Sociology and anthropology

It was once common consensus that there was no significant Jewish community in ancient and medieval Armenia.

The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare.

Conservators as first responders in a world where our cultural heritage is increasingly at riskConservation can be understood as a form of knowing; conservators extract meaning about the past from what remains, while noting what is missing and sometimes repairing it.

Einer der wichtigsten Klassiker der Soziologie in der neuen Reihe »Great Papers Soziologie«Mit dem wahrscheinlich wichtigsten Aufsatz von Jürgen Habermas lässt sich leicht ein Zugang zu seinem gesamten Denken öffnen.

A Thousand Tiny Cuts chronicles the slow transformation of a connected region into national borderlands.

After slavery was abolished, how far would white America go toward including African Americans as full participants in the country's institutions?

This volume represents one of the first efforts to harvest the rapidly emerging scholarship in the field of American rural history.

Since the end of World War II, social science research has become increasingly quantitative in nature.

Exploring the history and importance of corn worldwide, Arturo Warman traces its development from a New World food of poor and despised peoples into a commodity that plays a major role in the modern global economy.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

Over the past 40 years, considerable progress has been made in lowering rates of domestic violence in our communities.

Over the past 40 years, considerable progress has been made in lowering rates of domestic violence in our communities.

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah.

Imagine for a moment the only way to confirm a yes-no question was by saying Yeah.

Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions.

Shadi Hamid reimagines the ongoing debate on democracy's merits and proposes an ambitious agenda for reviving the lost art of democracy promotion in the world's most undemocratic regions.

The South often seems like a foreign country to newcomers from other parts of the United States.

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning.

The United States spends more on programs for the elderly than it does on programs that enhance child development and improve child welfare.

Two people are firefighters and do the same job.

In Haitian Vodou, spirits impact Black practitioners' everyday lives, tightly connecting the sacred and the secular.

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.

Are you considered a dingbatter, or outsider, when you visit the Outer Banks?

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2024 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2.

Sport has come to have an increasingly large impact on daily life and commerce across the globe.

Sport has come to have an increasingly large impact on daily life and commerce across the globe.

Relationship anarchy is a new term for a very old practice: prioritizing relationships of all kinds, not just romantic connections.

In this theoretically rich work, Mason Kamana Allred unearths the ways Mormons have employed a wide range of technologies to translate events, beliefs, anxieties, and hopes into reproducible experiences that contribute to the growth of their religious systems of meaning.

They Call Me ElderUnderstanding the Sacred Office, Responsibilities, and Blessings of an Elder in the PriesthoodWhat does it really mean to be called an Elder?

In this sophisticated study of power and resistance, Jean Comaroff analyzes the changing predicament of the Barolong boo Ratshidi, a people on the margins of the South African state.

Allan Spear explores here the history of a major Negro community during a crucial thirty-year period when a relatively fluid patter of race relations gave way to a rigid system of segregation and discrimination.

Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact.

Archaeologies of Cultural Contact undertakes an exploration of cultural transfer, with a particular focus on the combination and modification of both material and behavioural attributes under conditions of contact.

"e;This ethnography is more like a film than a book, so well does Stoller evoke the color, sight, sounds, and movements of Songhay possession ceremonies.

Gunnar Myrdals An American Dilemma (1944) influenced the attitudes of a generation of Americans on the race issue and established Myrdal as a major critic of American politics and culture.

According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian Identity.

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In this sweeping chronicle of guarana glossy-leaved Amazonian vine packed with more caffeine than any other plantSeth Garfield develops a wide-ranging approach to the history of Brazil itself.

Shabana Mirs powerful ethnographic study of women on Washington, D.

In the late nineteenth century, Germans spearheaded a worldwide effort to preserve the material traces of humanity, designing major ethnographic museums and building extensive networks of communication and exchange across the globe.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O.

The Caribbean ranks among the earliest and most completely globalized regions in the world.

Thirty years after AIDS was first recognized, the American South constitutes the epicenter of the United States' epidemic.

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Since the beginning of the World Health Organization, many of its staff members, regional offices, member states, and directors-general have grappled with the question of what a 'spiritual dimension' of health looks like, and how it might enrich the health policies advocated by their organisations.

The idea of a critical theory is famous across the world, yet it is today rarely practised as originally conceived by the Frankfurt School.

The idea of a critical theory is famous across the world, yet it is today rarely practised as originally conceived by the Frankfurt School.

Reconstructing the human and natural environment of the Creek Indians in frontier Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee, Robbie Ethridge illuminates a time of wrenching transition.

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2020 im Fachbereich Soziologie - Arbeit, Ausbildung, Organisation, Note: 2,0, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Folgende Forschungs-frage soll damit wissenschaftlich beantwortet werden: „Welche Herausforderungen hatten türkische Gastarbeiter bei ihrer sozialen und strukturellen Integration in Deutschland (1961–1995)?

Social work is a complex career - a hugely rewarding way to make a difference in people's lives, paired with an enormous responsibility to get it right.