An accessible, comprehensive source of information on the Korean language--its structure and history to its cultural and sociological setting.

Ranging across contemporary culture from the academy to shopping malls, this book offers engaged cultural criticism in a postfeminist context.

Drawing on textual and anthropological research, this book demonstrates how popular ritual texts and stories have shaped the religion and culture of the only surviving Mahayana Buddhist society, the Newars of Kathmandu.

Uncovers the methodological principles that govern interpretive change.

A fascinating look at how three epidemics of the medieval and Early Renaissance period in Western Europe shaped and altered conceptions of the human body in ways that continue today.

Explores rural resistance, class consciousness, and the politics of contemporary culture through the experience of family farmers in France's "red south."

A vivid ethnography of a group of students training to become schoolteachers in Bolivia and the challenges they face as they try to maintain their indigenous identity.

Emphasizes the role of history in shaping Yugoslav Jewish identity.

An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts.

Examines the changing texture of power relations in non-traditional U. S. worksites.

Examines the impact of coca and the cocaine trade on the Latin American country most affected by it, Bolivia.

Essays and case studies by anthropologists provide insight into what measures might be necessary to mitigate the potentially harmful effects of tourism on host communities.

Examines the discourses and experiences associated with space and place in contemporary Israel.

Describes the experiences of a group of adult Brazilian women in a literacy program with explicit emancipatory objectives.

Examines the theory and methods by which social scientists study the human lived experienced.

Delves into the lives and words of adolescents to examine how they assert their ethnic and racial identities within school settings.

Explores, interprets, and critically analyzes various success ethics that have shaped American culture and education. It also formulates new forms of the success ethic in order to uncover overlooked models and to overcome the shortcomings of previous genres.

This book examines the fast-changing patterns of work in the global market and the resulting social, cultural, and economic impact on the work force.

This book presents in detail seven contemporary approaches to dream interpretation as they are actually practiced by highly skilled and experienced psychiatrists and psychologists who have worked with ...

One Blood offers a wealth of ethnographic material, skillfully using traditional Jamaican images and expressions to present a coherent and systematic depiction of the Jamaican body, of how it works and ...

This book provides the latest research and theory in the area of children's play with their parents. It includes discussions of the basic processes involved in parent-child play, parent-child play in ...

Henderson examines the foundations of an analytic social science approach to develop a well-integrated account of the human sciences, focusing on the pivotal notions of interpretation and explanation. ...

Many contemporary neuroscientists are skeptical about the belief that dreaming accomplishes anything in the context of human adaptation and this skepticism is widely accepted in the popular press. This ...

This book examines the figure of the virgin, a symbol central to many aspects of society and sexuality in nineteenth-century England, and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination. Studying the ...