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From post-Katrina struggles to Muslim women refusing to unveil, the logic of a new generation of protest is emerging.

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What is life What is water What is sound In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers--are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social.

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What is life What is water What is sound In Sounding the Limits of Life, anthropologist Stefan Helmreich investigates how contemporary scientists--biologists, oceanographers, and audio engineers--are redefining these crucial concepts. Life, water, and sound are phenomena at once empirical and abstract, material and formal, scientific and social.

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When Princeton anthropologist John Borneman arrived in Syria's second-largest city in 2004 as a visiting Fulbright professor, he took up residence in what many consider a "rogue state" on the frontline of a "clash of civilizations" between the Orient and the West. Hoping to understand intimate interactions of religious, political, and familial auth

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Copublished in 1994 by Princeton University Press and the Russell Sage Foundation as a synthesis of the burgeoning field of economic sociology. This resource focuses on what continues to be one of the leading edges of sociology and one of its most important interdisciplinary adventures. It is for faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates.

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Bringing together several disciplines, including history, anthropology, sociology, politics, and linguistics, the contributors here consider the factors that make the case of the Kurds so critical. Examples are drawn from the modern histories of Iraq, Turkey, and Iran.

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Challenges the notion that modernity in China and India are derivative imitations of the West, arguing that these societies have transformed their ancient traditions in distinctive ways.

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Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. This book challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.

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This is an exploration of human consciousness. Written in the period spanning from his Harvard days to the Summer of Love, it includes Leary's early pronouncements on the psychedelic movement, and his views on the social and political ramifications of the psychedelic and mystical experience.

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Presents a conversation about culture wars and affirmative action. This book analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. It exposes a discursive tug-of-war over antidiscrimination policies during the nineties.

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Reveals the ancient past of Aboriginal Australians to be one of long-term changes in social relationships and traditions, as well as the active management and manipulation of the environment. This title looks beyond the stereotype of Aboriginal people as 'hunter-gatherers' and charts fresh agendas for Australian Aboriginal archaeology.

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Examining the role of performance in state-making

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Integrating modern science with traditional wisdom, The Web of Meaning investigates humanity's age-old questionsWho am I Why am I How should I livefrom a fresh perspective, laying down the foundation for a new worldview of interconnectedness that could foster sustainable flourishing on a thriving Earth.

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'Nlaka'pamux Elder York explains the red-ochre inscriptions on rocks of the Stein Valley, a landmark in the evolution of writing.