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An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment.

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Considers how ethical traditions, such as libertarianism, critical theory, feminism, liberal egalitarianism, natural law, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Confucianism define civil society. This book considers the extent to which these traditions agree or disagree on how to define civil society's limits and how to evaluate its benefits and harms.

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A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic, the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by a variety of incomers, including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. -- .

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This title examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in re-unified Germany. It discusses how certain monuments, and the ways Germans have viewed them, contribute to the ways Germans have dealt with the past, and how they continue to deal with it as one country.

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When I was in South Africa, the children in the public schools were singing, Jesus loves me. When I told them that we in America could no longer do that, one of the high school girls asked me two questions: Is that true and Why did you let it happen That is what I am wondering as I write this book. How did this happen in America Why did we allow it to happen What are we going to do about it

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Puts the power of demography back in the people's hands, collecting and explaining population data in easy-to-read, informative tables and graphs. From the new immigration to the ageing of America, this guide reveals how the ebb and flow of population shapes every public and private decision made.

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Explores a discursive tradition that affiliates the East with modern efficiency, in contrast to more familiar primitivist forms of Orientalism. This book examines the relationship between Jack London and leading Progressive George Kennan on US-Japan relations, and Frank Norris and AFL leader Samuel Gompers on cheap immigrant labor.

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This expertly prepared policy issues handbook surveys the changing workplace and the failures of America's public health and education systems to prepare the future work force to compete at home and abroad.

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This book explains how the short-lived sexual revolution 50 years ago has led to the current evolution of our sexual values and behaviors and social standards among youth culture, examining topics such as communication technologies and sex, teen pregnancy, and divorce rates in the Bible Belt.

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A case study of American culture as a society characterized by diversity.

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American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. This qualitative study examines the current strength of ethnicity and the contributions that ethnic practices have made to the wider society.

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An authoritative reference that helps general readers understand the varieties of crises impacting modern-day families and the intervention techniques designed to resolve them.

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Recognizing the family unit as the institution most central to any society, the volume covers a broad range of theoretical approaches which concentrate on relationships within the family and between the family and the wider community.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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The 1940s were a pivotal decade in the history of the American labor movement. American labor historians and labor studies specialists will find this collection fills a major void in the research on American labor.

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An exploration of midlife within the framework of trends in the larger society. This text begins with a discussion of how demographic and social changes affect midlife, followed by chapters on work and retirement planning, the not-so-empty nest and ageing parents.

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This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.