Justice at the Boundaries offers a powerful ethnographic account of the transformative potential and structural limitations of Taiwan's system of ad hoc Chambers of Indigenous Courts. Drawing on imm……続きを見る
In the Himalayas of the Indian part of Kashmir three communities depend on the ecology of the Dal lake: market gardeners, houseboat owners and fishers. Floating Economies describes for the first tim……続きを見る
An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral. Focusing on the role of sound, light, t……続きを見る
¿Qué es lo que nos hace humanos? Desde su mismo origen, la humanidad se ha planteado esta pregunta, esforzándose en darle respuesta a través de todo tipo de mitos y teorías para marcar los límites d……続きを見る
Este segundo volumen de Performance-investigación colaborativa presenta los procesos que abordamos junto con grupos y colectivos sociales de Argentina y, en algunos casos, de otros países latinoamer……続きを見る
Following in the footsteps of Frazer, Freud, and Burke, René Girard proposes a novel hermeneutics of scapegoating which not only gives voice to the victims in the face of unjust persecution, but lik……続きを見る
Exploring Anthropology through Folklore and Mythology is a comprehensive textbook which examines how people around the world express themselves culturally, and how these practices provide a window i……続きを見る
著者:Claudia J. Carr
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年01月05日
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license.
This book offers a devastating look at deeply flawed development processes driven by international finance, African governments and the global ……続きを見る
Postcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both ……続きを見る
This book presents the legal institutions involved in cultural heritage protection from a Polish point of view. Its authors set out the legal framework of cultural management in the context of priva……続きを見る
The book provides a panorama of Italian migrants’ activities in Polish economy, political life and, above all, culture. The motivations of Italians who decided to travel to the Polish-Lithuanian Com……続きを見る
著者:P.J. Capelotti
出版社: University Press of Florida
発売日: 2018年09月12日
Remnants of the curious and peculiar ways humankind has marked the archaeological landscape are abundant but often ignored: wrecked aircraft, abandoned airfields, old highway billboards, derelict b……続きを見る
This book presents a pragmatic perspective on the development of intercultural communicative competence and intercultural understanding by language learners in the foreign language classroom and in ……続きを見る
Against the backdrop of a post-Soviet state set aflame by geopolitical conflict and violent revolution, Narkomania considers whether substance use disorders are everywhere the same and whether our r……続きを見る
Este libro, parte de una trilogía, presenta las metodologías de performance-investigación que el Equipo de Antropología del Cuerpo y la Performance de la Universidad de Buenos Aires viene ensayando ……続きを見る
著者:Mojca Ramšak
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2024年08月12日
This book discusses the meaning of smell from a socio-cultural perspective and brings important considerations of smell and olfaction beyond anatomy and physiology in an erudite, reader-friendly sty……続きを見る
This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the presen……続きを見る
著者:Gene J. Crediford
出版社: University of Alabama Press
発売日: 2011年06月30日
Through interviews and a generous photograph montage stretching over two decades, reveals the commonality and diversity among these people of Indian identity
When DeSoto (in 1540) and later Juan Par……続きを見る
There have been few more remarkable events than the European colonisation and decolonisation of Africa. Often within a single lifespan countries were conquered, reorganised, settled and then granted……続きを見る
An ethnographic account of daily life in Durham Cathedral, this book examines the processes of negotiation and change between a community and their cathedral. Focusing on the role of sound, light, t……続きを見る
著者:JC Gaillard
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2021年12月31日
This theoretical contribution argues that the domination of Western knowledge in disaster scholarship has allowed normative policies and practices of disaster risk reduction to be imposed all over t……続きを見る
著者:Amy J. Catalano
出版社: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
発売日: 2015年06月26日
Drawing from primary research studies in archaeology, historical analysis, literature, and art this interdisciplinary look at the history of child funerary practices and other vehicles of parental m……続きを見る
著者:J. Chu
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan US
発売日: 2012年04月14日
Jonathan Chu explores individual economic and legal behaviors, connecting them to adjustments in trade relations with Europe and Asia, the rise in debt litigation in Western Massachusetts, deflation……続きを見る
A critical investigation into how modern myths shape interpretations of the ancient past.
Lost City, Found Pyramid delves into the fascinating world of sensational “pseudoarchaeology,” from perennia……続きを見る
In Maya theology, everything from humans and crops to gods and the world itself passes through endless cycles of birth, maturation, dissolution, death, and rebirth. Traditional Maya believe that hum……続きを見る
Nineteenth-century Cuba led the world in sugar manufacture and technological innovation was central to this. Through the story of a group of forgotten migrant workers who anonymously contributed to ……続きを見る
著者:J.C Bernthal
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年10月03日
This book is the first fully theorized queer reading of a Golden Age British crime writer. Agatha Christie was the most commercially successful novelist of the twentieth century, and her fiction rem……続きを見る
With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively de……続きを見る
Putting Image Repair to the Test:Quantitative Applications of Image Restoration Theory examines content analytic, attitudinal, and behavioral claims to advance current assertions made about image re……続きを見る
著者:J. Chapman
出版社: Palgrave Macmillan UK
発売日: 2015年03月11日
A New History of British Documentary is the first comprehensive overview of documentary production in Britain from early film to the present day. It covers both the film and television industries an……続きを見る