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In Competing Orders of Medical Care in Ethiopia, Pino Schirippa illustrates the complexity of pharmaceuticals and remedies in Ethiopia. Schirripa details how these cures are produced and distributed and how their proliferation is influenced by local politics, financial resources, social relations, and neoliberal beliefs.

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Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are useful in some cases, t

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E.N. Anderson and Barbara A. Anderson examine why individuals and whole nations become complicit in genocide. They present leading research on the characteristics of those most susceptible to genocidal messages and outline counteractive strategies.

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This book explores an environmental justice movement in a rural Kentucky community in the United States. It proposes a plural framework to examine how justice strategies and tools are adopted in environmental movements and calls for a careful reexamination and expanding of environmental justice theory.

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Questioning the myth of unconditional love between parents and children, this study examines the strength of the parental bond when children are born with physical defects.

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The author guides readers through five stages of the research process: choosing what to compare, specifying the research problem, collecting information, organizing and summarizing information, interpreting the results, and reporting the outcomes.

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The author guides readers through five stages of the research process: choosing what to compare, specifying the research problem, collecting information, organizing and summarizing information, interpreting the results, and reporting the outcomes.

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Bhambra outlines what 'Theory for a Global Age' might look like, offering this outline as a statement for consideration, contestation and discussion. Bhambra sets the agenda for a new social theory which not only engages with global intellectual currents, but is fundamentally reshaped by them.

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An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures. -- .

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An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures. -- .

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In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs to conservancy members, and at times heightens social conflict.

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Conservative Islam: A Cultural Anthropology by Erich Kolig analyzes the salient characteristics of Islam and contemporary Muslim society from the perspective of traditional cultural anthropology. By highlighting socio-cultural configurations, the universals they represent, the...

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The essays in this volume tackle the construction and significance of race and ethnicity as boundary-making processes among diverse immigrant populations in the United States.

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This work argues that Africology represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.