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States of Imagination: Ethnographic Explorations of the Postcolonial State (Politics, History, and Culture)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: Dec-01

Seller ID: 462094

ISBN: 822327988

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World

By: N/A

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: Apr-05

Seller ID: 462097

ISBN: 691121192

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology, No. 2)

By: N/A

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing: Feb-02

Seller ID: 463382

ISBN: 631220941

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Death and the Regeneration of Life

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: Jan-83

Seller ID: 463386

ISBN: 521270375

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Weather, Climate, Culture

By: N/A

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Routledge: Nov-03

Seller ID: 462090

ISBN: 1859736971

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Throughout history, the weather has been both feared and revered for its powerful influence over living creatures. Not only does it control our moods, activities, and fashions, but it has also played a crucial role in broader issues of cultural identity, concepts of time, and economic development. In fact, the weather has become so ingrained in our everyday routines that many of us forget just how profoundly this omnipotent force shapes culture. With the continuing rise in global warming and consequential change in weather patterns, our awareness and understanding of this topic has never been ...
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Catastrophe and Culture: The Anthropology of Disaster (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press: Mar-02

Seller ID: 462091

ISBN: 1930618158

Binding: Trade Paperback

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At a time of increasing globalization and worldwide vulnerability, the study of disasters has become an important focus for anthropological research-one where the four fields of anthropology are synthesized to address the multidimensionality of the effects to a community's social structures and relationship to the environment. Using a variety of natural and technological disasters-including Mexican earthquakes, drought in the Andes and in Africa, the nuclear meltdown at Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez oil spill, the Oakland firestorm, and the Bhopal gas disaster-the authors of this volume explo...
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Social Suffering

By: N/A

Price: $10.00

Publisher: University of California Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 470019

ISBN: 0520209958

Binding: Trade Paperback

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"Social suffering" takes in the human consequences of war, famine, depression, disease, torture-the whole assemblage of human problems that result from what political, economic, and institutional power does to people-and also human responses to social problems as they are influenced by those forms of power. In the same way that the notion of social suffering breaks down boundaries between specific scholarly disciplines, this cross-disciplinary investigation allows us to see the twentieth century in a new frame, with new emphases.

Anthropologists, historians, literary theorists, soc...
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Encountering Development

By: Arturo Escobar

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Princeton University Press: Nov-94

Seller ID: 462098

ISBN: 691001022

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

By: Catherine Bell

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Nov-97

Seller ID: 463376

ISBN: 195110528

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Voyages: From Tongan Villages to American Suburbs

By: Cathy A. Small

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Cornell University Press: Nov-11

Seller ID: 419761

ISBN: 801477395

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution

By: Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 429210

ISBN: 201442310

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Vanishing Voices: The Extinction of the World's Languages

By: Daniel Nettle,Suzanne Romaine

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press: May-02

Seller ID: 462080

ISBN: 195152468

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Navigators of the Contemporary: Why Ethnography Matters

By: David A. Westbrook

Price: $8.00

Publisher: University of Chicago Press: Nov-08

Seller ID: 419206

ISBN: 226887529

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Rhetoric of Empire: Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing, and Imperial Administration (Post-Contemporary Interventions)

By: David Spurr

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Duke University Press Books: Mar-93

Seller ID: 460906

ISBN: 822313170

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Serpent and the Rainbow A harvard scientist's astonishing journey into the secret societies of haitian voodoo zombis and magic

By: Davis, Wade

Price: $5.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 390463

ISBN: 0684839296

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist.

In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis--people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of ...
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