The ethics of translation in a hermeneutical context -- Preconditions for comparative geographic approach and spatial interaction -- Symbolization process of the nature world in mythological type of world outlook -- On uses of ‘wild nature’: empowered vs. Disempowered agency in kola reindeer-herding territories -- Imagination as a breaker of the borders -- Man and nature: approaches to the …
Introduction of the Book -- 1956-1973: I Believe Large Dams Provide An Exceptional Opportunity For Integrated River Basin Development -- 1976-1995: The International Research Activities of the Institute for Development Anthropology and Increasing Concerns About The Environmental and Socio-Economic Costs of Large Dams for Free Flowing Rivers and River Basin Communities -- My Increasing Disillusi…
Chapter 1: Content and scope -- Chapter 2: Working lives of men aged 60 and older; Chapter 3: Working lives of men aged 45–60 -- Chapter 4 Working lives of men aged 45 and younger -- Chapter 5: Old age fears or concerns -- Chapter 6: Old age plans -- Chapter 7: Conclusion -- .This book examines the working lives, retirement plans, and old age experiences of three generations of gay men born 1…
1. Introduction -- 2. The Postdiaspora Question -- 3. Crossborder Social Protection -- 4. Transnational Schooling -- 5. Extraterritorial Human Security -- 6. The Cosmonational State -- 7. The Postdiaspora Condition.This book aims to fill a void in the literature on the contributions of the state to the social protection, educational training, and human security of its overseas citizens. Additio…
Introduction -- 1.. Challenges and Possibilities in Interdisciplinary Encounters -- 2. Two Case Studies by a Researcher Living Between Worlds -- 3. Trauma in a Lived Religion Perspective -- 4. Attending to “Survivors as Experts”: Lessons Learned -- 5. Cross-Cultural Encounters in the Research: Lessons Learned -- 6. Poetics and Ethics of World/Sense Encounters—Cultivating the Lessons -- 7.…
Introduction -- The Politicization of Culture 1945–1995 -- Internationalizing Culture -- Recognizing Cultures -- Negotiating Cultures -- Diversifying Cultures -- Culture and Conviviability -- Re-thinking Culture in the New Millennium -- Culture and the Anthropocene -- Conclusions.This book analyses how global transactions have been progressively conducted and negotiated in the last 25 years. …
Introduction: Instigators of Interactionism – A Short Introduction to Interactionism in Sociology; Michael Hviid Jacobsen -- Chapter 1: Georg Simmel – Interactionist Before Symbolic Interactionism?; Greg Smith -- Chapter 2: Robert E. Park – A Precursor to Interactionism; Suzie Guth -- Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead – The Evolution of Mind, Self and Society through Interaction; Antony J.…
This book is a reflection on the nature of confinement, experienced by some people as everyday life. It explores the meanings, purposes, and consequences involved with spending every day inside prison. Female Imprisonment results from an ethnographic study carried out in a small prison facility located in the south of Portugal, and Frois uses the data to analyze how incarcerated women talk abou…
Kinship, Love, and Life Cycle in Contemporary Havana, Cuba focuses on the lives of low-income Havana residents over the life cycle from birth to death. The book documents how kinship and love relations are created, reproduced, and negotiated at different life stages through gendered dialectics of care, important to both individuals' relationships and state politics. In the process, through a va…
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Water Supply Systems in Central Iran -- Chapter 3: Social Aspects of Water in Central Iran -- Chapter 4- Cain and Abel in the Heaven of Water Cooperation -- Chapter 5- Cooperation in Lieu of Water -- Chapter 6: Conclusion.This book tries to answer the question how different communities in such an arid area as the Iranian central plateau could have shared th…