Antropologi

Researchers of human behaviour have identified an "e;orgasm gap"e;: Men usually orgasm during intercourse, whereas women often do not. This book addresses this mystery. The …

The book, showing virtuous examples of urban planning in Italy and Europe, exposes certain doubts and open questions: what is the new role of urban planning?

Focusing on complex entanglements of religion and gender from a diversity of perspectives, this book explores how women enact agencies in transcultural Hindu and Buddhist settings. …

The Sakalava are one of the Malagasy ethnic groups of Madagascar. In this work, Michael Lambek starts from the basis of the mediumship and ritual which is the basis of an ancestral …

This book offers insights into the issues around food security, public health, equity and global governance. With a focus on India, it highlights the complex networks of …

This open access book adopts a cultural sociology of materiality to explore the hallmark of the female athlete: the ponytail. Studying a wealth of news articles about ponytails in …

Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for …

Comedy is a brutal business. When comedians define success, they don't talk about money-they talk about not quitting. They work in a business where even big names work for free, …

Winner, ISHS Certificate of Excellence, 2016 In the late 1850s and early 1860s, the attention of the Catholic and Protestant religious communities around the world focused on a …

This book is concerned with the connection between the formal structure of agency and the formal structure of genocide. The contributors employ philosophical approaches to explore …