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New Anthropologies of Europe Masquerade and Postsocialism: Ritual and Cultural Dispossession in Bulgaria (Paperback)

Gerald W. Creed analyzes contemporary mumming rituals in rural Bulgaria for what they reveal about life after socialism--and the current state of postsocialist studies. Mumming rituals have flourished in the post-Soviet era. Elaborately costumed... more

Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics Paths to Post-Nationalism: A Critical Ethnography of Language and Identity (Paperback)

Nationalism informs our ideas about language culture identity nation and State--ideas that are being challenged by globalization and an emerging new economy. As language culture and identity are commodified multilingualism becomes a factor in the... more

Islam in Post-Soviet Uzbekistan (Hardcover)

In recent years the Uzbekistan government has been criticized for its brutal suppression of its Muslim population. This book which is based on the author s intimate acquaintance with the region and several years of ethnographic research is about how... more

Cambodians and Their Doctors : A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia (Hardcover)

At face value this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time however by using medicine (in the sense of ideas practices and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial... more

European Anthropology in Translation: Things of the House: Material Culture and Migration from Post-Colonial Mozambique to Portugal (Hardcover)

Discussing multiple aspects of material culture and domestic consumption this book tackles the relationship between the trajectories and biographies of people families houses and objects and how they intertwine and produce each other. Focusing on the... more

Anthropology of Policy: Antinuclear Citizens: Sustainability Policy and Grassroots Activism in Post-Fukushima Japan (Hardcover)

Following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11 2011 tsunamis engulfed the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant located on Japan s Pacific Coast leading to the worst nuclear disaster the world has seen since the Chernobyl crisis of 1986. Prior... more

Critical Essays in Anthropology Reconceptualizing The Peasantry: Anthropology In Global Perspective (Paperback)

In this book the author shows how the concept of peasant has been outdistanced by contemporary history. He situates the peasantry within the current social context of the transnational and post-Cold War nation-state and clears the way for alternative... more

African Anthropology: Village Matters: Knowledge Politics & Community in Kabylia Algeria (Hardcover)

Traces Kabylia s history through French occupation the Algerian war of independence and the political turmoil that followed. Kabylia is a Berber-speaking densely populated mountainous region east of Algiers that has played an important part in Algerian... more

Research in Economic Anthropology: Current Problems of the World Economy and International Trade (Hardcover)

Current Problems of the World Economy and International Trade reveals the determinants of competitiveness and drivers of economic growth of individual countries provides useful applied advice on post-crisis recovery and the development of the world... more

Organization Philosophy: Gehlen Foucault Deleuze (Hardcover)

An affirmative post-structural philosophy of organisation inspired by Arnold Gehlen s philosophical anthropology Michel Foucault s history of medicine and Gille Deleuze s early philosophical works. This book offers a deep and detailed analysis of the... more

Pre-Owned Lobscouse and Spotted Dog : Which It s a Gastronomic Companion to the Aubrey/Maturin Novels 9780393320947

A scholarly (though often hilarious) triumph of culinary anthropology. --Washington Post CONDITION – USED: Books sold are in GOOD or better condition. Good Condition: Minimal damage to the cover dust jacket may not be included minimal wear to... more