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  • - The Construction of the Mind and Mental Health of North American Aboriginal Peoples
    av James B. Waldram
    509 - 1 098,-

    Using interdisciplinary methods, the author critically assesses the enormous amount of information that has been generated on Aboriginal mental health, deconstructs it, and through this exercise, provides guidance for a new vein of research.

  • - An Ethnography of Women's Activism in Newfoundland
    av Glynis George
    436,-

    This important study continues the work of feminist ethnographies by such scholars as:Abu-Lughod, Behar, Cole, DiLeonardo, Ginsburg, and Lowenhaupt-Tsing. Avoiding the all too common pitfall of folkorization in rural studies, The Rock Where We Stand represents an innovative and experimental contribution to the field.

  • - History and Place in Contemporary Ukraine
    av Tanya Richardson
    423 - 862,-

    Kaleidoscopic Odessa provides a detailed account of how local conceptions of imperial cosmopolitanism shaped the city's identity in a newly formed state.

  • - Rain-making and Sense-making in Tanzania
    av Todd Sanders
    423,-

    Beyond Bodies examines the Ihanzu sensibilities about gender through a fine-grained ethnography of rainmaking rites.

  • - Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil
    av Allan Charles Dawson
    390 - 692,-

    In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

  • av Lindsay DuBois
    423 - 462,-

    DuBois traces how state repression and community militancy are remembered in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires and how the tangled and ambiguous legacies of the past continued to shape ordinary people's lives years after the collapse of the military regime.

  • av S. Nombuso Dlamini
    757,-

    Youth and Identity Politics in South Africa shows how the youth identify variously as fans of jazz or hip-hop who espouse a none-racial national character, as athletes who feel a strong connection to traditional Zulu patriarchy, or in many other social and political subcultures.

  • - An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community
    av Anne Vallely
    462 - 967,-

    Explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi Svetambar Jain ascetic community, and examines the central role ascetics play in upholding the Jain moral order.

  • - The Role of Gender and Class in Imperialism and Nationalism
     
    436,-

    This collection of essays examines property relations, moral regulations pertaining to gender, and nationalism in India, Kurdistan, Ireland, and Finland.

  • - From Ethnography to Morphodynamics
     
    914,-

    The essays in this intriguing collection all discuss Claude L vi-Strauss' "Canonical Formula." The purpose of the work is to test the significance of the Formula, which is controversial and, for some, worthless.

  • - An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
    av Carlos Londono Sulkin
    394 - 690,-

    Londono Sulkin explains a number of key issues and debates in Amazonian anthropology with great clarity, making People of Substance a useful text for students.

  • - Stories of Hunting and History from Northern British Columbia
    av Thomas F. McIlwraith
    354 - 583,-

    Using naturally occurring, extended transcripts of stories told by the group's hunters, Thomas McIlwraith explores how Iskut hunting culture and the memories that the Iskut share have been maintained orally.

  • - The Making of Silences and Commemorations
     
    436,-

    This collection of case studies from around the world uses a new approach in historical anthropology, one that focuses on heterogeneity within cultures rather than coherence to explain how we commemorate certain events, while silencing others.

  • - Racism and the Politics of Culture
    av Jane Helleiner
    445,-

    Helleiner's study documents anti-Traveller racism in Ireland and explores the ongoing realities of Traveller life as well as the production and reproduction of contemporary Traveller collective identity and culture.

  • - Health and the Politics of Cree Well-Being
    av Naomi Adelson
    396,-

    A critical anthropological analysis of health theory with specific reference to the James Bay Cree. The author argues that definitions of health are not simply reflections of physiological soundness but convey broader cultural and political realities.

  • - An Ethnographic History of Mayotte
    av Michael Lambek
    416,-

    This book follows the trajectory of life in an African island community as composed of ethnographic portraits taken over eleven visits across 40 years. It initiates an original genre of ethnographic history and describes people's ongoing ethical engagement with their past and future.

  • - Ills of Humans and Maize in Native Mexico
    av W. Andres (Sanchez) Bain
    1 058,-

    Examines indigenous worldview and myth to challenge the prevailing notion that hot-cold reasoning of health and illness in Latin America is a product of the Hippocratic humoral doctrine brought by the Spaniards in the sixteenth century.

  • - The Encounter between the LoDagaa and 'the World on Paper'
    av Sean Hawkins
    469 - 1 111,-

    Drawing on the work of a variety of other fields and disciplines - from the ancient Mediterranean to colonial Spain, and from anthropology to psychology - the author argues that colonialism in Africa needs to be understood through the medium of writing.

  • - Identity and Modernity Among Jat Sikhs
    av Nicola Mooney
    679,-

    Rural Nostalgias and Transnational Dreams examines the formation and meaning of Jat Sikh identity in the contemporary Indian city.

  • - Transformation and Ethical Practice in the Ghanaian Church of Pentecost
    av Girish Daswani
    357 - 709,-

    Looking Back, Moving Forward investigates the embodied practices, interpersonal relationships, and moments of self-reflection in the lives of members of the Church of Pentecost in Ghana and amongst the Ghanaian diaspora in London.

  • - Ontological Obstacles in Intercultural Relations
     
    797,-

    Comprising scholarship that is half Canadian and half British, this work offers important foundational perspectives into the thought worlds of cultures found within other cultures.

  • - Cultural Politics and National Identity in Canada
    av Eva Mackey
    396,-

    Mackey argues that official policies and attitudes of multicultural 'tolerance' for 'others' reinforce the dominant Anglo-Canadian culture by abducting the cultures of minority groups.

  • - Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession
    av Michael Lambek
    436,-

    In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, social accountability, and the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies.

  • - Nation and Modernity in Post-Socialist Lithuania
    av Gediminas Lankauskas
    642 - 914,-

    Based on more than a decade of ethnographic research, The Land of Weddings and Rain examines the components of the contemporary urban wedding in post-socialist Lithuania.

  • - Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore
    av Robert Phillips
    270 - 729,-

    This book provides the first detailed, yet accessible, ethnographic case study looking at changes in LGBT activism in Singapore.

  • - Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma
    av Peter Berta
    403 - 902,-

    Materializing Difference reveals the inner dynamics of the complex relations and interactions between objects and subjects and investigates how these relations and interactions contribute to the construction, materialization, and reformulation of social, economic, and political identities, boundaries, and differences.

  • - Urbanization and Language Revitalization in the Brazilian Amazon
    av Sarah Shulist
    350,-

    Transforming Indigeneity is an examination of the role that language revitalization efforts play in cultural politics in the small city of S o Gabriel da Cachoeira, located in the Brazilian Amazon.

  • - Nation and Culture at a French-German Television Channel
    av Damien Stankiewicz
    396 - 927,-

    Damien Stankiewicz's ground-breaking ethnographic study of the various contexts of media production work at ARTE (the newsroom, the editing studio, the screening room), reveals how ideas about French, German, and European culture coalesce and circulate at the channel.

  • - Women Islamic Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar, Senegal
    av Joseph Hill
    418 - 1 075,-

    Addressing the dominant perceptions of Islam as a conservative practise, with stringent regulations for women in particular, Joseph Hill reveals how Sufi women integrate values typically associated with pious Muslim women into their leadership.

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