検索キーワード： 人類学

Um mergulho preciso e mordaz no mundo dos endinheirados brasileiros. Há um traço comum a boa parte dos endinheirados brasileiros: eles não se consideram ricos. Não existe um critério absoluto para a riqueza no Brasil. Sempre haverá alguém com mais dinheiro, mais pompa, mais patrimônio, mais próximo do topo da pirâmide. Logo, os ricos são sempre os outros.

In 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference. This new Essential Amadiume edition illustrates the specifically Western origins of the gender essentialisms to which much current gender theory reacts.

Explore the world of the emerging high-stakes and life-changing medical intervention that made the uterus—long synonymous with womanhood and motherhood—sharable Uterus transplantation is the fastest-growing transplant field in the world. Multiple clinical trials have concluded, scores of...

Drawing on history, sacred texts and contemporary scholarship, The Case for Jewish Peoplehood identifies some of the obstacles that challenge a shared notion of peoplehood: personal choices, construct of membership and boundaries, growth of Jewish illiteracy, identity fragmentation between Israeli and Diaspora Jewry, and the generational divide affecting traditionalists, baby boomers, and generations X and Y.

From peacemakers and strategists to explorers and entrepreneurs, the tūpuna of the North are an inspiration to the people of Te Tai Tokerau. This remarkable book by Melinda Webber and Te Kapua O'Connor introduces a new generation to twenty-four of those tūpuna–Nukutawhiti and Hineāmaru, Hongi Hika and Te Ruki Kawiti, and many more. Through whakapapa and kōrero, waiata and pepeha, we learn about their actions, their places, their values, and their aspirations.

Enter the inner world of the Brahma Kumaris through this immersive and dynamic audiobook that blends anthropological insight with a deeply personal spiritual journey. Drawing on years of fieldwork and lived experience, Tamasin Ramsay explores purity not as a static moral ideal, but as a living, evolving discipline—one that actively shapes identity, relationships, and inner freedom.

It's exhausting being Irish. The constant self-flagellation is enough to put anybody off their breakfast. Why are we so hard on ourselves? Is it the postcolonial overhang following centuries of oppression at the hands of a litany of foreign invaders? Or is it collective guilt for sending Westlife out into the wider world? In Surviving Ireland, acclaimed comedy writer Colm Tobin takes the listener by the hand for a satirical romp through modern Irish life.

For most of human history, we were rural folk. Our daily lives were bound up with working the land, living within the rhythm of the seasons. And yet rural life is oddly invisible our historical records. The daily routine of the peasant, the farmer or the craftsperson could never compete with the glamour of city life, war and royal drama. Lives went unrecorded, stories untold. There is, though, one way in which we can learn about our rural past. The things we have left behind provide a connection that no document can match; physical artefacts are touchstones that breathe life into its history.

Brought to you by Penguin. We often read history as the biographies of ‘great men’ who shaped the world. But are leaders, whichever field they are in, really that influential? Should CEOs be given large bonuses when a company performs well? Why, when a political leader is assassinated, is...

Before grammar, stories, or history, there was pointing. Grunting. Guesswork. And somehow, from that, we built language. This isn’t a textbook. It’s the story of how humans learned to name the world, how we stitched together meaning from noise, and how the system we invented ended up running us. From cave mouths to cuneiform, slang to syntax, sacred scripts to AI chatbots, this book tells the full arc of the original human software: invented, forgotten, rediscovered, and now automated. This Is a Rock doesn’t teach you how to talk. It shows you how we figured out that we could.

From tribal rituals to televised inaugurations, from thrones to algorithms, politics has survived not through brute force but through spectacle, myth, and symbols. Georges Balandier called it the theater of power. This audiobook asks what happens when that theater moves to screens, platforms, and code.

The global story of how big security took over our politics and private lives Security has taken over our politics and our private lives, from the return of global warfare to the rise of Ring doorbells. Reporting from the frontlines of our paranoid world, anthropologist Ruben Andersson shows how...

Brought to you by Penguin. To truly grasp the wisdom of a tree, you need to begin thinking like one... From New York Times bestselling author Robert Moor comes a wondrous, curious journey through the wilds of nature and the gnarls of history, exploring how trees – from the mightiest sequoia to...

The Telephone: A New History by James Gleick is a forthcoming title from Farrar, Straus and Giroux...

مجموعة من القصص القصيرة تتناول عددًا من النماذج البشرية المقهورة التي تقبع بقاع المجتمع لحاجاتها وفقرها فهي تُروى لاثنتي عشرة سيدة يعملن كخادمات أو مربيات بالبيوت ولكنها لا تتناول طبيعة عملهن كخادمات فقط ولكن طبيعة حياتهن والتي تشمل حاجاتهن ورغباتهن، كاشفة ما يتعرض لە المجتمع من تحرش أو تعدٍّ وهن فاقدات للحقوق كبشر.

Il rapporto che i gatti hanno instaurato con gli esseri umani circa 10.000 anni fa non ha niente a che vedere con l'amicizia: noi e i gatti non parliamo la stessa lingua, non ci capiamo ma ci piacciamo, a tratti non ci sopportiamo ma non possiamo stare lontani gli uni dagli altri. Partendo dalle interazioni quotidiane con i suoi gatti Esther e Toshiro, diversissimi in tutto ma ugualmente nevrotici, Matteo Bordone racconta e analizza la relazione che abbiamo creato con queste miagolanti palle di pelo.

In diesen pointierten Texten setzt sich Nietzsche mit der Rolle des Künstlers auseinander: mit Eitelkeit, Einsamkeit, Schöpferkraft, Selbstzweifeln – und dem Spannungsfeld zwischen Inspiration und Selbstüberschätzung. Die Aphorismen sind scharf, klug und bis heute provozierend aktuell – ein psychologisches Porträt des schöpferischen Menschen und ein kritischer Blick auf die Kulturszene seiner Zeit.

Though we try to imagine otherwise, waste is every object, plus time. Whatever else an object is, it’s also waste—or was, or will be. All that is needed is time or a change of sentiment or circumstance. Waste is not merely the field of discarded objects, but the name we give to our troubled relationship with the decaying world outside ourselves. Waste focuses on those waste objects that most fundamentally shape our lives and also attempts to understand our complicated emotional and intellectual relationships to our own refuse.

When is the “beautiful game” at its most beautiful? How does football function as a lens through which so many view their daily lives? What’s right in front of fans that they never see? Football celebrates and scrutinizes the world’s most popular sport—from top-tier professionals to children just learning the game. As an American who began playing football in the 1970s as it gained a foothold in the States, Mark Yakich reflects on his own experiences alongside the sport’s social and political implications, its narrative and documentary depictions, and its linguistic idiosyncrasies

Coffee--it's the thing that gets us through, and over, and around. The thing--the beverage, the break, the ritual--we choose to slow ourselves down or speed ourselves up. The excuse to pause; the reason to meet; the charge we who drink it allow ourselves in lieu of something stronger or scarier. Coffee goes to lifestyle, and character, and sensibility: where do we buy it, how do we brew it, how strong can we take it, how often, how hot, how cold? How does coffee remind us, stir us, comfort us?