This book explores major shifts and reorientations in the recent history of American Anthropology, reflecting the author's vision of what anthropology is and what it has the potential to become. The title phrase 'changing fields' can be read in two ways: One meaning refers to how, since the mid-1960s, the larger national and global social, intellectual, and political fields within which American anthropology is situated have profoundly changed. The second meaning refers to how, in response...

The concept of ?peasant? has been constructed from residual images of pre-industrial European and colonial rural society. Spurred by Romantic sensibilities and modern nationalist imaginations, the images the word peasant brings to mind are anachronisms that do not reflect the ways in which rural people live today. In this path-breaking book, Michael Kearney shows how the concept has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of th...

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment.At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep se...

Becoming Forest opens with Aishling—the young Irish woman at the heart of this story—as she visits her grandmother in California following her grandfather’s death. Aishling finds her grandfather’s journal and reads about a trip he made to India years ago to visit the original Bodhi Tree, the place where the Buddha found enlightenment.At the end of the journal, she finds a letter addressed to her from her grandfather asking for her help passing along his message of “deep se...

A concise and inspirational book for anyone dealing with pain by a long time palliative care doctor who is greatly inspired by Native American wisdom and the natural world. This book is a celebration of impermanence and what it means to be awake, alive, and connected to the world.The Nest in the Stream is an encouraging and inspiring book for the times we live in. Michael Kearney, a physician whose day job is alleviating the pain and suffering of others, s...

Start your kids on their way to a love of cooking with this exciting children’s storybook cookbook wrapped around Chef Giovanni’s pizza recipe. The story is depicted through delightful photographs of a girl and boy, Chef Giovanni, Mom, pizza pies and more, including snaps of the kids in white aprons and chef hats working in a real pizzeria. The recipe is geared toward children, makes 4 to 6 personal pizzas, and can be baked in a toaster oven or conventional oven. A vegan and vegetarian opt...

The school bus is late! And of all days, today! This is the day Mrs. Navarro is bringing in Fluffy’s puppies! What if they don’t get there in time to hug them?Finally the big yellow bus comes barreling to a halt, with Tim, a substitute driver, at the wheel. Cellphone in hand, he zooms off before the kids are all seated, tossing them around like bowling pins. The children are alarmed at the danger he is putting them in as he weaves and bobs through the streets.Madison quickl...

This book contains some of the topics I investigate and the ways I describe life experiences creating meaning and purpose. Aware of a fluid imagination, driving curiosity, I move through adventures, dismantling thoughts and beliefs to recreate my life.

Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed. This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contr...

There have always been historical and philosophical connections between the study of religion and rhetoric, and yet, the phrase "sacred rhetoric" is rarely found within scholarly conferences, presentations, and publications. The editors of this collection intend to fill this void by presenting a collection of essays which define, in the broadest terms possible, "sacred rhetoric" as necessary discourse of/on religion.The contributors represent multiple perspectives and disparate acad...

WHAT IS MINDFUL MEDITATION AND HOW CAN IT IMPROVE MY LIFE?You hear people talking about it. You may have read research about its benefits. Perhaps you've even dabbled in it yourself. You have a sense that it could really make a difference in your life. You're open and willing to learn.But you're not quite sure how to do it—and more importantly, you don't understand why you should do it.This book is for you. This practical, step-by-step guide demystifies mindfulness ...

With contributions from 35 leading media scholars, this collection provides a comprehensive overview of the main methodologies of critical media studies.Fully revised and updated throughout, the chapters in this second edition address various methods of textual analysis, as well as reception studies, policy studies, production studies, and contextual, multi-method approaches, like intertextuality and cultural geography. Film and television are at the heart of the collection, which ...