Sociology and anthropology

Open Borders to a Revolution is a collective enterprise studying the immediate and long-lasting effects of the Mexican Revolution in the United States in such spheres as diplomacy, politics, and intellectual thought.

Mass Performance: Systems and Citizens examines mass performance systems from the first major festival of the French Revolution through the democratic and socialist movements of the nationalizing nineteenth and twentieth centuries in Europe, to totalitarian communist and socialist regimes in the twentieth century, ending with contemporary North Korea.

China in Comparative Perspective provides an overview of China based on empirical observation by field workers, as well as on historical documents, Chinese literary and philosophical texts and core theoretical frameworks in the social sciences.

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende und Fachkräfte der Sportwissenschaft, Trainer und Trainerinnen, Sportler und Sportlerinnen, Verbände, staatliche Organisationen und Unternehmen im Sportbereich, die an einem tiefgreifenden, evidenzbasierten und gut verständlichen Einblick in die facettenreichen Verbindungen zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Sport interessiert sind.

Demographic Forecasting introduces new statistical tools that can greatly improve forecasts of population death rates.

WINNER OF THE FORTNUM AND MASON FOOD BOOK AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDRE SIMON AWARD A brilliant, passionate and spellbinding tour de force Claudia RodenThe epic tale of the world's most sophisticated gastronomic culture, told through a banquet of thirty Chinese dishesChinese was the earliest truly global cuisine.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2025 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Kinder und Jugend, Note: 1,3, Hochschule Bochum (Gesundheitswissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Kindheit und Jugend, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Welche Unterschiede gibt es zwischen dem Kinderfilm der 1950er und der späten 1960er-Jahre?

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende und Fachkräfte der Sportwissenschaft, Trainer und Trainerinnen, Sportler und Sportlerinnen, Verbände, staatliche Organisationen und Unternehmen im Sportbereich, die an einem tiefgreifenden, evidenzbasierten und gut verständlichen Einblick in die facettenreichen Verbindungen zwischen Nachhaltigkeit und Sport interessiert sind.

Justice, Gender, and Affirmative Action by Susan D.

The Mind of the Slave untangles the double nature of slaves as property and as human beings under the law in the Roman world.

Michel Foucault is rarely viewed as a philosopher of technology, yet academics and students routinely refer to his terms 'technologies of power', 'governmental technologies', and 'technologies of the self'.

Violence is never just an act; it is a spectacle, a mechanism of power, and a tool of erasure.

This book examines the impact of disasters on individuals and communities, from natural calamities like wildfires and hurricanes, technological disasters, and human-induced crises.

In 1859 high grade silver bullion was discovered on the Comstock Lode.

This book examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia.

White moderates have been a hidden obstacle to black-white equality in the United States for over two centuries.

This book critically examines the intersection of gender, governance, and urban mobility through the lens of transit systems in postcolonial and developing countries.

Becoming a Social Science Researcher is designed to help aspiring social scientists, including credentialed scholars, understand the formidable complexities of the research process.

Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies.

With more than 50,000 enrolled members, North Carolinas Lumbee Indians are the largest Native American tribe east of the Mississippi River.

The nineteenth century saw a marked change in how Americans viewed and understood the human form.

The overall rate of incarceration in the United States has been on the rise since 1970s, skyrocketing during Ronald Reagans presidency, and recently reaching unprecedented highs.

The global doubling of human life expectancy between 1850 and 1950 is arguably one of the most consequential developments in human history, undergirding massive improvements in human life and lifestyles.

An engaging blend of environmental theory and literary studies, Natures State looks behind the myth of Alaska as Americas last frontier, a pristine and wild place on the fringes of our geographical imagination.

This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson.

In 2007, while researching mountain culture in upstate South Carolina, anthropologist John M.

Aloha is at once the most significant and the most misunderstood word in the Indigenous Hawaiian lexicon.

In Reconstructing the Household, Peter Bardaglio examines the connections between race, gender, sexuality, and the law in the nineteenth-century South.

Hilbert demonstrates the historical connection between the nineteenth-century theory of Emile Durkheim and Max Weber, in which sociology had its origins, and the ethnomethodological approach articulated in the 1960s by Harold Garfinkel.

What have anthropologists taught us about Melanesia--one of anthropology's most important and intensively studied world regions?

Patrick Barr-Melej here illuminates modern Chilean history with an unprecedented chronicle and reassessment of the sixties and seventies.

In this ethnography of Navajo (Din) popular music culture, Kristina M.

From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region.

Reparation and Reconciliation is the first book to reveal the nineteenth-century struggle for racial integration on U.

A wide-ranging account of American and French understandings of merit, talent, and intelligence over the past two centuriesHow have modern democracies squared their commitment to equality with their fear that disparities in talent and intelligence might be natural, persistent, and consequential?

Irfan Ahmad makes the far-reaching argument that potent systems and modes for self-critique as well as critique of others are inherent in Islam indeed, critique is integral to its fundamental tenets and practices.

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The origin story of hip-hopone that involves Kool Herc DJing a house party on Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronxhas become received wisdom.

In this book, Judy Kutulas complicates the common view that the 1970s were a time of counterrevolution against the radical activities and attitudes of the previous decade.

System Kids considers the daily lives of adolescent mothers as they negotiate the child welfare system to meet the needs of their children and themselves.

One of the nations fastest growing metropolitan areas, Wake County, North Carolina, added more than a quarter million new residents during the first decade of this century, an increase of almost 45 percent.

For much of the nineteenth century and all of the twentieth, the per capita rate of suicide in Cuba was the highest in Latin America and among the highest in the world a condition made all the more extraordinary in light of Cubas historic ties to the Catholic church.

Malinowski presents in this book his definitive statement of the theory of functionalism.

In the late eighteenth century, Hawai'is ruling elite employed sophisticated methods for resisting foreign intrusion.

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present.

Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pars traces the formation of Candombl, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.

By the 1920s, the sectional reconciliation that had seemed achievable after Reconstruction was foundering, and the South was increasingly perceived and portrayed as impoverished, uneducated, and backward.

Harvesting Coffee, Bargaining Wages offers an insightful scrutiny of rural market behavior and a convincing explanation of why farmers fail sometimes to manage their laborers in ways predicted by market models--and how power imbalances and social conditions can impair the ability of laborers to attain a fair market contract during lax labor market periods.