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This pioneering collection examines the practices surrounding human remains in post-conflict societies, using a unique set of case studies that span multiple disciplines and geographic areas. -- .

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A stimulating, theoretically driven examination of the relationship between human rights and the globalizing process. In scrutinising the impacts of different aspects of globalization on the language and structure of human rights, the book gives readers a deeper, more nuanced understanding of the issues and questions key to the topic.

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Americans are constantly debating issues of space: the space we are, the space we occupy, and the way we treat others in or close to our spaces. The book considers issues such as the balance between an individual's right to smoke and another's right not to be affected by that activity.

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Two characteristics of human beings as a species are: the elaboration of our thought through language and symbolism, and the pluralistic nature of our systems of social organization. This book shows how these two characteristics are related by determining the conceptual structures that are fundamental to human thought and social organization.

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This book provides a comprehensive overview of human trafficking in Cambodia and the mechanisms of poverty in Southeast Asia. By examining personal narratives, the author traces trafficked womens efforts to liberate themselves from the poverty trap with the aid of external supporting organizations.

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Joint fact-finding is a cooperative venture and communication among the participants is critical to success. This work uses real cases to illustrate its argument that analysts should marry process to analysis, spread information, reason inductively, and broaden their analytic scope.

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This book considers in depth the emergent theme of concerns over bodily fluids in health and wellness through an examination of a rich set of ethnographic materials from the Pacific islands of New Guinea.

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The author presents us with the first collection of facts on the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu. This analysis considerably enlarges and deepens our conception of early human organization, especially in its economic aspect.

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Hunger is both a natural and an unnatural human condition. Sharman Apt Russell explores the range of this primal experience

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Psychological abuse can be as damaging to the psyche as physical abuse can be to the body, yet little is written about this common problem. The author addresses the questions of how and why these women are abused, how the abuse starts and progresses, and in what ways does the process differ from that of physical abuse

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Despite our justified fears of its destructiveness, anger is an essential part of our social life. Socialized anger, that is, anger which has not gone out of control or been converted into rage--can deliver potent messages and motivate decisive actions.

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This classic work, first published in 1928, concentrates on the cultivation of the technique of eroticism as an art in marriage. It sets the sexual relationship in the nostalgic prose of a more leisured age.

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Drawing on over 100 interviews, Identical Twins explores the unique status of twinship and its affects on personal and familial relationships with siblings, romantic partners, and friends. This book is a must-read for family scholars and psychologists.

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Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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Refines and enlarges the author's theory of how social structure and culture emerge from the chaos and uncertainty of social life. This book of social theory links social structure with the lived experience of individuals, providing a perspective on the kinds of social formations that develop in the process.

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Most of the 15 studies began as papers for the Structuring of Identities in 20th Century Europe: East/West Convergence and Divergence conference, held in November 1997 near Prague. Pivoting on the notion that the identity predicament is really different now from what former types of society knew, th

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The extent to which modern social science continues to reflect the subjective traits of authors and the contexts in which they operate, rather than the objective facts or insights they claim to develop, remains one of the most striking features of social science research and writing.

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Does human population growth threaten the environment, or does it guarantee we will safeguard it Is economic growth the key ecological problem, or is it the solution This text shows that these debates are governed by the political ideology of the expert advancing a particular argument.

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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;

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She places ideas about work in their history and culture and offers new ideas about what work should be, and what role it should play in our lives.

Schleuning distills all of the central questions having to do with work in our time: why do human beings work;

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Hilda Llornss Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, is a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990.