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Mild Altered States of Consciousness Subtle Shifts of Mind and Their Therapeutic Potential
This book draws on transpersonal anthropology and psychology in order to explore mild altered states of consciousness (ASCs) experienced in everyday...
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White Supremacy and Anti-Supremacy Forces in the United States A Sociohistorical and Social-Psychological Approach
This book applies the most recent research in social psychology to decisive historical events that arguably built white supremacy as a cultural...
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Living with Nature, Cherishing Language Indigenous Knowledges in the Americas Through History
This open access book explores the deep connections between environment, language, and cultural integrity, with a focus on Indigenous peoples from...
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Researching Central Asia Navigating Positionality in the Field
This open access book explores some of the struggles and challenges that researchers and practitioners face when conducting research in the Central...
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Die urbanen Wurzeln der Mafia Mafiose Akteure und Strukturen im Sizilien des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts
Ausgehend von Roberto Llaryoras Fallstudien und seiner Kritik an dem in den Medien und der Wissenschaft vorherrschenden, historisch und...
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Sport in der totalen Institution – eine Gefängnisethnographie
Justizvollzugsanstalten müssen Gefangenen die Möglichkeit anbieten, sich sportlich zu betätigen. Basierend auf mehrjähriger ethnographischer...
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Marriage Migration, Intercultural Families and Global Intimacies
This book brings an innovative study of marriage migration in Australia, offering new insights into issues of intimacy and authenticity online. In...
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Acceleration and Cultural Change Dialogues from an Overheated World
This open access book includes socio-anthropological and anthropo-sociological conversations between one of the world’s leading anthropologists,...
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From Dezinformatsiya to Disinformation A Critical Analysis of Strategies and Effect on the Digital Public Sphere
The book takes a critical look at the phenomenon of disinformation by identifying the historical, technological and human elements that contribute to...
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Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology Gestures and Artefacts
This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming...
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Narratives of Wellbeing
This book critically interrogates ‘wellbeing’, a concept that is exploding in popularity across the globe. The collection of essays asks not only how...
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Shrinking Japan and Regional Variations: Along the Sannyodo
Taking the Goki-Shichido(Five Home Provinces and Seven Circuits of Ancient Japan) as a theoretical framework, this book examines shrinking Japan...
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Judentum in Bewegung Die Entstehung gleichgeschlechtlicher Elternschaft in Israel
In Israel, wo das orthodoxe Rabbinat historisch sanktionierten Einfluss auf die rechtlichen Definitionen von Ehe und Elternschaft hat, wirft...
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Black Clergy in the Church of England Towards a Sense of Belonging
This book explores the experiences of ordinands and Black clergy of the Church of England (CofE). An increasing number of Black ordinands (trainees)...
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Simplex Society How to Humanize
This open access book provides thought-provoking anthropology grounded in comparative ethnography. The theory captures the current historical moment,...
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Researching with Proximity Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene
This open access book presents a series of speculative, experimental modes of inquiry in the present times of environmental damage that have come to...
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Lebendiges Mantra Mantra, Gottheit und visionäre Erfahrung heute
Living Mantraist eine Anthropologie der Mantra-Erfahrung unter hinduistisch-tantrischen Praktizierenden. In alten indischen Lehren und Legenden...
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The Origins Of Human Social Nature Westermarckian Sociology and Social Anthropology
This book is the first comprehensive study of Westermarckian sociology and social anthropology, which flourished in Finland for half a century, until...
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Sexualised Governmentalities Critical Perspectives on Homosexism
This book critically examines the concept of sexualised governmentalities, a framework for understanding the evolving discourse and power dynamics...
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Christian Temporalities Living Between the Already Fulfilled and the Not Yet Completed
This volume explores how different forms of Christianity shape people's visions of pasts and futures, and how the transcendent is brought into human...
