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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 16.52Hauptbeschreibung Die Pubertät ist eine Umbruchzeit, eine Herausforderung für die Heranwachsenden wie auch für die Erwachsenen in ihrer Umgebung, z.B. Eltern und LehrerInnen. Jugendliche brauchen gut vorbereitete sanktionsarme Räume für eine wertbildende Kommunikation. Sie wollen Grenzerfahrungen machen, sie hinken mal der Lerngruppe hinterher, preschen... more...
The Gulf Family
Saqi 2012; US$ 18.94The six Arab States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are all monarchies, but their societies, economies and politics are organised primarily through kinship, in the form of extended families and tribes. No other region in the world consists of states so traditional in their organisation, developing at rates well above global averages, are ultra-modern... more...
Ehemuster von Migranten in Westdeutschland
Springer 2012; US$ 47.99Das Ausmaß von Ehen zwischen Migranten und Angehörigen der Aufnahmegesellschaft gilt als einer der härtesten Indikatoren der sozialen Integration. Von transnationalen Ehen, die über Ländergrenzen hinweg mit Mitgliedern der eigenethnischen Gruppe geschlossen werden, wird dagegen ein eher hemmender Einfluss auf den Integrationsprozess... more...
Primitive Passions
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 26.00Beginning with early 20th-century figures--among them Carl Jung, Isak Dinesen, and Georgia O'Keeffe--who found in "the primitive" a medium for soul-searching and personal change, Torgovnivk probes how the return to the primitive has signaled a quest to transcend the limitations of the body in a variety of contemporary practices, from genital piercing... more...
Interweaving Worlds
Oxbow Books 2011; US$ 55.00How do we understand the systemic interactions that took place in and between different regions of prehistoric Eurasia and their consequences for individuals, groups and regions on both a theoretical and empirical basis? Such interactions helped create economic and cultural spheres that were mutually dependent yet distinct. This volume, emerging from... more...
Infancy, Culture and Diversity
Taylor and Francis 1999; US$ 149.00Infancy and Culture: An International Review and Source Book provides a cross-indexed, annotated guide to social and behavioral studies of infants of color. Derived from five major data bases of published scientific literature, this volume was designed to elevate the scientific study of infants of color to a level reflecting their majority status in... more...
Gendered Anthropology
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 46.95In the last three decades, a remarkable degree of progress has occurred in the study of gender within anthropology. Gendered Anthropology offers a thought-provoking, lively examination of current debates focusing on sex and gender, race, ethnicity, politics and economics and provides insights which are still too often lacking in mainstream anthropology.... more...
Cross-Cultural Approaches to Adoption
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 46.95Adoption is currently subject to a great deal of media scrutiny. High-profile cases of international adoption via the internet and other unofficial routes, have drawn attention to the relative ease with which children can be obtained on the global circuit, and have brought about legislation which regulates the exchange of children within and between... more...
Death, Mourning, and Burial
Wiley 2009; US$ 125.95In Death, Mourning, and Burial , an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death: conceptualizations of death; death and dying; uncommon death; grief and mourning; mortuary... more...
Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 49.95First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia between 1935 and 1936 and was written by a woman who... more...









