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From Aristotle to contemporary soap operas, friendship has always been a subject of fascination. This book describes the varied nature of personal relationships, and also locates friendship in contemporary debates about individualization and the supposed "collapse of community."

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This book shares critical and creative insights on the methodologies in island studies. It explores why and how islands serve powerful analytical ends. Considering interdisciplinary questions shaping the field, the book models what it means to think about and rethink island methodologies.

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In Rethinking the Anthropology of Love and Tourism, Sagar Singh offers fresh insights on love and tourism. This book is recommended for scholars of anthropology, sociology, geography, ecology, economics, cultural studies, psychology, and history.

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Carlos Waisman has pinpointed the specific beliefs that led the Peronists unwittingly to transform their country from a relatively prosperous land of recent settlement, like Australia and Canada, to an impoverished and underdeveloped society resembling the rest of Latin America. Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the

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The contributors address hot-button issues such as same-sex marriage, effects of divorce on children, and the role of fathers in addition to issues such as the permanence of marriage, covenant marriage, and the role of religion in marriage.

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The contributors address hot-button issues such as same-sex marriage, effects of divorce on children, and the role of fathers in addition to issues such as the permanence of marriage, covenant marriage, and the role of religion in marriage.

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Revolutionary Social Transformation focuses on the visions and analysis culled from the writings of Karl Marx, Paulo Freire, and Antonio Gramsci. Marx's theory of critical praxis and his dialectical conceptualization of capitalism are discussed together with Freire's and Gramsci's ideas. The author

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Rewriting Homeless Identity focuses on the identities of untrained homeless writers who negotiated their experiences on the streets through individual writing personas at writing workshops. This book highlights ethnographic research into the writing samples to explore identity and growth through the writing process.

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Are we what we eat What does food reveal about how we live and how we think of ourselves in relation to others And why do people have a strong attachment to their own cuisine and an aversion to the foodways of others This title examines how people use the metaphor of a principal food in conceptualizing themselves in relation to other people.

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Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life. This book looks at sunlight as part of our material and social culture. It traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.

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Sunshine plays an important role in all aspects of life. This book looks at sunlight as part of our material and social culture. It traces the network of social and medical forces that constitute our sometimes problematic, relationship with sun and sunlight.

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This volume expands the debate over the origins and purposes of sports records. After introductions by Guttmann and the editors, the book proceeds on a chronological study of evidence of sports records in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, medieval England, the Renaissance, Tudor and Elizabethan England, pre-modern Hawaii, and pre-modern Japan.

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The contents include: Abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I: the Compadrazgo System of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 1. Cultural Outline of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 2. Compadrazgo in Perspective: Paradigm and Types 3. Sacrametnal Compadrazgo 4. Primary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo 5. Secondary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo

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The contents include: Abbreviations Preface Introduction Part I: the Compadrazgo System of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 1. Cultural Outline of Santa Maria Belen Azitzimititlan 2. Compadrazgo in Perspective: Paradigm and Types 3. Sacrametnal Compadrazgo 4. Primary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo 5. Secondary Nonsacramental Compadrazgo

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This sequel to the first volume of Ritual Kinship (Princeton, 1980) completes a comprehensive account of one of the most pervasive and significant of Latin American institutions. Volume II examines the permanent dimensions of the compadrazgo system and its role in the organization of local society. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Lega

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An examination of death rituals in early Japan that finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era (645-710 AD). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts, it argues that double burial was the center of a manipulation of myth and ritual for specific ideological and factional purposes.