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Cengage Advantage Books: Cultural Anthropology: A Problem-Based Approach
by Richard H. Robbins  Publisher Comments Learn anthropology within a strong active learning environment when you open Robbins' unique Fifth Edition. This brief, cost-effective text presents a variety of questions focused on the most important issues anthropologists study in first of-of-its-kind,...
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By Noon Prayer: The Rhythm of Islam
by Fadwa El Guindi Publisher Comments A groundbreaking anthropological analysis of Islam as experienced by Muslims, By Noon Prayer builds a conceptual model of Islam as a whole, while traveling along a comparative path of biblical, Egyptological, ethnographic, poetic, scriptural, and visual...
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Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body [Two Volumes]
by Victoria Pitts-taylor Publisher Comments Pop culture and the media today are saturated with the focus on the aesthetics of the human body. Magazines and infotainment shows speculate whether this or that actress had breast implants or a nose job. Americans are not just focusing on celebrities...
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The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace
by Peter Scheckner Publisher Comments The Way We Work reveals that a seismic change has occurred in the workplace since the appearance in 1974 of Studs Terkel's Working. Terkel's subjects, despite their alienation, had a sense of themselves as workers and felt that in the workplace they were...
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Direct Action: An Ethnography
by David Graeber Publisher Comments Anthropologist David Graeber undertakes the first detailed ethnographic study of the global justice movement. The case study at the center of Direct Actionis the organizing and events that led to the one of the most dramatic and militant mass protests in...
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Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World's Most Repressive Country
by Mike Kim Synopsis Escaping North Korea provides a rare and unique inside look into the hidden world of ordinary North Koreans. It recounts firsthand experiences of enduring famine, women's sex trafficking experiences, and torture in the gulags, as well as inspirational...
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World Poverty for Dummies
by Lindsay Rae Synopsis Discover the causes and effects of poverty -- and how you can make a difference. Worldwide, 2.74 billion people survive on less than US$2 a day, and each day, nearly 30,000 children die from illnesses that are either preventable or can easily be cured...
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New Media: The Key Concepts (Key Concepts)
by Nicholas Gane Publisher Comments Digital media are rapidly changing the world in which we live. Global communications, mobile interfaces and Internet cultures are re-configuring our everyday lives and experiences. To understand these changes, a new theoretical imagination is needed, one...
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Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse Eye, Retina, and Visual System of the Mouse
by Leo M. Chalupa Publisher Comments Recent years have seen a burst of studies on the mouse eye and visual system, fueled in large part by the relatively recent ability to produce mice with precisely defined changes in gene sequence. Mouse models have contributed to a wide range of...
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Culinary Art and Anthropology
by Joy Adapon Publisher Comments Culinary Art and Anthropology is an anthropological study of food. It focuses on taste and flavor using an original interpretation of Alfred Gell's theory of the art nexus. Grounded in ethnography, it explores the notion of cooking as an embodied skill...
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Conformity and Conflict: Readings in Cultural Anthropology (Myanthrokit)
by James W. Spradley Late Publisher Comments An ideal complement to standard anthropology texts or as a stand-alone text/reader, the best-selling Conformity and Conflict continues to offer an in-depth look at anthropology as a powerful way to study human behavior and events. The 37 articles cover a...
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Jews and Other Germans: Civil Society, Religious Diversity, and Urban Politics in Breslau, 1860-1925 (George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural and Intel)
by Till Van Rahden Publisher Comments Jews and Other Germans is the first social and cultural history to probe the parameters of Jewish integration in the half century between the founding of the German Empire in 1871 and the early Weimar Republic. Questioning received wisdom about German...
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Bite Me: Food in Popular Culture. Fabio Parasecoli
by Fabio Parasecoli Publisher Comments Food is not only something we eat, it is something we use to define ourselves. Ingestion and incorporation are central to our connection with the world outside our bodies. Food's powerful social, economic, political and symbolic roles cannot be ignored...
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What the World Eats
by Peter Menzel Synopsis Every day, millions of families around the world gatherat the table or on the floor, in a house or outdoorsto eat together. Ever wondered what a typical meal is like on the other side of the world? Or next door? Cultural geographers Peter Menzel and...
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Technoculture. Debra Benita Shaw (Key Concepts)
by Debra Benita Shaw Publisher Comments We live in a world where science and technology shape the global economy and everyday culture, where new biotechnologies are changing what we eat and how we can reproduce, and where email, mobiles and the internet have revolutionized the ways we...
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Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring 'Alternatives' (Cultures of Consumption)
by Moya Kneafsey Publisher Comments Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in...
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Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology
by Patricia Uberoi Publisher Comments Anthropology and sociology have long histories in India. Yet, with the exception of fieldwork experience, there is little research available on the institutional and material contexts of these disciplines or on the practices of pioneering anthropologists...
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Geisha
by Liza Dalby Synopsis In this classic best seller, Liza Dalby, the first non-Japanese ever to have trained as a geisha, offers an insider's look at the exclusive world of female companions to the Japanese male elite. A new preface examines how geisha have been profoundly...
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Annual Editions: Anthropology 09/10 (Annual Editions)
by Elvio Angeloni Publisher Comments This Thirty-Second Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an...
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Bodies of Knowledge: The Medicalization of Reproduction in Greece
by Eugenia Georges Publisher Comments A rich ethnography of traditional midwifery and medicalized reproduction as globalization touches an island....
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