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In Capoeira, Mobility, and Tourism: Preserving an Afro-Brazilian Tradition in a Globalized World, Sergio Gonzlez Varela examines the mobility of capoeira leaders and practitioners. He analyzes their motivations and spirituality as well as their ability to reconfigure social practices.

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This book invites readers on a journey through time, to explore the multifaceted history of Central Asia. Through transcontinental passages such as the Silk Road, the book provides links among the major civilizations of China, India, Persia, and the Mediterranean, which in turn influences the characteristics of the region and beyond.

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In Corporate Responsibility and Human Rights, Jide James-Eluyode highlights key issues concerning the emergence of a normative framework for the human rights of indigenous peoples under international law and depicts its impact on corporate social responsibility practices.

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Creative Practice Ethnographies examines how the collaboration between creative practice and ethnography enables scholars and practitioners to hone research strategies and methods within contemporary contexts. The authors use three heuristicstechniques, translations, and transmissionsto illustrate how this interdisciplinary strategy operates.

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Charles Lindholm offers a sweeping introduction in this revised and updated edition of one of the leading textbooks on psychological anthropology.

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Embracing the Anaconda examines the socio-environmental impacts of contemporary mining companies like Anaconda Copper on the Atacameos, an indigenous community in northern Chile, and how the relationship has evolved through the battle for local water resources that jeopardizes the environment and livelihoods of the Atacameos.

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Suitable for students, teachers, designers, and scholars interested in using ethnographic methods, this title provides practical and detailed techniques for ethnographic research customized to reflect the specific issues of online virtual worlds, both game and nongame.

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Identities on Trial in the United States radically shifts the asylum seeker narrative by focusing on rarely heard stories of persecution and escape from China and Southeast Asia. ChorSwang Ngin, with contributions from immigration attorney, Joann Yeh, explores asylum seeker cases through an anthropological and legal lens.

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Hilda Llornss Imaging The Great Puerto Rican Family: Framing Nation, Race and Gender during the American Century, is a ground-breaking study of imagesphotographs, postcards, paintings, posters, and filmsabout Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans made by American and Puerto Rican image-makers between 1890 and 1990.

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The Kurdish Alevis has only recently attracted the attention of the international world. This volume achieves an understanding of the history and the contemporary situation of the Kurdish Alevis and the particular conditions where it is associated with the Kurdish identity, Alevi religion, and the history of Turkey.

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An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what the author calls 'non-space' results in a profound alteration of awareness. This book presents an intellectual framework for an anthropology of super modernity.

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The epic story of how humans evolved from intimate chimp communities into a world-dominating species.

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This book is focused on the native peoples of Central America. Robert Carmack examines their history, societies and cultures, and relates their many historical accomplishments to larger world history.

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In The Origins of Shamanism, Spirit Beliefs, and Religiosity, H. Sidky uses first-hand ethnographic fieldwork and scientific theoretical work in archaeology, psychology, and neurotheology to explore the origins of shamanism, spirit beliefs, the evolution of human consciousness, and the origins of ritual behavior and religiosity.

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Ethnologist Elsdon Best spent many years documenting the culture, beliefs, customs and whakapapa of the Ngi Thoe people whom he described as the children of the mist. This slipcased, two-volume set includes the text in volume 1, and the genealogy charts and map in volume 2.

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Ethnologist Elsdon Best spent many years documenting the culture, beliefs, customs and whakapapa of the Ngi Thoe people whom he described as the children of the mist. This monumental two volume work comes back into print with the guidance of Dr Rpata Wiri (Ngi Thoe, Ngti Ruapani). This volume contains Bests writings.

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Ethnologist Elsdon Best spent many years documenting the culture, beliefs, customs and whakapapa of the Ngi Thoe people whom he described as the children of the mist. This monumental two-volume work comes back into print with the guidance of Dr Rpata Wiri (Ngi Thoe, Ngti Ruapani). This volume contains the genealogies and maps.

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Americans come from many different backgrounds and cultures. What's yours like Let's share and celebrate what makes our cultures special!

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Well-Being as a Multidimensional Concept contributes to our understanding of the ways that culture and community influence concepts of wellness, the experience of well-being, and health outcomes. This book includes both theoretical conceptualizations and practice-based explorations.

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Everything you ever wanted to know about anthropology, from its origins and evolution, to the key concepts and the major figures, past and present.