Namaku Cinta. Namun, jangan terburu menyimpulkan siapa aku. Karena aku bukan hanya yang kamu rasakan ketika jantungmu berdebar di saat seseorang menatapmu. Aku lebih dari sekadar pelukan, lebih dari sekadar kata “aku cinta kamu” yang kamu ucapkan dengan gemetar. Aku adalah benang merah yang menghubungkan semua pengalamanmu tentang dekat dan jauh, tentang memiliki dan melepas, tentang dit…
Buku The Art of Dealing with People karya Les Giblin merupakan panduan klasik psikologi terapan yang mengulas strategi dan seni berinteraksi secara efektif dengan orang lain. Penulis membedah pola dasar perilaku manusia serta kebutuhan emosional utama—seperti keinginan untuk dihargai dan diakui—yang menjadi kunci keberhasilan dalam komunikasi interpersonal. Melalui pendekatan yang praktis d…
Setiap orang hadir dalam hidup kita dengan caranya sendiri, seperti langit yang selalu menawarkan keindahan meski warna dan cuacanya terus berganti. Karena Kamu Seindah Langit karya Febriawan Jauhari menyajikan serangkaian kisah dan refleksi rasa yang menyentuh tentang cinta, kekaguman, serta perjalanan penerimaan diri. Melalui narasi yang puitis, hangat, dan sarat makna, penulis mengajak pemba…
Buku Logika karya Valerie Patkar menyajikan narasi fiksi yang mendalam mengenai perbenturan antara perasaan, rasionalitas, dan dinamika hubungan antarmanusia. Penulis merangkai kisah emosional tentang karakter-karakter yang berusaha menyelaraskan logika berpikir dengan gejolak perasaan dalam menghadapi konflik kehidupan, pilihan karier, serta realitas hubungan asmara. Melalui gaya penceritaan y…
Sakit memang, ketika memiliki harapan untuk bersama dengan seseorang yang dicintai, tapi ternyata tidak ditakdirkan untuk bersama. Apalagi kepergian si dia tanpa alasan yang jelas, hanya menyisakan sesak di dada. Makan terasa tak enak, tidur pun tak nyenyak. Mengingat, begitu banyak kenangan yang telah dilewati bersama. Tapi, apa dengan cara itu si dia akan kembali? Apa dengan tangis dan galau…
Kafe tua yang berada di gang kecil Tokyo terletak di bawah gedung lain, tidak butuh pendingin untuk mendinginkan Kafe tersebut. Tidak begitu ramai, namun terkenal karena bisa membawa pengunjungnya menjelajahi waktu. Keajaiban kafe itu menarik seorang wanita yang ingin memutar waktu untuk berbaikan dengan kekasihnya, seorang perawat yang ingin membaca surat yang tak sempat diberikan suaminya yan…
Buku Musim Yang Tak Sempat Kita Memiliki karya Rintik Sendu (Nadhifa Allya Tsana) menyajikan kumpulan narasi dan prosa liris mengenai perpisahan, kerelaan, serta penerimaan atas hubungan yang tak usai sesuai harapan. Melalui penulisan yang puitis dan emosional, buku ini menggambarkan fase-fase dalam merayakan kenangan, mengobati luka batin, dan memeluk kenyataan bahwa beberapa kisah diciptakan …
Mempelajari metode penelitian menjadi kunci utama sebelum melakukan penelitian untuk tujuan skripsi, tesis, maupun disertasi. Maka dari itu, penulis memberanikan diri untuk menyusun buku ini supaya menjadi panduan lengkap dan praktis bagi para mahasiswa, akademisi, dan peneliti muda; sebelum melaksanakan tahapan penelitian secara tepat sesuai kaidah akademis. Buku ini tidak hanya menjabarkan se…
Apakah Anda tengah mempersiapkan tugas akhir akademik, tetapi belum paham secara menyeluruh tentang metode penelitian? Apakah Anda seorang akademisi maupun peneliti yang tengah melakukan perencanaan penelitian? Atau, apakah Anda belum memahami langkah-langkah akademik dalam proses penelitian ilmiah? Buku ini disusun sebagai referensi utama untuk menambah wawasan tentang metode peneliti…
Pernahkan Anda mendengar soal istilah “pria berasal dari planet Mars dan wanita dari planet Venus?” Istilah itu muncul karena pria dan wanita dianggap sangat berbeda, khususnya dalam cara berpikir. Kadang-kadang perbedaan itu pula yang menjadi pemicu pertengkaran di antara mereka. Kurangnya pemahaman tentang perbedaan juga menyebabkan timbulnya kesalahpahaman hingga akhirnya mereka bertengk…
Hari itu aku merasa seperti dilahirkan kembali, di sebuah dunia yang tak pernah kukenal sebelumnya. Sejak saat itu pula, untuk pertama kalinya derap kakiku menemani langkahmu. Kita berjalan bersama dalam derai tawa dan air mata. Ada saatnya kita bergegas melangkah. Ada pula saatnya kita berhenti sambil terengah. Menengok perjalanan yang sudah kita tempuh dan mengatur napas di dalam dada. Sem…
Woe-man Relationship adalah sekumpulan esai tentang dinamika perempuan menghadapi pergulatan sehari-hari. Melewati singgungan dan tuntutan yang tak selalu bikin nyaman, tapi harus diterima sebagai sebuah proses mendewasakan diri. Bagaimanapun juga, dalam setiap pergolakan yang ada, hanya diri kita yang bertanggung jawab untuk menyelesaikannya, bukan orang lain.
Penelitian kuantitatif adalah metode penelitian yang berakar pada paradigma positivisme, yaitu paradigma penelitian yang memandang segala sesuatu pasti memiliki sebab akibat (hukum kausalitas). Penelitian kuantitatif juga dipandang sebagai penelitian yang paling murni dan paling objektif karena menggunakan variabel penelitian yang jelas, kontrol yang ketat dan diuji secara teliti melalai bebera…
Memahami metode penelitian pada dasarnya memahami ilmu dalam konteks proses. Ilmu bukan hanya sekedar kumpulan teori dan konsep yang dihapalkan. Ilmu merupakan spirit yang harus dikembangkan dalam memahami, memprediksi dan mengontrol berbagai kejadian bagi kemaslahatan hidup dan kehidupan manusia.
Literatur ini memaparkan secara terstruktur mengenai landasan operasional dan teknis pelaksanaan riset kuantitatif. Penulis menyajikan kompilasi materi yang mencakup perumusan desain penelitian, teknik penarikan sampel, penyusunan kuesioner, hingga pengaplikasian berbagai alat analisis statistik yang esensial untuk menguji hipotesis. Sebagai nilai tambah, buku ini melampirkan draf contoh propos…
Buku ini akan menuntun Anda dalam menyusun penelitian kuantitatif untuk tugas akhir Anda, baik skripsi, tesis, maupun karya ilmiah lainnya. Dengan panduan yang mudah dimengerti, tidak butuh waktu lama bagi para pembaca untuk dapat memahami cara melakukan penelitian kuantitatif dan menerapkannya dalam penelitian masing-masing. Sinopsis buku Setiap mahasiswa baik program sarjana maupun pasca sa…
Ethnographic Experiments with Artists, Designers and Boundary Objects is a lively investigation into anthropological practice. Richly illustrated, it invites the reader to reflect on the skills of collaboration and experimentation in fieldwork and in gallery curation, thereby expanding our modes of knowledge production. At the heart of this study are the possibilities for transdisciplinary coll…
Epidemiological Change and Chronic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa offers new and critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of recent epidemiological changes in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly on the increasing incidence of so-called ‘non-communicable’ and chronic conditions. Historians, social anthropologists, public health experts and social epidemiologists present important ins…
The book offers an overview of experiences, theories and conceptions of time in the Graeco-Roman world. It presents the results of new research on neglected medical texts, relating to time management, aging and times of life, and the importance of the accurate time assessment. At the same time it draws together the most important findings of much recent classical scholarship on ancient attitude…
Exploring Materiality and Connectivity in Anthropology and Beyond provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as tw…
Nothing lasts forever. This common experience is the source of much anxiety but also hope. The concept of impermanence or continuous change opens up a range of timely questions and discussions that speak to globally shared experiences of transformation and concerns for the future. Impermanence engages with an emergent body of social theory emphasizing flux and transformation, and brings this in…
Museum Object Lessons for the Digital Age explores the nature of digital objects in museums, asking us to question our assumptions about the material, social and political foundations of digital practices. Through four wide-ranging chapters, each focused on a single object – a box, pen, effigy and cloak – this short, accessible book explores the legacies of earlier museum practices of colle…
Recent research has demonstrated that, in the Roman, Late Antique, Early Islamic and Medieval worlds, glass was traded over long distances, from the Eastern Mediterranean, mainly Egypt and Israel, to Northern Africa, the Western Mediterranean and Northern Europe. Things that Travelled, a collaboration between the UCL Early Glass Technology Research Network, the Association for the History of Gl…
Exit and Voice is a compelling account of how Mexican migrants with strong ties to their home communities impact the economic and political welfare of those they leave behind. In many decentralized democracies like Mexico, migrants step in to supply public goods when local or state government cannot. Though migrants’ cross-border investments often improve citizens’ access to these goods and…
Knowing Women is a study of same-sex desire in West Africa, which explores the lives and friendships of working-class women in southern Ghana who are intimately involved with each other. Based on in-depth research of the life histories of women in the region, Serena O. Dankwa highlights the vibrancy of everyday same-sex intimacies that have not been captured in a globally pervasive language of …
Recent interdisciplinary studies, combining scientific techniques such as ancient DNA analysis with humanistic re-evaluations of the transcultural value of bronze, have presented archaeologists with a fresh view of the Bronze Age in Europe. The new research emphasises long-distance connectivities and political decentralisation. 'Bronzisation' is discussed as a type of proto-globalisation. In th…
Reckoning with colonial legacies in Western museum collections What are the possibilities and limits of engaging with colonialism in ethnological museums? This book addresses this question from within the Africa department of the Ethnological Museum in Berlin. It captures the Museum at a moment of substantial transformation, as it prepared the move of its exhibition to the Humboldt Forum, a new…
Xochitl Marsilli-Vargas explains how psychoanalytic listening practices have expanded beyond the clinical setting to influence everyday social interactions in Buenos Aires.
Suzana Sawyer traces Ecuador’s lawsuit against the Chevron corporation for the environmental devastation resulting from its oil drilling practices, showing how distinct legal truths were relationally composed of, with, and through crude oil.
What happens to legacies that do not find any continuation? In Estonia, a new generation that does not remember the socialist era and is open to global influences has grown up. As a result, the impact of the Soviet memory in people’s conventional values is losing its effective power, opening new opportunities for repair and revaluation of the past. Francisco Martinez brings together a numb…
Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai’s busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
Why are historically Catholic countries and regions generally more corrupt and less competitive than historically Protestant ones? How has institutionalization of religion influenced the prosperity of countries in Europe and the Americas? This open access book addresses these critical questions by elucidating the hegemonic and emancipatory religious factors leading to these dissimilarities b…
On 26 December 2004 at 6.58 hours (Sri Lanka Time), a massive earthquake with its epicentre outside the coast of Sumatra generated a series of gigantic waves, tsunamis. At 8.35 hours the waves reached the eastern and southern coastline of Sri Lanka, crushing hundreds of villages and towns, killing and maiming tens of thousands of people within seconds. When the waves pulled back, and the ocean …
Robyn d’Avignon tells the history of West Africa’s centuries-old indigenous gold mining industries and its shared practices, prohibitions, and cosmological engagements.
This book examines the connection between food and identity in the Nigerian diaspora community in Belgium. Encounters between people from different cultures do not lead to a simple adaptation of the diet, but usually give rise to some kind of fusion of new and indigenous food habits. The author questions the relationship between what Nigerian migrants in the diaspora eat, their self-perception …
The Matsu archipelago between China and Taiwan, for long an isolated outpost off southeast China, was suddenly transformed into a military frontline in 1949 by the Cold War and the Communist-Nationalist conflict. The army occupied the islands, commencing more than 40 long years of military rule. With the lifting of martial law in 1992, the people were confronted with the question of how to move…
In August 2017, four Chinese men dressed in Second World War Japanese military uniforms posed at the Continental Bank Warehouse in Shanghai where Chinese troops fought the Japanese imperial army in 1937. In February 2018, two different men, also in Japanese military garb, struck various poses in front of a memorial site on Zijin Mountain in Nanjing where Chinese civilians were murdered by th…
In Encoding Race, Encoding Class Sareeta Amrute explores the work and private lives of highly skilled Indian IT coders in Berlin to reveal the oft-obscured realities of the embodied, raced, and classed nature of cognitive labor. In addition to conducting fieldwork and interviews in IT offices as well as analyzing political cartoons, advertisements, and reports on white-collar work, Amrute spent…
Tersedianya beraneka ragam pangan yang aman, terjangkau, dan bergizi merupakan ciri masyarakat yang sejahtera. Namun, populasi yang terus bertambah membuat tekanan pada pasokan pangan sehingga diperlukan teknologi digital dalam sistem rantai pasok pangan agar menjadi lebih terintegrasi secara global. Selain itu, karena terintegrasi secara global, penting untuk memastikan bahwa pasokan pangan da…
This first open access volume of the handbook series contains articles on the standard model of particle physics, both from the theoretical and experimental perspective. It also covers related topics, such as heavy-ion physics, neutrino physics and searches for new physics beyond the standard model. A joint CERN-Springer initiative, the “Particle Physics Reference Library” provides revis…
This Element explores the papacy's engagement in authorial publishing in late antiquity and the Middle Ages. The opening discussion demonstrates that throughout the medieval period, papal involvement in the publication of new works was a phenomenon, which surged in the eleventh century. The efforts by four authors to use their papal connexions in the interests of publicity are examined as case …
Since 1965, when I frst began to record and attempt to understand the ritual poetry of the Rotenese, the study of semantic parallelism has been a major focus of my research. My chief concern has been with the semantics of canonical parallelism. In my view, the study of parallelism and particularly the study of canonical parallelism is no minor subject but is, in fact, a matter of central theore…
Set in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo, this study explores the shifting relationships between border communities and the state along the political border with East Malaysia. The book rests on the premises that remote border regions offer an exciting study arena that can tell us important things about how marginal citizens relate to their nation-state. The basic assumption is that central st…
In recent years, the industrial environment has been changing radically due to the introduction of concepts and technologies based on the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0. After the introduction of Industry 4.0 in large enterprises, SMEs have moved into the focus, as they are the backbone of many economies. Small organizations are increasingly proactive in improving thei…
This collection of essays is the result of the joint efforts of colleagues and students of the leading social anthropology and post-socialism theorist, Professor Chris Hann. With the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 2019 as their catalyst, the authors reflect upon Chris Hann’s lifelong fieldwork in the discipline, spanning regions as diverse as East Central Europe, …
"It is my sincere hope that this volume will be much read and reflected upon by new generations of American students of prehistoric archaeologists. Freeman's career is a model for long-term international collaboration, theoretical eclecticism, the centrality of field research, and the ability to 'dream big,' but with a commonsense approach to the record and its limitations." Lawrence Guy Straus…
Drawing on the ethnographic experience of the contributors, this volume explores the Cultural Models of Nature found in a range of food-producing communities located in climate-change affected areas. These Cultural Models represent specific organizations of the etic categories underlying the concept of Nature (i.e. plants, animals, the physical environment, the weather, humans, and the supernat…
Based on a qualitative study on migrants of Somali origin who have settled in Europe for at least a decade, this open access book offers a ground-breaking exploration of the idea of mobility, both empirically and theoretically. It draws a comprehensive typology of the varied “post-migration mobility practices” developed by these migrants from their country of residence after having settled …
This volume publishes accounts of archaeological exploration carried out during the last 30 years or so in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. It is divided into two related parts. The first and foremost covers results from the work of the Centro Ricerche sul Deserto Orientale (CeRDO), which is based at Varese in northern Italy. Between 1989 and 2006, CeRDO, directed by the brothers Alfredo and Angelo…
Economic behavior is governed by two major sets of boundary conditions: environmental and technological factors on the one hand, and conditions of social organization on the other hand. Indeed, social scientists are often particularly interested in the framework of exchange relationships: exchange of goods, services, personnel, and information. Economic exchanges lend concrete manifestations to…