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Friendship is everything, even if you're a bit of a wild one like
Walter the Warthog. Join him as he meets new buddies, overcomes
challenges, surfs his heart out and has a lekker braai or two. Veld
Friends is a series for kids of all ages set around the Waterhole
and starring a loveable cast of uniquely South African animals,
including Sindele the Stork, Mandla the Hippo and Beukus the
Baboon. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll want to hold your nose for
a while when Walter farts. Is there anything more fun than reading
a Veld Friends story with a kid? Probably not.
This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s. It includes discussion of issues such as: * the concept of caste in Indian society * scottish ethnography * how dreams are culturally conceptualised * representations of the family * culture as conservation * gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan * representation in rural Japan * people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia * representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.
This collection addresses the theme of representation in anthropology. Its fourteen articles explore some of the directions in which contemporary anthropology is moving, following the questions raised by the "writing culture" debates of the 1980s. It includes discussion of issues such as: * the concept of caste in Indian society * scottish ethnography * how dreams are culturally conceptualised * representations of the family * culture as conservation * gardens, theme parks and the anthropologist in Japan * representation in rural Japan * people's place in the landscape of Northern Australia * representing identity of the New Zealand Maori.
Friendship is everything, even if you're a bit of a wild one like
Walter the Warthog. Join him as he meets new buddies, overcomes
challenges, surfs his heart out and has a lekker braai or two. Veld
Friends is a series for kids of all ages set around the Waterhole
and starring a loveable cast of uniquely South African animals,
including Sindele the Stork, Mandla the Hippo and Beukus the
Baboon. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll want to hold your nose for
a while when Walter farts. Is there anything more fun than reading
a Veld Friends story with a kid? Probably not.
This textbook is written by well-established anthropology
professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores
what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches
are, and how these are applied in real-world settings. It provides
a thorough introduction to key methods, theories and the
disciplinary value of contemporary anthropology. This book
deliberately steps beyond the standard textbook format.
Undergraduate students reveal the processes by which they came to
understand and apply anthropological knowledge using everyday
experiences and common life events as examples, while also
showcasing the research that student authors produced as a result
of understanding and operationalising those processes. This fresh
take showcases what can be done with anthropological knowledge, not
what you can do with anthropology when you've achieved the rank of
professor. This book is accompanied by practical exercises, and
podcasts that relate to each of the chapters. Podcasts extend
beyond the textbook as live resources, with episodes on a regular
basis. This is an accessible, lively, active text that prepares
students to outbound disciplinary knowledge. This unique and
engaging textbook will be core reading for undergraduate
anthropology students, as well as a source of teaching inspiration
for lecturers of undergraduate anthropology units. It would also be
a useful text for undergraduate students conducting ethnographic
research.
New Era - New Religions examines new forms of religion in Brazil.
The largest and most vibrant country in Latin America, Brazil is
home to some of the world's fastest growing religious movements and
has enthusiastically greeted home-grown new religions and imported
spiritual movements and new age organizations. In Brazil and
beyond, these novel religious phenomena are reshaping contemporary
understandings of religion and what it means to be religious. To
better understand the changing face of twenty-first-century
religion, New Era - New Religions situates the rise of new era
religiosity within the broader context of late-modern society and
its ongoing transformation.
Focusing on migration and mobility, this edited collection examines
the religious landscape of Brazil as populated and shaped by
transnational flows and domestic migratory movements. Bringing
together interdisciplinary perspectives on migration and religion,
this book argues that Brazil's diverse religious landscape must be
understood within a dynamic global context. From southern to
northern Europe, through Africa, Japan and the Middle East, to a
host of Latin American countries, Brazilian society has been
influenced by immigrant communities accompanied by a range of
beliefs and rituals drawn from established 'world' religions as
well as alternative religio-spiritual movements. Consequently, the
formation and profile of 'homegrown' religious communities such as
Santo Daime, the Dawn Valley and Umbanda can only be fully
understood against the broader backdrop of migration. Contributors
draw on the case of Brazil to develop frameworks for understanding
the interface of religion and migration, asking questions that
include: How do the processes and forces of re-territorialization
play out among post-migratory communities? In what ways are the
post-transitional dynamics of migration enacted and reframed by
different generations of migrants? How are the religious symbols
and ritual practices of particular worldviews and traditions
appropriated and re-interpreted by migrant communities? What role
does religion play in facilitating or impeding post-migratory
settlement? Religion, Migration and Mobility engages these
questions by drawing on a range of different traditions and
research methods. As such, this book will be of keen interest to
scholars working across the fields of religious studies,
anthropology, cultural studies and sociology.
This textbook is written by well-established anthropology
professors for, and with, their undergraduate students. It explores
what anthropological thinking is, what anthropological approaches
are, and how these are applied in real-world settings. It provides
a thorough introduction to key methods, theories and the
disciplinary value of contemporary anthropology. This book
deliberately steps beyond the standard textbook format.
Undergraduate students reveal the processes by which they came to
understand and apply anthropological knowledge using everyday
experiences and common life events as examples, while also
showcasing the research that student authors produced as a result
of understanding and operationalising those processes. This fresh
take showcases what can be done with anthropological knowledge, not
what you can do with anthropology when you've achieved the rank of
professor. This book is accompanied by practical exercises, and
podcasts that relate to each of the chapters. Podcasts extend
beyond the textbook as live resources, with episodes on a regular
basis. This is an accessible, lively, active text that prepares
students to outbound disciplinary knowledge. This unique and
engaging textbook will be core reading for undergraduate
anthropology students, as well as a source of teaching inspiration
for lecturers of undergraduate anthropology units. It would also be
a useful text for undergraduate students conducting ethnographic
research.
Focusing on migration and mobility, this edited collection examines
the religious landscape of Brazil as populated and shaped by
transnational flows and domestic migratory movements. Bringing
together interdisciplinary perspectives on migration and religion,
this book argues that Brazil's diverse religious landscape must be
understood within a dynamic global context. From southern to
northern Europe, through Africa, Japan and the Middle East, to a
host of Latin American countries, Brazilian society has been
influenced by immigrant communities accompanied by a range of
beliefs and rituals drawn from established 'world' religions as
well as alternative religio-spiritual movements. Consequently, the
formation and profile of 'homegrown' religious communities such as
Santo Daime, the Dawn Valley and Umbanda can only be fully
understood against the broader backdrop of migration. Contributors
draw on the case of Brazil to develop frameworks for understanding
the interface of religion and migration, asking questions that
include: How do the processes and forces of re-territorialization
play out among post-migratory communities? In what ways are the
post-transitional dynamics of migration enacted and reframed by
different generations of migrants? How are the religious symbols
and ritual practices of particular worldviews and traditions
appropriated and re-interpreted by migrant communities? What role
does religion play in facilitating or impeding post-migratory
settlement? Religion, Migration and Mobility engages these
questions by drawing on a range of different traditions and
research methods. As such, this book will be of keen interest to
scholars working across the fields of religious studies,
anthropology, cultural studies and sociology.
Charismatic visions and the role of mediums; possession ceremonies
and ecstatic trance; the social contexts and practices of
invocation: these are a number of the intriguing topics addressed
by this comprehensive undergraduate textbook, the first of its kind
to offer a thorough overview of the fascinating and multifaceted
subject of spirit possession. The subject is now widely studied in
a number of fields -- including religion, sociology, anthropology
and cultural studies -- and for some time, there has been a need
for a book which offers a multicultural, multi-thematic treatment
which can satisfy growing demand and form the basis of focused
courses in the area. "Summoning the Spirits" meets that
requirement. Avoiding technical jargon and abstruse theorizing, the
book offers a representative snapshot of the way the topic is being
treated by academics across the world. Its subject range, too, is
global, covering such topics as Venda possession in South Africa;
the Cuban practice of espiritismo (or mediumship) in Cuba; spirit
possession in the Brazilian new religion of Santo Daime; invocation
and divine possession amongst Wiccans; and different expressions of
spirit domination in Charismatic Christianity. Analyzing themes
which recur from context to context (such as agency and meaning,
power and gender, cultural hybridism, and globalization), an
international team of contributors presents a variety of novel and
challenging approaches. This is the ideal starting-point for
students looking for a way into the subject.
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new
class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and
shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century
American business leaders as a social group and this study helps
remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social
and economic development of the largest centre of machine building
in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative
of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and
re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history,
it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil
War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century
cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of
Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance
extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American
history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid
manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South
and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study
reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative
battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social,
labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt
stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding
of nineteenth-century America.
New Era - New Religions examines new forms of religion in Brazil.
The largest and most vibrant country in Latin America, Brazil is
home to some of the world's fastest growing religious movements and
has enthusiastically greeted home-grown new religions and imported
spiritual movements and new age organizations. In Brazil and
beyond, these novel religious phenomena are reshaping contemporary
understandings of religion and what it means to be religious. To
better understand the changing face of twenty-first-century
religion, New Era - New Religions situates the rise of new era
religiosity within the broader context of late-modern society and
its ongoing transformation.
Nearly all highway, airport, dock and industrial pavements
contain large quantities of untreated aggregate in the form of
unbound pavement layers. In many pavements, which are lightly or
moderately trafficked, crushed rock or gravel derived aggregates
comprise the majority of the construction or, in the case of
unsealed pavements, all of the structure. This book provides
studies of the performance and description of this material that
will help the reader to better understand its characteristics and
behaviour both alone and as part of the pavement structure it
forms. This work will be useful to practitioners, policy makers,
researchers and students. It forms a sequel to the earlier book
"Unbound Aggregates in Road Construction" also published by
Balkema
Lives of the Philadelphia Engineers examines the emergence of a new
class of industrial entrepreneur and the world it confronted and
shaped. Historians are reluctant to examine nineteenth-century
American business leaders as a social group and this study helps
remedy the defect. This book interweaves a history of the social
and economic development of the largest centre of machine building
in nineteenth-century America with the dramatic political narrative
of sectional conflict, Civil War and Reconstruction. Crossing and
re-crossing the boundary between industrial and political history,
it throws new light on the process of industrialisation, the Civil
War conflict, and the contested governance of nineteenth-century
cities. While this study is firmly rooted in the experience of
Philadelphia's machine builders, its historiographic significance
extends to many of the important themes of mid-century American
history. By rejecting the conventional viewpoint that timid
manufacturers were conservative supporters of the plantation South
and insisting that workshop owners rejected slavery, this study
reinvigorates one of the Civil War's enduring interpretative
battles. Of interest to scholars of business, economic, social,
labour, education, urban and Civil War history, it will no doubt
stimulate further debate and add a new angle to our understanding
of nineteenth-century America.
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the
quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial
conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of
people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global
market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place
individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional
conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and
separate societies and cultures no longer convince, to what extent
does movement become central to individuals' self-conceptions? How
do people cultivate, negotiate, nurture and maintain an identity?
To what extent do individuals become 'migrants of identity' whose
home is movement?Defining 'home' as 'where one best knows oneself',
this pioneering book explores the various ways in which people
perceive themselves to be 'at home' in today's world. Through a
series of case studies, authors show that for a world of
travellers, labour migrants, exiles and commuters, 'home' comes to
be found in behavioural routines and techniques, in styles of dress
and address, in memories, myths and stories, in jokes and opinions.
In short, people who live their lives in movement make sense of
their lives as movement.
The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity engages with one
of the most characteristic features of modern society. An
increasingly prominent and potentially contentious phenomenon,
religious diversity is intimately associated with contemporary
issues such as migration, human rights, social cohesion,
socio-cultural pluralisation, political jurisdiction,
globalisation, and reactionary belief systems. This edited
collection of specially-commissioned chapters provides an
unrivalled geographical coverage and multidisciplinary treatment of
the socio-political processes and institutional practices provoked
by, and associated with, religious diversity. Alongside chapters
treating religious diversity in the 'BRIC' countries of Brazil,
Russia, India and China, are contributions which discuss Australia,
Finland, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. This
book provides an accessible, distinctive and timely treatment of a
topic which is inextricably linked with modern society's
progressively diverse and global trajectory. Written and structured
as an accessible volume for the student reader, this book is of
immediate interest to both academics and laypersons working in
mainstream and political sociology, sociology of religion, human
geography, politics, area studies, migration studies and religious
studies.
The Politics and Practice of Religious Diversity engages with one
of the most characteristic features of modern society. An
increasingly prominent and potentially contentious phenomenon,
religious diversity is intimately associated with contemporary
issues such as migration, human rights, social cohesion,
socio-cultural pluralisation, political jurisdiction,
globalisation, and reactionary belief systems. This edited
collection of specially-commissioned chapters provides an
unrivalled geographical coverage and multidisciplinary treatment of
the socio-political processes and institutional practices provoked
by, and associated with, religious diversity. Alongside chapters
treating religious diversity in the 'BRIC' countries of Brazil,
Russia, India and China, are contributions which discuss Australia,
Finland, Mexico, South Africa, the UK, and the United States. This
book provides an accessible, distinctive and timely treatment of a
topic which is inextricably linked with modern society's
progressively diverse and global trajectory. Written and structured
as an accessible volume for the student reader, this book is of
immediate interest to both academics and laypersons working in
mainstream and political sociology, sociology of religion, human
geography, politics, area studies, migration studies and religious
studies.
- Only book world-wide addressing this topic.
- The principal output of the European co-operative Action on
"Water Movements in Road Pavements & Embankments."
- Provides unique guidance on assessing water condition and its
affects on road performance.
- Provides unique guidance on assessing and ameliorating
contaminant movement in pavement groundwater.
- Written by leading experts in Europe.
- Only book world-wide addressing this topic.
- The principal output of the European co-operative Action on
"Water Movements in Road Pavements & Embankments."
- Provides unique guidance on assessing water condition and its
affects on road performance.
- Provides unique guidance on assessing and ameliorating
contaminant movement in pavement groundwater.
- Written by leading experts in Europe.
Global movement is commonly characterized as one of the
quintessential experiences of our age. Market forces, territorial
conflicts and environmental changes uproot an increasing number of
people, while mass communication, travel, tourism, and a global
market of commodities, texts, tastes, fashions and ideologies place
individuals more than ever in a global arena. As traditional
conceptions of individuals as members of stationary, fixed and
separate societies and cultures no longer convince, to what extent
does movement become central to individuals' self-conceptions? How
do people cultivate, negotiate, nurture and maintain an identity?
To what extent do individuals become 'migrants of identity' whose
home is movement?Defining 'home' as 'where one best knows oneself',
this pioneering book explores the various ways in which people
perceive themselves to be 'at home' in today's world. Through a
series of case studies, authors show that for a world of
travellers, labour migrants, exiles and commuters, 'home' comes to
be found in behavioural routines and techniques, in styles of dress
and address, in memories, myths and stories, in jokes and opinions.
In short, people who live their lives in movement make sense of
their lives as movement.
Sociology of Religion is an increasingly popular component of
courses in religious studies at undergraduate level. While most
textbooks on the Sociology of Religion are written from a
sociological background, this new student-friendly textbook aims to
introduce the field and the subjects studied by sociologists of
religion to students with a background in theology and religious
studies.
"Santo Daime: A New World Religion" deals with a young, exotic and
controversial religious movement. Emerging in the Brazilian Amazon
in the 1930s, Santo Daime has since spread to many of the world's
major cities. Santo Daime is a mixture of indigenous, popular
Catholic, Afro-Brazilian, esoteric, Spiritist, and new age beliefs
and activities. Ritual practice is centred on the consumption of a
psychotropic beverage called 'Daime' which members believe enhances
their interaction with the supernatural world. Because Daime is
treated as an illegal narcotic in many parts of the world, outside
of its Brazilian homeland most Santo Daime rituals are practised
clandestinely. This book unites extensive fieldwork experience with
an established theoretical background and makes a significant
contribution to understanding the contemporary interface of
religion and late-modern society. Individualization and religious
subjectivism, pluralization and religious hybridism, transformation
and detraditionalization, globalization and religious identity, and
commoditization and religious consumption are among the many issues
engaged by this book. "Santo Daime: A New World Religion" is an
accessible and multi-disciplinary book suitable for undergraduate
students and researchers working in Religious Studies, Sociology of
Religion, Anthropology, Cultural Studies and Latin American
Studies.
Like many other cultural commodities, films and TV shows tend to
work in such a way as to obscure the conditions under which they
are produced, a process that has been reinforced by dominant trends
in the practice of Film and Television Studies.
This collection places the workplace experiences of industry
workers at centre stage. It looks at film and television production
in a variety of social, economic, political, and cultural contexts.
The book provides detailed analyses of specific systems of
production and their role in shaping the experience of work, whilst
also engaging with the key theoretical and methodological questions
involved in film and television production. Drawing together the
work of historians, film scholars, and anthropologists, it looks at
film and television production not only in Hollywood and Western
Europe but also in less familiar settings such as the Soviet Union,
India, Nigeria, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Chronologically wide-ranging, interdisciplinary and international
in scope, it is a unique introduction, critical for all students of
the film indutries and film production.
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