Social Science Anthropology

In this very anecdotal audio you will discover a unique fusion of thinking by these two established and respected specialists from different fields. One thing that is common to their thinking is that the main resource of the future is people. Learning how to manage the people resource, and bring the best out of them.

Marriages break up en masse, friends and family have bust-ups that seem irretrievable, business relationships break-up, neighbours go to war and so too do nations. Ninety nine times out of one hundred it is because of a lack of communication or a communication breakdown. Do you remember sitting in the classroom at school and studying mathematics? Or English or Physics.

Das biologische Fundament ist der erste Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er behandelt folgende Themen: Einzeller als Hirnsonden (Vom Spürsinn der Mikroben - Woran stirbt ein Paralytiker?) / Biologische Vorentscheidungen (Ein Akt der Abgrenzung - So wenig Außenwelt wie möglich - Die Anziehungskraft des Bekömmlichen) / Paläontologie der Seele (Eine aufschlussreiche Zusammensetzung - Lebende Fossilien) / Bewusstlose Geborgenheit (Ein neues Bauprinzip und seine Folgen - Die Erfindung der Nervenleitung - Vollkommenheit im Kleinen) / Vorzeichen des Kommenden (Nervennetze speichern Programme - Abbilder der Außenwelt).

Programme für die Außenwelt II ist der dritte Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er beinhaltet folgende Themen: Die Welt steckt im Gehirn (Das Abbild geht dem Original voraus - Ein Wiesel im Gehirn des Hahns - Archaische Erinnerungen - Ein Gedankenexperiment) / Die Welt vom Zwischenhirn aus betrachtet (Welt und Wirklichkeit - Provozierende Experimente - Rekonstruktion einer archaischen Welt - Gesetze der Urzeit) / Aufbruch (Die Grenzen der Geborgenheit - Gegensätze, die sich nicht ausschließen - Die Nachfolgeprägung als Schlüsselphänomen).

Programme für die Außenwelt I ist der zweite Teil von Hoimar von Ditfurths „Der Geist fiel nicht vom Himmel“, er beinhaltet folgende Themen: Die Karriere eines Fehlers (Bussarde und Küken - Auch ein Mangel hat zwei Seiten - Strategie der Evolution) / Wettlauf der Sinne (Pflanzen haben keine Augen - Wer nicht hören kann, muss fühlen - Aus dem Objekt wird ein Subjekt) / Vom Lichtempfänger zum Sehorgan ( Euglena macht den Anfang - Die Entstehungsgeschichte des Auges) / Augen, die nicht sehen (Astronauten sehen mehr - Was denn, wenn kein Bild?

An dem Leitbande des Instinkts, woran sie noch jetzt das vernunftlose Tier leitet, musste die Vorsehung den Menschen in das Leben einführen und, da seine Vernunft noch unentwickelt war, gleich einer wachsamen Amme hinter ihm stehen. Durch Hunger und Durst zeigte sich ihm das Bedürfnis der Nahrung an; was er zu Befriedigung desselben brauchte, hatte sie in reichlichem Vorrat um ihn herum gelegt, und durch Geruch und Geschmack leitete sie ihn im Wählen. Durch ein sanftes Klima hatte sie seine Nacktheit geschont und durch einen allgemeinen Frieden um ihn her sein wehrloses Leben gesichert.

この直感を大事にしていますかまずはこの直感に向かって行動してみると今よりももっと楽しく恵まれた生き方を授かるかもしれません

Origen, duración, extensión y población del Imperio Inca. Economía y estructura social. Logros de la ingeniería y de la ciencia inca. Machu Picchu. Final del Imperio Inca. Nuestra civilización actual es el fruto de un largo proceso de aprendizaje de miles de años. Descubrimiento del fuego. La agricultura: la rueda.La invención de la escritura. Historia:egipcios, fenicios, romanos, Edad Media... La Era Moderna.

A clash between cultures has happened many times throughout history. Events from 1979 to this point is leading the Western and Muslim cultures into a crusade with no present way out. The reason for all this fighting for the past 37 years has no simple answer and history has a way of always repeating itself.

Sophia Kingshill has written here the history of a unique family tree, travelling back 3,000 years to discover the enduring myths and the vibrant folklore that continue to enchant us and ensure the mermaid's survival.

Una completa rassegna della storia degli indiani d'America, dalle diffusioni dei primi americani in Nordamerica alla scoperta del Nuovo Mondo, dalla colonizzazione alla conquista del West. Se ami gli indiani d'America non perderti la loro tragica, eroica storia. A complete review of the history of the Native Americans, from the first Americans in North America to the discovery of the New World, from colonization to the conquest of the West. If you love Native Americans do not miss their tragic and heroic story.

In his 2005 book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (also subtitled How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive), author and multifaceted US scholar Jared M. Diamond clearly identifies five major factors that he says determine the success or failure of all human societies in all periods of history. Having first asked why societies collapse, Diamond explores various examples of failed societies, from the Norsemen of Scandinavia, who colonized Greenland in the early 10th century, to the 18th-century inhabitants of Easter Island.

This book is a veritable and gripping snapshot of the opening half decade of the 21st century. From this perspective of the multifaceted social world, it is crucial to bear in mind that it was written from a type of historical and panoramic bird's-eye view in 2006. As telling as it is arousing, it leaves in its wake compelling implications for the future.

Social anthropologist Edward Evans-Pritchard wrote Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic Among the Azande after 20 months' fieldwork with the Azande people of the South Sudan. It became the founding text in the anthropology of witchcraft, and has been hailed as a classic. Although Witchcraft had little impact when it first appeared in 1937, its popularity grew after World War II. Alongside his subsequent work on the Nuer people, Witchcraft established Evans-Pritchard's reputation as an important anthropologist.

American sociologist and priest Jay MacLeod's 1987 work Ain't No Makin' It is groundbreaking for the novel way it combines field research with theory. The book follows the lives of two groups of young men from a low-income housing project in the greater Boston area. In it, MacLeod shows how poor people who aspire to live the American dream face many more obstacles than their middle-class counterparts.

Published in 1996, Arjun Appadurai's Modernity at Large is an edited collection of earlier essays that had already made the Indian-born anthropologist an influential figure in his field of cultural anthropology. Appadurai here presents a theory of globalization, and suggests ways that other researchers can follow up on his ideas. Many of them continue to do so. For anthropologists, the book offered new ways of thinking about how communities are affected by globalization.

In her original and controversial 2005 book Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Saba Mahmood examines the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Egypt as part of a wider turn to religious fervor integral to the broader Islamic revival of the twenty-first century. Mahmood's research suggests that in choosing to embrace the norms of their faith, these pious Muslim women are not limiting, but rather affirming, themselves.

In 2009's Liquidated, anthropologist Karen Z. Ho takes the tools of ethnographic research, which are traditionally used to study distant societies, and instead uses them to dissect the culture of high finance on New York's famous Wall Street. Through close observation of the daily lives of the bankers working there, and the beliefs, rituals, and timeframes that define them, Ho uncovers a distinct culture in which she finds the ultimate causes of the financial crises of recent times.

In his 1997 work Guns, Germs, and Steel, American geography professor and environmental historian Jared Diamond looks to answer the question of why human history unfolded differently on different continents, and why power and wealth became distributed as they are.

Published in 1990, The Anti-Politics Machine is American anthropologist James Ferguson's first book. It discusses international development projects: how they are conceived, researched, and put into practice. Importantly, it also looks at what these projects actually achieve. Ferguson is critical of the idea of development and argues that the process does not take enough account of the daily realities of the communities it is intended to benefit.