The Anthropology of Sport: Bodies, Borders, Biopolitics

Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or China's parks,...

The Making of Migration addresses the rapid phenomenon that has become one of the most contentious issues in contemporary life: how are migrants go...

This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global or...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Alan P. MerriamAuthor: Valerie MerriamIn this highly praised and seminal work, Alan Merriam demonstrates that music is a so...

Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging varie...

Communitas is inspired fellowship; a group's pleasure in sharing common experiences; being 'in the zone' - as in music, sport, and work; the sense ...

Reducere. Alternative medicine is not a fashionable new trend but an established cultural strategy, as well as a dynamic feature of mainstream contemporary m...

Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a co...

Discusses extinction as a force shaping socio-cultural and biological lifePublisher: Indiana University PressIllustration(s): 8 b&w illus.Number of...

This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

Focusing on the last twenty years of life in a small Mayan village, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the age of the An...

How can we understand the role of religion in human experience and social life? This book argues that anthropology and theology can work together t...

DescriptionAnthropologists have examined how diverse human populations modify and dress their bodies since the earliest days of the discipline. The...

Includes nine sections organized around themes such as everyday life, sex and gender, and science. This title features articles and book excerpts f...

Reducere. In this invigorating mix of natural history and adventure, artist-naturalist Ellen Meloy uses turquoise--the color and the gem--to probe deeper int...

DescriptionStudy of the future is an important new field in anthropology. Building on a philosophical tradition running from Aristotle through Heid...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 44 Halftones, black and white; 1 Tables, black and white; 44 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

Reducere. At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological researc...

Publisher: Lit VerlagAuthor(s): Hans-Martin SassNumber of pages: 88Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 120 x 199 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softbackR...

Reducere. Note Formerly published as an ebook titled Why People Believe in Spirits, Gods and Magic. Now available in paperback.Across the globe and through t...

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trac...

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What could middle-class German supermarket shoppers buying eggs and impoverished coffee farmers in Guatemala possibly have in common? Both groups u...

This book is a story about a personal search for the 'natural' and for living 'in nature'. The author is an ethnobotanist who has studied foraging ...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): Judith (Western Washington University) PinePublication date: 2018Dimensions: 216 x 274 x 18Cover type: P...

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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminos...

DescriptionFor Haredi Jews, reproduction is entangled with issues of health, bodily governance and identity. This is an analysis of the ways in whi...

Reducere. Stem cell research has sparked controversy and heated debate since the first human stem cell line was derived in 1998. Too frequently these debates...

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This anthology collects the texts that defined the concept of biopolitics, which has become so significant throughout the humanities and social sci...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. For over 25 years, the creatively led Railroad Development Corporation (RDC) has rejuvenated a series of down-and-out and even defunct railroads. L...

Guidebook to the Borders Abbeys Way, a 68 mile circuit in the Scottish Borders, taking in 4 of Britain's grandest ruined medieval abbeys. Beginning...

Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transform...

DescriptionAn understanding of International Relations exclusively as a sphere plagued by countless known and unknown risks, looming disasters and ...

Publisher: Penguin Random House Children's UKAuthor(s): Tyler FederNumber of pages: 32Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 250 x 251 x 8Cover type: Pa...

Reducere. More than forty years ago, conservative Christianity emerged as a major force in American political life. Since then the movement has been analyzed...

Biological immunity as we know it does not exist until the late nineteenth century. Nor does the premise that organisms defend themselves at the ce...