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Lives of Dust and Water: An Anthropology of Change and Resistance in Northwestern Mexico
by Maria Luz Cruz-torres  Publisher Comments Along the coast of northwestern Mexico the new global economy has imposed terrible burdens on many sectors of the population and once self-reliant, rural populations have been driven to wage and subsistence labor in order to survive. This book eloquently...
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Gardens, City Life, and Culture: A World Tour (Dumbarton Oaks Garden and Landscape Studies)
by Michel (edt) Conan Publisher Comments Gardens have exerted a deep influence on the culture of cities. Considering each city as a whole, this book presents the profoundly different roles of gardens in cultural development and social life. Private and princely gardens, from Roman antiquity to...
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Evolution and Empathy: The Genetic Factor in the Rise of Humanism
by Milton E. Brener Publisher Comments This book applies new scientific research in the fields of biology and genetics to an empirical study of the Greco-Roman civilizations and the European Renaissance. These two periods were remarkable in part because of the dominance of empathy and...
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India's Popular Culture: Iconic Spaces and Fluid Images
by Jyotindra (edt) Jain Synopsis The volume surveys the production and reception of popular visual culture in India from historical and contemporary perspectives (especially images from the print-cultures of the mid-19th-mid-20th centuries visual turn that emerged from the new media te...
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Early Human Kinship
by Nicholas J. (edt) Allen Synopsis Early Human Kinship brings together original studies from leading figures in the biological sciences, social anthropology, archaeology, and linguistics to provide a major breakthrough in the debate over human evolution and the nature of society. A major...
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Cultural Politics in a Global Age: Uncertainty, Solidarity and Innovation
by David (edt) Held Synopsis What is the future of culture in the 21st century?A compendium of some of the world's most prominent and diverse thinkers, this volume gathers together a broad range of answers from the perspectives of academia, business, policy making, cultural...
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Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropolog #17: The Health Consequences of 'Modernisation': Evidence from Circumpolar Peoples
by Roy J. Shephard Publisher Comments In this book, the authors assess the impact of modernization on various populations in the circumpolar regions. They examine the adaptations shown culturally, behaviorally, and physically by the indigenous peoples, and discuss the effect of changes in...
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Land, Protest, and Politics: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for Agrarian Reform in Brazil
by Gabriel Ondetti Publisher Comments Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad...
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The Western Illusion of Human Nature: With Reflections on the Long History of Hierarchy, Equality and the Sublimation of Anarchy in the West, and Comp
by Marshall Sahlins Publisher Comments Reflecting the decline in college courses on Western Civilization, Marshall Sahlins aims to accelerate the trend by reducing "Western Civ" to about two hours. He cites Nietzsche to the effect that deep issues are like cold baths; one should get into and...
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The Veil: Women Writers on Its History, Lore, and Politics
by Jennifer (edt) Heath Publisher Comments This groundbreaking volume, written entirely by women, examines the vastly misunderstood and multilayered world of the veil. Veiling-- of women, of men, and of sacred places and objects--has existed in countless cultures and religions from time...
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The Roth Family, Anthropology, and Colonial Administration
by Russell Mcdougall Publisher Comments This volume serves the reader as a family biography, a slice of the English colonial history, and an important introduction to the history of anthropology....
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Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967
by Ilana Feldman Publisher Comments This historical ethnography of Gazan civil service examines detailed practices of bureaucracy during a tumultuous fifty-year period (that of the British Mandate and the Egyptian Administration) to understand how such continuities are produced and how the...
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Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967
by Ilana Feldman Publisher Comments This historical ethnography of Gazan civil service examines detailed practices of bureaucracy during a tumultuous fifty-year period (that of the British Mandate and the Egyptian Administration) to understand how such continuities are produced and how the...
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Anthropometric Standards: An Interactive Nutritional Reference of Body Size and Body Composition for Children and Adults
by Roberto A. Frisancho Publisher Comments ". . . a useful and long-needed stand-alone clinical manual for nutritional assessment." ---American Journal of Physical Anthropology This is a revised and updated 2nd edition of Anthropometric Standards for the Assessment of Growth and...
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Networking Futures: The Movements Against Corporate Globalization
by Jeffrey S. Juris
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Lessons of Peace and Development: Gurage Entrepreneurship in Ethiopia
by Daniel Teferra
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Networking Futures
by Jeffrey S. Juris
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Lamas, Shamans and Ancestors
by Anna Balikci
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Iron in the Soul
by Peter Loizos
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Iron in the Soul
by Peter Loizos
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