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The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Hardcover): Edmund Leach The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Hardcover)
Edmund Leach
R6,847 Discovery Miles 68 470 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Levi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Levi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.

Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace - An Introductory Guide (Hardcover): Colin Breen Conflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace - An Introductory Guide (Hardcover)
Colin Breen
R4,044 Discovery Miles 40 440 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Conflict, Cultural Heritage, and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies. Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives and how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heritage can contribute to building peace and reconciliation in post-conflict environments. The study offers a conceptual and operational framework to understand the roles cultural heritage plays within conflict cycles, how it can be targeted during war, and the potential cultural heritage has in positive peacebuilding across the conflict lifecycle. Conflict, Cultural Heritage, and Peace offers an invaluable introduction to cultural heritage at all stages in conflict scenarios which will benefit students, researchers and practitioners in the field of heritage, environment, peace and conflict studies.

Culture, Spaces, and People - Urban Dynamics in Contemporary India (Hardcover): Daksh Jain Culture, Spaces, and People - Urban Dynamics in Contemporary India (Hardcover)
Daksh Jain
R4,048 Discovery Miles 40 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This volume discusses the nuances of cultural phenomena in the transforming urban landscape of Indian cities. It focuses on the role of globalization, transitioning economic patterns, National Urban policies in changing their urban landscape. The volume argues how culture is an important determinant of the emergent urban patterns. It decodes and determines the human centered inter-linkages such as social, cultural, economic, and political and their reactions in the transformations in urban morphology to understand the spatial perspective and visualization of new emerging cultural phenomena. The book reflects on the contemporary global forces and currently operational national urban policies that have enforced new dynamics of consumption, lifestyles, and institutions. Further, it also examines the ways in which these forces come together to create new hybrid cultures which manifest in spatial practices. With detailed case studies of different cities, this book will be of interest to students, teachers, and researchers of urban planning, cultural studies, urban sociology, urban geography, history, urban design, urban conservation, and policy studies. It will also be useful for professionals working in the field of smart cities in India and abroad, planning authorities, urban scientists, cultural tourists, artists, local cultural enthusiasts, and those interested in studying the urban conditions of Indian cities.

Images Of Japanese Society Hb (Hardcover, New Ed): Ross Mouer, Yoshio Sugimoto Images Of Japanese Society Hb (Hardcover, New Ed)
Ross Mouer, Yoshio Sugimoto
R5,988 Discovery Miles 59 880 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The popular image of Japanese society is a steroetypical one - that of a people characterised by a coherent set of thought and behaviour patterns, applying to all Japanese and transcending time. Ross Mouer and Yoshio Sugimoto found this image quite incongruous during their research for this book in Japan. They ask whether this steroetype of the Japanese is not only generated by foreigners but by the Japanese themselves. This is likely to be a controversial book as it does not contribute to the continuing mythologising of Japan and the Japanese. The book examines contemporary images of Japanese society by surveying an extensive sample of popular and academic literature on Japan. After tracing the development of "holistic" theories about the Japanese, commonly referred to as the "group model", attention is focused on the evaluation of that image. Empirical evidence contrary to this model is discussed and methodological lacunae are cited. A "sociology of Japanology" is also presented. In pursuit of other visions of Japanese society, the authors argue that certain aspects of Japanese behaviour can be explained by considering Japanese society as the exact inverse of the portayal provided by the group model. The authors also present a multi-dimensional model of social stratification, arguing that much of the variation in Japanese behaviour can be understood within the framework as having universal equivalence.

Political Influence (Paperback): Edward Banfield Political Influence (Paperback)
Edward Banfield
R1,378 Discovery Miles 13 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In government, influence denotes one's ability to get others to act, think, or feel as one intends. A mayor who persuades voters to approve a bond issue exercises influence. A businessman whose promises of support induce a mayor to take action exercises influence. In "Political Influence," Edward C. Banfield examines the structures and dynamics of influence in determining who actually makes the decisions on vital issues in a large metropolitan area. This edition includes an introduction by James Q. Wilson, who provides an intellectual profile of Banfield and a review of his life and work.
Banfield locates his analysis in Chicago, focusing on a broad range of representative urban issues. An introductory chapter defines Banfield's method through four leading questions: Who has influence and who is subject to it? How does influence work? What are the terms upon which influence is expended? How is action concerted by influence? Banfield's conceptual scheme is applied at three levels. He offers six case studies of political influence, showing in considerable detail how influence was used in certain civic controversies. Then Banfield interprets these case studies, drawing from them a set of low-level empirical generalizations. At the third and highest level of generality, he explores the logical structure of significant aspects of influence and recasts the empirical findings in analytical terms, developing theories that apply generally to situations involving political influence. He also defines the key roles played by officeholders, the newspapers, business interests, the city council and minority groups.
"Political Influence" is notable for its depth and sophistication. This rare combination of good reporting and insightful analysis is essential reading for political scientists, urban affairs specialists, policymakers, and sociologists.

A Game of Two Halves - Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation (Paperback): Cornel Sandvoss A Game of Two Halves - Football Fandom, Television and Globalisation (Paperback)
Cornel Sandvoss
R1,177 Discovery Miles 11 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Cornel Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe presenting the phenomenon of football as a reflection of postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based on ethnographic audience research, Cornel Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.

Identity and Health (Paperback): David Kelleher, Gerard Leavey Identity and Health (Paperback)
David Kelleher, Gerard Leavey
R1,470 Discovery Miles 14 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Experiences of health and illness are fundamental to how we understand ourselves, and the postmodern obsession with body image has made health even more significant in identity formation. The study of subjective experiences of health and illness can also provide a challenge to traditional objective medical knowledge and, given current healthcare interest in user involvement, can highlight the need for change in health service provision.
This book explores the interplay between identity and health, private and public, mind and body. Drawing on new material, and using and exploring innovative biographical and narrative methods, it covers a broad range of identities in relation to health and illness, including race, religion, ethnicity, disability, age, body image, sexuality and gender.
Identity and Health will be of great interest to academics, researchers and students of sociology, medical anthropology, health and psychology.

Sport, Professionalism and Pain - Ethnographies of Injury and Risk (Paperback): David Howe Sport, Professionalism and Pain - Ethnographies of Injury and Risk (Paperback)
David Howe; Series edited by Jim Parry, Mike McNamee
R1,473 Discovery Miles 14 730 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Are pain and injury managed appropriately in the environment of commercial sport?

Is sports medicine a tool to empower or to disempower athletes?

Sport, Professionalism and Pain considers these and other pertinent concerns as it questions whether, in the world of modern sport, it is the participants themselves or the sport's administrators who exert more control over athletes' well being. It is asserted that, because of the distinctive nature of sport, the power to transform medical practice and application of sports medicine lies not with physicians but within the practices of sport itself.

Sport, Professionalism and Pain bridges a perceived space in the literature between medical anthropology, medical sociology and sport studies, examining issues such as:

- the relationship between sports medicine, the body and culture
- the power struggle between sport administrators and participants
- the historical transformation of sports medicine

Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia - Challenges and Possibilities (Hardcover): Uma Pradhan, Karen... Rethinking Education in the Context of Post-Pandemic South Asia - Challenges and Possibilities (Hardcover)
Uma Pradhan, Karen Valentin, Mohini Gupta
R4,049 Discovery Miles 40 490 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This edited volume offers new analytical and methodological approaches to the study of education in the post-pandemic educational context, through case studies from countries in South Asia such as Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Crossing disciplinary and national boundaries to advance collaborative knowledge production in South Asian education, the book explores how different colonial legacies, religious orientations, and positions in the global economy are played out in regional education systems. In doing so, this volume focuses on the educational challenges faced by the region to better understand South Asian society and the existing societal inequalities in the wake of COVID-19. The book highlights how the pandemic invites a re-thinking of current ways of approaching educational research in hybrid forms, and also opens up new areas of research ranging from pedagogical innovations to the well-being of teachers and students. Offering interdisciplinary perspectives on education in this unique context, this timely book will be highly relevant to students, researchers, and academics in the fields of international and comparative education, South Asian studies, teacher education, and education policy and politics.

Nage Birds - Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people (Hardcover): Gregory Forth Nage Birds - Classification and symbolism among an eastern Indonesian people (Hardcover)
Gregory Forth
R3,911 R2,738 Discovery Miles 27 380 Save R1,173 (30%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Contents:
Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Ethno-ornithalogical Classification: Generic Categories and Ethno-taxonomy Chapter 3: Intermediate Categories, Binary Associations, and Nomenclature Chapter 4: Things That Go Po In The Night: Ethnotaxonomy and Symbolic Classification Chapter 5: Spiritual Birds Chapter 6: Birds as Omens and Taboo Chapter 7: Hibernating Swallows, Kite Stones, and the Legless Nightjar: Some Curiosities of Nage Bird Knowledge Chapter 8: Birds in Myth and Metaphor Chapter 9: The Story of Tupa Lelu, or How Birds of Prey Became Chicken Thieves Chapter 10: Comparisons and Conclusions

Purity and Danger - An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Hardcover): Mary Douglas, Professor Mary Douglas Purity and Danger - An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (Hardcover)
Mary Douglas, Professor Mary Douglas
R7,138 Discovery Miles 71 380 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Purity and Danger is acknowledged as a modern masterpiece of anthropology. It is widely cited in non-anthropological works and gave rise to a body of application, rebuttal and development within anthropology. In 1995 the book was included among the Times Literary Supplement's hundred most influential non-fiction works since WWII. Incorporating the philosophy of religion and science and a generally holistic approach to classification, Douglas demonstrates the relevance of anthropological enquiries to an audience outside her immediate academic circle. She offers an approach to understanding rules of purity by examining what is considered unclean in various cultures. She sheds light on the symbolism of what is considered clean and dirty in relation to order in secular and religious, modern and primitive life.

Mary Douglas - Collected Works (Hardcover): Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas Mary Douglas - Collected Works (Hardcover)
Professor Mary Douglas, Mary Douglas
R34,245 Discovery Miles 342 450 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Mary Douglas is a central figure within British social anthropology. Studying under Evans-Pritchard at Oxford immediately after the second world war, she formed part of the group of anthropologists who established social anthropology's standing in the world of scholarship. Her works, spanning the second half of the twentieth century, have been widely read and her theories applied across the social sciences and humanities. While her research in the Congo clearly inspired her later studies, Douglas also applied her theories to Western societies and thus played a crucial role in normalizing the contemporary acceptance of the West as a legitimate field of anthropological investigation. Douglas' work has excited debate in such diverse areas as economics, religion, philosophy, the sociology of food, and risk analysis. This collection reproduces, in facsimile, twelve of Mary Douglas's groundbreaking works, all of which are also available for individual purchase. The first volume includes a new introduction written by Douglas for this collection.

Children of the Mill - Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960 (Paperback, New in Paperback): Ronald D. Cohen Children of the Mill - Schooling and Society in Gary, Indiana, 1906-1960 (Paperback, New in Paperback)
Ronald D. Cohen
R1,277 Discovery Miles 12 770 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Gary, Indiana was founded in 1906, and was part of the US Steel Corporation's plan to build the world's largest steel mill. The city's school system became world-famous as a progressive educational experiment until the 1930s when a changing political and economic climate led to an erosion of the system, which faced a serious overcrowding crisis in the 1950s.
Blending social and intellectual history, Ronald Cohen examines the economic, political, and cultural context of the unique educational experience developed in this urban industrial center. Cohen demonstrates that while various interest groups - local as well as national - helped mold educational policies and practices, the Gary schools operated within the framework of corporate capitalism. Despite their early experimental nature, the Gary schools exemplified the rise of mass education in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic, class structure and urban setting.

Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds - Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (Paperback): Wendy Luttrell Pregnant Bodies, Fertile Minds - Gender, Race and the Schooling of Pregnant Teens (Paperback)
Wendy Luttrell
R1,414 Discovery Miles 14 140 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


They must make mature decisions before they are out of school, take on adult responsibilities before they have left home, and care for their children before they have completed their own childhood. One of today's greatest social issues, pregnant teens walk the boundary between childhood and adulthood, no longer able to reside in one world, and unprepared for the next. While society traditionally is quick to condemn, Wendy Luttrell counters the stigmatising ways in which such girls have been traditionally held with this moving ethnography of their lives. Focusing on fifty girls enrolled in a model public school program for pregnant teens in the US, Luttrell explores how pregnant girls experience society's view of them and also considers how these girls view themselves and the choices they've made. She pays particular attention to how schools react to pregnant teens and what they are doing to help these vulnerable young women to achieve their education. Readers learn the real problems that pregnant teens are dealing with, and how society's racial and class stereotypes continue to stigmatise and scapegoat them. These individual stories are accompanied by personal self-portraits that present a carefully detailed and powerfully moving picture of the issues these girls face everyday.

Refugees, Democracy and the Law - Political Rights at the Margins of the State (Paperback): Dana Schmalz Refugees, Democracy and the Law - Political Rights at the Margins of the State (Paperback)
Dana Schmalz
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The book provides an in-depth discussion of democratic theory questions in relation to refugee law. The work introduces readers to the evolution of refugee law and its core issues today, as well as central lines in the debate about democracy and migration. Bringing together these fields, the book links theoretical considerations and legal analysis. Based on its specific understanding of the refugee concept, it offers a reconstruction of refugee law as constantly confronted with the question of how to secure rights to those who have no voice in the democratic process. In this reconstruction, the book highlights, on the one hand, the need to look beyond the legal regulations for understanding the challenges and gaps in refugee protection. It is also the structural lack of political voice, the book argues, which shapes the refugee's situation. On the other hand, the book opposes a view of law as mere expression of power and points out the dynamics within the law which reflect endeavors towards mitigating exclusion. The book will be essential reading for academics and researchers working in the areas of migration and refugee law, legal theory and political theory.

Cresheim Farm - 400 Years of History at an American Farm (Hardcover): Antje Ulrike Mattheus Cresheim Farm - 400 Years of History at an American Farm (Hardcover)
Antje Ulrike Mattheus
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The book is a work of political archaeology: it focuses on the people and events at a particular colonial farm in Germantown, Pennsylvania. The peoples' and farm's stories provide a micro and macro view of economic, social, demographic, and agro-ecological change. Cresheim Farm shows how one mostly unknown but strategically placed piece of land - home to an extraordinary array of people, including anti-slavery and anti-Nazi activists, the first woman editor of the Saturday Evening Post and a robber baron - can tell, affect and reflect the history of a nation. The writing is historically grounded and academic, future-oriented, deeply researched, and immediate. Cresheim Farm serves as a lens through which to observe and magnify social forces, such as the launching point of freedom and democracy movements, white privilege, slavery, and genocidal westward expansion. The past lives on in all of us.

Japan's Triple Disaster - Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident... Japan's Triple Disaster - Pursuing Justice after the Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Accident (Hardcover)
Natalia Novikova, Julia Gerster, Manuela G. Hartwig
R4,056 Discovery Miles 40 560 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The authors of this volume discuss questions of disaster and justice from various interdisciplinary vantage points, including public policy, science and technology studies, law, gender, sociology and psychology, social and cultural anthropology, town planning and tourism. The term "natural" disasters is a misnomer; cataclysmic natural events that impact humans can often be anticipated and their consequences should be prevented - the failure to do so is a failure of politics, policy and risk planning. Presenting research on more than a decade after the Great East Japan Earthquake, the chapters highlight not only the manifold challenges in the direct disaster response and policy making but also the difficulties of "just" long-term recovery. Arguing for just distribution, recognition and participation, this volume provides a diversity of perspectives on these issues as experienced after the 2011 disasters through detailed and nuanced analyses presented by early career researchers and senior academics coming from various countries and continents of the world. The insights of this volume galvanise the discussion of disaster governance and highlight the variety of disaster (in)justices and the ways disasters force people to contest and reimagine their relationships with their neighborhoods, countries, families, and friends. A valuable read for scholars and students researching issues related to mass emergencies, justice theory and civil activism.

Performing Religion on the Secular Stage (Hardcover): Sharon Aronson-Lehavi Performing Religion on the Secular Stage (Hardcover)
Sharon Aronson-Lehavi
R4,041 Discovery Miles 40 410 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book examines the relations between Western religion, secularism, and modern theatre and performance. Sharon Aronson-Lehavi posits that the ongoing cultural power of religious texts, icons, and ideas on the one hand and the artistic freedom enabled by secularism and avant-garde experimentalism on the other, has led theatre artists throughout the twentieth century to create a uniquely modern theatrical hybrid - theatre performances that simultaneously re-inscribe and grapple with religion and religious performativity. The book compares this phenomenon with medieval forms of religious theatre and offers deep and original analyses of significant contemporary works ranging from plays and performances by August Strindberg, Hugo Ball (Dada), Jerzy Grotowski, and Hanoch Levin, to those created by Adrienne Kennedy, Rina Yerushalmi, Deb Margolin, Milo Rau, and Sarah Ruhl. The book analyses a new and original historiography of a uniquely modern theatrical phenomenon, a study that is of high importance considering the reemergence of religion in contemporary culture and politics.

Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences (Hardcover): Madhulika Sahoo, S Jeyavelu, Anjali Kurane Ethnographic Research in the Social Sciences (Hardcover)
Madhulika Sahoo, S Jeyavelu, Anjali Kurane
R4,048 Discovery Miles 40 480 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This book is an essential guide to scientifically conducting contemporary ethnographic research at undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral levels in the social sciences, the humanities, and business studies. It addresses the methodological challenges of ethnographic research across the social sciences and highlights present time research areas, including digital ethnography, artificial intelligence, classroom pedagogy, hybrid organization and many more. This volume is divided into three sections and can be a single source of reference to - * Guides students through essential theoretical and conceptual aspects of ethnography; * Demonstrates the usage of ethnography in allied disciplines - psychology, healthcare, international border studies, linguistic, artificial intelligence, and organizational behavior; * Demonstrates the application of ethnographic research in the field; * Presents valuable lessons from fieldwork experiences by different scholars across a variety of communities; * Includes dos and don'ts for early career and first-time researchers. A step-by-step, student friendly text, this book will be essential supplementary reading across the social sciences and the humanities, especially for those conducting fieldwork in the Global South.

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency (Hardcover): Janice Baker Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency (Hardcover)
Janice Baker
R4,043 Discovery Miles 40 430 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency considers the impact of the Anthropocene on history and memory, approaches to objects and agency, and the incommensurability of western and Indigenous ontologies. Drawing on Indigenous knowledge, humanities and museological literature, continental philosophy, contemporary art and popular culture, Baker acknowledges the autonomous agency of geological forms, including soils, minerals and fossil fuels. Demonstrating that this has implications for an expanded idea of an 'inclusive' museum and its relationship to entities beyond 'life' and living species, the book argues that the 'inclusion' paradigm needs to include non-life actors. Gesturing to a geontological 'turn' through developing notions of geo-inclusion, the mineralhuman, and approaches to object agency that connect with Aboriginal 'heritage', Baker exposes the ongoing destruction of Country by mining interests in Western Australia and elsewhere. By addressing the need for urgent change through the artifice of the museum, the book identifies an expanded approach to inclusion beyond the limits imposed by the politics of identity. Museums, Art and Inclusion in a Climate Emergency theorises the potential of an expanded idea of the museum and will be of interest to scholars and students engaged in the study of museums and heritage, environmental humanities and geo-humanities, ecological art history and contemporary art.

Liberating Culture - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation (Hardcover): Christina Kreps Liberating Culture - Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Museums, Curation and Heritage Preservation (Hardcover)
Christina Kreps
R4,066 Discovery Miles 40 660 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Using examples of indigenous models from Indonesia, the Pacific, Africa and Native North America, Kreps illustrates how the growing recognition of indigenous curation and concepts of cultural heritage preservation is transforming conventional museum practice. She explores the similarities and differences between Western and non-Western approaches to objects, museums, and curation, revealing how what is culturally appropriate in one context may not be in another. The book also undermines the argument that non-Western people are not concerned with preserving their cultural property - an argument that has been used to justify its collection and retention in museums.

Romanticism and Science - Subcultures and Subversions (Hardcover): Tim Fulford Romanticism and Science - Subcultures and Subversions (Hardcover)
Tim Fulford
R24,499 Discovery Miles 244 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days


Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is perhaps the best-known and most widely studied literary representation of science. Yet it is by no means the only text of its time to fictionalize the latest experiments and discoveries of natural philosophers. Science was burgeoning in the years 1760-1840, revolutionising how people saw the world around them, and this extended to the literary world.
This five volume set is divided into sections by scientific discipline, each illuminating a context of current interest to literary scholars. An extensive introduction is included in the first volume giving a brief history of the development of various scientific fields - including Geology, Palaeontology, Chemistry and Physics - resumes of the central texts/discoveries and their significance, and an account of their impact on literature - and sometimes, literature's impact on science. A bibliography of major scientific works and suggestions for critical reading is also provided and the set is completed with a detailed index.
The set is divided as follows:
Volume 1:
Science and Politics; Medicine; Mesmerism; Electricity/Electro-Chemistry/Galvanism and Magnetism
Volume 2:
Chemistry; Heat and Light
Volume 3:
Astronomy; Mensuration/Instruments; Women in Science; Science and Social Change; Institutionalization; Philosophy of Science and Engineering and Technology
Volume 4:
Manufactures; Botany; Natural History and Meteorology; Exploration and the Races of Humankind: Craniology, Physiognomy, Phrenology
Volume 5:
Theories of Life; Comparative Anatomy and Geology/Palaeontology

International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East - Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of... International Student Mobility to and from the Middle East - Theorising Public, Institutional, and Self-Constructions of Cross-Border Students (Hardcover)
Aneta Hayes, Sally Findlow
R3,840 Discovery Miles 38 400 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume investigates how international students in and from the Middle East are constructed by nations, institutions, other students, and themselves. Making a valuable contribution to understanding the nuances and complexities of educational politics and priorities affecting these constructions, the text considers the broader impacts of discourse on internationalisation. Offering a unique combination of critical analysis of educational policies combined with empirical contributions through authors' own research, chapters highlight intersections between politics, the internationalisation of higher education, and the construction of mobile learners. Emphasising variation and nuance in the internationalisation of policies in the Gulf Cooperation Countries, and other Middle Eastern countries, the volume offers a theoretical framework to help understand the political, educational, and ethical implications of emerging constructions of international students and their comparison across the Middle East. This timely volume will benefit researchers, academics, and educators with an interest in higher education, international and comparative education, as well as the Middle East more specifically. Those involved with educational education policy and politics, specifically related to the Middle East, will also benefit from this volume.

Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology (Paperback): Emily Wilson Mildred Trotter and the Invisible Histories of Physical and Forensic Anthropology (Paperback)
Emily Wilson
R1,099 Discovery Miles 10 990 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The first book published detailing the contributions of a premier female pioneer in science and anthropology Details the many revolutionary scientific advances and techniques developed by Trotter Provides context and background regarding a major, and now well-known, error in one specific measurement in her renowned stature estimation research Examines key overlooked historical aspects in scientific history including scientific error, experiences of sexism, women in science, and other marginalized groups

Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities - Protecting Culture and the Environment (Paperback): Fabien... Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities - Protecting Culture and the Environment (Paperback)
Fabien Girard, Ingrid Hall, Christine Frison
R1,215 Discovery Miles 12 150 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

examines how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected. considers the lessons that can be learnt about the situation of indigenous peoples and local communities. investigates the nature and role of community protocols beyond issues of access to genetic resources and traditional knowledge

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