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Trade Paperback : $40.00 Buy	Dream Travelers Sleep Experiences and Culture in the Western Pacific Edited by Roger Ivar Lohmann Palgrave Macmillan In dreams, part of the self seems to wander off to undertake both mundane tasks and marvelous adventures. Anthropologists have found that many peoples take...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	Sounding Indigenous Authenticity in Bolivian Music Performance Michelle Bigenho Palgrave Macmillan Sounding Indigenous explores the relations between music, people, and places through analysis of Bolivian music performances: by a non-governmentalorganization...

Trade Paperback : $39.00 Buy	The Weight of the Past Living with History in Mahajanga, Madagascar Contemporary Anthropology of Religion Michael Lambek Palgrave Macmillan In The Weight of the Past, Michael Lambek explores the complex ways that history shapes, constrains, and enables daily life. Focusing on ritual performances of...

Hardcover : $104.95 Buy	Ancient Roots, New Shoots Endogenous Development in Practice Bertus Haverkort, Katrien van 't Hooft and Wim Hienstra Zed Books This remarkable collection reveals the manifest inappropriateness of Western institutional and policy models in many local environmental and cultural settings,...

Trade Paperback : $16.00 Buy	Race in Mind Race, IQ, and Other Racisms Alexander Alland, Jr. Palgrave Macmillan In Race in Mind, Alexander Alland challenges the idea that intelligence is related to race, offering critiques of the biological determinism of Carlton Coon,...

Trade Paperback : $44.95 Buy	In the Way of Development Indigenous Peoples, Life Projects and Globalization Edited by Mario Blaser, Harvey A. Feit and Glenn McRae Zed Books Authored as a result of a remarkable collaboration between indigenous people's own leaders, other social activists and scholars from a wide range of...

Trade Paperback : $56.00 Buy	Gypsies and the Problem of Identities Contextual, Constructed and Contested Transactions Edited by Adrian Marsh and Elin Strand I.B. Tauris/Swedish Research - Istanbul What is the role and responsibility of Romani Studies scholars, and how can those engaged in this field change the situation of Gypsies in the world? In what...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Reclaiming Culture Indigenous People and Self-Representation Joy Hendry Palgrave Macmillan A look at how and why endangered cultures around the world should be rekindled.

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The Child in the World/The World in the Child

Education and the Configuration of a Universal, Modern, and Globalized Childhood

Critical Cultural Studies of Childhood

Edited by Marianne N. Bloch, Devorah Kennedy, Theodora Lightfoot, and Dar Weyenberg; Foreword by Thomas S. Popkewitz Palgrave Macmillan

In this collection, the contributors look at the current spread of universalizing discourses concerning young children across the globe, examining the way...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Allopathy Goes Native Traditional Versus Modern Medicine in Iran Agnes Loeffler Tauris Academic Studies Allopathy is often described as "western" medicine, the antithesis of homeopathy. Allopathy Goes Native is an ethnographic investigation of how allopathic...

Hardcover : $100.00 Buy	Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions Kockel, Ullrich; Nic Craith, Máiréad Palgrave Macmillan Drawing on anthropological fieldwork, this book presents case studies illustrating the invention or re-conceptualization of heritages and traditions in...

Trade Paperback : $34.95 Buy	African Anthropologies History, Critique and Practice Africa in the New Millennium Edited by Mwenda Ntarangwi, David Mills and Mustafa Babiker Zed Books This overview of the history, application and teaching of anthropology in post-colonial Africa shows how the continent's anthropologists are redefining the...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	Becoming Europeans Cultural Identity and Cultural Policies Monica Sassatelli Palgrave Macmillan In this significant intervention into the academic and institutional debate on European cultural identity, Monica Sassatelli examines the identity-building...

Trade Paperback : $34.00 Buy	Beautiful Cosmos Performance and Belonging in the Caribbean Diaspor Tina K. Ramnarine Pluto Press Examines the significance of Caribbean musics in Diaspora politics.

Trade Paperback : $45.00 Buy	A Global Clan Scottish Migrant Networks and Identities since the Eighteenth Century Edited by Angela McCarthy 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...

Hardcover : $42.00 Buy	Echoes from the Dead Zone Across the Cyprus Divide Yiannis Papadakis I.B. Tauris The narrative of Cyprus' recent history has created numerous attitudes and prejudices which run deep but which have never before been explored on a human...

Trade Paperback : $30.00 Buy	Doing Fieldwork Ethnographic Methods for Research in Developing Countries and Beyond Wayne Fife Palgrave Macmillan This book is aimed at teaching potential researchers how to prepare for, conduct, and write about ethnographic research projects among disadvantaged groups.

Hardcover : $58.00 Buy	Swifter than the Arrow The Golden Hunting Hounds of Ancient Egypt Michael Rice I.B. Tauris Swifter than the Arrow explores a little-known aspect of life in Ancient Egypt, celebrating the Egyptians as the first known civilisation to have formed the...

Hardcover : $116.00 Buy	Trade, Labour and Transformation of Community in Asia Edited by Michael Gillan and Bob Pokrant Palgrave Macmillan This book considers the transformative impact of global trade and production networks on local economies, work and labor organization, and various forms and...

Hardcover : $95.00 Buy	An Islamic Court in Context An Ethnographic Study of Judicial Reasoning Erin E. Stiles Palgrave Macmillan This perceptive ethnographic study offers insight into the workings of the contemporary Islamic legal system. Based on fieldwork in Zanzibar, Stiles sheds...

Trade Paperback : $33.00 Buy	Home Spaces, Street Styles Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City Anthropology, Culture and Society Leslie J. Bank Pluto Press This book revisits and updates some classic Anthropology -- the Xhosa in Town series -- based on research in the South African city of East London conducted...

Hardcover : $80.00 Buy	Travel, Humanitarianism, and Becoming American in Africa Kathryn Mathers 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...

Hardcover : $84.00 Buy	An Ethnography of Stress The Social Determinants of Health in Aboriginal Australia Culture, Mind and Society Victoria Katherine Burbank Palgrave Macmillan This book examines the global issue of health inequality through an in-depth look at a remote Australian Aboriginal community characterized by a degree of...

Hardcover : $85.00 Buy	Pakistan and Its Diaspora Multidisciplinary Approaches Edited by Marta Bolognani and Stephen M. Lyon Palgrave Macmillan The exchange of ideas, goods, and people between Pakistan and the far-flung reaches of the world shape the experience of Pakistani Muslims beyond geographical...

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