Autor: Parke Ross D.

insgesamt 5 interessante Werke

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The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development

A major, eclectic work of extraordinary scope and unprecedented vision, "The Three Worlds" is much more than a study of the contemporary Third World. It examines the constituents of …


geschrieben von Peter Worsley (Autor)

Blackness and Race Mixture: The Dynamics of Racial Identity in Colombia

Peter Wade focuses on the 'racial democracy' of Colombia-- specifically the black population of the Choco …


geschrieben von Peter Wade (Autor)

The Swazi: A South African Kingdom

Part I: From Kingdom to Colony. From Clan to Colony. Kinship and Locality. Political Structure. Work and Health. Age and Education. The Supernatural. Continuity in Change. Part II: From Colony to …


geschrieben von Hilda Kuper (Autor)

Someone Else's House: America's Unfinished Struggle for Integration

Jacoby looks at how the ideal of integration has fared since it was first advocated by Martin Luther King, Jr., arguing that though blacks have made enormous economic, political, and social progress, …


geschrieben von Tamar Jacoby (Autor)

Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America

"Klassen fascinates as she shows us how women who give birth at home experience the simultaneous embodiment of pain and power, self-sufficiency and surrender, immanence and transcendence. Weaving …

Preface: Motherhood Issues xi 1. Procreation Stories: An Introduction 1 2. Cultural Contexts of Home Birth 16 3. Risk, Fear, and the Ethics of Home Birth 38 4. Procreating Religion: Spirituality, …

Klassen fascinates as she shows us how women who give birth at home experience the simultaneous embodiment of pain and power, self-sufficiency and surrender, immanence and transcendence. Weaving these …


geschrieben von Pamela E. Klassen (Autor)

Environmentalism and Cultural Theory: Exploring the Role of Anthropology in Environmental Discourse

The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in the attention paid by social scientists to environmental issues, and a gradual acknowledgement in the wider community, of the role of social science in …


geschrieben von Kay Milton (Autor) und Milton Kay (Autor)

Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

Michael Walzer is professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University, and is the author of many widely heralded books, including Exodus and Revolution and Company …

This classic work of political ethics has radically …


geschrieben von Michael Walzer (Autor)

SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense

Charles A. Stevenson, Ph.D., has observed the Office of the Secretary of Defense and its …

The men who struggle with Washington's …


geschrieben von Charles A. Stevenson (Autor)

World Congress on Communication for Development: Lessons, Challenges, and the Way Forward with DVD ROM

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of the field of Communication for Development by focusing not only on its theoretical model and methodological applications, but also on the …


geschrieben von World Bank Group (Herausgeber) und The Communications Initiative (Herausgeber)

Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes

Analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. This work offers an ethnographic account of PCN's …

Preface and AcknowledgementsIntroduction; 1. Place; 2. Capital; 3. Nature; 4. …

Important theoretical intervention into …


geschrieben von Arturo Escobar (Autor)


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