Social and cultural anthropology Books

Puerto Ricans have a long history in Chicago. Beginning in the 1920s, a handful of middle-class Puerto Rican families sent their daughters and sons to study at prestigious universities in the city. While most returned to Puerto Rico, migration to Chicago...

Representations of southern poor whites have long shifted between romanticization and demonization. At worst, poor southern whites are aligned with racism, bigotry, and right-wing extremism, and, at best, regarded as the passive victims of wider,...

Home cooking is a multibillion-dollar industry that includes cookbooks, kitchen gadgets, high-end appliances, specialty ingredients, and more. Cooking-themed programming flourishes on television, inspiring a wide array of celebrity chef-branded goods...

In recent years the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah has figured prominently in the long and ongoing struggle over the meaning and value of America's public lands. In 1996 President Bill Clinton used the Antiquities Act to...

Das Buch ""Die Drei Stande In Frankreich Vor Der Revolution"" von Arthur Kleinschmidt aus dem Jahr 1876 beschreibt die sozialen Verh�����ltnisse in Frankreich vor der franz������sischen Revolution. Der Autor untersucht die drei St�����nde - Adel, Klerus...

Das Buch ""Die Dinka-Sprache in Central-Africa"" wurde 1866 von Johann Chrysostomus Mitterrutzner ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine umfassende Beschreibung der Dinka-Sprache, die von den Dinka-V������lkern in Zentralafrika gesprochen wird...

Das Buch ""Die Diebe in Berlin: Oder Darstellung Ihres Entstehens, Ihrer Organisation, Iher Verbindungen, Ihrer Taktik, Ihrer Gewohnheiten Und Ihrer Sprache"" wurde im Jahr 1847 von Carl Wilhelm Zimmermann ver������ffentlicht. Es handelt sich um eine...

Das Buch ""Die Deutsche Trachten Und Modenwelt, Teil 1: Die Alte Zeit Und Das Mittelalter (1858)"" von Jacob Falke ist ein umfassendes Werk �����ber die Trachten und Moden im alten Deutschland und im Mittelalter. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die...

Das Buch ""Die Deutschen Frauen in dem Mittelalter"" von Karl Weinhold wurde 1851 ver������ffentlicht und ist eine umfassende Darstellung der Rolle und des Lebens der Frauen im Mittelalter in Deutschland. Weinhold beschreibt die soziale Stellung von...

""Die Dem S�����den Bevorstehende Crisis"" (1860) von Hinton Rowan Helper ist ein Buch, das sich mit der bevorstehenden Krise im S�����den der Vereinigten Staaten auseinandersetzt. Helper, ein amerikanischer Abolitionist und Autor, argumentiert in diesem...

""Die Corruption Im Kleinen"" ist ein Buch, das im Jahr 1887 von C. Graeser ver������ffentlicht wurde. Es handelt sich um eine Untersuchung der Korruption im kleineren Ma�����stab, insbesondere in der Verwaltung und im Alltag. Das Buch beleuchtet die...

This volume explores cultural, social and economic connections between the Americas and the South Pacific. It reaches beyond Sino-American collaborations to focus on rather neglected, and sometimes invisible, Southern linkages, asking how these...

Bringing together empirical cultural and media studies of religion and critical social theory, Technologies of Religion: Spheres of the sacred in a post-secular modernity investigates powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies taking...

This book examines the condition of being a young person in China and the way in which changes in various dimensions of urban life have affected Chinese youths' quests to understand themselves.The author examines social factors such as changes in the...

This book seeks to widen perspectives on entrepreneurship by drawing attention to the diverse and partly new forms of entrepreneurial practice in Africa since the 1990s. Contrary to widespread assertions, figures of success have been regularly observed...

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 States,...

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 States,...

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 States,...

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 States,...

Time and Performer Training addresses the importance and centrality of time and temporality to the practices, processes and conceptual thinking of performer training. Notions of time are embedded in almost every aspect of performer training, and so...

This book investigates the experiences of South Koreans adopted into Western families and the complexity of what it means to "feel identity" beyond what is written in official adoption files. Korean Adoptees and Transnational Adoption is based on...

"When I consider the quantity of wise talking which has passed in at one long ear of the world, and out at the other, without making the smallest impression upon its mind, I am tempted for the rest of my life to try and do what seems to me rational,...

Highlighting both the range of philosophical issues that Shona proverbs raise and the shared concerns emanating from them, this book is the outcome of 40 years work by Taperesa Mutematemi Samaita, a teacher at Mnene Boys Central Primary School in...

Carolina Maria de Jesus (1914-1977), nicknamed Bitita, was a destitute black Brazilian woman born in the rural interior who migrated to the industrial city of Sao Paulo. This is her autobiography, which includes details about her experiences of race...

This study focuses on the formal education system in Argentina during the 1940s, the 1950s, and the early 1960s. It analyzes the link between politics and education against the backdrop of changing social conditions in Argentina under the regimes of...

Few presidents have sparked as much interest in recent years as Ronald Reagan, already the subject of a large number of biographies and specialized subjects. This biography, based on recent research into the Reagan archives and synthesis of the large...

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,...

Using Delhi's contemporary history as a site for reflection, Pirate Modernity moves from a detailed discussion of the technocratic design of the city by US planners in the 1950s, to the massive expansions after 1977, culminating in the urban crisis of...

In recent years, scholars have understood the increasing use of the St George's Cross by football fans to be evidence of a rise in a specifically 'English' identity. This has emerged as part of a wider 'national' response to broader political processes...

This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework. The book:charts the transition of traditions from colonial rule to present day, through constitutionalism and the consolidation of...

This volume looks at the politics of communication and culture in contemporary South Asia. It explores languages, signs and symbols reflective of current mythologies that underpin instances of performance in present-day India and its neighbouring...

In recent years, the Leveson Inquiry in Great Britain, as well as the EU High-Level Group on Media Freedom and Pluralism, have stirred heated debates about media accountability and media self-regulation across Europe. How responsible are journalists? How...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture presents the first comprehensive survey of research on the relationship between language and culture. It provides readers with a clear and accessible introduction to both interdisciplinary and...

Why is rudeness such a prominent feature of contemporary broadcasting? If broadcasting is about the enactment of sociability, then how can we account for the fact that broadcasting has become a sphere of anger, humiliation, anger, dispute and upset? And...

Since the 1978 opening up of China and her active engagement in economic reformation and modernization, China has become a truly global economic power. These developments have, consequently, had an impact on ethnic Chinese people living across the world...

Food has, for most of our species history, been intensely political: who gets to eat what, how often, and through what means? The scale of polity in question has shifted over time, from very local institutions dividing up grain piles to an international...

This book brings and blends together a dozen scholarly articles published by the author since the 1970s. It sketches two different yet related stories: first, that of one of the most ancient and prestigious African civilizations, the antiquity and...

This book examines the ‘glocalization’ – the adaptation of a global telecommunication technology to local particularities – in West and Central Africa. Through case studies in Cameroon and Guinea, the research presented evinces...

Les questions du genre, du mariage et de la famille sont au cœur des batailles culturelles et sociales les plus rudes de l’époque contemporaine qui débouchent dans beaucoup de pays africains sur des réformes...

The dynamic nature of Christianity has necessitated its movement from the cathedral to the mountain top. This has occasioned a proliferation of Prayer Mountains throughout Africa. In Yorubaland of southwestern Nigeria, Prayer Mountain is known as Ori-Oke...

The Hui are predominantly Muslim Chinese who claim ancestry from Persian and Arabicspeaking regions in Central Asia and the Middle East. According to the 2010 census, the Hui are the largest Muslim group in China and its third largest ethnic minority...

Wie erlangen Emotionen ihre Bedeutung für unser Dasein? Wonach streben wir und was bedeutet es, glücklich zu sein? Anhand einer ethnographischen Studie bei den Yukatekischen Maya im südlichen Mexiko geht der Autor diesen Fragen nach und deckt dabei die...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2,0, Universität Leipzig (Ethnologisches Institut), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Infolge des zunehmenden Ausbaus der Grenze steigt auch die Gewalt an der Grenze und im...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Allgemeines und Begriffe, Note: 2,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: In wissenschaftlichen Publikationen fallen in Verbindung mit dem Wittgenstein'schen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,3, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Philosophische Fakultät III), Veranstaltung: Von der ersten und zweiten Natur: Naturalismus in Philosophie,...