Displacement, diaspora and geographies of identity
De auteur analyseert het onderzoek van Margaret Mead op Samoa in 1925 en 1926 naar de seksualiteit van meisjes en het opleiden van Franz Boas en Ruth Benedict. Op basis van correspondentie en de getuigenis van één van haar reisgenoten concludeert de auteur dat Mead's onderzoek b…
While science has achieved a remarkable understanding of nature, affording humans an astonishing technological capability, it has led, through Euro-American global domination, to the muting of other cultural views and values. This text incorporates what is known about this devel…
The theme of this text is the interplay between empirical research and methodological reflection. It explores the nature, the methods, the role and the limitations of ethnographic research in school classrooms. The book covers topics such as the role of theory and qualitative wo…
Cultural Constructions of Identity initiates the effort to allow for qualitative and ethnographic studies to speak to identity theory, collectively. Further, while the studies synthesized in this book look at various intersections of race and ethnicity with respect to gender, ag…
"This book aims to introduce nurses and other healthcare professionals to how anthropology can help them understand nursing as a profession and as a culture. Drawing on key anthropological concepts, the book facilitates the understanding and critical consideration of nursing pra…
Introduction : what is African in African art studies? --Orí : no òrìṣà blesses a person without the consent of his/her orí --Àṣẹ : the empowered word must come to pass --Ọṣun : the corpulent woman whose waist two arms cannot encompass --Òrúnmìlà : henceforth, Ifá priests will r…
This book gathers several important texts and offers a general overview of the institutionalist approach to money developed in France since the 1980s.These texts highlight the specificities of the French monetary approaches and display their main contributions to the understandi…
The thesis, in exploring how and why illiberal pre-1945 Polish nationalism and political Catholicism were synthesised into a post-1945 liberal political culture of opposition under communism, argues that this process was much aided by universal myths. The thesis shows how these …
