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Religion has become deeply involved in HIV/AIDS treatment, care and prevention, and is substantially influencing attitudes and behaviour in the domains of sexuality, relationships and the body. At the same time, AIDS as a disease, as a field of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789052014777Author Tuende PuskasFormat PaperbackPage Count 309Imprint Presses Interuniversitaires EuropeennesPublisher Presses Interuniversitaires...

In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906767376Author Heidy Margrit MuellerFormat PaperbackPage Count 429Imprint Verlag Peter LangPublisher Verlag Peter LangWeight(grams) 560g

This innovative book offers a fresh perspective on the national work culture of Russia and the substantial role foreign institutional and cultural impact has had in shaping it. Russia's contemporary work culture is understood as a national system...

As an anthropologist, Adrie Kusserow's ethnographic poetry probes culture and globalization with poems about Sudanese refugees based in Uganda, Sudan, and the United States, especially the "Lost Boys of Sudan." The poet struggles with how to...

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for...

Adding to a growing body of knowledge about how the social-ecological dynamics of the Anthropocene affect human health, this collection presents strategies that both address core challenges, including climate change, stagnating economic growth, and...

Contested Spaces, Counter-narratives, and Culture from Below in Canada and Qu bec explores strategies for reading space and conflict in Canadian and Qu b cois literature and cultural performances, positing questions such as: how do these texts and...

This book provides an opportunity for students, academicians, scholars, and researchers in India and around the world to familiarize themselves with the evolution, diversification, and development of anthropological research in India. Comprised of...

This manual provides students in academic laboratory courses with hands-on experience of the major processes of forensic anthropology. Designed to accompany the textbook Introduction to Forensic Anthropology, the manual introduces core procedures and...

Sustainability, digitalization, and artification have become the cornerstones of a successful business model in a world rocked by the effects of a pandemic and a climate crisis. Organizational strategies in the art, fashion, and wine industries have to...

Re-Centering Women in Tourism: Anti-Colonial Feminist Studies addresses tourism as simultaneously empowering women and reproducing colonial hierarchies. Placing a unique and long overdue theoretical frame around tourism, this volume contributes to...

Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. It outlines how limiting consciousness-rather than expanding it-is more functional and satisfying for most...

Winter counts-pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past-marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the...

This book examines the relationship between national history, identity, and politics in twentieth-century Macedonia. It focuses on the reverberating power of events surrounding an armed uprising in August 1903, when a revolutionary organization...

Concise, well-balanced, and comprehensive, ESSENTIALS OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 10th Edition, introduces you to physical anthropology with the goal of helping you understand why it is important to know about human evolution. You'll learn how humans are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592288Author Kenneth E KiddFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 395g

The unanticipated arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in London on October 16, 1998 served to punctuate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the most cataclysmic event in Chilean history-a violent coup d'etat that abruptly ended decades of democratic rule. A...

In China Live, Mike Chinoy provides an insider's view of two of the most important forces shaping our era—the rise of global satellite news and the rise of China. Exploring not only how events shape television, but how TV can shape the news as it...

-- Journal of Asian StudiesBook InformationISBN 9780231102254Author Janet SalaffFormat PaperbackPage Count 317Imprint Columbia University PressPublisher Columbia University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781487592530Author Henry N MichaelFormat PaperbackPage Count 538Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto PressWeight(grams) 848g

A creative, narrative approach to environmental destruction in urban waterscapes, focusing on neighborhood activists who pressure their governments to follow existing lawBook InformationISBN 9781439909300Author Stephanie KaneFormat HardbackPage Count...

Up to ninety percent of humanity's traditional languages and cultures are at risk and may disappear this century. While language endangerment has not achieved the publicity surrounding environmental change and biodiversity loss, it is just as serious,...

An absorbing account of an anthropologist's fieldwork and explorations into alternative religions in Brazil, "Samba in the Night" invites the reader into the mysterious world of spirit mediums, poltergeists, psychic surgery, exorcism and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781876843762Author Takami KuwayamaFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Trans Pacific PressPublisher Trans Pacific Press

Striving to express the lived experience of women's music at The Club, Stacy Holman Jones has created a text that is itself performative, and the reader cannot resist playing a starring role. Her evocative narrative slips in and out of prose, dialogue,...

Much has changed for the priests at the Minakshi Temple, one of the most famous Hindu temples in India. In The Renewal of the Priesthood, C. J. Fuller traces their improving fortunes over the past 25 years. This fluidly written book is unique in showing...

During the brief history of the Republic of Texas (1836-1845), over 10,000 Germans emigrated to Texas. Perhaps best remembered today are the farmers who settled the Texas Hill Country, yet many of the German immigrants were merchants and businesspeople...

HIV ravaged the African continent faster and earlier than any other in the world, spreading primarily through unprotected heterosexual sex. Kaolack, Senegal is a town where travellers and prostitutes converge, and HIV transmission rates have soared,...

Can forests think? Do dogs dream? In this astonishing book, Eduardo Kohn challenges the very foundations of anthropology, calling into question our central assumptions about what it means to be human - and thus distinct from all other life forms. Based...

With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788763542135Author Vibeke SteffenFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Museum Tusculanum PressPublisher Museum Tusculanum PressWeight(grams)...

In this book, Margaret Magat explores both the traditional and popular culture contexts of eating balut. Balut-fertilized duck or chicken eggs that have developed into fully formed embryos with feathers and beaks-is a delicacy which elicits passionate...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884024033Author Anthony F. AveniFormat HardbackPage Count 326Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

Laura Nader, an instrumental figure in the development of the field of legal anthropology, investigates an issue of vital importance for our time: the role of the law in the struggle for social and economic justice. In this book she gives an overview of...

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9789057025648Author Carola LentzFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint RoutledgePublisher Taylor & Francis LtdWeight(grams) 658g

African societies are gifted with a rich creativity, often expressed in intimate corporeal terms. For the Yaka people of southwestern Congo, such manifestations can have individual, social, or even cosmic significance. The Law of the Lifegivers...

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.Book InformationISBN 9783718651498Author A. H. CarrierFormat HardbackPage Count 284Imprint Harwood-Academic PublishersPublisher Harwood-Academic...

In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a...