Drawing on rich insights from cultural, post-structural and postcolonial studies, this book demands that we rethink Carnival and the carnivalesque as not just celebratory moments or even as critical……続きを見る
When the Wabanaki were moved to reservations, they proved their resourcefulness by catering to the burgeoning tourist market during the 19th and early 20th centuries, when Bar Harbor was called Eden……続きを見る
著者:Seth Mallios
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2006年08月20日
A clash of cultures on the North American continent.
With a focus on indigenous cultural systems and agency theory, this volume analyzes Contact Period relations between North American Middle Atlant……続きを見る
Technologies of Procreation bridges the gap between medical technology and cultural values. It looks at the ways in which the 'technologies of procreation' affect society from an anthropological per……続きを見る
著者:Ahmed Fagih
出版社: Taylor and Francis
発売日: 2013年01月11日
First Published in 2000. Who’s of Afraid of Agatha Christie and Other Stories exemplifies Fagih’s characteristic mixing of illusion and reality. his complexity of style. and penchant for lyrical wri……続きを見る
著者:Ann Laura Stoler
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2010年01月25日
Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced med……続きを見る
著者:Dennis Tedlock
出版社: University of New Mexico Press
発売日: 2012年11月08日
Page by page, this book takes us on a journey through the built world that ranges from Greece to Guatemala and from New York to San Francisco. Tedlock practices what he calls photowriting, a creativ……続きを見る
We've told you HOW TO SHIT IN THE WOODS. We've taken you UP SHIT CREEK. Now, we dare to ask the eternal question...WHO CUT THE CHEESE? Which is to say, what exactly is a fart? Why do we do it? Why d……続きを見る
Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outisde the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologist……続きを見る
Theodore Dalrymple's new book of essays follows on the extraordinary success of his earlier collections, Life at the Bottom and Our Culture, What's Left of It. No social critic today is more adept a……続きを見る
著者:Roger Abrahams
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2011年06月07日
A folklorist and ethnographer who has written about the Southern Appalachians, African American communities in the United States, and the West Indies, Roger D. Abrahams goes up against the trivialit……続きを見る
著者:Esoh Elamé
出版社: Springer Milan
発売日: 2016年05月23日
This book is devoted to the relation between bullying at school and ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability. In examining the interactions between bullying and discrimination, the auth……続きを見る
Throughout Latin America, indigenous peoples are responding to state violence and pro-democracy social movements by asserting their rights to a greater measure of cultural autonomy and self-determin……続きを見る
出版社: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
発売日: 2009年08月01日
How can postcolonialism be applied to Canadian literature?
In all that has been written about postcolonialism, surprisingly little has specifically addressed the position of Canada, Canadian literat……続きを見る
The main focus of the volume - the processes of choice and decision-making in different economic systems - offers exceptional scope for the convergence of economic and anthropological perspectives. ……続きを見る
The need for a laboratory and field manual to assist with the evaluation of juvenile skeletal material is long overdue. This resource is essential for the practising osteoarchaeologist and forensic ……続きを見る
This is the first volume that covers the use of qualitative research methods in mass media research. Theoretical insights are incorporated from discourse analysis, ethnography and reception theory.
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著者:Itty Abraham
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2009年12月04日
On the premise that words have the power to make worlds, each essay in this book follows a word as it travels around the globe and across time. Scholars from five disciplines address thirteen societ……続きを見る
Radical Research explores the view that research is not a neutral tool to be employed without bias in the search for truth. Rather the radical roots of research are to be seen in the focus on freedo……続きを見る
The postmodernist critique of Objectivism, Realism and Essentialism has somewhat shattered the foundations of anthropology, seriously questioning the legitimacy of studying others. By confronting th……続きを見る
The controversy surrounding the significant "Into the Heart of Africa" exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada is explored in this compelling and analytical text. The exhibit has become an int……続きを見る
«Эта дама по характеру карьеристка. Поэтому даже в том случае если основной областью своей деятельности она изберёт семью, всё равно будет и там стремится сделать своеобразную карьеру, что в её пони……続きを見る
Singapore remains one of the few countries in Asia that has yet to decriminalize homosexuality. Yet it has also been hailed by many as one of the emerging gay capitals of Asia. This book accounts fo……続きを見る
This book focuses on issues of governance and the nature and complexities of social transformation in India’s Northeast -- a ‘problem’ zone for policymakers -- particularly since the early 1990s. Wh……続きを見る
著者:Paul Nonnekes
出版社: Athabasca University Press
発売日: 2008年05月01日
In Northern Love, Paul Nonnekes proposes a conception of love suggestive of a distinctive model of Canadian masclinity. He pursues debates in psychoanalysis and cultural theory in relation to two re……続きを見る
This work explores in detail how innovative academic activism can transform our everyday workplaces in contexts of considerable adversity. Personal essays by prominent scholars provide critical refl……続きを見る
A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literat……続きを見る
著者:Bryan Sykes
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2011年02月07日
From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles.
One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousand……続きを見る
Entertainment media now comprise one of the worlds largest industries, yet they remain one of the least studied aspects of contemporary mass media. Every day hundreds of millions of people watch tel……続きを見る
著者:Anthony Cohen
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
Traditionally the self and the individual have been treated as micro-versions of larger social entities by the social sciences in general, and by anthropology in particular. In Self Consciousness, C……続きを見る