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An ethnography focusing on the Campeche Maya community. It examines their technologies and sacred cosmologies, and discusses how to combine these with modern technologies to form a system that provides for ecologically responsible development and ensures the cultural survival of this population.

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The focus is on tradition, which became modified after contact with the Westthe adaptation and persistence of these traditions are included in this bibliography.

Traditional Micronesian iconography is largely religious in nature, as is the case with most tribal or preliterate societies.

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Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transformations of borders over time and the way 'border time' is shaped by and shapes the borders. -- .

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Offers a sustained and systematic focus on the intersections of time and space in contexts of border crossing, considering the historical transformations of borders over time and the way 'border time' is shaped by and shapes the borders. -- .

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This collection contains thirteen essays by researchers studying children, adolescents, youth, and adults in a service organization family context, including the military, the State Department, international educators, and non-governmental organizations.

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These eleven original essays, authored by established scholars in the field, explore the ways in which millenarianism pervades late twentieth century life, explain how ancient ways of millenarian thinking affect modern thinking, examine the theoretical roots of millenarianism, and detail a number of millenarian movements.

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This study examines American intellectual, political, and economic contexts from 1960 to 1980, as reconstructed through disciplinary and professional sources in anthropology. This cultural context is then linked to changes in American ethnographic practice.

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Introduces the cosmopolitan intellectual life of Athens, a centerless city of multiplicities and fragmentations, a city on the 'margins of Europe' recovering from the repressive rule of a military junta.

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This in-depth examination reviews fundamental changes of the past decade that have reduced homelessness in the United States and other Western democracies.

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This comprehensive book focuses on the history, geography, sociology, economics, and technological advancements of different sports played around the world.

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Argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This title provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population.

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This book is a potpourri of the best, most usable, fun advice on how to be the kind of mother a daughter will want to be when she grows up and has a little girl of her own.

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The epidemic of scandals unleashed by the Savile Scandal highlights the precarious status of relations of trust. The rapid escalation of this crisis offers insights into the relationship between anxieties about childhood and the wider moral order. This book explains why western society has become so uncomfortable with the exercise of authority.

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Offers a window into gray zones through its look at the manufacture and exchange of illegal goods called homers, tolerated in a French aeronautic plant. This book argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the production of homers offer workplaces balanced opportunities for supervision as well as expression.

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The strange, startling, disturbing and utterly fascinating stories behind the world's most notorious celebrity deaths.

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Looks back on twenty-five years of what Hodgson calls "the conservative ascendancy" in America, demonstrating how it has come to dominate American politics. This title addresses a range of issues, with chapters on politics, the economy, immigration, technology, women, race, and foreign policy, among others.

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Zopf provides a comprehensive account of the biological components of mortality, its various forms and causes, and its many differentials.