This book is about cities as engines of consumption of the world's environment, and the spread of policies to reduce their impact.
Die vorliegende Arbeit widmet sich der Frage nach den sozialen Praxen und gesellschaftlichen Bedeutungen von Schönheit bei den Karo Batak in Sumatra, Indonesien. In Tanah Karo, einer agrarisch geprägten Hochebene, säumen Aerobic- Studios und Schönheitssalon die Straßen der zwei Kleinstädte Berastagi und Kabanjahe
This book presents a comprehensive examination of Chinese consumer behaviour and challenges the previously dichotomous interpretation of the consumption of Western and non-Western brands in China.
This book promotes a new understanding of the regional monograph. It investigates its research topic – the Carpathian Mountains – through the prism of institutions and organizations that have objectified it and have interacted in its governance over the past ten years.
An invitation to an ethnographic journey in the world of hardcore punk and beyond, this study explores the plurality of practices underlying the existence of this “music-based subculture.” Based on a fine-grained, in-depth multi-sited and mobile ethnographic study of more than ten years,
Los conceptos de comunidad y territorio han sido muy relevantes para la compresión de los procesos sociales, pues dan cuenta de contextos particulares, de rasgos identitarios específicos, de diversas formas de participación y de usos y prácticas concretas.
Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends.
Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends.
Conceiving the Goddess is an exploration of goddess cults in South Asia that embodies research on South Asian goddesses in various disciplines.
Parce que la majorité des citoyens jouissant de droits civiques ne peuvent comprendre et encore moins admettre le terrorisme, des sociologues, politicologues, psychologues, criminologues, philosophes et historiens présentent ici différents aspects de l’action terroriste; ils tentent d’expliquer les impacts, les réponses et les dilemmes moraux soulevés par les actes terroristes selon de…