Africa remains a continent that is yet to achieve its full potentials, despite an abundance of resources and a rich cultural pedigree. There have been various attempts to dissect the impediments to the continent's progress in its march towards development and true independence. Consequently, this book moves away from mere identification of challenges to proffering solutions. The ideas put forward about African development in this book draw from a...

A Synopsis of the Bura Project The three major rationale for writing this book are primarily to: through the study of African language family groups trace the origin of the tribe to a more specific location rather than the diffused response of from the East; secondly to investigate why and how the word Pabir/Babur came on the scene referring to a separate ethnic group different or the same as the Bura and thirdly to document some of the vanishing...

From those who insist that Barack Obama is Muslim to the European legislators who go to extraordinary lengths to ban items of clothing worn by a tiny percentage of their populations, Gary Younge shows, in this fascinating, witty, and provocative examination of the enduring legacy and obsession with identity in politics and everyday life, that how we define ourselves informs every aspect of our social, political, and personal lives. Younge-a black...

Desde una perspectiva antropológica, este libro aborda el complejo e inquietante tema del suicidio entre los indígenas choles de Chiapas, México. ¿Cómo explicar este acto por demás dramático que se concibe localmente como una salida a los problemas cotidianos, pero al mismo tiempo se puede atribuir a la brujería o al destino divino? ¿Qué tanto es un acto que se realiza en diálogo con la sociedad o una estrategia con el propósito de alcanzar...

Here is that conversation about race that needs to transpire. And it goes like this: a black woman grows up in the segregated south and moves to Chicago becoming successful in the corporate world then retires and decides to substitute teach. There she meets a white woman around her age who grew up far north in Minnesota. From one end of the Mississippi River to the other, they have seen so many changes in their lives. They talk about their marriages...

¿Qué tienen en común el ritual, la magia, el turismo, los textos de Carlos Castaneda y las obras de Jean Baudrillard, Bruno Latour, Marilyn Strathern y Roy Wagner? En esta colección de ensayos, se muestra la importancia que tienen los conceptos y prácticas de engaño y la falsedad como ejes rectores de la discusión antropológica contemporánea y como dominios holistas en el devenir de la cultura. Su objetivo es mostrar tanto etnográficamente...

People's experiences of racial inequality in adulthood are well documented, but less attention is given to the racial inequalities that children and adolescents face. Growing Up in America provides a rich, first-hand account of the different social worlds that teens of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds experience. In their own words, these American teens describe, conflicts with parents, pressures from other teens, school experiences, and religious...

The book is about being a Latin American Social Worker in the United States. In this book the author tries to explain his experiences in the hospital setting (ER/ICU, as well as in Outpatient Community Mental Health Clinics. With his own personal experiences, he tries to explain the advantages of being a bilingual/bicultural Latin American clinical social worker. The author is able to understand and identify with the Latino population, as well as...

AN ADMAN'S "BRAND-NEW" ANSWER TO AMERICAN RACISM. 50 years after becoming one of the first AfroAmericans creating advertising for the world's biggest brands, Lowell Thompson tackles what he calls the biggest branding campaign of all, the branding of the human race. "In 1968, 3 months after the nationwide riots following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., I got my first job in a big-time advertising agency, Foote, Cone & Belding. It...

The Japan expert and business consultant Rita Menge knows Japan for more than 20 years. In her fourth book about the land of the rising sun, she devotes herself now to numerous hard to understand curiosities and invites you to join in the discussion. Japan fascinates many people. Sushi, Manga and Karaoke are well known and have many fans worldwide. The number of tourists is growing rapidly, but the Japanese still manage to preserve many of their peculiarities....