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Images and Power
Rock Art and Ethics
Häftad, 2012
568 kr
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Ethics and Rock Art: Images and Power addresses the distinctive ways in which ethical considerations pertain to rock art research within the larger context of the archaeological ethical debate. Marks on stone, with their social and religious implications, give rise to distinctive ethical concerns …
Ethical Research with Sex Workers
Anthropological Approaches
Av Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng
Häftad, 2013
694 kr
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This volume is the result of the many years the authors have spent conducting ethnographic field research with sex workers, conversing with other researchers, and, perhaps most importantly, developing a deep sense of empathy for the sex worker participants in the research as well as the colleagues …
Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains
600-900 CE
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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This volume offers a new perspective on social dynamics and culture change in the North Central European Plains (NCEP) from 600 to 900 CE. It discusses long-term causal processes leading to the formation of state at the fringes of the Merovingian and Frankish Kingdoms, the Carolingian and the …
Mainstream Polygamy
The Non-Marital Child Paradox In The West
Häftad, 2013
551 kr
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This volume explores the forms of knowledge generated by exoticizing the subject studied. It analyzes monogamy in Western cultures from a cultural distance. First, from the cultural perspective of a Kenyan writer who underlines the moral evils unwittingly generated by a system imposing universal …
Bioarchaeology of Climate Change and Violence
Ethical Considerations
Av Ryan P. Harrod, Debra L. Martin
Häftad, 2013
568 kr
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The goal of this monograph is to emphasize with empirical data the complexity of the relationship between climate change and violence. Bioarchaeology is the integration of human skeletal remains from ancient societies with the cultural and environmental context. Information on mortality, disease, …
Learning with Women in Jail
Creating Community-Based Participatory Research
Häftad, 2019
551 kr
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In this monograph, the ethical implications of engaging in research with vulnerable populations is explored and demonstrates how Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) both enhances the research while addressing these ethical complexities. Although CBPR encompasses different levels of …
Design Ethnography
Epistemology and Methodology
Häftad, 2020
343 kr
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This open access book describes methods for research on and research through design. It posits that ethnography is an appropriate method for design research because it constantly orients itself, like design projects, towards social realities. In research processes, designers acquire …
Sex Differences in Fear Response
An Evolutionary Perspective
Av Anne Campbell, Lee T Copping m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
535 kr
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This book reviews the evolutionary forces behind sex differences in fear responses and, crucially, delves into the mechanisms through which sexual selection might have driven sex differences in connection with fear. Fear is an evolved mechanism that helps us stay alive, but is also an emotion …
Acceleration and Cultural Change
Dialogues from an Overheated World
Av Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Martina Visentin
Häftad, 2023
442 kr
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This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists, Thomas Hyland Eriksen, and a young scholar, using his groundbreaking "overheating" approach.This book includes socio-anthropological and …
People, Parks, and Power
The Ethics of Conservation-Related Resettlement
Av Maria Sapignoli, Robert K. Hitchcock
Häftad, 2023
829 kr
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This book presents a critical review of the ethics of conservation-related resettlement. We examine what has become known as the” parks versus people” debate, also known as the “new conservation debate,” which has pitted indigenous and other local people against nation states and social scientists …
Community-Based Participatory Research with Women in Prison
The Women’s Words/Women’s Worlds Peer Mentoring Program
Av Susan Dewey, Brittany VandeBerg m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
605 kr
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This innovative work tells the story of a unique partnership between a state prison administration and a team of incarcerated women, prison administrators, researchers, artists, and students known as The WoW Collective due to their joint efforts in developing a peer mentoring program called …
African Migrant Journeys Through Mexico
A Longitudinal Ethnography of Multiple Displacements
Häftad, 2026
551 kr
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This book presents an intimate portrayal of African migration through Mexico, based on a four-year longitudinal ethnography (2021-2025) conducted in Tijuana, Tapachula, and Mexico City. Through the lives of five African migrants, it explores the complex and ever-changing migration systems that …
Cultural Translation in Technology Design
When Technology Travels
Häftad, 2026
567 kr
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This book explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when high-tech innovation crosses cultural boundaries—and how it can be thoughtfully adapted before reaching the end user. Drawing on a real-world case of a European Virtual Reality (VR) training system prepared for deployment in …
Ethical and Pro-Social Responses to Global Social Problems
Beyond the Intractable
Av Brad Tripp, Susan Dewey m. fl.
Häftad, 2026
551 kr
Kommande
This short book unites seven case studies from Africa, Europe, and the Americas to offer new solution-oriented ways of thinking about seemingly insurmountable social problems. These solution-oriented ways of thinking, as detailed in each of the seven case study chapters, emphasize how understanding …
Great Awakening and Southern Backcountry Revolutionaries
Av Richard J. Chacon, Michael Charles Scoggins
Häftad, 2014
714 kr
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This work documents the impact that the Great Awakening had on the inhabitants of colonial America’s Southern Backcountry. Special emphasis is placed on how this religious revival furrowed the ground on which the seeds of the American Revolution would sprout. The investigation shows how the Great …
Linguistic Ideologies of Native American Language Revitalization
Doing the Lost Language Ghost Dance
Häftad, 2014
605 kr
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The concept of this volume is that the paradigm of European national languages (official orthography; language standardization; full use of language in most everyday contexts) is imposed in cookie-cutter fashion on most language revitalization efforts of Native American languages. While this model …
Sex Workers and Criminalization in North America and China
Ethical and Legal Issues in Exclusionary Regimes
Av Susan Dewey, Tiantian Zheng m. fl.
Häftad, 2016
714 kr
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Sex work continues to provoke controversial legal and public policy debates world-wide that raise fundamental questions about the state’s role in protecting individual rights, status quo social relations, and public health. This book unites ethnographic research from China, Canada, and the United …
Human Physical Fitness and Activity
An Evolutionary and Life History Perspective
Häftad, 2016
567 kr
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The science of human physical activity and fitness is ripefor a novel theoretical framework that can integrate the ecological, genetic,physiological and psychological factors that influence physical activity inhumans. Physical inactivity dominates most developed nations around theworld, and is …
Remembering the Body
Ethical Issues in Body Mapping Research
Häftad, 2016
679 kr
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This volume explores the arts-based methodology of body mapping, a participant-driven approach wherein people create richly illustrated life-size maps that articulate their embodied experiences with various health issues. First developed in the global South as a means of community mobilization and …
Madhesi Upsurge and the Contested Idea of Nepal
Av Kalpana Jha
Häftad, 2017
623 kr
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This book is set against the burning issue of ethnic uprisings in the Madhes region of Nepal and analyses debates on the idea of contemporary Nepal. The limited view of Nepal as a primarily hill nation with Nepali-speaking people ignores the vast ethnic and linguistic diversity of the country. It …
