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An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures. -- .

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An original and compelling account of the social nature of music and its interplay with the wider society to which it belongs. Crossley explores the doing and meanings of music, as well as its interface with economic, political and wider social structures. -- .

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In this book, Carolyn K. Lesorogol examines community-based wildlife conservation in Kenya and its complex effects on local communities. Lesorogol argues that this approach to conservation creates new land use institutions, brings both benefits and costs to conservancy members, and at times heightens social conflict.

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This work argues that Africology represents an oasis of innovation in progressive venues. It brings together some of the most discussed theorists and intellectuals in the field of Africology and offers new interpretations and analysis while challenging the predominant frameworks in philosophy, social justice, literature, and history.

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In this text, scholars of the Argentine Academia and others address the contemporary issues facing the native peoples of Pampa, Patagonia, and Tierra del Fuego as they struggle to maintain a sense of cultural difference.

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Argues that the most elementary form of religious life in many Western societies and other societies around the world, is situational, mundane and concerned with helping people to cope with their day to day lives.

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Compares two challenges made to American public school curricula in the 1980s and 1990s. This book identifies similarities between proponents of Afrocentrism and creationism, accounts for their differential outcomes, and draws important conclusions for the study of culture, organizations, and social movements.

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Provides a view of what it means to be a Greek man or woman, married or unmarried, functioning within a complex society based on kinship ties. This title demonstrates that kinship and gender identities in Greece are not unitary and fixed: kinship is organized in several highly specific forms, and gender identities are plural.

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This book highlights the significance and consequences of globalization in the sociopolitical and religious experience with African worldviews, both nationally and throughout its diaspora. Through a multi- and interdisciplinary discourse, the diversity of opinions captures the complexity and plurality of global dynamics on African globalization.

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This exploration of 15 different controversial issues within the medical profession challenges students to use critical thinking skills to draw their own conclusions. Topics covered include the medical use of marijuana, organ donations, animal testing and end-of-life issues.

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There are no recipes for what the Indians ate in Colonial times, but this cookbook uses period quotations to detail what and how the foodstuffs were prepared.

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Offers recipes to complement the most-studied historical periods. This book includes an introduction to the period and then an overview of the type of foodstuffs, cuisine, and style of eating. Organized by course, typical meal, or food group, each recipe is introduced and placed in its proper social context; some, merely for historical interest.

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A deconstruction of the stereotypical depictions of the coolie in the British Empire.

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Lynda Ann Ewen offers the first thoroughgoing Marxist-Leninist analysis, based on primary research, of the structure and dynamics of class relations and corporate power in a major U.S. metropolitan area. She contends that Detroit's urban crisis is not a temporary aberration in a good system run amuck, but the logical result of years of social plann

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This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of deathcorpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representationand examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.

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This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of deathcorpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representationand examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.

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Cosmopolitan Love and Individuality outlines the quest for an ethic of social recognition and inclusion based on shared humanity rather than membership of fictional social, and cultural groupings such as religions and ethnicities. The book proposes love as the glue for social inclusion, where love is the emotional recognition of others.

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Robert A. Nye places in historical context a medical concept of deviance that developed in France in the last half of the nineteenth century, when medical models of cultural crisis linked thinking about crime, mental illness, prostitution, alcoholism, suicide, and other pathologies to French national decline. Originally published in 1984. The Pri

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A thoroughly revised edition, providing full coverage of online sources, the techniques of electronic searching, and using the Internet, as well as traditional resources.