Books in category Anthropology - Cultural

Nuer-American Passages: Globalizing Sudanese Migration

Author: Shandy, Dianna J.
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN : 9780813030470
Traditionally a community of cattle farmers in Sudan, the Nuer are one of anthropology's most celebrated peoples. Half a century after social anthropologist Sir Edward E. Evans-Pritchard introduced the Nuer people to the global consciousness, they began arriving in the United States as refugees. Approximately 25,000 settled in such cities as Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Nashville, Tennessee, and Sai

The Moriscos of Spain: Their Conversion and Expulsion

Author: Lea, Henry C.
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432621049
1901. Lea, an American historian, devoted himself to research, mainly on church history in the later middle ages, and his literary reputation rests on the important books he produced on this subject. In this volume he writes on the history of the mudejar who is a Moslem by religion and subject to Christian sovereign and the Moriscos, Moors who were converted to Christianity after the Christian rec

Africa in Transformation Vol.2. Political and Economic Transformation and Socio-Political Responses in Africa

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Publisher : Ossrea
ISBN : 9781919799322

Africa in Transformation Vol.1. Political and Economic Transformation and Socio-Political Responses in Africa

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Publisher : Ossrea
ISBN : 9781919799315

The Encircled Serpent a Study of Serpent Symbolism in All Countries and Ages

Author: Howey, M. Oldfield
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432619961

The Baganda: An Account of Their Native Customs and Beliefs

Author: Roscoe, John
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432624927

The History of Marriage, Jewish and Christian in Relation to Divorce and Certain Forbidden Degrees

Author: Luckock, Herbert Mortimer
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432617202

The Illyrians

Author: Wilkes, John
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631198079
For more than a thousand years before the arrival of the Slavs in the sixth century AD, the lands between the Adriatic and the Danube, now Yugoslavia and Albania, were the home of peoples known to the ancient world as Illyrians. This book draws upon the considerable archaeological evidence that has become available since the Second World War to provide an account of the origins, culture and histor

Nation-Building and Minority Politics in Post-Socialist States. Interests, Influence and Identities in Estonia and Latvia

Author: Galbreath, David
Publisher : Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild / Schoen Gbr
ISBN : 9783898214674

Dedovshchina in the Post-Soviet Military. Hazing of Russian Army Conscripts in a Comparative Perspective

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Publisher : Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild / Schoen Gbr
ISBN : 9783898216166

Changes in the Heart of Europe. Recent Ethnographies of Czechs, Slovaks, Roma, and Sorbs

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Publisher : Ibidem-Verlag Haunschild / Schoen Gbr
ISBN : 9783898216067

Doing Time on the Outside

Author: Braman, Donald
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN : 9780472032693

China, Sex, and Prostitution

Author: Jeffreys, Elaine
Publisher : Routledge Chapman & Hall
ISBN : 9780415318631
How should issues of sexuality and power in China be interpreted? Are China scholars really able to translate linguistically and culturally the 'truth' of China? And to what extent do fieldwork and interviews locate a study in the 'real life' of a country and its people? This book is a topical and important critique of recent scholarship in China studies, Feminist studies and social theory. By exa

The Culture of Sex in Ancient China

Author: Paul Rakita Goldin
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN : 9780824824822
This study of intellectual conceptions of sex and sexuality in China will be welcomed by students and scholars of early China and by those with an interest in the comparative development of ancient cultures.

Body Arts and Modernity

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Publisher : Sean Kingston Publishing
ISBN : 9780954557294
Contributors to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the Western interest in body ornamentation, and the recent revival of specific body arts such as tattooing and piercing. (Archeology/Anthropology)

Power Indices and Coalition Formation

Author: Holler, Manfred J. ;Owen, Guillermo
Publisher : Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN : 9780792373599

The Social Psychology of Stereotyping and Group Life

Author: Spears, Russell (EDT)/ Oakes, Penelope J. (EDT)/ Ellemers, Namoi (EDT)/ Haslam, S. Alexander (EDT)
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
ISBN : 9780631197737
Stereotyping - the process of perceiving and reacting to people in terms of their group membership - is a widespread phenomenon, and one of the most widely investigated topics in social psychology. This new book is about the causes and consequences of stereotyping. It begins from the premise that, in order to understand the nature and function of stereotyping, it is essential to understand its rol

Mama Lola

Author: Brown, Karen McCarthy
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN : 9780520224759
Vodou is among the most misunderstood and maligned of the world's religions. Mama Lola shatters the stereotypes by offering an intimate portrait of Vodou in everyday life. Drawing on a decade-long friendship with Mama Lola, a Vodou priestess, Brown tells tales spanning five generations of Vodou healers in Mama Lola's family. 46 illustrations.

Society and Politics in the Age of the Risorgimento

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521365925

Knowledge and Politics

Author: Viale, R.
Publisher : Physica-Verlag
ISBN : 9783790814224