The Anthropology of Food and Body explores the way that making eating and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies. This book brings feminist and anthropological theories to bear on these provocative issues and will... Lees meer.

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Drawing on new anthropological approaches John Winkler considers the lives of men and women in Ancient Greece. For centuries classical scholars have intensely debated the position of women in classical Athens. Did women have a vast but informal power or were the... Lees meer.

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion of the non-universal human... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The author argues that religion -- in this case Pentecostalism -- cannot be understood sim... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender... Lees meer.

The HIV epidemic in Bolivia has received little attention on a global scale in light of the country s low HIV prevalence rate. However by profiling the largest city in this land-locked Latin American country Carina Heckert shows how global health-funded HIV care progr... Lees meer.

The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender informs this book on the cultural construction of identity for Jamaican migrants in Britain. The complex and sometimes contradictory articulation of ethnicity religion and gender... Lees meer.

This ethnographically-based exploration draws on sociological historical and demographic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of family gender and kinship in Australia which informs modern kinship and gender at large. Allon Uhlmann charts the cultural basis that... Lees meer.

Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu this book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of social change.... Lees meer.

The Lao discusses culture and village life in Laos exploring topics of kinship and family gender relations households religion livelihood strategies and ethnicity. In particular it highlights the effects of recent development projects on the relative power of men... Lees meer.

Explores gender relations in Muslim societies using post-Soviet Tajikistan as a central case-study. Control and Subversion investigates the relationship of gender to the inner workings of social control such as exposing ways in which post-Soviet Tajikistan society... Lees meer.

What can the lived experiences of performing artists in Java Indonesia tell us about the production and negotiation of gender and local identity. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork conducted in Malang East Java author Christina Sunardi demonstrates ways individual... Lees meer.

The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performance for an anthropology of gender. The Performance of Gender presents a vivid description of everyday life in order to explore the concept of performanc... Lees meer.

Focusing on cultural change and the socio-political movements in the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu this fascinating book uses both anthropological and historical analysis to examine the way the relationship between gender and Christianity has shaped processes of soc... Lees meer.