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The contents include: Abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I: the Compadrazgo System of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 1. Cultural Outline of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 2. Compadrazgo in Perspective: Paradigm and Types 3. Sacrametnal Compadrazgo 4. Primary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo 5. Secondary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo

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This sequel to the first volume of Ritual Kinship (Princeton, 1980) completes a comprehensive account of one of the most pervasive and significant of Latin American institutions. Volume II examines the permanent dimensions of the compadrazgo system and its role in the organization of local society. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Lega

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An examination of death rituals in early Japan that finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 AD). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts, it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes.

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The purpose of the book is to explore campus culture as revealed through rituals and ceremonies.

While rituals are unique to each campus, this book discusses higher education ceremonies and traditions and offers explanations about the roles they play in building and maintaining campus culture.

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Examines the strategic landscape, domestic governance trends, and economic challenges in Southeast Asia. Among other findings, the authors express concern that US policy has become too concentrated on defense and security, to the detriment of diplomacy and development, allowing China to fill the soft power vacuum.

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The world is changing, as political and economic power shift further towards Asia. This title shows the ways in which our future will be dominated not by one, but by three Asian giants - China, India and Japan.

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By introducing an innovative typology of massacres and a classification of terror strategies, the author develops a structural approach to the study of state terror, thus challenging the viewpoint that state terrorism is a situational or reactionary phenomenon.

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This annotated bibliography brings together in one volume citations to most of Benchley's collected and uncollected works.

The volume contains chapters on Benchley's books, essays, newspaper writings, dramatic criticism, secondary sources about him, a filmography, and a discography.

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This reference is the only book-length work to analyze all of the major speeches of one of the most significant politicians of the first part of the twentieth century, Robert La Follette, Sr.

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In 1941, RG Menzies delivered to war-time Australia what was to be his richest, most creative speech, and one of his most influential. Taking us deep into both the man and the culture Menzie represented and well beyond the restraints of conventional biography, this work reveals the ambivalence that lay at the heart of the Australian self-image.

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Volume 11 of the Conservative and Libertarian Thinkers series focuses on Robert Nozick and his work on libertarianism.

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Robert Owen is a major thinker in education. This title presents an account of Owen's educational thought.

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Charts the genesis and development of the Robin Hood legend from the Middle Ages through 1700.

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All three principal uses of rocket technology are covered in detail: missiles as long-range strategic weapons and short-range tactical weapons, and rockets as launch vehicles for sending payloads into space The book concludes with a survey of several types of non-chemical rockets now under development for use in outer space.

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Bakken addresses important issues of constitutional history in the context of a seminal period in the history of the American West. Bakken outlines the issues of public policy which the constitution makers faced: issues ranging from resource allocation and taxation to the role of corporations in the community.

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Born in Ireland in 1864 Roger Casement acted as British Consul in various parts of Africa (1895-1904) and Brazil(1906-11) where he denounced atrocities among Congolese and Putumayo rubber workers.

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Role Change: A Resocialization Perspective is a comprehensive introduction to role change theory and the first volume to systematically apply resocialization concepts to problem solving.

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This book uses the parameters of role model and countermodel to analyze the perception of Iberian-Jewish history and culture in German-Jewish remembrance culture during the era of emancipation. It speaks to the significance of intercultural mediation as key to the German-Jewish experience through the lens of this Golden Age in Jewish history.

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This volume examines the social and political role of the armed forces in the emergent countries of Latin America, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Middle East. The contributors include such distinguished historians and political scientists as Belmont Brice, James S. Coleman, and Lucian W. Pye. They offer here some searching observations

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Role Plays and Creative Activities: Teaching Social Skills and Self-Understanding presents over 150 role plays, micro role plays (role plays that run for a few minutes), creative activities, and guided imagery (stories with psychological content to be read to the children) which Dr. Christopher Glenn has developed and used for over thirty years.