Fifty Key Anthropologists surveys the life and work of some of the most influential figures in anthropology. The entries, written by an international... range of expert contributors, represent the diversity of thought within the subject, incorporating both classic theorists and more recent anthropological thinkers. Names discussed include: Clifford Geertz Bronislaw Malinowski Zora Neale Hurston Sherry B. Ortner Claude Lévi-Strauss Rodney Needham Mary Douglas Marcel Mauss This accessible A-Z guide contains helpful cross-referencing, a timeline of key dates and schools of thought, and suggestions for further reading. It will be of interest to students of anthropology and related subjects wanting a succinct overview of the ideas and impact of key anthropologists who have helped to shape the discipline.

This successful Western history version of the popular Discovering series provides a broad range of both visual and written sources. The unique... pedagogical framework includes The Problem, Sources and Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue and Evaluation sections in each chapter. This structure promotes critical thinking, sharpens analytical skills, and builds student interest in the subject matter. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data, with actual documents and artifacts from which students develop answers to historical questions.

This successful Western history version of the popular Discovering series provides a broad range of both visual and written sources. The unique... pedagogical framework includes The Problem, Sources and Method, The Evidence, Questions to Consider, and Epilogue and Evaluation sections in each chapter. This structure promotes critical thinking, sharpens analytical skills, and builds student interest in the subject matter. The text emphasizes historical study as interpretation rather than memorization of data, with actual documents and artifacts from which students develop answers to historical questions.

Discovering the Women in Slavery is a collection of fourteen original essays on women's experiences of slavery in America, researched and written from... gender- and women-focused perspectives. The essays discuss not only slave women, but also plantation and slaveholding mistresses and free women of color, in contexts ranging from the colonial era to the Civil War South. Intended for wide readership, this book is especially designed to bring attention to the new questions and findings about American slavery that are engendered by today's exploration of the experience and roles of the women generally left invisible, stereotyped, or both, by conventional American slavery history.As Patricia Morton notes in her historiographical introduction, Discovering the Women in Slavery continues the advances made, especially over the last decade, in understanding how women experienced slavery and shaped slavery history. In addition, the collection illuminates some emancipating new perspectives and methodologies. Throughout, the contributors pay close attention--over time and place--to variations, differences, and diversity regarding issues of gender and sex, race and ethnicity, and class. They draw on such qualitative sources as letters, novels, oral histories, court records, and local histories as well as quantitative sources like census data and parish records.The collection is structured in two sections that demonstrate, through complementary approaches, how the diverse and intersecting worlds of women and slavery can be discovered. The first section comprises pioneering individual case studies. One essay, for example, uses racist sources to shed light on a former slave woman's major contribution to the South's internal rebellions against the Confederacy. Another discusses a mistress who, by her own initiative, first became a slave owner while her husband was at war. In the second section, which presents group studies, one finds equally pathbreaking explorations of such topics as the religious experience and culture of early slave women and also the clothing and self-adornment of enslaved and free African American women as material culture artifacts and evidence. All of the essays in the collection point to additional sources for study and research.Reconstructing the histories of women who struggled to shape their own lives and who, in the context of slavery and its legacies, often struggled tragically against each other, this collection richly contributes to the humanization of America's slavery past.

Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur steeps us in different experiences set in a disappearing rural South, the New South, and the world at large. One of the striking... things here is storytelling variety: a little boy discovers the wonder and allure of flight; a ballet dancer from Texas falls in love; a Southern native meets a Vietnam veteran and sailboat builder who takes him to French Polynesia, a Kentucky choir minister adopts a disturbed, trouble-causing son. These tales of passion are full of peril and recurrent awareness of mortality, the gaps that separate all people and threaten to separate them further from those they love. The landscape may be a church in Kentucky, the battlefields of Southeast Asia, the Oregon coast or an airplane in flight. But all of these stories are linked by the theme of self-discovery and the awareness of others, culminating with the title story where a Southern native meets a Vietnam Veteran who takes him to French Polynesia then an island in Fiji to repair a hurricane damaged sailboat. This debut collection devotes itself to sense of place, both personal and collective history, some lyrical and some hard truths about the regions and locales that inspired it. Ultimately, the novella looks closely at our country’s ongoing attitudes toward race, class, spirituality, our globe’s endangered natural environment, the aftermath of the Vietnam war and 1960s as a whole. In its variety of modes and themes—city versus country life, sexual desire and parenthood, our very American pursuit of earthly happiness and our resilient faith in God—Discovering the World: Thirteen Stories is a collection that probes the nooks and crannies of the human heart. Advance Praise "Imagine Joseph Conrad. Imagine Joseph Conrad influenced by Octavio Paz and Reinhold Niebuhr with some of the Southern storytelling gifts of Pat Conroy sprinkled about. Imagine Joseph Conrad with these influences and a good sense of psychopharmacology, Vietnam, and the 1960s. I’m being grand and playful, but Discovering the World is more grand and playful. Though its landscape is primarily American, its vision draws more from European and Latin visions. It has reach. It has spirit. Like its novella’s central character, Robert C. Fitzgerald, it navigates the globe. It discovers. We discover. Read it."—David Kranes, author of Low Tide in the Desert and The National Tree “These stories are some of the most sophisticated Southern stories I’ve ever read. Sophisticated in that the subjects and characters have universal appeal. And what's best about Vasseur is that he can write.” —Janice Daugharty, Pulitzer Prize nominee, and author of Like a Sister and Earl in the Yellow Shirt: A Novel. "Discovering the World is a wonderfully diverse collection. I read one story, marveling at its comic, angry speed, pockets of light and dark like sunlight filtered into a forest, and said: this is Southern. I read another and thought this is Balzac in our century, he quiet surface of ordinary lives belying the frantic crosscurrents underneath. The story ‘Pig Summer’ really blew me away. The stories set in France seem both ancient and radically new."—Debra Monroe, winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Fiction, and author of "The Source of Trouble," "A Wild, Cold State" and "Newfangled." "Thomas Jeffrey Vasseur has written stories I have waited to read all my life. These narratives unfold like poems etched on the tender heart of the world. They comprise the brave, agonizing, stubborn, awesome autobiography of us all."—Marita Golden, author of The Edge of Heaven, Long Distance Life, and Wild Women Don’t Get No Blues, founder, Zora Neal Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation "’The Life and Death of Stars’ gives voice to an injured man lying in a hospital bed, entertained by a book about stars as he rethinks his life, his options, and his hard luck. One of the reasons why Southern literature is a distinct national resource is that it takes seriously ‘the pure products of America’ to use William Carlos William’s phrase. These are not loveable losers or defiant rebels; they are hard cases, damaged goods, who to echo Faulkner’s formulation from The Sound and the Fury gain honor because they endure."—Patrick White, Literary Magazine Review

This book features a completely new section on argumentation for debaters, promoting a more complete examination of the process of argument... construction, a new classification of debate propositions, and a thorough discussion of constructing arguments for and against each of the kinds of debate propositions. The additions are made while maintaining the first two editions' practical discussion of Debate using the Karl Popper format in an international setting. As in previous editions, the book includes 50 exercises to be used in the classroom or debate club.

Traditionally, university students have gained access to world religions by reading primary texts. Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second... takes students beyond the written page, offering an exploration of the same religious traditions through the study of feature films. The many definitions of religion are examined along with its various components, including doctrine, myth, ethics, ritual, and symbol. Specific religious traditions, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, popular religion, and Shinto are examined. Biographical sketches of directors whose films tend to focus on a particular religious tradition are also included, such as Zhang Yimou, Hayao Miyazaki, Deepa Mehta, and Akira Kurosawa.Discovering World Religions at 24 Frames Per Second is unique in the area of religion and film studies in that it isn't just a collection of essays. Instead it provides the introductory student with the necessary background information on the various religions before looking at how their ideas can be understood not through texts but through the cinematic medium. To keep the conversation fresh, most of the films used in the book were made within the last decade. Furthermore, examples range from popular, mainstream fare, such as Star Wars and the Lord of the Rings trilogy to lesser-known foreign films, such as The Wooden Man's Bride and The Great Yokai War. Several films with a "cult-like" following are also discussed, including Fight Club, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and Jacob's Ladder. This book is also unique in that instead of drawing upon the Judeo-Christian tradition, it draws from Eastern traditions.

Winner of the 2009 Smart Marriages® Impact Award Think all sex should be earth shattering? The quality of most couple sex doesn’t measure up to the... much distorted image of the perfect romantic love/passionate sex encounter portrayed in popular culture. In Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style: Sharing Desire, Pleasure, and Satisfaction, renowned marital and sex therapist Barry McCarthy and his wife Emily McCarthy urge couples to ignore what they see on TV, in books, or online, and discover their own unique sexual style. The McCarthys offer three guidelines for sexual satisfaction: develop positive, realistic sexual expectations; explore sensual and sexual options; and communicate sexual desires. With this foundation, couples can take a straightforward survey to determine which of four couple sexual styles best fits their relationship. An understanding of couple sexual styles can play a vibrant role in energizing a couple’s bond and contribute to a satisfying relationship that integrates intimacy and eroticism. Based on three years of research and treating more than 4,000 individuals and couples, Discovering Your Couple Sexual Style provides information, guidelines, exercises, and case studies that will help readers find their own sexual voice and develop a mutually satisfying sexual style.

The leading experts in the field, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson have set the standard for determining personality type using the enneagram. Their... studies of this ancient symbol and their progress in determining type with increasing accuracy are known, taught, and emulated worldwide. Discovering Your Personality Type is the essential introduction to this system, a psychological framework that can be used practically, in many aspects of daily life. This revised and updated edition features the all-new, scientifically validated Riso-Hudson Type Indicator, and has also been refined and simplified to appeal especially to beginners and anyone interested in unlocking the secrets of personality. The most reliable, most accurate, and most accessible way to identify type, the improved enneagram questionnaire helps identify fundamental character traits, revealing invaluable directions for change and growth. The profile that emerges is useful for a wide variety of purposes: professional development, education, relationships, vocational counseling, and more. Discovering Your Personality Type is the book readers need in order to begin to see the possibilties made available by understanding personality types.

Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts: A Personal Inventory Method is designed to help Christians identify the specific gifts God has given them. While no... Christian possesses every gift of the Spirit, every Christian does have some of God's wonderful gifts. And to be effective in ministry, Christians must find and use these gifts. This volume features an 'inventory' of spiritual gifts designed to be taken either in a group or privately. This book will help clear up certain misconceptions about spiritual gifts and assist Christians in discovering the gifts God has within them.