"The greatest influences of German architecture on America are bipolar: Folk Architecture and Modern Academic Architecture. In between are the lowe...

This book explores the topic of how grandparents can become more substantively involved with their grandchildren without interfering in the traditi...

Mapping inter-cultural relationships as they are played out in a remote Aboriginal settlement in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, this book ...

The hydraulic heritage and water culture in Ibero-America result in a man-made cultural landscape, century after century, where the legacies of sev...

This book explores the issues related to the intercultural competence of future teachers and their readiness to work with children in a multicultur...

Twenty-seven centuries ago, ten Hebrew tribes were exiled by the Assyrians and vanished somewhere beyond the mist-shrouded mountains of the East. T...

This book is a comprehensive synthesis of Japanese civilization in the 21st century. It covers all major elements of this civilization with a stron...

This work documents the lives of a group of hunters and reindeer herders living at the headwaters of the Lower Tunguska River at the end of the 20t...

Roughly 40,000 Latvians served in the Waffen-SS from 1943 to the end of war in the 15. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS (lettische Nr.1) and 19. Wa...

This book analyses the meaning attached to sport in South African societies, past and present. It explores the history and changing meanings attach...

This book comprises a set of chapters that will enable readers to understand, at least partially, the current structure of sensibilities in Argenti...

The ten chapters in this volume represent a breakthrough in the study of the Social Sciences and Humanities crafted by the professors and graduate ...

Popular culture texts have always been ideological battlegrounds between multiple voices with imbalanced power relations. This edited volume aims t...

Race and racism are significant factors posing formidable challenges for racialised individuals and groups across North America. For social workers...

Recording Kastom brings readers into the heart of colonial Torres Strait and New Guinea through the personal journals of Cambridge zoologist and an...

Rituals promote the ability to attribute meaning to our lives because rituals are profound structures that define the continuity of experience betw...

The first large-scale study of the important, but as yet largely invisible, group of Icelandic women who live on the sea -- their lives, contributi...

What makes young men willing to risk their lives by enrolling in violent organizations? How do these organizations persuade young men to do so? In ...

The Sāmoan Islands are virtually unique in that tattooing has been continuously practised with indigenous techniques: the design of the full male t...

In this award-winning work Carlson explores the complexities surrounding Aboriginal identity today. Drawing on a range of sources including intervi...

In 1929 Albert Londres, a non-Jew and renowned journalist, set out to document the lives of Jews at this time. His travels to England, Eastern Euro...

One little question propels both author and reader on a genre-bending quest to find the elusive essence of a Canadian province built on sturdy ster...