Human Communication through a Social Psychology Lens
This book dives into the complexities of human interaction, exploring communication from face-to-face to digital contexts. It dissects persuasive techniques, group dynamics, and nonverbal cues, providing invaluable guidance for navigating our evolving social landscape.
Humans, Other Beings and the Environment
Mawere presents an ethnographic case study of the possibilities for the symbiotic co-existence of human beings, a unique species of forest insects and natural forests, and highlights the continuum among humans, insects and environmental conservation outcomes in rural Zimbabwe.
Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
In-Between Fiction and Non-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.
This double-blinded peer-reviewed journal offers a forum for practitioners, students, community members, and faculty interested in all facets of business anthropology to exchange ideas and research.
This latest issue of the International Journal of Business Anthropology contains seven articles, including a special section of four papers from Japan, in addition to an editorial commentary providing an introduction to the field of business anthropology in Japan.
Irelands of the Mind
This compelling series of essays explores changing images of Ireland from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Its prevailing theme is the complicated sense of belonging in modern Irish culture, giving questions of national identity a new treatment.
Kaleidoscopic Grammar
This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.
Land of Fertility III
Spanning 5000 years from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest, this volume explores civilization in the Fertile Crescent. It examines the migration of people, goods, and ideas, and ancient Egypt’s relations with its neighbours—were they based on partnership, or supremacy?
These essays document a way of life that has now virtually disappeared. Based on anthropological fieldwork in a remote Greek village in the 1970s, they focus on family, kinship, and gender, and the profound transformation of rural society as it was occurring at the time.
Lying Beyond Scruples
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.
Nanotech and the Humanities
Toumey shows that the humanities and social sciences play a major role in contributing to our understanding of nanotechnology, and illuminates various societal and ethical issues that are often found in physics, chemistry, molecular biology, and microelectronics.
Narratives and Songs from Atauro Island, Timor-Leste
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.
Nation vs. People
Provoked by the tragedy of Bosnia, this book tackles the global challenge of reconciling 200 states with 8000 ethnic groups. Are nation-states the only answer? The author insists on new notions of nation and people, defining them as societal phenomena.
This volume contains selected papers on Man and Environment, exploring human origins and the variability of populations. It discusses evolution, adaptation, skeletal variations, the effects of lifestyle on genetic structure, growth, and ageing.
Nollywood-Inspired Migrant Filmmaking in Switzerland
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.
North American Indian Medicine Powers
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.
Patterns of Inter-ethnic Relations with the Roma in the Carpathian Basin
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.
Perspectives on Dance Fusion in the Caribbean and Dance Sustainability
This volume examines fusion in Caribbean dance from socio-cultural-historical perspectives. Chapters on dance fusions in other diasporic locations and the sustainability of dance are also included, offering a sense of its evolution due to globalizing forces.