In neighborhoods, schools, community centers, and workplaces, people are using oral history to capture and collect the kinds of stories that the history books and the media tend to overlook: stories of personal struggle and hope, of war and peace, of family and friends, of beliefs, traditions, and values-the stories of our lives.
In the late nineteenth century, Brown's Park, a secluded valley astride the Utah-Colorado border, was a troubled land of deadly conflict among cattle barons, outlaws, rustlers, and small ranchers.
Scholarship on the musical traditions of Indonesia has long focused on practices from Java and Bali, including famed gamelan traditions, at the expense of the wide diversity of other musical forms within the archipelago.
Decades after independence for most African states, the struggle for decolonization is still incomplete, as demonstrated by the fact that Africa remains associated in many Western minds with chaos, illness, and disorder.
In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia.
In Blood and Capital: The Paramilitarization of Colombia, Jasmin Hristov examines the complexities, dynamics, and contradictions of present-day armed conflict in Colombia.
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Soziales System und Sozialstruktur, Note: 1,7, Technische Universität Darmstadt (Soziologie), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Frage, welche Rolle der Habitus von Arbeiterkindern für deren universitäre Passung spielt.
Now available in a gorgeous hardcover slipcase edition, this "e;object d'art"e; will be sure to add grace and elegance to tea shelves, coffee tables and bookshelves.
Economic, technological, and sociopolitical changes have been transforming the cultures of advanced industrial societies in profoundly important ways during the past few decades.
Just one generation ago, lawyers dominated Mexico's political elite, and Mexican economists were a relatively powerless group of mostly leftist nationalists.
This collection of essays represents the first attempt in this country to examine systematically the nature and development of modern Japanese self-consciousness as expressed through culture.
Recent insights into the nature of representation and power relations have signaled an important shift in perspective on anthropology: from a fieldwork-based "e;science"e; of culture to an interpretive activity bound to the discursive and ideological process called "e;text-making.
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2023 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Sonstiges, Note: 2,7, Universität Bielefeld (Soziologie), Veranstaltung: Postkoloniale Soziologie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Wie aktuell ist Du Bois Konzept des Double Consciousness am Beispiel von Migrant*innen in Deutschland?
Ch'ing China and Tokugawa Japan were unusually urbanized premodern societies where about one half of the world's urban population lived as late as 1800.
An utterly gripping non-fiction adventure narrative, 'Lost in Shangri-La' is an untold true story of war, anthropology, survival, discovery, heroism, and a near-impossible rescue mission.
The nine papers in this volume examine the historical experience of particular populations in Western Europe and North America in a search for the processes that change fertility patterns.
Political science and sociology increasingly rely on mathematical modeling and sophisticated data analysis, and many graduate programs in these fields now require students to take a "e;math camp"e; or a semester-long or yearlong course to acquire the necessary skills.
Based on close reading of historical documents--poetry as much as statistics--and focused on the conceptualization of technology, this book is an unconventional evocation of late colonial Netherlands East Indies (today Indonesia).
Comparison with stationary and very fast rates of population growth shows modern population grwoth to have long-run positive effects on the standards of living.
We cannot, the author argues, adequately understand the religious imagination without knowing the historical, social, and cultural matrices from which it arises.
This book is not only an explanation of the political dynamic that led to the Polish "e;revolution"e; and the birth of Solidarity in 1980 and 1981 but an extremely important analysis of postwar East Central Europe.
Women in contemporary Greek society have been conventionally depicted as oppressed and socially inferior, circumscribed in behavior and segregated from the world of men.
When Mary Steedly went to North Sumatra, Indonesia, she intended to study the curing practices of Karo Batak spirit mediums, the gurus who keep a community in touch with its ancestors.
An authoritative overview of the concepts and applications of biological demographyThis book provides a comprehensive introduction to biodemography, an exciting interdisciplinary field that unites the natural science of biology with the social science of human demography.
If, as many cultural critics have asserted, the world is becoming more like the Caribbean, then the task of charting what we mean by "e;the Caribbean"e; is an urgent one.
One of the first things any visitor to Barbados notices is Barbadian youths wearing baseball caps and T-shirts sporting the logos of North American teams; and these days, one is more likely to find an American sitcom on television than a Caribbean program.
