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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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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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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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This book uses mobility as a lens to interrogate the global, capitalist expansion of the surrogacy industry.

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Contrary to conventional anthropological understanding, descent groups need not always be wealth- or office-transmitting groups, but can be principally feast-sponsoring groups.

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Mothers of Adult Children elucidates what happens when children come of age and leave home, creating new lives in the realms of work and relationships. This book reveals the problems mothers of adult children face and celebrates the outstanding accomplishments of those who mother through hardship.

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Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains brings together new ethnographic insights from the mountains of southern Siberia and Mongolia. The contributors to this edited collection examine Indigenous ideas about home places and the process of incorporating animals and spirits in changing alpine and subalpine environments.

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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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Music, Culture, and the Politics of Health is an ethnographic work that explores the social, cultural, and political dynamics that impinge upon the HIV/AIDS discourse in South Africa and how they find expression in music. The book reveals the interconnections of the local and global culture and politics of HIV/AIDS.

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Charles Underwood focuses on mythos and voice in the Odyssey to illuminate the characters journeys from social displacement through discovery and recovery. He explores how the epic narrative illustrates an ancient traditions understanding of how one learns to make ones way as an active agent in an uncertain world.

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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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Pellegrino A. Luciano analyzes how people in Machu Picchu, Peru mobilized against neoliberal reforms. Luciano describes how they resisted and accommodated large capital investments and conservation efforts to protect their local tourism economy.

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Pellegrino A. Luciano analyzes how people in Machu Picchu, Peru mobilized against neoliberal reforms. Luciano describes how they resisted and accommodated large capital investments and conservation efforts to protect their local tourism economy.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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This book is a guide to Millwall, the issues of 'football hooliganism' or working-class masculinity, sociology, anthropology, or sports studies.

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Based on in-depth ethnographic research, Norms and Illegality: Intimate Ethnographies and Political Control explores the entanglements and contradictions of legal and illegal practices across multiple cultures.

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In Not Even a Grain of Rice, Christine Hippert examines the intercultural networks of buying food with in-store credit at corner stores in the Dominican Republic.

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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.