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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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Anthropologists in Arms traces the troubled history of social scientists' collaboration with national military, security, and intelligence organizations and analyzes the moral and ethical debates provoked by the rise of 'military anthropology'particularly the practice of embedding anthropologists with combat troops in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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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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Bodley trenchantly critiques the most pressing global mega-problems, such as unsustainable growth, resource depletion, global warming, and poverty and conflict, and shows how anthropology makes it possible to find solutions.

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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.

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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.

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Providing an overview of important topics and trends in the anthropology of religion, this work examines the varied manifestations of religion in diverse cultural contexts. Among the topics covered are Shamanism, snake handling and rituals in particular cultural traditions.

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Religion has experienced growing importance in recent years, and interest in the anthropological study of religion has increased as well. Among the topics surveyed are shamanism, snake handling, rituals in particular cultural traditions, religion and altered states of consciousness, and the role of science in religion and anthropology.

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Lays emphasis on performing arts, attempting to find broad commonalities in performance, art, and artists across space, time, and culture.