This book examines Japanese tourism and travel, both today and in the past, showing how over hundreds of years a distinct culture of travel developed, ...
Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book inc ...
Contributors to this volume take issue with the ‘idealist’ approach in which land and landscape – place and space – are read as purely expressive and ...
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into ...
Language, our primary tool of thought and perception, is at the heart of who we are as individuals. Languages are constantly changing, sometimes into ...
Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Gol ...
In a wide-ranging and original study of Claude Lévi-Strauss's aesthetic thought, Boris Wiseman demonstrates not only its centrality within his oeuvre ...
This text traces the history of Tamil migration, from the economic migrants of the 1960s onwards. The author draws unnerving parallels between the sta ...
Alessandro Duranti introduces linguistic anthropology as an interdisciplinary field that studies language as a cultural resource and speaking as a cul ...
In essays covering everything from art and common sense to charisma and constructions of the self, the eminent cultural anthropologist and author of T ...
These case studies from five continents use ethnography and history to challenge the sweeping claims of sociology’s world culture theory (neo-institut ...
Accessible to medicine- and/or public policy-related audiences, as well as most statisticians.Emphasis on outliers is discussed by way of detection an ...
Here is a unified, readable introduction to multipredictor regression methods in biostatistics, including linear models for continuous outcomes, logis ...
Occupational epidemiology has emerged as a distinct subdiscipline of epidemiology and occupational medicine, addressing fundamental public health and ...
Sample size calculation plays an important role in clinical research. It is not uncommon, however, to observe discrepancies among study objectives (or ...
Secondary data analysis plays an increasingly important role in epidemiology and public health research and practice, but many difficulties confront r ...
This practical guide shows why the analytic methods work and how to effectively analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the ...
This practical guide shows why the analytic methods work and how to effectively analyze and interpret epidemiologic and medical survival data with the ...
