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The Changing Realities of Work and Family: A Multidisciplinary Approach
by Amy Marcus-newhall  Publisher Comments Changing Realities of Work and Family is an interdisciplinary volume that examines the multiple realities of work and family from academic, commercial, and political perspectives. The book Brings together works by an extraordinary list of contributors...
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The Chumash World at European Contact: Power, Trade, and Feasting Among Complex Hunter-Gatherers
by Lynn H. Gamble Publisher Comments When Spanish explorers and missionaries came onto Southern California's shores in 1769, they encountered the large towns and villages of the Chumash, a people who at that time were among the most advanced hunter-gatherer societies in the world. The...
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Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
by Jared Sexton Publisher Comments Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post–civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More...
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Anthropology for Dummies (For Dummies)
by Cameron M. Smith Publisher Comments Anthropology For Dummies covers all of the subfields of anthropology, from forensics and archaeology to linguistics and culture. It also provides an easy-to-understand introduction to the field of anthropology....
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Anthropology and Science: Epistemologies in Practice (ASA Monographs)
by Jeanette (edt) Edwards Publisher Comments What does it mean to know something - scientifically, anthropologically, socially? What is the relationship between different forms of knowledge and ways of knowing? How is knowledge mobilised in society and to what ends? Drawing on ethnographic...
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On the Origin of Societies by Natural Selection
by Jonathan H. Turner Synopsis Kinship, religion, and economy were not natural to humans, nor to species of apes that had to survive on the African savanna. Society from its very beginnings involved an uneasy necessity that often stood in conflict with humans' ape ancestry; these...
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Cotsen Advanced Seminars #4: The Archaeology of Mobility: Old World and New World Nomadism
by Hans (edt) Barnard Synopsis There have been edited books on the archaeology of nomadism in various regions, and there have been individual archaeological and anthropological monographs, but nothing with the kind of coverage provided in this volume. Its strength and importance lies...
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Myths of Male Dominance: Collected Articles on Women Cross-Culturally
by Eleanor Bur Leacock Publisher Comments "Highly recommended, both as a critically presented state-of-the-art discussion and as an account of how one's personal/political history informs the process of scientific inquiry."-Choice This classic anthropological study debunks the many myths behind...
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Obesity in America, 1850-1939: A History of Social Attitudes and Treatment
by Kerry Segrave Publisher Comments This is a study of obesity in America from 1850 to 1939, concentrating on how the condition was viewed, studied, and treated. It examines the images and stereotypes that were associated with fatness, the various remedies that were proposed for the...
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Latin American Popular Culture
by Arthur Aristides, Jr. Natella Publisher Comments This book details many aspects of Latin American culture as experienced by millions of people living in Central and South America. The author argues that despite early and considerable European influences on the region, indigenous Latin American...
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Ballroom: Culture and Costume in Competitive Dance (Dress, Body, Culture)
by Jonathan S. Marion Publisher Comments Competitive ballroom is much more than a style of dance. Rather, it is a continually evolving and increasingly global social and cultural arena of fashion, performance, art, sport, gender, and more. Ballroom explores the intersection of dance cultures...
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World Writing: Poetics, Ethics, Globalization (Cultural Spaces)
by Mary (edt) Gallagher Publisher Comments Much has been said about the relationship between globalization and culture and the political implications of that relationship. There has been little effort made, however, to investigate the effect of globalization on poetics or on the ethical moment of...
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Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
by Leigh Clemons Publisher Comments Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush...
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The Cultural Values of Europe
by Hans (edt) Joas Publisher Comments In this age of globalization and dissolving borders of national identity, questions about the nature of cultural values and symbolic structures abound, especially for newly integrated communities of political and social power like the European Union. In...
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The Terror Dream: Myth and Misogyny in an Insecure America
by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments It has become clear over the years that the reaction of America's politicians and media to the attacks of 9/11 was bizarrely misdirected and dangerous to our national security. But no one has fully probed its cultural roots. Until now. Pulitzer Prize...
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The Gibbons of Khao Yai: Seasonal Variation in Behavior and Ecology (Primate Field Studies)
by Thad Q. Bartlett Publisher Comments Part of Prentice Hall's Primate Field Studies series. This field study is intended to introduce students to the habitat, behavior and social organization, of the Gibbons of Khao Yai....
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A Guide to Colonial Sources on Burma: Ethnic & Minority Histories of Burma in the India Office Records, British Library
by Mandy Sadan Synopsis The purpose of this guide is to provide a general introduction to sources in the IOR for the study of minority histories of Burma...
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Defending the Land: Sovereignty and Forest Life in James Bay Cree Society (Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change)
by Ronald Niezen Publisher Comments The titles in the Cultural Survival Studies in Ethnicity and Change series, edited by David Maybury-Lewis and Theodore Macdonald, Jr. of Cultural Survival, Inc., Harvard University, focus on key issues affecting indigenous and ethnic groups worldwide...
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Prehistory: The Making of the Human Mind (Modern Library Chronicles)
by Colin Renfrew Publisher Comments In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to...
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Violence and Activism at the Border: Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez
by Kathleen Staudt Publisher Comments Between 1993 and 2003, more than 370 girls and women were murdered and their often-mutilated bodies dumped outside Ciudad Juarez in Chihuahua, Mexico. The murders have continued at a rate of approximately thirty per year, yet law enforcement officials...
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