Author: Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: encounters, knowledge, anthropological, experience, violence, ethnographic
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-09-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1847884164
ISBN-13: 9781847884169

Violence takes many forms. From large-scale acts of terrorism to assaults on single individuals, violence is a defining force in shaping human experience and a central theme in anthropological study. Violence: Ethnographic Encounters presents a set of vivid first-hand accounts of fieldwork experiences of violence. The examples range across Latin America, Asia, the Middle East and Africa, and illustrate instances of state terror, insurgency, communal violence, war, prison violence, class conflict, security measures, and sexual violence. How do these anthropologists come to know a place through

Authors:Allison Truitt, Stefan Senders,
Publisher: Berg Publishers
Keywords: encounters, knowledge, anthropological, experience, money, ethnographic
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-09-15
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 1845207505
ISBN-13: 9781845207502

Through vivid fieldwork accounts anthropologists explore the ways money has influenced their perceptions and understandings of culture. These accounts raise critical questions. How do anthropologists come to know another culture through ordinary yet unexpected experiences with money? How is anthropological knowledge produced through these interactions? This book offers students, teachers, and researchers the opportunity to consider the work of anthropology through vigorous narrative. It also includes a Guide to Further Reading for students. With stories of fieldwork in such varied sites as Vie

Author: Micol Seigel
Publisher: Duke University Press
Keywords: encounters, states, american, interactions, united, global, brazil, making, race, nation, uneven
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2009
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0822344408
ISBN-13: 9780822344407

In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual c

Authors:Jerry Bentley, Herbert Ziegler,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: traditions, encounters, amp, present, volume
Number of Pages: 640
Published: 2007-10-12
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073330639
ISBN-13: 9780073330631

Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps

Authors:Jerry Bentley, Herbert Ziegler,
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: traditions, encounters, amp, beginning, volume
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2007-10-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073330620
ISBN-13: 9780073330624

Over a million students at thousands of schools have learned about world history with the best selling book for the course, Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Using the twin themes of traditions and encounters, the text emphasizes both the distinctive patterns of historical development within individual societies and the profound results of interactions between different societies. Exploring the historical record of cross-cultural interactions and exchanges, Traditions and Encounters places the world of contemporary globalization in historical context. The book helps

Author: Yoneko Kanaoka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: academic, encounters, listening, taking, discussion, manual, world, natural, teacher
Number of Pages: 130
Published: 2009-03-23
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0521716411
ISBN-13: 9780521716413

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. The Teacher’s Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, lecture quizzes and quiz answers, and the listening script for the audio program.

Author: Miriam Espeseth
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: academic, encounters, listening, taking, discussion, audio, behavior, human, student, book
Number of Pages: 170
Published: 2004-06-28
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0521606209
ISBN-13: 9780521606202

This book develops students’ listening, note-taking and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic interviews and classroom lectures. The Student’s Book develops students’ listening, note-taking, and discussion skills using a variety of recorded authentic materials. The text prepares high-intermediate students with an introduction to psychology and communications, and covers high-interest topics such as stress, intelligence, and friendship. Each chapter explores one of these topics using a variety of listening materials, including informal interviews and authent