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North American Indian Medicine Powers
Spirit Talkers
This book challenges the notion that American Indian medicine powers are mere superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, it explains shamanic ceremony, arguing there is now more evidence to assume these powers are real than to assume they are not.
This book challenges the notion that American Indian medicine powers are mere superstition. Utilizing a recent discovery in quantum mechanics, it explains shamanic ceremony, arguing there is now more evidence to assume these powers are real than to assume they are not.
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Snakes, People, and Spirits, Volume One
Traditional Eastern Africa in its Broader Context
This analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa connects the topic to ancient civilizations. It shows that the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical, and that the widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative.
This analysis of ophidian symbolism in Eastern Africa connects the topic to ancient civilizations. It shows that the meanings attributed to snakes were multifaceted and paradoxical, and that the widely acknowledged assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative.
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This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.
This book covers the author’s field experiences as an ethnographer in Central America and an applied anthropologist in the US. It highlights the importance of incorporating ethnography into work tasks across a range of social fields and diverse socio-cultural groups.
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Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
Voices of the Hunting Bows
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island's communities. Discover tales of the island's origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
This first-ever multilingual archive of endangered oral traditions from Atauro, Timor-Leste, was created in collaboration with the island’s communities. Discover tales of the island’s origin—revealed when arrows pierce the sea—alongside traditional songs and cultural texts.
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Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin
Stigmatising Distinction
Based on three decades of anthropological fieldwork, this book argues that Roma-non-Roma coexistence in the Carpathian Basin is always based on opposition. It presents case studies and applied projects to reveal patterns that can be used to fight the exclusion of the Roma today.
Based on three decades of anthropological fieldwork, this book argues that Roma-non-Roma coexistence in the Carpathian Basin is always based on opposition. It presents case studies and applied projects to reveal patterns that can be used to fight the exclusion of the Roma today.
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Restoring Our Humanity
Six Essays
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
This book discusses paths to restoring our humanity in today’s techno-scientific culture. It shows how talking, observing, doing, and making reconnect us with reality and our critical self-awareness, and provides six maxims on how to ‘be’ human.
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This book explores Fulton Sheen’s perception of the contemporary individual. As advancements in science and technology fail to bring happiness, it argues that global crises cannot be resolved by focusing on the mundane, proposing a theology of life to make it worth living.
This book explores Fulton Sheen’s perception of the contemporary individual. As advancements in science and technology fail to bring happiness, it argues that global crises cannot be resolved by focusing on the mundane, proposing a theology of life to make it worth living.
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Essays on the History and Culture of the Unknown Calabria
Land of the Forgotten
Calabria, one of Europe's oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world's attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.
Calabria, one of Europe’s oldest civilised regions, has suffered from the neglect of its rich cultural legacy. This book directs the world’s attention to those immense disregarded riches through essays on its history, arts, intellectual legacy, and its rejuvenation today.
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In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
In India, individuals cannot escape the inequalities of gender, ethnic, and social hierarchies, a struggle for survival and status. This volume highlights these realities through four decades of empirical anthropological research across India, considering their historical roots.
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The Limits of the Human Species in the Face of Sustainable Development
A Multidisciplinary Approach
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
This book reveals the link between the COVID-19 epidemic and the environmental catastrophe, confirming that human survival depends on radical change. It offers anthropological, religious, and philosophical tools for understanding the present and future of humanity.
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The Lionfish Effect
Reflections on Human-Lionfish Relations in The Bahamas
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it's a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
In The Bahamas, the invasive lionfish is more than an environmental threat—it’s a political one. This book explores how efforts to control the lionfish reveal the ways societies adapt to planetary change, and how these adaptations are mediated by class, race, and power.
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Lying Beyond Scruples
The Open Lie and Transparent Manipulation in the Age of Mentirocracy
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
In an age of open lies, how have blatant manipulators become socially tolerable? This book dissects this dangerous shift and presents a powerful model of resistance and self-empowerment against these harmful new tactics.
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In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
In an age of relativism and uncertainty, how can sociology move forward? This book charts a new path by critically re-examining Durkheim and Giddens. It outlines new approaches to social processes, time, and predicting the future, transforming contemporary sociological thought.
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Survivors of Suicide
A Qualitative Study on Survivors of Suicide
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
Surviving after suicide means being stigmatized. This stigma darkens the lives of the bereaved, creating a whirlwind of anger, shame, and guilt. This book finds answers to the challenges survivors face in reconstructing their daily lives and how they cope with them.
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Snakes, People, and Spirits, Volume Two
Traditional Eastern Africa in its Broader Context
This study explores the multifaceted ophidian symbolism of Eastern Africa and its mysterious “snake priests,” whose curse was like a serpent's bite. It shows the widely held assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
This study explores the multifaceted ophidian symbolism of Eastern Africa and its mysterious “snake priests,” whose curse was like a serpent’s bite. It shows the widely held assimilation of snakes to death and Evil is unrepresentative, both historically and culturally.
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Coming To, and Staying In, the Poorest Country in the EU
Immigration to Bulgaria
A scientific study of immigrants in Bulgaria since 1990, this book moves beyond ethnicity to focus on the reasons for migration. It examines their settlement, integration, social networks, and the attitudes and interactions between newcomers and the local population.
A scientific study of immigrants in Bulgaria since 1990, this book moves beyond ethnicity to focus on the reasons for migration. It examines their settlement, integration, social networks, and the attitudes and interactions between newcomers and the local population.
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Entanglements of Life with the Law
Precarity and Justice in London’s Magistrates’ Courts
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London's magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city's most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
This book reveals the uncomfortable truth of London’s magistrates’ courts. A legal system undermined by austerity dispenses ‘summary justice’ lacking due process to the city’s most vulnerable, in a process bearing a striking resemblance to ‘justice’ in authoritarian societies.
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Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland
Practice, Performance and Meaning
Discover the little-known world of Nollywood in Europe. This book reveals how African migrants use film to represent their complex lives, challenging colonial narratives and forging a bold, new transnational cinema.
Discover the little-known world of Nollywood in Europe. This book reveals how African migrants use film to represent their complex lives, challenging colonial narratives and forging a bold, new transnational cinema.
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Dreaming in Auschwitz
The Concentration Camp in the Prisoners' Dreams
This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
This unique book explores the Holocaust through the prism of dreams. Based on descriptions written by former Auschwitz inmates, it reveals truths that remained unconscious, incomprehensible, and unspeakable, opening a new way of thinking and writing about the Holocaust.
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In-Between Fiction and Non-Fiction
Reflections on the Poetics of Ethnography of Literature and Film
This title invites the reader to participate in the recent emphasis on subjectivity and self-reflection as the means of understanding and engaging with current social changes through storytelling. It centres its attention on the symbiosis between anthropology and fiction.
This title invites the reader to participate in the recent emphasis on subjectivity and self-reflection as the means of understanding and engaging with current social changes through storytelling. It centres its attention on the symbiosis between anthropology and fiction.
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