Feathered Entanglements
Feathered Entanglements

Author: Scott E. Simon

Publisher: UBC Press

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 0774870036

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As they migrated across great distances, ancient humans may have used birdsong and bird sightings to find food and water in unseen territory. Today, attending to birds helps scientists track not only avian migration but also environmental change. Birds remain our sentinels. Feathered Entanglements offers a rich tapestry of human-bird relations across the Indo-Pacific. In this era of uncontrolled industrialization, we have grown increasingly disconnected from the natural world. The ways in which birds feature in the daily life, symbolic systems, and material culture of humans, from pigeon keeping on the rooftops of Amman to the rituals of Indigenous peoples in Taiwan, can teach us how to live with other species amid the challenges of the Anthropocene. In a time of intensifying ecological crisis, we need, more than ever, to protect and appreciate non-human lives. Feathered Entanglements embraces the connection between humans, birds, and our shared world.

Warfare and Society
Warfare and Society

Author: Ton Otto

Publisher: Aarhus Universitetsforlag

Published: 2006-11-01

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 8779349358

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This book straddles the disciplines of archaeology and social anthropology. Its 25 contributions (divided into 6 sections with separate introductions) successively scrutinise the concept of war in philosophy, social theory and the history of anthropological and archaeological research; discuss warfare in pre-state and state societies; and assess its relationship to rituals, social identification and material culture.

Wild Product Governance
Wild Product Governance

Author: Sarah A. Laird

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2012-01-09

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 0415507138

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First Published in 2012. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity
Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity

Author: Hans-Rudolf Wicker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-17

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1000324192

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While there has been a spate of books concerned with race and ethnicity in Europe more specifically, this timely volume offers a broader perspective and positions issues of identity, ethnicity, multiculturalism, xenophobia, regionalism and ethnonationalism within the wider contexts of trans- and supranationalism. With the weakening of welfare states and the homogenizing influences of globalization, nations within both Eastern and Western Europe are discovering that the battlefield of political action is being redefined, and as a result emotional alliances threaten to bypass the democratic systems of the past. Offering fresh insights that are both empirically and theoretically informed, this book illuminates the processes and consequences of these new developments. In particular, it reviews Marx's, Durkheim's and Simmel's theories on nationalism and national identity, and presents case studies of Belgium, Italy's Northern League, right-wing intellectual production in Russia, and much more.

Religion, Tradition and the Popular
Religion, Tradition and the Popular

Author: Judith Schlehe

Publisher: transcript Verlag

Published: 2014-04-30

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 3839426138

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A rapid development of religious popular cultures and lifestyles can be observed across the globe. This book provides unique case studies from Asia and Europe illustrating new religious practices, forms of articulation and mass mediatization, all of which render religious traditions significant for contemporary issues and concerns. The essays examine experiences of spirituality in combination with commercialization and expressive performative practices as well as everyday politics of identity. Based on innovative theoretical reflections, the essays take into consideration what the transcultural negotiation of religion, tradition and the popular signifies in different places and social contexts. With contributions by Anthony Reid, Hubert Knoblauch, Ariel Heryanto, Stefanie von Schnurbein and others.