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Intercultural Exchange in Southeast Asia
History and Society in the Early Modern World
International Library of Historical Studies

I.B. Tauris
At the dawn of European colonialism, the Southeast Asian region encompassed some of the most diverse and influential cultures in early modern history. The...
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Decolonizing Methodologies
Research and Indigenous Peoples

Zed Books
To the colonized, the term "research" is conflated with colonialism; academic research steeped in imperialism remains a painful reality. This essential volume...
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Palestinians in Jordan
The Politics of Identity
Library of Modern Middle East Studies

I.B. Tauris
Sixty percent of Jordanians are of Palestinian origin, a statistic which has propelled Jordan into the role of both player and pawn in regional issues such as...
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Language, Charisma, and Creativity
Ritual Life in the Catholic Charismatic Renewal
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Palgrave Macmillan
Thomas Csordas's eloquent analysis of the Catholic Charismatic Renewal answers one of the primary callings of anthropology: to stimulate critical reflection by...
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A Global Clan
Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities since the Eighteenth Century

Tauris Academic Studies
A Global Clan explores the impact of Scottish migration on New World development. With a new approach linking personal accounts to "networks" of kin and social...
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Cyprus and its Places of Desire
Cultures of Displacement Among Greek and Turkish Cypriot Refugees

I.B. Tauris
By the summer of 1974, the island of Cyprus was home to two separate refugee communities. Charting the displaced cultures of the Greek Cypriot community in the...
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The Anthropology of Ignorance
An Ethnographic Approach
Culture, Mind and Society

Palgrave Macmillan
The question of ignorance occupies a central place in anthropological theory and practice. This volume argues that the concept of ignorance has largely been...
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Seers, Saints and Sinners
The Oral Tradition of Upper Egypt

I.B. Tauris
Traditional Egyptian folktales have a flavor and vivacity that until now has proved impossible to render in translation. Here, Elizabeth Wickett presents a...
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Displaced
The Human Cost of Development and Resettlement
Palgrave Studies in Oral History

Palgrave Macmillan
Although displacement is commonly associated with refugees fleeing conflict, millions of people are resettled every year in the name of development and...
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Ethnographies of Prostitution in Contemporary China
Gender Relations, HIV/AIDS, and Nationalism

Palgrave Macmillan
Based on three years of extensive fieldwork, this ethnographic study of prostitution in the metropolitan city of Dalian, China, explores the lives of rural...

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Communitas
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Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Palgrave Macmillan
In this seminal work, Edith Turner extends the concept of communitas that Victor Turner developed nearly four decades ago. Communitas is inspired...
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Feminist Popular Education in Transnational Debates
Building Pedagogies of Possibility
Comparative Feminist Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
This book is a collection of grounded accounts by feminist popular educators reflecting critically on processes of collective learning and self- and social...
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Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea

Palgrave Macmillan
This book explores globalization through a historical and anthropological study of how familiar soft drinks such as Coke and Pepsi became valued as more than...
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An Introduction to Semiotics

Palgrave Macmillan
Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a...
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The Artificial Ape
How Technology Changed the Course of Human Evolution
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A breakthrough theory that tools and technology are the real drivers of human evolution Although humans are one of the great apes, along with chimpanzees,...
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Childhood and Society

Palgrave Macmillan
Children have become an increasingly important focus for sociological analysis in recent years. Exploring new research, policy and thinking within childhood...
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The Long Shadow of the British Empire
The Ongoing Legacies of Race and Class in Zambia

Palgrave Macmillan
The Long Shadow of the British Empire explores the lived experiences of formerly colonized people in the privacy of their homes, communities, workplaces, and...
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Smart Women in Popular Culture

Palgrave Macmillan
Using popular culture as a fertile environment for challenging the stereotype that the most brilliant geeks or nerds must be men, the essays in this book...
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Evanescence and Form
An Introduction to Japanese Culture

Palgrave Macmillan
If we thought that reality were changeable, fragile, and fleeting, would we take life more seriously or less seriously? This book contemplates the notion of...
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New Social Movements in the African Diaspora
Challenging Global Apartheid
Critical Black Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
In the last few decades, the people of the African diaspora have intensified their struggles against racial discrimination and for equality. Here is an account...
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The Cultural Sociology of Political Assassination
From MLK and RFK to Fortuyn and van Gogh
Cultural Sociology

Palgrave Macmillan
Political assassinations are always shocking and traumatic; sometimes however they lead to a cultural trauma, that is, a broad public debate about the...
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Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa

Palgrave Macmillan
Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa uses observations of American travelers to southern Africa to ask: why is Africa so important to...
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Questioning French Secularism
Gender Politics and Islam in a Parisian Suburb
Contemporary Anthropology of Religion

Palgrave Macmillan
Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork, this book examines how contemporary secularism in France is positioned as a guarantor of Muslim women's rights....
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Gendered Citizenships
Transnational Perspectives on Knowledge Production, Political Activism, and Culture
Comparative Feminist Studies

Palgrave Macmillan
This wide-ranging anthology examines the gendered dimensions of citizenship experiences and uses them as a point of departure for rethinking contemporary...