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Examines the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture within an international context and their contribution to the making of a national identity. Each of the fourteen volumes is an examination of a societal topic and helps understand what has shaped Scottish society.

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This project of the European Ethnological research Centre is planned in 13 volumes, plus this bibliography. Their overall aim is to examine the interlocking strands of history, language and traditional culture, in their international setting, that go into the making of a national identity.

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The publication of 'An Introduction to Scottish Ethnology' sees the completion of the fourteen-volume Scottish Life and Society series, originally conceived by the eminent ethnologist Professor Alexander Fenton.

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"A vivid first-person study of a notorious equine ritual-from the perspective of the wild horses who are its targets"--

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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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