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Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea
by Barbara Demick
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A remarkable view into North Korea, as seen through the lives of six ordinary citizens Nothing to Envy follows the lives of six North Koreans over fifteen years--a chaotic period that saw the death of Kim Il-sung, the unchallenged rise to power of his... (read more)

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The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior
The Categorical Impulse: Essays on the Anthropology of Classifying Behavior
by Roy Ellen
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Classification, as an object of recent anthropological scrutiny came to prominence during the 1960s, exemplified in the British (constructionist) tradition by the writings of Mary Douglas, and in the American ethno-semantics (cognitive) tradition by the... (read more)

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Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity
Race and Reality: What Everyone Should Know about Our Biological Diversity
by Guy P. Harrison
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There are vast differences between notions of race and the scientific view of human diversity. Drawing on research from diverse sources and interviews with key scientists, an award-winning journalist surveys the current state of a volatile subject.... (read more)

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Stuff
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by Daniel Miller
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Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can... (read more)

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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
by Paul Shankman
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In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead's Samoan... (read more)

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Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life
Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life
by Chuan-kang Shih
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In this long-awaited ethnography, Chuan-kang Shih details the traditional social and cultural conditions of the Moso, a matrilineal group living on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces in southwest China. Among the Moso, a majority of the adult... (read more)

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I Saw It Coming: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
I Saw It Coming: Worker Narratives of Plant Closings and Job Loss (Palgrave Studies in Oral History)
by Tracy E. K'meyer
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In this book, workers displaced by plant closings in Louisville, Kentucky tell their stories, emphasizing their agency, demanding respect for their skill, casting judgment on business and government for not showing that respect, and revealing a sense of... (read more)

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Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras
Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras
by Mark Anderson
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Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the... (read more)

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Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
Unwitting Zionists: The Jewish Community of Zakho in Iraqi Kurdistan (Raphael Patai Series in Jewish Folklore and Anthropology)
by Haya Gavish
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A study of the Iraqi Jewish community of Zakho that investigates the community's attachment to the Land of Israel, the effects of Zionist activity, and immigration to Palestine and Israel.... (read more)

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The Anthropology of Health and Healing
The Anthropology of Health and Healing
by Mari Womack
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of... (read more)

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The Anthropology of Health and Healing
The Anthropology of Health and Healing
by Mari Womack
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The Anthropology of Health and Healing is the first text to take an integrative approach to the discipline of medical anthropology. In this book, Mari Womack champions a practice of medicine that includes the maintenance of health as well as treatment of... (read more)

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Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
by Uli (edt) Linke
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In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore how governments use fear in order to control their citizens. The social contract gives modern states responsibility for the security of their citizens, but this collection argues that... (read more)

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Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
Cultures of Fear: A Critical Reader (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
by Uli (edt) Linke
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In Cultures of Fear, a truly world-class line up of scholars explore how governments use fear in order to control their citizens. The social contract gives modern states responsibility for the security of their citizens, but this collection argues that... (read more)

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Stuff
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by Daniel Miller
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Things make us just as much as we make things. And yet, unlike the study of languages or places, there is no discipline devoted to the study of material things. This book shows why it is time to acknowledge and confront this neglect and how much we can... (read more)

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The Central Arawaks (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)
The Central Arawaks (Cambridge Library Collection - Linguistics)
by William Curtis Farabee
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In 1913, ethnologist and explorer William Curtis Farabee set out to document the Arawak tribes of northern Brazil and southern British Guiana, a three-year journey that led him far into the unmapped regions of the Amazon River basin. His meticulous... (read more)

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Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America
Race and Science: Scientific Challenges to Racism in Modern America
by Ed Farber
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During the course of American history, scientific theories have been used to legitimate racial ideas that in turn have been important in creating and interpreting the law. Race and Science collects essays from leading voices in law, history, history of... (read more)

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The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
The Pueblo Revolt and the Mythology of Conquest: An Indigenous Archaeology of Contact
by Michael V. Wilcox
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In a groundbreaking book that challenges familiar narratives of discontinuity, disease-based demographic collapse, and acculturation, Michael V. Wilcox upends many deeply held assumptions about native peoples in North America. His provocative book poses... (read more)

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Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
by George (edt) Baca
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Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one... (read more)

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Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections
Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process: Feminist Reflections
by Roisin (edt) Ryan-flood
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Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research... (read more)

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The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Sumposia and Colloquia)
The Art of Urbanism: How Mesoamerican Kingdoms Represented Themselves in Architecture and Imagery (Dumbarton Oaks Pre-Columbian Sumposia and Colloquia)
by William L. (edt) Fash
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This volume explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban... (read more)

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Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
Chinese Civil Justice, Past and Present (Asia/Pacific/Perspectives)
by Philip C. C. Huang
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The culmination of twenty years of research, this essential book completes distinguished historian Philip C. C. Huang's pathbreaking trilogy on Chinese law and society from late imperial times to the present. Despite formal adherence to Western law and... (read more)

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Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900
Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900
by Nancy Minor
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This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.... (read more)

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Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia
Anthropologies of Guayana: Cultural Spaces in Northeastern Amazonia
by Neil L. (edt) Whitehead
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Unlike better-known regions of the Amazon, Guayanaaa broad cultural region that includes the countries of Guyana, Surinam, and French Guiana, as well as parts of eastern Venezuela and northern Brazilahas rarely been integrated into the broader narratives... (read more)

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The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom
The Hidden People of North Korea: Everyday Life in the Hermit Kingdom
by Ralph Hassig
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This unique book provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of life in North Korea today. Drawing on decades of insider knowledge and experience, noted experts Ralph Hassig and Kongdan Oh explore a world few outsiders can imagine. In vivid detail... (read more)

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The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras
The Legacy of Hurricane Mitch: Lessons from Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Honduras
by Marisa O. (edt) Ensor
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Around the world disaster vulnerability is on the rise. The incidence and intensity of disasters have increased in recent decades with lives being shattered and resources being destroyed across broad geographic regions each year. As it swept across the... (read more)

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The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
The World Turned Inside Out: American Thought and Culture at the End of the 20th Century
by James Livingston
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The World Turned Inside Out explores American thought and culture in the formative moment of the late-20th century, in the aftermath of the fabled Sixties. The overall argument here is that the tendencies and sensibilities we associate with that earlier... (read more)

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Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building
Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building
by Sharika (edt) Thiranagama
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The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, friend and... (read more)

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Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
Liberalization's Children: Gender, Youth, and Consumer Citizenship in Globalizing India
by Ritty A. Lukose
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Liberalization's Children explores how youth and gender have become crucial sites for a contested cultural politics of globalization in India. Popular discourses draw a contrast between midnight's children, who were rooted in post-independence Nehruvian... (read more)

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Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
Empirical Futures: Anthropologists and Historians Engage the Work of Sidney W. Mintz
by George (edt) Baca
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Since the 1950s, anthropologist Sidney W. Mintz has been at the forefront of efforts to integrate the disciplines of anthropology and history. Author of Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History and other groundbreaking works, he was one... (read more)

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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
by Hugh (edt) Gusterson
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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this... (read more)

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Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900
Turning Adversity to Advantage: A History of the Lipan Apaches of Texas and Northern Mexico, 1700-1900
by Nancy Mcgown Minor
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This book tells the story of the Lipan Apaches, once one of the largest and most aggressive tribes of the Rio Grande region. The story of the history of the Lipan Apaches is a tale of survival and preservation in the face of incredible challenges.... (read more)

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Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War (Ethnography of Political Violence)
Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War (Ethnography of Political Violence)
by Antonius C. G. M. (edt) Robben
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The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the... (read more)

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Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution
Post-Hindu India: A Discourse in Dalit-Bahujan, Socio-Spiritual and Scientific Revolution
by Kancha Ilaiah
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This book is entirely different from books that have been written on Indian civil societal relations, spiritual character, political economy, philosophical foundations, scientific roots, cultural essence, and historicity. It takes a journey from tribals... (read more)

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Creating Communities: New Advances in Central European Neolithic Research
Creating Communities: New Advances in Central European Neolithic Research
by Daniela Hofmann And Penny Bickle
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The aim of this book is to raise questions about the investigation of identity, community and change in prehistory, and to challenge the current state of debate in Central European Neolithic archaeology. Although the LBK is one of the best researched... (read more)

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Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Abject Relations: Everyday Worlds of Anorexia (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
by Megan Warin
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Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what... (read more)

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The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
The Insecure American: How We Got Here and What We Should Do about It
by Hugh (edt) Gusterson
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Americans are feeling insecure. They are retreating to gated communities in record numbers, fearing for their jobs and their 401(k)s, nervous about their health insurance and their debt levels, worrying about terrorist attacks and immigrants. In this... (read more)

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Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (Ethnography of Political Violence)
Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India (Ethnography of Political Violence)
by Kalyani Devaki Menon
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Hindu nationalism has been responsible for acts of extreme violence against religious minorities and is a dominant force on the sociopolitical landscape of contemporary India. How does such a violent and exclusionary movement recruit supporters? How do... (read more)

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Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey Into the Middle East
Simple Gestures: A Cultural Journey Into the Middle East
by Andrea B. Rugh
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The Greater Middle East poses major challenges for the United States. Yet despite decades of intense involvement in Middle Eastern affairs, most Americans still know little about the cultures of the region. Simple Gestures describes one American's... (read more)

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The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics
The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics
by Robin M. Leblanc
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"A beautifully written book, "The Art of the Gut" reads as easily as a fast-paced novel. Searching beyond the formal structures, regulations, and demographic counts associated with elections to consider the potential for one man to make a difference... (read more)

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Abject Relations (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Abject Relations (Studies in Medical Anthropology)
by Megan Warin
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Abject Relations presents an alternative approach to anorexia, long considered the epitome of a Western obsession with individualism, beauty, self-control, and autonomy. Through detailed ethnographic investigations, Megan Warin looks at the heart of what... (read more)

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The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics
The Art of the Gut: Manhood, Power, and Ethics in Japanese Politics
by Robin M. Leblanc
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"A beautifully written book, "The Art of the Gut" reads as easily as a fast-paced novel. Searching beyond the formal structures, regulations, and demographic counts associated with elections to consider the potential for one man to make a difference... (read more)

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Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China: Ritual, Complicity, Community
Taiwanese Pilgrimage to China: Ritual, Complicity, Community
by D. J. W. Hatfield
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This book examines the pilgrimages to China from Taiwan in the late 1980s and early 1990s and offers a wide-ranging account of urban planning statements, arguments about ritual propriety, and the material culture of pilgrimage. Taiwanese Pilgrimage to... (read more)

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Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia (John Hope Franklin Center Books)
Surviving Against the Odds: Village Industry in Indonesia (John Hope Franklin Center Books)
by S. Ann Dunham
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President Barack Obama's mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having... (read more)

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Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India
Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India
by Mukulika Banerjee
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Twelve narratives offer portraits of Muslims in India today, recounting their stories, predicaments, aspirations, and the highs and lows of their lives. Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet nuanced and incisive, these essays portray individuals... (read more)

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Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century
Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century
by Stana Nenadic
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Scots in London in the Eighteenth Century is an interdisciplinary collection of essays that explores, through the experiences of individuals and groups ranging from James Boswell and his circle at one end of the social spectrum to highland folk musicians... (read more)

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Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
by Conrad Phillip Kottak
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A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the author's research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new... (read more)

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Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits
Seeing Culture Everywhere, from Genocide to Consumer Habits
by Joana Breidenbach
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This engagingly written, jargon-free challenge to the misguided and dangerous global obsession with cultural difference critiques the popular notion that world affairs are determined by civilizations with immutable and conflicting cultures. Culture is... (read more)

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Going Abroad: How to Travel Like an Anthropologist
Going Abroad: How to Travel Like an Anthropologist
by Rob Gordon
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Increasingly students from the affluent countries are going abroad as part of their educational experience. Although students see these experiences as invaluable and believe that they have learned a lot, the anthropological literature suggests the... (read more)

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Policy Research in Comparative Education
Policy Research in Comparative Education
by Richard Desjardin
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As national governments reform their educational systems to meet the challenges of living in a globalised world, the agenda setting power of transnational organizations like the OECD and the EU have become more transparent in the last decade. The... (read more)

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Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader
Paradigms for Anthropology: An Ethnographic Reader
by E. Paul Durrenberger
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Anthropology Unbound explains how anthropology helps students understand the tags in their clothes, binge drinking way too much beer, their choice of university, and so much more. This new anthology offers ethnographic examples from exotic settings of... (read more)

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Excavating the Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition and Materiality
Excavating the Mind: Cross-Sections Through Culture, Cognition and Materiality
by Helle Juel Jensen
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Excavating the Mind deals with the relationship between the material culture of humans, i.e. our technologies, arts and environments, and our mental worlds. Emphasizing the close interdependence of mind and matter, the volume resonates with current... (read more)

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Studies in Archaeology and History #15: On the Track of the Thule Culture from Bering Strait to East Greenland: Proceedings of the Sila Conference the Thule Culture - New Perspectives in Inu
Studies in Archaeology and History #15: On the Track of the Thule Culture from Bering Strait to East Greenland: Proceedings of the Sila Conference the Thule Culture - New Perspectives in Inu
by Bjarne Gronnow
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The Thule Culture - the ancestors of the present day Inuit - never cease to fascinate and spur archaeological and ethno-historical research. As a tribute to the most distinguished specialist in the Thule culture of the Eastern Arctic, research professor... (read more)

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Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other Through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals (Routledge Contemporary Asia)
Inter-Ethnic Dynamics in Asia: Considering the Other Through Ethnonyms, Territories and Rituals (Routledge Contemporary Asia)
by Christian Culas
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South-East Asia is one of the most complex regions in the world as far as ethnic, linguistic and cultural diversity is concerned with an extremely rich ancient and contemporary history. Because of this, it offers an exceptionally rich field of study for... (read more)

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Proceedings of the British Academy #159: Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches
Proceedings of the British Academy #159: Diversity and Change in Modern India: Economic, Social and Political Approaches
by Anthony F. Heath
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India's society, economy, and polity have been transformed at a gathering pace since the early 1990s, and India's growing role on the world stage makes it imperative to understand the roots and consequences of these changes. The 11 papers in this... (read more)

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Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras
Black and Indigenous: Garifuna Activism and Consumer Culture in Honduras
by Mark Anderson
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Garifuna live in Central America, primarily Honduras, and the United States. Identified as Black by others and by themselves, they also claim indigenous status and rights in Latin America. Examining this set of paradoxes, Mark Anderson shows how, on the... (read more)

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Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School
Producing Success: The Culture of Personal Advancement in an American High School
by Peter Demerath
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Middle- and upper-middle-class students continue to outpace those from less privileged backgrounds. Most attempts to redress this inequality focus on the issue of access to financial resources, but as Producing Success makes clear, the problem goes... (read more)

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Of Poverty and Plastic: Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
Of Poverty and Plastic: Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India's Urban Informal Economy
by Gill
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Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations... (read more)

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Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
Enlightenment: Critical Concepts in Historical Studies
by Ryan Patrick (edt) Hanley
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More than any earlier period of European intellectual history, the age of Enlightenment infused the republic of letters with social and political significance; this long-awaited new collection from Routledge brings together in five volumes the very best... (read more)

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Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Second Edition
Anthropology Unbound: A Field Guide to the 21st Century, Second Edition
by E. Paul Durenberger
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The second edition of this revolutionary new anthropology textbook retains its commitment of honest involvement of students in anthropology, challenging them to understand their own lives in anthropological terms, and urging them to live lives dedicated... (read more)

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Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America
Bollywood Weddings: Dating, Engagement, and Marriage in Hindu America
by Kavita Ramdya
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Bollywood Weddings explores how Indian-American Hindus negotiate two vastly different wedding cultures: those of mainstream America and of Hindu India. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork and drawing on recent advances in material culture studies... (read more)

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Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Terrorism: The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
by Joseba Zulaika
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In counterterrorism circles, the standard response to questions about the possibility of future attacks is the terse one-liner: Not if, but when. This mantra supposedly conveys a realistic approach to the problem, but, as Joseba Zulaika argues in... (read more)

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The Eurasian Miracle
The Eurasian Miracle
by Jack Goody
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The Sociology of Tourism
The Sociology of Tourism
by Graham M. S. Dann
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Offerings To the Discerning Eye
Offerings To the Discerning Eye
by Sue H. (edt) D'auria
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Ethics in Design #2: Rights Through Making: Wearing Quality
Ethics in Design #2: Rights Through Making: Wearing Quality
by Elisabetta Cianfanelli
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It seems that we have touched upon the limits of the rationalistic model. Words and communication often overshadow actions and deeds, instead of jointly working towards a solution. In this book it is proposed a new way of thinking, where action and... (read more)

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Drug Policy: History, Theory, and Consequences
Drug Policy: History, Theory, and Consequences
by Vibeke Asmussen
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In this book, anthropologists, criminologists and sociologists analyse different aspects of drug policy. The articles approach drug policy from new angles, focusing in particular on the history and consequences of drug policy in practice. How can we... (read more)

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Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)
Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests: Intellectual Interchange Between the Northern Maya Lowlands and Highland Mexico in the Late Postclassic Period (Dumbarton Oaks Other Titles in Pre-Columbian Studies)
by Gabrielle Vail
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Astronomers, Scribes, and Priests examines evidence for cultural interchange among the intellectual powerbrokers in Postclassic Mesoamerica, specifically those centered in the northern Maya lowlands and the central Mexican highlands. Contributors to the... (read more)

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Civilization of the American Indian #264: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume Two: The Codical Texts
Civilization of the American Indian #264: The New Catalog of Maya Hieroglyphs: Volume Two: The Codical Texts
by Martha J. Macri
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For hundreds of years, Maya artists and scholars used hieroglyphs to record their history and culture. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, archaeologists, photographers, and artists recorded the Maya carvings that remained, often by transporting... (read more)

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Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City (Mesoamerican Worlds)
Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City (Mesoamerican Worlds)
by Rostas Susanna
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In Carrying the Word: The Concheros Dance in Mexico City, the only full length study of the Concheros dancers, Susanna Rostas delves into the experience of this unique group, whose use of dance links rural religious practices with urban post-modern... (read more)

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Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India
Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India
by Mukulika Banerjee
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Twelve narratives offer portraits of Muslims in India today, recounting their stories, predicaments, aspirations, and the highs and lows of their lives. Intimately told and stripped of jargon, yet nuanced and incisive, these essays portray individuals... (read more)

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Neurodynamix II
Neurodynamix II
by W. Otto Friesen
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The membrane electrical potential is a central element in the functioning of all living cells, and temporal variations of this potential are crucial for signaling within the nervous systems of all animals. Electrical properties of nerve cells are covered... (read more)

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Textiles from the Balkans (Fabric Folios)
Textiles from the Balkans (Fabric Folios)
by Diane Waller
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This is the first time the British Museum's fascinating collection of Balkan textiles, dating from the late 19th to the mid 20th century and one of the finest in the world, will be published. The book is also the first published overview of the textiles... (read more)

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Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture
Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture
by Ronnie D. Lipschutz
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This entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and practices in capitalism, neo-classical economics, and political economy through an interpretation of popular films and novels of the past 60 years. Including works as varied... (read more)

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Readings in Modernity in Africa (Readings In...)
Readings in Modernity in Africa (Readings In...)
by Peter Geschiere
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Questions surrounding modernity and its meanings weigh heavily on students and scholars who study Africa. Becoming modern carries a lot of different meanings and puts concepts of culture, tradition, and nation into uneasy use. Readings in Modernity in... (read more)

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Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture
Political Economy, Capitalism, and Popular Culture
by Ronnie D. Lipschutz
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This entertaining and enlightening book provides a guide to basic concepts and practices in capitalism, neo-classical economics, and political economy through an interpretation of popular films and novels of the past 60 years. Including works as varied... (read more)

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Textiles of the Andes (Fabric Folios)
Textiles of the Andes (Fabric Folios)
by Penny Dransart
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This is the first time the British Museum's major collection of Peruvian and other early Andean textiles is being published as a group. Included are rare and exquisite pieces, many of great iconographic and technical importance, ranging in date from the... (read more)

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Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia
Comparing Cities: The Middle East and South Asia
by Kamran Asdar Ali
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This book highlights the changing social dynamics in Middle Eastern and South Asian cities. The comparative framework builds on a shared history of the colonial encounter, modernity, nationalism and urbanity and is further deepened by the larger... (read more)

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Studies in Symbolic Interaction
by Norman K. (edt) Denzin
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