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Product Description: Salzman's clear, well-organized treatment demonstrates how comparative analysis is a valuable tool in observing and understanding people in all social and cultural situations. He points out that there is no single, correct way to do comparative analysis, a central approach to anthropological knowledge, and describes four useful strategies to advance diverse anthropological purposes: (1) find similar patterns in historically distinct cases; (2) examine different, contrasting patterns in different places; (3) look at closely related communities, societies, and cultures, which share many common features and differ only in a few; and (4) examine all cases known of a particular type of society, or a representative sample of all cases...read more
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9781577667100 | Waveland Pr Inc, August 1, 2011, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Salzman's clear, well-organized treatment demonstrates how comparative analysis is a valuable tool in observing and understanding people in all social and cultural situations.
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9780205792719 | 3 edition (Prentice Hall, April 21, 2010), cover price $36.80
9780132389587 | 2 edition (Prentice Hall, August 12, 2007), cover price $24.20
9780131835207 | Prentice Hall, May 1, 2003, cover price $19.67
Product Description: Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world. Arising in academia and reshaping humanities and social sciences disciplines, postcolonial theory argues that our ideas about foreigners, âthe other,â particularly our negative ideas about them, are determined not by a true will to understand, but rather by our desire to conquer, dominate, and exploit them...read more
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9780415495769 | 1 edition (Routledge, October 21, 2008), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Postcolonial theory is one of the main frameworks for thinking about the world and acting to change the world.
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9781591025870 | Humanity Books, December 31, 2007, cover price $34.99
Product Description: Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813341088 | Westview Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Drawing upon the author's extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the world, Pastoralists is an authoritative synthesis of the varieties of pastoral life.
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9780813338149 | Westview Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $40.00
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9781577661795 | Waveland Pr Inc, March 1, 2001, cover price $18.95
Product Description: A study of the nomadic Baluch of the highland Sarhad region of southeastern Iran and how they respond to the unpredictability of their physical, political, and economic environments. Drawing upon twenty-seven months spent among the Yarahmadzai tribe of Iranian Baluchistan, Philip Carl Salzman relates the details of the group's lifeâfrom tent living and the division of daily labor to kinship ties, lineage organization, and religion...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781560988106 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, November 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: A study of the nomadic Baluch of the highland Sarhad region of southeastern Iran and how they respond to the unpredictability of their physical, political, and economic environments.
Product Description: The Anthropology of Real Life is about people living their lives through the flow of events in the world. Real life is the events to which people respond from day to day and year to year: droughts and migrations, new state regulations and local violation of established norms, deaths and marriages, forest fires and job opportunities, murders and social contracts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781577660422 | Waveland Pr Inc, November 1, 1998, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: The Anthropology of Real Life is about people living their lives through the flow of events in the world.
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9789004065871 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $79.00
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9780275905439 | Praeger Pub Text, August 1, 1980, cover price $97.95
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