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Walking the Path of Seven Clans is a thoughtful exploration of community, identity, responsibility, and personal growth inspired by the symbolic wisdom associated with the traditional Cherokee clan ……続きを見る

The Craft of Belonging explores the role of craft and its mediation of social boundaries, particularly in communities that are under state pressure.Anthropologists Matthew Magnani and Natalia Magnan……続きを見る

From birth, our brains are shaped by other peopleーin our families, schools, workplaces, neighborhoods, countries, and cultures. These social worlds make us who we are, but how this process works re……続きを見る

Palestina. Una regione che è ponte tra continenti, corridoio per chi si muove, passaggio obbligato da sempre, dalla preistoria ai giorni nostri. Una terra che nella storia ha visto più guerre di qua……続きを見る

What brought the ape out of the trees, and so the man out of the ape, was a taste for blood. This is how the story went, when a few fossils found in Africa in the 1920s seemed to point to hunting as……続きを見る

Thailand is known as the Land of Smiles. But never assume that smiles mean the same as they do in the West. Smiling is quite automatic in Thailand. A monk once told me that Thais were born with smil……続きを見る

Mapping Medical Anthropology for the Twenty-First Century provides readers with a comprehensive survey of topics, methodologies, and theories in the discipline, drawing on contributions from leading……続きを見る

Laugh Lines: The History of April Fools' Day is a deep, engaging exploration of humanity's long-standing relationship with playful deception, surprise, and shared laughter. Far more than a collectio……続きを見る

Burrowing into History: Groundhog Day Through the Ages is a richly researched and beautifully told exploration of one of humanity's most enduring seasonal traditions. Far more than a quirky winter c……続きを見る

Restless Quietists addresses two questions at the core of the politics of Islamic ethics: How does Islamic virtue become attractive to young urbanites in predominantly secular societies? What makes ……続きを見る

Ecstatic Encounters takes its readers to the threshold of Candomblé temples in Bahia, Brazil, where, for many generations -- members of this spirit-possession cult and curious outsiders have been me……続きを見る

¿Por qué tanta gente lista empieza a creer cosas absurdas? Así nacen las teorías conspiranoicas: dudas seductoras pero infundadas que prometen revelar lo que la ciencia no explica. En una era marcad……続きを見る

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315474052, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivativ……続きを見る

Here is a fresh, intriguing, and, above all, authoritative book about how our sometimes hidden positions in various social structuresーour human networksーshape how we think and behave, and inform o……続きを見る

Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its star……続きを見る

The most important investigation of genetic science since The Selfish Gene, from the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling The Red Queen and The Origins of Virtue. The genome is our 10……続きを見る

In Christian circles, consuming pornography has been treated primarily as a moral issue, and the analysis of pornography has dealt with motivations, harms and responses. This book explores how such ……続きを見る

Derek explains in some detail what led up to his bitter divorce in England and the doubts he had about moving to Thailand to be with the woman he had met on a Thai dating site. He describes what eve……続きを見る

Based on ten years of collaborative, community-based research, this book examines race and racism in a mixed-heritage Native American and African American community on Long Island’s north shore. Thr……続きを見る

Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have……続きを見る

Everyday life is defined and characterised by the rise, transformation and fall of social practices. Using terminology that is both accessible and sophisticated, this essential book guides the reade……続きを見る

From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively accessible, and at times irreverent introduction to the subject What is anthropology? What can it tell us about the world? Why, in short, does it matte……続きを見る

William Faulkner in the Media Ecology explores the Nobel Prize-winning author immersed in the new media of his time. Intersecting with twentieth-century technology such as photography, film, and sou……続きを見る

Imagistic Care explores ethnographically how images function in our concepts, our writing, our fieldwork, and our lives. With contributions from anthropologists, philosophers and an artist, the volu……続きを見る

Hollywood is often characterised as a stronghold of left-liberal ideals. In Reel Power, Matthew Alford shows that it is in fact deeply complicit in serving the interests of the most regressive US co……続きを見る

While the importance of the role of storytelling can hardly be overestimated, the impact of digitalization on this role is more ambivalent. In this second book-length publication of the programme Me……続きを見る

'One has often wondered whether upon the whole earth there is anything so unintelligent, so unapt to perceive how the world is really going, as an ordinary young Englishman of our upper class' Poet,……続きを見る

Navajo Weavers by Washington Matthews is a seminal ethnographic study that explores the art and craft of weaving among the Navajo people. Written by Matthews, a physician and anthropologist, the boo……続きを見る

Emphasising the contradictions of fandom, Matt Hills outlines how media fans have been conceptualised in cultural theory. Drawing on case studies of specific fan groups, from Elvis impersonators to ……続きを見る

An inside look at a middle-class funeral in Northern Thailand, Cultural observations from behind-the-scenes 続きを見る