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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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Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea
by Foster J. Robert Publisher Comments This book explores globalization through a historical and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi became valued as more than mere commodities. Foster discusses the transnational operations of soft drink companies...
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Growing Up in New Guinea (Perennial Classics)
by Margaret Mead Publisher Comments Chapter OneIntroduction The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded. Whether one wishes...
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Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador (Pitt Latin Amercian Studies)
by A Kim Clark Publisher Comments Highland Indians and the State in Modern Ecuador chronicles the changing forms of indigenous engagement with the Ecuadorian state since the early nineteenth century that, by the beginning of the twenty-first century, had facilitated the growth of the...
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Modern Blackness (04 Edition)
by Thomas Publisher Comments Modern Blackness is a rich ethnographic exploration of Jamaican identity in the late twentieth century and early twenty-first. Analyzing nationalism, popular culture, and political economy in relation to one another, Deborah A. Thomas illuminates an...
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The Anthropology of Food and Body: Gender, Meaning and Power
by Carole M Counihan Publisher Comments Exploring the way that making, eating, and thinking about food reveal culturally determined gender-power relations in diverse societies, this text takes a cross-cultural approach to ask questions about eating disorders, body dissatisfaction, bodily...
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Rice Plus: Widows and Economic Survival in Rural Cambodia (New Approaches in Sociology)
by Susan Hagood Lee Publisher Comments War produces a preponderance of widows, often young widows with small children in their care. Rural widows must feed their families and educate their children despite rural poverty and the lack of opportunities for women. The economics of widowhood is...
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Sociolinguistics
by Bernard Spolsky Publisher Comments This series provides brief, clear introductions to the main disciplinary areas of language study. Sociolinguistics is the study of the different ways in which various groups of people use language. This book provides a brief yet comprehensive...
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Tapestry of Culture an Introduction To Cu 8TH Edition
by Abraham Rosman About the Author Abraham Rosman received a Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University. His first fieldwork was with the Kamuri of Bornu Province, in northern Nigeria. He has taught at Vassar College, Antioch College, and Barndard, College, Columbia University, where he...
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Castes of Mind : Colonialism and the Making of Modern India (01 Edition)
by Nicholas B. Dirks Publisher Comments "Massively documented and brilliantly argued, "Castes of Mind" is a study in true contrapuntal interpretation. Nicholas Dirks is a subtle unraveler of the dense, many-layered fabric of India's colonial and modern history as they converge in the idea and...
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Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines (Lea's Communication)
by John R. Baldwin Publisher Comments Redefining Culture: Perspectives Across the Disciplines argues that culture is perhaps the most important thing to know about people if one wants to make predictions about their behavior. The goal of this volume is to present a theoretically exhaustive...
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Culture and Anarchy
by Matthew Arnold Publisher Comments Without the challenging precedent of 'Culture and Anarchy, ' literary criticism and sociology in England and the United States would want both purpose and direction. Manifesting the special intelligence of a literary critic of original gifts, 'Culture...
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Anthropology 08/ 09 (31ST 08 Edition)
by Annual Edition Publisher Comments This Thirty-First Edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: ANTHROPOLOGY provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an...
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Invention of Tradition (83 Edition)
by Eric Hobsbawm Publisher Comments Many of the traditions which we think of as very ancient in their origins were not in fact sanctioned by long usage over the centuries, but were invented comparatively recently. This book explores examples of this process of invention - the creation of...
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Rethinking Anti-Racisms: From Theory to Practice
by Cathie Lloyd Publisher Comments The last two decades have not only seen the rapid growth of economic globalization, but also a rise in ethnic conflict and forced migration. With this global social change has come change in the ideas and practice of racism and, as such, the old national...
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