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  • Debating Cultural Hybridity

    Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

    Edición de Pnina Werbner, Tariq Modood ...
    Series series Postcolonial Encounters
    Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.Starting from the reality ... Leer más

    $485 MXN

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  • The Alzheimer Conundrum

    Entanglements of Dementia and Aging

    de Margaret Lock ...
    Because of rapidly aging populations, the number of people worldwide experiencing dementia is increasing and the projections are grim. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars invested in medical research, no effective treatment has been discovered for Alzheimer's disease, the most common form of dementia. The Alzheimer Conundrum exposes the predicaments embedded in current efforts to slow down or ... Leer más

    $371 MXN

  • When Experiments Travel

    Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects

    de Adriana Petryna ...
    The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate in clinical drug trials. While these experiments often provide those in need with vital and previously ... Leer más

    Antes $379 MXN Ahora $193 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Ontological Turn

    An Anthropological Exposition

    de Martin Holbraad, Morten Axel Pedersen ...
    Series series New Departures in Anthropology
    A new and often controversial theoretical orientation that resonates strongly with wider developments in contemporary philosophy and social theory, the so-called 'ontological turn' is receiving a great deal of attention in anthropology and cognate disciplines at present. This book provides the first anthropological exposition of this recent intellectual development. It traces the roots of the ... Leer más

    $522 MXN

  • The Cradle of Humanity

    How the changing landscape of Africa made us so smart

    de Mark Maslin ...
    Humans are rather weak when compared with many other animals. We are not particular fast and have no natural weapons. Yet Homo sapiens currently number nearly 7.5 billion and are set to rise to nearly 10 billion by the middle of this century. We have influenced almost every part of the Earth system and as a consequence are changing the global environmental and evolutionary trajectory of the Earth. ... Leer más

    $180 MXN

  • Forensic Anthropology

    Current Methods and Practice

    de Angi M. Christensen, Nicholas V. Passalacqua, Eric J. Bartelink ...
    Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice—winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association—approaches forensic anthropology through an innovative style using current practices and real case studies drawn from the varied experiences, backgrounds, and practices of working forensic anthropologists. This text guides the reader through all ... Leer más

    $850 MXN

  • Meta-Ethnography

    Synthesizing Qualitative Studies

    de George W. Noblit, R . Dwight Hare ...
    Series series Qualitative Research Methods
    How can ethnographic studies be generalized, in contrast to concentrating on the individual case? Noblit and Hare propose a new method for synthesizing from qualitative studies: meta-ethnography. After citing the criteria to be used in comparing qualitative research projects, the authors define the ways these can then be aggregated to create more cogent syntheses of research. Using examples from ... Leer más

    $650 MXN

  • Anthropological Practice

    Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Method

    de Judith Okely ...
    Anthropologists are increasingly pressurised to formulate field methods for teaching. Unlike many hypothesis-driven ethnographic texts, this book is designed with the specific needs of the anthropology student and field researcher in mind, with particular emphasis on the core anthropological method: long term participant observation. Anthropological Practice explores fieldwork experiences unique ... Leer más

    $529 MXN

  • Written in Stone

    Public Monuments in Changing Societies

    de Prof. Sanford Levinson ...
    Series series Public planet books
    Is it “Stalinist” for a formerly communist country to tear down a statue of Stalin? Should the Confederate flag be allowed to fly over the South Carolina state capitol? Is it possible for America to honor General Custer and the Sioux Nation, Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln? Indeed, can a liberal, multicultural society memorialize anyone at all, or is it committed to a strict neutrality about ... Leer más

    $371 MXN

  • New Directions in Biocultural Anthropology

    Edición de Molly K. Zuckerman, Debra L. Martin ...
    Biocultural or biosocial anthropology is a research approach that views biology and culture as dialectically and inextricably intertwined, explicitly emphasizing the dynamic interaction between humans and their larger social, cultural, and physical environments. The biocultural approach emerged in anthropology in the 1960s, matured in the 1980s, and is now one of the dominant paradigms in ... Leer más

    $1,855 MXN

  • Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives

    How Evolution Has Shaped Women's Health

    de Wenda Trevathan, Ph.D. ...
    Winner of the 2011 W.W. Howells Book Award of the American Anthropological Association How has bipedalism impacted human childbirth? Do PMS and postpartum depression have specific, maybe even beneficial, functions? These are only two of the many questions that specialists in evolutionary medicine seek to answer, and that anthropologist Wenda Trevathan addresses in Ancient Bodies, Modern Lives. ... Leer más

    $542 MXN

  • Fredrik Barth

    An Intellectual Biography

    de Thomas Hylland Eriksen ...
    Series series Anthropology, Culture and Society
    Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth's ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In an accessible style, Thomas Hylland Eriksen's biographical study reveals the magic of ethnography to professional anthropologists and non-practitioners alike.Exploring his six decade career, it follows ... Leer más

    $573 MXN o gratis con Kobo Plus