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Enchanted Modern : Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon (06 Edition)
by Lara Deeb  Publisher Comments Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community...
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The Penguin Dictionary of Critical Theory
by Penguin Publisher Comments The most up-to-date and authoritative introduction to critical theory available, this acclaimed dictionary provides an ideal overview of the full range of theories, schools of thought, and theorists. Whether it's Arendt or Woolf, object relations or...
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Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader (Sensory Formations Series)
by David (edt) Howes Publisher Comments In "Empire of the Senses" the senses are considered as cultural systems. Bringing together classic pieces by key thinkers--from Marshall McLuhan and Alain Corbin to Susan Stewart and Oliver Sacks--as well as newly commissioned articles, this path...
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Light at the Edge of the World: A Journey Through the Realm of Vanishing Cultures
by Wade Davis Publisher Comments In this major new work, renowned anthropologist and bestselling author Wade Davis explores and reveals the awe-inspiring wealth of human diversity and makes an impassioned case for preservation of Earth's disappearing cultures. 80 photos....
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The World of Goods: Towards an Anthropology of Consumption
by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments First published in 1979, "The World of Goods" rapidly established itself as a classic. In this pioneering work, a leading anthropologist and an economist join forces to suggest what market researchers have long suspected and anthropologists have observed...
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Walter Benjamin's Grave
by Michael Taussig Publisher Comments In September 1940, Walter Benjamin committed suicide in Port Bou on the Spanish-French border when it appeared that he and his traveling partners would be denied passage into Spain as they attempted to escape the Nazis. In 2002, one of anthropology’...
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The Intestines of the State: Youth, Violence, and Belated Histories in the Cameroon Grassfields
by Nicolas Argenti Publisher Comments The young people of the Cameroon Grassfields have been subject to a long history of violence and political marginalization. For centuries the main victims of the slave trade, they became prime targets for forced labor campaigns under a series of colonial...
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In the Place of Origins : Modernity and Its Mediums in Northern Thailand (00 Edition)
by Rosalind C. Morris Publisher Comments Attending to these issues as they manifest themselves in the practices of mediums, Morris describes both the mundane activities of spirit mediums and the grand ambitions to political authority that are embodied in the increasingly spectacular forms of...
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Curse of Nemur (07 Edition)
by Escobar Publisher Comments The Tomáraho, a subgroup of the Ishir (Chamacoco) of Paraguay, are one of the few remaining indigenous populations who have managed to keep both their language and spiritual beliefs intact. They have lived for many years in a remote region of the...
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Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in Everyday Life
by Frances Short Publisher Comments This book" "explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often...
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Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice (Anthropology Culture and Society)
by David Mosse Publisher Comments Today there is a preoccupation among development agencies and researchers with getting policy right; with exerting influence over policy, linking research to policy and with implementing policy around the world. But what if development practice is not...
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Myth and Meaning : Cracking the Code of Culture (95 Edition)
by Claude Levi-strauss Publisher Comments 'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind.'--Philip Rieff, Professor of Psychiatry, Medical...
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Gossip, Markets, and Gender: How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro (Women in Africa and the Diaspora)
by Tuulikki Pietil<:a> Publisher Comments "All traders are thieves, especially women traders," people often assured social anthropologist Tuulikki Pietila during her field work in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, in the mid-1990s. Equally common were stories about businessmen who had "bought a spirit" for...
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Death Without Weeping: Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
by Nanc Scheper Hughes Synopsis Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of...
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Natural Symbols: Explorations in Cosmology
by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments "Natural Symbols" is one of the most important works of modern anthropology. First published over thirty years ago, the work presaged many of the most controversial areas of intellectual debate, exploring themes such as the social meaning of natural...
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Culture on Drugs: Narco-Cultural Studies of High Modernity
by Dave Boothroyd Publisher Comments Never has a reconsideration of the place of drugs in our culture been more urgent than it is today. Culture on Drugs addresses themes such as the nature of consciousness, language and the body, alienation, selfhood, the image and virtuality and the...
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The Crisis of the Modern World (Collected Works of Rene Guenon)
by Rene Guenon Publisher Comments Critique of the modern world from the point of view of traditional metaphysics, with special reference to the Oriental doctrine of cosmic cycles....
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Companion to Latin American Anthropology
by Deborah (edt) Poole Publisher Comments Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of...
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The Reinvention of Work: New Vision of Livelihood for Our Time, a
by Matthew Fox Publisher Comments Chapter One There are essentially two kinds of work: inner and outer. The inner work refers to that large world within our souls or selves; the outer is what we give birth to or interact with outside ourselves. The industrial revolution was essentially...
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Sort of a Place Like Home
by Susan Maushart Book News Annotation Drawing primarily on interviews with former students, but also on obscure documents, Maushart assembles a portrait of the Settlement in Western Australia that early in the 20th century served natives alternately as sanctuary, work camp, orphanage, and...
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