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Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science
by Stefan Arvidsson  Publisher Comments Critically examining the discourse of Indo-European scholarship over the past two hundred years, Aryan Idols demonstrates how the interconnected concepts of “Indo-European” and “Aryan” as ethnic categories have been shaped by, and...
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Invented Eden: The Elusive, Disputed History of the Tasaday
by Robin Hemley Publisher Comments In 1971 Manual Elizalde, a Philippine government minister with a dubious background, discovered a band of twenty-six “Stone Age” rain-forest dwellers living in total isolation. The tribe was soon featured in American newscasts and graced the...
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Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference (New Americanists)
by Epifanio San Juan Publisher Comments "An invigorating analysis and soul-searching critique of contemporary controversies regarding multiculturalism and the centrality of race/culture/class in confronting politics of difference. San Juan casts a wide net, but he handles the workings and...
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New York Jews and Decline of Urban Ethnicty (01 Edition)
by Eli Lederhendler Publisher Comments Here is an intriguing look at the cause and effect of New York City politics and culture in the 1950s and 1960s and the inner life of one of the city's largest ethnic/religious groups. The New York Jewish mystique has always been tied to the fabric and...
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Far from the Church Bells
by Anthony H. Galt Publisher Comments This book is a historical and anthropological study of Locorotondo in the Province of Bari in southeastern Italy. It focuses on the unusual nature of peasant society in the region and attempts to explain how it came about. What distinguishes Locorotondo...
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New Jersey Dreaming
by Sherry B. Ortner Publisher Comments In "New Jersey Dreaming" the renowned anthropologist Sherry B. Ortner turns her attention to how social class is lived in the United States and, specifically, within her own peer group. Ortner returns to her Newark roots to present an in-depth look at...
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The Millennial New World
by Frank Graziano Publisher Comments Much has been written about millennialism in the U.S. and its European roots. But although it is widely recognized that millennialism is also endemic to Latin America, until now there has been no systematic study of this phenomenon as it has flourished...
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Plain Lives in a Golden Age
by Arti Theodorus Van Deursen Publisher Comments st comprehensive study yet published of the plain lives of a 'golden age'.f plague from the first outbreak of the Black Death in 1348 to the mid-fifteenth century. Through an innovative study of this evidence, Professor Carmichael develops two related...
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In the Blood: God, Genes and Destiny (UK Edition)
by Steve Jones Publisher Comments Accessible survey of genetics, first published to accompany a BBC2 series, which draws on anthropology, archaeology, psychology and medicine to paint a group portrait of the human race. Taking into account recent advances the book also tackles the thorny...
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Politics of Marginality: Race, the Radical Right & Minorities in Twentieth Century Britain
by Tony Kushner Publisher Comments Immigration to Britain has rarely achieved the levels experienced by the US, but it is nevertheless true of all periods that immigrants, refugees and soujourners have been continually present'. While we may have the beginnings of a history of immigration,...
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Translated Woman Crossing the Border W
by Ruth Behar Synopsis The tenth-anniversary edition of this classic book, with a new preface Translated Woman tells the story of an unforgettable encounter between Ruth Behar, a Cuban-American feminist anthropologist, and Esperanza Hernandez, a Mexican street peddler. A brave...
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Pittsburgh and the Appalachians: Cultural and Natural Resources in a Postindustrial Age
by Joseph L. (edt) Scarpaci Publisher Comments Few American cities reflect the challenges and promise of a twenty-first-century economy better than Pittsburgh and its surrounding region. Once a titan of the industrial age, Pittsburgh flourished from the benefits of its waterways, central location...
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Paradigm #25: The American Game: Capitalism, Decolonization, Global Domination, and Baseball
by John D. Kelly Publisher Comments It is easy to mistake the United States for an empire. But as John D. Kelly explains here, the American approach to global relations is best understood as a competition--one in which the United States, through the reshaping of economic theory and the...
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Sacred Realms: Essays in Religion, Belief, and Society
by Richard L Warms Publisher Comments Sacred Realms is a comprehensive introduction to the anthropology of religion that presents and defines key concepts with fifty-five classic and current essays by leading specialists. The anthology has wide geographical scope and presents balanced...
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Cultures in Conversation
by Donal A. Carbaugh Publisher Comments Cultures in Conversation introduces readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions through the analysis of conversations in which various cultural orientations are operating. Author Donal Carbaugh presents his original...
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Gold Cloths of Sumatra: Indonesia's Songkets from Ceremony to Commodity (Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy C)
by Susan Rodgers Synopsis Songket textiles are gleaming presige cloths created when hand-loom weavers add metal-wrapped threads to create intricate bands of geometric and botanical designs. Employing a weaving technique that is hundreds of years old in Malaysia, Sumatra, coastal...
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Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas
by Shannon Speed Publisher Comments Rights in Rebellion examines the global discourse of human rights and its influence on the local culture, identity, and forms of resistance. Through a multi-sited ethnography of various groups in the indigenous communities of Chiapas, Mexico—from...
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Empire of Signs: Semiotic Essays on Japanese Culture
by Yoshihiko Ikegami Publisher Comments Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L'empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture....
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Critical Readings : Media and Audiences (03 Edition)
by Virginia Nightingale Publisher Comments What changes have taken place to the ways in which the audience is perceived?How have audiences become fragmented in the search for ratings?What next for audience research in the 21st century?The study of ‘audience is a central concept in both...
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Culture and Customs of Uganda (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Kefa M. Otiso Publisher Comments Since achieving independence from Great Britain in 1962, the East African country of Uganda has been ravaged by political turmoil and the more recent crisis of the AIDS epidemic, but is now in the process of rebuilding and democratizing. Culture and...
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