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Australia and the US are similar in many ways, yet they diverge dramatically in many others. This inaugural volume in the Australian Fulbright series brings together a group of both Australian and American scholars to review key aspects of this commonality and difference. The focus is on how both countries have handled two of the big trade-offs in national policy: pluralism versus unity, and economic growth versus equity. As befits a project under Fulbright auspices, attention is also given to t...

An A Level sociology book dealing exclusively with religion, this text provides full coverage of the topic area, exploring it in detail. Looking at the role and relevance of religion in society, it explores the wider social context of a diverse range of religions and includes chapters on the decline of religion and the new religious and new age movements.

A castrato is an opera singer who has been castrated before puberty to preserve the soprano or contralto range of his voice. This authoritative book is the first study of the phenomenon of the castrati in relation to the baroque period, covering the lives and triumphs of more than 60 singers when the fashion for castrati was at its peak. The World of the Castrati analyzes each singer's social background, training, career, and relationship with society. In addition, the book explores the rational...

Helen Hardacre provides new insights into the spiritual and cultural dimensions of abortion debates around the world in this careful examination of mizuko kuyo--a Japanese religious ritual for aborted fetuses. Popularized during the 1970s, when religious entrepreneurs published frightening accounts of fetal wrath and spirit attacks, mizuko kuyo offers ritual atonement for women who, sometimes decades previously, chose to have abortions. As she explores the complex issues that surround this pract...

For those opposed to immigration, Miami is a nightmare. Miami is the de facto capital of Latin America; it is a city where immigrants dominate, Spanish is ubiquitous, and Denny's is an ethnic restaurant. Are Miami's immigrants representative of a trend that is undermining American culture and identity? Drawing from in-depth fieldwork in the city and looking closely at recent events such as the Elian Gonzalez case, This Land Is Our Land examines interactions between immigrants and established Am...

An exploration of peoples south of the Sahara, discussing culture, family structure, dress, nutrition, education, industry, religion, history, population, land, and climate.

Believing that charity inadvertently legitimates social inequality and fosters dependence, many international development organizations have increasingly sought to replace material aid with efforts to build self-reliance and local institutions. But in some cultures - like those in rural Uganda, where Having People, Having Heart takes place - people see this shift not as an effort toward empowerment but as a suspect refusal to redistribute wealth. Exploring this conflict, China Scherz balances th...

A briefer version of Peoples and Bailey's best-selling HUMANITY: AN INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 4th (1997). HUMANITY, 4th is noteworthy for its strong historical coverage and concentration on ethnic conflict in the modern world. The brief text will condense much of this material, appealing to the significant number of instructors who assign supplemental readings and ethnographies along with a main text. INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY is a more accessible text with greater visua...

Racism without Racists is a provocative challenge to color-blind thinking in America. The fourth edition of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva's acclaimed book adds a chapter on what he calls "the new racism" to provide students with the essential foundation to explore race in more depth. This edition also updates Bonilla-Silva's assessment on race in America after President Barack Obama's re-election.

This biography reviews the known facts of the life of William the Lion, Scotland's longest reigning king, and presents them within the broad context of the country's early history and culture. While much of the story centres on the often brittle relationship with the English Plantagenets, Scotland emerges as a European power, respected not least for its now largely forgotten cultural flowering. This is demonstrated in the later chapters by an examination of a body of hiterto undervalued texts, n...

This book offers a critical overview of how anthropology-with its emphasis on studying local communities-has contributed to our understanding of globalization, the primary process impacting members of societies in every nation in the world. Readers of The Anthropology of Globalization: Cultural Anthropology Enters the 21st Century will gain a thorough understanding of the world in which we live: what it looks like from multiple perspectives, how human society has reached its current state, and...

Dieser Band mit neun Aufsatzen zum Antisemitismus ist aus einer Veranstaltungsreihe am Germanistischen Institut der Universitat Oslo hervorgegangen und will einen Beitrag zum Verstandnis des Schicksals der europaischen Juden leisten. Untersuchungen zu Fragen des nationalsozialistischen Antisemitismus und seinen Nachwirkungen werden durch Beitrage zum Zeitalter der Reformation, der Aufklarung und des Fin de siecle in einen groesseren geistes- und kulturgeschichtlichen Zusammenhang gestellt. In zw...