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Women's Economic Empowerment(2021)This book examines women’s economic empowerment in a range of developing country contexts, investigating the societal structures and norms which keep women from achieving economic equality. It is geared toward academics, practitioners, and policymakers woVezava: Mehka73,49 € -
Survival of the Friendliest(2021) HARE, BRIAN,WOODS, VANESSAWhat is the secret to humanity’s evolutionary success? Could it be our strength, our intellect…or something much nicer?Vezava: Mehka16,25 € -
Ghosts of Archive(2022) HARRIS, VERNEGhosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice.Vezava: Mehka72,92 € -
God Is Watching You(2016) JOHNSON, DOMINIC (ALISTAIR BUCHAN PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, ALISTAIR BUCHAN PROFESSOR OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Drawing on new research from anthropology, evolutionary biology, experimental psychology, and neuroscience, Dominic Johnson presents a new theory of supernatural punishment that offers fresh insight on the origins and evolution of not only religion, but hVezava: Trda31,83 € -
Prototype Nation(2020) LINDTNER, SILVIA M.A vivid look at China's shifting place in the global political economy of technology production.Vezava: Mehka39,05 € -
Ritual Animal(2021) WHITEHOUSE, HARVEY (CHAIR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, CHAIR OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)Copying rituals has allowed cultural groups to proliferate over time. Rare, traumatic rituals produce strong cohesion in small relational groups, whereas daily/weekly rituals produce cohesion in expandable communities. This study presents a theory of howVezava: Trda57,86 € -
Road to Multiculturalism in South Korea(2022) LIM, TIMOTHYThis book aims to capture the complicated development of Korea from monoethnic to multicultural society, challenging the narrative of ‘ethnonational continuity’ in Korea, through a discursive institutional approach.Vezava: Mehka71,22 € -
Diversity of Law in the United Arab Emirates(2022) KAMØY, KRISTINThis book examines the law and its practice in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). The work will be a valuable resource for researchers and academics working in the areas of Comparative Constitutional Law, Legal Anthropology, Legal Pluralism and Middle EasterVezava: Mehka69,54 € -
Post-Apartheid Same-Sex Sexualities(2022) CAROLIN, ANDY (UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA)This book examines how same-sex sexualities are represented in several post-apartheid South African cultural texts, drawing on a rich local archive of same-sex sexualities that includes recent fiction, drama, film, photography, and popular print culture.Vezava: Mehka71,22 € -
Storytime in India(2019) MYERS, HELEN PRISCILLA,PANDEY, UMESH CHANDRAStorytime in India is an exploration of the stories that come out of ethnographic fieldwork. Helen Priscilla Myers and Umesh Chandra Pandey examine the ways in which their research collecting Bhojpuri wedding songs became interwoven with the stories of thVezava: Mehka66,79 € -
Angel and the Cholent(2021) PINTEL-GINSBERG, IDITTranslated into English for the first time from Hebrew, this bok analyses how food and foodways are the major agents generating the plots of several significant folktales. The tales were chosen from the Israel Folktales Archives' (IFA) extensive collectioVezava: Mehka39,07 € -
queerqueen(2020) MAREE, CLAIRE (ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER AT ASIA INSTITUTE, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR & READER AT ASIA INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE)Vezava: Mehka74,40 € -
Global Governed?(2020) PINCOCK, KATE (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),BETTS, ALEXANDER (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD),EASTON-CALABRIA, EVAN (UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD)This book examines the role of refugees as providers of assistance to other refugees. Drawing upon ideas from anthropology and international relations, it offers an alternative vision for more participatory global governance, of relevance to other policyVezava: Mehka66,15 € -
To Know the Soul of a People(2022) DRAKE, JAMIL W. (ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF RELIGION, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY)To Know the Soul of a People is a history of religion and race in the agricultural South before the Civil Rights era. Jamil W. Drake chronicles a cadre of social scientists who studied the living conditions of black rural communities, framing the religiouVezava: Mehka43,16 € -
Tales from the Desert Borderland(2020) TAYLOR, LAWRENCE J.Taylor brings an ethnographer’s eye, ear, and many years of experience to this fictional portrait of life along the US/Mexico desert border.Vezava: Mehka37,31 € -
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Viapolitics - Borders, Migration, and the Power of Locomotion(2022) CHARLES HELLERVezava: Mehka32,03 € -
Living Before Dying(2017) DAVIES, JANETTEThis in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home, told in a year of daily conversations with patients and staff, highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents of extreme old age, emphasising interaction with care assistants and the differentVezava: Trda165,67 € -
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