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Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture
by David Johnson  Publisher Comments Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies...
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Ballroom: Culture and Costumes in Competitive Dance (Dress, Body, Culture)
by Jonathan S. Marion Publisher Comments Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender, and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures...
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Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India
by Veronique Benei Publisher Comments Schooling Passions explores an important, yet often overlooked dimension of nationalism—its embodied and emotional components. It does so by focusing on another oft-neglected area, that of elementary education in the modern state. Through an...
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Subjectivity and Suffering in American Culture: Possible Selves (Culture, Mind and Society)
by Steven M. Parish Publisher Comments This book explores the experience of suffering in order to shed light on the nature of the human self. Using an intimate life history approach, it examines ways people struggle to cope with experiences that can shatter their lives: a diagnosis of...
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Anthropology's Wake: Attending to the End of Culture
by David Johnson Publisher Comments Posing a powerful challenge to dominant trends in cultural analysis, this book covers the whole history of the concept of culture, providing the broadest study of this notion to date. Johnson and Michaelsen examine the principal methodological strategies...
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Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Cultures of Consumption)
by Alexander Nutzenadel Publisher Comments Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. Food markets were the first to become globally integrated, linking distant cultures of the world, and in no other area have the interactions between global exchange and local...
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Kyongju Things: Assembling Place
by Robert Oppenheim Publisher Comments Kyongju is South Korea's preeminent "culture city," an urban site rich with archaeological wonders that residents compare to those of Nara, Xian, and Rome. By examining these ancient objects in relation to the controversies that engulfed South Korea's...
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Nomads Under the Westway: Irish Travellers, Gypsies and Other Traders in West London
by Chris Griffin Publisher Comments This scholarly yet personal view of the lives of Gypsies and other nomadic groups in West London also explores the broader contexts of immigration, race relations, and the wheeler-dealer culture of ...
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Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives (Asa Monographs)
by Pnina Werbner Publisher Comments Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism breaks new ground in theorizing the role of social anthropology as a discipline that engages with the moral, economic, legal and political transformations and dislocations of a globalizing world. The book's major...
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Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics (Past in the Present)
by Peter Burke Publisher Comments Peter Burke is the leading cultural historian of our generation.--Jay Winter, Yale University The world's greatest thinking happens in many climes, contexts, and languages. To alert the English-speaking world to this fact, there are no better scholars...
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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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Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring 'Alternatives' (Cultures of Consumption)
by Moya Kneafsey Synopsis "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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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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Ballroom: Culture and Costumes in Competitive Dance (Dress, Body, Culture)
by Jonathan S. Marion Publisher Comments Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender, and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures...
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Anthropology for Dummies
by Cameron M. Smith Publisher Comments Anthropology For Dummies covers all of the subfields of anthropology, from forensics and archaeology to linguistics and culture. It also provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the field of anthropology....
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The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease
by Megan Brickley Publisher Comments The Bioarchaeology of Metabolic Bone Disease provides a comprehensive and invaluable source of information on this important group of diseases. It is an essential guide for those engaged in either basic recording or in-depth research on human remains...
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Lewis Henry Morgan and the Invention of Kinship, New Edition
by Thomas R. Trautmann Publisher Comments Lewis Henry Morgan of Rochester, New York, lawyer and pioneering anthropologist, was the leading American contributor of his generation to the social sciences. Among the classic works whose conjunction in the 1860s gave modern anthropology its shape...
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Polygamy: A Cross-Cultural Analysis
by Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen Publisher Comments Forms of plural marriage, or polygamy, are practiced within most of the world's cultures and religions. The amazing variation, versatility and adaptability of polygamy underscore that it is not just an exotic non-Western practice, but also exists in...
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Food and Globalization: Consumption, Markets and Politics in the Modern World (Cultures of Consumption)
by Alexander Nutzenadel Publisher Comments Food has a special significance in the expanding field of global history. Food markets were the first to become globally integrated, linking distant cultures of the world, and in no other area have the interactions between global exchange and local...
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Technoculture: The Key Concepts (Key Concepts)
by Debra Benita Shaw Synopsis 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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