In this concise book, Lynnette Leidy Sievert draws on her own case studies from Puebla, Mexico, and western Massachusetts, as well as on comparative data from other studies in places such as Slovenia, Paraguay, and Hawaii, to explore the ...
The text looks at the Dutch influence on Japan during the country's so-called 'closed centuries' when Dutch traders provided the only commerical link between Japan and the West.
The Body in the Library reads representations of the corporeal in texts of empire; case studies include: - gendered representations of corporeality - medical regimes - ethnography and photography in the Pacific - cultural transvestism in ...
By compiling the history and theory behind cultural competency in nursing and health care, this text offers key information regarding health beliefs and the impact of culture on health and illness.
International Sport Management, Second Edition, serves as an invaluable guide for students as they build careers that require an understanding of the relationships, influences, and responsibilities of sport management in a global context.
Contains twelve essays in which religious scholars examine the issues of contraception and abortion as seen from various faith traditions, and present alternative interpretations of restrictive views on family planning.
This book presents multidisciplinary aspects of the ingestion of liquids at large, addressing many of the overt and covert meanings of drinking: from satisfying biological needs to communicating with humans and the hereafter, attempting to ...
Reprint of the Basic Books edition originally published in 1987, with a new (6p.) preface and (20p.) afterword. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR