Victor Turner, in his early works on Ndembu ritual (221, 222), included a great deal of
performance material in developing the concepts of liminality and reversal in human action …

Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of
the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela …

The Expediency of Culture is a pioneering theorization of the changing role of culture in an
increasingly globalized world. George Yúdice explores critically how groups ranging from …

The program presents anthropology's core concepts and also demonstrates anthropology's
relevance to the 21st-century world we inhabit. Key themes of appreciating the experiences …

In the fully updated Sixth Edition of Understanding Global Cultures: Metaphorical Journeys
Through 34 Nations, Clusters of Nations, Continents, and Diversity, authors Martin J …

This article examines the workings and effects of the penalization of poverty in urban Brazil
at century's turn to uncover the deep logic of punitive containment as state strategy for the …

The weakness of Brazil's black consciousness movement is commonly attributed to the
fragility of Afro-Brazilian ethnic identity. In a major account, John Burdick challenges this …

As duas últimas décadas do século XX viram ascensão da ideia de cultura a um duplo
primeiro plano: o das políticas públicas e o do mercado, neste caso de um modo ainda mais …

Ibegan this book talking about the problems of Elitist Democracy in the United States and
Brazil. I argued that the worrisome combination of the tendencies toward economic and …

For centuries in Western civilization, politicians, economists, psychologists and laypeople
alike have assumed that the desirability of individual choice was inherent in humankind …