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Offering a different approach to landscape perception, this book is a photographic essay about topographic features of the landscape. Integrating philosophical approaches to landscape perception with anthropological studies, it uses this perspective to examine the relationship between prehistoric sites and their topographic settings.

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A Sensory Education takes a close look at how sensory awareness is learned and taught in expert and everyday settings around the world.

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This volume studies global and national transformation from the point of view of families in local communities.

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Draws on such disciplines as history, political science, anthropology, cultural studies, ecology and archaeology to introduce some dominant critiques of non-Aboriginal ways of perceiving Aboriginality. The book focuses on the moral and legal traditions of settlers and indigenous peoples.

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Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and new intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and raced, emphasising the quest for respectability.

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Seeking to better understand what it means to grow older in contemporary Britain from the perspective of older people themselves, this richly detailed ethnographic study engages in debates over selfhood and people's relationships with time. -- .

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An in-depth ethnographic exploration of how the AIDs pandemic has played out at a local level in South Africa, revealing the importance of understanding culture for shaping effective strategies of AIDs treatment.

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A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic, the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by a variety of incomers, including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. -- .

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This title examines the role of memory in the building of a new national identity in re-unified Germany. It discusses how certain monuments, and the ways Germans have viewed them, contribute to the ways Germans have dealt with the past, and how they continue to deal with it as one country.

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A case study of American culture as a society characterized by diversity.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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Using dietary information and other pertinent facts, the author assesses the nutritional status of Americans during each historical period. Four categories of American food are identified and analyzed: mainstream cuisine, regional cooking, regional phenomena (including ethnic foods), and Pop foods.

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This book examines emerging automated technologies and systems and the increasingly prominent roles that each plays in our lives and our imagined futures.

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Ethnographic account of English football fans who travel home and away following their team, based on sixteen years' participant observation -- .

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Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development organisation materialises and manages a construction of success -- .

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Focusing on ethnolinguistic groups rather than peoples with purely religious orientations, Olson provides entries on over 450 ethnic groups, with appropriate cross-references. The volume also includes a chronology, several appendixes providing statistical information, and an appendix essay on Islam in Russia and the Soviet Union.

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