Using the concept of musical effervescence, a collective state of synchronized and focused intersubjectivity through music, Gavin Robert Walker reveals how and why songs have become such a ubiquitous and formidable force within the AIDS epidemic in...Daugiau...
The Image of Africa in Italian Popular Music is an innovative, well-documented and provocative study which explains the how Africa and Africans are portrayed in Italian music, and how African-Italian musicians contribute to the decolonization...Daugiau...
The Dialectics of Two Refusals endeavors to use the multifarious optics of China to critically reinterpret and rehistoricize a wide set of Western cinematic representations of the 1968 disruptions beyond the traditional epistemological confines of...Daugiau...
The Mayan peoples of highland Guatemala live within an animate world, where the physical environment, ancestors, and surrounding people, plants, and animals are infused with spirit and presence.At the heart of this daily engagement are...Daugiau...
Explore the complex relationship between sports and mental health and discover the influence of biological and social factors on athletes psychological wellbeing. Sports can boost mood, reduce stress, and build confidence, but pressure...Daugiau...
This valuable resource provides the most complete source of comprehensive and useful information about the nations individual states, metropolitan and micropolitan areas, and their component counties. This edition features the latest information on...Daugiau...
On Bigotry breaks down the curriculum of bigotry into concise, accessible chapters that explore both the historic and contemporary manifestations of bigotry in American society. This book will help readers become literate in how bigots think, the rh...Daugiau...
Documents the variety of strategies used for the negotiation of Australian religious diversity in the context of law, migration, education, policing, the media, and interfaith-- This book documents the structure of religious diversity...Daugiau...
Language, whether spoken, written, or signed, is a powerful resource that is used to facilitate social justice or undermine it. The first reference resource to use an explicitly global lens to explore the interface between language and soci...Daugiau...
Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth work and psychology. This book introduces existing research methods such as interviews, focus groups, ethnography and crea...Daugiau...
Introduces existing and emerging research methods that can be used when conducting research with young people. Undertaking research with young people is an expanding approach within education, sociology, criminology, politics, youth wor...Daugiau...
The Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) is a Kurdish militant political organization and armed guerrilla movement. Designated a terrorist organization by Turkey, the EU and the US, it seeks self-determination from Turkey. But this book examines the other...Daugiau...
An exploration of the history of magic and its place in societies in the western world and beyond over the last 2,500 years. What role has magic played in society through the ages? How has it been practiced and, at times, controlled? Ho...Daugiau...
The Social Brain: Sociological Foundations introduces the concept of the social brain, including a detailed conceptual model of the social brain networked in the world. The idea that our brains are social has its roots in nineteenth-century social th...Daugiau...
Inequality, Identity, and the Politics of Northern Ireland examines how the politics of threat and resentment, undergirded by persistent poverty and class and gender inequalities across Catholic and Protestant communities, shape dynamics of politica...Daugiau...
Practical Symbolic Interactions in the Shrine of the South: Conversations with a Damn Yankee finds that Lexington-Rockbridge, VA, community sentiments toward Southern symbols such as the Confederate Battle Flag and Robert E. Lee are not necessarily r...Daugiau...
An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who choose to live and work in the wild. An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Ph...Daugiau...
