Cultural Anthropology integrates critical thinking, explores rich ethnographies, and prompts
students to skillfully explore and study today's world. Readers will better understand social …

Social Organization of an Urban Grants Economy: A Study of Business Philanthropy and
Nonprofit Organizations explains the elites, corporate wealth, and human service …

Doktorarbeit/Dissertation aus dem Jahr 2009 im Fachbereich BWL-Unternehmensführung,
Management, Organisation, Ostravská univerzita v Ostrave (Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche …

This volume provides a descriptive overview of the cultural complexity on the northwest
coast that stretches from northern California to Alaska. Topics covered range from the …

A number of issues related to conducting ethnographic research in schools are explored
under four criterion headings:(1) appropriateness of the problem,(2) appropriateness of the …

Variously described as an exchange of gifts, a destruction of property, a system of banking,
and a struggle for prestige, the potlatch is one of the founding concepts of anthropology …

This article takes up JK Gibson-Graham's call for a theoretical move away from a model of
monolithic global capitalism and notions of one-way “penetration” of capitalism. The notion …

Religious ceremonies were an inseparable part of Aboriginal traditional life, reinforcing
social, economic, and political values. However, missionaries and government officials with …