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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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Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation #4: African Landscapes: Interdisciplinary Approaches
by Michael Bollig Publisher Comments Landscape studies provide a crucial perspective into the interaction between humans and their environment, shedding insight on social, cultural, and economic topics. The research explores both the way that natural processes have affected the development...
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Dangerous Citizens: The Story of the Greek Left
by Neni Panourgia Publisher Comments This book is a riveting, theoretically astute, and eloquently written account of collaboration, betrayal, and endurance. Only an author herself a member of Greek society could hear so well the silences, glimpse so well odd appearances (of, say, a man...
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Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change)
by Ronald Niezen Publisher Comments The titles in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide...
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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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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...
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Morality: An Anthropological Perspective
by Jarrett Zigon Publisher Comments Morality: An Anthropological Perspective provides the first account of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. By considering how morality is viewed and enacted in different cultures, and how it is related to key social institutions...
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
by Jared Sexton Publisher Comments Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post–civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More...
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Iran Today [Two Volumes]: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Islamic Republic
by Mehran Kamrava Publisher Comments Iran dominates the media headlines once again and has taken center stage in the U.S. and European Union strategy toward the Middle East. A more nuanced understanding of Iranian society has assumed even greater significance and urgency. Iran Today: An...
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Morality: An Anthropological Perspective
by Jarrett Zigon Publisher Comments Morality: An Anthropological Perspective provides the first account of anthropological approaches to the question of morality. By considering how morality is viewed and enacted in different cultures, and how it is related to key social institutions...
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Remembered Rhythms: Issues of Diaspora and Music in India
by Shubha Chaudhuri Publisher Comments Remembered Rhythms explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, the essays range...
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The Power of African Cultures
by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments This book focuses on the modern cultures of Africa, from the consequences of the imposition of Western rule to the current struggles to define national identities in the context of neo-liberal economic policies and globalization. The book argues that it...
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Technoculture: The Key Concepts (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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Forest Dwellers, Forest Protectors: Indigenous Models for International Development (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change)
by Richard Reed Synopsis The Guarani of Paraguay have survived over four centuries of contact with the commercial system, while keeping in tact their traditions of leadership, religion and kinship. This concise ethnography examines how the Guarani have adapted over time, in...
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Remembered Rhythms: Issues of Diaspora and Music in India
by Shubha Chaudhuri Publisher Comments Remembered Rhythms explores the role of music and cultural memory in shaping and creating diasporic identities. With contributions from leading scholars in the fields of Ethnomusicology, Cultural Studies, Sociology and Anthropology, the essays range...
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Foundations of New World Cultural Astronomy: A Reader with Commentary
by Anthony F. Aveni Synopsis Gazing into the black skies from the Anasazi observatory at Chimney Rock or the Castillo Pyramid in the Maya ruins of Chichen Itza, a modern visitor might wonder what ancient stargazers looked for in the skies and what they saw. Once considered...
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Gender in Cross-Cultural Perspective
by Caroline B. Brettell Synopsis This reader introduces students/readers to the most significant topics in the field of anthropology of gender-drawing not only from classic sources, but also from the most recent, diverse literature on gender roles and ideology around the world. It takes...
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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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Dilemmas of Modernity: Bolivian Encounters with Law and Liberalism
by Mark Goodale Publisher Comments Dilemmas of Modernity provides an innovative approach to the study of contemporary Bolivia, moving telescopically between social, political, legal, and discursive analyses, and drawing from a range of disciplinary traditions. Based on a decade of...
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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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