Author: Patricia Payne
Could your sex life use some new thrills? If so, here's your ticket to all those secret desires you've only confessed to your best friend: crops and corsets, nosebleed stilettos, leather, latex, and lambcuffs. Whether yo ... |
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An Inside Look at China Today
Author: Jasper Becker
In this deeply informed, clear-eyed portrait of China today, renowned Beijing-based journalist Jasper Becker looks at the world's most populous nation and where it's headed as it transforms itself into a global economic ... |
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A Guide to Cultures
Author: Wade Davis
The great revelation of anthropology is the realisation that there are other ways of being, Wade Davis writes in the introduction, a colourful, fascinating, and respectful panorama of ethnic diversity. From the Inuit of ... |
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White Culture and Black Women's Law
Author: Zohl De Ishtar
Mapping inter-cultural relationships as they are played out in a remote Aboriginal settlement in Western Australia's Great Sandy Desert, this book challenges White Australians to reconsider their relationship with indige ... |
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Twenty-first Century Issues in Aotearoa
Author: Malcolm Mulholland
Dealing with a diverse range of issues that affect Maori living in modern-day New Zealand, State of the Maori Nation is a collection of 22 short and informative essays drawn from Maori commentators, historians, teachers, ... |
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Making Media in an Aboriginal Community
Author: Jennifer Deger
How does the introduction of modern media influence a community? How does technology coexist with tradition? How do reality and imagination converge in the creation of documentary? Jennifer Deger addresses these question ... |
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An Anthropology of the End in Political Authority
Author: John Borneman
The death of authority figures like fathers or leaders can be experienced as either liberation or loss. In the twentieth century, the authority of the father and of the leader became closely intertwined constraints and a ... |
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An Examination of Wife Abuse
Author: Shawn D. Haley & Ellie Braun-Haley
About half of the women in the United States and Canada have been physically or sexually assaulted after the age of 16. The figures in other countries are similar. Written by an outsider (an anthropologist) and an inside ... |
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Aboriginal Children at Play
Author: Claudia Haagen
Claudia Haagen, says in her introduction to this book. It is through the toys collected over time, combined with fragments of historical commentary, that we can now account for an aspect of Australian childhood that has ... |
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Archaeological Perspectives
Author: Mike Smith & Peter Hiscock Peter Veth
Desert Peoples: Archaeological Perspectives provides an issues-oriented overview of hunter-gatherer societies in desert landscapes. Studies of such societies have long been our primary source of information about human a ... |
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A Reader
Author: Sally Falk Moore
The study of law was a cornerstone of early anthropological and sociological discussions. Precisely because social scientists like Weber and Durkheim were preoccupied with understanding the processes of social evolution ... |
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A Cross-Cultural Ethnography on the Process of Growing up Female
Author: Gerry Bloustien
...a big, rich book ...a well-crafted book. Just like teenage girls, it is dramatic, entertaining, and endearing.?- JRAI ...an exhaustive study, theoretically sophisticated, beautifully written, and an enlightening read. ... |
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Cultural Understandings of the Environment on a Greek Island
Author: Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
.the book has a number of things to recommend it, particularly for undergraduate teaching, as its scale and readability would be an ethnographic asset for courses on, for example, anthropology and the environment. Its ma ... |
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Ethnic and Gender Identities in British Iranian Communities
Author: Lynn Harbottle
Food and eating practices are central to current sociological and anthropological concerns about the body, health, consumption, and identity. This study explores the importance of these themes as they intersect with proc ... |
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Author: Johnnie Grafton & Michael Sheringham
The idea of the "project" crosses generic, disciplinary and cultural frontiers. At a time when writers and artists are increasingly describing their practices as "projects", remarkably little critical attention has been ... |
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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Difference
Author: Herrick Chapman & Laura Levine Frader
Herrick Chapman and Laura Frader have done a wonderful job of bringing together a wide range of pathbreaking essays on the topic of race in France, giving a new perspective on what it means to be French in the modern and ... |
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Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus
Author: Renee Hirschon
The war between Greece and Turkey ended in 1922 in what Greeks call the Asia Minor catastrophe, a disaster greater than the fall of Constantinople in 1493, for it marked the end of Hellenism in the ancient heartland of A ... |
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Poles and Jews in a Small Galician Town
Author: Rosa Lehmann
In Poland and elsewhere the breakdown of communism has resulted in an increased interest in various aspects of the Polish-Jewish past which can be explained, the author argues, in terms of a broader intellectual need to ... |
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Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt
Author: Anita Fabos
Muslim Arab Sudanese in Cairo have played a fundamental role in Egyptian history and society during many centuries of close relations between Egypt and Sudan. Although the government and official press describes them as ... |
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Author: Handelman Don & Lindquist Gali
This edited volume, full of new and original perspectives, makes an important contribution to the anthropological and historical study of ritual...this fine collection of essays is a challenging and provocative contribut ... |
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