Social and cultural anthropology Books

The largest Japanese community outside East Asia in the 1930s and one long neglected in English-language scholarship was in Brazil. Drawing heavily on little-used sources, including the Japanese-language press of Brazil, Stewart Lone explores the growth...

Pat Caplan is a social anthropologist who began doing research on Mafia Island for her Ph.D. in the 1960s when Mikidadi and his relatives made her part of their family . She has continued to revisit the island periodically since then and has published...

In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact...

African Cultures, Memory and Space is an impeccable volume that powerfully grapples with a gamut of cultural heritage issues, challenges and problems from a vista of inter- and multi-disciplinary approach. The book, which is designed as a foundational...

In Coffee Time, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui uses her childhood experiences in a rural coffee farm to show the struggles that farmers go through to earn a living. They linger in poverty as intermediaries along the coffee value chain rake huge profits. It is a...

Chieftaincy in Africa has displayed remarkable dynamics and adaptability to new socio-economic and political developments, without becoming totally transformed in the process. Almost everywhere on the continent, chiefdoms and chiefs have become active...

This book provides a deep insight into the socio-economic reality and complexity of two of Ghana's largest slums - Nima and Maamobi - located in the capital city, Accra. It identifies and analyses the socio-religious, cultural and political contexts of...

Africa is rich in (neo) traditional dances; yet, not much exists in the form of written literature on the subject. Even worse, existing documents date back to the colonial period and are often disparaging. Dance to Africans is what martial arts are to...

Embark on an immersive journey through the captivating world of the Three Kingdoms Era, where history, intrigue, and cultural richness intertwine. "The Pulse of Change" offers a comprehensive exploration of the societal and cultural landscape...

How does a peoples’ music reflect their history, their occupations, cultural beliefs and values? These are the core questions that this book addresses in relation to the Aawambo people of Namibia. The author, herself born and bred in Namibia,...

This is the second book in the series of learning and teaching materials on Even language and culture that is on clothing and decorative arts. The given collection of texts provides us with a broad documentation of this intriguing part of Even material...

The increasing transnational business activities of enterprises and globalizationin general, make it more and more important for companies toexpand their business activities abroad. Besides the information on the commercial,political and economic factors...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Pädagogik - Interkulturelle Pädagogik, Note: 1,3, Universität Trier, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Arbeit behandelt das Konzept der Transkulturalität als alternatives Kulturkonzept zur Interkulturalität...

Bachelorarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 2,0, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Diese Bachelor-Arbeit befasst sich mit wohnkulturellen und freizeitgestalterischen Elementen...

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Business economics - Company formation, Business Plans, grade: 1,7, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen (Anglistik), language: English, abstract: This thesis examines the effect of cultural factors on...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,0, Universität Leipzig (Institut für Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Das Konzept der Nachhaltigkeit in Geschichte und Gegenwart, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Sonstiges, Note: 1,7, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Veranstaltung: Literaturverfilmungen - Theorien und Beispiele zur Intermedialität von Buch und Film, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract:...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2012 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,0, Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) (Professur für Sprachgebrauch und Therapeutische Kommunikation), Veranstaltung: Sex. Verborgene...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,3, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster (Institut für Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Hauptseminar, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: [...]Die Arbeit wird aus zwei größeren Teilen...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2004 im Fachbereich Ethnologie / Volkskunde, Note: 1,0, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (Institut für Ethnologie), Veranstaltung: Mythos und Kult, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Der Ausgangspunkt für meine Arbeit ist die Frage,...

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften - Empirische Kulturwissenschaften, Note: 1,3, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen (Ludwig-Uhland-Institut für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft), Veranstaltung: Imagerie Populaire & Co.:...

This volume presents ten visual essays that reflect on the historical, cultural and socio-political legacies of empires. Drawing on a variety of visual genres and forms, including photographs, illustrated advertisements, stills from site-specific art...

The year 2016 was a significant year for honouring Professor Fei Xiaotong (1910–2005), because it was the 80th anniversary of his fieldwork in Kaixiangong Village.Fei Xiaotong Studies (Volume 2) consists of articles by authors from the UK, Japan,...

Thanks to ever-greater digital connectivity, interest in oral traditions has grown beyond that of researcher and research subject to include a widening pool of global users. When new publics consume, manipulate and connect with field recordings and...

This impressive work of scholarship brings together anthropology, religion, popular culture, and history in its focus on Bakhtiari lion tombstones that have remained largely unknown and hence little studied. Although lions have long figured in Iranian...

This issue of Culture and Cosmos includes seven significant papers on the history of astrology, covering a range of periods and approaches. Roger Beck’s ‘The Ancient Mithraeum as a Model Universe. Part 2’, touches on archaeoastronomy...

This book brings multiple sites of lusophony together, and illuminates how mobile configurations of people, technologies and hip-hop creativities are best understood as compositions of ubiquitous identities, dispersed communities and syncretic networks...

There are few enough studies of the needs of dying people in the Western world, but no accessible studies of the needs of dying people in Asian cultures. Now, in this pioneering work, Dr Mui Hing June Mak shows us how a Good Death expresses itself in...

This book is an analysis of prostitution in Cambridge in the Victorian period based on different social and cultural discourses as well as on archival materials concerning institutions devoted to the control and regulation of promiscuity and venereal...

Unaisi Nabobo-Baba observed that for the various peoples of the Pacific, kinship is generally understood as "knowledge that counts." It is with this observation that this volume begins, and it continues with a straightforward objective to provide case...

Anthropologists have acted as experts and educators on the nature and ways of life of people worldwide, working to understand the human condition in broad comparative perspective. As a discipline, anthropology has often advocated - and even defended -...

Key Categories in the Study of Religion explores the symbiotic relationship between context and critique. This volume centers on four key contextual categories that stand at the heart of the academic study of religion: citizenship and politics, class and...

Since Israel is primarily a country of immigrants, the state takes on the responsibility for the settlement and integration of each new group. It therefore sees its role as benevolent and indispensable to the welfare of the immigrants. This be true to...