Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture
ISBN: 9780813570709 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping together under one heading people with dramatically different historical backgrounds and cultures. In Racial Ambiguity in Asian American Culture, Jennifer Ann Ho shines a light on the hybrid and indeterminate aspects of race, revealing ambiguity to be paramount to a more nuanced understanding both of race and of what it means to be Asian American. Exploring a variety of subjects and cultural artifacts, Ho reveals how...
The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial category. Indeed, the 2010 U.S. Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethni...
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643,19 zł |
A Borderlands View on Latinos, Latin Americans, and Decolonization: Rethinking Mental Health
ISBN: 9781442247758 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans are a combination of diverse populations that differ on a range of factors including length of time in the country, migration background, ethnicity, geographical location, socio-economic status, and so on. The reader will find perspectives of those of us who live in the borderlands that is, those of us whom Gloria Anzaldua identified as Mestizas, who inhabit the intersticios, the spaces in between souls, minds, identities, and geographies. This book assists new generations of Latino/as and of those involved in Latino Culture and Latin America in...
Latinos in the U.S. and Latin Americans are a combination of diverse populations that differ on a range of factors including length of time in the cou...
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218,40 zł |
Fundamentals of Research on Culture and Psychology: Theory and Methods
ISBN: 9780415820325 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the first book that provides detailed guidelines of how to conduct multi-disciplinary research to study people's behaviors in different cultures. Readers are encouraged to look beyond disciplinary boundaries to address issues between individuals and their socio-cultural environments so as to design the most effective studies possible. The core philosophical and theoretical assumptions that underlie the strategies, designs, and techniques used when researching cultural issues are examined. The book reviews all the steps that go into doing cultural research from formulating the... This is the first book that provides detailed guidelines of how to conduct multi-disciplinary research to study people's behaviors in different cul... |
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285,23 zł |
The Taliban's Virtual Emirate: The Culture and Psychology of an Online Militant Community
ISBN: 9780231174268 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Applying cutting-edge psychiatric theories to an analysis of online Taliban literature in four languages, Neil Krishan Aggarwal constructs a game-changing narrative of the organization's broad appeal and worldview. Aggarwal, a cultural psychiatrist, focuses on the Taliban's creation of culture, evoking religion in Arabic and English writings, nationalism in Dari sources, and regionalism in Urdu texts. The group also promotes a specific form of argumentation, citing religious scriptures in Arabic works, canonical poets in Dari and Urdu writings, and scholars and journalists in English...
Applying cutting-edge psychiatric theories to an analysis of online Taliban literature in four languages, Neil Krishan Aggarwal constructs a game-chan...
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300,30 zł |
Geographies of Psychoanalysis: Encounters Between Cultures in Tehran
ISBN: 9788869770173 / Angielski / Miękka / 126 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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54,60 zł |
Psychoanalytic Theory and Cultural Competence in Psychotherapy
ISBN: 9781433821547 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social class, the literature lacks a set of core principles to inform and support culturally competent practice. This approachable volume responds to that pressing need.
While psychoanalytic scholars often address specific aspects of diversity such as gender, race, immigration, religion, sexual orientation, and social ...
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331,97 zł |
Infrastructure: A Science for Survival
ISBN: 9781478757221 / Angielski / Miękka / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Return
ISBN: 9781498457514 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the voyager's log of a wayward traveler. This is a journal of thoughts and feelings of an adopted girl from Shanghai, who after ten years returned home to visit China. Yude was born in Shanghai, China and was abandoned before the age of one. She lived in a city orphanage until she was adopted at age 12 and was renamed Theresa after her adoption. She presently works and lives in Oregon with her husband and adorable son. Jan Tanner is Theresa's adoptive mother. She is a clinical child psychologist presently working with military families.
This is the voyager's log of a wayward traveler. This is a journal of thoughts and feelings of an adopted girl from Shanghai, who after ten years retu...
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84,33 zł |
The Return
ISBN: 9781498462464 / Angielski / Twarda / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is the voyager's log of a wayward traveler. This is a journal of thoughts and feelings of an adopted girl from Shanghai, who after ten years returned home to visit China. Yude was born in Shanghai, China and was abandoned before the age of one. She lived in a city orphanage until she was adopted at age 12 and was renamed Theresa after her adoption. She presently works and lives in Oregon with her husband and adorable son. Jan Tanner is Theresa's adoptive mother. She is a clinical child psychologist presently working with military families.
This is the voyager's log of a wayward traveler. This is a journal of thoughts and feelings of an adopted girl from Shanghai, who after ten years retu...
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132,54 zł |
Exoticisation Undressed: Ethnographic Nostalgia and Authenticity in Embera Clothes
ISBN: 9781526100832 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography revealing the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered, and their inherent power to distort understanding. The study focuses on the clothing practices of the Embera in Panama, an Amerindian ethnic group who have gained national and international visibility through their engagement with indigenous tourism. The act of gaining visibility while wearing indigenous attire has encouraged a closer identification with an indigenous identity, and a more confident representational awareness among some Embera...
Exoticisation undressed is an innovative ethnography revealing the many layers through which our understandings of indigenous cultures are filtered, a...
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464,10 zł |
Chinese Modernity and the Individual Psyche
ISBN: 9781349443697 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social theory that relate modernity to individualism, this volume addresses social and cultural change through the lens of psychological anthropology.
Rapid industrialization, urbanization, and marketization have led to startling social changes in reform-era China. Mindful of the many forms of social...
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192,30 zł |
Happy as a Dane: 10 Secrets of the Happiest People in the World
ISBN: 9780393608922 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in a country that is dark and cold nine months of the year and where income taxes are at almost 60 percent? At a time when talk across the Western world is focused on unemployment woes, government overreach, and anti-taxation lobbies, our Danish counterparts seem to breathe a healthier and fresher air. Interweaving anecdotes and research, Malene Rydahl explores how the values of trust, education, and a healthy work-life balance with purpose--to... For decades Denmark has ranked at the top of the world's happiness surveys. How is it that these 5.6 million Danes are so content when they live in... |
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Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
ISBN: 9780813587301 / Angielski / Miękka / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color-- Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and...
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often ...
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165,98 zł |
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies
ISBN: 9780813587318 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often very different dynamics that exist for mixed race people who are not part white. The chapters focus on the social, psychological, and political situations of mixed race people who have links to two or more peoples of color-- Chinese and Mexican, Asian and Black, Native American and African American, South Asian and Filipino, Black and Latino/a and so on. Red and Yellow, Black and Brown addresses questions surrounding the meanings and...
Red and Yellow, Black and Brown gathers together life stories and analysis by twelve contributors who express and seek to understand the often ...
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580,94 zł |
Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective
ISBN: 9781498513500 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective presents a unique and honest account of an applied anthropologist s experience in working with Indigenous peoples of Canada. It illustrates Dr. Nadia Ferrara s efforts in reconciliation and rehumanization, showing that it is all about recognizing our shared humanity. In this self-reflective narrative, the author describes her personal experience of marginalization and how it contributed to a more in-depth understanding of how others are marginalized, as well as the fundamental sense of...
Reconciling and Rehumanizing Indigenous-Settler Relations: An Applied Anthropological Perspective presents a unique and honest account of an applied a...
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223,86 zł |
Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States
ISBN: 9781138676657 / Angielski / Twarda / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the United States considers the ways the self and social identity are linked to the dynamics of interethnic marriage. Bringing together the classic theoretical contributions of George Herbert Mead, Erving Goffman, and Erik Erikson with contemporary research on ethnic identity inspired by Jean Phinney, this book argues that the self and social identity--especially ethnic identity--are reflected in individuals' complex journey from singlehood to... Drawing on psychological and sociological perspectives as well as quantitative and qualitative data, Identity and Interethnic Marriage in the Un... |
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778,05 zł |
Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
ISBN: 9780813586137 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate "back" to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the "logics of transnationalism" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family,...
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Kore...
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155,56 zł |
Confessions of a Recovering Racist
ISBN: 9781683507765 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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72,98 zł |
Between Foreign and Family: Return Migration and Identity Construction Among Korean Americans and Korean Chinese
ISBN: 9780813586144 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Korean Americans and Korean Chinese living in Seoul. These actors are part of a growing number of return migrants, members of an ethnic diaspora who migrate "back" to the ancestral homeland from which their families emigrated. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interview data, Helene K. Lee highlights the "logics of transnationalism" that shape the relationships between these return migrants and their employers, co-workers, friends, family,...
Between Foreign and Family explores the impact of inconsistent rules of ethnic inclusion and exclusion on the economic and social lives of Kore...
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643,19 zł |
Psychiatric Encounters: Madness and Modernity in Yucatan, Mexico
ISBN: 9780813594859 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book explores the experiences of patients and psychiatrists as they navigate the challenges of public psychiatric care in Mexico.
Psychiatric Encounters presents an intimate portrait of a public inpatient psychiatric facility in the Southeastern state of Yucatan, Mexico. The book...
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180,18 zł |