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A groundbreaking analysis of the relationship between culture and technology.

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This study is a portrayal of the political, economic, and cultural history and present community gardens in a New York City neighbourhood, the Lower East Side of Manhattan. It provides a basis for an understanding of urban community gardens in the United States.

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The first book-length study about the Taiwanese Americans and their role in contemporary American life.

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A history of American popular taste in art, architecture, and interior decoration, with short sketches of the men and women responsible for the trends.

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Demonstrates how at each historical turn, Siberian experiences shed new light on old debates concerning colonialism, conversion, revitalization, ethnicity, and nationalism.

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Both specialists and the general public assume that evolution is good and desirable, but Kitahara's analysis suggests the opposite: that evolution itself is tragic.

In his analysis of human evolution, Kitahara discusses deviant and criminal behavior, social conflict, liberalism, and the nature of Western civilization.

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Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

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Addresses the problem of untouchability by providing an overview of the subject as well as insights into its social and religious origins. This book demonstrates that untouchability is a deeply ambiguous condition: neither inside nor outside society, reviled yet indispensable, untouchables constitute an original category of social exclusion.

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Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics.

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Reveals what Anthropology is and what anthropologists do. This book explains the remains of traditional Anthropology. Describing the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject, from fieldwork through to the construction of knowledge itself, this work offers an insight into and overview of Anthropology.

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Reveals what Anthropology is and what anthropologists do. This book explains the remains of traditional Anthropology. Describing the key ideas and methods which underpin the subject, from fieldwork through to the construction of knowledge itself, this work offers an insight into and overview of Anthropology.

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Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world

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Whether initiating girls or healing cattle, bringing rain or protesting taxation, many in Africa share a vision of a world where the cultural, symbolic and cosmic categories of 'male' and 'female' serve, through ritual, to both reimagine and transform the world

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Explores how attempts to characterize an 'authentic' Sherpa are complicated by Western fascination with Sherpas and by the Sherpas' desires to live up to Western portrayals of them. This book illustrates how one might undertake an ethnography of transnationally produced subjects by using the notion of 'virtual' identities.

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The author is a pivotal figure in the development of ethnographic cinema and visual anthropology. This title provides an overview of the history of visual anthropology, as well as commentaries on specific subjects, such as point-of-view and subjectivity, reflexivity, the use of subtitles, and the role of the cinema subject.

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Colonial anthropology, creative practice and migrant ethnography combine in Paul Carters Translations to produce a remarkably intimate and forthright autoethnography.

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This work addresses the issue of intergenerational inheritance of Haitian ethnic identity in second generation Haitian immigrants in New York City. How do the children of Haitian immigrants define themselves, as American, Haitian or African American

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A revealing, witty, and altogether fascinating story of the tribal customs and rituals that help shape our nation's laws. The Washingtonian

Sharp, funny and ultimately disquieting. The Washington Book Review