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With more than fifty million viewers, Al Jazeera is one of the most widely watched news channels in the world. It's also one of the most controversial. Set up by the eccentric Emir of Qatar, who turned a failed BBC Arabic television project into an Arab news channel, Al...
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Abacus
Parution :
2010-03-04
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Reading novels by contemporary women in the Caribbean dyaspora alongside and against law, history and anthropology, the book argues that Caribbean women's sexuality has been mobilized for various imperialist and nationalist projects from the nineteenth century to...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-03-01
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An extensive overview of the rapidly growing field of biological anthropology; chapters are written by leading scholars who have themselves played a major role in shaping the direction and scope of the discipline. Extensive overview of the rapidly growing field of...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-22
Collection :
Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology
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At a time and in a culture where science and technology have taken over from religious belief, when ethics are understood primarily in terms of aesthetic choice or legality, how are we to formulate moral principles to guide us in our daily lives? Though religion...
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Abacus
Parution :
2010-02-04
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Environmental Social Science offers a new synthesis of environmental studies, defining the nature of human-environment interactions and providing the foundation for a new cross-disciplinary enterprise that will make critical theories and research methods accessible...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2010-02-02
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An exploration of headhunting and the collection of heads for European museums in the context of colonial wars, from the 1870s to the 1930s. The book offers a new understanding of the mutually dependent interaction between indigenous peoples and colonial powers, and how...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2010-01-22
Collection :
Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
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'In the globalization 'game' there are no absolute winners and losers. Neither homogenisation nor diversity can capture its contradictory movement and character. The essays and papers collected here offer, from a variety of perspectives, a rich exploration of creativity...
Editeur :
SAGE Publications Ltd
Parution :
2010-01-21
Collection :
The Cultures and Globalization Series
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The bestselling book revealing why Americans are so fearful, and why we fear the wrong things-now updated for the age of Trump In the age of Trump, our society is defined by fear. Indeed, three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today than they did only a...
Editeur :
Basic Books
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2010-01-05
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Patrice Olivier wants to share his time spent with
Hamadou’s and Ali Baba Témé’s children.
His photographs invite you to live their daily life.
You will discover their games, village life, school, daily
household duties, traditions and their ...
Editeur :
Association Terra Incognita
Parution :
2010
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Patrice Olivier wants to share his time spent with
Hamadou’s and Ali Baba Témé’s children.
His photographs invite you to live their daily life.
You will discover their games, village life, school, daily
household duties, traditions and their ...
Editeur :
Association Terra Incognita
Parution :
2010
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Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous. Presents a unique addition to the anthropology...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-12-17
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Drawing on ethnographic research with underrepresented communities in the Caribbean, Europe, South America, and the United States, this wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-07
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This is the first work to begin to fill a gap: an understanding of discourse aimed to persuade within the Pre-Columbian Americas. The contributors in this collection offer glimpses of what those indigenous rhetorics might have looked like and how their influences...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-07
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Reimagining the Immigrant examines integrative practices by residents towards Mexican immigrants in a small farm town in America. This groundbreaking book sheds light on the coexisting practices of discrimination and accommodation and the ways in which immigrants and...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-12-07
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Long before the advent of the global economy, foreign goods were transported, traded, and exchanged through myriad means, over short and long distances. Archaeological tools for identifying foreign objects, such as provenance studies, stylistic analyses, and economic...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2009-12-05
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Austronesian is the largest language family on earth: Some 1300 languages, 20% of the world's total, are spoken by 270 million people in a region that extends from Easter Island in the Pacific 10,000 miles west to Madagascar off the coast of Africa. Many of the...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2009-11-26
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This major new contribution to the study of consumption examines how dominant groups express and display their sense of superiority through material and aesthetic attributes, demonstrating that differences from one society to another, and across historical periods,...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-11-18
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The authors of the bestselling IS IT JUST ME OR IS EVERYTHING SHIT? survey the post-crash landscape. Are we better people now, or just the same people with less money?From bank bailouts to enviro-copouts; from Tory politicans listening toThe Jam to celebrity credit...
Editeur :
Sphere
Parution :
2009-11-05
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Of Poverty and Plastic applies an interdisciplinary, 'field economics' approach to poverty analysis, using a mix of survey and ethnographic data to challenge received notions of the nature and extent of narrow income poverty and multiple deprivations experienced by...
Editeur :
OUP India
Parution :
2009-10-28
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Stiles utilizes in-depth ethnographic study of judicial reasoning and litigant activity in Islamic family court in Zanzibar, Tanzania to draw new and important conclusions on how people understand and use Islamic legal ideas in marital disputes.
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2009-10-26
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