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Narrative of the Incas
by Juan De Betranzos  Publisher Comments One of the earliest chronicles of the Inca empire was written in the 1550s by Juan de Betanzos. Although scholars have long known of this work, only eighteen chapters were actually available until the 1980s when the remaining sixty-four chapters were...
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Performing English with a Postcolonial Accent: Ethnographic Narratives from Mexico
by A. Clemente Publisher Comments 'The postcolonial condition represents the political, social and cultural realities of what constitutes the everyday lives of the actors entangled in the whirlwind of globalisation. How they learn, appropriate, modify, and redefine their use of English...
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The Impulse to Preserve: Reflections of a Filmmaker
by Robert Gardner Publisher Comments In The Impulse to Preserve, filmmaker Robert Gardner reflects on a life spent observing, recording, and illuminating the human condition in some of the most remote regions of the world. Originally published in 2006, this lavishly illustrated book is now...
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The Rise of Brands
by Liz Moor Publisher Comments Brands and logos are all around us, from the clothes we wear and the objects we buy, to the advertisements which cover our cities and the celebrities created by the media. We regard the brand as a new phenomenon, something born with the consumer society,...
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Developments in Quaternary Sciences #9: Late Quaternary Climate Change and Human Adaptation in Arid China
by David B. Madsen Publisher Comments Due to political pressures, prior to the 1990s little was known about the nature of human foraging adaptations in the deserts, grasslands, and mountains of north western China during the last glacial period. Even less was known about the transition to...
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Calligraphic State : Textural Domination and History in a Muslim Society (96 Edition)
by Brinkley Morris Messick Publisher Comments 'A first-rate introduction to the everyday workings of 'shari 'at society' and to Muslim understandings of the written and spoken word...An authoritative model for anthropological writing about complex societies.' --Gregory Starrett, International...
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Immediate Struggles (06 Edition)
by Narotzky Publisher Comments A study of regional development in Spain in the present period of globalization and political, economic, and cultural changes created by the world economy....
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Mass Culture and Modernism in Egypt (96 Edition)
by Walter Armbrust Publisher Comments Study of popular culture and the representation of modern life in Egypt....
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Race and Ethnicity: Identity, Culture and Society
by Stephen Spencer Publisher Comments Race and Ethnicity adopts a global perspective to explore the historical, social and political processes which produce ethnic relations and identities. Steve Spencer reconsiders the problematic and elusive terms race and ethnicity through an accessible...
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Byron's Romantic Celebrity: Industrial Culture and the Hermeneutic of Intimacy (Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print)
by Tom Mole Publisher Comments Byron's Romantic Celebrity offers a new history and theory of modern celebrity. It argues that celebrity is a cultural apparatus that emerged in response to the Romantic industrialization of print and culture and that Lord Byron should be understood as...
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Weaving and Dyeing in Highland Ecuador
by Ann Pollard Rowe Publisher Comments Textiles have been an important art form among Andean peoples from remote prehistory up to the present. A greater understanding of their creation process can yield a more meaningful appreciation of the art itself....
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Lost World of the Kimberley: Extraordinary New Glimpses of Australia's Ice Age Ancestors
by Ian Wilson Publisher Comments This provocative anthropological study offers insights into the thousands of paintings found in small, raised caves on cliff faces in the remote and rugged Kimberley Ranges of Northwest Australia. With lithe, graceful, human figures depicted in...
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Psyche's Task: A Discourse Concerning the Influence of Superstition
by James G. Frazer Publisher Comments According to Frazer, superstition may have been responsible for some terrible misunderstandings and even worse misdeeds, but in lending strength to the core institutions of government, private property, marriage, and respect for human life, superstition...
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The Palestinian Diaspora
by Helena Lindholm Schulz Publisher Comments From the refugee camps in Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been...
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As Pastoralists Settle: Social, Health, and Economic Consequences of the Pastoral Sedentarization in Marsabit District, Kenya (Studies in Human Ecology)
by Elliot M. Fratkin Publisher Comments Throughout the world's arid regions, and particularly in northern and eastern Africa, formerly nomadic pastoralists are undergoing a transition to settled life. Pastoral sedentarization represents a response to multiple factors, including loss of...
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The Road Winds Uphill All the Way: Gender, Work, and Family in the United States and Japan
by Myra Strober Publisher Comments he authors take a fresh look at the widespread belief that U.S. gender equity is light years ahead of Japan's....
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The Sibling Society
by Robert Bly Publisher Comments Where have all the grownups gone? In answering that question with the same freewheeling erudition and intuitive brilliance that made Iron John a national bestseller, Robert Bly tells us that we live in a "sibling society", in which adults have regressed...
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Discrimination with Reason?: The Policy of Reservations in the United States, India and Malaysia
by Devanesan Nesiah Publisher Comments This is a comparative examination of reservation policy in USA, India and Malaysia. It addresses issues relevant to scholars as well as policy makers. The author has held senior decision making positions in the Sri Lankan administration, retiring as...
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Protest and Possibilities: Civil Society and Coalitions for Political Change in Malaysia (Contemporary Issues in Asia and the Pacific)
by Meredith L. Weiss Publisher Comments "By comparing the "illiberal" democracies of Malaysia and Indonesia, [Weiss] sheds light on the significance of specific state structures to the types of coalitions, agendas, and institutional and normative reforms that emerge."—Reference...
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Deciphering Human Chromosome 16: Index to the Report
by Sarah Jacobs Publisher Comments What did we say, do and think about genetics, nature, human nature and the possibilities for change that science and technology seemed to be opening up in the wake of the Human Genome Project' How are the debates moving on? Deciphering Human Chromosome...
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