Taboo Households

The Social World of Deuteronomy

• Author : Don C. Benjamin
• Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
• File Size : 18,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-12-01
• Genre: Religion
• Pages : 298
• ISBN 10 : 9781498228718

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The book of Deuteronomy is not an orphan. It belongs to a diverse family of legal traditions and cultures in the world of the Bible. The Social World of Deuteronomy: A New Feminist Commentary brings these traditions and cultures to life, and uses them to enrich our understanding and appreciation of Deuteronomy today. Benjamin uses social-scientific criticism to reconstruct the social institutions where Deuteronomy developed, and those that appear in its traditions. He uses feminist criticism to better understand and appreciate how powerful elite males in Deuteronomy view not only the women, mothers, wives, and widows in their households but also their powerless children, liminal people, slaves, prisoners, outsiders, livestock, and nature. Benjamin also uses feminist criticism to describe important aspects of the daily lives of these often overlooked peoples in ancient Israel. How the elite males in Deuteronomy view the women and other members of their households seldom reflects the underlying reality of how these women and others function.

A Dictionary of Owa

• Author : Greg Mellow
• Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
• File Size : 14,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-11-27
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
• Pages : 838
• ISBN 10 : 9781614513612

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The Solomon Islands has a rich linguistic heritage of over 60 languages, many of which have not been described in detail. This first dictionary of Owa, a South East Solomonic Language, contains over 3900 entries, which are typically illustrated with examples of natural language. An overview of the phonology, morphology, and syntax is supplemented by notes on discourse features.

Power and Inequality in Interpersonal Relations

• Author : Eric Beasley
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 20,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-09-08
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 220
• ISBN 10 : 9781351497497

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This book explores interpersonal situations in which weak or vulnerable people find themselves and the ways in which others help create, sustain, and eradicate such social dynamics. Vladimir Shlapentokh and Eric Beasley demonstrate that people can gain power over each other and then abuse this power because of unequal resource conditions. The authors define resources as the means necessary for satisfaction or achievement of needs or goals, such as wealth, physical strength, intellectual capacity and information, sexual attractiveness, and status. This volume is different from existing social science books on inequality and vulnerability, which address relations between people of different social positions, races, genders, ages, and places of residence confronting each other in political, economic, and cultural battles. This book focuses on people who become the victims of those whom they know personally-relatives, colleagues, neighbors. The authors argue that unequal resource distribution among members of social units is the main cause of conflict and ultimately creates situations where members of a social unit can abuse other members of the same unit.

Military Brats

• Author : Mary Edwards Wertsch
• Publisher : Brightwell Publishing
• File Size : 7,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2006
• Genre: Children of military personnel
• Pages : 351
• ISBN 10 : 9780977603305

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Military brats' childhoods are often scarred by alcoholism, abuse, and an ever-present threat of a parent's loss to war. This eye-opening, sometimes shocking exploration tells what life is really like for the stepchildren of Uncle Sam. A new recovery group, Adult Children of Military Personnel, Inc., has been formed as a direct result of this book's publication.

Blood Bodies and Families in Early Modern England

• Author : Patricia Crawford
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 6,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-10-23
• Genre: History
• Pages : 273
• ISBN 10 : 9781317876854

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This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is taught at most universities. This text gives readers an overview of how feminist historians have been interpreting the history of the family, ever since Laurence Stone's seminal work FAMILY, SEX AND MARRIAGE IN ENGLAND 1500-1800 was published in 1977. The text is divided into three coherent parts on the following themes: bodies and reproduction; maternity from a feminist perspective; and family relationships. Each part is prefaced by a short introduction commenting on new work in the area. This book will appeal to a wide variety of students because of its sociological, historical and economic foci.

Substance use among people with a migration background

• Author : Tom Decorte
• Publisher : Maklu
• File Size : 10,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-10-21
• Genre: Immigrants
• Pages : 326
• ISBN 10 : 9789044134582

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Professionals working in addiction care in both Belgium and other European countries have identied a discrepancy between the prevalence of problem substance use among people with a migration background, and the presence of people with a migration background in treatment facilities. However, little research is currently available on this topic. This study attempts to ll the knowledge gap in existing research by exploring the patterns of substance use, expectations and treatment needs of people with a migration background in four Belgian target groups (the Turkish community in Ghent; the Eastern European communities in Ghent; the Congolese community in Brussels; and asylum applicants, refugees and undocumented migrants). Substance users with a migration background can be particularly dicult for researchers to reach, so community researchers were recruited to interview substance users from within their own network. Over 200 people were interviewed. The project was carried out in close collaboration with the respective communities and with stakeholders in addiction care. This book presents the ndings of the study, together with recommendations for health care policy and the practice of addiction care. It also details the explorative and qualitative community-based participatory research design (CBPR) that was used to facilitate the study.

The Oedipus Complex

• Author : William N. Stephens
• Publisher : New York, Free P
• File Size : 7,5 Mb
• Release Date : 1962
• Genre: Cross-cultural studies
• Pages : 300
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015002144148

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Exploration & testing of hypothesis on sexual attraction of boys to their mothers, generation of sexual fears & avoidances; list of cultures examined includes Murngin & Ooldea, explains in detail method of scoring on scales to provide indices of phenomena within a society; tables illustrate findings, among tribes listed, on sexual problems, menstrual taboos, kinavoidance, initiations, totemism, sorcery, Oedipus complex syndrome, polygyny and mother-child households.

School Family And Community Interaction

• Author : Cheryl L Fagnano
• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 20,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-05-28
• Genre: Education
• Pages : 183
• ISBN 10 : 9781000310740

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Most Americans will agree that, among other things, a quality education begins with meaningful interaction between families and schools. Yet as the contributors to this volume point out, several aspects of contemporary American society undermine the critical relationship among schools, families and their communities, and these conditions contribute

The Migrants Table

• Author : Krishnendu Ray
• Publisher : Temple University Press
• File Size : 5,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2004-09-16
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 256
• ISBN 10 : 9781592130962

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To most of us the food that we associate with home-our national and familial homes-is an essential part of our cultural heritage. In this book, Krishnendu Ray examines the changing food habits of Bengali immigrants to the United States as they deal with the tension between their nostalgia for home and their desire to escape from its confinements.

Legal Pluralism and Indian Democracy

• Author : Melvil Pereira
• Publisher : Taylor & Francis
• File Size : 8,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2017-07-28
• Genre: Social Science
• Pages : 338
• ISBN 10 : 9781351403665

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This book offers a multifaceted look at Northeast India and the customs and traditions that underpin its legal framework. The book: charts the transition of traditions from colonial rule to present day, through constitutionalism and the consolidation of autonomous identities, as well as outlines contemporary debates in an increasingly modernising region; explores the theoretical context of legal pluralism and its implications, compares the personal legal systems with that of the mainland, and discusses customary law’s continuing popularity (both pragmatic and ideological) and common law; brings together case studies from across the eight states and focuses on the way individual systems and procedures manifest among various tribes and communities in the voices of tribal and non-tribal scholars; and highlights the resilience and relevance of alternative systems of redressal, including conflict resolution and women’s rights. Part of the prestigious ‘Transition in Northeastern India’ series, this book presents an interesting blend of theory and practice, key case studies and examples to study legal pluralism in multicultural contexts. It will be of great interest to students of law and social sciences, anthropology, political science, peace and conflict studies, besides administrators, judicial officers and lawyers in Northeast India, legal scholars and students of tribal law, and members of customary law courts of various tribal communities in Northeast India.

China s Household Registration hukou System

• Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 10,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2005
• Genre: China
• Pages : 48
• ISBN 10 : PURD:32754078863150

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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 20,6 Mb
• Release Date : 1897
• Genre: Anthropology
• Pages : 562
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015019953044

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The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 19,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1897
• Genre: Anthropology
• Pages : 634
• ISBN 10 : IND:30000098348851

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Journal

• Author : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 13,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1897
• Genre: Anthropology
• Pages : 572
• ISBN 10 : UCLA:31158009063693

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Between Totem and Taboo

• Author : Roger Little
• Publisher : University of Exeter Press
• File Size : 11,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2001
• Genre: Black people in literature
• Pages : 312
• ISBN 10 : 0859896498

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Retired since 1998, Little (French, Trinity College Dublin) continues his steady output of books by picking through a minefield of prejudice, myth, and stereotypes in French writing primarily from France and her former colonies in Africa and the West Indies. Beginning two and half centuries ago with the first French novel to sport a black hero, he explores representations of intimate relationships between characters Europeans labeled as black men and white women. Distributed by David Brown Book Co. c. Book News Inc.