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The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of elements, including race, class, gender, identity, food, and space.

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Providing an overview of important topics and trends in the anthropology of religion, this work examines the varied manifestations of religion in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics covered are Shamanism, snake handling and rituals in particular cultural traditions.

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Religion has experienced growing importance in recent years, and interest in the anthropological study of religion has increased as well. Among the topics surveyed are shamanism, snake handling, rituals in particular cultural traditions, religion and altered states of consciousness, and the role of science in religion and anthropology.

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Anthropology of Tourism in Central and Eastern Europe explores traveling through case studies from Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, and Poland through an anthropological lens. The contributors of this volume touch on broader issues like identity, gender, visuality, memory, heritage, intercultural relationships, and globalization.

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A text that brings an anthropological perspective to the study of sport in contemporary cultures.

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The discipline of anthropology is, at its best, characterized by turbulence, self-examination, and inventiveness. This volume assembles a set of conceptual tools - "modern equipment" - to assess how intellectual work is conducted and how it might change. It offers a discussion of how one might best think about anthropos.

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Many books, both popular and scholarly, have examined racism in the United States, but this unique volume is the first to examine the existence of anti-racism in the first two hundred years of U.S. history.

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Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers. Now he offers a funny and frightening look at millennial, utopian, and futuristic subcultures.

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This book tackles the subject of how appearance affects social interaction and the role of larger social structures in perpetuating and institutionalizing it as an evaluative criterion.

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This book tackles the subject of how appearance affects social interaction and the role of larger social structures in perpetuating and institutionalizing it as an evaluative criterion.

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Applied Anthropology: An Introduction (3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities.

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Applied Anthropology: An Introduction (3rd edition) is a text focused on the use of the methods and theories of anthropology to solve the practical problems of human communities.

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Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, edited by Satish Kedia and John van Willigen, comprises essays by prominent scholars on the potential, accomplishments, and methods of applied anthropology.

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Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, edited by Satish Kedia and John van Willigen, comprises essays by prominent scholars on the potential, accomplishments, and methods of applied anthropology.

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.

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What happens when one's skill level in dance, the martial arts, or other activities surpasses local training opportunities Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion provide a new and exciting apprenticeship pilgrimages model --including local, regional, opportunistic, and virtual--that practitioners undertake to acquire knowledge, skills, and legitimacy originally unavailable.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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A unique and transdisciplinary look at the young generations who lived in the Arab world at the time of the Arab springs. Featuring cases from Yemen, Algeria, Syria, Tunisia, Lebanon, Palestine and more, this book gives a voice to young men and women who are inventing the future of societies in the midst of radical change.

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A discussion of the complex issues and theoretical arguments regarding whether race, language and culture go together. The essays seek to show that we should stop thinking that they do go together, and why we should be wary of the belief that people come from different biological lineages.

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We are now witnessing a renewal of the anthropological study of the perception and interpretation of landscape as social process, and how space is culturally construed, gendered, envisioned, and most decisively, physically built.

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In Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate, Anna Volkmar explores a radical new approach to engage with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies. With a focus on nuclear power, Volkmar demonstrates how art can...

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Assesses the work of those thinkers (including artists) who have had a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art since the 1960s. This book presents a concise, critical appraisal of thinkers and their ideas about art and its place in the wider cultural context. It is a guide to the key thinkers who shape the world of art.

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Assesses the work of leading thinkers (including artists) who are having a major impact on making, criticizing and interpreting art. This is a guide to the key thinkers who shape world of art. It is a useful reference for those interested in modern and contemporary art, its history, theory, philosophy and practice.