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In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.

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In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.

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An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.

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Offers a new conceptual communication approach in defining the cultural self, which assists in gaining insight into the process and outcome of intercultural exchange.

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Economic sociology is an expanding field, applying sociology's core insight - that individuals behave according to scripts that are tied to social roles - to economic behavior. This book comprises twenty of the representative and read articles in the field's history.

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This study shows that, despite numerous surface similarities, the popular culture of the 1930s was different from that of the 1920s in a variety of ways, and not only because of the Great Depression.

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In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky uses first-hand ethnographic fieldwork and scientific theoretical work in archaeology, psychology, and neurotheology to explore the origins of shamanism, spirit beliefs, the evolution of human consciousness, and the origins of ritual behavior and religiosity.

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The Peoples of Africa provides a brief description of the more than 1,800 individual African ethnic groups living today in Africa.

Where possible, the individual ethnic groups are discussed in terms of their geographical settings, religion, population, and local economy.

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The Political Materialities of Borders seeks to produce social theory at/from the border; rather than apprehending the border as mere epiphenomenon to urban or state-driven social theoretical dynamics, it calls for a specificity to the border in border studies as a rejuvenated space for theoretical enquiry. -- .

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Postmodern philosophy is shown to be a valuable tool for exposing the bankruptcy of laissez-faire economics and culture and in developing a democratic policy. This volume of cultural criticism will be of interest to political philosophers, sociologists, and others concerned with current social and political problems.

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A timely interrogation of the concept of expertise in cultural work, exploring the characteristics of aesthetic expertise in the digital age, and its relation to inequalities in the cultural sector.

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Using local, national and international perspectives on the meanings and uses of heritage cities, this book explores how a site can turn into a mummification of the past, lifelessly displaying long-gone splendour, or a living, breathing treasure offering dynamic cultural and educational opportunities.

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By examining the boundary theory of South American states and its implementation, he also explains how the symbolic system of South American boundaries is used to instill national identity, mobilize people to war, and control population and territory.

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The Politics of Swidden farming' is ethnography of swidden farming practised - a characteristically remote, inaccessible and under-researched region of South Asia. The research ties on both archival-historical & contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting Nagaland

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After the 1979 revolution, Iranian leaders transformed the state into an Islamic republic. This title explores how Iranian women understand their rights. It reveals that the postrevolutionary republic blended practices of a liberal republic with Islamic principles of equality.

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While the high cost of education draws headlines, the cost of not educating America's children goes largely ignored. The Price We Pay remedies this oversight by highlighting the private and public costs of inadequate education.

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Mary Moore Free presents a new perspective on the literature of aging with her study of the rich, old, cognitively intact, powerful, formally retired, elite elders whose needs do not include nursing care.

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This book explores and challenges the ways in which scientific discourses about the brain have been used ideologically to maintain hierarchies and exclusions in politics and the public sphere.

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Reorganizing the agricultural sector into large-scale state and collective farms was the most radical transformation of economic institutions implemented by Marxist governments. Frederic Pryor provides perspective on this unique experiment by comparing in a systematic and original fashion the changes in the organization of agriculture in all of the

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The Relationship People examines the marriage industry and its clients in neoliberal Japan. It addresses what industry professionals are promoting to ease Japans low rates of marriage and childbirth, what singles are actually doing, and whether focusing on introducing more singles to each other can effectively solve Japans millennial woes.