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Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be - as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. It analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life.

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Charles Underwood focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey to illuminate the characters journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. He explores how the epic narrative illustrates an ancient traditions understanding of how one learns to make ones way as an active agent in an uncertain world.

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Charles Underwood focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey to illuminate the characters journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. He explores how the epic narrative illustrates an ancient traditions understanding of how one learns to make ones way as an active agent in an uncertain world.

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Examines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. This book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works.

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Written for students and the general viewing public, this book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place. It demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers who experience these films while using national cinemas as their models.

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They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views.

Beginning with discussion of innovative prehistoric land and water use, the book describes the ways in which early farmers learned how to harness the precious drops of water for their fields.

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They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views.

Beginning with discussion of innovative prehistoric land and water use, the book describes the ways in which early farmers learned how to harness the precious drops of water for their fields.

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Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius.

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In 1856 - just as Darwin was completing ORIGIN OF SPECIES - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in Germany.

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Pellegrino A. Luciano analyzes how people in Machu Picchu, Peru mobilized against neoliberal reforms. Luciano describes how they resisted and accommodated large capital investments and conservation efforts to protect their local tourism economy.

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Pellegrino A. Luciano analyzes how people in Machu Picchu, Peru mobilized against neoliberal reforms. Luciano describes how they resisted and accommodated large capital investments and conservation efforts to protect their local tourism economy.

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This book provides a discussion of private and public interaction in Dublin.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States.

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A rich ethnographic portrait of the Sahrawi people and their socio-political organization

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Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures.