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This work documents the fact that present-day Israel is still seen as a place to enact social or religious ideals. After introducing the dramaturgical perspectives, the authors give examples of enactments for which the persons involved were conscious that they must first establish a stage.

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This, the fourth in Greenwood's series of Material Culture Directories, complements existing Italian American and Italian Canadian bibliographies and guides to collections by focusing on material culture and photographic collections, historic sites and festivals.

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This book analyzes in vivid detail the German debate about the importance and meaning of work as it changed under the impact of industrialization, with special emphasis on the period between the two world wars. A social history of ideas, it covers the writings of such thinkers as Hegel, Marx, and Weber, but also examines contributions made by indus

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Based on 25 years of research on and in Sabon Zongo, one of the oldest migrant communities in Accra, Ghana, this book is about the spatial and social production of this community within this urban setting.

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This is an examination of the social structures that shape Latin American societies.

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Three interrelated objectives provide the subject of this study: to cover a wide range of topics on leaders and leadership; to present up-to-date treatments of those topics; and to offer extensive bibliographies for further study and research.

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The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. Nobody would throw the body of a white climber off Mt. Everest.

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This text encourages a greater understanding of the US-Mexico border. It focuses on employment, education, drug addiction, violence, healthcare, and women's issues. The authors of the chapters have researched, studied, worked with, or have been border-landers themselves.

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Focusing on two cases of resettlement in rural Cundinamarca, Colombia, this book examines how displaced campesinos make sense of their displacement and how displacement shapes their everyday lives -- .

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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"Written under the aspices of the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies."

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Explores the crucial notion of "colonial difference" in the study of the modern colonial world and traces the emergence of an epistemic shift, which author calls "border thinking". This title expands the horizons of debates under way in postcolonial studies of Asia and Africa by dwelling in the genealogy of thoughts of South/Central America.

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This sequel to "The Interpretation of Cultures" is a collection of essays which reject large abstractions, going beyond the mere translation of one culture into another, and looks at the underlying, compartmentalized reality.

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This book examines the social relations of longing and belonging to be found in nation building, ethnographic practices, dwelling, and diasporas.

Ilcan propels us into various dimensions of movement, as well as social relations in the fields of dispersion, transition, and displacement.

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race and racism, Islamophobia, social movements and the far right. -- .

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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the functional, pragmatic, or performed

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Located at the center of the Mediterranean Basin, Malta has been pivotal in numerous cultural transformations and can serve as a prism for understanding much that is important about lifeways in the Mediterranean: trade, subsistence systems, religion, urbanization, and the transmigration of peoples in war and in peace.

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Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the millennium would be the arrival of their ancestors in ships bearing lavish material goods, and they interpreted the advent of European vessels as the fulfillmen

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An examination of the interaction of immigrants and native-born people in the USA. It offers insight into the dynamics of these interactions at the local level while simultaneously sketching the shape of an America that is both changing and recreating its past.