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Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.

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Museums summarises the central debates for the study of museums around the world. Examining ways to address the social relations of museums, embedded in their sites, collections, and exhibitions, as an integral part of their visual and material culture, Museums is essential reading for anthropology and museums studies students.

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Presents an account of a Muslim society in highland Sumatra, Indonesia. This book describes how men and women debate among themselves ideas of what Islam is and should be - as it pertains to all areas of their lives, from work to worship. It analyzes the tension between the local and universal in everyday life.

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Examines the polarized fields of nationalist politics - in Cluj, Transylvania, and the wider region - and also the more fluid terrain on which ethnicity and nationhood are experienced, enacted, and understood in everyday life. This book addresses fundamental questions about ethnicity: where it is, when it matters, and how it works.

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Written for students and the general viewing public, this book explores the varying contexts in which indigenous filmmaking takes place. It demonstrates how indigenous films challenge some of the basic assumptions of viewers who experience these films while using national cinemas as their models.

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They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views.

Beginning with discussion of innovative prehistoric land and water use, the book describes the ways in which early farmers learned how to harness the precious drops of water for their fields.

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They represented diverse histories, cultures, nationalities, classes, religions and world views.

Beginning with discussion of innovative prehistoric land and water use, the book describes the ways in which early farmers learned how to harness the precious drops of water for their fields.

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Examining the tantalizing glimpses of ancient bodies offered by Roman sculptures, paintings, and literary texts, this title analyzes the role of gesture in medical and religious ritual, in the gladiatorial arena, in mourning practice, in aristocratic competition of the late Republic, and in the court of the emperor Tiberius.

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In 1856 - just as Darwin was completing ORIGIN OF SPECIES - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in Germany.

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This book provides a discussion of private and public interaction in Dublin.

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A rich ethnographic portrait of the Sahrawi people and their socio-political organization

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From historical figures to the newest sports champion, figure-skater Rudy Galindo, this work provides profiles of both prominent and important but less-familiar people who have made significant contributions in their fields.

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Maps and borders notwithstanding, some places are best described as "gaps" - places with repeatedly contested boundaries that are wedged in between other places that have clear boundaries. This book explores an example of this in the contemporary Western imagination: the Balkans.

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Why is the U.S. motion picture industry concentrated in Hollywood and why does it remain there in the age of globalization Allen Scott uses the tools of economic geography to explore these questions and to provide a number of highly original answers. The conceptual roots of his analysis go back to Alfred Marshall's theory of industrial districts a

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Presents a foundational work of post-Bourdieu sociology that examines a range of situations where people justify their actions. This book argues that justifications fall into six main logics exemplified by six authors: civic (Rousseau), market (Adam Smith), industrial (Saint-Simon), domestic (Bossuet), inspiration (Augustine), and fame (Hobbes).

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"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--

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