Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World
In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio Gonzalez Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices.
Cannabis, Cocaine, and the Economic Foundations of Suburban Drug Culture
In Dealing with Privilege, David Crawford argues that white, middle-class dealers are unlikely to suffer the enforcement of drug laws and that, contrary to media portrayals, suburban drug sales are not oriented primarily toward making money but at making friends and having fun.
In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects' lives as they shift through events such as marriage, parenthood, and religious conversion, all set against a backdrop of increased tourism, road construction, and the murders of two people in the community.
In Watching Lacandon Maya Lives, the author follows three generations of one Lacandon Maya family. Readers track the subjects' lives as they shift through events such as marriage, parenthood, and religious conversion, all set against a backdrop of increased tourism, road construction, and the murders of two people in the community.
Memory and History in Argentine Popular Music examines the intersection between popular music from the 1990s-tango, rock chabon, and cumbia villera-historical events, and individual experiences, arguing that these songs depict history, provide a framework to evoke memories, and create "virtual sites of memory" online.
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.
This ethnographic study of female teachers in rural Oaxaca explores how education and employment empower women to make informed personal decisions and catalyze societal change.
Integration in Schools, Neighborhoods, and Communities
This book is a decade-long ethnographic study of Maywood, Illinois, which explores the intersection of race, culture, and language-and the ensuing Black-Brown identity politics-as well as the role of community organizations such as interracial faith-based churches and embattled school boards.
This book introduces the idea of the social brain networked in the world. The author's foundational thesis is that humans appear in evolution always, already, and everywhere social. We have social selves, social brains, and social genes.
City and Country traces the evolution of urban-rural systems 7,000 years ago into the modern global order and argues that at the heart of the logic of capitalism is an even deeper logic: urbanization is based on urban dependency.
Eighty Years of Intentional Community Building and Commons Stewardship i
In Seeing Like a Commons, Joshua Lockyer traces the development of one of the United States's oldest intentional communities from its founding in 1937 to the present. Lockyer examines how community members have developed flexible sets of cooperative processes for the stewardship of the land and other resources.
This book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies in island studies. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Considering interdisciplinary questions shaping the field, the book models what it means to think about and rethink island methodologies.
How a community in Cairo, Egypt, has adapted the many systems required for clean water. Who is responsible for ensuring access to clean potable water? In an urbanizing planet beset by climate change, cities are facing increasingly arid conditions and a precarious water future. In Well Connected, anthropologist Tessa Farmer details how one ......
This book offers a coherent synthesis of Loren Eiseley's works, showing how the naturalist and poet fosters readers' ecological consciousness by arguing against artificial divisions between humans and the environment.
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.
This book brings a multi-disciplinary focus to discussions about children and young people's well-being, resilience, and enterprise to develop new ways of troubling these keywords at a time when planetary systems are in crisis.
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.
