(Išleidimo metai: 23-Nov-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226829654)
In this project, sociologists Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz and political scientist Daniel Skinner set out to examine why so many communities surrounding hospitals are economically distressed and medically underserved. On the one hand, hospita...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 07-Nov-2023, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226829678)
A surprising look at how hospitals affect and are affected by their surrounding communities. An enduring paradox of urban public health is that many communities around hospitals are economically distressed and, counterintuitively, me...Daugiau...
Collaborations responds to the growing pressure on the humanities and social sciences to justify their impact and utility after cuts in public spending, and the introduction of neoliberal values into academia....Daugiau...
What new varieties of wellbeing and misfortune are emerging in this post-9/11, postmodern, neoliberal era of travel and mobility? What is the future of movement for leisure and medical necessity, for human dignity and mutuality, for wellbeing and su...Daugiau...
Demonstrates the importance of anthropology using case studies from academia and practice and argues that symbiotic collaboration with other disciplines is key to the long-term survival of the discipline. Collaborations responds to...Daugiau...
Jonathan D. Cohen, Jim Cullen, June Skinner Sawyers, Natalie Adler, Eric Alterman, Regina Barreca, Nancy Bishop, Dermot Bolger, Peter Ames Carlin, Jefferson Cowie...
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Sep-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Rutgers University Press, ISBN-13: 9781978805262)
In this unique collection, critics, musicians, scholars, and fans describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by Bruce Springsteen’s music. A diverse array of contributors reflect on their personal connections to Springsteen&rsquo...Daugiau...
Monica Ali, Roma Tearne, Lisa Appignanesi, Bernardine Evaristo, Patrick Gale, Emma Parsons, Ian Sansom, Jonathan Skinner, Gillian Slovo, Lytton Smith...
These are not fictions. Nor are they testimonies from some distant, brutal past, but the frighteningly common experiences of Europe’s new underclass—refugees. While those with ‘citizenship’ enjoy basic human rights, peopl...Daugiau...
Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They expre...Daugiau...
This special issue of Ethnologia Europaea focuses on tour guides as cultural mediators. It opens with a discussion of tour guiding in the anthropology of tourism by Jackie Feldman and Jonathan Skinner and consideration of how tour guiding should be...Daugiau...
Adam Kaul, Jonathan Skinner, Jane Desmond, James Fernandez
(Išleidimo metai: 28-May-2018, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University Press of Colorado, ISBN-13: 9781607327288)
This anthropological study examines the relationship between leisure and death, specifically how leisure practices are used to meditate upon—and mediate—life. Considering travelers who seek enjoyment but encounter death and dying,...Daugiau...
Around the world, tourists are drawn to visit murals painted on walls. Whether heritage asset, legacy leftover, or contested art space, the mural is more than a simple tourist attraction or accidental aspect of tourism material culture. They expre...Daugiau...
While increasing attention is being paid to the drivers and forms of entrepreneurship in informal economies, much less of this policy and research focus is directed at understanding the links between mobility and informality....Daugiau...
Concluding that IRAs and 401(k)s do increase saving, this text provides a fresh cost-benefit approach for analyzing the success of savings incentives. It compares the new savings to the government tax revenue lost through contributions to IRAs and...Daugiau...
There is probably no national day that has such global popularity as St. Patricks Day. On St. Patricks Day, it is reputed that Everyone is Irish. What are the factors and factions that give the day such popular appeal? Is St....Daugiau...
Dance is more than an aesthetic of life dance embodies life. This is evident from the social history of jive, the marketing of trans-national ballet, ritual healing dances in Italy or folk dances performed for tourists in Mexico, Panama and Can...Daugiau...
This volume interrogates the use of interviews by placing the interview itself in the hot-seat exploring and its nature, interview techniques, and illustrative case studies. Also addressing key issues such as awkwardness, silence and censorship,...Daugiau...
