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  • Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas

    Edited by Benjamin Hebblethwaite, Silke Jansen ...
    Indigenous and African Diaspora Religions in the Americas explores spirit-based religious traditions across vast geographical and cultural expanses, including Canada, the United States, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil, and Chile. Using interdisciplinary research methods, this collection of original perspectives breaks new ground by examining these ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Demystifying Bilingualism

    How Metaphor Guides Research towards Mythification

    by Silke Jansen, Sonja Higuera del Moral, Jessica Stefanie Barzen, Pia Reimann, Markus Opolka ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses changing views on bilingualism in Cognitive Psychology and explores their socio-cultural embeddedness. It offers a new, innovative perspective on the debate on possible cognitive (dis)advantages in bilinguals, arguing that it is biased by popular “language myths”, which often manifest themselves in the form of metaphors. Since its beginnings, Cognitive Psychology has ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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  • Flash of the Spirit

    African & Afro-American Art & Philosophy

    by Robert Farris Thompson ...
    This landmark book shows how five African civilizations—Yoruba, Kongo, Ejagham, Mande and Cross River—have informed and are reflected in the aesthetic, social and metaphysical traditions (music, sculpture, textiles, architecture, religion, idiogrammatic writing) of black people in the United States, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Mexico, Brazil and other places in the New World. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Santeria

    African Spirits in America

    by Joseph M. Murphy ...
    Santería represents the first in-depth, scholarly account of a profound way of wisdom that is growing in importance in America today. A professional academic and himself a participant in the Santeríacommunity of the Bronx for several years, Joseph Murphy offers a powerful description and insightful analysis of this African/Cuban religion. He traces the survival of an ancient spiritual path from ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Understanding Second Language Acquisition

    by Lourdes Ortega ...
    Series series Understanding Language
    Whether we grow up with one, two, or several languages during our early years of life, many of us will learn a second, foreign, or heritage language in later years. The field of Second language acquisition (SLA, for short) investigates the human capacity to learn additional languages in late childhood, adolescence, or adulthood, after the first language --in the case of monolinguals-- or languages ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Introducing Second Language Acquisition

    Perspectives and Practices

    by Kirsten M. Hummel ...
    Series series Linguistics in the World
    Introducing Second Language Acquisition: Perspectives and Practices represents a clear and concise introduction to the main concepts, issues, and debates in second language acquisition studies aimed specifically at undergraduates encountering the topic for the first time.Follows six fictitious language learners throughout the text whose stories serve to introduce various concepts and ... Read more

    $102.00 USD

  • Ifá Divination, Knowledge, Power, and Performance

    by Jacob K. Olupona, Rowland O. Abiodun, Adélékè Adéèkó, Akintunde Akinyemi, Andrew Apter, Barry Hallen, Bolaji Campbell, Henry John Drewal, Ifaboyede McElwaine Abimbola0, Akinwumi Isola1, John Mason2, Joseph M. Murray3, Kamari M. Clarke4, Laura S. Grillo5, Mei-Mei Sanford6, Olúfémi Táíwò7, J.A. Opefeyitimi8, Olasope O. Oyelaran9, Philip M. Peek0, Stefania Capone1, Wyatt MacGaffey2, Ysamur M. Flores-Peña3 ...
    This landmark volume compiled by Jacob K. Olupona and Rowland O. Abiodun brings readers into the diverse world of Ifá—its discourse, ways of thinking, and artistic expression as manifested throughout the Afro-Atlantic. Firmly rooting Ifá within African religious traditions, the essays consider Ifá and Ifá divination from the perspectives of philosophy, performance studies, and cultural studies. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Bilingual First Language Acquisition

    by Annick DE HOUWER ...
    Increasingly, children grow up hearing two languages from birth. This comprehensive textbook explains how children learn to understand and speak those languages. It brings together both established knowledge and the latest findings about different areas of bilingual language development. It also includes new analyses of previously published materials. The book describes how bilingually raised ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • In Darkness and Secrecy

    The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia

    by Johannes Wilbert, Silvia M. Vidal ...
    In Darkness and Secrecy brings together ethnographic examinations of Amazonian assault sorcery, witchcraft, and injurious magic, or “dark shamanism.” Anthropological reflections on South American shamanism have tended to emphasize shamans’ healing powers and positive influence. This collection challenges that assumption by showing that dark shamans are, in many Amazonian cultures, quite different ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Sociocultural Theory Second Language Learning

    by James P. Lantolf ...
    Series series Oxford Applied Linguistics
    This book represents a major statement of the current research being conducted on the learning of second languages from a sociocultural perspective. The book is divided into a theoretical and an empirical part. Specific topics covered include: learning and teaching languages in the zone of proximal development; L1 mediation in the acquisition of L2 grammar; sociocultural theory as a theory of ... Read more

    $66.39 USD

  • The Social Life of Spirits

    Edited by Ruy Blanes, Diana Espírito Santo ...
    Spirits can be haunters, informants, possessors, and transformers of the living, but more than anything anthropologists have understood them as representations of something else—symbols that articulate facets of human experience in much the same way works of art do. The Social Life of Spirits challenges this notion. By stripping symbolism from the way we think about the spirit world, the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • The Handbook of Bilingualism and Multilingualism

    Edited by Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie ...
    Series series Blackwell Handbooks in Linguistics
    **Honored as a 2013 Choice Outstanding Academic Title**Comprising state-of-the-art research, this substantially expanded and revised Handbook discusses the latest global and interdisciplinary issues across bilingualism and multilingualism.Includes the addition of ten new authors to the contributor team, and coverage of seven new topics ranging from global media to heritage language ... Read more

    $54.00 USD