Social Anthropology

Nützliche Mitbewohnerinnen, Ekelobjekte oder verblüffende Wesen? An Spinnen scheiden sich die Geister. Von manchen bewundert für ihre kunstvollen Netze und das Archaische ihrer Erscheinung, von anderen gefürchtet. Aber warum ist das so? Dieses Buch dringt tief in das Beziehungsgeflecht von Spinnen und Menschen vor. Es zeigt den Einfluss der Spinnen auf unsere Sprache, Wissen, Träume und Geschichte. Warum verglich man Napoleon mit einer Spinne? Wie prägte die christliche Symbolik die Abneigung gegenüber Spinnen? Und wieso wurden gleich drei Weltraummissionen von Spinnen begleitet?

La idea es mostrar cómo en mi generación la belleza ha sido una herramienta política esencial, la madre de muchas otras manipulaciones y desigualdades, dice el escritor chileno. El rostro de los héroes que al principio ilustraba la portada de los manifiestos se convirtió en el manifiesto mismo. Como la cocaína o la heroína, la belleza anula nuestra voluntad, apaga nuestra independencia, nos ata a los caprichos de cualquier traficante que nos entrega por una hora o dos a la modelo translúcida.

A study into the customs and practices of indigenous peoples in the Americas, Montaigne delves into the concept of ‘civilisation’, contrasting the behaviour of so-called ‘barbarians’ with Western society. He challenges the idea that European values are superior, understanding the practices of the Tupinambá people and arguing that the horrors inflicted by the soldiers of Portugal on their enemies at the time are – in many ways – far worse. It remains a persuasive and compelling argument for cultural relativism. This audiobook edition is expertly narrated by Malk Williams.

Why are behaviors associated with masculinity increasing the risk of illness, injury, and premature death among young men? What makes these men vulnerable to substance misuse, interpersonal violence, and suicide? How can recovery look like? This book draws on more than eight years of recurrent ethnographic fieldwork in urban South Africa to answer these globally urgent questions from a systems perspective.

This is a compilation of the titles Sun Tzu Quotes, Native American Sayings & Quotes, Proverbs of Wisdom & Cultural Heritage and Quotes of the Ages.

Carl Honoré has discovered a movement that is quickly working its way into the mainstream. Groups of people are developing a recipe for living better in a fast-paced, modern environment by striving for a new balance between fast and slow. In an entertaining and hands-on investigation of this new movement, Honoré takes us from a Tantric sex workshop in a trendy neighborhood in London, England, to Bra, Italy, the home of the Slow Food, Slow Cities and Slow Sex movements.

At its core, American Disgust wrestles with how changing cultural notions of digestion-what goes into the body and what comes out of it-create and impose racial categories motivated by feelings of disgust rooted in American settler-colonial racism. It shows how disgust is a changing, yet fundamental, aspect of American subjectivity and that engaging with it-personally, politically, and theoretically-opens up possibilities for conceptualizing health at the individual, societal, and planetary levels.

With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights".

Passer toute sa journée chez Ikea, rencontrer ses beaux-parents, se faire larguer au café, cohabiter avec son ado, faire un peu trop la fête... Autant de situations qui peuvent nous déboussoler. Que faire pour éviter la crise de nerf ou de larme ? Et si vous invitiez Platon, Spinoza, Nietzsche et leurs amis pour évoquer toutes ces questions du quotidien ? Qu'est-ce que Kant aurait répondu à un texto de rupture? Aristote aurait-il repris une vodka ? L'herbe est-elle plus verte chez Épicure ? Les philosophes quittent enfin leurs bibliothèques pour devenir nos complices.

Генри Дженкинс, один из наиболее уважаемых американских аналитиков в области СМИ, в своей ключевой работе улавливает ту точку невозврата, находящуюся на границе двух миров, и пророчески определяет элементы, находящиеся у истока современной эпохи.

L'histoire de l'univers et de la vie - Un fascinant récit qui évoque l'histoire de l'univers, du monde, de la vie et de l'homme. Cette histoire Yves Coppens nous montre qu'elle est celle d'une transformation incessante faite d'extinctions et d'innovations, d'une adaptation et d'une évolution face à des milieux changeants. L'homme, la conscience et la culture. Les grandes étapes et les principes guidant cette longue évolution sont expliqués jusqu'à l'apparition de l'homme.

يقول الشاعر الكبير " سيد حجاب " عن كتاب "كلمة السر " للدكتورة / منال عمر.

Questo libro trova un degno posto all'interno del panorama della letteratura e dell'insegnamento grazie alle parole e alle espressioni che gli donano...

In seinen Aufsätzen Ausführung der Dreigliederung des sozialen Organismus aus den Jahren 1919/20 reagierte Steiner, wie schon in seinen "Kernpunkten der sozialen Frage", auf die Krise des modernen Bewusstseins, die in den gesellschaftlichen Konflikten des frühen 20. Jahrhunderts sowie im Ersten Weltkrieg ihren destruktiven Ausdruck gefunden hat. Er schlägt einen spirituell begründeten Ansatz zur Lösung der sozialen Frage vor, der als ein dritter Weg zwischen Sozialismus und Kapitalismus verstanden werden kann.

In Up the Youth Club, Emma Warren maps the shifting story of youth clubs in the UK and Northern Ireland, from factory workers in Victorian Boys' and Girls' clubs to renegade self-emancipatory spaces in the 1970s and the music-generating youth clubs of more recent decades. With a mixed lineage in church evangelism, the patronage of the upper classes, grassroots' DIY, and erratic state funding, the youth club has had a huge, yet almost invisible, effect on music, sport, culture and society.

In the new book, Earl and Charlotte introduce and cross-examine a set of societal influences or Framing Factors, which have a significant influence in the daily lives of Americans. The anti-humanitarian effects of several of these Framing Factors were amplified during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and continues to exist at an elevated level today.

O Mercosul conduz uma forte tendência integracionista regional. Este trabalho tenta identificar matrizes e matizes culturais, econômicos e políticos configuradores de um sentimento patronímico - nem sempre explícito - que permeia as relações entre os povos e países da América (...). Com o nome de ""americanidade"" procura-se caracterizar uma representação comum, potencializada por meio de suas diferentes expressões: trocas comerciais, modelos políticos, artes e culturas regionais. Propõe-se a dar uma resposta efetiva ao processo da integração continental.

Aimee Byrd explores the theological meaning behind our sexes, helping Christians to understand our sexuality as gift and to grasp the story our bodies tell of Christ’s love for his church. She calls the church to the recovery of God’s true design of man and woman that unfolds through Scripture—indeed to a sexual reformation.

Todo cambia y la forma en que hablamos cambia en todo momento. Este es un audiolibro para pensar en la manera en que la lengua cambia en el tiempo y el espacio; de sus características y lo que la hace única.

「直観力」「やる気」「リスク評価」……感情や情動は生命の進化がもたらした究極の能力だ！最先端の「感情神経科学」が明らかにした、感情や情動の驚くべき世界。