What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?
Author: Jared Diamond
Visionary, prize-winning author Jared Diamond changed the way we think about the rise and fall of human civilizations with his previous international bestsellers Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse. Now he returns with an ... |
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Author: David Rieff
In this searing and controversial polemic, esteemed American journalist David Rieff argues against our passion for the past. He looks at how memory serves nationalistic history every ANZAC Day and annual pilgrimage to Ga ... |
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Notes in the Margin of My Time
Author: Clive James
'One stupendous starburst of wild brilliance' SIMON SCHAMA 'Aphoristic and acutely provocative: a crash course in civilization' J. M. COETZEE Organized from A through Z, and containing over 100 essays, Cultural Amnesia i ... |
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A Reader
Author: Frank J. Korom
The Anthropology of Performance is an invaluable guide to this exciting and growing area. This cutting-edge volume on the major advancements in performance studies presents the theories, methods, and practices of perfor ... |
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Author: Charles Stafford
Drawing on a wide range of anthropological case studies, this book focuses on ordinary ethics in contemporary China. The book examines the kinds of moral and ethical issues that emerge (sometimes almost unnoticed) in the ... |
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Intimate Life in a Changing Arab World
Author: Shereen el Feki
In the political unrest that has swept across the Arab region in 2011, all eyes have been on the streets and squares erupting in protest. But for the past four years, Shereen El Feki has been looking at upheaval a little ... |
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Author: Michael E. Brown & Sumit Ganguly
Ethnic conflict, one of the most serious and widespread problems in the world today, can undermine efforts to promote political and economic development, as well as political, economic, and social justice. It can also le ... |
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The Loss of Sensitivity in Liquid Modernity
Author: Zygmunt Bauman & Leonidas Donskis
Evil is not confined to war or to circumstances in which people are acting under extreme duress. Today it more frequently reveals itself in the everyday insensitivity to the suffering of others, in the inability or re ... |
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Fashion, Agency, Performance
Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen & D. Soyini Madison
Dress and fashion practices in Africa and the diaspora are dynamic and diverse, whether on the street or on the fashion runway. Focusing on the dressed body as a performance site, African Dress explores how ideas and pra ... |
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Author: Andrew Feenberg & Alastair Hannay
...informative, original, and provocative...Many of the writers are major players in defining the contested political terrain of cultural, science, and technology studies as well as critical theory and Heidegger studies. ... |
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Myth, Power and Cyberspace
Author: Vincent Mosco
The digital era promises, as did many other technological developments before it, the transformation of society: with the computer, we can transcend time, space, and politics-as-usual. In The Digital Sublime, Vincent Mos ... |
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Upland Southerners and the Political Culture of the Old Northwest, 1787-1861
Author: Nicole Etcheson
"...agile, ambitious, and complex ..." -The Journal of Southern History "Etcheson adds a fresh dimension to the history of the Old Northwest by examining the way in which Upland Southerners' regional heritage affected th ... |
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Its Nature and Consequences
Author: Itzhak Harpaz
Although the centrality of work to people's lives is pervasive, it is only within the past few decades that objective, empirical accounts of the meaning of work for the average individual have been available. This volume ... |
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Studies in the United States and Greece
Author: Severyn T. Bruyn & Litsa Nicolaou-Smokoviti
This groundbreaking contribution to the comparative development literature offers a cogent analysis of social development in the economies of two vastly differing nations--one a giant nation oriented toward capitalism ... |
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Beyond Tribe and Nation in the Maghrib
Author: Katherine Hoffman & Susan Gilson Miller
Berber and Others offers fresh perspectives on new forms of social and political activism in today's Maghrib. In recent years, the Amazigh (Berber) movement has become a focus of widespread political, social and cultural ... |
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Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria
Author: Gerald W. Creed
Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism--and the current state of post-socialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet ... |
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American Youth and the Changing Norms of Democratic Engagement
Author: Jay P. Childers
It has become a common complaint among academics and community leaders that citizens today are not what they used to be. Nowhere is this decline seen to be more troubling than when the focus is on young Americans. Com ... |
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Author: Dusan Kecmanovic
The recent outbreak of ethnonationalist crimes in the Middle East, Rwanda, Bosnia, Chechnya, and Northern Ireland has once again brought this particular type of violence to the fore. This timely monograph examines the so ... |
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Social Change in Contemporary Society
Author: Christopher Bates Doob
"The Open Covenant" examines two opposing trends in contemporary American culture: an adherence to traditional, rigid structures, institutions, and lifestyles; and a move toward a more flexible, tolerant society in wh ... |
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The Hungarian Experience
Author: Peter A. Toma
Careful followers of reform movements within Communist bloc countries will profit from this new work by a specialist on Hungarian politics. Twenty years after introduction of the New Economic Mechanism (NEM), both the ... |
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