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Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. This book reveals the problems mothers of adult children face and celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother through hardship.

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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..

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A great deal has been written about the bond between mothers and daughters and fathers and daughters. In her examination of the mother/son relationsip, the author ultimately questions whether or not mothers foster sexist masculinity and whether they can be blamed for male dominance..

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Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs while analyzing how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.

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Through a series of focus group interviews and an analysis of the media and popular culture, Mothers Work explores the institution of motherhood and the arenas in which mothering occurs while analyzing how mothers feel about themselves, each other, and the culture that situates them against one another.

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Deborah Merrill, a woman's advocate and Sociology professor at one of our nation's top universities, has been studying the relationship for nearly a decade and, in this book, explains where the difficulty is rooted, how friendly pairs have made it past problems that surface between a man's mother and his wife, and how they became friends.

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This book is an ethnography of the lives and livelihoods of motorcycle taxi drivers in Kigali, Rwanda. It is a thought-provoking critique of social-scientific concepts of power that explores the possibilities of theorizing power in ethnographic terms.

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In this collection of new and previously published essays, political theorist Isaac Balbus deepens and extends the feminist psychoanalytic account of sexual, political, and technological domination he developed in his earlier works.

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There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium.

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There could be no better time than now to interrogate the lives of new kinds of people, movers and makers, who navigate fragility and uncertainty to create with daring, often against great odds. Parminder Bhachu uses their dramatic life stories to uncover what makes for creativity and resilience in times of disequilibrium.

(Hardback)

The authors consider the movement of football labour from the late nineteenth-century to the present day within the framework of international migration as a whole.

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The authors consider the movement of football labour from the late nineteenth-century to the present day within the framework of international migration as a whole.

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Paints a vivid picture of London during the early 1700s, through excerpts from court cases prosecuted during 1732 and 1733, a time when court proceedings were colorful, comical, and unruly, and testimonies were recorded in the dialect of the speaker.

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Presenting a cultural history of drinking and sport, this work examines the roles masculinity, class and regional identity play in alcohol consumption at matches, races, courses and competitions. Offering a perspective on the culture and commerce of sporting events, it is aimed at cultural historians, anthropologists and sociologists.

(Hardback)

Presenting a cultural history of drinking and sport, this work examines the roles masculinity, class and regional identity play in alcohol consumption at matches, races, courses and competitions. Offering a perspective on the culture and commerce of sporting events, it is aimed at cultural historians, anthropologists and sociologists.

(Hardback, 4th Revised edition)

This updated and expanded fourth edition of a popular reference book for teachers and librarians to use in planning interesting extension projects, holiday events to promote diversity, and cross-cultural understanding indexes 725 new books and features over 1,000 indexed projects.

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Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities.

(Paperback, NIPPOD)

Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines critical sociolinguistic ethnography, multi-modality, reflexivity, and discourse analysis, this book reveals the multiple (and sometimes simultaneous) ways in which individuals engage and invest in representations of languages and identities.

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This book extends the ethnographic approach to animals and animate and inanimate natures. The focus is on developing a method suitable for holistic and interdisciplinary research, and to fulfill this goal, elements of Human-Animal Studies and NaturesCultures are combined and Indigenous approaches are incorporated.

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Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains brings together new ethnographic insights from the mountains of southern Siberia and Mongolia. The contributors to this edited collection examine Indigenous ideas about home places and the process of incorporating animals and spirits in changing alpine and subalpine environments.

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Perfect for school and public libraries, this is the only reference book to combine pop culture with science to uncover the mystery behind mummies and the mummification phenomena.

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Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.

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Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.

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Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health is an ethnographic work that explores the social, cultural, and political dynamics that impinge upon the HIV/AIDS discourse in South Africa and how they find expression in music. The book reveals the interconnections of the local and global culture and politics of HIV/AIDS.