Filter by

  • Publication Year
  • Availability
  • Attachment
  • Collection Type
  • General Material Designation
    See More
  • Location
  • Language
Found 4 from your keywords: subject="Social & cultural ant...
cover
Alternative countrysides
Comment Share
MacClancy, Jeremy (editor)

A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic: the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and labour migrants from beyond the EU. With detailed ethnographic examples, contributors analyse new modes of living rurally and emerging forms of social organis…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9780719096846
Collation
-
Series Title
-
Call Number
-
cover
The Taming of Evolution: The Persistence of Nonevolutionary Views in the Stud…
Comment Share
Greenwood, Davydd

The theory of evolution has clearly altered our views of the biological world, but in the study of human beings, evolutionary and preevolutionary views continue to coexist in a state of perpetual tension. The Taming of Evolution addresses the questions of how and why this is so. Davydd Greenwood offers a sustained critique of the nature/nurture debate, revealing the complexity of the relationsh…

Edition
Ed. 1
ISBN/ISSN
-
Collation
-
Series Title
-
Call Number
-
cover
Hailing the State: Indian Democracy between Elections
Comment Share
Mitchell, Lisa

Lisa Mitchell explores the historical and contemporary methods of collective assembly that people in India use to hold elected officials and government administrators accountable.

Edition
Ed. 1
ISBN/ISSN
9781478093589, 9781478016120
Collation
319
Series Title
-
Call Number
320 MIT h
cover
Druze Reincarnation Narratives
Comment Share
Fartacek, Gebhard

"This book follows the journey of Druze individuals who can remember their former lives and go on search for their previous families. For the Druze, an ethno-religious minority in the Middle East split between different nation-states, such cases and related discourses embody ambivalent bridges between personal, familial, and ethnic identities. The contributions in this book, presented by Eléon…

Edition
-
ISBN/ISSN
9783631855362
Collation
-
Series Title
-
Call Number
-