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Never before has there been so extensive a collection of what has been thought, said, and written about the sociology of the military. This accessible handbook is the first of its kind to delve into the sociological approach to the study of the military. This book is...
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Springer
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2007-07-23
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Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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Cultural theory has found a renewed interest in psychoanalysis, bringing many new readers to Freud and his work. This book is an introductory guide to Freud and brings together for the first time:
an overview of Freud's work which enables the reader to see quickly...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-07-12
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The first edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put 'consumer culture' on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. This expanded new edition includes:
a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2007-07-11
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Cooperation among humans is one of the keys to our great evolutionary success. Natalie and Joseph Henrich examine this phenomena with a unique fusion of theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation, ethnographic descriptions of social behavior, and a range of other...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2007-06-27
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The broad arc of islands north of Australia that extends from Indonesia east towards the central Pacific is home to a set of human populations whose concentration of diversity is unequaled elsewhere. Approximately 20% of the worlds languages are spoken here, and the...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-04-19
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In the face of an increasing public interest and demand for information, archaeologists are starting to collaborate with historians, educators, interpreters, museum curators, exhibit designers, landscape architects, and other cultural resource specialists to devise the...
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Springer
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2007-04-17
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Through everyday talk, individuals forge the ties that can make a family. Family members use language to manage a household, create and maintain relationships, and negotiate and reinforce values and beliefs. The studies gathered in Family Talk are based on a unique...
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Oxford University Press
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2007-04-12
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By the end of the Twentieth century, formal schooling - once the privilege of male elites - had become accessible to women, the working class and some ethnic minorities. The essays in this volume explore the historical origins of this transformation, analyzing struggles...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-04-02
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Stemming from an interdisciplinary convention in 2005 at the Institute for the Studies of the Americas in London, this collection has a strong thematic integrity, but also illustrates the dramatic variety of approaches to the question of modernity. This volume fills the...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-04-02
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Winner of the 2006 The Descartes Prize "for excellence in collaborative scientific research"
With the expansion of the European Union and the development of supra-national governance worldwide, the volume of cross-national data and the importance of rigorous...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-04-02
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Is sharing food such an everyday, unremarkable occurrence?
In fact, the human tendency to sit together peacefully over food is actually rather an extraordinary phenomenon, and one which many species find impossible. It is also a pheonomenon with far-reaching...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2007-03-22
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Many of our questions about religion, says the internationally renowned anthropologist Pascal Boyer, were once mysteries, but they no longer are: we are beginning to know how to answer questions such as "Why do people have religion?" and "Why is religion the way it is?"...
Editeur :
Basic Books
Parution :
2007-03-21
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In a series of paradigmatic readings of René Girard, Peter Sloterdijk, Michael Haneke, Anselm Kiefer, Michel Houellebecq, Elfriede Jelinek, Giorgio Agamben, Naqvi examines the current fascination with victimhood and the desire for victim status.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2007-03-19
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"This book overturns the conventional thinking about organization and identity and puts in its place a wholly new theoretical synthesis. It is not just an extraordinarily incisive commentary on modern life but it is also a key to thinking about identity in new ways...
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SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2007-02-15
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This volume examines the complex interaction between the English language and the construction of ethnicity in the global English-speaking world. The essays demonstrate that the constructs of both English and ethnicity are contested sites of identity formation.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-11
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Drawing on anthropological fieldwork, this book presents case studies illustrating the re-conceptualization of heritages and traditions in selected locations in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The authors review the importance of oral traditions as markers of...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-12-08
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Global processes such as capitalism and colonialism are influenced by local forces and manifested in events at a local level. The study of local practices can thus provide new insights into broader social relations. This book analyses British action at the end of the...
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Springer
Parution :
2006-11-22
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During the past three decades, feminist scholars have successfully demonstrated the ubiq uity and omnirelevance of gender as a sociocultural construction in virtually all human collectivities, past and present. Intrapsychic, interactional, and collective social...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2006-11-22
Collection :
Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research
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This book is an ethnographic study of the martial art of taijiquan (or 'tai chi') as it is practiced in China and the United States. Drawing on recent literature on ethnicity, critical race theory, the phenomenology of race, and globalization, the author discusses...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-11-13
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Deborah Chambers draws on the metaphor of friendship as a strategy for exploring contemporary changes in informal social ties. She traces the shift from fixed and permanent ties of family, neighbourhood and community to fluid and transient ties typified by computer...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2006-10-12
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