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Pre-Owned Migration Without Borders : Essays on the Free Movement of People 9781845453602

International migration is high on the public andpolitical agenda of many countries as the movement ofpeople raises concerns while often eluding states attempts at regulation. In this context the MigrationWithout Borders scenario challenges... more

Pre-Owned The Ethnographer s Magic : And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology 9780299134105

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Routledge Revivals: Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans (Routledge Revivals): A Critical Essay in Social Anthropology (Paperback)

First published in 1976 this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group with their... more

Pre-Owned Social Anthropology and Other Essays 9780029098707

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Pre-Owned A Passion for Difference: Essays in Anthropology and Gender (Paperback) 074561308X 9780745613086

In this new book Henrietta Moore examines the nature and limitations of the theoretical languages used by anthropologists and others to write about sex gender and sexuality. Moore begins by discussing recent feminist debates on the body and the notion... more

Pre-Owned The Maya and Their Neighbors: Essays on Middle American Anthropology and Archaeology (Paperback) 0486235106 9780486235103

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Pre-Owned Essays in Basque Social Anthropology and History 9781877802027 /

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Pre-Owned Mediterranean Countrymen : Essays in the Social Anthropology of the Mediterranean 9780837195261 Used

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Local Knowledge : Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology 9780465041626 Used / Pre-owned

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Pre-Owned The Ethnographer s Magic: And Other Essays in the History of Anthropology Paperback

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Pre-owned Local Knowledge : Further Essays in Interpretive Anthropology Paperback by Geertz Clifford ISBN 0465041620 ISBN-13 9780465041626

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North American Indian Anthropology: Essays on Society and Culture (Paperback - Used) 0806128089 9780806128085

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Pre-Owned Essays in Social Anthropology and Ethnology 9780916256005

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Pre-Owned People of the Mediterranean : An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology 9780710084125 /

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Pre-Owned Migration and New Media : Transnational Families and Polymedia (Paperback)

How do parents and children care for each other when they are separated because of migration? The way in which transnational families maintain long-distance relationships has been revolutionised by the emergence of new media such as email instant... more

Migration and New Media: Transnational Families and Polymedia (Hardcover)

This book makes both a substantive and theoretical contribution to the understanding of the profound parallel developments of family separation and transnational communication that are shaping our contemporary worlds. more

Pre-Owned Women and Migration in the U. S. -Mexico Borderlands : A Reader 9780822341185

Seminal essays on how women adapt to the structural transformations caused by the large migration from Mexico to the US. how they create or contest representations of their identities in light of their marginality and give voice to their own agency... more

Migrants and Migration in Modern North America : Cross-Border Lives Labor Markets and Politics (Paperback)

This collection of twenty essays provides an integrated view of migration in North America—within and between Canada the Caribbean Mexico and the United States—during the past two centuries. more

Gender and Migration : Feminist Interventions (Hardcover)

Provocative and intellectually challenging Gender and Migrationcritically analyses how gender has been taken up in studies of migration and its theories practices and effects. Each essay uses feminist frameworks to highlight how more traditional tropes... more

Pre-Owned Islands in the City: West Indian Migration to New York (Paperback 9780520228504) by Nancy Foner

9780520228504. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 312. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 312 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. This collection of original essays draws on a variety of theoretical... more

Pre-Owned Observers Observed : Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork 9780299094546

History of Anthropology is a new series of annual volumes each of which will treat an important theme in the history of anthropological inquiry. For this initial volume the editors have chosen to focus on the modern cultural anthropology: intensive... more

Pre-Owned Romantic Motives : Essays on Anthropological Sensibility 9780299123642

Romantic Motives explores a topic that has been underemphasized in the historiography of anthropology. Tracking the Romantic strains in the the writings of Rousseau Herder Cushing Sapir Benedict Redfield Mead Lévi-Strauss and others these essays show... more

Critical Studies in the History of Anthropology: National Races : Transnational Power Struggles in the Sciences and Politics of Human Diversity 1840–1945 (Paperback)

National Races explores how politics interacted with transnational science in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to produce powerful racialized national identity discourses. These essays demonstrate that the “national races� constructed... more

Pre-Owned Humankind: An Introductory Reader for Cultural Anthropology (Paperback) 1609276329 9781609276324

Humankind: An Introductory Reader for Cultural Anthropology introduces students to a broad array of theoretical and ethnographic essays and articles in the discipline. The editors selected papers that are engaging and relevant yet accessible for... more

Explorations in Economic Anthropology: Key Issues and Critical Reflections (Paperback)

At a time of rising global economic precarity and social inequality the field of economic anthropology offers solutions through the study of local and contextualized economic practices. This book is made up of an exciting collection of succinct essays... more

Anthropology and the Global Factory: Studies of the New Industrialization in the Late Twentieth Century (Hardcover)

The world is fast becoming a global factory in which workers entrepreneurs and multinational corporations find themselves producing for the world capitalist market. This collection of original essays explores in concrete anthropological detail the ways... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity (Hardcover) 0072298529 9780072298529

Offers an introduction to anthropology. Emphasizing anthropology s integrated and comparative nature this title features essays which show how anthropology s sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. It also describes... more

Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology

In The Alternative Introduction to Biological Anthropology author Jon Marks presents an innovative framework for thinking about the major issues in the field with fourteen original essays designed to correlate to the core chapters in standard... more

Pre-Owned Anthropology: The Exploration of Human Diversity (Hardcover) 0070356165 9780070356160

Offers an introduction to anthropology. Emphasizing anthropology s integrated and comparative nature this title features essays which show how anthropology s sub-fields and dimensions combine to interpret and explain a common topic. It also describes... more

Pre-Owned Ethnic Europe : Mobility Identity and Conflict in a Globalized World 9780804769471 Used

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration strains on welfare economies the durability of local traditions the effects of... more

Ethnic Europe : Mobility Identity and Conflict in a Globalized World (Hardcover)

Ethnic Europe examines the increasingly complex ethnic challenges facing the expanding European Union. Essays from eleven experts tackle such issues as labor migration strains on welfare economies the durability of local traditions the effects of... more

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe: The Social Life of Asia Minor Refugees in Piraeus (Hardcover)

Heirs of the Greek Catastrophe is a landmark work in the areas of anthropology and migration studies. Since its first publication in 1989 this classic study has remained in demand. The third edition is published to mark the centenary of the 1923... more

Sacred Biography in the Buddhist Traditions of South and South-East Asia - Juliane Schober

This interdisciplinary collection of essays explores the biographical genre of the Buddhist traditions of South and Southeast Asia. Scholars in the history of religions anthropology literature and art history present a broad range of exploration into... more

Pre-Owned Shared Wealth and Symbol : Food Culture and Society in Oceania and Southeast Asia 9780521323543 Used

This 1987 volume brought together for the first time a range of essays on the anthropology of food in Oceania and Southeast Asia. Regional in focus yet applicable elsewhere in the world the volume offers a basis for a comparative analysis of food in... more