Sociologi & antropologi

Sociological theory has veered between an insistence on understanding human rights as a genuine universal morality and far more cynical portrayals of human rights as a veil of …

Die Untersuchung wertet in einer breit angelegten Programmanalyse die Angebotsentwicklung der Volkshochschule Dresden von 1945-1997 aus. Sie erarbeitet Zusammenhänge zwischen …

Wer uber den Menschen nachdenkt, um sein Leben zu verstehen und um es lebenswert zu gestalten, der beginne mit zwei Gedanken-Systemen, mit dem von Kant und mit dem von Darwin. Mit …

Westerners have long imagined the Himalayas as the world's last untouched place and a repository of redemptive power and wisdom. Beatniks, hippie seekers, spiritual tourists, …

This is the first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of "e;coloniality"e;, understood as the hidden agenda and the …

This book brings together some of the most distinguished and influential scholars in philosophy and sociology to explore the continued relevance of Herbert Marcuse's critical …

The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives. Their work draws upon recent …

From the opening sequence, in which mid-nineteenth-century Indian fishermen hear the possibility of redemption in an old woman's madness, "No Aging in India" captures the reader …

Der Band beinhaltet Artikel aus den Jahren 1992 bis 2014, die vormals in der "taz", der "WAZ" und dem Blog "myheimat.de" erschienen sind. Aktuelle Themen wie Bildung, Rassismus und …

Basic text for the sophomore/junior level course in Human Variation or Human Diversity taught anthropology or biology departments. This classic introduction to human variation, …