Ideas and Society

Ideas and Society

Author: Evgenii︠a︡ I︠U︡rʹevna Vanina

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13:

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Highlights The Nature Of Cultural And Religious Practices In Medieval India, The Development Of The State, Beginings Of Colonial Rule And The Indiginous Response To It. Also Looks At Patterns In Communal Relations And Sufi And Bhakti Traditions.


Engaging Anthropology

Engaging Anthropology

Author: Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-05-26

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 1000189805

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Anthropology ought to have changed the world. What went wrong? Engaging Anthropology takes an unflinching look at why the discipline has not gained the popularity and respect it deserves in the twenty-first century. From identity to multicultural society, new technologies to work, globalization to marginalization, anthropology has a vital contribution to make. While showcasing the intellectual power of the discipline, Eriksen takes the anthropological community to task for its unwillingness to engage more proactively with the media in a wide range of current debates. If anthropology matters as a key tool with which to understand modern society beyond the ivory towers of academia, why are so few anthropologists willing to come forward in times of national or global crisis? Eriksen argues that anthropology needs to rediscover the art of narrative and abandon arid analysis and, more provocatively, anthropologists need to lose their fear of plunging into the vexed issues modern societies present. Engaging Anthropology makes an impassioned plea for positioning anthropology as the universal intellectual discipline. Eriksen has provided the wake-up call we were all awaiting.


Traveling Cultures and Plants

Traveling Cultures and Plants

Author: Andrea Pieroni

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2009-10

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1845456793

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The tremendous increase in migrations and diasporas of human groups in the last decades are not only bringing along challenging issues for society, especially related to the economic and political management of multiculturalism and culturally effective health care, but they are also creating dramatic changes in traditional knowledge, believes and practices (KBP) related to (medicinal) plant use. The contributors to this volume – all internationally recognized scholars in the field of ethnobiology, transcultural pharmacy, and medical anthropology – analyze these dynamics of traditional knowledge in especially 12 selected case studies. Ina Vandebroek, features in Nova's "Secret Life of Scientists", answering the question: just what is ethnobotany?


The Oxford Handbook of Group Counseling

The Oxford Handbook of Group Counseling

Author: Robert K. Conyne

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 599

ISBN-13: 0195394453

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The Oxford Handbook of Group Counseling contains the most current and comprehensive information about group counseling, edited and authored by esteemed scholars and leaders in the field. Contents cover group counseling's context, key change processes, research, leadership, applications, and future directions. This source will become a classic reference and training tool.


Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Theory and Practice in Late Antique Archaeology

Author: Luke A. Lavan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789004125674

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An exploration of theoretical frameworks, methodology and field practice suited to the late antique Mediterranean. Broad themes such as long-term change, topography, the economy and social life are covered, but in terms of the issues and problems being tackled by scholars of late antiquity.


Cambodians and Their Doctors

Cambodians and Their Doctors

Author: Jan Ovesen

Publisher: Nias Monographs

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9788776940577

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At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using "medicine" (in the sense of ideas, practices, and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia. Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. In their reliance on one or the other of the two traditions, to a large extent the Khmer people have been concerned about finding efficient medical treatment that also adheres to social norms (not least the emphasis on the morality of social relations). This concern is also evident in the prevailing medical pluralism in Cambodia today. The authors trace the interaction (and lack thereof) between these two traditions from the French colonial period via the political upheavals of the 1970s through to the present day. The result is more than a work on medical anthropology; this is a key text that also makes a significant contribution to the anthropological study of Cambodian society at large and will be an important resource for development planners and aid workers in medical and related fields.


Research Handbook on European Union Taxation Law

Research Handbook on European Union Taxation Law

Author: Christiana HJI Panayi

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-01-31

Total Pages: 663

ISBN-13: 1788110846

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Offering a comprehensive exploration of EU taxation law, this engaging Research Handbook investigates the associated legal principles in the context of both direct and indirect taxation. The important issues and debates arising from these general principles are expertly unpicked, with leading scholars examining the status quo as well as setting out a clear agenda for future research.


Primate Encounters

Primate Encounters

Author: Shirley C. Strum

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 660

ISBN-13: 9780226777559

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A study of primatology, discussing its history, the scientists in the field, and the issues that have shaped its development, particularly gender, technology, and the media.