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 is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

When Cayatu, a Chumash Indian woman, is banished from her village, she is taken by two Franciscan priests to join the new Mission Santa Barbara. She is baptized there along with several other new neophytes and begins a restricted life far...

The study of material culture demonstrates that objects make people just as much as people make, exchange and consume objects. But what if these objects are, in the eyes of others, only fakes? What kind of material mirror are people looking into? Are...

The civil war in Sri Lanka and the part that nationalism seemed to play in it inspired the writing of this book some twenty-three years ago. The argument was developed through a comparative analysis of nationalism in Sri Lanka with the author's native...

The Soviet health care infrastructure and its tuberculosis-control system were anchored in biomedicine, but the dire resurgence of tuberculosis at the end of the twentieth century changed how experts in post-Soviet nations--and globally--would treat the...

There are two prevailing myths about Japanese society: first, that it has a successful elderly welfare system and second, that it has a successful criminal justice system. Both of these myths reinforce a social imaginary where cultural values of family...

"A valuable contribution to scholarship in Cuban studies and the study of religion in the Americas. Routon goes beyond other works in analyzing the Cuban capacity for combining apparently incompatible beliefs such as socialism and various Afro-Cuban...

An American institution, Sun Records has a history with many chapters -- its Memphis origins with visionary Sam Phillips, the breakthrough recordings of Elvis Presley, and the studio's immense influence on the sound of popular music. But behind the...

Set in the jungles of Papua New Guinea, an isolated community races against time to meet the challenges of a gold mining venture being thrust upon it. Legends of the past combine with current political intrigue as the community faces everyday...

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,...

In an ethnically stratified work force, Japanese, South Sea Islander, Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal divers brought up from the sea floor the shell that produced mother-of-pearl, and sometimes pearls. Many men died at this dangerous work.This was...

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,...

In this study, E. Frances King explores how people first learn to relate to the images and artefacts of religious belief within their domestic environments. As a sense of religious belonging is instilled on a daily basis in the home, it also becomes...

In this delicious book, noted food scholar Carole M. Counihan presents a compelling and artfully told narrative about family and food in late 20th-century Florence. Based on solid research, Counihan examines how family, and especially gender have...

From Prague to Tennessee to Brazil, it's hard to find a consensus on what constitutes an average family. In today's world, the nuclear family is rarely the standard family structure, if it ever was. Families of a New World brings together an...

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent and routinized of the new reproducing...

Knowing Differently provides a comprehensive account of the worldviews nurtured and sustained by indigenous communities across the world through their distinctive understanding - of space and time, joy and pain, life and death, the epistemological clash...

Hailed as the beneficiary, driving force and result of globalisation, India's middle-class is puzzling in its diversity, as a multitude of traditions, social formations and political constellations manifest contribute to this project. This book looks at...

Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between...

In Working Images, prominent visual anthropologists and artists explore how old and new visual media can be integrated into contemporary forms of research and representation.

From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had a major impact on artistic production, connoisseurship, etiquette, food, design and more recently, on...

This fascinating study explores how our prehistoric ancestors developed rituals from everyday life and domestic activities. Richard Bradley contends that for much of the prehistoric period, ritual was not a distinct sphere of activity. Rather it was the...

This book provides theoretical and empirical discussion of migration, identity and Europeanisation. With contributions from leading international scholars, it provides both an overview of theoretical perspectives and a comprehensive set of case studies,...

Yongding County in southeast China is famous for its large, multistory communal vernacular buildings known as tulou, translated "rammed earth building." These structures were designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2008. Living in Heritage introduces...

Staging Tianxia explores the ancient Chinese vision of world order known as tianxia (all under heaven) by focusing on the historical, performative, and rhetorical processes of expressive arts and cultural heritages that inform a vision of China as a...

Maria A. Robinson-Smith presents and overview and genealogy of Revivalism in this work. She explores the role of the Revival iconography in building a culture of shared understanding among Revivalists and, by extension, African Jamaicans. The Watt Town...

A partir de un abordaje plural a los temas del sujeto, la modernidad y la decolonización, este volumen ofrece una imprescindible reflexión sobre aspectos pujantes de nuestro tiempo: ¿cómo redefinir la noción de sujeto de cara a los procesos de...

Filzen ist eine der ältesten Textiltechniken der Welt. Wolle - gewöhnlich Schafwolle - wird durch mehrere Bearbeitungsgänge - durch Anwendung von Seife, Wärme, Pressen und Walken - zu einem weiterverarbeitbaren Stoff, der fest ist, gegen Wasser, Wärme...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: private research, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In der professionellen interkulturellen Management Entwicklungspraxis hat sich ein das 3/4-Phasen Modell der...

Essai Scientifique de l'année 2011 dans le domaine Études Culturelles - Divers, , langue: Français, résumé: Une histoire parabolique dans laquelle un individu cherche un objet perdu pendant la nuit sous une lanterne est indicative de l'état actuel des...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Versuch, die Kultur und somit das Volk durch interne Revolution und Terror von links und rechts zu retten, sowie der implizite...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Grundlagen und Optimierung des State-of-the-Art des interkulturellen Managements Schritt für Schritt...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Kultursysteme und Bewusstseinsräume werden dergestalt korreliert, dass das Kulturelle in jedem Kontext beherrschbar wird.

Document from the year 2011 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , course: Interkulturelle Forschung, language: English, abstract: In the ligth of international imperatives and requirements there is a need to develop new negotiation...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Kulturforschung/Friedensforschung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Nach Äonen menschlicher Geschichte, die vor allem durch intergruppen und interpersonale, sowie ...

Scientific Study from the year 2013 in the subject Cultural Studies - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Cultural engineering refers to the engineering of the human cultural mind in a way that allows the management of all human cultural...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der erste Teil der Erörterung befasst sich mit der Metapher des metaphorischen trojanischen Pferd-Effektes vs. trojanischen Schatz-Effektes auf...

Wissenschaftlicher Aufsatz aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Aus gegebenem aktuellen Anlass ist Schrippen versus Wecken, Semmel, Brötli etc. ein Sinnbild und eine Metapher für latente...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: interkulturelle Forschung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Betrachtet man die Kultur des Menschen unter diversen kulturellen Blickwinkeln und vom Standpunkt...

Wissenschaftliche Studie aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: Erkenntnistheorie, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der gegenwärtig offenbar gewordene NSA Spionage Skandal unter dem Deckmantel der nationalen und...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der erste Teil dieser zweisprachigen Gesamterörterung in Deutsch und Englisch besteht aus einem Mosaik diverser kulturspezifischer Bausteine, das...

Forschungsarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: interkulturelles Management, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Ebenso, wie es in der Geodäsie zur Kartierung der physischen Raumes zumindest zweierWinkel für...

Fachbuch aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, , Veranstaltung: intercultural research, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: This is about a cultural turn in the sense that man's destiny in our crises-ridden time in the world of...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2003 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 2,0, Universität Hildesheim (Stiftung), Veranstaltung: Kulturmarketing, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: 1.) EinleitungDer Begriff Kulturmarketing wird wie fast jeder...