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Lifestyles
by David Chaney  Publisher Comments This clearly written introduction to the concept of lifestyles offers a concise guide to how the term is used in sociological accounts to refer to this modern social form....
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Manhood and Morality
by Suzette Heald Publisher Comments Drawing on twenty years of fieldwork and on psycho logical theory this book explores issues of male identity among the Gisu of Uganda in the context of the moral dilemma faced by men who define them- selves in terms of their capacity for violence....
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Initiating Change in Highland Ethiopia
by Dena Freeman Publisher Comments In a rural community in Southern Ethiopia, there are two types of rituals performed by the same people. Historical evidence suggests that one has shown remarkable stability over the years, while the other has undergone massive transformations. External...
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Census and Identity
by David I. Kertzer Publisher Comments Examines how states pigeon-hole people within categories of race, ethnicity and language....
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Hyperreality and Global Culture
by Nicholas Perry Publisher Comments First full length discussion of hyperreality. Perry provides the reader with a full length discussion of the origins of the concept, nuances of meaning and case studies of hyperrealism - European tourism, American telivision etc....
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The Bushman
by Edward Wilson Landor Publisher Comments Dreadful was the scene; the furious donkeys nearing and striking with their fore-feet, and biting each other about the head and neck without the smallest feeling of compunction or remorse; the two guides shrieking and swearing in Portuguese at the...
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No Bone Unturned
by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in...
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A Nation of Empire: The Ottoman Legacy of Turkish Modernity
by Michael E. Meeker Publisher Comments This innovative study of modern Turkey is the result of many years of ethnographic fieldwork and archival research. Michael Meeker expertly combines anthropological and historical methods to examine the transition from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish...
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The Anthropology of Love and Anger
by Joanna Overing Publisher Comments Questions the very foundations of western sociological thought. A fascinating work that contains case studies from across South America and discussions on topics such as the efficacy of laughter....
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No Bone Unturned
by Jeff Benedict Publisher Comments A curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, Doug Owsley painstakingly rebuilds skeletons, helping to identify them and determine their cause of death. He has worked on several notorious cases -- from mass graves uncovered in...
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The Kitsch
by Catherine A. Lugg Publisher Comments Kitsch-or tacky, simplistic art and art forms-is used by various political actors to shape and limit what we know about ourselves, what we know about our past and our future, as well as what our present-day public policy options might be. Using a...
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The Material Life of Human Beings
by Michael Brian Schiffer Publisher Comments Through a broad range of examples, the author demonstrates how theories of behaviour and communication have too often ignored the fundamental importance of objects in human life....
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Taking It Like a Man: White Masculinity, Masochism, and Contemporary American Culture
by David Savran Publisher Comments From the Beat poets' incarnation of the 'white Negro' through Iron John and the Men's Movement to the paranoid masculinity of Timothy McVeigh, white men in this country have increasingly imagined themselves as victims. In Taking It Like a Man, David...
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Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist's Inquiry Into Western Technology
by Robert M. Adams Publisher Comments Technology, perhaps the most salient feature of our time, affects everything from jobs to international law, yet ranks among the most unpredictable facets of human life. Here, Robert McC. Adams, renowned anthropologist and Secretary Emeritus of the...
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The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change
by Katherine Verdery Publisher Comments As socialist regimes crumbled across Eastern Europe and statues of their leaders were dismantled, another pattern arose in the former Iron Curtain nations: the bodies of political leaders, revolutionary heroes, artists, and other luminaries were taken...
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Racism, Gender Identities and Young Children
by Paul Connolly Publisher Comments This book offers a fascinating yet disturbing account of the significance of racism in the lives of young children and shows how they make sense of experiences with their understanding of race, gender and sexuality....
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Power to Harm
by John Cornwell Publisher Comments "On September 14, 1989, Joseph Wesbecker entered a Louisville, Kentucky printing plant and shot twenty people with an automatic rifle before turning the gun on himself. Wesbecker had been severely depressed and was taking Prozac, and the families of the...
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Culture/Metaculture
by Francis Mulhern Publisher Comments A stimulating, interdisciplinary survey of the conceptual and political issues involved in the notion of twentieth-century culture. This accessible study introduces important theorists including Freud, Woolf, Orwell, and Sartre....
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Among the Cannibals
by Paul Raffaele Publisher Comments It's the stuff of nightmares, the dark inspiration for literature and film. But astonishingly, cannibalism does exist, and in Among the Cannibals travel writer Paul Raffaele journeys to the far corners of the globe to discover participants in this...
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Reforming Public Institutions and Strengthening Governance: A World Bank Strategy
by Bank World Publisher Comments Reviews the World Bank's recent work on governance, public sector institutional reform, and capacity building, particularly in core public institutions....
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