Originally published in 1951 this book is a study of village system in southern Tanzania, which at the time of publication was thought to be unique. Each village consisted not of a group of kinsmen but an age-set: a group of male contemporaries, together with their wives and young children. The book is concerned with the structure of these villages and the values expressed in them.
Originally published in 1957, analyses the rituals celebrated by groups of kinsmen on the occasion of births, marriages and deaths within the age villages of the Nyakyusa. the connection between the form of the rituals and the kinship structure is examined. The symbolism of the rituals throws great light on the psychological reactions of this African people to death and birth, sin and misfortune, expiation and reconciliation.
This comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of arts in education initiatives, based on the A+ School Program, discusses the political, fiscal, and curricular implications inherent in taking the arts seriously and offers a model for implementation and evaluation that can be widely adapted in other schools and school districts.
Master content and apply knowledge from Maternal Child Nursing Care, 6th Edition with this corresponding Study Guide. In addition to reviewing content from the text, it encourages you to think critically and use the text more effectively. This comprehensive workbook is filled with case-based activities, as well as review questions that provide you with plenty of opportunities to assess your knowledge. Updated content throughout corresponds to new features and chapters of the text. Reviewing Key Concepts and Content questions in various formats give you ample opportunities to assess your knowledge and comprehension of information covered in the text. Activities, including matching, fill-in-the-blank, true/false, short answer, and multiple choice, help you identify the core content of the chapter and test your understanding upon completion of reading the chapter. Learning Key Terms matching and fill-in-the-blank questions let you test your ability to define all key terms highlighted in the corresponding textbook chapter. Thinking Critically case-based activities require you to apply the concepts found in the chapters to solve problems, make decisions concerning care management, and provide responses to patient questions and concerns. Answer key at the end of the book includes answers to all questions. NEW! Updated content throughout corresponds to new features and chapters of the text.
Through a historical and data-driven review of the US's dominant foreign policy trends from 1776 until today, America the Bully argues that since the end of the Cold War and especially post-9/11, the US has become addicted to military intervention. Lacking clear national strategic goals, the US now pursues a security whack-a-mole policy, more reactionary than deliberate. America the Bully dedicates a chapter to each defining era of US foreign policy, applying selected historical narratives, anecdotes of US foreign policy officials, case study examples, and compelling patterns derived from the data in the Military Intervention Project (MIP). Each chapter highlights the ways in which the US used and balanced primary tools of statecraft - War, Trade, and Diplomacy - to achieve its objectives. It showcases, however, that in recent decades, the US has heavily favored force over the other pillars of statecraft. The book concludes with a warning that if the US does not stem increasing trends of kinetic diplomacy, it may do irrevocable damage its diplomatic corps, dooming it to costly and often useless wars of choice. It may be doomed to the path of reactionary aggression, increasing its military footprint internationally to the detriment of its diplomatic and economic influence. If this trend continues, it could spell disaster for the US's image, credibility, and ultimately, its international and domestic stability"--
This college-level handbook offers a comprehensive and accessible overview of sociological and cultural perspectives on the human body. Organized along the lines of a standard anatomical textbook delineated by body parts and processes, this volume subverts the expected content in favor of providing tools for social and cultural analysis. Students will learn about the human body in its social, cultural, and political contexts, with emphasis on multiple, contested meanings of the body, body parts, and systems. Case studies, examples, and discussion questions are both US-based and international. Advancing critical body studies, the book explicitly discusses bodies in relation to race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, age, health, geography, and citizenship status. The framing is sociological rather than biomedical, attentive to cultural meanings, institutional practices, politics, and social problems. The authors use commonly understood anatomical frames to discuss social, cultural, political, and ethical issues concerning embodiment.
Eungyeol, a South Korean scientist who has moved to Dettah, Canada, let her henchman android sink something to the bottom of the Great Slave Lake every night. Those were androids in her shape. She was trying to get rid of her androids to protect the confidentiality of her invention from the government agencies. What she's preoccupied with now is separating and eliminating the other entity in her fiancé's brain. Her fiancé was also an agent of a government agency, and he was a victim of government experimentation. The experiment was to implant the memories of a psychopathic death row prisoner into the brain of a normal person. Unbeknownst to him, his memory had been eroded and he was committing increasingly brutal crimes. However, he was able to return to a normal state for a while due to her efforts and fearing that the evil within him would harm her. So, he entrusted her memories to her henchman, an android, and transferred his own memories to an android that resembled him. After the evil soul gained freedom, it entered Eungyeol's body and eliminated its previous body. It tried to frame the android for murder so, it caught the attention of the police on patrol.
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