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By: Richard Swedberg

ISBN: 9780691070131
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2000
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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During the last decade of his life Max Weber tried to develop a way of analyzing economic phenomena, which he termed 'economic sociology'. This book offers a critical presentation and a study of this part of Weber's work. It shows how Weber laid a theoretical foundation for economic sociology and developed a series of evocative concepts.


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By: Nancy Marguerite Farriss

ISBN: 9780691101583
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 1984
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Shelly Errington

ISBN: 9780691605227
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The ruler in the Indic States of Southeast Asia was seen not as the "head of state" but as the center or navel of the world. Like polities, persons and houses were and are viewed as centered spaces (locations) where spiritual potency can gather. Shelly Errington explores the politics of constituting and maintaining such centered socio-political spa


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By: Shelly Errington

ISBN: 9780691634203
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Oyvind Dahl Professor Emeritus

ISBN: 9780897896429
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Most analyses of interpersonal communication ignore the relationship between communication and culture. When intercultural communication takes place, the interlocutors may have very different conceptions of what is being discussed, since meaning in any culture results from lifelong learning within that culture.


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By: Alberto Gonzlez

ISBN: 9780739197707
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explores how parents make sense of, and respond to, differing cultural influences within their family. Chapters identify the communication strategies employed by the parents as they strive to create affirming relationships between children and their heritages.


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By: Elois Ann Berlin

ISBN: 9780691602714
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Whereas most previous work on Maya healing has focused on ritual and symbolism, this book presents evidence that confirms the scientific foundations of traditional Maya medicine. Data drawn from analysis of the medical practices of two Mayan-speaking peoples, the Tzeltal and Tzotzil, reveal that they have developed a large number of herbal remedies


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By: Elois Ann Berlin

ISBN: 9780691632179
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Kristen Smith

ISBN: 9781793644176
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Medical Tourism & Inequity in India, Kristen Smith explores the role of private hospitals in India in the global healthcare service supply chain. Smith examines the medical tourism industry, the commodification of the Indian healthcare system, and the local populations facing critical health issues.


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By: Thomas Blom Hansen

ISBN: 9780691152950
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied post apartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title describes how the racial segmentation of South African society still informs daily life, notions of race, personhood, morality, and religious ethics.


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By: Thomas Blom Hansen

ISBN: 9780691152967
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Offers an analysis of the uncertainties, dreams, and anxieties that have accompanied postapartheid freedoms in Chatsworth, a formerly Indian township in Durban. This title tells the stories of ordinary Indians whose lives were racialized and framed by the township, and how these residents domesticated and inhabited this urban space.


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By: Jessica Joyce Christie

ISBN: 9780739194881
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Memory Landscapes of the Inka Carved Outcrops investigates the Inka carved outcrops in the Andean highlands in the context of pan-Andean stone cults which predated the Inka and continue to be practiced in modified forms to the present day.


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By: Jessica Joyce Christie

ISBN: 9781498517737
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book investigates the Inka carved outcrops in the Andean highlands in the context of pan-Andean stone cults which predated the Inka and continue to be practiced in modified forms to the present day.


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By: James L. West

ISBN: 9780691603780
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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With the collapse of the Soviet system, the long-neglected history of the early capitalists is being recovered and rewritten. Once regarded as the "losers" in the Russian Revolution, these merchants can now be seen as early pioneers in Russia's transformation to a free market economy. This book is the first joint Russian-American collaborative proj


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By: James L. West

ISBN: 9780691633053
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Francisco Cruces

ISBN: 9781793633217
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In Metropolitan Intimacies: An Ethnography on the Poetics of Daily Life, Francisco Cruces examines intimacy and meaning-making in metropolitan residents daily lives.


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By: Howard Campbell

ISBN: 9780897897808
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI.


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By: Howard Campbell

ISBN: 9780897897815
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Ensconced in the tight kinship network of a local household in Oaxaca, Mexico, the author embarked on a challenging study of a radical ethnic political movement, COCEI.


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By: Betty Bernice Faust

ISBN: 9780897896993
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1999
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An ethnography focusing on the Campeche Maya community. It examines their technologies and sacred cosmologies, and discusses how to combine these with modern technologies to form a system that provides for ecologically responsible development and ensures the cultural survival of this population.


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By: Betty Bernice Faust

ISBN: 9780897894821
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An ethnography focusing on the Campeche Maya community. It examines their technologies and sacred cosmologies, and discusses how to combine these with modern technologies to form a system that provides for ecologically responsible development and ensures the cultural survival of this population.


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By: Olof Kjell Oscar Ohlson

ISBN: 9781666909371
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War examines Mexican activists mobilizations against the state, capitalist, and criminal violence in the narco epoch.


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By: Douglas Haynes

ISBN: 9780313289552
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1995
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The focus is on tradition, which became modified after contact with the Westthe adaptation and persistence of these traditions are included in this bibliography.

Traditional Micronesian iconography is largely religious in nature, as is the case with most tribal or preliterate societies.


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By: Susan R. Trencher

ISBN: 9780897896733
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This study examines American intellectual, political, and economic contexts from 1960 to 1980, as reconstructed through disciplinary and professional sources in anthropology. This cultural context is then linked to changes in American ethnographic practice.


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By: Hillary K. Crane

ISBN: 9780739198025
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jul 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The essays composed in this book encompass ethnographic fieldwork in Muslim, Christian, Buddhist, and other populations, addressing such topics as the fluidity of the anthropologist's own religious identity, objectivity versus subjectivity, the issue of reflexivity in ethnography, and the multi-positionality of the researcher.

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