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This edited collection examines the emergence, development, and future of tourism ethnography, emphasizing the interpretive-humanistic approach honed by anthropologist Edward Bruner. Original chapters by thirteen leading anthropologists critically engage theories and concepts including authenticity, the touristic borderzone, and contested sites.

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A look at the histories and experiences of French immigrants in the USA. Jacqueline Lindenfeld, a French-born American anthropologist, explores the makings of French identity and distinguishes French immigrants from other Americans.

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This volume examines the histories and experiences of French immigrants in the USA. Jacqueline Lindenfeld, a French-born American anthropologist, explores the makings of French identity and distinguishes French immigrants from other Americans.

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Offers an interpretation of mass-mediated violence through a study of funeral gambling and Buddhist meditation on death. This book focuses on a particular array of tactics in Thai Buddhism and protest politics for connecting death and life, past and present and unveils a picture of community, responsibility, and accountability in the world order.

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This broad-visioned and insightful book examines the march toward global consolidation of our many ethnic, racial, and nationality groups.

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In this book, Gerad Smith explores the history, ethnography, and archaeological record of the Native people living in the Middle Tanana Valley in Alaska during the late Holocene. Smith illustrates how the role of deep-play rituals of reciprocity shaped a traditional society that has lasted over a thousand years.

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This latest addition to Greenwood's American Popular Culture Through History series is an invaluable contribution to the study of American popular culture.

American Popular Culture Through History is the only reference series that presents a detailed, narrative discussion of U.S. popular culture.

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Through an empirical, multi-archival study of a transnational foundationthe Harvard-Yenching Institute (HYI) from the 1920s to the early 1950sthis book presents the story of transplanting Western/American humanities scholarship into Asia/China and addresses central questions in U.S.-China relations.

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Zilinskas and Balint and their contributors examine the divisions between minority groups and the scientific community, particularly in the area of medical and genetic research. Minorities have reasons to be skeptical of medical research in general and genetics research in particular.

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Based on insights into the behaviour of chimps and other great apes, our now extinct human ancestors, and existing hunting and gathering societies, Stanford shows the role that meat has played in these societies.

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This edited collection analyzes the effects of the main macro-social systems - law and politics, economic development, education, social welfare, health, mental health, transportation, housing, and religion - on the lives of African Americans, Hispanics, Asians, and Native Americans.

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This book is focused on the native peoples of Central America. Robert Carmack examines their history, societies and cultures, and relates their many historical accomplishments to larger world history.

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Contributors to this collection examine the Turners most important theoretical contributions to anthropology, from their work on pilgrimages, liminality, and communitas to insights from their fieldwork. They illustrate the Turners enduring theoretical contributions and their profound effects on the anthropological perspective.

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This book describes, from a psychoanalytical point of view, the desires and anxieties of contemporary Chinese nationalism as it evolved after the 1989 student protests and crackdown. The author also unwraps China's convoluted relationship with its Occidental Other, describing how the Western gaze plays an essential part in forming China's self-image.

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The loneliness room is a richly evocative account of loneliness as told through the photographs, videos, songs, poems, and writings supplied by its participants.

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Examines the Macedonian conflict in light of theoretical work on the construction of national identities and cultures and the invention of tradition. This book analyzes two issues: the struggle for human rights of the Macedonian minority in northern Greece and the campaign for international recognition of the independent Republic of Macedonia.

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Radin's timeless critique of anthropological theory and methods from a humanistic perspective provides an overall assessment of the field of ethnology, its shortcomings, errors, and misdirections.

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The seven microstates of Europe are remarkable not only for their size, but their persistence as well. It is a sociopolitical phenomenon that has rarely been addressed, but this book shows how it may have clues for the larger understanding of the conflicting agencies of nationalism and globalism currently seen around the world.

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In The Mobile Phone Revolution in Morocco, Hsain Ilahiane illustrates how the mobile phone has the endowed capacity to inform, rearrange, and transform almost every aspect of Moroccan society.