Public Issues in Anthropological Perspective – serie
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Sealed and Secret Kinship
The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption
Inbunden, 2002
1880 kr
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Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes …
Aging in Today's World
Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician
Av Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson
Häftad, 2005
527 kr
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Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous — and for the most part — healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why are …
Braving the Street
The Anthropology of Homelessness
Av Irene Glasser, Rae Bridgman
Inbunden, 1999
1861 kr
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As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant …
Braving the Street
The Anthropology of Homelessness
Av Irene Glasser, Rae Bridgman
Häftad, 1999
454 kr
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As homelessness continues to plague North America and also becomes more widespread in Europe, anthropologists turn their attention to solving the puzzle of why people in some of the most advanced technological societies in the world are found huddled in a subway tunnel, squatting in a vacant …
War on the Homefront
An Examination of Wife Abuse
Av Shawn D. Haley, Ellie Braun-Haley
Inbunden, 2001
1861 kr
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About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than …
War on the Homefront
An Examination of Wife Abuse
Av Shawn D. Haley, Ellie Braun-Haley
Häftad, 2001
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an insider (a spousal abuse survivor), this book offers a humanistic, rather than …
Sealed and Secret Kinship
The Culture of Policies and Practices in American Adoption
Häftad, 2002
527 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes …
Aging in Today's World
Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician
Av Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson
Inbunden, 2003
1921 kr
Lägg i varukorg
Never before in human existence have the aged been so numerous — and for the most part — healthy. In this important new book, two professionals, an anthropologist and a physician, wrestle with the complex subject of aging. Is it inevitable? Is it a burden or gift? What is successful aging? Why are …
