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Drawing on extensive (auto)ethnographic data, Immersion explores the embodied and social processes of becoming a marathon swimmer and investigates how social belonging is produced and policed

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In this book, Jorge Frozzini and Alexandra Law examine how immigrant workers organize in the United States and Canada. Frozzini and Law highlight workers efforts to challenge their hyper-precarious living conditions and public perceptions of their experiences through the use of casework, coalition-building, and other tactics.

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Inside the English education lab collection has a dual focus. It offers a critical examination of the academies programme, and it interrogates methodological practice in education research. Overall, it argues that academies reproduce rather than reform inequalities, and that there is political salience to in-depth, qualitative methodologies.

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This book draws on several years of ethnographic research with African migrants in Ireland, many of whom are former asylum seekers and goes on to aruge that migrants are themselves shaping integration in their everyday lives in the face of enormous challenges. -- .

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Attempts to develop a "radical microsociology". This book proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.

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Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.

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Based on vivid and illuminating ethnographic research from both east and west Europe, this book investigates the relationship between geopolitical and physical borders and ideological, classificatory boundaries, highlighting bordering process, and showing how the two often operate in tandem in the regulation of reproduction, care and intimacy.

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This book assesses gender-based partner abuse in western Belize. It investigates the prevalence and cultural normalization of abuse and examines contributing factors and the viewpoints of diverse players, further contextualizing local realities within the global struggle for gender equality and social justice.

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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 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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This book examines how Fancy Dress in Ghana voices public commentary on pop culture; social and cultural mores; and local, national, and international politics and economy. A vital creative expression of the lower classes, Kakaamatobe is both comedic entertainment and an expression of power, identity, and modernity in Ghanaian communities.

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Kinship and Human Evolution offers an exciting new explanation of how Homo became sapiens or cultured beings capable of symbolic thought. This book argues that the key to understanding human evolution and culture lies in kinship-based exchange networks, which were part of an adaptive response to the harsh environment during the last ice age.

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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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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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Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia is recommended for scholars of inner Asian languages, cultures, and history, and unravels the origin and meaning of many ethnonyms on the basis of language contact and cultural interaction between the Altaic and Indo-European people.

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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."