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1. Muslim networks and movements in Western Europe : Formation of transnational communities There are current debate...
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June 2015
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The 2015 Conference on Anthropology and Sustainability in Asia(CASA)will promote a critical understanding of the innovat...
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Hiroshima, |
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Bandits and outlaws in the Alps from Middle Ages to early nineteenth century Breno (Italy) - 3rd October 2015 ...
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Our focus is the ancient use of sound in sacred and contemplative spaces, and a timeless continuity of human behavior th...
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Istanbul, |
October 2016
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The Alienation of Man in Culture, Society and Politics International Conference 28 October 2016 – Warsaw, Poland ...
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Warsaw, |
November 2016
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Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine(s): History vs. Modernity International Conference 4-5 November ...
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Warsaw, |
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International Conference on Slavonic and East European Studies 25-26 November 2016 – Warsaw, Poland organised by Int...
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Warsaw, |
July 2017
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We invite proposals from academics, independent scholars and professionals in the fields of humanities and social scienc...
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Karanou, Chania / Crete, |
September 2017
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Welcome to the 4th Conference on Anthropology and Sustainability in Asia (CASA 2017), which is being held Sunday, Monday...
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Hiroshima, |
March 2018
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Despite the fact that there were significant differences between Moroccan and Equatorial Guinean colonisation, it is cle...
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Barcelona, |
January 2019
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The Inaugural Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, The CALA 1 (2019), in Cambodia, symbolizes a significant move...
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Siem Reap, |
November 2019
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Thirty years after the end of state socialism, the need to fully comprehend it is still an immediate task. Over the past...
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Sofia, |
February 2020
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Following the CALA 2019, we announce The CALA 2020, The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2020. Purpose and ...
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Bintulu, Sarawak, |
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The Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, The CALA 2020, in Bintulu, Sarawak, symbolizes a significant movement f...
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Bintulu, Sarawak, |
September 2020
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THE COMELA 2020 - THE CONFERENCE ON MEDITERRANEAN AND EUROPEAN LINGUISTIC ANTHROPOLOGY 2020 GENERAL INFORMATION - ...
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Course dates: 20 September – 15 October 2020 Schedule breakdown 3 modules / 30 hours each: lectures/discussio...
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September 2021
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The (SCOPUS / ISI) GLOCAL CALA 2021, The GLOCAL Conference on Linguistic Anthropology 2021 Dates: September 1-4, 2021, ...
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Quezon City, |
October 2021
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The (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) GLOCAL African Assembly for Linguistic Anthropology 2021, The second GLOCAL AFALA, October 13...
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Nairobi City, |
February 2022
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We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the upcoming "Spatiality and Temporality" International Conference. T...
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July 2022
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The SOAS GLOCAL COMELA 2022 (SCOPUS / ISI indexed), The GLOCAL Conference on Mediterranean and European Linguistic Anthr...
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Athens, |
October 2022
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The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2022, The GLOCAL Assembly on African Linguistic Anthropology 2022, invites work on the linguistic ...
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Nairobi, |
November 2022
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GENERAL INFORMATION • The SOAS GLOCAL CALA 2022 (SCOPUS / ISI indexed) is the annual GLOCAL conference and set of wor...
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Quezon City, |
December 2022
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The (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL Conferences on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022/2023. Dates: Online Virtual - Dec 19-21, ...
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May 2023
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The (SCOPUS/ISI) SOAS GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2023. Dates: May 16-19 2023. Locations: Univers...
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Quezon City, |
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The SOAS GLOCAL AFALA 2023, The GLOCAL Assembly on African Linguistic Anthropology 2023, invites work on the linguistic ...
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Nairobi, |
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Coming of Age in American Anthropology
Margaret Mead and Paradise 03/27/1999 |
This is the book, and a must read, of the century. It's anthropological history in the re-making. The American Anthropological best seller, the Chief Malopa'upo Isaia, a descendant of the Tuimanu'a (king of Manu'a), the very people in Margaret Mead's book, has now raised some very serious traditional and legal issues, in relation to Margaret Mead's book, Columbia University's role, and the American Anthropological Association's 'professional' role. In his book, "Coming of age in American Anthropology", the Chief is now ordering the removal, withdrawal, and the disassociation, of every material by Margaret Mead on his cultural intellectual property. He has also outlined several legal issues which will have serious ramifications globally, on any academic who undertakes any cultural fi... |
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IB Social and Cultural Anthropology
A Study and Test Preparation Guide 05/03/2016 |
IB Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Study and Test Preparation Guide thoroughly prepares International Baccalaureate Social and Cultural Anthropology students for the IB Social and Cultural Anthropology Internal and External Examinations. This book will be helpful for both Standard and Higher Level IB students, although the Higher Level Internal Assessment is not addressed. |
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Dostoevsky's Conception Of Man
Its Impact on Philosophical Anthropology 09/19/1997 |
Dostoevsky's novels have contributed to a conception of man that reverberates in the conclusions of prominent twentieth-century philosophical anthropologists. Max Scheler, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Albert Camus, among others, have admitted that the works of Dostoevsky had an influence on the manner in which they learned to conceive of human nature and the world in which humans live. Our aim in this dissertation is to ask: what is there in the novels of Dostoevsky concerning the nature of man, of which certain philosophers could claim that in their philosophical conceptions of man they were positively influenced by him? The main thesis is substantiated with a careful analysis of four novels: Notes From the House of the Dead (Zapiski iz mertvo... |
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Rewriting Psychology
An Abysmal Science? 06/15/2019 |
Of what use is psychology if it does not help to solve the pressing problems of the day at the individual and collective levels? This is no less a pointed question to the reader as it is to the author that sets the stage for an adventurous sharing of ideas. The author shies away from providing ready-made answers but spares no effort in stirring the reader to ponder questions about human nature and behavior. Soon, the reader will react with the exclamation, “Ah, this book is about me, useful to my life!” In this way, the book serves to bridge the gap between academia and the general public. As the reader may well expect, bold assertions may be found throughout this volume. For instance, Piaget’s stage of formal operations does not represent the final or highest level of cognitive dev... |
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Weaving Dreams into the Classroom
Practical Ideas for Teaching about Dreams and Dreaming at Every Grade Level, including Adult Education 04/07/2014 |
Weaving Dreams into the Classroom is an extraordinary anthology which combines the seasoned experience of ten educators at all educational levels to provide the reader with practical, hands-on models for bringing the subject of dreams and dreaming to students. It also includes the perspective of a teenage student who has been embedded in a dream-centered education program since early childhood. The authors come from diverse backgrounds, including academic and clinical psychology, anthropology, and religious studies. Their home institutions range from small private colleges and institutes to large research universities, both in the United States and Great Britain. PRAISE FOR WEAVING DREAMS INTO THE CLASSROOM In recent years, there has been an unprecedented interest in dreams and how t... |
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03/29/2014 |
The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential for increasing informal music-making in elementary school culture, and create a model of such music-making. Precedence for this model can be found in the literature of ethnomusicology, educational psychology and learning theory, multicultural music education, and cultural anthropology. Literature from four distinct traditions and contexts of music-making in integrative sociocultural contexts—sub-Saharan African ngoma, and Community Music as manifested in New Orleans second lines, old-time music and dance, and summer camp music-making—was parsed with a philosophical lens to determine and assess possible areas of intersection between these four participatory cultures and North American public school culture. Each of these five ar... |
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Rewriting Cultural Psychology
Transcend Your Ethnic Roots and Redefine Your Identity 11/01/2019 |
This volume is addressed to scholars as well as a popular audience, aimed to bridge the gap between academia and the general public. It deals with "who we are," concerning our sense of self and identity; and "how we live," concerning our ways of life in diverse cultures. It affirms that we may transcend our cultural-ethnic roots and redefine our identities, individual or collective. Transcendence opens the door not only to personal transformation but also to confront ethnic stereotypes and prejudices. Readers will gain fresh cultural knowledge from both the East and the West and be attuned to the theme of letting no ethnic group be alien to us.This book is at once about the immersion of life in culture and the remaking of culture by human action--reciprocal influence at work. The idea of i... |
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The Deritualization of Death
Toward a Practical Theology of Caregiving for the Bereaved 11/15/2019 |
The problematic field of investigation for this study was for the care of bereaved human beings in the context of significant cultural shifts now shaping the twenty-first century. Deritualization was identified as a significant interdisciplinary concern that contributes to potential distress in processes of grieving. The objective of the research was the development of a practical theology of compassionate caregiving for the bereaved with deference to the problem of deritualization. The theoretical framework was guided by the Oxford Interdisciplinary Research model and the Loyola Institute of Ministries model of practical theology. The study was designed for applied research for funeral directors and vocational pastors utilizing qualitative research methods. Hermeneutical and empirical com... |
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Expanding Horizons
Current Research on Interpersonal Acceptance 08/03/2012 |
Expanding Horizons: Current Research on Interpersonal Acceptance offers readers an outstanding collection of papers that reflects current trends in research on interpersonal acceptance. Papers in this volume cover a variety of questions and topics with regard to issues of acceptance-rejection by significant figures in parent-child, sibling, peer, and adult intimate relationships. Also, several papers deal with the implications of interpersonal acceptance for the development and educational achievement of children, college students, as well as children with special needs. Lastly, an entire section of the book is devoted to methodological issues in the evaluation of interpersonal acceptance across cultures. The authors draw on the perspectives of different disciplines such as educational psy... |
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Genes, Polymorphisms, and the Making of Societies
A Genetic Perspective of the Divergence between East and West (Revised and Extended Edition) 06/15/2021 |
Our genes determine to a large extent who we are and why we are different from others. In this book, Hippokratis Kiaris explores how various genetic polymorphisms in different ethnic populations may affect the development of distinct cultures and eventually historical decisions. It should be read by anybody interested in history, anthropology, behavior, psychology or genetics. The reader will find clues linking together these scientific disciplines and how such genetically determined behavioral traits may play an undervalued, as yet, role in shaping historical outcomes. The book initially describes some basic concepts on genetics and proceeds with an outline of human evolution, the journey of early humans Out-of-Africa, and the colonization of Earth by different human populations that eve... |
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The Archetype of the Ape-man
The Phenomenological Archaeology of a Relic Hominid Ancestor 12/24/2000 |
This interdisciplinary dissertation explores the archetype of the "ape-man" from a phenomenological perspective, with its genesis and present continuation dependent on extant and accreted human behavior and morphology. In order to ascertain the embedded components of the ape-man archetype, an identikit ape-man as a discrete phenomenon is derived after the examination of cross-cultural examples world-wide. Next, this discrete phenomenon and its constituent parts are compared both to extant ape species' behavior and morphology and the paleoanthropological evidence to determine in what ways -- if any -- components of each are reflected accurately in the phenomenon. Utilizing concepts in the fields of cultural and physical anthropology, ethology, psychology, and philosophy, this dissertati... |
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"There is no such thing as a spirit in the stone!" Misrepresentations of Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
An Anthropological Approach 09/13/2010 |
This work focuses on contemporary Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture - widely known until the early 1990s as "Shona Sculpture" - from the perspective of a critical anthropological analysis of cultural identity and representation. The analysis frames the inception of this art movement within the colonial socio-historical circumstances of its genesis, where discourse about the producers of this art form ("Shona discourse") was created. Drawing from the social context of inequality and racial (spatial) segregation, and from the concepts of the "primitive" in art and anthropology, the author aims to show how "Shona discourse" entails a primitivist construction of the Other (i.e., the sculptors' cultural identity) that is directly linked to modernist primitivism. "Shona discourse," as a temporalising d... |
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Postures and Movement Patterns of the Human Hand
A Framework for Understanding Hand Activity for Clinicians and Engineers 07/01/2022 |
Think of the complexity of ordinary hand activity and how to describe it all, both precisely and concisely. The author, a noted occupational therapist in Japan, offers a disciplined approach to doing just that. Whereas research has heretofore been limited mainly to how the hand grips, the methodology here is set up to account for grips, non-grip postures, and movement patterns, based on thousands of laboratory observations. This approach can provide hand experts with specific ways to conceptualize and study hand disabilities, artificial hands, and robotic hands. The author first surveys research over the past 100 years on forms that the hand normally assumes, noting the preponderance of studies on hand grips, with less attention having been paid to what the hand looks like when in non-g... |
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Evolution, Information and Personality
Toward A Unified Theory of the Psyche 09/15/2007 |
If writing a multidisciplinary treatise is difficult (and this endeavor wasn't exactly a walk in the park) then I had to imagine how difficult it might be for the reader to assimilate the cross references to evolution, information dynamics and clinical psychology that characterize this book. Moreover, I had to consider that reading a book written in language derived from quantum physics, psychology and anthropology might prove to be a bit dreary, even for seasoned clinicians. So to preclude possible confusion this book was written with Information Theory in mind. That's why, for the sake of clarity, certain themes are repeated in successive chapters to serve as an anchor point for the diverse ideas that revolve around them. As to the book itself, it is offered as an integrative... |
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Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community
How to Understand Research Findings in the Context of Sociological Perspectives 09/01/2009 |
Currents of Thought in African Sociology and the Global Community focuses on research findings further enriched in the realm of the emergent, indigenous African sociology within a global context. An authentic guide, it has potential to expose readers to the intricacy of research in its various ramifications. Its uniqueness consists in casting, in an explanatory framework, what each of the subdisciplines of sociology is all about, while simultaneously discussing the theoretical and methodological orientations in which the accompanying research findings are situated. The transition of sociology in Africa, inextricably tied in with global dimension, is its major theme. And discussion questions/exercises and essays at the end of each chapter constitute a stimulating teaching tool. Its theore... |
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Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection
Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts 02/25/2011 |
Interpersonal Acceptance and Rejection: Social, Emotional, and Educational Contexts draws on research to offer a global perspective on issues of fundamental importance to family functioning, childhood development, and adult intimate relationships, as well as to policy and practice for children, adolescents, couples, and families at risk. It draws on the perspectives of major social science disciplines such as clinical and educational psychology, anthropology, psychology, special education, and sociology, thus ensuring topics are discussed within broad theoretical frameworks. The authors cover a wide spectrum of questions and topics in relation to perceived acceptance and rejection by significant others. Chapters are set in the context of worldwide trends in the area of interpersonal accept... |
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Across the Pacific
From Ancient Asia to Precolombian America 02/08/2011 |
In former times, even more than today, climatic changes had major influences on migratory flows, and consequently on ancient agrarian civilizations, leading to deep economic, social, political and religious chaos, history that we should meditate today to decide our future. This original book insists on the importance of the El Niño climatic phenomenon on the trans-Pacific migratory flows which occurred 5000 years ago, and presents comparisons between cultures and civilizations which existed on both sides of the Pacific, in Asia and America, in comparable epochs. Travelers who want to discover pre-Colombian America or ancient Asia, whether they are lovers of archeological sites or passionate about the cultural heirs of old civilizations, will be fascinated by the innovating content of th... |
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09/11/2009 |
This study investigated the characteristics and challenges of high-achieving second-generation Nigerian youths in the United States. An increasing number of youths in America's schools are from immigrant backgrounds due to the flow of immigration from Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Given the local and national mandates to improve the academic achievement of all children, we cannot afford to leave any group behind. Although research on immigrant children from Asia and Latin America and their adaptation and schooling has increased in the last two decades, the educational experiences of Black immigrant children from Africa and the Caribbean have been understudied. The scant research on African immigrants lumps all Africans into a homogeneous group despite the different experiences and obvi... |