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The deep structure manifest in African cultures in the diaspora is proof of the aesthetic continuity.

The debate continues over the exact nature of African aesthetics, and in this volume scholars and teachers in the fields of African and African American studies approach the subject from a broad range of disciplines.

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An anthropomorphic study of the black population in the United States, based on a study conducted in 1920.

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This is an anthropological exploration of the existential and philosophical qualities of ambiguity as a generative force of political and socio-cultural transformation in contemporary human life trajectories.

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This book looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practised, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures.

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This book looks at how and why cannibalism was actually practised, both as part of a wider cultural system of meanings about reproduction and regeneration as well as how cannibalism as myth perpetuates political processes of stereotyping across cultures.

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The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing Parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world.

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The Anthropology of Parliaments offers a fresh, comparative approach to analysing Parliaments and democratic politics, drawing together rare ethnographic work by anthropologists and politics scholars from around the world.

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F.G. Baileys contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trace the origins of Baileys seminal ideas regarding powers place in the relationship between agency and structure, and the way that people tactically deploy emotions and cultural norms for personal gain.

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After the Armenian genocide of 1915, in which over a million Armenians died, thousands of Armenian-Turks lived and worked in the Turkish state alongside those who had persecuted their communities.

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Addressing the question that how can we listen more carefully, this book shows how sociology is in a position to record 'life passed in living' and to listen to complex experiences with humility and ethical care, providing a resource to understand the contemporary world.

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From reality TV to political rallies, there is a clamour to be heard, to narrate, and to receive attention. It reduces 'reality' to revelation and voyeurism. This title argues that this way of life is having severe and damaging consequences in a world that is increasingly globalized and interconnected.

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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

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Thoroughly updated and revised throughout with a brand new conclusion, featuring essay and classroom questions for classroom use, The Body: Key Concepts, Second Edition, presents a concise and up to date introduction to, and analysis of, the complex and influential debates around the body in contemporary culture.

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This anthropological and sociological study examines how European traders sought out native women as cultural instructors, translators, and sexual companions.

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Many believe that we are passing through a period during which, due largely to globalization's challenge to the idea and sovereignty of nation-states, there is now the intellectual and political space for the construction of new models of citizenship, involving new relations between individuals and their governments.

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Chung-Hee Soh here contributes a unique perspective on women in politics by analyzing the ethnographic materials on the experiences of Korean women in their national legislature.

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Home to some of the most impressive monuments of the Islamic world, Cairo's City of the Dead is also home to hundreds of thousands of Egypt's urban poor. This book presents a comprehensive look at this unique informal community, and includes biographies of some of the residents of the cemeteries.

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An insightful view of Cuban Americans' historical roots, customs, and contributions to contemporary American life.

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A riveting look at the scientific roots of male violence.