BILSTEIN B6 DAMPER Book Archive

New PDF release: The Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Culture (Wiley

This choice of unique, state of the art essays by way of renowned foreign students covers crucial concerns comprising the sociology of tradition. offers a useful reference source to all drawn to the cultural buildings and strategies that animate modern existence includes 27 essays at the most vital concerns comprising the sociology of tradition, together with paintings, technological know-how, religions, race, type, gender, collective reminiscence, associations, and citizenship displays and analyzes the “cultural flip” that has remodeled scholarship within the social sciences and arts.

Download e-book for kindle: Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, by Caroline B. Brettell

Brettell's new booklet presents new perception into the tactics of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological point of view. it's been expected on the flip of the millennium that a hundred and sixty million individuals are residing open air in their nation of start or citizenship. the writer analyzes macro and micro methods to migration thought, using her huge fieldwork in Portugal in addition to study in Germany, Brazil, France, the U.S. and Canada.

New PDF release: The Music of Multicultural America: Performance, Identity,

The tune of Multicultural the United States explores the intersection of functionality, identification, and neighborhood in quite a lot of musical expressions. Fifteen essays discover traditions that variety from the Klezmer revival in ny, to Arab song in Detroit, to West Indian steelbands in Brooklyn, to Kathak track and dance in California, to Irish tune in Boston, to powwows within the midwestern plains, to Hispanic and local musics of the Southwest borderlands.

Download e-book for kindle: South Coast New Guinea Cultures: History, Comparison, by Bruce M. Knauft

The groups of south coast New Guinea have been the topic of vintage ethnographies, and clean experiences in fresh many years have placed those wealthy and intricate cultures on the centre of anthropological debates. Flamboyant sexual practices, reminiscent of ritual homosexuality, have attracted specific curiosity. within the first basic e-book at the sector, Dr Knauft reaches outstanding new comparative conclusions via a cautious ethnographic research of sexuality, the prestige of ladies, ritual and cosmology, political economic system, and violence one of the region's seven significant language-culture components.