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Christof Dejung

The Primitive Within

This book is the first to examine the relation between German folklore studies and colonial anthropology in the age of empire. It expounds how anthropologists and folklorists aimed to compare rural cultur…

Anthony Bibawy

Adam's Sin, Our Humanity, and Christ's Redemption in Cyril of Alexandria

As a result of the neo-patristic movement of the early twentieth century, the teachings of original sin and atonement as understood in the West were questioned and reformulated based on what was believed …

Paola Esposito

Bodily Imagination in Butoh Dance

This book offers an anthropological study of butoh dance as an artistic somatic practice which can be oriented toward self-knowledge and transformation, for creativity and healing. Based on immersive ethn…

Psychiatry and Neuroscience Update - Vol. V

This book offers a multidisciplinary approach to the phenomenon of addiction, including a discussion of its anthropological, neurological, psychiatric and social aspects. The editors have maintained this …

Elena A. A. Garcea, Julia Budka, Salima Ikram, John Galaty

The Deep History of Cattle Herding and Symbolism

This brief provides a unique overview that weaves a thread across the deep history of the management and symbolism of wild aurochs and domestic cattle in Sudan, where these practices are attested for over…

Heidi Ann Russell

Human Flourishing in a World of Trauma and Stress

How do we create communities of healing and flourishing in a world of trauma and stress?As research continues to reveal more about the impacts of trauma and stress on our brains and nervous systems, tradi…

Lucky Thompson (1924-2005)

In Paris 1960: Modern Jazz (Club Saint-Germain & Blue Note)

Virgínia Amaral

Areruya and Indigenous Prophetism in Northern Amazonia

Based on four years of ethnographic research, this book discusses the presence of Christianity on Areruya, an indigenous religious movement practiced by theIngarikó in Northern Amazonia.Tracing the role o…

Beth Zagrobelny Lofgren

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body

Intersexual Persons and Theology of the Body offers an interpretation of John Paul II's theology of the body that demonstrates how it can encompass intersexual bodies. Intersexuality has been used to chal…

Curtis Lee Jr.

The Symbolism of Holiness

Through a reading of Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutics, this book explores how Judeo-Christian holiness emerges in both being and doing in the lives of human persons in a postmodern world.Both the Old and New T…

Franz Boas,

The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 3

Anthropology is inseparable from writing, whether in field diaries, letters, articles, or books. Among these writings, letters form paper bridges---holding a special place as material artifacts uniquely c…

Josef Pieper,

Schriften zur Philosophischen Anthropologie und Ethik: Das Menschenbild der Tugendlehre

Unbeirrt durch wissenschaftliche Trends hat Josef Pieper es wie kein anderer verstanden, den ursprünglichen Sinn der antik-mittelalterlichen Tugendlehre erneut zugänglich zu machen und von seinen vielfält…

Incomputable Earth

Investigating the link between environmental breakdown and the increasing development of digital technologies, this is a vital intervention into what this means for our social, political, and planetary fu…

Bobby Jaspar (1926-1963)

Early Years: From Be-Bop To Cool 1947 - 1951

Ricardo Santos Alexandre

The Task of Having to Be

At the heart of the anthropological project lies a need to tackle the conundrum of the human condition. And yet, the conundrum persists. Actually, the reflection over the conditions and possibilities of t…

Amphibious Anthropologies

Muddying the divide between land and waterThis interdisciplinary collection delves into the experiences and meanings of life in environments where water levels and availability are in constant flux. Amphi…

Sally Campbell Pirie

Shane, the Lone Ethnographer

Shane is at it again! Follow our intrepid heroine as she learns what makes ethnography tick against the backdrop of the Great American West complete with cowboy hats, cattle stampedes, and cacti.Shane, Th…

Sally Campbell Pirie

Shane, the Lone Ethnographer

Shane is at it again! Follow our intrepid heroine as she learns what makes ethnography tick against the backdrop of the Great American West complete with cowboy hats, cattle stampedes, and cacti.Shane, Th…

Jean J. Schensul, Margaret D. Lecompte

Designing and Conducting Ethnographic Research

Who can and should conduct ethnographic research? How can we transform an idea into a research question, and how can that question, in turn, be developed into a research design that produces comprehensibl…