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Making Democracy Work
by Robert D. Putnam  Synopsis This text offers empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Its focus is on an experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions....
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Peripheral Visions
by Mary C. Bateson Publisher Comments Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Life, is our guide on a fascinating intellectual exploration of lifetime learning from experience and encountering the unfamiliar. Peripheral Visions begins with a sacrifice in a Persian garden, moving on to...
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The Perception of the Environment
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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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Grasping the Changing World
by Vaclav Hubinger Publisher Comments Resulting from the EASA conference in Prague, this book addresses the crises of identity, purpose and interest in the changing world examineing how social anthropology must update its methodology as it is applied to comparisons across space and...
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The God of the Witches
by Margeret Alice Murray Publisher Comments This book is intended for the general reader as well as for the student of anthropology. In this volume I have followed one line only of anthropological enquiry, the survival of an indigenous European cult and the interaction between it and the exotic...
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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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An Anthropologist in Japan
by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments An Anthropologist in Japan is a highly personal narrative which provides unique insights into many elements of Japanese life....
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Culture in the Communication Age
by James Lull Synopsis Culture in the Communication Age brings together some of the world's leading thinkers from a range of academic disciplines to discuss what 'culture' means in the modern era. They describe key features of cultural life in the 'communication age', and...
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Anthropology and Archaeology
by Chris Gosden Publisher Comments This volume provides a valuable introduction to the theories and methods of anthropology and archaeology. It covers the historical relationship and contemporary interests of the two inter-related subjects....
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Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life
by Roy Rosenzweig Publisher Comments How do Americans use and understand the past? Rosenzweig and Thelen analyze results from a unique and comprehensive survey in which they polled 1,500 Americans about their connection to the past and its continuing influence on their present as well as...
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Natural Symbols
by Mary Douglas Publisher Comments Every natural symbol carries a social meaning and this book looks at the ways in which any one culture makes its selections from body symbolism. This is mainly a title about religion but it is also indirectly about style....
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Interpreting Japanese Society
by Joy Hendry Publisher Comments First published in 1986 Interpreting Japanese Society became something of a classic in its field. In this newly updated edition, the value of anthropological in understanding this ancient and complex nation are clearly demonstrated....
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Asian American Dreams
by Helen Zia Publisher Comments This groundbreaking book is about the transformation of Asian Americans from a few small, disconnected, and largely invisible ethnic groups into a self-identified racial group that is influencing every aspect of American society. It explores the...
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Mulatto America
by Stephan Talty Publisher Comments Black and white culture has been blending and colliding in America for hundreds of years. In the 1700s, black slaves discovered their masters' Bibles and found in them a seditious faith of their own. In the 1920s, young white men fell in love with New...
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Black Rednecks and White Liberals
by Thomas Sowell Publisher Comments In a series of long essays, Black Rednecks and White Liberals presents an in-depth look at many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and...
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Shaman, Saiva and Sufi: A Study of The Evolution of Malay Magic
by R. O. Winstedt Publisher Comments A scholarly, fascinating 'Study Of The Evolution Of Malay Magic'....
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Public Entrepreneurs: Agents for Change in American Government
by Mark Schneider Publisher Comments Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their...
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The Gift
by Publisher Comments When first published, The Gift served as nothing less than an onslaught on contemporary political theory. This edition confirms the continuing relevance of Mauss's highly original perspective....
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Media Technology and Society
by Brian Winston Publisher Comments How are new media born? How do they change? And how do they change us? Media Technology and Society offers a comprehensive account of the history of communications technologies, from the printing press to the internet....
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