Antropologi

Denmark is a great place to work - if you know the unwritten rules of Danish working culture. The Danish "flat hierarchy" means that you may find yourself interacting with top management even as a junior employee. Your Danish boss will expect you to be proactive, work independently, and quickly admit mistakes when you makethem. This book explains some of these unstated assumptions of the Danish workplace, as well as how to find a job in Denmark.- Is learning to speak Danish necessary?- How can you promote your skills in a job interview without breaking "The Jante Law"?- Is it true that Danish bosses encourage you to disagree with them?- Why is it so important to take a break and eat cake with your colleagues?- What's it like to be an international boss leading a Danish team?

End Times: Elites, Counter-Elites, and the Path of Political Disintegration is a compelling piece of literature penned by the brilliant Peter Turchin. This book, published by PENGUIN PR on June 13, 2023, delves deep into the world of politics, offering a unique perspective on the path of political disintegration. The book is an intriguing exploration of the power dynamics between elites and counter-elites, and the subsequent impact on the political landscape. Turchin masterfully weaves a narrative that is both insightful and thought-provoking, making it a must-read for anyone interested in political science. This book is a testament to Turchin's ability to analyze complex political scenarios and present them in an accessible format. Published by the renowned PENGUIN PR, this book is sure to be a valuable addition to your library.

This powerful graphic novel illustrates the personal text messages and lived experiences of Ukrainians during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

A New York Times Notable Book of 2020A Bloomberg Best Non-Fiction Book of 2020A Behavioral Scientist Notable Book of 2020A Human Behavior & Evolution Society Must-Read Popular Evolution Book of 2020A bold, epic account of how the co-evolution of psychology and culture created the peculiar Western mind that has profoundly shaped the modern world.Perhaps you are WEIRD: raised in a society that is Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. If so, you're rather psychologically peculiar.Unlike much of the world today, and most people who have ever lived, WEIRD people are highly individualistic, self-obsessed, control-oriented, nonconformist, and analytical. They focus on themselves-their attributes, accomplishments, and aspirations-over their relationships and social roles. How did WEIRD populations become so psychologically distinct? What role did these psychological differences play in the industrial revolution and the global expansion of Europe during the last few centuries?In The WEIRDest People in the World, Joseph Henrich draws on cutting-edge research in anthropology, psychology, economics, and evolutionary biology to explore these questions and more. He illuminates the origins and evolution of family structures, marriage, and religion, and the profound impact these cultural transformations had on human psychology. Mapping these shifts through ancient history and late antiquity, Henrich reveals that the most fundamental institutions of kinship and marriage changed dramatically under pressure from the Roman Catholic Church. It was these changes that gave rise to the WEIRD psychology that would coevolve with impersonal markets, occupational specialization, and free competition-laying the foundation for the modern world.Provocative and engaging in both its broad scope and its surprising details, The WEIRDest People in the World explores how culture, institutions, and psychology shape one another, and explains what this means for both our most personal sense of who we are as individuals and also the large-scale social, political, and economic forces that drive human history. Includes black-and-white illustrations.

A compelling foundation for a new story of interconnectedness, showing how, as our civilization unravels, another world is possible. Award-winning author, Jeremy Lent, investigates humanity's age-old questionsWho am I? Why am I? How should I live?from a fresh perspective, weaving together findings from modern systems thinking, evolutionary biology, and cognitive neuroscience with insights from Buddhism, Taoism, and Indigenous wisdom. The result is a breathtaking accomplishment: a rich, coherent worldview based on a deep recognition of connectedness within ourselves, between each other, and with the entire natural world. As our civilization careens toward a precipice of climate breakdown, ecological destruction, and gaping inequality, people are losing their existential moorings. Our dominant worldview of disconnectionwhich tells us we are split between mind and body, separate from each other, and at odds with the natural worldhas passed its expiration date. Yet another world is possible. The Web of Meaning offers a compelling foundation for the new story that could enable humanity to thrive sustainably on a flourishing Earth. It's a book for everyone looking for deep and coherent answers to the crisis of civilization.

They Came To Earth Millions Of YearsAgo To Spread The Poison Of Hatred,War And Catastrophe...They Are With Us Still...Human history is a seemingly endless succession of bloody conflicts and devastating turmoil. Yet, inexplicably, in the light of astonshing intellectual and technological advancement, Man's progress has been halted in one crucial area: he still indulges the primitive beast within and makes war upon his neighbors.As a result of seven years of intense research, William Bramley has unconvered the sinister thread that links humanity's darkest events -- from the wars of the ancient pharaohs to the assissination of JFK. In this remarkable, shocking and absolutely compelling work, Bramley presents disturbing evidence of an alien presence on Earth -- extraterrestrial visitors who have conspired to dominate Humankind through violence and chaos since the beginning of time...a conspiracy which continues to this very day.

n-Between: Exploring Small Cracks of Everyday Life is an anthology comprising contributions from a group of social scientists all preoccupied with the possibilities and potentials of working ethnographically. The chapters of the book investigates a range of small everyday life ‘cracks’ – a notion covering unnoticed, withdrawn and overlooked phenomena alike, and which designate the metaphorical interstices and in-betweens that influence and affect most aspects of everyday experience, the comprehensive field also subject to ethnographic inquiry. The chapters in the anthology are all based on original fieldwork and explore different cracks occurring in-between humans as well as in-between humans and non-human entities.A distinct element of the book as a whole is that it comprises experiments in terms of both ethnographic writing approaches as well as with the construction of analytical objects. The argument consistently going through the separate chapters, as well as through the volume in entirety, is that the many wondrous, mysterious, odd and puzzling phenomena encountered in everyday life are not necessarily grasped best by the application of strictly rational and rigorous academic approaches. To the contrary, and as the authors all demonstrate in their own manner, social science can also seek to fathom these sides of human existence with analytical explorations that are both sensitive, bold and infused with responsive and creative intensity.

Mennesket har festet så langt tilbage i historien, øjet rækker. Overalt i verden er festen omdrejningspunkt for familien, landsbyen, arbejdspladsen eller folket. Faktisk i alle de sociale sammenhænge, der gør os til mennesker. For festerne binder os sammen. Fester bryder hverdagsrytmen, og rituelle, højtidelige eller muntre handlinger erstatter dagligdagen. Der er religiøse højtider, politiske fester, årstidsbestemte gilder eller fejringer af vigtige begivenheder som fx bryllupper. Ofte med mad og drikke i rigelige mængder og gerne med musik, sang eller dans. Bogen fejrer festen til alle tider og i alle dens afskygninger. Fra stenalderens jægere og samlere til fastelavn på Amager, og fra de dødes fest i Mexico til fest for vinguden Dionysos i oldtidens Grækenland.Bogen er skrevet af arkæologer, antropologer, etnologer og historikere – det hele samlet af arkæologen Ditlev L. Mahler og etnologen Elisabeth Colding. Bogens afsluttende essay om nutidens danske fest er skrevet af antropologen Anne Knudsen, tidligere chefredaktør ved Weekendavisen.

"QIMMEQ - The Greenland Sled Dog" is a tribute in text and images to a unique dog breed and the people surrounding it. With text contributions from 14 experts, the origin of the sled dog, its cultural significance, the contemporary use of the dog in Greenland and the dog's health, is described. Throughout the book, quotes from, and interviews with, Greenlandic mushers, emphasize their relationship with the sled dog. The book opens with preface by His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark.The book is richly illustrated by award-winning photographer Carsten Egevang's black and white photos. In an intriguing layout, the sled dog is portrayed, the special bond between musher and the dogs as well as the dog's functions in today's Greenland is documented - all with the magnificent Greenlandic scenery as background. The book is also available in Danish (ISBN 9788797178003) and Greenlandic (ISBN 9788797178027) version.

At dele er det nye sort. Vi holder ferie i andres hjem, vi lader fremmede køre vores bil, så længe de betaler og afleverer den igen, og på sociale medier deler vi nogle af vores sorger og næsten alle vores glæder. Men hvad er det egentlig, vi gør, når vi deler, hvad har den nye deleøkonomi med deling at gøre, og har vi mennesker ikke altid delt det fornødne med hinanden?I Hvad vi deler afdækker 13 forskere, hvordan deling viser sig som et komplekst fænomen, der verden over vedrører både moralske, sociale og økonomiske forhold. Det kommer ikke mindst til udtryk, når de fattigste dele af befolkningen på Papua Ny Guinea kræver, at de rigeste deler deres velstand med dem, når troende i Rusland ikke blot deler deres materielle goder, men også meget personlige spirituelle oplevelser, når grønlandske fiskere deler fangstkvoter, og når virksomheder som Airbnb og Uber lynhurtigt vokser sig store ved at udnytte deling som en sikker vej til enorme indtægter. Gennem disse og en række andre eksempler sætter bogen et af nyere tids største modefænomener på en lidt mere fast formel.

This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artefacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analysed and visually presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. The objects were collected during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia.The book is also a detailed account of the expeditions including their routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants, their struggles with scientific aspirations, and the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese occupation. The First and Second Danish Expeditions to Central Asia took place in 1936-1937 and 1938-1939 respectively. These expeditions were the sole foreign parties with access to the area at the time, and therefore their members were among the few observers of Inner Mongolian pastoral society at a time when information was scant and knowledge of the place fragmented - as is in many ways still the case. Hence, the material objects and data obtained are of great scientific importance in the documentation of the life and material culture of Inner Mongolian herders in the 1930s.

Dette er en unik bog, en levende øjenvidneberetning om livet hos et ukendt jægerfolk i Chad. Det er et pionerværk, som ikke blot skildrer en spændende kultur og sætter denne ind i en bred historisk og samfundsmæssig sammenhæng, men er og vil forblive at være det eneste værk baseret på et antropologisk studie af et levende jægersamfund i hele Nord- og Vestafrika.Da den unge antropolog Ida Nicolaisen i 1963 drog til Chad med sin mand, nu afdøde professor Johannes Nicolaisen var det for at søge at finde Haddad-folket, som var sporadisk omtalt af franske administratorer. Det lykkedes. De fandt Haddad som levede i små grupper på de vidtstrakte stepper og i udkanten af Sahara øst og nord for Chadsøen. Det var hjertevarme mennesker, trods deres barske livsbetingelser. For Haddad blev foragtet og forfulgt af omboende folk og forhindret aktivt i at følge deres traditionelle livsform. Derfor undgik de kontakt og søgte et liv i ubemærkethed.Rejsen var tænkt som et pilotstudie, men der udbrød borgerkrig under opholdet. Den sociale uro fortsatte i mange år ligesom i det tilgrænsende Darfur. Det gjorde videre forskning umulig og ægteparret kom aldrig tilbage til Chad. Heller ikke andre har siden skrevet om Haddad-folket.

Bogen ”At samle på duge” fortæller om de seneste 100 års samlinger af duge. I bogen beskrives 10 forskellige duge. Der er beskrivelser af forskellige duge, trends og tidens tendenser i det årti hvorpå dugen blev fremstillet eller anskaffet. Bogen har fokus på hverdagens dugesamlinger, og indeholder duge, som du helt sikkert kan genkende.Duge er noget vi alle sammen bruger hver dag. Det er noget vi kan associere os med, og derfor er bogen et vigtigt supplement i vores kultur- og designhistorie.

Hvad en sjælden svamp kan lære os om at opretholde livet på en skrøbelig planet.Matsutake er den mest værdifulde svamp i verden og vokser i menneskeforstyrrede skove på hele den nordlige halvkugle. Den kan ikke dyrkes, men der, hvor den gror, giver den næring til træerne og hjælper dem med at overleve. Matsutake anses for en delikatesse og handles for astronomiske priser. Ved at følge de nye globaliserede forsynings- og varekæder disse meget efterspurgte svampe skaber, beskriver Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing områder, der rækker langt ud over svampe, ogstiller et afgørende spørgsmål: Hvad formår at leve i de ruiner, vi har skabt?Svampen ved verdens ende udforsker den underjordiske fælled og de multiartslige verdener omkring os. Vi møder japanske gourmeter, købmænd, hmongfolk i Oregon, industriskove, yi-kinesiske gedehyrder, finske naturguider og meget mere. Disse ledsagere fører os ind i svampeøkologier og skovhistorier for bedre at forstå løftet om samliv i en tid med massiv menneskelig ødelæggelse. Det er en original undersøgelse af forholdet mellem kapitalisme og samarbejdet om overlevelse i multiartslige landskaber, som er forudsætningen for fortsat liv på jorden.“En poetisk og bemærkelsesværdig frugtbar udforskning af forholdet mellem mennesker og det naturlige miljø.” – Pankaj Mishra, The Guardian“Jeg er meget taknemmelig for at have denne bog.” – Ursula K. Le Guin

Hvorfor giver vi egentlig hinanden gaver - og hvorfor er de så vigtige?Gaver findes over hele verden – fra Asien til Amerika og fra Sibirien til Afrika. Men hvad er gaver egentlig for noget? Hvorfor giver vi dem, og hvorfor bliver vi sure og kede af det, hvis vi aldrig får nogen igen?My Madsen er antropolog og har forsket i menneskers opførsel og samfund både på Københavns Universitet og Nationalmuseet. My har gennem flere år arbejdet med at formidle samfundsvidenskabelig viden i børnehøjde.

Kæmpe guldskat skjult i 1500 årVindelevskatten blev fundet i juledagene 2020 efter at have ligget i jorden i næsten 1500 år. Ca 800 g guld i form af smykker, medaljoner og guldmundblik blev gravet op fra mulden på en mark i Vindelev i nærheden af Jelling efter søgning med en metaldetektor. De to mænd, som fandt skatten, fik midt i Corona-tiden travlt med at gemme skatten, indtil de kunne komme i kontakt med Vejlemuseerne og få afleveret deres fund.”Det er det vigtigste fund siden Guldhornene…på en skala fra 1-10 er det en 12’er”, udtalte forhenværende arkæolog ved Nationalmuseet, dr.phil. emeritus Morten Axboe senere.Disse ord blev sagt med god grund. Skatten indeholder verdens største brakteat, en pyntemedaljon på størrelse med en underkop, sammen med fem andre. På en af brakteaterne findes ydermere verdens tidligste skriftlige vidnesbyrd om Odin. Desuden indeholder skatten fire uhyre sjældne romerske medaljoner. Vindelevskatten blev fundet af Ole Ginnerup Schytz og Jørgen Antonsen. De fandt den på en mark på Jørgens slægtsgård i Vindelev, hvor Jørgen Antonsen er syvende generation og bor dér sammen med Hanne Pagh Martinussen. De to har sammen skrevet og redigeret bogen Vindelevskatten – Et sted – Et fund, som nu udkommer med skildringen af fundet og de tanker, det har sat i gang.Jørgens slægt har boet på gården siden 1716 uden at have haft den fjerneste anelse om, at lige dér har der været et magtcenter i den sene jernalder, i 500-tallet, hvor en stormand eller en jysk høvding drev sin forretning.Fund af mange stolpehuller på samme mark viser, at der har levet en magtfuld mand med store huse og mange folk omkring sig.I bogen får vi et førstehåndsindblik i Jørgens og Hannes oplevelser med Vindelevskatten og de historiske vingesus, som fører slægten sammen med stormanden og hans nedgravede skat.Hvad gør man, når man har en guldskat som julegæst? Hvordan er det at vente i otte måneder - i dyb hemmelighed - på en arkæologisk efterudgravning? Og hvordan foregår sådan en efterudgravning?Denne bog beskriver de fundne genstande, og ved en række artikler fra forskellige forskere får læserne et overblik over resultaterne i første del af 2024.Hvad sker der på guldets videre rejse fra Vindelev til udstilling - hvilke redskaber og teknikker benyttes for at afdække så mange af guldets hemmeligheder som muligt?Og hvilke tanker sætter det i gang at finde en oldtidsskat på den gamle slægtsgårds jorder?Bogen har forord af Rane Willerslev, direktør for Nationalmuseet.

An inside look at the unique balance the Amish strike between tradition and the demands of the modern world.From technology to social forces, the Amish face an evolving modern world. Their facility in determining whether to accept, reject, or bargain with the options that challenge them allows for measured change that sustains their social fabric and beliefs. In Dancing on the Devil's Playground, James A. Cates employs a sociocultural model to analyze this negotiation and its applications in Amish culture. Cates, a clinical psychologist, draws on his extensive experience working with Amish families and communities as a mental health professional, as well as the scholarship of Donald B. Kraybill, a leading Amish expert who developed the "negotiation with modernity" model. Cates uses this paradigm to examine the Amish's principles of assessment and evaluation, their cautious tempo in response to change, and their strategies of critical analysis during negotiations. Dancing on the Devil's Playground features seven fascinating case studies of how the Amish interact with legal, health care, and civil authorities and will help readers better understand Amish perspectives on medical, social, and emotional aspects of life. These case studies include, for example, negotiation with the telephone, services for special medical needs, substance abuse, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence. These essays illustrate the negotiation techniques the Amish use to protect their unique culture while adapting to the needs of the modern world. The Amish adopt, adapt, defer, or decline the changes they face, all while maintaining their traditions and a unique identity that includes an appropriate distance from the rest of the world.

Southern Africa is central to many key debates in contemporary archaeology, including hominid origins, origins of anatomically modern humans and modern forms of behaviour, and the development of ethnographically informed ways of understanding rock art. This book is an archaeological synthesis of the region in fifty years.

A new way of thinking about the climate crisis as an exercise in delimiting knowable, and habitable, worldsAs carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, Earth's fragile ecosystems are growing increasingly unstable and unpredictable. Horizon Work explores how climate change is disrupting our fundamental ability to project how the environment will act over time, and how these rapidly faltering predictions are colliding with the dangerous new realities of emergency response.Anthropologist Adriana Petryna examines the climate crisis through the lens of "e;horizoning,"e; a mode of reckoning that considers unnatural disasters against a horizon of expectation in which people and societies can act. She talks to wildfire scientists who, amid chaotic fire seasons and shifting fire behaviors, are revising predictive models calibrated to conditions that no longer exist. Petryna tells the stories of wildland firefighters who could once rely on memory of previous fires to gauge the behaviors of the next. Trust in patterns has become an occupational hazard. Sometimes, the very concept of projection becomes untenable. Yet if all we see is doom, we will overlook something crucial about the scientific and ethical labor needed to hold back climate chaos. Here is where the work of horizoning begins.From experiments probing our planetary points of no return to disaster ecologies where the stark realities of climate change are being confronted, Horizon Work reveals how this new way of thinking has the power to reverse harmful legacies while turning voids where projection falters into spaces of collective action and recoverable futures.

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline"--