Social and cultural anthropology Books

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...

This book investigates the role that the visual and performing arts play in our experience and understanding of the past. The essays highlight the role of oral history in the documentation of the visual and performing arts.

Bringing together a group of leading scholars from Asia, Europe, Australia and North America, this volume discusses multiple issues regarding religious commodifications and their consequences across Asia's diverse religious traditions.

Mixed race studies is one of the fastest growing, as well as one of the most important and controversial areas in the field of race and ethnic relations. Bringing together pioneering and controversial scholarship from both the social and the biological...

A study of East Asian masculinities in an increasingly globalized Asia. It examines masculine ideals, homosexuality, women's perceptions of men, the role of sport and food, and Asian men in the Chinese diaspora.

New Horizons in Medical Anthropology is a festschrift in honor of Charles Leslie whose influential career helped shape this subfield of anthropology. This collection of cutting-edge essays explores medical innovation and medical pluralism at the turn of...

Conceptualised in 1920s Japan by Yanagi Sôetsu, the Mingei movement has spread world wide since the 1950s, creating phenomena as diverse as Mingei museums, Mingei connoisseurs and collectors, Mingei shops and Mingei restaurants. The theory, at its core...

This book examines the growing trend for housing models that shrink private living space and seeks to understand the implications of these shrinking domestic worlds. Small spaces have become big business. Reducing the size of our homes, and the amount of...

This book explores the attribution and local negotiation of cultural valuations of artistic and art-institutional practices around the world, and considers the diverse ways in which these value attributions intersect with claims of universality and...

Though not a systematic theologian, Thomas Merton spent a lifetime writing in an immensely appealing way about the monastic tradition and mystical theology. One of the fundamental questions he examined was that of the self; for Merton the recovery of the...

Egypt's January 2011 uprising spurred millions to action with a cacophony of demands-including the call to address Egypt's education crisis and adult literacy rates. Read in the Name of Your Lord traces the push for universal literacy as a project caught...

How does emigration affect those left behind? The fall of Yugoslavia in the 1990s led citizens to look for a better, more stable life elsewhere. For the older generations, however, this wasn't an option. In this powerful and moving work, Ivana...

'Ends Apart: Malaysia and Kuwait' explores the stark differences between the countries of Malaysia and Kuwait, highlighting the blatant contrasts in their cultures, economies, and social and political landscapes. The comparative analysis delves...

Prior to 1947, the Maithil Brahmans dominated North Bihar culturally, politically, and economically. Darbhanga Raj, the richest zamindari estate in British India, was owned by a family of the elite sub-group of Brahmans, the Srotriyas. The high prestige...

Throughout history, speech has been forbidden or at least restricted to the laboring classes. Enslaved people laboring in ancient Egypt or working on Latin American plantations were forbidden to speak during work. In the early period of nation-states,...

"Our Own Set" by Ossip Schubin is a novel set in 19th century Vienna, delving into the intricacies of the upper class and aristocracy. The story provides a vivid portrayal of social life among the European nobility, highlighting their relationships,...

Day Symbols of the Maya Year is evocative book authored by Cyrus Thomas. The day symbols used in the Maya calendar system are examined in this book. By analysing the glyphs and symbols connected to every day in the Maya calendar, Cyrus Thomas illuminates...

This chapbook centres pedagogy within a new model of museum practice that prioritizes community. It focuses on two cultural institutions in Indonesia, the Pagesangan School in Yogyakarta and the Lakoat Kujawas in Mollo, East Nusa Tenggara, and uses the...

Handbook to Lothar Käser's Textbook "Animism - A Cognitive Approach". If we want to understand the animistic cognitive system we must focus particularly on its concept of man. Access to it can only be achieved by proceeding systematically. A basic...

In recent decades foreign cultures have not just loomed large for Europeans seeking holiday destinations. Since the 1960s increasing numbers of professionals such as teachers, doctors, agronomists, and other professional workers and missionaries from...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (Sprach-, Translations- und Kulturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das Ziel der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit ist...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Kulturwissenschaften), Veranstaltung: Philosophische Ästhetik, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ästhetik ist die Theorie des Schönen,...

Estudio Científico del año 2014 en eltema Ciencias Culturales - Otros, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Idioma: Español, Resumen: Se antoja altamente especulativo que ventilar los instintos y la realidad del amor sobre unas cuartillas, o el erotismo...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2014 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Theologie; Kulturgeschichte; Literaturwissenschaft, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das vorliegende Buch geht auf ein Referat zurück, das auf der...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,3, Deutsche Akademie für Management Berlin (Kulturmanagement), Veranstaltung: Kulturmanagement, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In Social Media sind Werbung und...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die gegenwärtige globale Ära braucht ein wissenschaftlich fundiertes Universalwerkzeug für das...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Dem aus einer Anzahl komplementärer Komponenten bestehenden Begriff der Selbsterkenntnis kommt...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Eine interkulturelle und interdisziplinäre Studie des interkulturellen und transkultuellen...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: On the basis of this holistically-oriented integrative cultural reasoning there is No cultural diversity...

Document from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , course: Interkulturelles Management, language: English, abstract: The title „Closing the book of Culture" implies the end of a process; the process of reading the book of...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Studie ist ein Versuch des Entwurfes einer geistigen Landkarte unserer Zeit, auf der die wesentlichen geistigen Meilensteine...

Scientific Study from the year 2012 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , course: global leadership, language: English, abstract: In the following I would like to explore how the body and the mind can be attuned in an optimum way. It is...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Entschlüsselung des Kultur Codes und der kulturellen DNA: Die Gewahrwerdung des gesamten...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aus der bewusstseinspsychologischen Übersetzung des Taoismus ergibt sich ein integraler...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2005 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Kulturwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Massenmedien nehmen im Alltag der Menschen, die sich...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2001 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Freie Universität Berlin (Ethnologisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Religionsethnologie: ausgewählte Probleme, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Mit den Begriffen „Schamanismus"...

Das Handbuch zum Mittelalter und zur Renaissance in der Romania zeichnet Wissens- und Denktraditionen nach, führt in Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsstrukturen ein und widmet sich Religionen und Kulturkontakten. Ferner werden die wesentlichen Entwicklungen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2016 im Fachbereich Medien / Kommunikation - Interkulturelle Kommunikation, Note: 8, Universität zu Köln, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Arbeit beschäftigt sich damit, wie interkulturelle Kommunikation gelingen kann. Dazu...

Essay aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Veranstaltung: Kultur und interkulturelle Praxis, Ethnologische Forschungsmethoden, Ethnologische Perspektive auf Elternschaft und Kindheit,...

Communities worldwide are critically re-examining their seasonal cultures and calendars. As cultural frameworks, seasons have long patterned community life and provided repertoires for living by annual rhythms. In a chaotic world, the seasons - winter,...

Lange Zeit glaubte man in Europa, dass die Sprachen der Arbeitsmigranten, die seit den 60er Jahren aus der Türkei und anderen Ländern nach Mittel- und Nordeuropa kamen, spätestens in der dritten Generation zugunsten der jeweiligen Landessprachen der...

"The Future Equation: Balancing Humanity and Technology" is a collection of essays that navigate the complexities of technology's influence on society and humankind. This thought-provoking book examines the transformative impact of emerging innovations...

Lemkovyna: A History of the Lemko Region of the Carpathian Mountains in Central Europe is both a celebration of the mountain area the author calls a "foretaste of paradise," and a lament over its suffering, especially the ethnic cleansing of its...

Olly emerged in the artistic field in the late 1950s. The artist amassed positive reviews about her production. However, in the artistic universe, claiming quality is not enough. It was necessary that her work had some dialogue with the proposals that...

THE PEYOTE CULT By Weston La Barre The Peyote Cult by Weston La Barre (1915-1996) is the classic work on peyotism, originating in Weston La Barre’s studies of the use of peyote in the rituals of fifteen Native American tribes in the 1930s...