Zbirka: Sociologija in antropologija
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Selling Our Souls(2016) REICH, ADAM DALTONHealth care costs make up nearly a fifth of U.S. gross domestic product, but health care is a peculiar thing to buy and sell. Both a scarce resource and a basic need, it involves physical and emotional vulnerability and at the same time it operates as bigVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Islamizing Intimacies(2019) SMITH-HEFNER, NANCY J.Examines the personal lives and sexual attitudes of educated Muslim Javanese youth in the city of Yogyakarta to explore the dramatic social and ethical changes taking place in Indonesian society. Drawing on more than 250 interviews, this vivid, well-craftVezava: Trda125,51 € -
Guardians of the Buddha's Home(2019) STARLING, JESSICADraws on nearly three years of ethnographic research to provide a comprehensive view of Jodo Shinshu (True Pure Land) temple life with temple wives (known as bomori, or temple guardians) at its centre. Throughout, Jessica Starling focuses on “domestic relVezava: Trda79,34 € -
Super Age(2022) SCHURMAN, BRADLEYA demographic futurist explains the coming Super Age—when there will be more people older than sixty-five than those under the age of eighteen—and explores what it could mean for our collective future.Vezava: Trda32,16 € -
Sexual Violence in Intimacy(2022)Integrating interdisciplinary and cross-cultural analysis, this volume advances our understanding of sexual violence in intimacy through the development of more nuanced and evidence-based conceptual frameworks.Vezava: Mehka75,24 € -
Power and Inequality(2021)With strong integration of race and gender throughout, this new edition of Chorbajian’s Power and Inequality offers a coherent analysis of power that reflects the contributions of a variety of critical perspectives, including Marxism, feminism, critical rVezava: Mehka73,49 € -
Coming of Age in Second Life(2015) BOELLSTORFF, TOMMillions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meeVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
Queens Nobody Knows(2020) HELMREICH, WILLIAM B.The only neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to New York City's largest borough, from the award-winning author of The New York Nobody KnowsBill Helmreich walked every block of New York City-some six-thousand miles-to write the award-winning The New York NoVezava: Mehka32,31 € -
Essential Hirschman(2015) HIRSCHMAN, ALBERT O.The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability toVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
How God Becomes Real(2020) LUHRMANN, T.M.The hard work required to make god real, how it changes the people who do it, and why it helps explain the enduring power of faithHow do gods and spirits come to feel vividly real to people-as if they were standing right next to them? Humans tend to see sVezava: Trda40,39 € -
Sport Fans(2018) WANN, DANIEL L. (MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY, USA),JAMES, JEFFREY D. (FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, USA)Sport Fans is the go-to resource on fan behaviour, offering cutting-edge analyses of the empirical research on the emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and social impact of sport fans.Vezava: Mehka99,74 € -
Do Funerals Matter?(2021) HOY, WILLIAM G. (BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, TEXAS, USA)Do Funerals Matter? is a creative interweaving of historical, sociocultural, and research-based perspectives on death rituals, drawing from myriad sources to create a picture of what death rituals have been; and where, especially in the Western world, theVezava: Mehka57,01 € -
Digital Media, Friendship and Cultures of Care(2022) BYRON, PAUL (UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA)This book explores how digital media can extend care practices among friends and peers, researching young people’s negotiations of sexual health, mental health, gender/sexuality and dating apps, and highlighting the need for a multi-focal approach that ceVezava: Mehka79,94 € -
White Logic, White Methods(2008)With an assemblage of leading scholars, White Logic, White Methods explores the possibilities and necessary dethroning of current social research practices, and demands a complete overhaul of current methods, towards multicultural and pluralist approach tVezava: Mehka63,77 € -
Human History of Emotion(2022) FIRTH-GODBEHERE, RICHARDHow have our emotions shaped the course of human history? And how have our experience and understanding of emotions evolved with us?Vezava: Trda28,04 € -
The Changing Mind - A Neuroscientist's Guide to Ageing Well(2021) DANIEL LEVITINVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Birdscapes(2012) MYNOTT, JEREMYWhat draws us to the beauty of a peacock, the flight of an eagle, or the song of a nightingale? Why are birds so significant in our lives and our sense of the world? And what do our ways of thinking about and experiencing birds tell us about ourselves? ThVezava: Mehka32,31 €
