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Colonizing Hawai'i
by Sally Engle Merry  Publisher Comments How does law transform family, sexuality, and community in the fractured social world characteristic of the colonizing process? The law was a cornerstone of the so-called civilizing process of nineteenth-century colonialism. It was simultaneously a means...
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The African Unconscious: Roots of Ancient Mysticism and Modern Psychology (Counseling and Development Series)
by Edward Bruce Bynum Publisher Comments This brilliant and provocative view of history, archaeology, genetics, and the biospiritual roots of religion and science offers a radically new vision of the collective unconscious in its daily and historical operations. Bynum goes beyond traditional...
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American Academy of Religion Academy Series #4: Cultural Otherness: Correspondence with Richard Rorty
by Anindita Niyogi Balslev Publisher Comments This volume comprises a number of letters between author Anindita Niyogi Balslev and philosopher Richard Rorty. The letters explore ways to generate a creative and critical crosscultural discourse not only by challenging stereotypes about cultures and...
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Culture and Customs of Zambia (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Scott D. Taylor Publisher Comments Zambia stands out in Africa as one of the continent's most peaceful countries. In its early years as an independent state, Zambia became a regional bulwark against imperialism and colonial domination and South African apartheid. Today, it stands out as...
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Emerging Class in Papua New Guinea: The Telling of Difference
by Deborah B Gewertz Publisher Comments Class has become a feature of life in Papua New Guinea, evident in both "traditional" and "modern" settings. This book examines the emergence of class differences and its social and cultural ramifications in Wewak, capital of the East Sepik Province. It...
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The Myth of Consumerism
by Conrad Lodziak Publisher Comments Life in the west is lived within a culture awash with the advertising, brand-names and labels of conspicuous consumerism. Accordingly, consumerism and consumer culture have become central to critical discussions of identity, postmodernity and culture as...
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China Wakes: The Struggle For the Soul of a Rising Power
by Nicholas D Kristof 
Publisher Comments "When China wakes, it will shake the world", Napoleon Bonaparte once remarked. That moment is now at hand. And in this book Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the Pulitzer Prize winning Beijing correspondents of The New York Times, bring to life the...
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Ritual, Performance, Media
by Felicia Hughes-freeland Publisher Comments How can media and performance studies take a place in the discipline of anthropology? IRitual, Performance, Media demonstrates how individual inventiveness makes society a process of dynamic interaction between creativity and convention. Human beings...
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On Work, Race, and the Sociological Imagination (Heritage of Sociology)
by Everett C. Hughes Publisher Comments <div>The writings in this volume highlight Hughes's contributions to the sociology of work and professions; race and ethnicity; and the central themes and methods of the discipline. Hughes was the first sociologist to pay sustained...
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Doing Ethnographic and Observational Research (Qualitative Research Kit)
by Michael Angrosino Publisher Comments Including coverage of the selection of cases, observation and interviewing, recording data, and takes into account ethical issues, Doing Ethnographic and Observational Research introduces the reader to the practice of producing data through ethnographic...
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Family and Civilization
by Carle Zimmerman Publisher Comments Family and Civilization is the magnum opus of Carle Zimmerman, a distinguished sociologist who taught for many years at Harvard University. In this unjustly forgotten work Zimmerman demonstrates the close and causal connections between the rise and fall...
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Social and Cultural Anthropology : a Very Short Introduction (00 Edition)
by John Monaghan Publisher Comments "If you want to know what anthropology is, look at what anthropologists do," write the authors of Social and Cultural Anthropology: A Very Short Introduction. This engaging overview of the field combines an accessible account of some of the discipline's...
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Family and Social Policy in Japan: Anthropological Approaches (Contemporary Japanese Society)
by Harumi Befu Publisher Comments An in-depth study of the formation of social policy in a non-western society....
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The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination
by Lawrence Buell Publisher Comments Written by one of the world's leading theorists in ecocriticism, this manifesto provides a critical summary of the ecocritical movement....
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Transatlantic Stage Stars in Vaudeville and Variety: Celebrity Turns (Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History)
by Leigh Woods Publisher Comments It was a strange notion in 1900, that leading lights of the legitimate stage would ever join a bill of "turns" or short acts, everything from, and in between, song-and-dance, trained animals, blackface, aerialists, criminals regaling crowds with their...
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States of Imagination
by Thomas Blom (edt) Hansen Publisher Comments "This outstanding volume contains an excellent introductory discussion of current trends of thinking and research on the state. The first-rate articles by a mix of well- and less-known scholars are sophisticated, nuanced, and accessible."--George Marcus,...
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The ARC and the Machine: Narrative and New Media
by Caroline Bassett Publisher Comments "The Arc and the Machine" is a timely and original defense of narrative in an age of information. Stressing interpretation and experience alongside affect and sensation it convincingly argues that narrative is key to contemporary forms of cultural...
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Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation
by Philip (edt) Kasinitz Publisher Comments Almost two-thirds of New Yorkers under the age of 18 are the children of immigrants. This second generation shares with previous waves of immigrant youth the experience of attempting to reconcile their cultural heritage with American society. In...
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Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan (07 Edition)
by Boddy Publisher Comments Civilizing Women is a riveting exploration of the disparate worlds of British colonial officers and the Muslim Sudanese they sought to remake into modern imperial subjects. Focusing on efforts to stop female circumcision in the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan...
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Ethnic Inequalities and Public Sector Governance: (Ethnicity, Inequality, and Public Sector Governance)
by Yusuf Bangura Publisher Comments The contributors discuss the links between ethnicity, inequality and governance. Their findings suggest that it is not the existence of diversity" per se," but "types of diversity" that explain potentials for conflict or cohesion in multiethnic societies....
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