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Venezuela, one of the least-known countries in Latin America, is brilliantly spotlighted in Culture and Customs of Venezuela. This oil-rich nation sustained a stable democracy until the economic downturn in the 1980s, and changes in the social and political spheres will bring the country under increasing scrutiny from the outside world.

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The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture.

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The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture.

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In recent years the concept of power has soared to the top of the anthropological agenda, while the concept of culture has been found inadequate in understanding the contemporary world.

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In recent years the concept of power has soared to the top of the anthropological agenda, while the concept of culture has been found inadequate in understanding the contemporary world.

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Culture on drugs extends the discussion of drugs and drug culture beyond the boundaries of such disciplines as sociology, anthropology and criminology to cultural and literary studies and philosophy. -- .

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The author draws on many disciplinesanthropology, sociology, philosophy, cosmology, history, economics, and the artsto make his case that culture and cultures should be accorded a central position in global development and human affairs in the future.

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The author draws on many disciplinesanthropology, sociology, philosophy, cosmology, history, economics, and the artsto make his case that culture and cultures should be accorded a central position in global development and human affairs in the future.

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Social scientists have generally remained impervious to a major economic and cultural adaptationnamely, the peripatetic lifestylealthough this adaptation has been an integral part of developments within the socioeconomic and cultural networks that social scientists study.

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This study examines the daily lives of ordinary men and women who flooded into the Trans-Mississippi West in search of land, fortune, a fresh start, a new identity.

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Valued for their sensual and social intensity, Greek dance-events are often also problematical for participants, giving rise to struggles over position, prestige, and reputation. This book explores how the politics of gender is articulated through the body at these culturally central celebrations in a class-divided northern Greek town.

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Here Richard Hodges readdresses the issues he first tackled in 1982 in his original influential Dark Age Economics: the origins of towns and trade.

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"A penetrating, deeply intelligent study of the importance of the Black Power movement and its lingering influence."-New Yorker

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A highly informative account of trends, concepts, and problems related to dating and sexuality in the United States, along with thought-provoking coverage of today's most important issues and controversies.

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The first book written for both dads and daughters-by a dad and a daughter-to help them survive the stormy teen years

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

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This book historicises Anglo-American queer theory by excavating a rival epistemology that advanced a communist sexuality during the Cold War. It proposes a new dialectical theory that inserts socialist ideas and films in the epistemology of queer studies.

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In the Indian outsourcing industry, employees are expected to be "dead ringers" for the more expensive American workers they have replaced. This book chronicles the rise of a workforce for whom mimicry is a job requirement and a passion.

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A burgeoning body of literature on death and dying is organized into a comprehensive, carefully outlined, annotated list in this volume, which cites more than 2200 books, articles, chapters, monographs, and reports primarily concerned with the counseling and theological aspects of death and dying.