Patrick Frierson draws on Kant's transcendental idealism and his theory of the will and describes how empirical influences can affect the empirical ex ...
Transnational migration is a controversial and much-discussed issue in both the popular media and the social sciences, but at its heart migration is a ...
Is gender determined by biology, society or experience? How have notions of gender and sexuality differed in past societies? Addressing such questions ...
In response to global change, people create new opportunities and conditions, and in their responses they are influenced by both gender and age. In Ge ...
The so-called science wars pit science against culture, and nowhere is the struggle more contentious--or more fraught with paradox--than in the burgeo ...
Carolyn Nordstrom explores the pathways of global crime in this stunning work of anthropology that has the power to change the way we think about the ...
GREAT JOBS SERIES ANSWERS THE QUESTION ''WHAT CAN I DO WITH A MAJOR IN . . Every college major gives students valuable skills and training, perfect fo ...
This handbook of anthropology methods defines and describes anthropological fieldwork in practice. The authors examine historical methods, surveys, li ...
Why do Jaws, Field of Dreams, The Big Lebowski, and The Godfather remain strikingly popular in this age of fragmented audiences and ever-faster spin c ...
Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Christ ...
Many aspects of human activity involve energy transfer of some type. Human Energetics in Biological Anthropology examines some of the ways in which me ...
Hybrids of Modernity considers the relationship between three western modernist institutions: anthropology, the nation state and the universal exhibit ...
Health care in contemporary Japan - a modern industrial state with high technology, but a distinctly non-Western cultural tradition - operates on seve ...
In recent years an interest in applying the principles of evolution to the study of culture emerged in the social sciences. Archaeologists and anthrop ...
First published in 1986, Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in the field. In this newly revised and updated edition, the valu ...
Written by an experienced teacher, this basic introduction to the anthropology of religion explores key contemporary issues such as: definitions, theo ...
