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China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof  Publisher Comments The definitive book on China's uneasy transformation into an economic and political superpower by two Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporters. An insightful and thought-provoking analysis of daily life in China, China Wakes is an exemplary work...
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Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan
by Jennifer Robertson Publisher Comments The all-female Takarazuka Revue is world-famous today for its rococo musical productions, including gender-bending love stories, torridly romantic liaisons in foreign settings, and fanatically devoted fans. But that is only a small part of its...
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The Cultural Nature of Human Development
by Barbara Rogoff Publisher Comments Three-year-old Kwara'ae children in Oceania act as caregivers of their younger siblings, but in the UK, it is an offense to leave a child under age 14 ears without adult supervision. In the Efe community in Zaire, infants routinely use machetes with...
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The Second Shift
by Arlie Ru Hochschild Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-314) and index....
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The Cultures of Globalization
by Fredric (edt) Jameson Publisher Comments A pervasive force that evades easy analysis, globalization has come to represent the export and import of culture, the speed and intensity of which has increased to unprecedented levels in recent years. The Cultures of Globalization presents an...
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Middle East Patterns Palces Peoples 4TH Edition
by Colbert C Held Publisher Comments Now in its fourth edition, Middle East Patterns continues to be the only comprehensive, authoritative geographical study of the region. Colbert Held, a U.S. geographer who experienced firsthand and studied every country during his years of service in the...
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East To America (96 Edition)
by Elaine H. Kim Publisher Comments In more than 30 powerful, candid interviews, individuals from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles render a portrait of the Korean-American community grappling with racial tensions, class and gender differences, and differing notions of...
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Downcast Eyes: Denigration of Vision in 20th-Century French
by Martin Jay Publisher Comments Long considered "the noblest of the senses", vision has increasingly come under critical scrutiny by a wide range of thinkers who question its dominance in Western culture. These critics, especially prominent in twentieth-century France, have challenged...
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Excursions
by Michael Jackson Publisher Comments A village in Sierra Leone. A refugee trail over the Pyrenees in French Catalonia. A historic copper mine in Sweden. The Shuf mountains in Lebanon. The Swiss Alps. The heart of the West African diaspora in southeast London. The anthropologist Michael...
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Neo-liberal Genetics : the Myths and Moral Tales of Evolutionary Psychology (05 Edition)
by Susan Mckinnon Publisher Comments Evolutionary psychology claims to be the authoritative science of "human nature." Its chief architects, including Stephen Pinker and David Buss, have managed to reach well beyond the ivory tower to win large audiences and influence public discourse. But...
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Culture, Power, Place: Explorations in Critical Anthropology
by Akhil Gupta Publisher Comments ""Culture, Power, Place" is exciting, timely, and consequential. This fine book promises to be a contribution of real intellectual significance--and should attract a very large audience both within anthropology and in cultural studies and related fields....
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Unrooted Childhoods: Memoirs of Growing Up Global
by Faith Eidse and Nina Sichel Publisher Comments A fusion of voices and deeply personal experiences from every corner of the globe, Unrooted Childhoods presents a cultural mosaic of today's citizens of the world. In twenty stirring memoirs of childhoods spent packing, writings by both world-famous and...
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Investigating Culture : Experiential Introduction To Anthropology (04 Edition)
by Carol Delaney Publisher Comments Investigating Culture: An Experiential Introduction to Anthropology offers an innovative approach to understanding culture as a constructed phenomenon open to investigation of its implicit premises and explicit forms....
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Island of Bali (46 Edition)
by Miguel Covarrubias About the Author Miguel Covarrubias (1904-1957) was born in Mexico City and was an author, painter, caricaturist, and professor of art history at the National School of Anthropology in Mexico City....
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Mountain People
by Colin Turnbull Publisher Comments In 'The Mountain People', Colin M. Turnbull, the celebrated author of the classic 'The Forest People', describes the dehumanization of the Ik, African tribesmen who in less than three generations have deteriorated from being once-prosperous hunters to...
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Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico
by Maria Luz Cruz-torres Publisher Comments Along the coast of northwestern Mexico the new global economy has imposed terrible burdens on many sectors of the population and once self-reliant, rural populations have been driven to wage and subsistence labor in order to survive. This book eloquently...
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Culture and Customs of Nigeria (01 Edition)
by Toyin Falola Publisher Comments Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern. Culture and Customs of Nigeria is the only concise, authoritative, and up-to-date discussion of Nigerian culture that...
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Militarized Modernity and Gendered Citizenship in South Korea (Politics, History, and Culture)
by Seungsook Moon Publisher Comments This pathbreaking study presents a feminist analysis of the politics of membership in the South Korean nation over the past four decades. Seungsook Moon examines the ambitious effort by which South Korea transformed itself into a modern industrial and...
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Nike Culture: The Sign of the Swoosh (Core Cultural Icons)
by Robert Goldman Publisher Comments This book is one of the first to take an in-depth look at how an advertising image works. It situates the Nike swoosh logo in terms of political economy, sociology, culture and semiotics.</p> <p>Nike Culture describes and deconstructs the...
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The Ancient Spirituality of the Modern Maya
by Thomas Hart Synopsis Since the arrival of the Europeans, the indigenous people of what is now Guatemala have endured massacres, persecution, and discrimination. Their religious beliefs and practices have been condemned as superstition and witchcraft. Yet the spiritual...
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