Catálogo de libros: Antropología

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  • Readings on the Anthropology of Food
    Robert C. Ulin
    Readings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, a...
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    174,00 €

  • Readings on the Anthropology of Food
    Robert C. Ulin
    Readings on the Anthropology of Food: Cuisine, Culture, and Power provides students with a collection of articles that emphasize the close relationship between history, culture, and power in shaping the options that most people face globally in terms of the varieties of food systems. The readings critique the industrialist capitalist food system, evaluate alternative systems, a...
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    123,52 €

  • A Belated Industry
    Jane Addams
    At the turn of the 20th century, social reformer Jane Addams provides a thought-provoking look at the economic vulnerabilities facing young working women in America’s industrial centers. Addams’ account draws on her groundbreaking work at Chicago’s Hull House settlement, casting an empathetic yet unflinching eye on the harsh realities of poverty and gender inequality.Through pi...
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    5,26 €

  • Wonder in South Asia
    Tulasi Srinivas
    A comparative study of wonder in South Asian religions. ...
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    126,54 €

  • Making Strong Friendships in the Age of Technology
    Rishi Kapoor
    Technology has revolutionized the way we communicate and interact with the world around us, and friendships are no exception. While digital platforms can provide a convenient and accessible way to connect with new people, building strong friendships in the age of technology requires a balance of online and offline interaction.Here are some tips for making strong friendships in ...
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    23,96 €

  • The Chora of Metaponto 8, Part i
    This book presents the final report on the excavation and reconstruction of the buildings and kilns at Pantanello. It is accompanied by an extensive analysis and catalog of the finds from the site, including fine grey ware and banded ware, cooking ware, coarse wares, and amphorae of the last two centuries of the Roman Republic and first century of the Imperial period in souther...
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    165,33 €

  • South Indian Brahmins in Sri Lankan Culture
    Bandara Bandaranayake
    This book presents a new and confrontational perspective on South Indian migration to Sri Lanka, in contrast to the traditional historical records.The central theme of the book is about a group of South Indian Brāhmins who migrated to Sath Korale (Kurunegala District), Sri Lanka, in the 16th century, during the Mundukondapola regional kingdom. In addition to an account of Brāhm...
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    18,10 €

  • Gathering Sounds Too
    Tenali Hrenak
    In Gathering Sounds Too, readers revisit the Rainbow gathering community through the audio archive project, Sounds from the Rainbow, created over a 23-year period. As part of this experience, readers are invited to wander through approximately 23 unique sound files or Sound-Trails, following a loose-knit dreamscape narrative, which utilizes a Rainbow Trail theme to imaginativel...
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    56,19 €

  • Gathering Sounds Too
    Tenali Hrenak
    In Gathering Sounds Too, readers revisit the Rainbow gathering community through the audio archive project, Sounds from the Rainbow, created over a 23-year period. As part of this experience, readers are invited to wander through approximately 23 unique sound files or Sound-Trails, following a loose-knit dreamscape narrative, which utilizes a Rainbow Trail theme to imaginativel...
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    39,99 €

  • Beyond The Blue
    Phillippa Leslie
    Finally people are beginning to believe that there is a possibility of there being ’something out there’! I have attempted to reveal the fascinating, ethereal, magical expanse of our Universe and the possibility of extra-terrestrial life existing within it, other than ourselves. Up to now files on UFOs and alien craft/beings have been sealed, but we are now experiencing thei...
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    19,15 €

  • Religion and Culture in a Changing Malawi
    Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza
    Joseph Chaphadzika Chakanza was born in 1943 at Mchacha Village, T.A. Malemia in Nsanje District where he grew up and discovered his vocation as a Catholic priest, being ordained in 1969. After studies for a Master’s degree at the University of Aberdeen, he returned to Malawi and was appointed Lecturer in Religious Studies at Chancellor College, University of Malawi, in 1977. D...
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    39,09 €

  • Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education
    This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced. They urge us to look at how Intercultural Citizenship enhances and expands the work of world language educators. ...
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    48,15 €

  • Intercultural Citizenship in Language Education
    This book explores Intercultural Citizenship across a variety of US learning contexts. The chapters, which comprise both conceptual and empirical studies, represent a wide variety of languages at levels ranging from beginner to advanced. They urge us to look at how Intercultural Citizenship enhances and expands the work of world language educators. ...
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    169,76 €

  • A Culture Going Mad
    Ronald C. Surels
    In this small volume, the author focuses on some of the dangerous major issues that are occurring in our Western culture and societies of this present age. These issues are evil and dangerous. They diametrically oppose the values and morals of not only common sense but of the traditions and values of the Judeo-Christian faith upon which the Western culture is based.The theme of...
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    11,25 €

  • Toxic Families, Violent Lives
    Stephen G. Lindsey
    IF YOU ARE A PARENT, SCHOOLTEACHER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OR MENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, Toxic Families, Violent Lives lays out what you need to know aboutwhat is causing heightened levels of childhood/adolescent mental illness, behavioral disorders, juvenile alcohol and substance abuse, gang membership, school dropouts, teen pregnancies, and pervasive crime and violence. To...
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    21,64 €

  • Toxic Families, Violent Lives
    Stephen G. Lindsey
    IF YOU ARE A PARENT, SCHOOLTEACHER, LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, OR MENTAL HEALTHCARE PROVIDER, Toxic Families, Violent Lives lays out what you need to know aboutwhat is causing heightened levels of childhood/adolescent mental illness, behavioral disorders, juvenile alcohol and substance abuse, gang membership, school dropouts, teen pregnancies, and pervasive crime and violence. To...
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    33,57 €

  • Shépa
    Bendi Tso / Mark Turin / Marnyi Gyatso
    Shépa: ’explanation’ or ’elucidation’ in Tibetan.A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format ...
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    52,37 €

  • Shépa
    Bendi Tso / Mark Turin / Marnyi Gyatso
    Shépa: ’explanation’ or ’elucidation’ in Tibetan.A form of oral poetry sung antiphonally in a question-and-answer style.This book contains a unique collection of Tibetan oral narrations and songs known as Shépa, as these have been performed, recorded and shared between generations of Choné Tibetans from Amdo living in the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Presented in trilingual format ...
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    74,47 €

  • Up Close and From Afar
    This volume contains papers by Russian and American anthropologists and historians dealing with ancient and modern cultures and societies of the New World. Their scope extends from Early Colonial American and European imaginary to the survival and revival of ethnic minorities’ traditional culture in our times. The works collected here were first presented at the 1st and 2nd Rus...
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    47,12 €

  • The Anthem Companion to Zygmunt Bauman
    Michael Hviid Jacobsen
    Bauman’s ideas - his research topic, his hundreds of concepts and his imaginative approach to doing research - remain a source of inspiration for many scholars and researchers working within a variety of different fields and sub-fields, appealing equally to empirical work and theoretical elaboration. This book contains ten chapters devoted to different aspects of Bauman’s work ...
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    238,73 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • (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 €


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