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By: Adam Reed

ISBN: 9780719084546
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2011
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book represents the first anthropological study of fiction reading and the first ethnography of British literary culture. It is the outcome of long-term engagement with a set of solitary readers who belong to a single literary society. -- .


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By: Mateja Celestina

ISBN: 9781526108739
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .


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By: Hilary Pilkington

ISBN: 9781784994006
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .


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By: Hilary Pilkington

ISBN: 9781784992590
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .


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By: Wing-Chung Ho

ISBN: 9781526113610
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2018
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book aims to explore the lived experience of workers suffering from occupational diseases in contemporary China through a corpus of qualitative, ethnographic data solicited from about one hundred peasant-workers. -- .


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By: Trish Winter

ISBN: 9780719085390
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- .


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By: Jonathan Hearn

ISBN: 9780719087998
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A historical ethnography of banking practices during the merger of Halifax and Bank of Scotland. Provides insight into the 2008 economic crisis through review of the role of national identities, different styles and ethos of business, tension and unrest prevalent during the merger, and implications for future development within the organisation.


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By: Amy Levine

ISBN: 9780719090493
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This is a unique ethnographic study of the practical, theoretical, methodological, ethical and social dimensions of some key non-governmental organisations (NGOs), non-profit organisations (NPOs), and think tanks in Seoul during Roh Moo Hyun's tumultuous presidency (2003-8). -- .


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By: Michaela Benson

ISBN: 9780719095542
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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A study of how lifestyle choices intersect with migration, and how this relationship frames and shapes post-migration lives. -- .


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By: Joseph Webster

ISBN: 9781526113764
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
UK Publication Date: 26th June 2020
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'.


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By: Joseph Webster

ISBN: 9781526113771
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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The religion of Orange politics is an ethnographic study of the Orange Order in contemporary Scotland. The Order is ultra-Protestant, ultra-British, and ultra-unionist. It is also vehemently anti-Catholic. Drawing on new debates about the politics of hate, this book asks if religious bigotry can ever form part of human experiences of 'The Good'.


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By: Ruth Sheldon

ISBN: 9781784993146
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2016
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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By: Dr Sbastien Bachelet

ISBN: 9781526177681
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This ethnographic study examines the moral, gendered, affective, social, and political dimensions of irregular migrants' experiences of entrapment, uncertainty, and violence in Morocco. To counter dehumanising narratives of a crisis, the book is articulated around the emic notion of 'the adventure' as a quest to carve out a better life and future.


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By: Trish Winter

ISBN: 9780719097300
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2015
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Looks in detail at the growth in popularity and profile of the English folk arts in the first decade of the twenty-first century -- .


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By: Rebecca Walker

ISBN: 9780719088773
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. -- .


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By: Fiona Murphy

ISBN: 9780719086946
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges.


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By: Marianne Holm Pedersen

ISBN: 9780719089589
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2014
Publisher: Manchester University Press
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An ethnographic study of ritual performance and place-making among Shi'a Muslim Iraqi women in Copenhagen -- .

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