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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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American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. This qualitative study examines the current strength of ethnicity and the contributions that ethnic practices have made to the wider society.

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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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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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Fully updated and revised, the third edition of this popular textbook continues to introduce students to what anthropology is, what anthropologists do, how and what they contribute, and how even a limited knowledge of anthropology can help people succeed in today's world.

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Are the relationships between minority groups as significant as those between dominant and minority groups Phillips argues that they are in this innovative analysis of the relationships between the African American and the Jewish American communities during the last one hundred years.

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This book establishes the relevance of studying resettlement from an anthropological perspective, with stories and ethnographic accounts of development processes.

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Everyone-in every place and culture-has ancestors. Drawing on his interviews with over thirty people from a variety of cultural backgrounds across the United States and around the world, Hertzel provides an engaging foray into the nature of relationships between people today and their ancestors, exploring what ancestry means in the modern world.

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Brettell explores the cross-disciplinary exchanges, both past and present, which have engaged cultural anthropologistsand invites readers to continue the conversations.

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Highlights the central issues currently being debated within cultural anthropology, and documents the most original theoretical trends now affecting the field in North America.

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Highlights the central issues currently being debated within cultural anthropology, and documents the most original theoretical trends now affecting the field in North America.

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This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but also the force of creative difference in the ideas, interdisciplinary approaches, and travelling theories of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. -- .

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Anthropology and Global History explains the origin and development of human societies and cultures from their earliest beginnings to the presentutilizing an anthropological lens but also drawing from sociology, economics, political science, history, and ecological and religious studies.