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To Know Where He Lies: DNA Technology and the Search for Srebrenica's Missing
by Sarah Wagner  Publisher Comments In the aftermath of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war, the discovery of unmarked mass graves revealed Europe's worst atrocity since World War II: the genocide in the UN safe area of Srebrenica. To Know Where He Lies provides a powerful account of the innovative...
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Bewitching Development: Witchcraft and the Reinvention of Development in Neoliberal Kenya (Chicago Studies in Practices of Meaning)
by James Howard Smith Publisher Comments These days, development inspires scant trust in the West. For critics who condemn centralized efforts to plan African societies as latter day imperialism, such plans too closely reflect their roots in colonial rule and neoliberal economics. But...
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Unresolved Tensions: Bolivia Past and Present (Pitt Latin American Studies)
by John Crabtree Publisher Comments The landslide election of Evo Morales in December 2005 pointed toward a process of accelerated change in Bolivia, forging a path away from globalization and the neoliberal paradigm in favor of greater national control and state intervention. This...
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Governing Hate and Race in the United States and South Africa
by Patrick Lynn Rivers Synopsis Argues that the responsibility for eradicating racial hatred has been redirected away from the state and towards the hated, leaving the causes of hate unadressed....
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Interacting with the Dead: Perspectives on Mortuary Archaeology for the New Millennium
by Gordon F. M. Rakita Publisher Comments This collection explores the behavioral and social facets of funerary, mortuary, and burial rites in both past and present societies. By utilizing data from around the world and combining recent and ongoing concerns in anthropology, it takes the study of...
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Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan
by Akiko Hashimoto Synopsis An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture....
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Imagined Families, Lived Families: Culture and Kinship in Contemporary Japan
by Akiko Hashimoto Synopsis An interdisciplinary look at the dramatic changes in the contemporary Japanese family, including both empirical data and analyses of popular culture....
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Prime-Time Society: An Anthropological Analysis of Television and Culture, Updated Edition
by Conrad Phillip Kottak Publisher Comments A landmark comparative study (U.S. and Brazil) of television's social and cultural effects on human behavior. The Updated Edition brings forward the authoras research on this topic since the original volume was published in 1990 with an extensive new...
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Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya (Maya Studies)
by Heather Mckillop Publisher Comments In Salt: White Gold of the Ancient Maya, Heather McKillop reports the discovery, excavation, and interpretation of Late Classic Maya salt works on the coast of Belize, transforming our knowledge of the Maya salt trade and craft specialization while...
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Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
by Leigh Clemons Publisher Comments Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush...
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American Culture in the 1930s
by David Eldridge Synopsis This book provides an insightful overview of the major cultural forms of 1930s America: literature and drama, music and radio, film and photography, art and design, and a chapter on the role of the federal government in the development of the arts. The...
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Race, Religion, and Economic Change in the Republican South: A Study of a Southern City
by Matthew T. Corrigan Publisher Comments Corrigan uses an intensive case study of Jacksonville, Florida, to examine the attitudes of Southern voters more broadly. As an urban Southern city that now votes solidly Republican, it reflects the political changes that have taken place across the...
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Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile
by Macarena Gomez-barris Publisher Comments The 1973 military coup in Chile deposed the democratically elected Salvador Allende and installed a dictatorship that terrorized the country for almost twenty years. Subsequent efforts to come to terms with the national trauma have resulted in an...
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AIDS, Culture, and Africa
by Douglas A. Feldman Publisher Comments These original, previously unpublished essays also address the need for a greater anthropological perspective in the increasingly medicalized and politicized study of HIV and AIDS. As a whole, they pave the way for a deeper cultural understanding...
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Thin Places: A Pilgrimage Home
by Ann Armbrecht Publisher Comments As long as I can remember, I have longed to touch some sacred essence I didn't have words for, something I knew only by its presence and mostly by its absence. This longing led me from my home; yet ultimately I believed it would lead me home, bring me to...
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Networks of Power in Modern Greece: Essays in Honor of John Campbell (Columbia/Hurst)
by Mark Mazower Publisher Comments Networks of Power in Modern Greece provides exciting new perspectives on Greek history and society. The collection presents pioneering work on the Greek merchant marine and the role of women in the Greek War of Independence. Local perspectives transform...
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Emerging Voices: Experiences of Underrepresented Asian Americans
by Huping Ling Synopsis Many Asian Americans who made the choice to emigrate to seek better economic opportunities. Many of the groups discussed in this volume fled war or persecution in their homeland. Forced to make drastic transitions in America, questions of "who am I," and...
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Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology (Yale Cultural Sociology)
by Jeffrey C. Alexander Publisher Comments Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book volume addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, on the one hand, and questions about the methods...
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Muslims on the Map: A National Survey of Social Trends in Britain
by Serena Hussain Publisher Comments Many faith groups in the UK - most notably Muslims - have in recent years challenged the idea that religion should be predominantly a matter for the private domain. In response to this challenge, the 2001 National Census included the question of...
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Contentious Performances (Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics)
by Charles Tilly Publisher Comments How can we get inside popular collective struggles and explain how they work? Contentious Performances presents a distinctive approach to analyzing such struggles, drawing especially on incomparably rich evidence from Great Britain between 1758 and 1834....
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