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  • Islands in Timeby Mark Patton

    Routledge 1996; US$ 130.00

    Islands in Time explores the ecological and cultural development of prehistoric island societies. It considers the prehistory of the Mediterranean islands including Cyprus, Crete and the Cyclades, Malta, Lipari, Corsica and Sardinia. more...

  • Animals in Celtic Life and Mythby Miranda Green

    Routledge 1992; US$ 44.95

    Green examines the intimate relationship between the Celts and animals, covering their crucial role in the Celtic economy, in hunting and warfare, in art and literature and in religion and ritual. The book covers the period between 800 BC and 400 AD. more...

  • Questions of Consciousnessby Anthony P. Cohen; Nigel Rapport

    Routledge 1995; US$ 44.95

    This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the `conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process. more...

  • Travel and Ethnology in the Renaissanceby Joan-Pau Rubiés; Lyndal Roper

    Cambridge University Press 2000; US$ 49.00

    This book is a major contribution to the study of the encounter between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period and to a neglected aspect of the cultural transformation of Europe throughout the Renaissance. The book proposes a novel approach to the study of European attitudes towards non-Europeans. more...

  • Making Modern Mothersby Heather Paxson

    University of California Press 2004; US$ 15.95

    In Greece, women speak of mothering as "within the nature" of a woman. But this durable association of motherhood with femininity exists in tension with the highest incidence of abortion and one of the lowest fertility rates in Europe. In this setting, how do women think of themselves as proper individuals, mothers, and Greek citizens? In this anthropological study of reproductive politics and ethics in Athens, Greece, Heather Paxson tracks the effects of increasing consumerism and imported biomedical family planning methods, showing how women's "nature" is being transformed to meet crosscutting claims of the contemporary world. Locating profound ambivalence in people's ethical evaluations of gender and fertility control, Paxson offers a far-reaching... more...

  • Gender in Amazonia and Melanesiaby Thomas Gregor; Donald Tuzin

    University of California Press 2001; US$ 15.95

    One of the great riddles of cultural history is the remarkable parallel that exists between the peoples of Amazonia and those of Melanesia. Although the two regions are separated by half a world in distance and at least 40,000 years of history, their cultures nonetheless reveal striking similarities in the areas of sex and gender. In both Amazonia and Melanesia, male-female differences infuse social organization and self-conception. They are the core of religion, symbolism, and cosmology, and they permeate ideas about body imagery, procreation, growth, men's cults, and rituals of initiation. The contributors to this innovative volume illuminate the various ways in which sex and gender are elaborated, obsessed over, and internalized, shaping... more...

  • The Psychology of Culture Shockby A Ward Colleen; Stephen Bochner; Adrian Furnham

    Routledge 2001; US$ 39.95

    Incorporates over a decade of new research and material on coping with the causes and consequences that instigate Culture Shock, which can occur when a person is transported from a familiar to an alien culture. more...

  • Health and Social Research in Multiethnic Societiesby James Y. Nazroo

    Taylor & Francis 2006; US$ 47.95

    Research on ethnicity is relevant to a wide variety of health, economic and social issues in modern societies. Using a combination of critical analysis and case studies to illustrate the benefits and pitfalls of particular approaches, this volume presents a source of information on the methodological issues facing such research. more...

  • Indigenous and Cultural Psychologyby Uichol Kim; Kuo-Shu Yang; Kwang-Kuo Hwang

    Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 89.95

    Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical misconceptions about the field and its goals. more...

  • Material Culture in Americaby Helen Sheumaker; SHIRLEY TERESA WAJDA

    ABC-CLIO 2007; US$ 95.00

    Reaching back 400 years, Material Life in America: An Encyclopedia is the first reference showing what the study of material culture reveals about American societyÑrevelations not accessible through traditional sources and methods.||In nearly 200 entries, the encyclopedia traces the history of artifacts, concepts and ideas, industries, peoples and cultures, cultural productions, historical forces, periods and styles, religious and secular rituals and traditions, and much more. Everyone from researchers and curators to students and general readers will find example after example of how the objects and environments created or altered by humans reveal as much about American life as diaries, documents, and texts. more...