Sociology and anthropology

One of the central issues in democratic theory is the proper role of public opinion in the conduct of international affairs.

Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.

Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.

Through nostalgic idealizations of motherhood, family, and the home, influential leaders in early twentieth-century America constructed and legitimated a range of reforms that promoted human reproduction.

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.

In this study of devotional hagiographical texts and contemporary ritual performances of the Shi'a of Hyderabad, India, Karen Ruffle demonstrates how traditions of sainthood and localized cultural values shape gender roles.

How was it possible that a new and sizeable Jewish community developed after the Holocaust in Germany of all places?

After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom.

This English translation of Gebser's major work, Ursprung und Gegenwart (Stuttgart, Deutsche Verlag, 1966), offers certain fundamental insights which should be beneficial to any sensitive scientist and makes it available to the English-speaking world for the recognition it deserves.

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Though often associated with foreigners and refugees, many Somalis have lived in Kenya for generations, in many cases since long before the founding of the country.

Everyone "e;knows"e; the Maasai as proud pastoralists who once dominated the Rift Valley from northern Kenya to central Tanzania.

In the 1940s, British shipping companies began the large-scale recruitment of African seamen in Lagos.

After four decades of British rule in colonial Kenya, a previously unknown ethnic name-"e;Luyia"e;-appeared on the official census in 1948.

From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves.

Preaching Prevention examines the controversial U.

Twins Talk is an ethnographic study of identical twins in the United States, a study unique in that it considers what twins have to say about themselves, instead of what researchers have written about them.

Thinking Outside the Girl Box is a true story about a remarkable youth development program in rural West Virginia.

San rock paintings, scattered over the range of southern Africa, are considered by many to be the very earliest examples of representational art.

Africa has emerged as a prime arena of global health interventions that focus on particular diseases and health emergencies.

This first extensive study of the practice of blood transfusion in Africa traces the history of one of the most important therapies in modern medicine from the period of colonial rule to independence and the AIDS epidemic.

"e;No nation can win a battle without faith,"e; Steve Biko wrote, and as Daniel R.

The Grasinski Girls were working-class Americans of Polish descent, born in the 1920s and 1930s, who created lives typical of women in their day.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2022 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Beziehungen und Familie, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit wird folgender Fragestellung nachgehen: "Stellt das LBG NRW als positive Diskriminierung ein faires und moralisch zulässiges Mittel zur Bekämpfung von Frauendiskriminierung in der Polizei dar?

From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth, thousands of Madagascar's people were brought to American ports as slaves.

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.

Football, Migration and Racism examines the complex intersections of racism, antiracism, football, and migration in contemporary global contexts.

This title examines the Karbi Youth Festival as a platform for cultural revival and preservation of indigenous identity in Northeast India.

For poets, priests, and politicians and especially ordinary Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large.

Transcending geographic and cultural lines, From Toussaint to Tupac is an ambitious collection of essays exploring black internationalism and its implications for a black consciousness.

A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history.

Nag Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988.

In this classic book, Michael Taussig explores the social significance of the devil in the folklore of contemporary plantation workers and miners in South America.

In the 1970s, while politicians and activists outside prisons debated the proper response to crime, incarcerated people helped shape those debates though a broad range of remarkable political and literary writings.

Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States.

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

Celebrated as the home of the blues and the birthplace of rock and roll, Memphis, Tennessee, is where Elvis Presley, B.

The Twofold Brain: Exploring Fundamental Questions about Brain Lateralization challenges the traditional view that brain asymmetry is exclusive to human brains, showing that it is instead widespread in animals.

After the fall of the state socialist regime and the end of martial law in 1989, Polish society experienced both a sense of relief from the tyranny of Soviet control and an expectation that democracy would bring freedom.

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

Uruguay is not conventionally thought of as part of the African diaspora, yet during the period of Spanish colonial rule, thousands of enslaved Africans arrived in the country.

Lydia Cabrera (19001991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent.

Archie Green shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist was a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies.

A gripping and inspiring book, Civic Passions examines innovative leadership in periods of crisis in American history.

No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists dont get their start at the New York Times.

For many years before the coming of the Europeans, Algonquin peoples held the northern reaches of the New World.

Disruptive Voices: The Possibilities of Feminist Research charts the beginnings of a creative solution to emerging and hotly contested issues in feminist scholarship and feminist philosophy of science.

In this fascinating history of alcohol in postwar American culture, Lori Rotskoff draws on short stories, advertisements, medical writings, and Hollywood films to investigate how gender norms and ideologies of marriage intersected with scientific and popular ideas about drinking and alcoholism.

In this important study of women with alcoholic husbands, Asher vividly describes the process of coming to terms with a profound crisis in one''s private life.

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