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Everyday Stalinism: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
by Sheila Fitzpatrick  Publisher Comments Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by a leading authority on modern Russian history. Focusing on the urban population, Fitzpatrick depicts a world of privation, overcrowding, endless lines, and broken homes, in which the...
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The Predicament of Culture: Twentieth-Century Ethnography, Literature, and Art
by James Clifford Publisher Comments "The Predicament of Culture" is a critical ethnography of the West in its changing relations with other societies. Analyzing cultural practices such as anthropology, travel writing, collecting, and museum displays of tribal art, Clifford shows...
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The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea
by Annette B. Weiner Publisher Comments This re-examination of the Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea, the people described in Malinowskis classic ethnographic work of the early 20th century, provides a balanced view of the society from a male and female perspective, including coverage of new...
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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...
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Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman
by Marjorie Shostak Publisher Comments This classic paperback is available once again — and exclusively — from Harvard University Press. This book is the story of the life of Nisa, a member of the !Kung tribe of hunter-gatherers from southern Africa's Kalahari desert. Told in...
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Blubberland: The Dangers of Happiness
by Elizabeth Farrelly Publisher Comments I, like you, drive too much. I buy too much--of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs the...
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Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation
by David (edt) Held Synopsis What is the future of culture in the 21st century? A compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers, this volume gathers together a broad range of answers from the perspectives of academia, business, policy making, cultural...
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Tourist : a New Theory of the Leisure Class (99 Edition)
by Dean Maccannell Publisher Comments "Nothing short of brilliant."--Lewis...
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Gardens, City Life, and Culture: A World Tour (Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies)
by Michel (edt) Conan Publisher Comments Gardens have exerted a deep influence on the culture of cities. Considering each city as a whole, this book presents the profoundly different roles of gardens in cultural development and social life. Private and princely gardens, from Roman antiquity to...
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Ethnicity (96 Edition)
by John Hutchinson Publisher Comments Although the term "ethnicity" is recent, the sense of kinship, group solidarity, and common culture to which it refers is as old as the historical record. Ethnic communities have been present in every period and on every continent, and have played an...
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By the Lake of Sleeping Children : the Secret Life of the Mexican Border (96 Edition)
by Luis Urrea Publisher Comments Luis Alberto Urrea's first book, Across the Wire: Life and Hard Times on the Mexican Border, was a haunting and unprecedented look at what life is like for those living on the Mexican side of the border, eking out only the barest of lives not far from...
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Modernity At Large
by Arjun Appadurai Publisher Comments Offering a new framework for the cultural study of globalization, Modernity at Large shows how the imagination works as a social force in today's world, providing new resources for identity and energies for creating alternatives to the nation-state...
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Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation
by David (edt) Held Synopsis What is the future of culture in the 21st century?A compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers, this volume gathers together a broad range of answers from the perspectives of academia, business, policy making, cultural...
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Ancient Futures
by Helen Norberg-hodge Publisher Comments This gripping portrait of the rapidly evolving socioeconomic life of Ladakh - the Western Himalayan land known as "Little Tibet" - offers crucial lessons in sustainable development as its people attempt to balance growth and technology with cultural...
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Dobe Ju/'hoansi (3RD 03 Edition)
by Richard B. Lee Publisher Comments This classic, bestselling study of the !Kung San, foragers of the Dobe area of the Kalahari Desert describes a people's reactions to the forces of modernization, detailing relatively recent changes to !Kung rituals, beliefs, social structure, marriage...
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Evolution and Empathy: The Genetic Factor in the Rise of Humanism
by Milton E. Brener Publisher Comments This book applies new scientific research in the fields of biology and genetics to an empirical study of the Greco-Roman civilizations and the European Renaissance. These two periods were remarkable in part because of the dominance of empathy and...
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Ritual Process : Structure and Anti-structure (95 Edition)
by Victor W. Turner Publisher Comments The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ritual behavior and symbolism may be used as a key to understanding social structure and processes. The American Anthropologist called Turner's book...
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ASA Monographs #45: Anthropology and the New Cosmopolitanism: Rooted, Feminist and Vernacular Perspectives
by Pnina (edt) 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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The Other Side of Eden: Hunters, Farmers, and the Shaping of the World
by Hugh Brody Publisher Comments Hugh Brody crystallizes three decades of studying, learning from, crusading for, and thinking about hunter-gatherers in this profound and provocative book. Contrary to stereotype, he says, it is the farmers and their colonizing descendants--ourselves...
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Culture in Practice: Collected Essays
by Marshall David Sahlins Publisher Comments Culture in Practice collects the academic and political writings from the 1960s through the 1990s of anthropologist Marshall Sahlins. More than a compilation, Culture in Practice unfolds as an intellectual autobiography. The book opens with Sahlins's...
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