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African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

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African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound is an exploration of the conditions of living for residents of the unincorporated subdivision in the deep south from 1890 to 1919.

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Serah Shani examines the socioeconomic and cultural forces behind the success of model minority immigrants from sub-Saharan Africa in the United States. In particular, Shani looks at the integral role of the Ghanaian Network Village, a transnational space that provides educational resources beyond local neighborhoods in the US.

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Drawing on ethnographic research in salsa classes and oral histories this book details the everyday practices of femininity, heterosexuality and new intimacies among women in midlife. Challenging conventional notions of the baby boomers it draws attention to how these practices are classed and raced, emphasising the quest for respectability.

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Agency in Constrained Academic Contexts: Explorations of Space in Educational Anthropology examines social agency and the construction space in academic environments.

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A fresh anthropological look at a central but neglected topic, the profound changes in rural life throughout Western Europe today. As locals leave for jobs in cities they are replaced by a variety of incomers, including neo-hippies, lifestyle-seekers, eco-activists, and rural labour migrants from beyond the EU. -- .

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American Ethnic Practices in the Early Twenty-first Century: The Milwaukee Study is a work based on a twelve-year research project conducted in the greater Milwaukee area by Urban Anthropology Inc. This qualitative study examines the current strength of ethnicity and the contributions that ethnic practices have made to the wider society.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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The first introductory textbook to situate popular culture studies in the United States as an academic discipline with its own history and approach to examining American culture, its rituals, beliefs, and the objects that shape its existence.

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Fully updated and revised, the third edition of this popular textbook continues to introduce students to what anthropology is, what anthropologists do, how and what they contribute, and how even a limited knowledge of anthropology can help people succeed in today's world.

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Everyone-in every place and culture-has ancestors. Drawing on his interviews with over thirty people from a variety of cultural backgrounds across the United States and around the world, Hertzel provides an engaging foray into the nature of relationships between people today and their ancestors, exploring what ancestry means in the modern world.

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In this book, Geoffrey Vitale shows the ways in which people understand, raise, and educate children and youth differently from century to century and from country to country according to the culture, lifestyle, politics, and economics of their place of origin. He also introduces a professional anthropological perspective on the topic.

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The Anthropology of Los Angeles: Place and Agency in an Urban Setting questions the production and representations of both the real and imagined L.A. by documenting hidden histories that portray a collision of elements, including race, class, gender, identity, food, and space.

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.

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Applying Anthropology to Gender-Based Violence emphasizes the strength of an applied anthropology and ethnographic approach to ending gender-based violence worldwide. This book sets an activist and engaged agenda for scholars and students to follow as they work to blend passion, theory, and methods in their efforts to end violence.

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What happens when one's skill level in dance, the martial arts, or other activities surpasses local training opportunities Lauren Miller Griffith and Jonathan S. Marion provide a new and exciting apprenticeship pilgrimages model --including local, regional, opportunistic, and virtual--that practitioners undertake to acquire knowledge, skills, and legitimacy originally unavailable.

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We are now witnessing a renewal of the anthropological study of the perception and interpretation of landscape as social process, and how space is culturally construed, gendered, envisioned, and most decisively, physically built.

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In Art and Nuclear Power: The Role of Culture in the Environmental Debate, Anna Volkmar explores a radical new approach to engage with the environmental destruction and social change caused by modern technologies. With a focus on nuclear power, Volkmar demonstrates how art can...