Anthropology 21

A Cultural History of Twin Beds challenges our most ingrained assumptions about intimacy, sexuality, domesticity and hygiene by tracing the rise and fall of twin beds as a popular sleeping arrangeme……続きを見る

This book investigates the substantial and growing contribution which African Independent and Pentecostal Churches are making to sustainable development in all its manifold forms. Moreover, this vol……続きを見る

Understanding how to sustain the services that ecosystems provide in support of human wellbeing is an active and growing research area. This book provides a state-of-the-art review of current thinki……続きを見る

Making a Good Life takes a timely look at the ideas and values that inform how people think about reproduction and assisted reproductive technologies. In an era of heightened scrutiny about parentin……続きを見る

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295801551 Revival of religious practices of all sorts in China, after decades of systematic government suppression, is a topic of considerable interest to schola……続きを見る

In Manifesto for an Independent Revolutionary Art André Breton and Diego Rivera, under the effects of German fascism and Russian Stalinism in society, argued that art can only impact society and be ……続きを見る

In this ambitious and accomplished work, Taussig explores the complex and interwoven concepts of mimesis, the practice of imitation, and alterity, the opposition of Self and Other. The book moves fr……続きを見る

Men in the Public Eye reveals why men's domination in and of the public sphere is a vital feature of gender relations in patriarchy. It also shows how public domains dominate private domains, contri……続きを見る

Fiery Temporalities in Theatre and Performance: The Initiation of History takes up the urgent need to think about temporality and its relationship to history in new ways, focusing on theatre and per……続きを見る

Resultado de estudo que o autor vem desenvolvendo há alguns anos, tendo inicialmente por objeto as representações sociais do corpo e da morte. O ponto de partida histórico arbitrado pelo autor - "po……続きを見る

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes fr……続きを見る

Ernesto de Martino è stato il maggior antropologo italiano del XX secolo. A cinquant’anni dalla sua morte, il suo lascito intellettuale e scientifico attende di essere ulteriormente esplorato in tut……続きを見る

The power of love has become a renewed matter of feminist and non-feminist attention in the 21st century’s theory debates. What is this power? Is it a form of domination? Or is it a liberating force……続きを見る

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781315180250, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivativ……続きを見る

Boxing is infused with ideas about masculinity, power, race and social class, and as such is an ideal lens through which social scientists can examine key modern themes. In addition, its inherent co……続きを見る

Sense and Sadness is an innovative study of music modality in relation to human emotion and the aesthetics of perception. It is also a musical story of survival through difficulty and pain. Focusing……続きを見る

Este livro resulta do contributo de vários autores à temática da relação entre cultura, arte e tecnologia dos media, central à experiência contemporânea e ao pensamento crítico das últimas décadas, ……続きを見る

At a time when globalization has side-lined many of the traditional, state-based addressees of legal accountability, it is not clear yet how blame is allocated and contested in the new, highly diffe……続きを見る

What exactly is a crowd? How do crowds differ from other large gatherings of people? And how do they transform emotions, politics, or faith? In Crowds, contributors draw on their experiences and exp……続きを見る

Thoughts and feelings about home traditionally provided people of all cultures with a firm sense of where they belonged, and why. But with the world rapidly changing, many of our basic notions are b……続きを見る

The book contains essays on current issues in arts and humanities in which peoples and cultures compete as well as collaborate in globalizing the world while maintaining their uniqueness as viewed f……続きを見る

*FROM THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF FRAZZLED* A three way encounter between a Monk, a neuroscientist and Ruby Wax sounds like the set up for a joke. Instead it's produced one of the most fasc……続きを見る

Drawing on the exciting developments that have occurred in the anthropology of art over the last twenty years, this study uses ethnographic methods to explore shifts in the art market and global con……続きを見る

This unique study explores the vampire as host and guest, captor and hostage: a perfect lover and force of seductive predation. From Dracula and Carmilla, to True Blood and The Originals, the figure……続きを見る

This book offers new perspectives on global phenomena that play a major role in today’s society and deeply shape the actions of individuals, organizations and nations. In a complex and rapidly chang……続きを見る

Rosa Luxemburgs Werk 'Die Krise der Sozialdemokratie' ist ein bahnbrechendes Werk, das tiefgreifende Einblicke in die sozialistische Bewegung des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts liefert. Luxemburgs scharfe ……続きを見る

IB Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Study and Test Preparation Guide thoroughly prepares International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology students for the IB Social and Cultural Anthr……続きを見る

　　2009年， 　　一群人類學家，成立台灣第一個學術共筆網站， 　　在網路種下第一顆芭樂開始，芭樂力從此爆發。 　　帶動學術部落格的興起， 　　（例如：「巷仔口社會學」、「歷史學柑仔店」、「菜市場政治學」……続きを見る

The corporeal turn toward critical, empirically grounded studies of the body is transforming the way we research physical culture, most evidently in the study of sport. This book brings together ori……続きを見る

The urban condition is today being radically transformed. Urban restructuring is accelerating, new urban spaces are being consolidated, and new forms of urbanization are crystallizing. In New Urban ……続きを見る