Anthropology (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:This book is concerned with the three-way relationship between neoliberalism, women's education, and the spatialization of the state, and analyses this through an ethnography lens of women's education programs in India.

publisher: Springer
year: 2007
description:'Race' and Racism examines the origins and development of racism in North America. It addresses the inception and persistence of the concept of 'race' and discusses the biology of human variance, addressing the fossil record of human evolution, the r...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:Through ethnographical cases, this book examines the ways in which social groups position themselves between cultures, states, moralities, and local/state authorities, creating opportunities for agency. Alternative spaces designate in-between spaces ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2006
description:A unique, international resource for Leisure Studies: in one volume the history, organization and central debates in the field of Leisure Studies are defined, providing a one-stop-shop for students and an agenda for future debate and research academi...

publisher: Springer
year: 2009
description:This book sets out to narrate the contributions to and influence on the history of Chile that British visitors and immigrants have had, not as bystanders but as key players, starting in 1554 with the English Queen 'Bloody Mary' becoming Queen of Chil...

publisher: Edições Pedago
year: 2014
description:O presente ensaio reúne um conjunto de lições extraídas por um antropólogo e sociólogo, africanista e francês, a partir de um quarto de século de relações intelectuais com o continente negro, de ligações que transcendem o «âmbito» que o conduziu até ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:Based on extensive ethnographic research, this book examines how the Islamic community in Java, Indonesia, is actively negotiating both modernity and tradition in the contexts of nation-building, globalisation, and a supposed clash of civilizations. ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:A Poetics of Relation fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly sho...

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:What role does race, geography, religion, orthography and nationalism play in the crafting of identities? What are the origins of Singlish? This book offers a thorough investigation of old and new identities in Asia's most global city, examined throu...

publisher: Springer
year: 2008
description:This study analyzes American, Vietnamese and Japanese personal values, attempting to understand how it can be ethnographers find large differences in values between cultures, yet empirical surveys find relatively small, almost trivial differences in ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:Was macht uns eigentlich zum Menschen? Wer darüber nachdenkt, landet heute unweigerlich bei den Menschenaffen. Alexandra Tischel sucht die Antwort auf die Grundfrage des Menschseins nicht allein in der Wissenschaft. Sie geht neue Wege und entdeckt, w...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:This book is one of the first to integrate psychological and medical anthropology with the methodologies of visual anthropology, specifically ethnographic film. It discusses and complements the work presented in Afflictions: Culture and Mental Illnes...