The book highlights opportunities for methodological innovation, explicates and challenges the effects of educational policies and practices, and interrogates and theorizes about educational structures, policies, and experiences.
Drug Use, Recovery, and Maternal Instinct Bias: A Biocultural and Social-Ecological Approach draws upon theoretical perspectives in anthropology and public health to provide insight into the barriers women experience when seeking treatment for substance use disorders. In both theoretical perspectives in biological anthropology and social discourse ......
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
This interdisciplinary book offers a fresh way to understand present-day Spain in relation to its African and Latin American migrants. It combines readings of a large range of cultural works with a clear understanding of political, historical, and social context, in order to rethink migrant identities and cultural representations.
Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain
Emigrant Dreams, Immigrant Borders: Migrants, Transnational Encounters, and Identity in Spain offers a new approach to the cultural history of contemporary Spain, examining the ways in which Spain's own self-conceptions are changing and multiplying in response to migrants from Latin America and Africa. In the last twenty-five years, Spain has gone ......
Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of ......
Love and its attendant emotions not only spur migration—they forge our response to the people who leave their homes in search of new lives. Emotional Landscapes looks at the power of love, and the words we use to express it, to explore the immigration experience. The authors focus on intimate emotional language and how languages of ......
Ethics in Ethnography (Book 6 in the Ethnographer's Toolkit series) explores the burgeoning field of research ethics and addresses how ethical considerations-formally-imposed as well as informal, "everyday" concerns-underpin good ethnographic research.
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ng c Trߦºn concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Ch-'m ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working ......
Vietnam annually sends a half million laborers to work at low-skill jobs abroad. Angie Ng c Trߦºn concentrates on ethnicity, class, and gender to examine how migrant workers belonging to the Kinh, Hoa, Hrê, Khmer, and Ch-'m ethnic groups challenge a transnational process that coerces and exploits them. Focusing on migrant laborers working ......
In this capstone title to the Ethnographer's Toolkit series, Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte explore how ethnographic research intersects with and enhances numerous areas of applied and practice-oriented social science.
One of anthropologys leading writers on ethnographic methods, Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies. Tracing its development from its disciplinary origins in sociology and anthropology, he points out what is distinctive about ethnography and what it means to conduct research in the ethnographic tradition
Experiencing Race, Class, and Gender in the United States, Seventh Edition, is an anthology that introduces issues of race, class, and gender within an interdisciplinary framework.
Beyond Binaries of Exclusion and Inclusion in Natural Resource Extractio
Extraction/Exclusion critiques the idea of inclusion as the solution to exclusion in contemporary resource extraction. Drawing on scholarship from across the social sciences, empirical chapters in this collection show that extraction is predicated on exclusions. Extraction/Exclusion portrays how inclusionary language and practices often result in ......
The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. In Feeling Medicine, Kelly Underman gives us ......
The emotional and social components of teaching medical students to be good doctors The pelvic exam is considered a fundamental procedure for medical students to learn; it is also often the one of the first times where medical students are required to touch a real human being in a professional manner. In Feeling Medicine, Kelly Underman gives us ......
