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La antropología y algunas disciplinas afines como son la geografía y la sociología se encuentran en esta obra con el fin de pensar conjuntamente el objeto que les es común: el espacio. La publicación sigue la vía iniciada por el libro pionero de José Luis García, "Antropología del territorio" (1976) i recoge algunas de las contribuciones de diferentes investigadores en el marco de un seminario de tercer ciclo sobre antropología del espacio promovido por el Equipo de Investigación de Antropología de los Procesos Identitarios (ERAPI). Grupo de Investigación Multiculturalismo y Género.
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Esta publicación recopila la mayoría de los materiales presentados en el Congreso Español de Sociología. La mayoría de los trabajos tienen como propósito difundir algunos de los temas y preocupaciones actuales en torno a la sociología del género.
This book describes how style of dress influences the body's demeanour and habit. In describing dress practices in three West African communities - Muslim, Animist and Christian – it considers the role played by dress in the enculturation of the body.
This text provides an overview of the history of the mechanical clock and its effects on European society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial revolution. The book provides a discussion of how mechanical clocks functioned in cities and dispels many
Since World War II, abortion policies have remained remarkably varied across European nations, with struggles over abortion rights at the forefront of national politics. This volume analyses European abortion governance and explores how social movements, political groups, and individuals use protests and resistance to influence abortion policy. Drawing on case studies from Italy, Spain, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the European Union, it analyses the strategies and discourses of groups seeking to liberalise or restrict reproductive rights. It also illuminates the ways that reproductive rights politics intersect with demographic anxieties, as well as the rising nationalisms and xenophobia related to austerity policies, mass migration and the recent terrorist attacks in Europe.
This document was created because of the need for new assessment strategies and practices to be developed to enable teachers and others to assess students' performance in a manner that reflects the NCTM's reform vision for school mathematics. Instead of assuming that the purpose of assessment is to rank students on a particular trait, the new approach assumes that high public expectations can be set that every student can strive for and achieve, that different performances can and will meet agreed-on expectations, and that teachers can be fair and consistent judges of diverse student performances. The first sections of the document discuss six mathematics assessment standards: (1) The Mathem...
In this ground-breaking study based on ethnographic research in Formentera, in the Balearic Islands, the author demonstrates that European kinship can become central to anthropological explanation once it is understood from a symbolic and cultural perspective. This book is an outstanding example of ethnographic analysis which is sensitive to the findings of demographic and historical research.