Catálogo de libros: Sociología y antropología

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  • Sociological Research and Urban Children and Youth
    Recognizing the potential research with and about young people can have in decision making on multiple levels of policy and service provision, this book provides a key foundation for considering the influence of urban environments on young people, and vice versa. ...
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    169,29 €

  • Exploring Human Diversity An Anthropological Journey
    Elio Endless
    Exploring Human Diversity: An Anthropological JourneyEmbark on a Profound Exploration of AnthropologyWelcome to the captivating world of anthropology, where the complexities of human life are unraveled, and the rich tapestry of our shared humanity is illuminated. 'Exploring Human Diversity: An Anthropological Journey' is your passport to understanding the essence of human exist...
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    24,85 €

  • The Ethnographic Case
    A doctor injects turpentine into the leg of a dying patient; the patient lives and years later a granddaughter uses this story of survival to write a story of her own. A refugee is questioned in court for falsifying paternity; a cultural expert intervenes to develop a legal case for kinship that exceeds DNA. The actions of a caring father pose a dilemma for how a filmmaker repr...
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    28,59 €

  • The Human Figure on Film
    Seth Barry Watter
    The Human Figure on Film asks what it is we look for when we look at human beings projected on a screen. People have appeared onscreen since film was invented. Nothing could be more common, and yet nothing confounds us more, than a filmed human being. Scholars and critics have attempted to reduce the mystery, creating methodologies that make this figure legible. Some of their e...
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    127,23 €

  • Archaeology of Mountain Landscapes
    Arnau Garcia-Molsosa
    Explores mountain regions as cultural landscapes that have been shaped by long-term human-environment interactions. ...
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    158,23 €

  • African American Coping in the Political Sphere
    Jas M. Sullivan / Moriah Harman
    Explores the influence coping has had on African Americans’ political attitudes and behaviors. ...
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    126,89 €

  • The Ethnography of Tantra
    Presents Tantra from an ethnographic vantage point, through a series of case studies grounded in diverse settings across contemporary Asia. ...
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    126,24 €

  • The Method and Complementarity of the Sciences
    Armando J Camejo Ruiz / Ysrael Orlando Márquez Ramírez
    This book is based on a documentary research that attempts to examine the discussion on the importance of method, its complementarity and validity of the social sciences versus the natural sciences for the generation of knowledge. On the other hand, it attempts to show the scope of the polemics and debates related to the pertinence, validity and reliability of research methods ...
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    53,73 €

  • Anthropology Across Borders and Limits
    This volume presents a collection of papers on New World anthropology and history, from physical anthropology to historical memory to women’s history. The papers were presented at the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Russian-American Research Nexus (RARN) Forums, and offer a unique perspective on the New World from a variety of Russian and American scholars. This book will be of interest to s...
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    39,48 €

  • The Emerald Handbook of Childhood and Youth in Asian Societies
    Revising established research, this handbook equips readers with an understanding of the complex interplay between local and global and public and private contexts in the development of young people in Asian countries. ...
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    107,52 €

  • Unseen Flesh
    Nessette Falu
    In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective expe...
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    128,26 €

  • Unseen Flesh
    Nessette Falu
    In Unseen Flesh Nessette Falu explores how Black lesbians in Brazil define and sustain their well-being and self-worth against persistent racial, sexual, class, and gender-based prejudice. Focusing on the trauma caused by interactions with gynecologists, Falu draws on in-depth ethnographic work among the Black lesbian community to reveal their profoundly negative affective expe...
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    32,95 €

  • The Age of Decay
    Shamil Ismail
    Drawing on seemingly unrelated instances of essential worker shortages around the world, investment analyst Shamil Ismail connects the dots to build a compelling and well-researched narrative explaining why aging populations and declining birth rates are leading to a shrinking workforce of essential workers in developed countries, which could massively disrupt their societies a...
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    12,45 €

  • Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic
     The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information; the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean; and the importance of using a Demographic fr...
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    71,51 €

  • Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic
    The present volume undertakes socio-demographic analyses of four major topics surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic: Data Issues; Statistical Modeling; Analyses; and Policy Concerns. Regarding Data Issues, three chapters cover topics about obtaining reliable information; the production of summary statistics and using the geometric mean; and the importance of using a Demographic fra...
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    127,77 €

  • Married Life
    T. S. Arthur
    THE highest, purest, best and holiest relation in life is that of marriage, which ought never to be regarded as a mere civil contract, entered into from worldly ends, but as an essential union of two minds, by which each gains a new power, and acquires! new capacities for enjoyment and usefulness. Much has been said and written about the equality of the sexes, and the rights of...
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    14,31 €

  • Franz Boas in Translation
    Richard L Bland
    Franz Boas in Translation is the ultimate study of the legendary anthropologist Franz Boas and his work on the American Northwest. This groundbreaking study analyses what Boas did with local Native American legends passed down by the region’s tribal groups. Three translations, originally published in 1888 and 1895, are presented here and constitute Boas’s early attempts to defi...
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    205,13 €

  • Practical guide to write your doctoral thesis
    Michel Enrique Gamboa Graus
    Transform your doctoral thesis into an outstanding work with this specialized guide. Structure and write your thesis successfully using focused questions that activate your investigative skills. Forget about the common obstacles in academic writing with this innovative teaching resource, designed by an experienced doctor to strengthen a neuralgic aspect: the preparation to rese...
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    126,87 €

  • (Everything Is) Cells and Bodies
    'I am a man.' 'Yo existo.'#BlackLivesMatter.If you’ve never felt your humanity denied, you might not understand why some people have to declare their right to exist. We are all just 'cells and bodies,' after all. And that is a connection the Ohio Migration Anthology, in all of its volumes, is trying to highlight.The stories, artwork, poems, and interviews in Volume Two, '(Every...
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    21,05 €

  • Post-Migration Experiences, Cultural Practices and Homemaking
    Sabrina Dinmohamed
    Shining a light on previously ’invisible’ immigrant communities, this book explores how attention to feelings of home and cultural practices provides insights into immigrants’ settlement experiences. ...
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    143,11 €

  • The Growth Paths of State-Society Relations
    Mohamed Ismail Sabry
    Combining case studies with empirical and theoretical game analysis, Mohamed Ismail Sabry presents four State-Business-Labor Relations (SBLR) modes for considering the power relationships at play in the interactions between government, business, and society. ...
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    149,54 €

  • Cultural Treasures
    Kevan Joey
    profound impact that books have on our culture, identity, and shared human experience. Thisthought-provoking book delves into the multifaceted ways in which books shape and enrich ourlives, shedding light on their enduring significance in an ever-evolving world.Drawing from a diverse array of perspectives and case studies, 'Cultural Treasures' examineshow books serve as reposit...
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    29,41 €

  • A Sociological Examination of the Gift Economy
    Vjeran Katunarić
    On the whole, this book presents gift-giving as an intuitive path toward a viable economy, society, and culture here on Earth, and even toward an amiable engagement with our cosmic surroundings in the future. ...
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    143,11 €

  • The Psychology of Ancient Egypt
    Brian J. McVeigh
    Building upon Julian Jaynes’s theory of bicameral mentality, Brian McVeigh reconstructs the worldview of ancient Egypt, with its innumerable gods and goddesses, magnificent temples, and monumental mortuary architecture. By surveying the spiritual landscape of glorified ancestors, radiant gods, and a theocentric social order crowned by awe-inspiring pharaohs that lasted for thre...
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    23,82 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    48,07 €

  • Essays in Linguistic Ethnography
    Adrian Blackledge / Angela Creese
    This book argues for an approach to linguistic ethnography which departs from the perspective of the academic researcher, to amplify instead the voices of participants, researchers and collaborators. It reflects on ways of reporting research which add multiple perspectives and represent ambiguity more meaningfully than traditional academic prose. ...
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    169,68 €

  • DECOLONIZING THE THESIS AND THE RESEARCH PROJECT
    Alexander Ortiz Ocaña / Ana Gabriela Maloof Díaz / Habib de Jesús Mejía Porto
    The western/eurocentric/colonial way of structuring research projects and undergraduate, master’s and doctoral theses, in rigid, schematic and dogmatic components, does not account for the flow and spontaneity of the process of configuration of situated and contextualized knowledge and knowledges. In this sense, it is urgent to get rid of colonial notions such as: theoretical f...
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    60,32 €

  • Understanding Comics-Based Research
    Veronica Moretti
    Understanding Comics-Based Research focuses on the contribution that comics can bring to community-based participatory research. ...
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    81,14 €

  • The Yalaku
    Ross Bowden
    This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare ...
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    219,77 €

  • Medina by the Bay
    Maryam Kashani
    From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay examines how multiracial Muslim communities in the San Francisco Bay Area survive and flourish within and against racial capitalist, carceral, and imperial logics. Weaving expansive histories, peoples, and geographies together in an ethnographic screenplay of cinematic s...
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    36,55 €


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