francisco Franco's death in 1975.
