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This book provides an overview of the history, culture, and society of Namibia, a country on which little information in English exists.

Namibia is a sizeable and significant country in southern Africa that is little known to the outside world.

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Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern.

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Nigeria, one of the largest and most important countries in Africa, is rich in traditions and customs, both indigenous and modern.

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This thorough introduction to modern-day Norway and Norwegian culture shows the impact a small country can have on the world in terms of peace building, environmental issues, technological innovation, and more.

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Saudi culture is in constant flux, and the culture gap between the West and Saudi Islamic culture is wide. Saudi Arabia is the birthplace of Islam, and the basic Islamic values of Saudi culture have remained to this day.

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This work describes the variety of landscape, people, and culture that makes up Spain today. Included are a context chapter and others on religion, customs, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts.

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An engaging and thorough overview of Taiwanese culture and customs.

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The Central Asian Republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan won their independence from the Soviet Union in 1991. The modern culture and customs of the various peoples in these geopolitical hotspots, straddling the far reaches of Europe into Asia, are revealed to a general audience for the first time.

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This book is the first to balance an account of the traditional life and history of the Hmong as a global people, with a full account of their modern, urban lives.

Culture and Customs of the Hmong takes a global approach to understanding the Hmong, a people who have lived in China for more than 4,000 years.

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Culture and Customs of the Philippines provides the best general overview to the Asian archipelago and to a people with close ties to the United States and a long history of emigration and contributions to this country.

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For students and general readers, Rodell (history, Georgia Southern U.) begins with a chronology of the history of the Southern Pacific island cluster. Then he considers such aspects as land and people, art and literature, cuisine and fashion, entertainment, music and dance, and social customs and l

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This is the essential reference source to turn to for solid insight into Uganda.

The wealth of detail in the coverage of the subjects above plus the land, people, history, literature, architecture/housing, cuisine, dress, gender roles, social customs and lifestyle, provides readers with broad sense of the country and its inhabitants.

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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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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.