ｒｅＹ - Anthropology 1

The eagerly anticipated conclusion to Peter Godfrey-Smith’s three-part exploration of the origins of intelligence on Earth, which began with the bestselling Other Minds in 2018 and continued with Me……続きを見る

Informed by critical theory, this book employs Social Network Analysis (SNA) to examine the ever-increasing impact that social media has on politics and contemporary civic discourse. In just the pas……続きを見る

This book analyses how high technology production has shifted from a regional to a global scale. Using the example of semi-conductors it illustrates the interaction of the developed industrial and d……続きを見る

An unprecedented number of folklorists are addressing issues of class, race, gender, and sexuality in academic and public spaces in the US, raising the question: How can folklorists contribute to th……続きを見る

In India, you can still find the kabaadiwala, the rag-and-bone man. He wanders from house to house buying old newspapers, broken utensils, plastic bottlesーanything for which he can get a little cas……続きを見る

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

It is only recently that transgenderism has been accepted as a disorder for which treatment is available. In the 1990s, a political movement of transgender activism coalesced to campaign for transge……続きを見る

The Male Body as Advertisement: Masculinities in Hispanic Media offers a multidisciplinary view of the body of men, of its practices and attributes, of its features, and, most importantly, of its us……続きを見る

Challenging conventional understandings of time and memory, Christopher T. Nelson examines how contemporary Okinawans have contested, appropriated, and transformed the burdens and possibilities of t……続きを見る

Beginning in the late 1970s and early 1980s, significant numbers of Haitian immigrants began to arrive and settle in Miami. Overcoming some of the most foreboding obstacles ever to face immigrants i……続きを見る

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis is a detailed examination of the logic underlying the neoliberal welfare state that South Korea created in response to the devastating Asian Debt Crisis (1997–2001).……続きを見る

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India’s emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation’s recent history, one in which economic development is……続きを見る

First published in 1998. The following essays conclude a series of five, which fall into two groups and are therefore published in separate volumes. While mysticism, save for a few casual references……続きを見る

«Индивидуальные личностные особенности этого мужчины, такие как необыкновенная вспыльчивость, простецкая заносчивость, надменность, гордость и бесцеремонность позволяют ему достаточно легко создават……続きを見る

Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980 and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and id……続きを見る

Have you ever wondered how the internal space of our brain connects with the external space of society? Drawing on hermeneutics and neuroscience Stephen Reyna develops an anthropological theory that……続きを見る

In Generation Ecstasy, Simon Reynolds takes the reader on a guided tour of this end-of-the-millenium phenomenon, telling the story of rave culture and techno music as an insider who has dosed up and……続きを見る

These three plays by the great comic playwright Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BCE), the well-known Lysistrata, and the less familiar Women at the Thesmophoria and Assemblywomen, are the earliest survivin……続きを見る

«Про эту женщину ещё можно сказать так: «что стар, что млад», имея в виду то, что, входя в подобное состояние «глубокоумудрённости», пожилой человек становится как дитя, снова начиная этот мир воспр……続きを見る

«Эта дама по своему поведению, характеру, по своей сути – вечная служанка, рабыня. Она всегда кому-то служит, прислуживает, пытается угодить. Она имеет чудесное свойство предугадывать желания других……続きを見る

A Literary History of the Arabs, published in 1907 and twice re-issued without alteration, now appears under new auspices, this is volume four. With an updated bibliography and an added appendix whi……続きを見る

Internet is een van de eerste boeken waarin het filosofische inzicht -van Plato tot Kierkegaard - betrokken wordt op het debat over de mogelijkheden en onmogelijkheden van het internet. Dreyfus laat……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

Celebrity is a pervasive aspect of everyday life and a growing field of academic inquiry. While there is now a substantial body of literature on celebrity culture in Australia, Europe and the Americ……続きを見る

In discussions of postcolonial nationhood and cultural identity, Taiwan is often overlooked. Yet the islandーwith its complex history of colonizationーpresents a particularly fascinating case of the……続きを見る

Based on comparative ethnographic research in four countries and three continents, Butinage: The Art of Religious Mobility explores the notion of "religious butinage" as a conceptual framework inten……続きを見る

This book investigates a paradox of creative yet scripted playーhow LEGO invites players to build ‘freely’ with and within its highly structured, ideologically-laden toy system. First, this book con……続きを見る

Rey Chow is arguably one of the most prominent intellectuals working in the humanities today. Characteristically confronting both entrenched and emergent issues in the interlocking fields of literat……続きを見る

In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is current……続きを見る

Ardā Wirāz Nāmag or the Book of the Righteous Wirāz is an outstanding example of Iranian apocalyptic literature. It is in the Middle Persian (Pahlavi) language and was written probably during the la……続きを見る