Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Satellite Remote Sensing
    This book provides a state-of-the art overview of satellite archaeology and it is an invaluable volume for archaeologists, scientists, and managers interested in using satellite Earth Observation (EO) to improve the traditional approach for archaeological investigation, protection and management of Cultural Heritage. The recent increasing development of EO techniques and the tr...
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    247,24 €

  • Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Century
    Applied demography continues its rapid pace of evolution in concert with the emerging trends of the 21st century. One significant area of change is the extension of applied demography beyond the United States; this book includes material dealing with applied demography in Australia, Canada, Estonia, and Mexico.Opportunities and Challenges for Applied Demography in the 21st Cen...
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    207,10 €

  • Folktales and Storytellers of Iran
    Erika Friedl
    What are the myths and stories that penetrate a society’s everyday practices? What are the un-questioned ’truths’ that hold the keys to understanding both the concept of self-perception and group identity? Here, Erika Friedl highlights the role of the fairytale and folklore in the creation, transmission and manipulation of regional and national identities. Having carried out an...
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    206,36 €

  • Indigenous Knowledge and Development
    Elizabeth Anne Olson / Elizabeth Olson
    Indigenous Knowledge and Development: Livelihoods, Health Experiences, and Medicinal Plant Knowledge in a Mexican Biosphere Reserve provides an ethnographic account of the Nahua, a group of indigenous people living in a protected area in west central Mexico. The study moves back and forth between the macro and micro to explore the relationships between three central axes—health...
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    132,06 €

  • Educational Research
    This collection discusses and illustrates how educational research is affected by the economic, institutional and physical contingencies of its time, and in our time even increasingly is driven by them. It is argued that the antidote to this is, however, not to aspire to ’thought itself’, but instead to do justice to its own rootedness in the ’material’, including textuality. F...
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    132,84 €

  • Wild Cultures
    Christophe Boesch
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    69,98 €

  • Low Fertility and Population Aging in Japan and Eastern Asia
    Toru Suzuki
    This book provides a unique comparative view of the extremely low fertility and drastic population aging in Eastern Asian countries. After discussing demographic and political developments of Japan in detail as a reference case, accelerated changes in Korea, Taiwan and China are interpreted with a comparative cultural view. In addition to the well-kno...
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    79,28 €

  • Event History and Survival Analysis
    Paul D. Allison
    Social scientists are interested in events and their causes. Although event histories are ideal for studying the causes of events, they typically possess two features—censoring and time-varying explanatory variables—that create major problems for standard statistical procedures. Several innovative approaches have been developed to accommodate these two peculiarities of event hi...
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    52,54 €

  • Cosmopolitan Memory in Europe’s ’Backwaters’
    Rodanthi Tzanelli
    The book reconsiders definitional relationships of ’national character’ and ’national heritage’ in the context of Western industrial modernity. It highlights the gendered and racialised histories of this modernity, arguing that today they continue to play a significant role in global circulations of national heritage by creative industries. ...
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    69,38 €

  • Creating Conditions
    Katie Featherstone / Paul Atkinson
    How do the genes for a disease get discovered? How have new genetic technologies changed how diseases are described, diagnosed and classified? How do scientists, clinicians and family members interpret the results of new genetics? Does the rise of genetic testing and diagnosis mean that more traditional clinical expertise is now redundant? These are among the issues addressed i...
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    69,69 €

  • Researching Organizations
    Matthew Jones
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    230,43 €

  • Journalism and Memory
    Tracking the ways in which journalism and memory mutually support, undermine, repair and challenge each other, this fascinating collection brings together leading scholars in journalism and memory studies to investigate the complicated role that journalism plays in relation to the past. ...
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    47,80 €

  • Globalization and Transnational Surrogacy in India
    This edited volume explores transnational gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being ‘legally’ exchanged for babies and ‘reproductive labor’ has taken on a lucrative commercial tone. This interdisciplinary collection of essa...
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    156,64 €

  • The Teleoscopic Polity
    Tom D. Dillehay / Tom DDillehay
    This volume provides an up-to-date and in-depth summary and analysis of the political practices of pre-Columbian communities of the Araucanians or Mapuche of south-central Chile and adjacent regions. This synthesis draws upon the empirical record documented in original research, as well as a critical examination of previous studies. By applying both archaeological and ethnohist...
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    67,70 €

  • Globalization
    Thomas Hylland Eriksen
    For the first time in human history, the vast majority of the world’s population is connected through trade, travel, production, media and politics ...
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    244,20 €

  • Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo
    Hinrich Rink
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    79,18 €

  • Qualitative Methodology
    Jane Mills / Melanie Birks
    Helping students to easily compare and select qualitative methods, this new introduction from expert authors is a practical guide to the research process ...
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    236,04 €

  • Social Issues in Contemporary Native America
    Hilary N. Weaver
    Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of social issues related to Native American children, families, and reservations both in the USA and in Canada. Divided into four major sections, each containing an introduction, this book places the historical foundations of Native Ame...
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    240,95 €

  • Social Issues in Contemporary Native America
    Hilary N. Weaver
    Hilary Weaver has drawn together leading Native American social workers, researchers, and academics to provide current information on a variety of social issues related to Native American children, families, and reservations both in the USA and in Canada. Divided into four major sections, each containing an introduction, this book places the historical foundations of Native Ame...
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    83,99 €

  • Learning Senegalese Sabar
    Eleni Bizas
    Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in New York and Dakar, this book explores the Senegalese dance-rhythms Sabar from the research position of a dance student. It features a comparative analysis of the pedagogical techniques used in dance classes in New York and Dakar, which in turn shed light on different aesthetics and understandings of dance, as well as different ways ...
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    184,65 €

  • African Genesis
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    84,46 €

  • Mothering, Mixed Families and Racialised Boundaries
    This pioneering volume draws together theoretical and empirical contributions analyzing the experiences of white mothers in interracial families in Britain, Canada and the USA. In exploring mothering across racialised boundaries, the notion of racialisation is invoked to argue that while the notion of race does not exist in any meaningful sense, it continues to operate as a soc...
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    160,44 €

  • Ethnic Groups of North, East, and Central Asia
    James Minahan
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    142,39 €

  • Art, Cultural Heritage and the Market
    In the age of economic globalisation, do art and heritage matter? Once the domain of elitist practitioners and scholars, the governance of cultural heritage and the destiny of iconic artefacts have emerged as the new frontier of international law, making headlines and attracting the varied interests of academics and policy-makers, museum curators and collectors, human rights ac...
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    205,99 €

  • The Question of the Gift
    Mark Osteen
    The Question of the Gift is the first collection of new interdisciplinary essays on the gift. Bringing together scholars from a variety of fields, including anthropology, literary criticism, economics, philosophy and classics, it provides new paradigms and poses new questions concerning the theory and practice of gift exchange. In addressing these questions, contributors not on...
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    93,18 €

  • Low Fertility and Population Aging in Japan and Eastern Asia
    Toru Suzuki
    This book provides a unique comparative view of the extremely low fertility and drastic population aging in Eastern Asian countries. After discussing demographic and political developments of Japan in detail as a reference case, accelerated changes in Korea, Taiwan and China are interpreted with a comparative cultural view. In addition to the well-known cultural divide between ...
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    48,54 €

  • Directory of Grants in the Humanities
    Ed S. Louis S. Schafer
    Grants are supposed to enable work, not create more of it. You need a guide, a map, and the right tools for the job. Helping you from your earliest brainstorming sessions to fully funded projects, this essential directory offers countless tips and resources for humanities scholars as well as artists, and arts organizations seeking funding for performances, exhibits, residencies...
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    203,91 €

  • Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives
    Dance Ethnography and Global Perspectives presents the work of dance scholars whose professional fieldwork spans several continents and includes studies of the dance and movement systems of varied global communities. ...
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    48,25 €

  • Social Movements and Global Social Change
    Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    The book examines different types of social movements, including those often ignored in social change textbooks, such as riots, migration, and disorganized protest. It also looks at citizens’ rights and inequality in connection to social movements and change. The book features global perspectives and examples throughout. ...
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    166,31 €

  • Social Movements and Global Social Change
    Robert K. Schaeffer / Robert KSchaeffer
    The book examines different types of social movements, including those often ignored in social change textbooks, such as riots, migration, and disorganized protest. It also looks at citizens’ rights and inequality in connection to social movements and change. The book features global perspectives and examples throughout. ...
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    55,43 €


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