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Minima Ethnographica: Intersubjectivity and the Anthropological Project
by Michael Jackson  Publisher Comments The postmodern opposition between theory and lived reality has led in part to an anthropological turn to "dialogic" or "reflexive" approaches. Michael Jackson claims these approaches are hardly radical as they still drift into such abstractions as...
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Landlords and Lodgers: Socio-Spatial Organization in an Accra Community
by Deborah Pellow Publisher Comments Landlords and Lodgers analyzes the results of a long-term study of a Ghanaian zongo, or “stranger quarter”—a place of refuge for Hausa migrants from northern Nigeria who have relocated to the city of Accra. Deborah Pellow explores the...
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The Visual Culture of American Religions
by David Morgan Publisher Comments Fourteen respected scholars of religion and art are brought together in this heavily illustrated volume to demonstrate in a variety of contexts how visual culture can be fruitfully treated as evidential (and not merely illustrational) in the historical...
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Contemporary Economic Sociology: Globalisation, Production, Inequality
by Fran Tonkiss Publisher Comments This text examines critical and contemporary issues in the sociology of economic life. Bringing together a range of theoretical perspectives, it examines major shifts in the organization of economy and society--from the politics of globalization to the...
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History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France V2
by Henry M. Baird Synopsis In Two Volumes. History Of The Rise Of The Huguenots Of France And Traces The Beginnings Of French Protestantism....
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Packing Them In
by Sylvia Hood Washington Publisher Comments This important new book by Sylvia Washington adds a vital new dimension to our understanding of environmental history in the United States. Washington excavates and tells the stories of Chicago's poor, working class, and ethnic minority neighborhoods...
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Hard Times on Kairiru Island: Poverty, Development, and Morality in a Papua New Guinea Village
by Michael Frenc Smith Publisher Comments This book follows the difficult lives of peopleliving in the village of Kragur in Papua NewGuinea. They have been in poverty since European contact and now must find a way to becomeprosperous....
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Learning Places: The Afterlives of Area Studies
by Masao (edt) Miyoshi Publisher Comments Under globalization, the project of area studies and its relationship to the fields of cultural, ethnic, and gender studies has grown more complex and more in need of the rigorous reexamination that this volume and its distinguished contributors...
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Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World
by Michel-rolph Trouillot Publisher Comments Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the 21st century, by examining its past, its...
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The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America
by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize...
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Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Ideas
by David (edt) Atkinson Publisher Comments As geography has become influenced by such themes such as postcolonial studies, feminism and psychoanalysis, so students have been forced to engage with ideas and concepts from outside the traditional boundaries of their subject. This exciting new work...
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Odun Ifa. Ifa Festival
by Abosede Emanuel Synopsis There can be no better time to revive the major strands of social and political thought about Africa in the nineteeth and twentieth centuries than now; given the consensus of opinion that over the last two decades African societies, and policies relating...
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Kitchen Secrets: The Meaning of Cooking in Everyday Life
by Frances Short Publisher Comments This book" "explores the thoughts, values and opinions of home cooks, their practices and experiences, and the skills and knowledge they use to prepare and provide food. It provides new and challenging ways of thinking about cooking, examining and often...
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Culture and Customs of the Central African Republic (Culture and Customs of Africa)
by Jacqueline Woodfork Publisher Comments The Central African Republic is one of the least-known African countries. This volume is the first to give a cultural overview of the key elements of this former French colony. Wood fork shows how the Republic has the fundamental building blocks, with...
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Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Cultural Anthropology (Taking Sides: Cultural Anthropology)
by Robert L Welsch Publisher Comments This debate-style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in cultural anthropology. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading anthropologists and educators, reflect a variety of viewpoints. Each reading has been selected...
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Wild Plants and Native Peoples of the Four Corners
by William W. Dunmire Publisher Comments Plant biologist and former National Park Service ecologist William W. Dunmire and ethnobotanist Gail D. Tierney incorporate exhaustive research, including interviews with Indian elders, in two popular guidebooks that combine information on native and...
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Rethinking Multiculturalism: Second Edition
by Bhikhu C. Parekh Publisher Comments This important and much acclaimed book rapidly became a classic on first publication. In it, Bhikhu Parekh shows that the Western tradition of political philosophy has very limited theoretical resources to cope with cultural diversity. He then discusses...
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Political Writings (94 Edition)
by Max Weber Publisher Comments A selection of Max Weber??'s most important political writings....
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Political Culture and Secession in Mississippi: Masculinity, Honor, and the Antiparty Tradition, 1830-1860
by Christopher J. Olsen Publisher Comments This groundbreaking study of the politics of secession combines traditional political history with current work in anthropology and gender and ritual studies. Christopher J. Olsen has drawn on local election returns, rural newspapers, manuscripts, and...
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Worlds Apart: Modernity Through the Prism of the Local
by Daniel Miller Publisher Comments "Worlds Apart maps out one of the new directions of anthropology, that aimed at advances in technologies which create an imagination of new global and local forms. It examines global institutions ranging from bureaucracy to business and from soap operas...
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