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Building on ethnographic fieldwork and extensive historical evidence, Crying Shame analyzes lament across thousands of years and nearly every continent. Explores the enduring power of lament: expressing grief through crying songs, often in a collective ritual context...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-11
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A New History of Anthropology collects original writings from pre-eminent scholars to create a sophisticated but accessible guide to the development of the field. Re-examines the history of anthropology through the lens of the new globalized world Provides a...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-09
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Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-09
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Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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This innovative reader brings together classic theoretical texts and cutting-edge ethnographic analyses of specific state institutions, practices, and processes and outlines an anthropological framework for rethinking future study of “the state”. Focuses on the...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-09
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Wiley Blackwell Readers in Anthropology
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Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feminist anthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinating collection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped to highlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-09
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Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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In Death, Mourning, and Burial, an indispensable introduction to the anthropology of death, readers will find a rich selection of some of the finest ethnographic work on this fascinating topic. Comprised of six sections that mirror the social trajectory of death:...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-04
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The Human Lifecycle: Cross-Cultural Readings
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This book provides a lively and thoughtful introduction to ecological anthropology by examining the evolving relations between human communities and nature. Written by a noted anthropologist, geographer, and environmental scientist. Reviews the evolution of human...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-04
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Primers in Anthropology
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This anthology provides a single-volume overview of the essential theoretical debates in the anthropology of art. Drawing together significant work in the field from the second half of the twentieth century, it enables readers to appreciate the art of different cultures...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-04
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Wiley Blackwell Anthologies in Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Each October, as the Day of the Dead draws near, Mexican markets overflow with decorated breads, fanciful paper cutouts, and whimsical toy skulls and skeletons. To honor deceased relatives, Mexicans decorate graves and erect home altars. Drawing ...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-02-04
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Each October, as the Day of the Dead draws near, Mexican markets overflow with decorated breads, fanciful paper cutouts, and whimsical toy skulls and skeletons. To honor deceased relatives, Mexicans decorate graves and erect home altars. Drawing on a rich array of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-02-04
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In The Everyday Language of White Racism, Jane H. Hill provides an incisive analysis of everyday language to reveal the underlying racist stereotypes that continue to circulate in American culture. provides a detailed background on the theory of race and racism reveals...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2009-01-30
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Wiley Blackwell Studies in Discourse and Culture
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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 new...
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Wiley-Blackwell
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2009-01-22
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A lively indictment of American culture's pervasive use of the psychotherapeutic metaphor to explain behaviours, a habit that has crossed the Atlantic in recent years, arguing that psychotherapy and excessive individualism has only ensured the continuance of social...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2009-01-05
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Patrice Olivier wants to share his time spent with a Sherpa family in Chepté. His photographs invite you to live their daily life. You will discover their games, village life, school, daily household duties, traditions and their environment. After ...
Editeur :
Association Terra Incognita
Parution :
2009
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Patrice Olivier wants to share his time spent with a Sherpa family in Chepté. His photographs invite you to live their daily life. You will discover their games, village life, school, daily household duties, traditions and their environment. After ...
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Association Terra Incognita
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2009
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Rather than measure the actions of their subjects by reference to either universal rationality or cultural relativism, contributors in this volume describe ordinary people as they value human relationships and reason through the commonplace contradictions of their local...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-12-22
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Agency is a key theme that cross-cuts a wide raft of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences and beyond; yet it is invariably discussed separately behind closed disciplinary doors.
Within archaeology, agency has been characterized as a uniquely human attribute,...
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Springer
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2008-12-15
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Coming of Age in Times of Crisis is an anthropological study of the intersecting roles of gender and schooling in the lives of rural Venezuelan youth as they make the transition to adulthood during times of national political and economic crisis. Strongly grounded in...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-12-08
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"This is an extraordinarily lucid book. I am not sure that there is anyone who can do this sort of thing better than Jen Webb. It is a gift to students; extremely accessible yet complex and sophisticated in its treatment of theories and concepts of representation."
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SAGE Publications Ltd
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2008-12-01
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Cubans today are at home in diasporas that stretch from Miami to Mexico City to Moscow. Back on the island, watching as fellowCubans leave, the impact of departure upon departure can be wrenching. How doCubans confront their condition as an uprooted people? The Portable...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2008-10-27
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