anthropology and ethnography(68)

Quantum Anthropology

The book offers a fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum ph...

Man, Cultures, and Groups in a Quantum Perspective

Rozkoš mezi pohlavími

The significance of this classical work by Thomas W. Laqueur, an American anthropologist from the University of California, Berkeley, to ...

Sexuální diference od antiky po Freuda

Skejuš - Skejušané - Skejušan

Russinians in Chomutov, Their Origin, History and Current State addresses the theme on several levels. The scholars first expand on the s...

Rusíni v Chomutově, původ, historie a současnost

Teachers on the Waves of Transformation

A transforming society undergoes changes on many levels. The main two of these are changes in the structures and culture of society. But ...

School Culture Before and After 1989

Terénní výzkum v sociální a kulturní antropologii

Martin Soukup’s book is the first original Czech work which systematically focuses on the methodological foundations of cultural and soci...

The Evolution Myth

The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and ...

or The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong

The Genesis of Creativity and the Origin of the Human Mind

What is it about human beings that makes us creative, able to imagine and enact new possibilities for life and new solutions to problems ...

The Roma as Agents of the “G*psy Question”

The story of Romani people in communist Czechoslovakia has long been framed by a discriminatory policy of assimilation, and thus by fatal...

Belonging, Mobility and Resettlement Policy in Socialist Czechoslovakia

The Stojka family

The book traces the history of a Romani family from the territory of today’s Slovakia across the 19th and 20th centuries. Working with a ...

Spatial mobility and territorial anchoredness of Lovara Vlax Roms in the former Czechoslovakia

Trace Elements in Bone Tissue

In his unique work Václav Smrčka gives an account of his research of trace elements in fossil anthropological findings which enables him ...

Učitelé na vlnách transformace

A transforming society undergoes changes on many levels. The main two of these are changes in the structures and culture of society. But ...

Kultura školy před rokem 1989 a po něm

Umění a kultura království Benin

This book on the remarkable culture and original art of the Benin Empire covers historical transformations of the empire, local mythology...