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This volume of essays reflects current theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical approaches to literary anthropology.

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Of Sacred Lands and Strip Malls examines the acrimonious and costly conflict over control of Puvungnaland owned by California but sacred to several Native American tribesand explores ongoing reverberations from the academic, political, and legal battles.

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"A new approach to digital culture and how it makes meaning, mediation and planetary impact"--

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In this book, Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. This is the first book to delve into the challenging and taboo Japanese concepts of life and death surrounding organ transplantation.

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In this book, Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. This is the first book to delve into the challenging and taboo Japanese concepts of life and death surrounding organ transplantation.

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"This book explores how the Wana people use music and religion to control their emotions in situations of emotional crisis, such as funerals and shamanic rituals"--

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During the 1980s and 1990s, Brazil struggled to rebuild its democracy after 20 years of military dictatorship, experiencing financial crises, political protest and electoral contention. This work argues that youth activists of various stripes played a vital role, contributing new forms of political talk and action to Brazil's emerging democracy.

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The jali - a member of a hereditary group of Mandinka professional performers - is a charismatic but contradictory figure. This book shows how the jali's talents at performance make him a genius at representation - the ideal figure to tell us about the "Africa" that the world imagines, which is always a thing of illusion, magic, and contradiction.

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This book explores the experiences and philosophical work product of mixed race philosophers, as well as possible links between the two. Some books address mixed-race identity, and some anthologies focus on mixed-race identity, but this is the first anthology on the philosophy of mixed-race, and the first anthology by mixed-race philosophers.

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This book explores the experiences and philosophical work product of mixed race philosophers, as well as possible links between the two. Some books address mixed-race identity, and some anthologies focus on mixed-race identity, but this is the first anthology on the philosophy of mixed-race, and the first anthology by mixed-race philosophers.

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In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Steve Lyon draws on more than two decades of ethnographic research to depict descent and marriage networks as a critical mechanism for the maintenance of the Pakistan government and the construction of allies.

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This richly documented work focuses on the parentela (extended family), including Epitacio's, to illustrate the role bonds of blood, marriage, and friendship played in formal politics at local, state, and national levels throughout the Old Republic (1889-1930). Originally published in 1987. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-de

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How and why has the city of Florence, one of the great treasure houses of western civilization, been reduced to little more than a Renaissance Disneyland for tourists

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This book is a political ethnography that examines how welfare programmes for the unemployed function as a contemporary form of state control. -- .

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An innovative and interpretive overview of the nature of popular religion in Southeast Asia, covering Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, as well as Christianity and the conversion of indigenous peoples.

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This book examines how the ABC behaviorsAbstinence, Being faithful, and Condom use can be promoted more effectively with young rural Africans. It draws on an extraordinarily large qualitative study affiliated with a randomized controlled trial in Tanzania.

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Przewalskis Horses in Eurasia explores how pluralism in species reintroduction provides insights into the experiences, relationships, and knowledge required for future international collaborations to better capture the complexity of both nature and society in scientific practice.

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Quandaries of Belonging is both a personal meditation on the authors relationship with Aotearoa New Zealand and a critical exploration of coexistence in a postcolonial society.