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Based on anthropological research conducted during the 1990s in Lu Village and informed by the classic 1930s study of the same village by Fei Xiaotong, China's most famous anthropologist, this book portrays individuals confronting a variety of changes in their daily lives.

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One of the world's leading anthropologists assesses the work of the founder of structural anthropology

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How networked technology enables the emergence of a new collaborative society.

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I tremble to say theres good in death, because Ive looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and Ive seen the heartbreak of the stricken widow, but Ive also seen something more in death, something good.

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"Traces six contradictory American ideologies of nature from their emergence in the late eighteenth century to the present to explore how inconsistent conceptions of nature lead to conflict"--

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Surveys the major Obama players - from the president's affiliation with radical theology to his advisers' history of Marxist activism, repression of the media, support for leftist dictators, and worse. This title exposes their resulting campaign to dismantle the American free-market system and forfeit our national sovereignty.

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Since the U.S. Constitution first instructed that a slave be counted as only three-fifths of a person, the census has been caught up in America's racial dilemmas.

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This publicationis an essential single-volume source for Census 2020 information. This easy-to-read edition provides the most up-to-date census data for each state, county, metropolitan area, congressional district, and all cities with a population of 25,000 or more. It complements the popular and trusted annual edition of County and City Extra.

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Creating Care: Art and Medicine in US Hospitals is an ethnographic study of art programming in hospitals across the United States.

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"This book offers the first comprehensive critical analysis of the practices and consequences of ancient DNA research"--

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American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era. This book explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation wrought in movies, television, sports, and music. It looks at the ways in which these cultural elements reflected the upheaval and unrest in Vietnam era America.

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The social, political, and cultural consequences of attempts to cheat death by freezing life.

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A leading activist art curator explores the ways corporations and governments have used culture to mystify and manipulate us.

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This book explores the common characteristics of the communal celebrations displayed by cultures from all parts of the world and throughout history.

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Mario Erasmo creatively explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to dying, death and interment. From theme funerals in St Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a rich and insightful discussion of finitude across the ages.

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Democratizing finance is the means by which we can democratize our economy

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Recent approaches to economic demography, investigating the effect of the transition to low mortality and low fertility on economic development.

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Demographic Desires: Medicine, Media, and Emergency Contraception in India makes visible how under neoliberal regimes of empowered consumerism Emergency Contraceptive Pills (ECPs) introduced as non-prescription pills in 2005 bring histories of demographic control projects and demographic anxieties into the present.

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A comprehensive, introductory text that emphasizes the major techniques, methods, and data sources of contemporary population studies. Written by a sociologist and a demographer, the book's principal aim is to improve students' skills primarily as consumers and secondarily as producers of demographic information.

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