Sociology and anthropology

Since the early 1990s, there has been a critical shortage of marriageable women in farming and fishing villages in Korea.

In Social Memory and History, a group of anthropologists, sociologists, social linguists, gerontologists, and historians explore the ways in which memory reconstructs the past and constructs the present.

Is it desirable, or even necessary, to have distinct human rights for cultural identities?

Economic development is an important focus of anthropological work in rural and urban communities around the world, and in this volume the contributors offer expert analyses on the theory and practice of development.

The Logical Foundations of Social Theory describes Gert Mueller's argument that physical, biological, social, moral, and cultural reality form an asymmetrical hierarchy of founding and controlling relationships that condition social reality rather than mechanically determining it.

Homo Sapiens, A Problematic Species examines how Western culture has understood and continues to understand what it is to be human.

The Italian/American Experience: A Collection of Writings represents a meaningful attempt to inform Italian Americans about their group's varied experiences in America.

In Drawing Life, Thomas J.

This book is a biography of University of California-Berkeley sociology professor Troy Duster.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman's Concerning Children reflects her innovative thinking on the social and economic construction of motherhood.

As a visible marker of globalization, the increased role of travel and tourism in our lives makes it a remarkable force in contemporary culture.

Wilk and his colleagues draw upon their own international field experience to examine how food systems are changing around the globe.

Including the work of 12 authors from institutions such as Colorado State University, Frostburg State University, Michigan State University, Salisbury University, Texas Woman's University, University of Birmingham, University of California; Irvine, University of California; Merced, and William Jessup University, Rocklin; California, the collection of essays explores the broad range of animals who share our planet and attempts to recognize our responsibility as humans to take their interests seriously.

This textbook provides a survey of the Speech and Communication Studies areas of Communication, focusing on human communication through the transactional model of communication.

Deconstructing Prehumanity is an investigation into the role of archaeological perception in the construction of race.

Winner of the International Impact Book Award in November 2024The aim of this book is to sustain the Mong cultural practices.

Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the present-utilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

Acting Bodies and Social Networks analyzes the complex interactions of body, mind and microelectronic technologies.

In this long-anticipated second edition of The Art of Fieldwork, prominent anthropologist Harry F.

The Legacy: South Florida Museum is an account of the origins, founding, and development in twentieth-century Florida of a people's museum about archeology, Spanish exploration, manatees, and space.

Theory of Social Involvement examines the dynamic interplay between church, state, and society.

During the course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy with couples, the practicing clinician is commonly faced with problems and issues that at times can seem nearly insoluble.

The Sexual Alarm System: Women's Unwanted Response to Sexual Intimacy and How to Overcome It by Judith Leavitt explores the shield that develops around many women's bodies to protect them from real and perceived sexual intrusions and dangers.

Diary of a Dean is a memoir of Herbert London's years at New York University.

Seeking Freedom and Justice for Hungary is the story of the vigorous Catholic worker movement developed in Hungary after the devastations of World War I, unique in the history of twentieth-century Europe.

Envy is a universal emotion, yet people are very reluctant to confess their envy of another.

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century.

Having wounded his father with a hurtful letter when he was twenty-three, Tom Couser felt somewhat responsible for his later mental collapse.

This book highlights important but insufficiently documented dimensions of the experience of English-speaking Caribbean immigrants in the United States.

The Economic Process transforms economic theory from a linear, sequential discipline into a structure in which events happen simultaneously and are strictly interrelated.

Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time-honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control based on money and inheritance, to a companionate union in which love and the couple's own agency played a role.

The 75 years that span the writings of Sigmund Freud and John Bowlby-two minds that have significantly shaped thinking about the processes of change in psychotherapy and psychoanalysis-have yielded dramatic changes in the ways in which we conceptualize human relationship as curative.

In the last three decades, mediation has been increasingly used in the United States and elsewhere.

Imagining Modernity in the Andes deals with the intersection of projects of modernity and cultural representation in the Andes.

Charting the intersection of aesthetic representation and the material conditions of urban space, The City Since 9/11 posits that the contemporary metropolis provides a significant context for reassessing theoretical concerns related to narrative, identity, home, and personal precarity.

The inevitability of death-that of others and our own-is surely among our greatest anxieties.

I Eat, Therefore I Think breaks new ground by introducing philosophy via an activity central to life: eating.

Andrew Marvell's Liminal Lyrics: The Space Between is an interdisciplinary study of the major lyric poems of seventeenth-century British metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell.

Coal Dust on Your Feet is a historical ethnography of Shamokin, Pennsylvania and its surrounding borough of Coal Township.

This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of "e;American"e; identity involves the incorporation of a "e;foreign body"e; as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself.

Understanding Looked After Children is an accessible guide to understanding the mental health needs of children in foster care and the role of foster carers and support networks in helping these children.

Children in public care complain that they have too many placements.

Underpinned by substantive research on meeting the developmental and attachment needs of infants, this book offers constructive advice on how to encourage curiosity, confidence and emotional security in young children.

An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements.

*Shortlisted for the Young Minds Book Prize 2006*Shattered Lives bears witness to the lives of children who have experienced abuse and neglect, and highlights the effects of early traumatic episodes.

How has European identity been shaped through its colonial empires?

When it comes to migration, there is no level playing field.

This edited collection interrogates the diversity of transnational migration experiences in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of digital ethnography in order to explore the transformative effects digital media plays in these experiences.

Who decides which stories about a city are remembered?

Gathering researchers from or towards Global South epistemologies, this book enriches the debate on crucial questions for liberation in the South and the improvement of South relations.