Sociology and anthropology

'This book is a love letter to the Mediterranean - full of flavours and the kind of wisdom that only a woman who travels with her own set of knives can impart.

'Kitchen staples and basic recipes are the nuts and bolts of every cook's kitchen.

We are all aware of the benefits of eating seasonally and healthily, and yet often this isn't something we consider when baking.

Healthy vegan recipes with 7 ingredients or fewer; can it be true?

'Until now, there has been little authoritative and practical information about this issue.

Reducing your carbohydrate intake is a proven way of losing and maintaining a desirable weight.

Over ten feet long, it weighs in at nearly a quarter of a ton.

Leadership Best Seller with #1 for Business Coaching and Team Skills on Amazon LEAD is here to help you lead yourself and others - through life s unpredictable challenges towards your aspirations.

Leadership Best Seller with #1 for Business Coaching and Team Skills on Amazon LEAD is here to help you lead yourself and others - through life s unpredictable challenges towards your aspirations.

Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement.

Discover Virginia Woolf's landmark essay on women s struggle for independence and creative opportunity A Room of One's Own is one of Virginia Woolf's most influential works and widely recognized for its extraordinary contribution to the women's movement.

Good conversation is at the heart of networking, meetings, interviews, negotiations and raising your profile.

Good conversation is at the heart of networking, meetings, interviews, negotiations and raising your profile.

Sie orientieren sich nicht wie die Ortsgemeinde an einer territorialen Zuständigkeit für ein bestimmtes Gebiet, sondern an bestimmten Themen, Zielgruppen und Lebenswelten.

Transform the way your business works.

Transform the way your business works.

The story of a search for a new art of living.

In this entertaining history, Gregory McNamee explores the many ethnic and cultural traditions that have contributed to the food of the Southwest.

Around the world, indigenous peoples are returning to traditional foods produced by traditional methods of subsistence.

Each August staff and volunteers begin to construct Black Rock City, a temporary city located in the hostile and haunting Black Rock Desert of northwestern Nevada.

Written with clarity, tenacity, humor, and warmth, A Hundred Little Pieces on the End of the World attempts to find tolerable ethical positions in the face of barely tolerable eventsand the real possibility of an intolerable future.

New Mexico cultural envoy Juan Estevan Arellano, to whom this work is dedicated, writes that querencia ';is that which gives us a sense of place, that which anchors us to the land, that which makes us a unique people, for it implies a deeply rooted knowledge of place, and for that reason we respect it as our home.

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Graciela chronicles the life of a Quechua-speaking Indigenous woman in the remote Andean highlands during the war in Peru that killed seventy thousand people and displaced hundreds of thousands more in the 1980s and 1990s.

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past.

This provocative examination of Aztec marriage practices offers a powerful analysis of the dynamics of society and politics in Mexico before and after the Spanish conquest.

In this unusual book an evolutionary anthropologist and her coauthor/granddaughter, who has Asperger syndrome, examine the emergence and spread of Asperger syndrome and other forms of high-functioning autism.

The concept of civilization has long been the basis for theories about how societies evolve.

At the height of their power in the late eleventh century, the Chaco Anasazi dominated a territory in the American Southwest larger than any European principality of the time.

For centuries the Huichol (Wixrika) Indian women of Jalisco, Mexico, have been weaving textiles on backstrap looms.

The history of emotions is a new approach to social history, and this book is the first in English to systematically examine emotions in colonial Mexico.

This study of sexuality in seventeenth-century Latin America takes the reader beneath the surface of daily life in a colonial city.

Rarely visited by outsiders, the ranchers of the Sierra de la Giganta in Baja California Sur live much as their ancestors have for the past two centuries.

The decorated sandals worn by prehistoric southwesterners with their complex fiber structures and designs have been dissected, described, and interpreted for a century.

Based on more than thirty years of ethnographic fieldwork in Highland Guatemala, this study of Maya diviners, shamans, ritual dancers, and religious brotherhoods describes the radical changes in traditional Maya religious practice wrought by economic globalization and political turmoil.

The delivery of health care can present a minefield of communication problems, particularly in cross-cultural settings where patients and health practitioners come from dissimilar cultures and speak different languages.

While much has been written about national history and citizenship, anthropologist Trevor Stack focuses on the history and citizenship of towns and cities.

Against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Oaxaca City, Kathryn Sloan analyzes rapto trials--cases of abduction and/or seduction of a minor--to gain insight beyond the actual crime and into the reality that testimonies by parents, their children, and witnesses reveal about courtship practices, generational conflict, the negotiation of honor, and the relationship between the state and its working-class citizens in post colonial Mexico.

Struggles over land and water have determined much of New Mexico's long history.

Scholars and Guatemalans have characterized eastern Guatemala as Ladino or non-Indian.

The earliest European accounts of Brazil's indigenous inhabitants focused on the natives' startling appearance and conductespecially their nakedness and cannibalistic ritualsand on the process of converting them to clothed, docile Christian vassals.

The Umbanda religion summons the spirits of old slaves and Brazilian Indians to speak through the mouths of mediums in trance.

New Mexico's Espaola Valley is situated in the northern part of the state between the fabled Sangre de Cristo and Jemez Mountains.

Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade.

This volume has been prepared for the Environmental and Health & Safety Manager.

In this compelling, and important book, John Schmitz brings order to the world of chaos that surrounds us.

Human Resources used to be about recruiting good people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them to perform, and retaining them.

Can you say anything about sex at the office anymore?

You've spent years gathering the technical intelligence you need for this challenging career--now separate yourself from the pack by increasing your emotional intelligence!