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Human Universals

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  Human Universals Human Universals OTHER ARTICLES This book covers physical and behavioural characteristics that can be considered universal among all cultures and people. The text is divided into three parts: the problems posed for anthropology by universals six important studies that have forced anthropologists to rethink and the distinctions between linguistic, cultural and social universals.

The Daddies (Social Fiction Series)

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  The Daddies (Social Fiction Series) The Daddies (Social Fiction Series) OTHER ARTICLES A love letter to masculinity, and an indictment of patriarchy.How do you invest in a relationship built on deception, then break up without destroying everything? Is it possible to leave love intact but transformed? THE DADDIES is a story about love and grief – how it hurts to change, even when change is needed. Using hybrid narrative, magical realism and pop-culture analysis, THE DADDIES offers a dark love letter to masculinity told as a lesbian leather-Daddy love story. The story follows a break-up between adults, lovers, but the metanarrative is about our cultural need to break-up with patriarchy, while still holding onto love for masculinity. THE DADDIES is about the pain of change, an unflinching tour through the pleasures and horrors of domination.Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KPLt...Now available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Daddies-Social...

You Must Change Your Life

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  You Must Change Your Life You Must Change Your Life OTHER ARTICLES In his major investigation into the nature of humans, Peter Sloterdijk presents a critique of myth - the myth of the return of religion. For it is not religion that is returning rather, there is something else quite profound that is taking on increasing significance in the present: the human as a practising, training being, one that creates itself through exercises and thereby transcends itself. Rainer Maria Rilke formulated the drive towards such self-training in the early twentieth century in the imperative 'You must change your life'. In making his case for the expansion of the practice zone for individuals and for society as a whole, Sloterdijk develops a fundamental and fundamentally new anthropology. The core of his science of the human being is an insight into the self-formation of all things human. The activity of both individuals and collectives constantly comes back to affect them: work affects the w...

Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture

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  Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture Through the Lens of Anthropology: An Introduction to Human Evolution and Culture OTHER ARTICLES Through the Lens of Anthropology is a concise but comprehensive introductory textbook that uses the twin themes of food and sustainability to illustrate the connected nature of anthropology's four major subfields: archaeology, and biological, cultural, and linguistic anthropology. By viewing the world through the lens of anthropology, students will learn not only about anthropological methods, theories, and ethics, but also the ways in which anthropology is relevant to their everyday lives and embedded in the culture that surrounds them.Beautifully illustrated throughout, with over 150 full-color images, figures, feature boxes, and maps, this is an anthropology text with a fresh perspective, a lively narrative, and plenty of popular topics that are sure to engage readers. A strong pedagogical framework str...

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype

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  Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype OTHER ARTICLES Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D., Jungian analyst and cantadora storyteller shows how women's vitality can be restored through what she calls psychic archeological digs into the ruins of the female unconsious. Using multicultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, Dr. Estes helps women reconnect with the healthy, instinctual, visionary attributes of the Wild Woman archetype.Dr. Estes has created a new lexicon for describing the female psyche. Fertile and life-giving, it is a psychology of women in the truest sense, a knowing of the soul.

Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader

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  Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader OTHER ARTICLES Newly revised, Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader Second Edition provides readers with a picture of the breadth, variation, and complexity of fieldwork. The updated selections offer insight into the ethnographer's experience of gathering and analyzing data, and a richer understanding of the conflicts, hazards and ethical challenges of pursuing fieldwork around the globe. Offers an international collection of classic and contemporary readings to provide students with a broad understanding of historical, methodological, ethical, reflexive and stylistic issues in fieldwork Features 16 new articles and revised part introductions, with additional insights into the experience of conducting ethnographic fieldwork Explores the importance of fieldwork practice in achieving the core theoretical and methodological goals of anthropology Highlights the personal and...

Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture

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  Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits: Inside the Fight to Reclaim Native America's Culture OTHER ARTICLES Who owns the past and the objects that physically connect us to history? And who has the right to decide this ownership, particularly when the objects are sacred or, in the case of skeletal remains, human? Is it the museums that care for the objects or the communities whose ancestors made them? These questions are at the heart of Plundered Skulls and Stolen Spirits, an unflinching insider account by a leading curator who has spent years learning how to balance these controversial considerations. Five decades ago, Native American leaders launched a crusade to force museums to return their sacred objects and allow them to rebury their kin. Today, hundreds of tribes use the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to help them recover their looted heritage from museums acro...