Socialantropologi og kulturantropologi

"Covering the whole of the ancient Greek experience from its beginnings late in the third millennium BCE to the Roman conquest in 30 BCE, Out of One, Many is an accessible and lively introduction to the Greeks and their ways of living and thinking. In this fresh and witty exploration of the thought, culture, society, and history of the Greeks, Jennifer Roberts traces not only the common values that united them across the seas and the centuries, but also the enormous diversity in their ideas and beliefs." --

Este libro trata de lo básico para entender a la persona humana, varón y mujer, y para comprender el amor. Dos realidades profundamenteentrelazadas, pues sólo el amor da sentido a la vida humana. Es un hecho que "el hombre no puede vivir sin amor. Él permanece para sí mismo un ser incomprensible, su vida está privada de sentido si no se le revela el amor, si no se encuentra con el amor, si no lo experimenta y lo hace propio, si no participa en él vivamente". De aquí que los presupuestos con los que nacemos y nos constituyen como persona, tienen una radical estructura amorosa, que aquí denominaremos esponsal.En efecto, de todos los seres de los que tenemos noticia, sólo quien es persona goza del poder de amar. Únicamente las personas pueden entrelazarse siendo, a la vez, amante, amado y unión de amor. Don de sí, acogida en sí, y unión. Viviendo el amante la vida del amado, como si de la propia se tratase, y correspondiendo el amado a su amante con igual predilección, ambos abren entre sí el ser una sola vida, una historia común, en la que el yo y el tú se trascienden, sin evaporarse ni anularse, en un único nosotros. Ser nuestra unión es una fuente de vida, de confianza y compañía íntimas, la cima del amarse. Un milagro, en sentido estricto, porque el ser humano, varón y mujer, que siente en lo más profundo de su corazón la necesidad de amar y ser amado, no ha inventado el amor, pero sí ha sido invitado a su fiesta. El amor será, por tanto, la perspectiva dominante desde la cual estudiaremos a la persona humana, varón y mujer.

This book is the first comprehensive ethnographic study of the diversity of living and ageing experiences of three groups of older migrants - return, lifestyle and ageing-in-place labour migrants - from a comparative perspective. It explores the motivations, ageing experiences and aspirations of transnational ageing migrants in the context of the Portuguese islands of the Azores and situates the research within debates of the ageing-migration nexus. The book's interdisciplinary approach to transnational embodied and emplaced experiences of ageing facilitates a dialogue between various fields concerned with ageing and mobilities, including geography, anthropology, sociology, social gerontology, social work, and studies of health and wellbeing. 

This book presents an original empirical study on the linguistic repertoires of post-2008 Italian migrants living in London. The author interrogates how migrants' trajectories and their relation with their homeland's migration history are displayed through the engagement of new multilingual practices, such as translanguaging, and how new identities are negotiated during conversational acts. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Sociolinguistics and Migration Studies.  

This ground-breaking and beautifully illustrated ethnography of the Kaunga-speaking Yalaku provides the first detailed history of any of the 200 language groups in the Sepik River region of Papua New Guinea. The story of this society, recorded by Ross Bowden at their request, is told by the people themselves, and contains by far the most complete account of traditional warfare in this region.The history begins around 1800, the limit of Yalaku cultural memory. It describes the flashpoints that ignited tribal fighting (from the theft of a hunting dog to accusations of sorcery), the strategic thinking of warriors, the use of alliances, the building of structural defences, and even the actual blows of notable battles. It includes songs recounting the reversals of fortunes a warrior can experience and the laments of women over their loved ones, relaying the perspectives of both war-parties and attacked communities. This gripping narrative, performed in a men's house with both men and women present, is both a feat of memory and a communal endeavour.Bowden's deft ethnographic analyses of the social structure and myths of the Yalaku provide the essential context to understand this society once locked into warfare with their neighbours, adversaries who knew each other's names, spoke each other's languages, intermarried, and during peacetime took part together in rituals at which their shared history was sung.

On the Nervous Edge of an Impossible Paradise is a collection of seven stories about local lives in the fictional village of Wallaceville. They turn rogue in the face of runaway forces that take the form and figure of a Belize beast-time, which can appear as a comic mishap, social ruin, tragic excess, or wild guesses.