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This book explores the decolonization of ethnographic collections by analyzing the historical and cultural narratives surrounding artifacts from two Brazilian indigenous groups and preserved in European museums.

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The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.

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The love of books explores the bond between people and books in the UK. Using interviews and archive material it investigates the attachment to the practice of reading for pleasure and to books as objects. It focuses on the aesthetic, ethical, and existential impacts of the encounter with books.

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The book examines the intellectual history of the concept of sovereignty and argues that its essential value lies in its historical role as a political instrument to handle paradoxes of power.

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This book provides a novel approach towards the urban life of working-class communities, using the example of Russia's post-industrial cities. Focusing on the sensual, imaginary and practical aspects of everyday struggles, this approach helps explain how workers produce micro-change in urban space under neoliberal neo-authoritarianism.

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This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then harnessed to mobilise politics in present day society.

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The second edition of the notable textbook Victimology provides a Canadian perspective on the scientific study of crime victims, highlighting their rights and the responsibility to prevent (re)victimization.

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This is a book about what it is like to live and work with 'the canon' and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write 'with' the canon and what is at stake if you don't, can't, or won't

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Provides an exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. This title reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline.

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The Sunday Times bestselling exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm.

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This fascinating book by anthropologist, Alan West, is an in depth study of the making of bags, nets and cordage and includes detailed diagrams and photographs of weaving techniques from the Indigenous communities on the west and east coasts of Cape York Peninsula.

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There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity. These are the starting points for the essays contained in Stephen Muecke's original and challenging book.

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Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches Banding Together explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. Drawing on a vast array of examples from sixty musical styles--ranging from rap and bluegrass to death metal and South Tex

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What remains of the idea of liquid modernity Is Bauman's thought still relevant This volume aims to answer these questions. Without forgetting the vastness and complexity of his work, where the idea of liquidity remains fundamental, before and after the central turning point of the year 2000.

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Describes Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the end of ATSIC in 2004. This book provides an overview of the trajectory of the policy, with the author advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation.

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"First published in Brazil by Campanhia das Letras, Sao Paulo"--title page verso.

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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, fin

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Drawing on local interviews but global in scope, this book is the first to examine the lives of a generation for whom the rise of the far-right, the discourse of Trump and Brexit and the growing polarisation of politics seems normal in the long aftermath of 9/11. It's about time we hear what they have to say.