In this concise introduction to cultural anthropology, Lassiter takes a fresh and accessible approach to stimulating student interest in the human experience. He uses timely and engaging examples to showcase the ongoing relevance of anthropology today, and explores how the anthropological perspective can be applied to real-world problems.
Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as ......
Political Belonging among African Immigrant Home Care Workers
Examines why African care workers feel politically excluded from the United States Care for America's growing elderly population is increasingly provided by migrants, and the demand for health care labor is only expected to grow. Because of this health care crunch and the low barriers to entry, new African immigrants have adopted elder care as ......
The Natural History of Primates is a unique compendium spanning the entire taxonomic order of primates - some 520+ species of our closest relatives. Authorities with field experience studying wild primates provide the latest data and descriptions of these fascinating and threatened species found in the Neotropics, Africa, Madagascar, and Asia.
The Moral Evaluation of Emergency Department Patients is an ethnography of the social process by which healthcare workers ration and rationalize the provision of care. Examining the social categorization of patients, this work documents the interactional production of exclusion at two emergency departments in Romania.
A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration
This work explores the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and expansion of humans to cattle domestication and beyond.
A Global Evolutionary Perspective of Human Migration
This work explores the long-term evolutionary implications of the "Mobility Imperative: " the foundational nature of mobility for human beings and their societies. The author puts forward a parsimonious but comprehensive model based on Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES) rationales. The selected case studies range from the emergence and ......
Erasing Identity and Restricting Opportunity at School
Based upon research in rural central Florida, The Latinization of Indigenous Students examines how schools perceive and process demographic information, including how those perceptions may erase Indigeneity and help or hinder resource access.
In this book, a synthesis of philosophical anthropology in Plessner and Bourdieu is employed to critique scientific reductionism in psychiatry and to replace a disembodied medicalized image of humans with a constructive image of being human in communication.
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays by closely analyzing the promotion, exploitation, and transformation of traditional practices from northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine.
Opening address, Stuttgart, August 20, 191914 lectures, Stuttgart, August 21-September 5, 1919 (CW 293)2 lectures, Berlin, March 15 and 17, 1917 (CW 66). The Foundations of Human Experience is the most important text for studying and understanding the human developmental and psychological basis for Waldorf education.
Pollution, Jobs, and Community Health in Puerto Rico
The production of pharmaceuticals is among the most profitable industries on the planet. Drug companies produce chemical substances that can save, extend, or substantially improve the quality of human life. This book deals with growing set of problems for communities around the world.
Provides a geographic window onto the pressing social issues of our time. This title covers topics such as: cultural diversity and immigration; income, poverty and unemployment; lifestyle risks including drug abuse, smoking and auto fatalities; access to medical care; medical costs; and status of women, children, and senior citizens.
Provides a geographic window on the pressing social issues of our time. This book covers topics such as: cultural diversity and immigration; income, poverty and unemployment; lifestyle risks including drug abuse, smoking and auto fatalities; access to medical care; medical costs; status of women, and senior citizens; marriage and divorce and more.
Cultural Anxieties in the Contemporary Popular Imagination
The Anthropocene and the Undead describes how our experience of an increasingly erratic environment and the idea of the undead are more closely linked than the obvious zombie horde signaling the end of the world. In fact, as described here, much of how we understand the anthropocene both conceptually and in practice involves undead entities from ......
