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These engaging accounts by masters of field research illustrate the synthesis of passionate involvement and objective analysis. By learning how social scientists conduct research under field conditions and how they feel while they are doing it, students will be better prepared to carry out successful field research projects of their own.

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An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze.

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Suggests that understanding the impact of the illness lies not in identifying deficiencies, but in appreciating how family members carry on with their lives in the face of the disease's intrusion. This book focuses on the lives of those who live in the shadow of chronic illness: the parents and well siblings of children who have cystic fibrosis.

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At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. This book draws upon Nivkh interviews, archives, and translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity.

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Presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism. This book shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. It explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority.

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How have Pacific Islanders voyaged across the vast ocean around them and navigated their small crafts from one distant place to another for thousands of years

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Pilar Snchez Voelkl offers an anthropological account of the early arrival and prominence of Indigenous peoples in the Galpagos Islands. Their history and everyday life reveal how multiple notions of nature, race, and society travel and meet, shaping the way conservation thought is translated into law.

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Presents a sociological analysis of modern industrial societies.

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Presents a sociological analysis of modern industrial societies.

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This reference identifies information resources concerning virtual reality and provides detailed instruction on how to use these resources in an effective research strategy.

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Drawing widely on sociological, economic, and political theory cominbined with detailed attention to technical, business, and sociological evidence, this critical scholarly work offers a comprehensive analysis both of the significance of computing and communications technologies and the nature of contemporary society.

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This is a guide to information-finding sources and techniques for researchers in the social and behavioural sciences, with a focus on public administration and related fields. It analyses how to design the research process in an evolving manner using approaches that combine different factors.

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Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, this book dispels myths and offers insight into the clubbing scene. It explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, and their values and concerns, from friendship and community to drugs, and life outside the clubbing space.

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Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, this book dispels myths and offers insight into the clubbing scene. It explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, and their values and concerns, from friendship and community to drugs, and life outside the clubbing space.