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Genitals Are Assets?
ISBN: 9783844330809 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A stimulating and provocative book about sexual behaviour patterns of the street youths of Harare, Zimbabwe.People in the developing societies the world over are trying to understand the lives of the "Street Children".Dr Ruparanganda gives an important Socio-historical background to street dwelling. He also highlights important theoretical and methodological debates about power differentials between men and women in society. The book reveals the dangers the children of the street are exposed to. These include high probabilities of contracting the dreaded HIV and AIDS, sexually...
A stimulating and provocative book about sexual behaviour patterns of the street youths of Harare, Zimbabwe.People in the developing societies the ...
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National Harmony and Its Discontents
ISBN: 9783844317213 / Angielski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. French anthropologist Catherine Douillet investigates the ways in which Trinidadian society has conceptualized and grappled with the issue of ethnic diversity at the national level, the local level, and the personal level. She explores how factors of division and factors of unity co-exist in Trinidad both in practices and in discourses. She argues that such a juxtaposition of the twin yet contradictory principles of mixing and divisions constitute the dual reality of Trinidad's society. Such principles co-exist in a dialogic tension and sometimes clash because of their uneasy compatibility...
French anthropologist Catherine Douillet investigates the ways in which Trinidadian society has conceptualized and grappled with the issue of ethnic d...
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Aesthetic and Home Decoration
ISBN: 9783844309218 / Angielski / Miękka / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This research has been conducted for masters dissertation but got importance more than it. This was individual research conducted on wooden work done by an illiterate person and a very poor community. It is very attractive and fascinating for viewers. They have a very good sense of aesthetic. They design different motifs, floral, and other designs by wood in front side of the house. This is Jat community, mostly keeps cattle for their major source of income. They have very attractive sense of understanding.
This research has been conducted for masters dissertation but got importance more than it. This was individual research conducted on wooden work done ...
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Forest Environment and Primitive Tribes in India
ISBN: 9783844320879 / Angielski / Miękka / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Tools and Change
ISBN: 9783838391649 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents analyses focused on determining the function of projectile points from the Plateau Cultural area of British Columbia, including use of Shott's (1997) method designed to classify projectile points as either atlatl darts or arrow points. A total of 1065 projectile points recovered from archaeological contexts throughout the Plateau, spanning the Middle through Late Prehistoric periods, were examined. While Nesikep, Lochnore and Lehman style points were classified primarily as dart points and the Kamloops horizon points predominantly as arrow points, Shuswap and Plateau...
This book presents analyses focused on determining the function of projectile points from the Plateau Cultural area of British Columbia, including use...
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Decentralized Extension in Pakistan
ISBN: 9783844381245 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Agriculture extension is considered an organizational vehicle for transferring technology and involves the communication of innovations to farmers, especially their effective use. Decentralization of agricultural extension has been adopted in many countries. The main rationale for the move is that decentralized administration shifts decision-making authority to lower administrative and political levels. The concept is sound, but its implementation in developing countries has, so far, not been smooth for various reasons. The present study was designed to analyze the communication interventions...
Agriculture extension is considered an organizational vehicle for transferring technology and involves the communication of innovations to farmers, es...
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Interrelating with Animal Selves
ISBN: 9783843385435 / Angielski / Miękka / 68 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the form of an exploratory essay, this book outlines historical and current thinking and scholarship about nonhuman consciousness and cognition, new anthropological understandings of animist worldviews, and discussions of the attribution of selves to animal characters in juvenile literature in order to paint a picture in broad strokes of what animal selves may be and how we may already know them.
In the form of an exploratory essay, this book outlines historical and current thinking and scholarship about nonhuman consciousness and cognition, ne...
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Cognitive Metaphors in Visual Emotional Expressions
ISBN: 9783844314342 / Angielski / Miękka / 64 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study related to performance anthropology refers to the uses of visual effects and items in expressing the negative and the positive emotions of the characters in the British pantomime entitled "Sleeping Beauty," performed in Ankara by international, transnational, and multicultural actors and actresses in front of a multicultural audience via its transnational content. These emotions of the characters require the interpretations and the reactions of the audience, interacting with the characters. Therefore, the British pantomime, "Sleeping Beauty," written by Bob Hammond is suitable to...
This study related to performance anthropology refers to the uses of visual effects and items in expressing the negative and the positive emotions of ...
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State Policy, Depeasantization and Agrarian Change
ISBN: 9783844322064 / Angielski / Miękka / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book examines a Presidential Special Initiative on Cassava-Starch in Ghana and the extent to which it has been able to improve the socio-economic livelihoods of peasant farmers. It looks at the effect of the initiative on cassava production and peasant involvement in the initiative. It acknowledges the fact that the processes of globalization come with opportunities for export as well as risks, hence, the need for state initiatives that maximize the opportunities of globalization whilst minimizing the risks. It notes that whilst the PSI on cassava-starch is a well intentioned local...
This book examines a Presidential Special Initiative on Cassava-Starch in Ghana and the extent to which it has been able to improve the socio-economic...
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Spirit healing and healership in Tanzania
ISBN: 9783844310061 / Angielski / Miękka / 468 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book about spirit healing and healership in Tanzania is based on a comparative ethnographic research. The study demonstrates the role, meaning, function and value of divination, dreams, ritual, music and trance which can go hand in hand with practical and traditional knowledge about plants. To capture an African point of view the book incorporates several descriptive sections. It also contains an online presentation of some healers and their clients who participate in diagnostic, ritual and musical healing sessions. The outcome of the book shows that spirit healing practices today...
This book about spirit healing and healership in Tanzania is based on a comparative ethnographic research. The study demonstrates the role, meaning, f...
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Macrofracture analysis as a method for identifying bone-tipped weapons
ISBN: 9783844322200 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The use of formally fashioned bone points as possible components in hunting weaponry has been seen as a marker of behavioural modernity. Unfortunately, their interpretation as hunting weapons is based largely on morphological analogy with recent hunter-gatherer artefacts. Many studies conducted over the last 30 years have focused on identifying criteria that can be used to establish the function of stone points. There have been no similar studies conducted on bone points thought to have been part of complex weapon systems. This study aims to combine the morphological approach to studying bone...
The use of formally fashioned bone points as possible components in hunting weaponry has been seen as a marker of behavioural modernity. Unfortunately...
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Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations
ISBN: 9784431541103 / Angielski / Twarda / 477 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations comprises three major topics: 1) Discovery of the origin of rice agriculture and the Yangtze River civilization in southern China was mainly based on investigation of the Chengtoushan archaeological site, the earliest urban settlement in East Asia. The origin of rice cultivation can be traced back to 10000 BC, with urban settlement starting at about 6000 BP; 2) The Yangtze River civilization collapsed around 4200 BP. Palaeoenvironmental studies including analyses of annually laminated sediments in East and Southeast Asia... Water Civilization: From Yangtze to Khmer Civilizations comprises three major topics: 1) Discovery of the origin of rice agriculture and the... |
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Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame
ISBN: 9780754679097 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong emergence of the contemporary relevance of historical images. Thematically organized, and focusing on the visual practices developed within anthropology as a discipline, this book brings together a range of contemporary and methodologically innovative approaches to the historical image within anthropology. Importantly, it also demonstrates the ongoing relevance of both the historical image and the notion of the archive to recent anthropological...
Photography, Anthropology and History examines the complex historical relationship between photography and anthropology, and in particular the strong ...
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The Shamrock and the Lily: The New York Irish and the Creation of a Transatlantic Identity, 1845-1921
ISBN: 9780820474533 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ireland s tumultuous heritage combined with the promise of cosmopolitan New York to forge a new Irish-American immigrant identity. Between the Great Irish Famine and the creation of the Irish Free State, the New York Irish world preserved as much from the old country as it adopts from the new.
The Shamrock and the Lily illuminates a set of remarkable transatlantic connections dominated by the road to Ireland s independence, in an absorbing study of a people driven from a troubled past toward freedom for themselves and for those they left behind." Ireland s tumultuous heritage combined with the promise of cosmopolitan New York to forge a new Irish-American immigrant identity. Between the Great I...
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Anthropology at the Edge: Essays on Culture, Symbol and Consciousness
ISBN: 9780761805564 / Angielski / Miękka / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Symbolic process, myth, science, postmodernism and the environment are skillfully woven together in 13 essays that reflect the timbre of the times in terms of current issues in anthropology, philosophy and religion. The spectre of consciousness transformation provides a common underlying theme and Prattis provides a novel perspective on "who we are, where did we come from, where are we going." The current furor over the nature of science, postmodernism and symbolic processes in society is the driving force behind this collection of essays. Contents: PART I: Beyond Structuralism; Man and...
Symbolic process, myth, science, postmodernism and the environment are skillfully woven together in 13 essays that reflect the timbre of the times in ...
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Guide to Contemporary Culture
ISBN: 9781856841054 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Postmodern' ideas (that truth, meaning and individual identity do not exist) have seeped into our society. This book offers the reader an understanding of what is happening, and helps to shape a Christian response.
'Postmodern' ideas (that truth, meaning and individual identity do not exist) have seeped into our society. This book offers the reader an understand...
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Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema
ISBN: 9780754649731 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation X in American and British film. In arguing that the various constructions of youth are marked by major cultural shifts and societal inequalities, it analyzes the iconic 'Gen X' figures ranging from the slacker, the teenage time traveller, and third wave feminists, to the oeuvre of Molly Ringwald and Richard Linklater. This book explores the important cultural work performed by films that mediate the experiences of Generation X and critiques the ongoing...
Screening Generation X: The Politics and Popular Memory of Youth in Contemporary Cinema examines popular representations of Generation X in American a...
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Genomics In Asia
ISBN: 9780415560641 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides insights on research into the social, political and ethical aspects of genomics, and reflects the bioethical experiences of researchers from Japan, China, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, Pakistan, India and Malaysia. The subjects of discussion vary from genetics in China to religious perspectives on cloning and genetic therapy. Themes include the commercial and medical application of new bioengineering technologies, such as the impact of preventive genetic medicine, genetic counselling, genetically modified organisms GMOs] and stem-cell research on wealth... This book provides insights on research into the social, political and ethical aspects of genomics, and reflects the bioethical experiences of rese... |
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The Blessing of Survival
ISBN: 9783838397504 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Blessing of Survival follows the reintegration and rehabilitation processes of seven young mothers who were all abducted by the Lords Resistance Army and abused and impregnated in their captivity. This book analyses the challenges the young mothers faced and the opportunities they grasped in their struggle to establish new social bonds and to become acquainted with the cognitive and structural elements in their new found societies. The author analyses their reintegration and rehabilitation from both a structural as an actor oriented angle and as such he is able to pinpoint the...
The Blessing of Survival follows the reintegration and rehabilitation processes of seven young mothers who were all abducted by the Lords Resistance...
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Long-Form Improvisation
ISBN: 9783838395241 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long-Form Improvised theater can be found in cities across the globe. This peculiar form of entertainment holds surprises for both audience and performer. From a few suggestions from the audience, performers create a whole act of spontaneous, often comedic, theater. A sense of unity and oneness can emerge from the interaction between performers. Utilizing an ethnographic study of Long-Form performers, shows and audiences, this book explores this uncanny experience and investigates what it is that can lead to these feelings.
Long-Form Improvised theater can be found in cities across the globe. This peculiar form of entertainment holds surprises for both audience and perfor...
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