Bøger af Timothy Jenkins

This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to become a truly responsible and loving sibling of a physically challenged person at home. It helps you in figuring out how to take care of a physically challenged sibling physically and mentally. If you do not develop your ability to show kindness and gentleness at this time, your sibling will have to go through a tough time at home with you and your family. It is important that you acknowledge the fact that he/she needs you by his/her side at times of trouble. It's time for you to become an amazing sibling who is loving, caring, is responsible and is a God's gift to your physically challenged brother/sister.

Longstanding and resilient local ideas of property and practices of inheritance control the destinies of those living in Bearn, a region of south-west France in the foothills of the French Pyrenees. Based on extensive fieldwork and archival research that combines ethnography and intellectual history...

What happens when prophecies fail? Timothy Jenkins' re-reading of Leon Festinger's classic work on "cognitive dissonance" seeks to answer this question by studying a 50s doomsday group. This volume explores the relations between anthropology and psychology, and between social scientific and natural scientific accounts of human behavior.

Starting from an ethnographic appraisal of the place of religious practices, and thereby returning to an approach more recently neglected, this book offers a detailed understanding of English everyday life. Three contemporary case studies disclose the complex patterns and compulsion of ordinary lives, including both moral and historical dimensions.