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Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

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Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success -- .

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Focusing on ethnolinguistic groups rather than peoples with purely religious orientations, Olson provides entries on over 450 ethnic groups, with appropriate cross-references. The volume also includes a chronology, several appendixes providing statistical information, and an appendix essay on Islam in Russia and the Soviet Union.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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Fully updated and revised, the third edition of this popular textbook continues to introduce students to what anthropology is, what anthropologists do, how and what they contribute, and how even a limited knowledge of anthropology can help people succeed in today's world.

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Are the relationships between minority groups as significant as those between dominant and minority groups Phillips argues that they are in this innovative analysis of the relationships between the African American and the Jewish American communities during the last one hundred years.

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While many studies suggest that Indian Untouchables do not entirely share the hierarchical values characteristic of the caste system, Michael Moffatt argues that the most striking feature of the lowest castes is their pervasive cultural consensus with those higher in the system. Though rural Untouchables question their particular position in the sy

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This book establishes the relevance of studying resettlement from an anthropological perspective, with stories and ethnographic accounts of development processes.

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Everyone-in every place and culture-has ancestors. Drawing on his interviews with over thirty people from a variety of cultural backgrounds across the United States and around the world, Hertzel provides an engaging foray into the nature of relationships between people today and their ancestors, exploring what ancestry means in the modern world.

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Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary exchanges, both past and present, which have engaged cultural anthropologistsand invites readers to continue the conversations.

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Highlights the central issues currently being debated within cultural anthropology, and documents the most original theoretical trends now affecting the field in North America.

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Highlights the central issues currently being debated within cultural anthropology, and documents the most original theoretical trends now affecting the field in North America.

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This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. -- .

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Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the presentutilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.

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During the 1970s, Comparative Cultural Gerontology or the Anthropology of Aging, with its focus on aging from a cross-cultural perspective, attained the status of a new speciality in the field of anthropology.

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In this book, Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces a professional anthropological perspective on the topic.

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The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of elements, including race, class, gender, identity, food, and space.