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A collection of papers of international research on the character and experience of overseas Australians and Australian communities in Britain since c1901. Offers an overview of current scholarship in this field of enquiry giving a contemporary focus and drawing on both recent and historical experiences.

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This is an account of Eric Michaels' period of residence and work with the Warlpiri Aborigines of western central Australia. It is the story of the complex negotiation of culture and technology that flowed in and out of the Warlpiri desert community during the period of Michael's interaction.

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Women banana workersbananerasare waging a powerful revolution by making gender equity central in Latin American labor organizing.

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Why do some music styles gain mass popularity while others thrive in small niches This title explores this question and reveals the attributes that together explain the growth of twentieth-century American popular music. It also uncovers the shared grammar that allows us to understand the cultural language and evolution of popular music.

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Mike Davis delivers a brilliant defense of the Occupy movement and offers pragmatic advice to the 99%.

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The fatherless black family is a problem that increases in proportion each year as generations of black children grow up without an adult male in the home. This work presents a personal examination of black fatherhood. This tale of black men tells the stories of extraordinary men who strive to become something they have never known.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning dark comedy about one's struggle to hold on to the past.

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At the center of the upheavals brought by emancipation in the American South was the economic and social transition from slavery to modern capitalism. In Between Slavery and Capitalism, Martin Ruef examines how this institutional change affected individuals, organizations, and communities in the late nineteenth century, as blacks and whites alike l

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Beyond Marx and Other Entries explores everything from semiotics, economics, anthropology, sociology, history, philosophy and political science, to Franz Kafka's literary works.

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Using the history of "Aunt Jemima" as a springboard for exploring the relationship between food and African Americans, "Black Hunger" focuses on debates over soul food since the 1960s to illuminate tensions between whites and blacks, and within the black community itself.

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Based on original empirical research, the contributions collected here make possible a fuller sociological understanding of power, emotions, the self, and ethnic relations in religious life.

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In Timors chequered history, many other states have been involved. The prime purpose of this book is to examine the role of the British. Timor was not a part of their empire nor important to their commerce. But it had a long relationship with Portugal, with which, indeed, Timor had its longest relationship. Britain's interest was thus largely indir

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Building Dignified Worlds investigates social movements that do not simply protest but actively forge functional alternatives. Gerda Roelvink takes actor network and performativity theories of action as starting points for thinking about how contemporary collectives bring the new into being.

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An anthropological examination of how Muslims respond to the conditions of life in France. It examines how French Muslims fashion various Islamic institutions and develop different ways of reasoning and teaching. It looks at some of the quite distinct ways in which mosques have connected with broader social and political forces.

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