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Repensar la antropología mexicana del siglo XXI. Viejos problemas, nuevos desafíos, reúne trece textos que abordan aspectos fundamentales de la antropología mexicana en el siglo XXI. Los textos se o……続きを見る

We began as savages, and savagery has served us wellーit got us where we are. But how do our tribal impulses, still in place and in play, fit in the highly complex, civilized world we inhabit today?……続きを見る

La era de la genómica ha abierto un nuevo frente para estudiar la evolución humana, que hasta ahora se basaba únicamente en la interpretación de restos arqueológicos y paleontológicos. Nuevas técnic……続きを見る

This timely volume uniquely illustrates how currere can be applied to the process of decolonizing subjectivity. Centered around the experiences of one black woman from the third world, the text deta……続きを見る

What does it mean to be Black in Scotland today? How are notions of nationhood, Scottishness, and Britishness implicated in this? Why is it important to archive and understand Black Scottish history……続きを見る

There is a huge collection of literature relating to death, grief and bereavement, but one aspect that has received relatively little attention is that of death management practices (by which we mea……続きを見る

Australia, Wilkommen (1990) documents the rich and varying contribution made by Germans in Australia. Originally welcomed as hardy pioneers, German settlers were responsible for discovering and open……続きを見る

The book highlights the urban imagination in contemporary Chinese science fiction, in order to assess the capacity of Chinese society to conceive of the future. The author argues that ‘the future’ i……続きを見る

This book examines haunting in terms of trauma, languaging, and the supernatural in works by Chinese Australian writers born in Australia, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. It goes……続きを見る

A history and anthropological analysis of one of Papua New Guinea’s worst Ponzi schemes in the late 1990s. In the late 1990s and early 2000s a wave of Ponzi schemes swept through Papua New Guinea, A……続きを見る

A compelling history of silence as a shaper of the human mindーin prisons, in places of contemplation, and in our own livesーfrom the author of Brilliant. Through her evocative intertwined histories……続きを見る

Memory is at the center of a diverse array of political conflicts, moral disputes, and power dynamics. This book illustrates how scholars use different interpretive lenses to study and explain profo……続きを見る

Anthropologist John Fox sets off on a worldwide adventure to thefarthest reaches of the globe and the deepest recesses of our ancientpast to answer a question inspired by his sports-loving son: "Why……続きを見る

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in socia……続きを見る

What happens when we listen to a film? How can we describe the relationship of sound to vision in cinema, and in turn our relationship as spectators with the audio-visual? Jean-Luc Godard understood……続きを見る

His first book, The Great Immigration Scandal (2004), blew the whistle on abuses within the Home Office and led to the resignation of the immigration minister, Beverley Hughes. Although attacked at ……続きを見る

This book investigates how varying practices of gender shaped people's lives and experiences across the societies of ancient Greece and Rome. Exploring how gender was linked with other socio-politic……続きを見る

The contemporary world is increasingly defined by dizzying flows of people and ideas. But while Western travel is associated with a pioneering spirit of discovery, the dominant image of Muslim mobil……続きを見る

Expanding American Anthropology, 1945–1980: A Generation Reflects takes an inside look at American anthropology’s participation in the enormous expansion of the social sciences after World War II. D……続きを見る

This book explores the communication challenges faced by parents as they raise children who are bi-cultural, multi-cultural, or are adopted from a heritage other than the parents. Each contributor v……続きを見る

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized……続きを見る

The essays included here represent Fox Keller's attempts to integrate the insights of feminist theory with those of her contemporaries in the history and philosophy of science. 続きを見る

On the afternoon of June 25, 1867, an overwhelming force of Sioux and Cheyenne Indians quickly mounted a savage onslaught against General George Armstrong Custer’s battalion, driving the doomed troo……続きを見る

This powerful ethnography of a people believed to be the least violent in the world explores how they maintain peaceful relations even under the most dire circumstances. Robert Knox Dentan, the worl……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1.3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliches Institut), Ve……続きを見る

In this innovative study, Erica Fox Brindley examines how, during the period 400 BCE–50 CE, Chinese states and an embryonic Chinese empire interacted with peoples referred to as the Yue/Viet along i……続きを見る

An interdisciplinary introduction to the aging process which uses symbolic interactionism as the main theoretical perspective. Accessible, interdisciplinary coverage with chapters covering a variety……続きを見る

The New Cockney provides a sociolinguistic account of speech variation among adolescents in the 'traditional' East End of London. Embedded in its social context, it focuses on the interaction and so……続きを見る

Business travel has become indispensable to the global economy, not only due to its necessity in the maintaining of corporate networks, but also because of the associated economies that cater to the……続きを見る

Essay aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Sozial- und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät), Ver……続きを見る