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Visited by thousands of pilgrims yearly, the Church of the Madonna of the Annunciation on the Aegean island of Tinos is a site where different interests come together. This book explores the shrine and its surrounding town, and offers insights into the intersection of social, religious, and political life in Greece.

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Demonstrates that the Amazon is an outcome of the intimately intertwined histories of humans and nonhumans. This book introduces a diverse range of characters - from sixteenth-century explorers and their native rivals to nineteenth-century naturalists and contemporary ecologists, logging company executives, and river-traders.

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Traces the growth and development of two related disciplines, anthropology and the study of religions. Locating these within the intellectual climate of the 19th century, the author reveals how each has influenced the other, and explores the criticism that they have aided colonial domination.

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These engaging accounts by masters of field research illustrate the synthesis of passionate involvement and objective analysis. By learning how social scientists conduct research under field conditions and how they feel while they are doing it, students will be better prepared to carry out successful field research projects of their own.

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An ethnography that focuses on Meratus Dayaks, a marginal and marginalized group in the deep rainforest of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. It looks not for consensus and coherence in Meratus culture but rather allows individual Meratus men and women to return our gaze.

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At the outset of the twentieth century, the Nivkhi of Sakhalin Island were a small population of fishermen under Russian dominion and an Asian cultural sway. This book draws upon Nivkh interviews, archives, and translated Soviet ethnographic texts to examine the effects of this remarkable state venture in the construction of identity.

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Presents an ethnographic account of Pan-Maya cultural activism. This book shows that Pan-Mayanism reflects diverse local, national, and international influences. It explores the movement's attempts to interweave these varied strands into political programs to promote human and cultural rights for Guatemala's indigenous majority.

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How have Pacific Islanders voyaged across the vast ocean around them and navigated their small crafts from one distant place to another for thousands of years

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Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, this book dispels myths and offers insight into the clubbing scene. It explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, and their values and concerns, from friendship and community to drugs, and life outside the clubbing space.

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Drawing on interviews with clubbers from a variety of backgrounds, this book dispels myths and offers insight into the clubbing scene. It explores the real practice of clubbing. It looks at what people experience and how it affects them, and their values and concerns, from friendship and community to drugs, and life outside the clubbing space.

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Inside the English education lab collection has a dual focus. It offers a critical examination of the academies programme, and it interrogates methodological practice in education research. Overall, it argues that academies reproduce rather than reform inequalities, and that there is political salience to in-depth, qualitative methodologies.

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This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges. -- .

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Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.

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The first authoritative guide to how the world drinks, this reference details alcohol use in different countries and cultures.

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Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.

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Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.

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Spanning a 5,000-year period, this is the first work to document the origins, evolution, and current status of all major ethnic groups in Iran.

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Hall and Lindholm do not skirt the internal contradictions and moral tensions of American society but nonetheless recognize the strength and promise of its institutions and culture. Their book is a response to the doomsayers in the reassessment of our society.

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