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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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West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700-1860
by James F. Searing Publisher Comments The author shows how the societies of West Africa were transformed by the slave trade. The growth of the Atlantic trade stimulated the development of slavery within the region, with slaves working in the river and coasting trades or producing surplus...
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Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Walter D. Mignolo Publisher Comments This book is an extended argument on the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative scholars of Latin American studies. In a shrinking world where sharp dichotomies, such as East/West and developing/developed, blur and shift, Walter Mignolo...
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Fear of Small Numbers: An Essay on the Geography of Anger (Public Planet Books)
by Arjun Appadurai Publisher Comments A leading theorist of globalization provides a conceptually innovative framework for understanding sources of global...
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Why Some Like It Hot: Food, Genes, and Cultural Diversity
by Gary Paul Nabhan 
Publisher Comments Do your ears burn whenever you eat hot chile peppers? Does your face immediately flush when you drink alcohol? Does your stomach groan if you are exposed to raw milk or green fava beans? If so, you are probably among the one-third of the world's human...
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Theories of Contemporary Culture #20: Ethics After Idealism: Theorycultureethnicityreading
by Rey Chow Publisher Comments From theorists Slavoj Zizek and Gayatri Spivak to Frantz Fannon, from songwriter Luo Dayou to poet Leung Ping-Kwan, and from the film "M. Butterfly" to the films The Joy Luck Club, To Live, and Rouge, Rey Chow discusses a collection of source materials...
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Introducing Cultural Anthropology
by Roberta Edwards Lenkeit Publisher Comments This shorter, but comprehensive and academically sound, anchor text is an approachable, full-color introduction to cultural anthropology. This edition continues to give students the opportunity to explore anthropology's relevance to their own lives...
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American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492
by Russell Thornton Book News Annotation The definitive work on North American Indian population decline from 1492 to the present. Cloth edition available (2074-6; $29.95). Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)...
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Consumer Society : Myths and Structures (98 Edition)
by Jean Baudrillard Publisher Comments Now available in English for the first time, Jean Baudrillard's classic text was one of the first to focus on the process and meaning of consumption in contemporary culture. Originally published in 1970, the book still makes a vital contribution to...
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Voices from the Mountains
by Guy Carawan Publisher Comments A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than...
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The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
by Jeffrey H Cohen Publisher Comments Migration is a way of life for many individuals and even families in the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Some who leave their rural communities go only as far as the state capital, while others migrate to other parts of Mexico and to the United States. Most...
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The Mouse That Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence
by Henry A. Giroux Publisher Comments Today, cultural practices and institutions shape nearly every aspect of our lives. The author takes up this issue by looking at the world's most influential corporation. He explores the way in which the Disney Corporation has become a political force in...
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Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction : Socialization, Self and Syncretism in a Papua New Guinea Village (92 Edition)
by Don Kulick Publisher Comments Don Kulick's book is an anthropological study of language and cultural change among a small group of people living in the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea. He examines why the villagers of Gapun are abandoning their vernacular in favor of Tok Pisin, the...
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Breaking the Code of Good Intentions: Everyday Forms of Whiteness
by Melanie E. L. Bush Publisher Comments Breaking the Code of Good Intentions places the current-day white experience within a political, economic and social context by exploring the perceptions of students about identity, privilege, democracy, intergroup relations. This book documents how the...
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A Year in Lapland: Guest of the Reindeer Herders
by Hugh Beach Publisher Comments As a young man Hugh Beach went to live with the Saami reindeer hunters of Swedish Lapland. His lyrically written and very personal story of trying to fit into the herding way of life is a rare insider's account of the Saami. In a passionate and informed...
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Contemporary Art and Anthropology (06 Edition)
by Arnd Schneider Publisher Comments This book takes an innovative approach to representational practices within contemporary art and anthropology. Traditionally the anthropology of art has tended to focus on the interpretation of tribal artifacts, but has not considered the impact such art...
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Comparative Studies in Religion and Society #4: Mama Lola: A Vodoo Priestess in Brooklyn
by Karen Mccarth Brown Publisher Comments Karen McCarthy Brown's classic book shatters stereotypes of Vodou by offering an intimate portrait of African-based religion in everyday life. She explores the importance of women's religious practices along with related themes of family and of social...
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Puyo Runa: Imagery and Power in Modern Amazonia
by Norman E. And Dorothea Scott Whitten Whitten Publisher Comments The Andean nation of Ecuador derives much of its revenue from petroleum that is extracted from its vast Upper Amazonian rain forest, which is home to ten indigenous nationalities. Norman E. Whitten Jr. and Dorothea Scott Whitten have lived among and...
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The Reindeer People: Living with Animals and Spirits in Siberia
by Piers Vitebsky Publisher Comments Since the last Ice Age, the reindeer's extraordinary adaptation to cold has sustained human life over vast tracts of the earth's surface, providing meat, fur, and transport. Images carved into rocks and tattooed on the skin of mummies hint at ancient...
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To Rule Jerusalem
by Roger Friedland Publisher Comments ""To Rule Jerusalem" is a study of religion and politics, Judaism and Zionism as well as Palestinian nationalism and Islam, and it brings a most remarkable perspective to a topic--conflict over Jerusalem--with which we all are, unfortunately, far more...
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