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Classical and Contemporary Social Theory: The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization (Hardcover)

The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization explores the nature of contemporary malaises diseases illnesses and psychosomatic syndromes examining the manner in which they are related to cultural pathologies of the social body.... more

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism : Culture and Politics in Postrevolutionary Argentina (Hardcover)

Beyond Civilization and Barbarism examines the role of cultural production in the struggle for power in Argentina during the first half of the nineteenth century. Identifying the pueblo or people as the common preoccupation of those vying to legitimize... more

Early Civilizations of the Old World : The Formative Histories of Egypt the Levant Mesopotamia India and China 9780415109758 Used / Pre-owned

Tracing the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history Early Civilisations of the Old World explains how particular forms of social structure and cultural interaction developed from before the Neolithic period.Early... more

How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization : The Time and Heroic Story of How Gay Men Shaped the Modern World (Paperback)

A cultural history of the customs fashions and figures of gay life in the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries-and how they have changed us for the better. How the Homosexuals Saved Civilization presents a broad yet incisive look at how an... more

Routledge Advances in Asia-Pacific Studi Civilization Nation and Modernity in East Asia (Hardcover)

This book explores the crisis of cultural identity which has assaulted Asian countries since Western countries began to have a profound impact on Asia in the nineteenth century. Confronted by Western civilization and by modernity Asian countries have... more

Social and Cultural Anthropology in Perspective: Their Relevance in the Modern World (Paperback)

Social anthropology is in the classic definition dedicated to the study of distant civilizations in their traditional and contemporary forms. But there is a larger aspiration: the comparative study of all human societies in the light of those... more

Social and Cultural Pluralism in the Caribbean; 83 (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

BAR International: Cultural Change on a Temporal and Spatial Frontier: Ceramics of the Terminal Classic to Postclassic transition in the Upper Belize River Valley (Paperback)

The decline of ancient Maya civilization has resonated in both the popular and archaeological imagination. Over the years archaeologists have questioned this collapse with increasing detail in some parts of the Maya area but in the Belize Valley the... more

Strangers to This Ground; Cultural Diversity in Contemporary American Writing; 92 (Paperback)

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United... more

Strategies for Survival: The Psychology of Cultural Resilience in Ethnic Minorities (Paperback)

Why does one society survive while others perish? When two cultures come into contact how do exploitation violence and terror arise? Interested in the survival of various cultures in the face of encroaching white civilization Peter Elsass has studied... more

Andean Archaeology I: Variations in Sociopolitical Organization (Paperback)

Study of the origin and development of civilization is of unequaled importance for understanding the cultural processes that create human societies. Is cultural evolution directional and regular across human societies and history or is it opportunistic... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology and Contemporary Human Problems (Paperback) 076741845X 9780767418454

Using the cross-cultural evolutionary and multi-disciplinary perspectives that are unique to anthropology this text examines some of the contemporary civilization s most pressing problems and generates ideas for solutions. more

The Heart of Whiteness : Normal Sexuality and Race in America 1880–1940 (Paperback)

In this groundbreaking study Julian Carter demonstrates that between 1880 and 1940 cultural discourses of whiteness and heterosexuality fused to form a new concept of the normal American. Gilded Age elites defined white civilization as the triumphant... more

Oxford in India Readings in Sociology an The Village in India (Paperback)

The village has epitomized Indian civilization and been the subject of much study and contemplation. The present volume attempts to address a wide number of interests--economic political cultural social gender--and presents a profile of processes and... more

Race and Culture: A World View (Paperback)

Encompassing more than a decade of research around the globe this book shows that cultural capital has far more impact than politics prejudice or genetics on the social and economic fates of minorities nations and civilization. more

Culture and Customs of Asia Culture and Customs of Afghanistan (Hardcover)

Afghanistan has been at the crossroads of many cultures and civilizations occupying a unique place in the cultural geography of Central Asia. Invading tribes and armies passed through ancient Afghanistan and left their imprint on the culture customs... more

Identity and Power in the Ancient Andes: Tiwanaku Cities Through Time (Paperback)

The Tiwanaku state was the political and cultural center of ancient Andean civilization for almost 700 years. Identity and Power is the result of ten years of research that has revealed significant new data. Janusek explores the origins development and... more