Claude Lévi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is perhaps even more influential beyo……続きを見る
著者:Mary Abbott
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2003年09月02日
The decades between the close of World War I and the end of the Thatcher era have changed and challenged family life in England dramatically. The Depression and World War II shifted priorities and b……続きを見る
One of the first studies of an exciting new development in global biotechnology, this cutting edge text examines the extent of the transnational movements of tissues, stem cells, and expertise, in t……続きを見る
Human Rights and the Third World: Issues and Discourses deals with the controversial questions on the universalistic notions of human rights. It finds Third World perspectives on human rights and se……続きを見る
著者:Nancy Abelmann
出版社: Duke University Press
発売日: 2009年10月30日
The majority of the 30,000-plus undergraduates at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaignーincluding the large population of Korean American studentsーcome from nearby metropolitan Chicago. Amo……続きを見る
著者:Tanya Bunsell
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年04月12日
Females with large muscles evoke strong reactions from men and women, often involving disgust, discomfort, anger and threat. The controversial nature of female bodybuilding has caused a significant ……続きを見る
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Knowledge and Information, University of Nairobi (Law), course: Social Foundations of Law, language: English, abstract: The presence of un……続きを見る
Questioning the notion of transit migration, the book examines factors that shape Central American migrants' mobility and immobility in the transnational space, comprised on Central American countri……続きを見る
A better understanding of youth work’s historical links with social work can help us to shape its relationship with social work in the future. This sixth publication in the History of Youth Work in ……続きを見る
Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental……続きを見る
This monograph offers a cultural history of the development of physics in India during the first half of the twentieth century, focusing on Indian physicists Satyendranath Bose (1894-1974), Chandras……続きを見る
Infertility and assisted reproductive technologies in India lie at the confluence of multiple cultural conceptions. These ‘conceptions’ are key to understanding the burgeoning spread of assisted rep……続きを見る
‘A brave and beautiful exploration into food, race, memory and the very meaning of life. I read it greedily - and so will you’ Meera Sodha, author of Fresh India The dinner table, among friends, is ……続きを見る
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
Co-opting Culture: Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies represents a collection of new scholarship on culture from the social sciences and from work done under the rubric of 'cultural……続きを見る
Who were the first people who came to the land bridge joining northeastern Asia to Alaska and the northwest of North America? Where did they come from? How did they organize technology, especially i……続きを見る
Plantation sites, especially those in the southeastern United States, have long dominated the archaeological study of slavery. These antebellum estates, however, are not representative of the range ……続きを見る
This book is an ethnography of labor mobility and its challenges to the idea of the nation. Using the example of francophone Canada, it examines how social difference-race, ethnicity, language, gend……続きを見る
Un nombre elevat de persones, prop de 250, varen poder debatre a les Jornades "Museus avui. Els nous museus de societat", que varen tenir lloc a l'Aula Magna de la Facultat de Geografia i Història d……続きを見る
著者:Gary A. Berg
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2016年05月13日
Drawing upon quantitative data gathered from the U.S. Census and U.S. Department of Education, as well as interviews with students from a variety of socio-economic and ethnic backgrounds, Low-Income……続きを見る
著者:Dayabati Roy
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2018年06月04日
In comparison to other social groups, India’s rural poor – and particularly Adivasis and Dalits - have seen little benefit from the country’s economic growth over the last three decades. Though econ……続きを見る
An engaging ethnography of Korean American immigrant families navigating the United States
Both scholarship and popular culture on Asian American immigrant families have long focused on intergenerat……続きを見る
Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,8, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Abschlussarbeit zur Erlang……続きを見る
This book introduces contemporary Buddhists from across Asia and from various walks of life. Eschewing traditional hagiographies, the editors have collected sixty-six profiles of individuals who wou……続きを見る
This book proposes that creative and participatory modes of measuring, knowing, and moving in the world are needed for coming to grips with the Anthropocene epoch. It interrogates how creative, affe……続きを見る
Increasingly more conditions are now being identified as having a genetic component, and controversial new genetic technologies potentially have major consequences for social relations and self-iden……続きを見る
著者:Anya Bernstein
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2019年06月25日
A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortality
As long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end. In The Future of Immortality, Anya Bernstein exp……続きを見る
Labouring to Learn examines academic mobility pathways among ethnic minority Tamil youths in public secondary schools and vocational institutions in Singapore. This book qualitatively examines the i……続きを見る
This book studies the relevance of dowry as a customary practice in Indian marriages. It examines the historical articulation between traditional cultural texts and modern statutory law to understan……続きを見る
著者:Lindsay A, Bell
出版社: University of Toronto Press
発売日: 2023年05月03日
In 2007, Canada became the third largest producer of diamonds in the world. Primarily mined on the edge of the Arctic, these diamonds are said to bring economic development and opportunity to nearby……続きを見る