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Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Lucy Maynard Salmon (July 27, 1853 – February 14, 1927) was an American historian. She was a professor of history at Vassar College from 1889 until her death. She was the first woman to be a member of the executive committee of the American Historical Association. She published widely in historical journals and general magazines, and was highly active in civic affairs, supporting civil service reform and world and women suffrage.
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Author
Publisher
Zaglossus
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This history makes use of anti-social theory to take a broad and multifaceted look at queer-feminist punk—from its origins in the 1980s to its contemporary influences on the Occupy movement and Pussy Riot activism.--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Finnish Literature Society / SKS
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"This book addresses the narrative construction of places, the relationship between tradition communities and their environments, the supernatural dimensions of cultural landscapes and wilderness as they are manifested in European folklore and in early literary sources, such as the Old Norse sagas. The first section “Explorations in Place-Lore” discusses cursed and sacred places, churches, graveyards, haunted houses, cemeteries, grave mounds,...
Author
Publisher
Lever Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Most people get information about child sexual abuse from media coverage, social movements, or conversations with family and friends. Confronting Child Sexual Abuse describes how these forces shape our views of victims and offenders, while also providing an in-depth look at prevention efforts and current research. Sociologist Anne Nurse has synthesized studies spanning the fields of psychology, sociology, communications, criminology, and political...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Aboriginal approaches to the naming of places across Australia differ radically from the official introduced Anglo-Australian system. However, many of these earlier names have been incorporated into contemporary nomenclature, with considerable reinterpretations of their function and form. Recently, state jurisdictions have encouraged the adoption of a greater number of Indigenous names, sometimes alongside the accepted Anglo-Australian terms, around...
Author
Publisher
The Ohio State University Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Asexual Erotics: Intimate Readings of Compulsory Sexuality' attends to the silence around asexuality in queer, feminist, and lesbian thinking from the late 1960s to the present. Drawing on the knowledge generated by asexual community, activism, and scholarship, Ela Przybylo gives us the first queer and feminist monograph on asexuality.--From publisher's description.
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This volume brings the remote and little known island of Rapa firmly to the forefront of Polynesian archaeology. Thirteen authors contribute 14 chapters, covering not only the basic archaeology of coastal sites, rock shelters, and fortifications, but faunal remains, agricultural development, and marine exploitation. The results, presented within a chronology framed by Bayesian analysis, are set against a background of ethnohistory and ethnology. Highly...
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The field of color categorization has always been intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, since its beginnings in the nineteenth century. The main contribution of this book is to foster a new level of integration among different approaches to the anthropological study of color. The editors have put great effort into bringing together research from anthropology, linguistics, psychology, semiotics, and a variety of other fields, by promoting the...
Publisher
University of New Orleans
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
The interdisciplinary volume offers methodologically innovative approaches to Austria's coping with issues of migration past and present. These essays show Austria's long history as a migration country. Austrians themselves have been on the move for the past 150 years to find new homes and build better lives. After the World War II the economy improved and prosperity set in, so Austrians tended to stay at home. Austria's growing prosperity made the...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage conservation has not received the same attention. This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. It will provide an overview of the extent to which local...
Publisher
University of Adelaide Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This volume draws together three core concerns for the social sciences: the senses and embodiment, emotions, and space and place. The chapters engage with intersections between space, sense and emotion through a range of experiences and activities including dance, bullfights, healing ceremonies, celebrations and music. The authors herein critically examine diverse contexts, in and through which relations between sensate bodies, spaces and places,...
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
This open access book advocates for the Social Sciences and Humanities to be more involved in energy policymaking. It forms part of the European platform for energy-related Social Sciences and Humanities’ activities, and works on the premise that crossing disciplines is essential. All of its contributions are highly interdisciplinary, with each chapter grounded in at least three different Social Sciences and Humanities disciplines. These varying...
Publisher
ANU Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Indigenous policy is a diverse and complex domain motivated by a range of social, cultural, political and economic issues. One central component of current Indigenous policy is the Australian Government’s stated aim to close the gap between Indigenous and non-Indigenous outcomes. This focus on Indigenous disadvantage is not new and has a considerable pre-history. Under the Hawke government in the 1980s there was considerable concentration on ‘statistical...
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Food consumption patterns and practices are rapidly changing in Asia and the Pacific, and nowhere are these changes more striking than in urban areas. This book brings together scholars from anthropology, sociology, environmental studies, tourism, architecture and development studies to provide a comprehensive examination of food consumption trends in the cities of Asia and the Pacific, including household food consumption, eating out and food waste....
Author
Publisher
Countryside and Community Research Institute
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The idea for this book came slowly following a gradual collection of blog posts on the CCRI website in recent years. The posts centred around the general theme of how we manage shared assets and what alternative approaches there might be, informed by research and practice in the governance of commons resources. The whole area of commons and management of common pool resources has become more topical over the last 6 years following the award of the...
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The present study aims to know and evaluate the type of social response at the hospital discharge from a inpatients psychiatric service in Unidade Local de Sau00fade do Baixo Alentejo (ULSBA), Beja, Portugal.Background:Social responses for mental health patients at the moment of hospital discharge is a fundamental element in the process of recovery and rehabilitation and to enable them to return to personal, family, social and professional life (when...
97) Development and Challenges of Japan DMORT (Disaster Mortuary Operational Response Team) Association
Author
Publisher
Morressier
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Author
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This book sheds light on the integration processes and identity patterns of Angolan, Brazilian and Eastern European communities in Portugal. It examines the privileged position that immigrant organisations hold as interlocutors between the communities they represent and various social service mechanisms operating at national and local levels. Through the collection of ethnographic data and the realisation of 110 interviews with community insiders...
Author
Publisher
Transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
How do people live together in cities shaped by inequality? This comparative ethnography of two African cities, Maputo and Johannesburg, presents a new narrative about social life in cities often described as sharply divided.
Based on the ethnography of entangled lives unfolding in a township and in a suburb in Johannesburg, in a bairro and in an elite neighborhood in Maputo, the book includes case studies of relations between domestic workers
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Publisher
J.B. Lippincott Company
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
'Cliff Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe' by S. Baring-Gould is a fascinating account of the rock-dwellings, cliff-refuges, and underground sanctuaries that humans have built across Europe and beyond. From the Pueblo Indians in America to the limestone cliffs of Palestine, the book explores the remarkable human dwellings that have been carved out of the earth. The author draws from extensive research and his own experience to document the lives...
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