Uses an analysis of gossip as political action to develop a holistic understanding of a number of disparate themes, including conflict, power, and agency, morality, emotion, and gender. This title brings together 2 methodological traditions - the microscopic analysis of unelicited interaction and the macroscopic interpretation of social practice.
Rather than focus on how to perform hands-on caregiving, this book delves into practical ways to help the caregiver survive the emotional and physical impact of being a cancer caregiver. This book has many practical tips and suggestions which are certain to help any caregiver when caring for a loved one with a devastating illness. -- Amazon.
"Few activities bring together physicality, emotions, politics, money, and morality as dramatically as sport. In Brazil's stadiums or parks in China, on Cuba's baseball diamonds or rugby fields in Fiji, human beings test their physical limits, invest emotional energy, bet money, perform witchcraft, and ingest substances, making sport a microcosm of what life is about. The Anthropology of Sport explores not only what anthropological thinking tells us about sports, but also what sports tell us about the ways in which the sporting body is shaped by and shapes the social, cultural, political, and historical contexts in which we live. Core themes discussed in this book include the body, modernity, nationalism, the state, citizenship, transnationalism, globalization, and gender and sexuality"--Provided by publisher.
Five-year-old Raleigh Scott Carter is an irresistibly mischievous little boy. He acts out his creative humor in unconventional pranks.