This Element reevaluates geographical writings on Rs death and sacrificial rituals, redirecting focus towards the textual transmission of ideas in both Arabic and Persian to offer a critical guide to geographical knowledge dissemination on Rs funera...Loe edasi...
Zen and the art of tea-the classic book about the Japanese tea ceremony that is as much a guide to life. Ritualized, romantic, and historically rich, the tea ceremony is the creation of something beautiful out of the everyday. Or...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into intersections of identities in complex societies, which reproduce and cross symbolic boundaries and form as well as challenge power relations. The volume offers both descriptive and analytical contributions with evidence-base...Loe edasi...
Textiles have been a highly valued part of many Indigenous societies across the world and over millennia. This pathbreaking book examines the large woven ceremonial cloths known as pua kumbu, long associated with the Iban peoples of the i...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487564032)
Based on thirteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Stockholms feminist activist community, this book explores how anxiety is produced and practiced among activists, tracing its roots to the complex translation of intersectionality from theory to...Loe edasi...
This book explores the emotional landscapes shaped by mobility, transience, and wandering. Building on classical and contemporary sociological thoughtfrom Ibn Khaldun and Marx-Engels to Bauman and Goffmanit looks at the ambivalent emotions experienc...Loe edasi...
This Open Access book examines how people often treat social group membership as inherent, immutable, informative and even intergenerationally inherited. Such essentialism remains one of the more puzzling folk intuitions, at odds with social science...Loe edasi...
This book sketches out an innovative Afro-Iberian mosaic that puts forgotten memories and histories into circulation, constructing an Afro-Iberian past that is critical of the cultural racialization of Spaniards and Portuguese. This book was origina...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9781501785320)
Colonial Negatives concerns early photography in colonial Morocco, which Patricia Goldsworthy frames as a study in French, as well as Moroccan and Jewish history. This book highlights processes of constant negotiation between French and Moroccans ab...Loe edasi...
From the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways....Loe edasi...
This book examines how older adults with physical disabilities living at home develop dietary resilience strategies to maintain independence, agency, and dignity in later life. Drawing on extensive theoretical literature and rich qualitative researc...Loe edasi...
WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION“An elegant meditation on the complexities of the American South—and thus of America—by an esteemed daughter of the South and one of the great intellectuals of ou...Loe edasi...
Live Life Like a Festival is more than a book — its an invitation.This vibrant 240-page coffee-table workbook celebrates 30 years of LEAF Global Arts, blending soulful stories, rare archival photos, creative prompts, and whimsical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813081441)
A study of the Big Drum dance rite on the island of Carriacou, Grenada, this book introduces 120 ceremonial song texts and dances that reflect African-Caribbean religion as practiced by enslaved people in the early 1700s as well as the Carriacou reli...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This book examines the role of critical methodology in literacy and language practices. Employing globally diverse autoethnographic approaches, it highlights perspectives and lived experiences from marginalised authors. Through a decolonial lens,...Loe edasi...
This edited volume offers a bold reimagining of peace studies by placing practice and not just theory, at the center of academic inquiry. It challenges conventional disciplinary boundaries to spotlight peace as an active, lived process ra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Hawai'i Press, ISBN-13: 9798880702565)
Can food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? Nourishing Life reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of...Loe edasi...
This book uses a Lefebvrian spatial framework to explore the production of Ritsona refugee camp in Central Greece. Lefebvres multifaceted and reflexive conceptualisation of space allows for a macro analysis that locates the camp within the global st...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Apr-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: HAU, ISBN-13: 9781914363382)
Why do humans live with gods, spirits, and ancestors? Metapersons reveals how transcendence is not an exception, but a fundamental feature of life. Metapersons begins from a simple yet striking observation: across the world, people live i...Loe edasi...
