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The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice
by Ronald Sundstrom  Synopsis Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice....
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Security Disarmed: Critical Perspectives on Gender, Race, and Militarization
by Barbara Sutton Synopsis In Security Disarmed, scholars, policy planners, and activists come together to think critically about the human cost of violence and viable alternatives to armed conflict. The book critically challenges militarization and voices an alternative...
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Global Neighborhoods: Jewish Quarters in Paris, London, and Berlin
by Michel S. Laguerre Synopsis Looks at how contemporary Jewish neighborhoods interact with both local and transnational influences....
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The Tao of Anthropology
by Alec J. Kelso Publisher Comments Each essay in this collection is written by an anthropologist in or nearing retirement. After a brief introductory statement about what drew them to the field, the contributors go on to share important lessons learned over the course of their careers...
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The Anthropology of Language: An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer Publisher Comments This student-centered text emphasizes contemporary issues and the application of linguistic anthropology using real-life chapter-opening vignettes (In the Field) and boxed features that provide concrete examples of Doing Linguistic Anthropology and Cross-...
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Cultural Anthropology (Myanthrolab)
by Barbara D. Miller Publisher Comments Successfully integrating attention to globalization, gender, class, race and ethnicity throughout, Miller's up-to-date text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and by demonstrating the relevance of anthropology to their lives. Faculty...
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On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection (Studies in Comparative Social Science)
by Alexandra Maryanski Synopsis Kinship, religion, and economy were not natural to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these...
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Voices from Exile: Violence and Survival in Modern Maya History
by Victor Montejo Synopsis A searing portrayal of the consequences of state violence against the Mayas of Guatemala...
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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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Virtual Anthropology: A Guide to a New Interdisciplinary Field
by Gerhard W. Weber Publisher Comments This first textbook for Virtual Anthropology, a new branch of science that combines elements from such different fields as anthropology, radiology, forensics, mathematics, and computer science, is intended to be used by all kinds of students from...
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Learning from Greensboro: Truth and Reconciliation in the United States (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Lisa Magarrell Publisher Comments On November 3, 1979, in the Morningside neighborhood of Greensboro, North Carolina, a caravan of Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party members arrived on the scene of an anti-Klan protest. After a scuffle, some of the Klan and Nazis opened fire on the mostly...
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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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Fanti Kinship and the Analysis of Kinship Terminologies
by David B. Kronenfeld Publisher Comments This book examines Fanti kinship terminology from a variety of analytic and formal perspectives. Based on work with a broad number of informants, David B. Kronenfeld details and analyzes internal variation in usage within the Fanti community, shows the...
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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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Christmas, Ideology and Popular Culture
by Sheila Whiteley Publisher Comments How do we understand Christmas? What does it mean? This book is a lively introduction to the study of popular culture through one central case study. It explores the cultural, social and historical contexts of Christmas in the UK, USA and Australia...
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Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics #53/5: Res: Anthropology and Aesthetics, 53/54, Spring and Autumn 2008
by Francesco Pellizzi Publisher Comments This double volume includes: The value of forgery, Jonathan Hay; Affective operations of art and literature, Ernst van Alphen; Betty's Turn, Stephen Melville; Richard Serra in Germany, Magdalena Nieslony; Beheadings and massacres, Federico Navarrete...
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Diaspora Without Homeland: Being Korean in Japan
by Sonia Ryang Synopsis More than one-half million people of Korean descent reside in Japan today--the largest ethnic minority in a country often assumed to be homogeneous. This timely, interdisciplinary volume blends original empirical research with the vibrant field of...
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An Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology Workbook and Reader
by Harriet Joseph Ottenheimer Publisher Comments Classic and contemporary readings, exercises, and guided student projects are presented in this notebook-sized workbook/reader, with perforated assignment sheets that can be torn out and handed in. The exercises and readings illuminate or expand on 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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The Portable Island: Cubans at Home in the World (New Concepts in Latino American Cultures)
by Ruth Behar Publisher Comments This is a lyrical and timely collection that explores the meaning of home and identity for Cubans living on the island, as well as for those in far-flung locations around the globe....
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