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This book is a sociological exploration of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences.

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This book is a sociological exploration of the process of returning to the ordinary world after extraordinary experiences.

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In 1942 Hsu witnessed a cholera epidemic in a small rural settlement in Yunnan province, China, and found that, contrary to anthropological expectations, the Chinese responded to the crisis with a combination of conciliatory rituals and practical hygienic measures.

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In a unique collection of international and interdisciplinary research, this book focuses on commemorative events around the world on the same day: 11 November 2018, the centenary of Armistice Day, the end of the First World War.

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A distinctive and accessible introductory text that presents social theory not as a specialist subject, but as a relevant resource for anyone wanting to explain social phenomenon. The text actively encourages those who are new to social theory, as well as more advanced students, to develop and practice their own capacities for social explanation.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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Its a book of thematically interconnected ethnographic essays by the internationally esteemed sociologist Rene C. Fox, who employs a participant observer outlook to provide insight on enduring-and pressing-issues of geopolitics, epidemics, aging, friendship and humanitarian action and on the meaning and meaningfulness of teaching and writing.

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Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday lifefrom conversations and observations through web browsing and popular culturecan become the basis of rich ethnography and deep cultural analysis.

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Explores and explains how the mysteries of everyday lifefrom conversations and observations through web browsing and popular culturecan become the basis of rich ethnography and deep cultural analysis.

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This book reevaluates Edward Sapir's groundbreaking perspective on culture and personality alongside Jacques Lacan's theories, challenging traditional anthropological discourse.

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For teachers, the detailed analysis of texts and the method for determining realization rules will help in guiding students who must understand and produce research articles.

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This book explores the deeper causes of recent massive emigrations from Honduras, tracing the roots to the neoliberal extractive development model that has created conditions of poverty, corruption, and violence for over a generation in the context of the colonial (or imperial) relationship of Honduras to the United States.

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This book provides a comprehensive examination of the human face, providing fascinating information from biological, cultural, and social perspectives.

Our faces identify who we arenot only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have.

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A study of the production of a state-revering political culture in the public life of 1990s Turkey. It brings poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theory to bear on the study of the political. It focuses on the conflict over secularism in the aftermath of an Islamist victory in the city's municipalities.

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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This book draws on research at Dreamfields Academy, a celebrated secondary school, to explore how neoliberal education models reproduce raced and classed inequalities. -- .

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This book discusses the theory that alternative relationship and family structures challenge the privileged status of the nuclear family as the preferable mode of family life for all, and the one to be endorsed and encouraged by society.

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Families have become an increasingly important source of support for the elderly, and gerontologists are directing more and more attention to older adults and their families.

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An in-depth and multifaceted examination of the contemporary American family, this introductory handbook is the only one of its kind and presents a solid, authoritative overview.

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This volume will be of interest to those concerned with family studies and family history, global environmental history, and the history of disease, as well as those concerned with demographic history.

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