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Nutrition and Health Status of Tribal Children
ISBN: 9783639303353 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In large areas of the world today, malnutrition is one of the principal public problems that affect young children. The quality of human resources of any country is largely determined by the quality of its child development for which foundation is laid during early childhood. Food habits are influenced by social and cultural factors but the consequences of food habits are biological. Health and nutrition form a major thrust area of investigation among the tribal population especially children. The present Book tries to highlight with proper evidence about certain major issues of Health and...
In large areas of the world today, malnutrition is one of the principal public problems that affect young children. The quality of human resources of ...
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The Indigenous World 2010
ISBN: 9788791563751 / Angielski / Miękka / 650 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Indigenous World 2010 is an essential source of information, and serves as an indispensable tool for those who need to be informed about the most recent issues and developments that have impacted indigenous peoples worldwide. Over 60 indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists provide their insight and knowledge to the book with: region and country reports covering most of the indigenous world and updated information on international and regional processes relating to indigenous peoples. The book is published both in English and Spanish.
The Indigenous World 2010 is an essential source of information, and serves as an indispensable tool for those who need to be informed about ...
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Youth substance abuse and HIV/AIDS in an Ethiopian town
ISBN: 9783639310863 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is of help to know the magnitude of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS pandemics. The pandemics have brought multidimensional challenge, among youths in particular, and the entire nations in general. However, data regarding the contribution of substance abuse to the spread of HIV/AIDS is scanty in Ethiopia. Thus, the book explores the contribution of youth substance abuse to the spread of HIV/AIDS in Adama town, Ethiopia. The book also comprehends the factors that trigger the youth to substance abuse and the subsequent ramifications. Accordingly, major reasons for abusing...
This book is of help to know the magnitude of substance abuse and HIV/AIDS pandemics. The pandemics have brought multidimensional challenge, among ...
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263,91 |
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Under The Shadow Of The Sangha
ISBN: 9783639314984 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Book tries to capture, with research based data, how the Mahars, an untouchable community of India got mass- converted to "Neo-Budhism" under the leadership of late Dr. B.R. Ambedkar in 1956. How far social change and mobility took place and witnessed there after? How Neo-Budhism of Ambedkar took a little deviance from the Budhism? Does conversion really helped the subject under this study? Thus the book runs in a qualitative-descriptive fashion, backed by rich review of literature, facts, figures, concepts and models relevant to the subject matter of the study.
The Book tries to capture, with research based data, how the Mahars, an untouchable community of India got mass- converted to "Neo-Budhism" under the ...
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![Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil [With DVD] Hayes, Kelly E. 9780520262652 University of California Press](/9780520262652_holy_harlots_femininity_sexuality_and_black_magic_in_brazil_with_dvd.jpg "Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil [With DVD]") |
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil [With DVD]
ISBN: 9780520262652 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religious practices related to the Afro-Brazilian spirit entity Pomba Gira. Said to be the disembodied spirit of an unruly harlot, Pomba Gira is a controversial figure in Brazil. Devotees maintain that Pomba Gira possesses an intimate knowledge of human affairs and the mystical power to intervene in the human world. Others view this entity more ambivalently. Kelly E. Hayes provides an intimate and engaging account of the intricate relationship between...
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and religiou...
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190,75 |
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Laughter and Conflicts in Africa
ISBN: 9783639321722 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book demonstrates that even though Africa has strong and virile traditional conflict mediating techniques, its non application has left the continent bedevilled by intractable conflicts. This book examines joking relationship a traditional conflict mediating technique used for the maintenance of social cohesion in traditional Africa. Generally, this book demonstrates that rituals performed during joking relationship are important tools for mediating conflicts in Africa societies. The book argues that round table negotiations and signing of paper agreements have no efficacy within the...
This book demonstrates that even though Africa has strong and virile traditional conflict mediating techniques, its non application has left the conti...
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Community-Based Ecotourism for a Tropical Island Destination
ISBN: 9783639289381 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a major island destination in Southeast Asia, Bali has won global reputation as one of the last paradises on earth. While tourism has been utilized as a means of economic development, the massive influx of tourists and the shift from traditional structures to modern ones have just as much brought ecological and social costs. The grassroots initiative Jaringan Ekowisata Desa is one among several responses aiming at a more sustainable approach to tourism. Bearing in mind negative effects associated with mass tourism, the community-based ecotourism venture focuses on local ownership and the...
As a major island destination in Southeast Asia, Bali has won global reputation as one of the last paradises on earth. While tourism has been utilized...
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304,16 |
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Painting the Cosmos: Metaphor and Worldview in Images from the Southwest Pueblos and Mexico
ISBN: 9780897341431 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Painting the Cosmos" presents current research on nearly 2,000 years of ancestral Hopi painting and the values expressed in the imagery, settings, and performance contexts of paintings on kiva walls and pottery vessels.
"Painting the Cosmos" presents current research on nearly 2,000 years of ancestral Hopi painting and the values expressed in the imagery, settings, an...
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HIV Is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
ISBN: 9780520267626 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 intravenous drug use--and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions--of morality, ethics, what constitutes a "normal" life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership...
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 ...
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The Creolisation of London Kinship: Mixed African-Caribbean and White British Extended Families, 1950-2003
ISBN: 9789089642356 / Angielski / Miękka / 282 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new primary evidence of 'mixed-race' in the capital city, The Creolisation of London Kinship thoughtfully explores this population. Making an indelible contribution to both kinship research and wider social debates, the book emphasises a long-term evolution of family relationships across generations. Individuals are followed through changing social and historical contexts, seeking to understand in how far many of these transformations may be interpreted...
In the last 50 years, the United Kingdom has witnessed a growing proportion of mixed African-Caribbean and white British families. With rich new prima...
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HIV Is God's Blessing: Rehabilitating Morality in Neoliberal Russia
ISBN: 9780520267640 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 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 intravenous drug use--and the Church remains its only resource for fighting these diseases. Jarrett Zigon takes the reader into a Church-run treatment center where, along with self-transformational and religious approaches, he explores broader anthropological questions--of morality, ethics, what constitutes a "normal" life, and who defines it as such. Zigon argues that this rare Russian partnership...
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 ...
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154,67 |
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Forgotten Origin
ISBN: 9780761853343 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is third in a series dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people. Steven and Evan Strong continue their investigation into the global impact of Aboriginal people, relaying that the First Australians are unique, and in no way descended from Africans or any other race.
This book is third in a series dedicated to the first Homo sapiens: the Australian Aboriginal people. Steven and Evan Strong continue their investigat...
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Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice
ISBN: 9780292725706 / Angielski / Miękka / 199 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespread belief and American kinship in general? Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love examines the ways class, gender, and race shape public and private adoption in the United States. Christine Ward Gailey analyzes the controversies surrounding international, public, and transracial adoption, and how the political and economic dynamics that shape adoption policies and practices affect the lives of people in the adoption nexus: adopters,... Most Americans assume that shared genes or blood relationships provide the strongest basis for family. What can adoption tell us about this widespr... |
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Anthropological Demography of Siddi Tribe
ISBN: 9783639319699 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Genetical demography is a developing trend in population genetic studies. The population values for certain biological phenomena and dimensional path of the dynamics of the populations are considered as significant features of the population studies. The demographic data are important in understanding the population structure and the ways in which the genetic makeup of the population is altered or held in equilibrium by the multiple influences of selection, migration, mutation etc. In this book the demographic and genetic structure of the Siddi tribal population of Karnataka, India, have been...
Genetical demography is a developing trend in population genetic studies. The population values for certain biological phenomena and dimensional path ...
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A History of the Kalanga in Bulilima and Mangwe Districts
ISBN: 9783639308976 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Kalanga ethnic group is found in Bulilima and Mangwe districts, in the South-western parts of Zimbabwe today. In these two districts, the Kalanga comprise of 95% of the total population, the Ndebele make up only 4% while other ethnic groups make up only a percentage of the total population. This book will therefore look at these peoples ethnic identity. It has been assumed that the Kalanga are hybrids of the Shona and the Ndebele who have tended to adopt Ndebele identity. Contrary to these assumptions, the book endeavors to show that the Kalanga is an independent ethnic group...
The Kalanga ethnic group is found in Bulilima and Mangwe districts, in the South-western parts of Zimbabwe today. In these two districts, the Kalang...
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Is Body Adornment Simply an Aid for Beautification?
ISBN: 9783639308242 / Angielski / Miękka / 52 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Do we see our jewels today as simply aesthetic decorative pieces, or for some, are our adornments an indication of sentimentalities, spiritual, religious or political standings? Alternatively, do some of us engage further with both the piece and the maker at a more personal level, identifying with its inherent meanings, and in so doing, becoming a part of its narration? From the earliest acquired pieces of evidence, humans have decorated their bodies with hand - fashioned or naturally occurring objects, as well as directly using the body as a canvas, with the application of body...
Do we see our jewels today as simply aesthetic decorative pieces, or for some, are our adornments an indication of sentimentalities, spiritual, reli...
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219,18 |
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Remembrance of Repasts: An Anthropology of Food and Memory
ISBN: 9781859734698 / Angielski / Twarda / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing commodification and globalization of food mean for our capacity to store the past in our meals n in the smell of olive oil or the taste of a fresh-cut fig? This book offers a theoretical account of the interrelationship of culture, food and memory. Sutton challenges and expands anthropology's current focus on issues of embodiment, memory and material culture, especially in relation to transnational migration and the flow of culture across... Proust's famous madeleine captures the power of food to evoke some of our deepest memories. Why does food hold such power? What does the growing co... |
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Anthropologists in the Securityscape: Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity
ISBN: 9781611320138 / Angielski / Miękka / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fills a significant gap in the literature by providing the fine-grained, candid accounts of this changing work environment and provocative dialogues about the way practitioners negotiate ethics and professional identity.
As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fil...
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Anthropologists in the Securityscape: Ethics, Practice, and Professional Identity
ISBN: 9781611320121 / Angielski / Twarda / 277 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fills a significant gap in the literature by providing the fine-grained, candid accounts of this changing work environment and provocative dialogues about the way practitioners negotiate ethics and professional identity.
As a heated debate about social scientists working in national security environments divides the disciplines, this book by leading anthropologists fil...
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759,15 |
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The Last Civilization: Is This the Last Civilization So Far or the Last One Forever? an Objectively Severe Look at Our Long Past, and Future,
ISBN: 9781426940576 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Terrorism threatens to destroy the world, corruption runs rampant, and natural resources are being depleted. Will these problems ever be solved? If events continue on their current course, these issues could destroy us. It is imperative that we take steps to understand evolutionary natural selection and the processes that have shaped world affairs over the past forty thousand years. Only by learning about social evolution and how ideologies have shaped societies will we be able to play active roles in trying to solve society's problems. Author Charles Brough covers topics such as basic...
Terrorism threatens to destroy the world, corruption runs rampant, and natural resources are being depleted. Will these problems ever be solved? If ev...
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67,22 |
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