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Reproduction is the most vital process in the regeneration of our species and our society. Nevertheless, its influence on the shape of the modern world has been consistently overlooked by social scientists who have emphasized the erosion of the family in industrialized societies. In A. F. Robertson's view families persist. And the goal of reproduction plays an essential role in everything from the organization of political parties to the growth of banks and factories.Robertson inverts the traditional wisdom that reproduction responds passively to the powerful transformative force of technology. Reproduction, he asserts, requires such extensive cooperation on the state and community level, as well as within the family, that it has had great impact on our social and political organization. Whether discussing Lesotho women and the South African economy or the effects of the family on the development of capitalism, Robertson demonstrates that the ramifications of human reproduction extend far beyond the family.Boldly argued and laced with cross-cultural comparisons, Beyond the Family synthesizes the writings of a range of thinkers. It is sure to garner discussion and debate among divergent scholars of many stripes.
Hardcover:
9780520075184 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $85.00
Paperback:
9780520077218 | Univ of California Pr on Demand, March 1, 1992, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Reproduction is the most vital process in the regeneration of our species and our society.
Product Description: Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society. Do individuals behave in markets as neoclassical theory assumes they do? Can other social institutions and processes--e.g., family formation and voting behavior--be analyzed with the same analytic tools we use to study markets? How is economic behavior shaped by institutions beyond the marketplace? Do markets themselves have a social and cultural structure which is not adequately explained by the formal tools of neoclassical analysis? In Beyond the Marketplace, economists, sociologists, political scientists, historians, and anthropologists respond to these, and related, questions...read more
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9780202303703 | Aldine De Gruyter, July 1, 1990, cover price $68.95 | About this edition: Beyond the Marketplace is an interdisciplinary view of the relationship between markets and society.
Paperback:
9780202303710 | Aldine De Gruyter, June 1, 1990, cover price $40.95
Product Description: This interactive, role-playing case book is an enormously rich and stimulating way of challenging students to think about the problems of development and how development experts go about trying to alleviate them. One of the most innovative and eloquent anthropologists of development, A...read more
Hardcover:
9780813325217 | Westview Pr, September 1, 1995, cover price $55.00
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9780813325224 | Westview Pr, October 12, 1995, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: This interactive, role-playing case book is an enormously rich and stimulating way of challenging students to think about the problems of development and how development experts go about trying to alleviate them.
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9780859677158 | Scolar Pr, January 1, 1978, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Robertson, A.
Hardcover:
9780859674096 | Scolar Pr, March 1, 1979, cover price $41.45 | About this edition: Book by Robertson, A.
First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British. There has been much academic writing about African policies in the past but it has not on the whole been very successful in illuminating to outsiders what political conflicts in African countries are concerned with or what political actors in Africa understand themselves to be doing. This is particularly true in the case of the political actions of those who, like the great majority of the population of Africa, are not members of elites educated in European languages. The authors of this book, a political scientist and an anthropologist, have attempted to convey enough of the context and complexity of political intention and action in one traditional area of Ghana for someone who knows nothing about Africa to begin to understand what politics there means.
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9780521202701 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 26, 1974), cover price $49.50 | About this edition: First published in 1973, this is a study of the historical relationship between the system of colonial control and local social and political structures in the Ahafo region of Ghana since the arrival of the British.
Paperback:
9780521113564 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 18, 2009), cover price $54.99
Hardcover:
9780521328340 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: Building good relationships within African communities.
Paperback:
9780803103528 | Astm Intl, June 1, 1977, cover price $27.75
Product Description: a Greeda is a visceral insult. It jabs below the belt, evoking guilty sensations of gluttony and lust. It taunts the rich and powerful, penetrating the cover of modern ideologies and institutions. Today, old--fashioned accusations of greed drag the larger--than--life corporate fat cats down to human bodily proportions, accusing them of gain without genuine growth...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780745626055 | Polity Pr, May 2, 2001, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: a Greeda is a visceral insult.
Paperback:
9780745626062 | Polity Pr, May 2, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: This book is a wide-ranging inquiry into how greed works in our lives and in the world at large.
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9780415944519 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $49.95
Product Description: Since the 1980s there has been a growing billion dollar business producing porcelain collectible dolls. Avertised in Sunday newspapers and mailbox fliers, even Marie Osmond, an avid collector herself, is now promoting her own line of dolls on the Home Shopping Network and sales are soaring...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780415944502 | Routledge, October 1, 2003, cover price $145.00 | About this edition: Since the 1980s there has been a growing billion dollar business producing porcelain collectible dolls.
Product Description: Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally. Not long ago Mieres, a village in the eastern foothills of the Pyrenees, seemed destined to die...read more
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9780817317430 | Univ of Alabama Pr, April 9, 2012, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Mieres Reborn reveals how patient observation and an analysis of one small community have much to tell us about human progress more generally.
Hardcover:
9780521265492 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $59.95 | also contains Slap Shot Science: A Curious Fan's Guide to Hockey
Paperback:
9780521319485 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1984, cover price $48.00
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