Serves as an introduction to globalization, its causes, character, consequences, and implications. Provides an assessment of how the benefits of globalization could be maximized and its ill effects minimized. The second edition takes a broader perspective giving increased covera…
This groundbreaking collection combines ethnographic and historic strategies to reveal how dance plays crucial cultural roles in various regions of the world, including Tonga, Java, Bosnia-Herzegovina, New Mexico, India, Korea, Macedonia, and England. The essays find a balance b…
"This book offers a historic and anthropological perspective from which to understand the fragility of isolated indigenous groups in the face of contact with outside society. It helps us appreciate the importance, in terms of cultural and biological diversity, of safeguarding th…
"Migration economics is a dynamic, fast-growing research area with significant and rising policy relevance. While its scope is continually extending, there is no authoritative treatment of its various branches in one volume. Written by 44 leading experts in the field, this caref…
En beskrivelse af Spaniens kolonisering af Mexico i renæssancen og mødet mellem aztekere og spanske katolikker for at belyse, hvad der sker, når to kulturer støder sammen
In People of Paradox, Terryl Givens traces the rise and development of Mormon culture from the days of Joseph Smith in upstate New York, through Brigham Young's founding of the Territory of Deseret on the shores of Great Salt Lake, to the spread of the Latter-Day Saints around t…
"How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves t…
Social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 1950s in the United States.
"The book looks at the profound changes across the political landscape from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the re-emergence of China and at how such events have altered the received ideas that define political cultures throughout the world." "This analysis includes a detailed ex…
