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Product Description: "A brave work that helps relieve the issue of race and religion in Brazil from the heavy weight of ideology it all too often carries, while advancing the discussion of Brazilian racial politics to a new level of sophistication."--John Burdick, Syracuse University"A fascinating look at the role religion plays in struggles over identity and racism in Brazil...read more

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9780813031712 | 1 edition (Univ Pr of Florida, December 2, 2007), cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Brazilians of African descent draw upon both Christian and African diasporic religions to construct their racial identities in a variety of intriguing ways.

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9780813033877 | Univ Pr of Florida, March 1, 2009, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "A brave work that helps relieve the issue of race and religion in Brazil from the heavy weight of ideology it all too often carries, while advancing the discussion of Brazilian racial politics to a new level of sophistication.

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Product Description: Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this text offers a general introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they interpret or explain it since the late 19th century...read more

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9780759110458 | Altamira Pr, October 31, 2007, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Drawing from ethnographic examples found throughout the world, this text offers a general introduction to what anthropologists know or think about religion, how they have studied it, and how they interpret or explain it since the late 19th century.

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9781845204280 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 12, 2007, cover price $99.95

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9781845204297 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, June 12, 2007, cover price $30.95

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9788483463260 | Italian edition edition (Debolsillo, April 30, 2007), cover price $13.95

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By Norman K. Denzin (editor), Yvonna S. Lincoln (editor) and Keyan G. Tomaselli (editor)

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9780759109506 | Altamira Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $88.00

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9780759109513 | Altamira Pr, April 15, 2007, cover price $36.00

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Product Description: For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have been subjected to an elaborate hazing at sea called “crossing the line.” Typically initiated upon a crossing of the equator, the beatings, dunkings, sexual play, and drinking displays that constitute crossing the line have in recent decades been banned by some fleets— but they have also been the subject of staunch defenses and fond reminiscences...read more

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9789053569146 | Amsterdam Univ Pr, March 15, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: For centuries, new sailors from European and North American countries have been subjected to an elaborate hazing at sea called “crossing the line.

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Product Description: Examining not only the influence exercised by the Colonial West on India, but also the influence of India on Western modern thought, this study aims to decolonize the Indian continent of the clichés and tales imposed on it by the West and by modernity...read more

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9788472456075 | Karios Editorial Sa, January 1, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Examining not only the influence exercised by the Colonial West on India, but also the influence of India on Western modern thought, this study aims to decolonize the Indian continent of the clichés and tales imposed on it by the West and by modernity.

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A journey inside modern-day Japan reveals the economic and social realities that have created a lost generation of Japanese young adults, examining the country's a high suicide rate, low birthrate, untreated cases of depression, young men who have become recluses from society, and young women who have rejected the traditional path to marriage and motherhood. 30,000 first printing.

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9780385513036 | Doubleday, September 19, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A journey inside modern-day Japan reveals the economic and social realities that have created a lost generation of Japanese young adults, examining the country's a high suicide rate, low birthrate, untreated cases of depression, young men who have become recluses from society, and young women who have rejected the traditional path to marriage and motherhood.

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A cultural history of Lahore's dancing girls profiles their existence in the shadow of a great mosque within the Diamond Market, discussing how their sophisticated art encompasses some of the best of Mughal culture and offering insight into life within the pleasure district as reflected by the experiences of a classically trained young dancer. Reprint.

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9780060740436 | Reprint edition (Perennial, July 1, 2006), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: A cultural history of Lahore's dancing girls discusses how their sophisticated art encompasses some of the best of Mughal culture and offers insight into life within the pleasure district as reflected by the experiences of a classically trained young dancer.

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Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology. Written in Russ Bernard's unmistakable conversational style, his guide has launched tens of thousands of students into the fieldwork enterprise with a combination of rigorous methodology, wry humor, and commonsense advice. Whether you are coming from a scientific, interpretive, or applied anthropological tradition, you will learn field methods from the best guide in both qualitative and quantitative methods.

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9780759112414 | 5th edition (Altamira Pr, May 16, 2011), cover price $143.00 | About this edition: Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology.
9780759108684 | 4th edition (Altamira Pr, January 30, 2006), cover price $104.00 | About this edition: Research Methods in Anthropology is the standard textbook for methods classes in anthropology programs.
9780803952447 | 2 sub edition (Altamira Pr, February 1, 1994), cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Research Methods in Anthropology achieves a comprehensive balance of both qualitative and quantitative methods, while offering a wealth of examples from across the social sciences for better understanding.

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9780759112421 | 5th edition (Altamira Pr, May 16, 2011), cover price $75.00
9780759108691 | 4th edition (Altamira Pr, December 30, 2005), cover price $64.95
9780759101487 | Altamira Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $49.95
9780803952454 | Altamira Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Research Methods in Anthropology achieves a comprehensive balance of both qualitative and quantitative methods, while offering a wealth of examples from across the social sciences for better understanding.

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9780759112568 | Altamira Pr, January 3, 2006, cover price $99.00

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Product Description: Until now, in-depth cultural information on Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country formed in 1947 after the dissolution of British rule in India, has been scarce. This crucial South Asian hotspot, in the news for tensions with neighboring India over nuclear capacity and security issues, finally is illuminated for general readers...read more

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9780313331268 | Greenwood Pub Group, December 30, 2005, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: Until now, in-depth cultural information on Pakistan, a predominantly Muslim country formed in 1947 after the dissolution of British rule in India, has been scarce.

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For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges―especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges―of the non-Western world. The essays that make up this volume treat diverse aspects of this remarkable body of work. Among them: the relationship between colonial power and academic knowledge; the historical shifts giving shape to the complexly interrelated categories of the secular and the religious, and the significance of these shifts in the emergence of modern Europe; and aspects of human embodiment, including some of the various ways that pain, emotion, embodied aptitude, and the senses connect with and structure cultural practices. While the specific themes and arguments addressed by the individual contributors range widely, the essays cohere in a shared orientation of both critical engagement and productive extension. Note that this is not a festschrift, nor a celebratory farewell, but a series of engagements with a thinker whose work is in full spate and deserves to be far better known and understood.
By Charles Hirschkind (editor) and David Scott (editor)

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9780804752657 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, December 26, 2005), cover price $65.00

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9780804752664 | 1 edition (Stanford Univ Pr, December 26, 2005), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: For more than three decades, Talal Asad has been engaged in a distinctive critical exploration of the conceptual assumptions that govern the West’s knowledges―especially its disciplinary and disciplining knowledges―of the non-Western world.

For the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance. Considered both a food box and a storage box of history and wealth, the land plays a central role in their culture, survival, history, and identity. In Our Box Was Full, Richard Daly explores the centrality of this notion in the determination of Aboriginal rights with particular reference to the landmark Delgamuukw case that occupied the British Columbia courts from 1987 to 1997.Called as an expert witness for the Aboriginal plaintiffs, Daly, an anthropologist, was charged with helping the Gitksan and Witsutwit’en to "prove they existed," and to make the case for Aboriginal self-governance. In order to do this, Daly spent several years documenting their institutions, system of production and exchange, dispute settlement, and proprietorship before Pax Britannica and colonization. His conclusions, which were originally rejected by Justice MacEachern, were that the plaintiffs continue to live out their rich and complex heritage today albeit under very different conditions from those of either the pre-contact or fur trade eras.Our Box Was Full provides fascinating insight into the Delgamuukw case and sheds much-needed light on the role of anthropology in Aboriginal rights litigation. A rich, compassionate, and original ethnographic study, the book situates the plaintiff peoples within the field of forager studies, and emphasizes the kinship and gift exchange features that pervade these societies even today. It will find an eager audience among scholars and students of anthropology, Native studies, law, and history.

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9780774810746 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: For the Gitksan and Witsuwit’en peoples of northwest British Columbia, the land is invested with meaning that goes beyond simple notions of property or sustenance.

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9780774810753 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, August 30, 2005, cover price $39.95

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Product Description: How has the "business" of higher education affected the environment in which academics work? Who should be able to hold anthropologists ethically responsible—the research institution that sponsors the fieldwork or the community of people being studied? What happens when academics step out of the ivory tower and into the public realm? Why and how, do some anthropologists come undone by the challenges of the academy? These are some of the questions posed in this innovative collection of essays...read more
By Anne Meneley (editor) and Donna J. Young (editor)

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9781551116846 | Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, July 30, 2005, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: How has the "business" of higher education affected the environment in which academics work?

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Product Description: El propósito de esta original y sorprendente obra de Marvin Harris es dar respuesta a una serie de curiosos enigmas. ¿Por qué un tabú religioso prohíbe a judíos y musulmanes comer carne de cerdo? ¿Cuál es el motivo de que los hindúes adoren a las vacas? ¿Por qué surgen los movimientos mesiánicos? ¿Cómo interpretar el machi...read more

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9788420639635, titled "Vacas, Cerdos, Guerras Y Brujas / Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches: Los Enigmas De La Cultura/ the Riddles of Culture" | Poc tra edition (Alianza Editorial Sa, June 30, 2005), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: El propósito de esta original y sorprendente obra de Marvin Harris es dar respuesta a una serie de curiosos enigmas.

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Product Description: Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority. In spite of their centuries-long coexistence with mainstream Europeans, our picture of this people remains rooted in stereotypes and myths that have little in common with contemporary social reality...read more

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9781551116075 | Univ of Toronto Pr Higher education, April 30, 2005, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: Roma—or Gypsies as some people still call them—constitute Europe's largest, poorest, and most enigmatic minority.

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Product Description: Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit...read more

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9781572333567 | Univ of Tennessee Pr, March 1, 2005, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Winner of the 2006 James Mooney Award Dating from their earliest habitation in North America, people of African descent have used visual and material means to express their ethical values and their beliefs about the intersecting worlds of matter and spirit.
9780072430851, titled "Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Race and Ethnicity" | 4th edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2001), cover price $25.60 | also contains Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Race and Ethnicity | About this edition: This debate style reader is designed to introduce students to controversies in race and ethnicity.

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9789780308865 | Univ Pr Plc Nigeria, December 30, 2004, cover price $25.95

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9783861876373 | Bruno Gmuender Gmbh, September 30, 2004, cover price $14.95
9780072554199, titled "Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity" | 9th bk&cdr edition (McGraw-Hill College, August 1, 2001), cover price $87.35 | also contains Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity

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