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Tourism and Cultural Change in Costa Rica: Pitfalls and Possibilities examines the consequencespositive, negative, and otherwiseof tourism in four different sites in Costa Rica.

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In Tourism and Language in Vieques, Luis Galanes-Valldejuli examines the fractured and heteroglossic dimensions of the Viequenses voice in direct relation to the occupation of the island from 1941 to 2003 and the tourism that became a primary driver of the economy in the post-Navy period.

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Tourism and Maternal Health examines prenatal health in the Monteverde Zone of Costa Rica in the context of a tourism-driven nutrition transition. Allison R. Cantor highlights the essential role of practice-oriented research in the complex relationship between global policy and community health.

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In this book, Xianghong Feng focuses on the intersection of tourism, power, and inequality in the southern interior of China. In this region, capital-intensive and elite-directed tourism has disrupted the social and cultural patterns of the ethnic Miao and other local residents.

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By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness.

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The tournament was a mock battle, at its height between 1100 and 1300, conducted by two arbitrary battalions over many square miles of open country. It was a one-day event, but when joined to ancillary festivals it could extend it to several days. Tournament holding had penetrated England, Germany and Austria by 1200.

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Promoting care, a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of others, is one of society's primary moral challenges. A caring society is one in which care penetrates all major social institutions including the family, schools, places of work, and worship.

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Promoting care, a sense of personal responsibility for the welfare of others, is one of society's primary moral challenges. A caring society is one in which care penetrates all major social institutions including the family, schools, places of work, and worship.

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In Toward a Good Society, the authors theorize a mutually empowering and growth-fostering society. They begin this journey in relational psychology, then depart along nine paths reconstructed from nine classic social science theories. This leads them to propose a new Golden Rule as simple as it is profound.

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The theories behind contemporary sociology were imported from Europe and first taught in American colleges in the late 1880s. Rooted in the soil of late feudal society, the received theories of current academic sociology simply cannot flourish in the democratic environment of modern America.

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Tracing developments in toy making and marketing across the evolving landscape of the 20th century, this encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference guide to America's most popular playthings and the culture to which they belong.

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Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the dark

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The author is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. This title provides an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject.

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In Transforming Lives, Alexander Rdlach highlights the essential role that faith community nursing and health ministries play in local health and well-being. Rdlach argues that health systems and governments should partner with these programs in public health outreach efforts.

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This book is an anthropological analysis of female-to-male gender transition in the UK. The book counters assumptions around identity, the body and gender to explore transitioning as an open-ended process that often defies political and social conventions. It will be relev...

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This book is an anthropological analysis of female-to-male gender transition in the UK. The book counters assumptions around identity, the body and gender to explore transitioning as an open-ended process that often defies political and social conventions. It will be relev...

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Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carters Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography.

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This book examines Korean immigrants transnational activities, in particular their consumption of transnational media, and the role of information and communication technologies (ICTs), especially the Internet and smartphones, on cross-border engagement and its impact on their sense of home, identity, and belonging.

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This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across the borders of space and time

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This book uses digital ethnography to study critically the impact of digital media on transnational migrations, using case studies on diverse topics including transient migrants, gender and religion, ethnic migrants, refugees, intergenerational relationships, and transnational relationships across the borders of space and time