Author: Jackson, Jean Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Based on fieldwork in a pain treatment center, "Camp Pain" focuses on patients' perspectives—on their experiences of pain and what these experiences mean to them.
Author: Zigon, Jarrett Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This provocative study examines the role of today's Russian Orthodox Church in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. Russia has one of the fastest-growing rates of HIV infection in the world-80 percent from intr...
Author: Unschuld, Paul U. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Huang Di nei jing su wen, known familiarly as the Su wen, is a seminal text of ancient Chinese medicine, yet until now there has been no comprehensive, detailed analysis of its development and con...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: An extensive overview of the rapidly growing field of biological anthropology; chapters are written by leading scholars who have themselves played a major role in shaping the direction and scope of th...
Description: A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that includ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Border Studies introduces an exciting and expanding field of interdisciplinary research, through the writing of an international array of scholars, from diverse perspectives that includ...
Description: A Companion to Cultural Resource Management is an essential guide to those wishing to gain a deeper understanding of CRM and heritage management. Expert contributors share their knowledge and illustra...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Linguistic Anthropology provides a series of in-depth explorations of key concepts and approaches by some of the scholars whose work constitutes the theoretical and methodological found...
Description: A Companion to Medical Anthropology examines the current issues, controversies, and state of the field in medical anthropology today.Examines the key issues and current debates in medical anthrop...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Companion to Paleopathology offers a comprehensive overview of this rapidly growing sub- field of physical anthropology.Presents a broad overview of the field of paleopathology, integrating theoreti...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion provides the first definitive overview of psychocultural anthropology: a subject that focuses on cultural, psychological, and social interrelations across cultures.Brings together origi...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Companion is comprised of 27 original contributions by leading scholars in the field and summarizes the state of anthropological knowledge of Indian peoples, as well as the history that got us to...
Author: Levinson, Bradley A. U. / Pollock, Mica Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal an...
Description: A Companion to the Anthropology of India offers a broad overview of the rapidly evolving scholarship on Indian society from the earliest area studies to views of India’s globalization in the twe...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world’s most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthro...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is an unprecedented collection of 29 original essays by some of the world's most distinguished scholars of Japan. Covers a broad range of issues, including the colonial roots of anthropology...
Description: A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment offers original essays that examine historical and contemporary approaches to conceptualizations of the body.In this ground-breaking work on ...
Author: Hirsch, Jennifer S. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From about seven children per woman in 1960, the fertility rate in Mexico has dropped to about 2.6. Such changes are part of a larger transformation explored in this book, a richly detailed ethnograph...
Author: Barkun, Michael Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: ""Tracing the beliefs in various conspiracies and mega-conspiracies in literature, apocalyptic and political writing, and popular culture, Barkun creates an exceptional and invaluable genealogy of the...
Author: Smith, Daniel Jordan Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: E-mails proposing an "urgent business relationship" help make fraud Nigeria's largest source of foreign revenue after oil. But scams are also a central part of Nigeria's domestic cultural landscape. C...
Author: William Dean Howells Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Published in 1890 Hazard of New Fortune explores the ideas of socialism and utopian ideals. 19th century New York is the setting. There is a dispute between a revolutionary and a millionaire. Anothe...
Author: Betts, Raymond F. Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This lively and informative survey provides a thematic global history of popular culture focusing on the period since the end of the Second World War. Raymond Betts considers the rapid diffusion and "...
Author: Frances Hodgson Burnett Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Being a most curious, hitherto unknown history, as related by Mr. Isaac Bickerstaff but not presented to the World of Fashion through the pages of The Tatler, and now for the first time written down b...
Author: Meeker, Michael E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine t...
Author: Meeker, Michael E. Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine t...
Author: Salamandra, Christa Publisher: Indiana University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In contemporary urban Syria, debates about the representation, preservation, and restoration of the Old City of Damascus have become part of status competition and identity construction among the city...
Author: John Lawson Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lawson, a naturalist, writer and explorer left England arriving in the Carolinas in 1700. He set out from Charleston and traveled over 600 miles taking careful notes on what he saw. His descriptions...
Author: Engelke, Matthew Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Friday Masowe apostolics of Zimbabwe refer to themselves as "the Christians who don't read the Bible." They claim they do not need the Bible because they receive the Word of God "live and direct" ...
Author: Alfred E. Housman Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Shropshire Lad was first published, at Housman's own expense, in 1896 after several publishers had turned it down. At first the book sold slowly, but during the Second Boer War, Housman's nostalgic ...
Author: Mouer, Ross / Kawanishi, Hirosuke Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What shapes the decisions of employees in Japan? The authors of this comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the relationship between work and society in Japan argue that individual decisions about wor...
Author: Ivan Turgenev Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Turgenev was a major 19th century Russian novelist. His novel Fathers and Sons is his best-known work. Published in 1852 this collection of stories is also known as Hunting Sketches and Sketches fro...
Author: De Mille, James Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: James De Mille was a 19th century Canadian author known for his wit and humor. Before becoming a professor De Mile traveled extensively in Italy, which became the scene for many of his books. De Mille...
Author: David Lindsay Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Scottish writer David Lindsay first published this novel in 1920. The hero travels through several imaginary lands, each representing a state of mind. In each land he meets one or two people and...
Author: Niezen, Ronald Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A World Beyond Difference unpacks the globalization literature and offers a valuable critique: one that is forthright, yet balanced, and draws on the local work of ethnographers to counter relativist ...
Author: Bauman, Richard Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Drawing on his work in Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, North America, Ghana, and Fiji, linguistic anthropologist and folklorist Richard Bauman presents a series of ethnographic case studies that offer a s...
Author: Hamer, Jennifer Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Urban poverty, along with all of its poignant manifestations, is moving from city centers to working-class and industrial suburbs in contemporary America. Nowhere is this more evident than in East St....
Author: Lebra, Takie Sugiyama Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This latest work from Japanese-born anthropologist Takie Sugiyama Lebra is the first ethnographic study of the modern Japanese aristocracy. Established as a class at the beginning of the Meiji period,...
Author: Goodwin,Dawn Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In recent years, evidence-based medicine (EBM), clinical governance and professional accountability have become increasingly significant in shaping the organisation and delivery of healthcare. However...
Author: G. Woodside, Arch Publisher: JAI Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advances in Culture, Tourism, and Hospitality Research (ACTHR) broadly seeks to increase understanding and description of human behavior, conscious and unconscious meaning, and implicit/explicit decis...
Author: N/A Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Advances in Human Palaeopathology provides researchers and practitioners with a comprehensive guide to the main methods and techniques that are currently available for studying diseases and related co...
Author: Deegan, Heather Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In the post 9/11 global environment Africa is standing at a crossroads in international affairs as the combined issues of politics, religion and security attract renewed interest. Africa Today provide...
Description: The doctrine of international relations (inter-state, indeed), territorial ideologies, the logic of autochthony and its ramifications, ethnic cleansing, are all hinged at different levels upon the sam...
Author: Rabaka, Reiland Publisher: Lexington Books Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Building on and going far beyond W.E.B. Du Bois and the Problems of the Twenty-First Century and Du Bois's Dialectics, Reiland Rabaka's Africana Critical Theory innovatively identifies and analyzes co...
Author: Kwon, Heonik Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Though a generation has passed since the massacre of civilians at My Lai, the legacy of this tragedy continues to reverberate throughout Vietnam and the rest of the world. This engrossing study consid...
Author: Matas, David Publisher: Dundurn Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Attempts to explain how verbal attacks against Israel for human rights violations have turned into physical attacks against the Jewish community worldwide.
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Huysmans was a French novelist noted for his vast scope of language, his sensuous descriptions and satirical wit. His pessimistic outlook showed a deep disgust for modern life. Des Esseintes is the ...
Author: Lee, Ching Kwan Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This study opens a critical perspective on the slow death of socialism and the rebirth of capitalism in the world's most dynamic and populous country. Based on remarkable fieldwork and extensive inter...
Description: This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practiti...
Description: This book summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. This text ensures that practiti...
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