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Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey
by Isabel Fonseca  Publisher Comments After the revolutions of 1989, Isabel Fonseca lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania — listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become...
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Firewalking and Religious Healing: The Anastenaria of Greece and the American Firewalking Movement (Princeton Modern Greek Studies)
by Loring M Danforth Publisher Comments "If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don't feel the fire as if it were your enemy," says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first...
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Little Money Street: In Search of Gypsies and Their Music in the South of France (Vintage Departures)
by Fernanda Eberstadt Publisher Comments In 1998, Fernanda Eberstadt, her husband, and their two small children moved from New York to an area outside Perpignan, France — a city with one of the largest Gypsy populations in Western Europe. Here she found a jealously guarded culture, a...
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People of the Sierra
by Julian Pitt Rivers Publisher Comments The People of the Sierra presents an engrossing account of the social structure of a rural community in Andalusia, the mountainous region of southern Spain. The author applies the principles of social anthropology, without recourse to jargon, to...
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We Are the Romani People (02 Edition)
by Ian Hancock Publisher Comments Written by a Romani (gypsy), this introduction to Roma life, health, food, culture, and society provides an insightful look at this despised by mysterious minority originating in India. Extensively illustrated, it looks at the people, their history since...
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The Piltdown Forgery
by J S Weiner Publisher Comments For decades the remains of fossils found in Piltdown, England were believed to come from a "missing link," a creature with a human cranium and an ape's jaw. Dr. Weiner shows how he discovered the truth about these remains, and went on to expose one of...
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From Racism To Genocide : Anthropology in the Third Reich (04 Edition)
by Gretchen Engle Schafft Synopsis In paperback for the first time, From Racism to Genocide is an explosive, richly detailed account of how Nazi anthropologists justified racism, developed practical applications of racist theory, and eventually participated in every phase of the Holocaust....
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The Life of a Simple Man
by Emile Guillaumin Synopsis A classic in France, this moving first-person story can be read as a fictional account, as well as the best kind of material for historians of 19th-century French peasant life....
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Cultural Disenchantments: Worker Peasantries in Northeast Italy
by Douglas R Holmes Publisher Comments Douglas Holmes develops the concept of peasant-worker society to analyze a kind of social formation that has until now gone largely unrecognized and unstudied. His book portrays the dissonant crosscurrents created at the interface of urban industrial and...
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What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next? (Princeton Studies in Culture/Power/History)
by Katherine Verdery Publisher Comments Among the first anthropologists to work in Eastern Europe, Katherine Verdery had built up a significant base of ethnographic and historical expertise when the major political transformations in the region began to take place. In this collection of essays...
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Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle
by Richard M Smith Publisher Comments These essays in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle present detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 1250-1850, these essays reveal that much land was transferred between living persons who were related neither by blood nor by...
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Shamans Coat a Native History of Siberia
by Anna Reid Synopsis The story of the indigenous people of Siberia, which has a population of just one million. Split between 30 different nationalities, Siberians have a special closeness to the land. They believe nature possesses animating spirits and shamans perform...
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Rethinking the Subject: An Anthology of Contemporary European Social Thought
by James D Faubion Publisher Comments Since the early 1970s, European thinkers have departed notably from their predecessors in order to pursue analytical programs more thoroughly their own. Rethinking the Subject brings together in one volume some of the most influential writings of...
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British Subjects: An Anthropology of Britain
by Nigel Rapport Publisher Comments The anthropology of Britain is hotly debated. What does it mean to live in Britain and to be 'British', and is an anthropology of Britain even a legitimate undertaking? British Subjects presents a forthright voice in this debate. Key anthropological...
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The Wreckage Reconsidered
by P H Liotta Synopsis The Wreckage Reconsidered examines Yugoslav disintegration in order to suggest, through the Yugoslav example, that a reexamination of national security strategy and foreign policy concerns for the United States in a new century is not only a wise choice...
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The End of the Soul: Scientific Modernity, Atheism, and Anthropology in France
by Jennifer Mich Hecht Synopsis On October 19, 1876 a group of leading French citizens, both men and women included, joined together to form an unusual group, The Society of Mutual Autopsy, with the aim of proving that souls do not exist. The idea was that, after death, they would...
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Neo Nationalism in Europe & Beyond Persp
by Andre Gingrich Book News Annotation Prompted in part by the near-simultaneous rise of far-right parliamentary neo-nationalist parties in Europe, editors Gingrich (social anthropology, U. of Vienna, Austria), Banks (visual anthropology, U. of Oxford, UK), and their contributors undertook...
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Tenacity of Ethnicity : a Siberian Saga in Global Perspective (99 Edition)
by Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer Publisher Comments Marjorie Mandelstam Balzer combines extensive field research with historical inquiry to produce a dramatic study of a minority people in Russia, the Khanty (Ostiak) of Northwest Siberia. Although First Nations, indigenous peoples, have often been victims...
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Gypsies: An Illustrated History
by Jean-pierr Liegeois Publisher Comments In this lively and informative book, Jean-Pierre Liegeois traces the origins of the Gypsies in a sympathetic though not uncritical portrayal. Ideal for anyone who wishes to learn more about this misunderstood people....
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Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe: The Management of Precariousness at the End of the Twentieth Century
by Angela Procoli Synopsis "Workers and Narratives of Survival in Europe explores the growing problem of job uncertainty in Europe at the end of the twentieth century. The management of professional precariousness is reconsidered against the backdrop of far-reaching social...
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