This is the first major work on the interrelationship between Liberal Judaism and Rabbinic Law (Halachah) ever to have been produced in Britain, and in...
In recent years, the field of study variously called local, indigenous or traditional environmental knowledge (TEK) has experienced a crisis brought about by the questioning...
As We Enter The 21St Century, It Becomes Increasingly Difficult To Envisage A World Detached From Religion Or An Anthropology Blind To Its Study. Yet,...
As we enter the 21st century, it becomes increasingly difficult to envisage a world detached from religion or an anthropology blind to its study. Yet,...
This Important Volume Sheds New Light On The Social, Political, And Economic Role Of Beer In Society.... Highly Recommended.Choicea Choice Outstanding Academic Book Of The...
Internet activism is playing a crucial role in the democratic reform happening across many parts of Southeast Asia. Focusing on Subang Jaya, a suburb of...
Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was once a deep and enduring presence in popular culture.Diving into Brian Hoggards Magical House Protection...
Drawn from various disciplines and a broad spectrum of research interests, these essays reflect on the challenging issues confronting women in Ukraine today. The contributors...
Marcel Mauss, successor of Emile Durkheim and onetime teacher of Claude LeviStrauss, continues to inspire social scientists across various disciplines. Only selected texts of Mauss's...
Gender, especially masculinity, is a perspective rarely applied in discourses on cinema of Eastern/Central Europe. Masculinities in Polish, Czech and Slovak Cinema exposes an Englishspeaking...
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the ThaiBurma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity...
Focusing on the highly diverse Karenni refugee population living in camps on the ThaiBurma border, this innovative book explores materiality, embodiment, memory, imagination, and identity...
Illness And Misfortune More Broadly Are Ubiquitous; Thus, Healing Roles Or Professions Are Also Universal. Ironically, However, Little Attention Has Been Paid To Those Who...
Illness and misfortune more broadly are ubiquitous; thus, healing roles or professions are also universal. Ironically, however, little attention has been paid to those who...
Using a rich variety of sources such as official newsreels, school textbooks, the work of contemporary historians, memoirs, official documents, legislation, and monuments, this book...
How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for all involved? This fascinating collection explores how...
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Grassroots memorials have become major areas of focus during times of trauma, danger, and social unrest. These improvised memorial assemblages continue to display new and...
The negotiation of expectations in tourism is a complex and dynamic process one that is central to the imagination of cultural difference. Expectations not only...
Advances in audiovisual technology, most notably the advent of the popular usage of digital technology in the last few years, have altered the face of...
Surprisingly little research has been carried out about how Australian Aboriginal children and teenagers experience life, shape their social world and imagine the future. This...
"Edith and Victor Turner were among the most influential researchers and teachers and social and cultural anthropology in the twentieth century. Together they, and Edie...
Louis Dumont'S Concept Of Hierarchy Continues To Inspire Social Scientists. Using It As Their Starting Point, The Contributors To This Volume Introduce Both Fresh Empirical...
Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical...
A vast amount of literatureboth scholarly and popularnow exists on the subject of historical memory, but there is remarkably little available that is written from...
Reinhart Koselleck (19232006) was one of most imposing and influential European intellectual historians in the twentieth century. Constantly probing and transgressing the boundaries of mainstream...
Given the broad reach of anthropology as the science of humankind, there are times when the subject fragments into specialisms and times when there is...
Product Description What is it to be human? What are our specifically human attributes, our capacities and liabilities? Such questions gave birth to anthropology as...
Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social...
In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because...
This comprehensive study of the Naskapi Indians of Labrador is based on an anthropologists life with them between 1966 and 1968, when families still followed...
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