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Between Indian and White Worlds: The Cultural Broker
by Margaret Connell (edt) Szasz  Publisher Comments During centuries of contact between native peoples and Euro-Americans, countless intermediaries--artists, traders, interpreters, political figures, and authors--have bridged the divides between divergent...
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In the Red: On Contemporary Chinese Culture
by Geremie R Barme Publisher Comments China, Geremie R. Barm notes, has become one of the greatest writing and publishing nations on the planet, and both cultural activists and the state are embroiled in debates about the production and distribution of its cultural products. But what happens...
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We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco (Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture)
by Katherine E Hoffman Publisher Comments We Share Walls: Language, Land, and Gender in Berber Morocco explores how political economic shifts over the last century have reshaped the language practices and ideologies of women (and men) in the plains and mountains of rural Morocco....
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Global Flows, Local Appropriations: Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims
by Sindre Bangstad Synopsis Global Flows, Local Appropriations; Facets of Secularisation and Re-Islamization Among Contemporary Cape Muslims is the first ethnographic study of muslims in Cape Town, South Africa at this level in 25 years. It explores processes of secularisation and...
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Anthropology of the Self: The Individual in Cultural Perspective (Anthropology, Culture and Society)
by Brian Morris Publisher Comments This book looks at the 'self' in Western, Asian and African societies passing though Greek philosophy, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confuscism, Tao and African philosophy and ending with contemporary feminism. Scholarly and written in a lucid style, free of...
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Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
by Kristin Norget Publisher Comments Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in the popular culture of poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Norget's work offers an original perspective on the significance of the Day of...
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Eastern and Western Daily Culture: Intercultural Communication in China
by Robert Smith Synopsis "Eastern and Western Daily Culture" will help readers gain more knowledge in the differences between Chinese and American daily culture. This knowledge will help readers overcome faux pas so that they can successfully converse, do business, make friends,...
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Boy-Wives and Female-Husbands: Studies in African-American Homosexualities
by Will Roscoe Publisher Comments Claims concerning the presence and status of homosexuality in historic African cultures have become central points of contention in debates among contemporary African Americans. Some of those involved in the debate have even asserted that the original...
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What Makes Life Worth Living? : How Japanese and Americans Make Sense of Their Worlds (96 Edition)
by Gordon Mathews Publisher Comments Here is an original and provocative anthropological approach to the fundamental philosophical question of what makes life worth living. Gordon Mathews considers this perennial issue by examining nine pairs of similarly situated individuals in the United...
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Parisian Fields (Critical Views)
by Michael Sheringham Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-196) and index....
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Global Warming and the Political Ecology of Health: Emerging Crises and Systemic Solutions
by Hans Baer Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking, global analysis of the relationship between climate change and human health, Hans Baer and Merrill Singer inventory and critically analyze the diversity of significant and sometimes devastating health implications of global...
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Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age
by Majid Publisher Comments ," . .Majid presents an all-encompassing view of significant aspects of history and suggests new conceptual avenues that may enable the world (including Muslims and non-Muslims) to move toward peace and harmony."--Middle East Journal .,."Majid's book is...
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Gender and Sociality in Amazonia : How Real People Are Made (02 Edition)
by Cecilia Mccallum Publisher Comments This is the first book to focus directly on gender in Amazonia for nearly thirty years. Research on gender and sexual identity has become central to social science during that time, but studies have concentrated on other places and people, leaving the...
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Assault on Paradise (4TH 06 Edition)
by Conrad Phillip Kottak Publisher Comments Assault on Paradise is a highly readable, instructive, and entertaining ethnography for use as a supplement in introductory anthropology courses. The text chronicles the rapid social and economic change in Arembepe, a Brazilian coastal fishing village...
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Structural Models in Anthropology
by Per Hage Publisher Comments Hage and Harary present a comprehensive introduction to the use of graph theory in social and cultural anthropology. Using a wide range of empirical examples, the authors illustrate how graph theory can provide a language for expressing in a more exact...
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The Taste of Ethnographic Things: The Senses in Anthropology (Contemporary Ethnography Series)
by Paul Stoller Publisher Comments "An ingeniously constructed springboard for a criticism of anthropology."--...
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Rhetoric and Ritual in Colonial India
by Douglas E Haynes Publisher Comments This book explores the rhetoric and ritual of Indian elites undercolonialism, focusing on the city of Surat in the Bombay Presidency. It particularly examines how local elites appropriated and modified the liberal representative discourse of Britain and...
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Bridging Divides
by Eve Darian Smith Publisher Comments A cutting-edge work of legal anthropology, centering on the Channel Tunnel between England and France and the legal, political, and metaphorical complexities of the newly united Europe....
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From Class Struggle to the Politics of Pleasure: The Effects of Gramscianism on Cultural Studies
by David Harris Publisher Comments work and decide where its strengths and weaknesses lie for themselves, making them less dependent on the Gramscians' own accounts and agendas....
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Unspeakable Acts, Ordinary People: The Dynamics of Torture
by John Conroy Publisher Comments An examination of torture (in the name of the state) in three democracies (Israel, Northern Ireland, and the United States) by John Conroy, a Chicago journalist with a strong following among readers who know his previous book (a war diary of life in...
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