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By: Philip Dine

ISBN: 9781859733271
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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As France's oldest team sport, rugby football has throughout its 125-year history reflected major changes in French society. This book analyzes the variety of motives which have led the French to adopt and remake this sport in their own image.


(Paperback)

By: Jane Fishburne Collier

ISBN: 9780691016641
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 1998
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Notes that when inheritance appeared to determine social status, villagers protected family reputations and properties by demonstrating concern for 'what others might say'. This book traces shifts in the meaning of 'tradition', suggesting that although 'modern' people cannot 'be' traditional, they must have traditions to produce themselves.


(Hardback)

By: Ananta Kumar Giri

ISBN: 9781839991271
Readership/Audience: Primary and Secondary Educational
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Anthem Press
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This book deals with the theme of Kingdom of God in religion, politics and spirituality and strives to rethink and reconstitute it is as Gardens of God.


(Hardback)

By: Ronnie Shepard

ISBN: 9781498572842
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Gender, Health, and Society in Contemporary Latin America and the Caribbean uses case studies, ethnographic research, and theoretical analysis to craft locally defined cultural critiques of gender and health in modern Latin American societies as well as for Latinx peoples in the greater diaspora.


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By: Pamela J. Stewart

ISBN: 9780275977924
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2002
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the western Highlands.


(Hardback)

By: Rebecca Gibson

ISBN: 9781793641359
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Gender, Supernatural Beings, and the Liminality of Death: Monstrous Males/Fatal Females examines how gender changes and manifests in stories and film through several different types of beings. With sections on social death, the walking dead, and the undead, this is a multi-faceted look at myth, legend, and popular culture creatures.


(Hardback)

By: Fernanda Frizzo Bragato

ISBN: 9781786605122
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This volume presents timely commentaries on issues relating to Africa and Latin America, demonstrating the value of intercultural dialogue amongst voices from the Global South on decoloniality, cultural rights and politics.


(Hardback, 3rd edition)

By: Robin Cohen

ISBN: 9780230293731
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Sayantani DasGupta

ISBN: 9780739187425
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This edited volume explores transnational gestational surrogacy and how its practice is changing the traditional concept of parenthood across the globe. The phenomenon has given rise to a thriving international industry where money is being 'legally' exchanged for babies and '...


(Paperback)

By: Sayantani DasGupta

ISBN: 9781498525206
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Shannon L. Kenny

ISBN: 9780313384301
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This encyclopedia provides detailed information about the historical, cultural, social, religious, economic, and scientific significance of gold, across the globe and throughout history.


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By: A. H. Leighton

ISBN: 9780691622699
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Commander Leighton is a psychiatrist and anthropologist who was assigned to go to the Japanese Relocation Center at Poston, Arizona, and "apply the methods of social science" to that community-find out in terms of human relationships what was working well and why, what was going wrong and why, and attempt to draw general principles from that experi


(Hardback)

By: A. H. Leighton

ISBN: 9780691649450
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: P. Christiaan Klieger

ISBN: 9781498506465
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Apr 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The papers in this volume examine the variations of cultural expression within Greater Tibet, a conceptual framework that considers Tibeto-Burman speakers and their mutual affiliations as a group different from the larger nation-states in which they now find themselves.


(Hardback)

By: P. Christiaan Klieger

ISBN: 9781498506441
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The papers in this volume examine the variations of cultural expression within Greater Tibet, a conceptual framework that considers Tibeto-Burman speakers and their mutual affiliations as a group different from the larger nation-states in which they now find themselves.


(Hardback)

By: Francesca Gobbo

ISBN: 9781498577533
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Growing up in Walltown, Italy presents an ethnographic account of the culture of early childhood education, as it is constructed in two municipal schools of an Italian town, explored through extensive participant observation and interviews of educators, teachers, school coordinators, mothers, and cooks and school staff.


(Paperback, 2nd edition)

By: Ashley Montagu

ISBN: 9780897891660
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this new, revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life.


(Hardback, 2nd Revised edition)

By: Ashley Montagu

ISBN: 9780897891677
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 1988
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this new, revised edition of his landmark book, Montagu compels us to reevaluate the way we think about growth and development, in all its phases, throughout life.


(Hardback)

By: Flore Zephir

ISBN: 9780897894517
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 1996
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written by a member of the Black Haitian community, this book brings to life the mechanisms that shape Haitian immigrant identity and underscores the complexity of such an identity. Zphir explains why Haitians define themselves as a distinct ethnic group and examines the various parameters of Haitian ethnicity.


(Paperback, Second Edition)

By: H. Russell Bernard

ISBN: 9780759120716
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Draws on both science and humanism to explore the scope of contemporary anthropological fieldwork in practice. This thoroughly revised second edition also features new chapters addressing online ethnography; mixed methods and social survey research; and network and geospatial analysis.


(Hardback, Second Edition)

By: H. Russell Bernard

ISBN: 9780759120709
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Draws on both science and humanism to explore the scope of contemporary anthropological fieldwork in practice. This thoroughly revised second edition also features new chapters addressing online ethnography; mixed methods and social survey research; and network and geospatial analysis.


(Paperback)

By: Mary Margaret Steedly

ISBN: 9780691655321
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Mary Margaret Steedly

ISBN: 9780691656748
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)

By: Vronique A. S. Griffith

ISBN: 9781793601872
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Healers and Patients Talk provides insight into interactions between patients and health professionals in the clinical setting. Vronique Griffith examines the varied and contested enactments of endometriosis, the multiple ways in which people understand and use the term endometriosis, and the complex pathway to the diagnosis.

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