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For more than century, race was a major interest in anthropology. Buildingon Johan Blumenbach's 1795 color classificaiton dividing humanity into white, black, brown, yellow and red, anthropologists further subdivided the people of the world into finer taxonomic categories. Hair form, shape of the nose, pigmentation of the eyes and the hair, stature, and the shaps of the head were among the many characteristics race classifiers added to skin color to enable them to fit populations into the typologies they designed. By the end of the 19th century, numerous races and subraces had been described, laying the groundwork for the direction the discipline would follow until the mid-20th century. It was expected that the development and refinement of a racial typology would lead to a framework for tracing lines of human evolution and routes of human migration.

Globalization and dynamic transnational migrations are bringing remarkable demographic differences to Europe and the United States. Transnational immigration flows from Eastern Europe, Africa and elsewhere are creating economical and educational inequities that are forcing EU nation- states to reflect on these differences and imagine solutions. Immigrants bring cultural practices, forms of art, and perspectives on all aspects of human experience that transform and enrich the cultures of host countries. Dichotomies between natives and newcomers emerge, as well as new forms of identities and distinctions between "them" and "us". In addition, schools are not prepared to educate diverse children with varied educational backgrounds and languages. Societal inequities cannot be understood in isolation but rather need to be understood from a global perspective. This book gathers researchers from across the globe to examine paradigms, policies, and practices for developing an inclusive intercultural and transnational framework to reduce inequities. This is necessary to positively integrate culturally-diverse families, children and adolescents into schools and societies.

Contrary to many claims made in the media, women in China have experienced a dramatic rollback of rights and gains relative to men. Leftover Women lays out the structural discrimination against women and speaks to broader problems with China's economy, politics, and development

Europeanization implies that policies are to be shaped by considerations which go beyond the formal sovereignty of EU's member states. Claims for autonomy within the EU have been put forward not only by 'stateless' nations within plural and compound states, but also by regions demanding self-government. More often than not, meso-governments do not need par force the rationalising intervention of state central bureaucracies and elites. Autonomous regions enjoy additional economic and political security offered by the European Union and are gradually accommodated in a post-sovereignty era of progressive trans-nationalization. This chapter elaborates on the idea of multi-level citizenship as a 'civility compound' of collective attachments which favours regional territorial autonomy. Multiple identities expressed by Europeans are inserted in a variable continuum of territorial belongings and affinities grounded in values of human rights and solidarity. Both civil and political rights are being increasingly accomplished at the regional level of EU's member states. The exercise of civil and political rights has 'spilt over' into social citizenship. Attention is paid to the aspirations of regions and sub-state layers of governance to carry out welfare expansion based upon arguments of optimality, accountability, legitimacy, partnership and recalibration. ; Peer reviewed

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Series Introduction -- Chapter One: Gender and Sex -- Chapter Two: Gender and Indentity Rights Movements -- Chapter Three: Gender Equality and Domestic Life -- Chapter Four: Gender Equality and the Public Sphere -- Chapter Five: Future Challenges -- Further Reading -- Series Glossary -- Index -- About the Author -- About the Advisor -- Photo Credits.

Building the Indonesian character law means building the law of the values of the personality of the Indonesian nation, Pancasila (the five principles). The embodiment of the values of the principles: divinity, humanity, unity, democracy, and social justice animate and enliven the devolepment of national laws of Indonesia, able to respond the process and the changes that occur without leaving its legal indentity, Pancasila

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Terminology -- Introduction -- Popular Attitudes in Taiwan: A Preliminary Baseline -- Taiwan's Government Budget -- Taiwan's Economy -- Taiwan's Energy Policy -- The Politics of Taiwan's Past -- Beijing's Taiwan Ambition -- Taiwan's Search for Security -- Taiwan's Military Defense -- Taiwan's Political Defense: National Indentity -- Taiwan's Political Defense: The State -- The PRC's Asymmetric Offense -- Taiwan's Democratic System -- United States Policy -- What to Do? -- Notes -- Index -- Back Cover.

The article examines the phenomenon of the identity of the perpetrator of a crime in the mechanism of individualization of criminal punishment. It is pointed out that although the criminal act acts as the main dimension of the indentity of the perpetrator of a crime, it is of fundamental importance in the punishment individualization mechanism to take into account the individual diversity inherent in any perpetrator's personality that may be reflected in the crime or not characterize it.

"In 1911, the publication of Franz Boas's The Mind of Primitive Man challenged widely held claims about race and intelligence that justified violence and inequality. Now, a group of leading scholars examines how this groundbreaking work hinged on relationships with a global circle of Indigenous thinkers who used Boasian anthropology as a medium for their ideas. Contributors also examine how Boasian thought intersected with the work of major modernist figures, demonstrating how ideas of diversity and indentity sprang from colonization and empire."--