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The relevant issues of their survival in today's global culture will engage students and general readers alike.

Each chapter covers a specific group, including sections on the land, people, traditional subsistence strategies, political and social organization, religion and worldview, threats to survival, and response to those threats.

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The tremendous cultural diversity and distinct ways of life of many Southeast and East Asian peoples are in serious jeopardy today because of varying combinations of economic, political, and environmental threats, often linked to severe human rights violations.

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An introduction to endangered peoples and cultures of the Arctic regions.

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Compiled by the Hunger Project--a non-profit group established in 1977--Ending Hunger: An Idea Whose Time Has Come is the definitive source and reference book to one of the greatest opportunities humanity has ever faced--the end of hunger by the end of the century.

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This book provides a rich ethnography of how Tamil-speaking communities in Batticaloa live through and make sense of a violence that shapes everyday life itself. -- .

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In an easy, understandable style, energy expert Joseph Dukert explains how each fits into the overall global energy mix that powers everything from automobiles and appliances to assembly lines and space stations.

As Dukert details, all energy sources have pluses and minuses.

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Presents a demographic history of England covering the period since the Norman conquest. This work charts the magnitude and characteristics of population change in England since the eleventh century. It includes three appendices that describe the main documentary sources and how they can be exploited to yield important demographic data.

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This is the first single-volume demographic history of England covering the entire period since the Norman conquest.

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Demonstrating that the reaction of the Anglo-Jewish community to modern Jewish nationalism was far more complex than conventionally thought, Stuart A. Cohen argues that the conflict between Zionists and anti-Zionists, although often stated in strictly ideological terms, was also an aspect of a larger contest for community control. Originally publi

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This volume discusses such topics as: successes and contradictions in "multiracial" Brazilian football; the political role of football for Palestinians in Jordan; and football and violence in war-torn Africa - soccer and social rehabilitation in Sierra Leone.

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This volume discusses such topics as: successes and contradictions in "multiracial" Brazilian football; the political role of football for Palestinians in Jordan; and football and violence in war-torn Africa - soccer and social rehabilitation in Sierra Leone.

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The author presents an in-depth look at how democratic values have widened the American arts scene, even as it remains elite and cosmopolitan.

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This book combines phenomenology and political economy to offer new approaches for analyses of human-environment relations and technologies. It contributes to the social studies of fisheries through an analysis of how fishing practices and social relations are shaped by political economy. -- .

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Issues around the environment provoke ethical, cultural, scientific and political debates. This unique inter-disciplinary introduction guides readers through these debates, drawing on recent and influential social theory and empirical cases to map out scholarship in the area. It is essential reading for anyone interested in social environmentalism.

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The writings of Max Weber (1864-1920) contain an attempt to create an economic sociology. Economic sociologist and Weber scholar Richard Wedberg has selected from Weber's body of writings on the topic.

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Presents a collection of essays which explains a reflection on the author's project to anthropologize the West. This book attempts to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasizes those domains taken as universal, and shows how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces.

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Ethical responsibility has intellectual and practical implications for social researchers. This book explores a range of issues, theories and questions, enabling readers to reflect upon, understand and critique these with confidence. With helpful examples and a glossary of terms, it is essential reading for new and experienced researchers alike.

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What causes genocide And why do some stand by, doing nothing, while others risk their lives to help the persecuted This tile analyzes interviews with bystanders, Nazi supporters, and rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust to lay bare critical psychological forces operating during genocide.

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In this case study of a recent peasant uprising in an ethnically diverse region of Mexico, Frans Schryer addresses an important issue in the cultural history of Latin America: what is the relationship of class to ethnicity, and how do these two elements of cultural perception and social hierarchy reinforce or contradict each other Examining the in

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For social anthropologists, and those working in cultural studies, politics, gender studies, ethnomusicology, folklore and musicology, this book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice.

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