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This book explores the decolonization of ethnographic collections by analyzing the historical and cultural narratives surrounding artifacts from two Brazilian indigenous groups and preserved in European museums.

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This collection considers the increasingly central role that memory plays in determining contemporary politics and the future of Northern Irish society. Using an inter-disciplinary approach, it considers how competing narratives of the past are constructed, re-constructed, commemorated and then harnessed to mobilise politics in present day society.

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This book offers an in-depth sociological analysis of parent and professional experience of baby loss, examining the role that post-mortem can play in the wider context of bereavement.

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The second edition of the notable textbook Victimology provides a Canadian perspective on the scientific study of crime victims, highlighting their rights and the responsibility to prevent (re)victimization.

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This is a book about what it is like to live and work with 'the canon' and how this shapes the way we think about intellectuals now. In contemporary global academia, what does it mean to write 'with' the canon and what is at stake if you don't, can't, or won't

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Provides an exploration of modern Australian social anthropology which examines the forces that helped shaped its formation. This title reveals the struggle to establish and consolidate anthropology in Australia as an academic discipline.

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The Sunday Times bestselling exploration of the weird and wonderful things human beings have done in pursuit (and denial) of the mighty orgasm.

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This fascinating book by anthropologist, Alan West, is an in depth study of the making of bags, nets and cordage and includes detailed diagrams and photographs of weaving techniques from the Indigenous communities on the west and east coasts of Cape York Peninsula.

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Aboriginal youth at risk are suffering more from social than from mental disorder. This title presents a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life - or who may be seeking freedom in death. It title presents a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Aboriginal men and women.

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There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity. These are the starting points for the essays contained in Stephen Muecke's original and challenging book.

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Describes Indigenous affairs policy in Australia, concentrating on the period since the end of ATSIC in 2004. This book provides an overview of the trajectory of the policy, with the author advancing a new consolidated approach to Indigenous policy which moves beyond the debate over self-determination and assimilation.

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"First published in Brazil by Campanhia das Letras, Sao Paulo"--title page verso.

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Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods and services, fin

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Provides an account of complex adaptive social systems, by two of the field's leading authorities. This work focuses on the key tools and ideas that have emerged in the field since the mid-1990s, as well as the techniques needed to investigate such systems. It also demonstrates how the usual extremes used in modeling can be fruitfully transcended.

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Complexity science--made possible by modern analytical and computational advances--is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While these standard narratives are useful in some cases, t

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In 2007 the Australian Government recognised that the health, safety and education of the nations remote Aboriginal citizens were in a state of crisis. Its response was what became known as the Northern Territory Intervention, which sparked a heated national debate about Indigenous disadvantage and autonomy.

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