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Weather, Climate, Culture

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Publisher: Routledge: November 2003

Seller ID: 462090

ISBN: 1859736971

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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)

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Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press: March 2002

Seller ID: 462091

ISBN: 1930618158

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

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Publisher: Duke University Press Books: December 2001

Seller ID: 462094

ISBN: 0822327988

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The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry by a broad range of scholars. Reflecting the new vitality of the field of political anthropology, States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking to explore the postcolonial state. Contributors focus on a variety of locations from Guatemala, Pakistan, and Peru to India and Ecuador; they study what the state looks like to those seeing it from the vantage points of rural schools, police departments, small villages, and the inside of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Focusing on the m...
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Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World

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Publisher: Princeton University Press: April 2005

Seller ID: 462097

ISBN: 0691121192

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9/11 and its aftermath have shown that our ideas about what constitutes sovereign power lag dangerously behind the burgeoning claims to rights and recognition within and across national boundaries. New configurations of sovereignty are at the heart of political and cultural transformations globally. Sovereign Bodies shifts the debate on sovereign power away from territoriality and external recognition of state power, toward the shaping of sovereign power through the exercise of violence over human bodies and populations. In this volume, sovereign power, whether exercised by a nation-...
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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader (Blackwell Readers in Anthropology, No. 2)

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Publisher: Blackwell Publishing: February 2002

Seller ID: 463382

ISBN: 0631220941

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The Anthropology of Media: A Reader

Brings together key writings in the emergent field of the anthropology of media for the first time
Integrates key themes in the anthropology of media by means of editorial commentary
Explores the theoretical issues that have arisen from ethnographic studies of media

offers a critical overview of how mass media represents and constructs both Western and non-Western cultures. Moving beyond earlier anthropological preoccupation with ethnographic film and drawing on the recent explosion of ...
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Social Suffering

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Publisher: University of California Press: December 1997

Seller ID: 470019

ISBN: 0520209958

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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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Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)

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Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press: May 2013

Seller ID: 477138

ISBN: 0812221427

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An interdisciplinary collection, Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Asia, and elsewhere, contributors to the volume explore the specific social histories, political struggles, cultural assumptions, and gender ideologies that have produced certain rights or reframed long-standing debates in the language of rights.

The essays address the gender-specific ways in whic...
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The People Called Shakers

By: Andrews, Edward Deming

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Publisher: Dover Publications: November 2011

Seller ID: 475151

ISBN: 0486210812

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For 35 years, the author of this book has been a devoted student of the history, beliefs, and ways of The United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, better known as the Shakers. Out of his extensive research into manuscripts and primary sources and his conversations with friends in present-day Shaker communities has come a warm, illuminating history, the most thorough ever written on these pious, humble people and the distinct impression they made on American life.
The book opens with an introductory assessment of the Shaker contribution to the history of American social expe...
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Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions

By: Bell, Catherine

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: November 1997

Seller ID: 463376

ISBN: 0195110528

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From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theorie...
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Patterns of Culture

By: Benedict, Ruth

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Publisher: Mariner Books: January 2006

Seller ID: 419704

ISBN: 0618619550

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"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times

A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia -- and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them. Benedict's groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of tr...
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Great Human Diasporas: The History Of Diversity and Evolution

By: Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca

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Seller ID: 429210

ISBN: 0201442310

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza draws upon his lifelong work in archaeology, anthropology, genetics, molecular biology, and linguistics, to address the basic questions of human origins and diversity. Coauthored by his son, Francesco, the book answers age-old questions such as: Was there a mitochondrial Eve? Did the first humans originate in Africa or in several spots on the planet at about the same time? How did humans get onto North America, the tip of South America, and Australia?
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Genes, Peoples, and Languages

By: Cavalli-Sforza, Luigi Luca

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Publisher: University of California Press: April 2001

Seller ID: 477143

ISBN: 0520228731

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Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza was among the first to ask whether the genes of modern populations contain a historical record of the human species. Cavalli-Sforza and others have answered this question-anticipated by Darwin-with a decisive yes. Genes, Peoples, and Languages comprises five lectures that serve as a summation of the author's work over several decades, the goal of which has been nothing less than tracking the past hundred thousand years of human evolution.

Cavalli-Sforza raises questions that have serious political, social, and scientific import: When and where did we...
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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

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Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 390463

ISBN: 0684839296

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

By: Davis, Wade

Price: $6.00

Publisher: November 2012

Seller ID: 441742

ISBN: 0684839296

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

Prisoners of Freedom: Human Rights and the African Poor (Volume 14) (California Series in Public Anthropology)

By: Englund, Harri

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Publisher: University of California Press: September 2006

Seller ID: 477139

ISBN: 0520249240

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In this vivid ethnography, Harri Englund investigates how ideas of freedom impede struggles against poverty and injustice in emerging democracies. Reaching beyond a narrow focus on the national elite, Prisoners of Freedom shows how foreign aid and human rights activism hamper the pursuit of democratic citizenship in Africa. The book explores how activists' aspirations of self-improvement, pursued under harsh economic conditions, find in the human rights discourse a new means to distinguish oneself from the poor masses. Among expatriates, the emphasis on abstract human rights avoids conf...
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Yaqui Homeland and Homeplace: The Everyday Production of Ethnic Identity

By: Erickson, Kirstin C.

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Publisher: University of Arizona Press: November 2008

Seller ID: 477140

ISBN: 0816527350

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In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity. She examines two interconnected dimensions of the Yaqui ethnic imagination: the simultaneous processes of place making and identification, and the inseparability of ethnicity from female-identified spaces, roles, and practices.

Yaquis live in a portion of their ancestral homeland in Sonora, about 250 miles south of the Arizona border. A long history of displacement and ethnic strug...
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Encountering Development

By: Escobar, Arturo

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Publisher: Princeton University Press: November 1994

Seller ID: 462098

ISBN: 0691001022

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How did the industrialized nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses? To answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occas...
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The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People

By: Evans-Pritchard, E. E.

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Publisher: Oxford University Press: July 1969

Seller ID: 435660

ISBN: 0195003225

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Allah Made Us: Sexual Outlaws in an Islamic African City

By: Gaudio, Rudolf Pell

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Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell: May 2009

Seller ID: 477142

ISBN: 1405152524

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A rich and engrossing account of 'sexual outlaws' in the Hausa-speaking region of northern Nigeria, where Islamic law requires strict separation of the sexes and different rules of behavior for women and men in virtually every facet of life.

The first ethnographic study of sexual minorities in Africa, and one of very few works on sexual minorities in the Islamic world
Engagingly written, combining innovative, ethnographic narrative with analyses of sociolinguistic transcripts, historical texts, and popular media, including video, film, newspapers, and song-poetry
Ana...
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Power and Powerlessness: Quiescence & Rebellion in an Appalachian Valley

By: Gaventa, John

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Seller ID: 447741

ISBN: 0252009851

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Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies, and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.
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