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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Inside the Revolution (Hardcover)

The first ethnographic study of life in Cuba to emerge in over twenty years Inside the Revolution offers a rare close view of how socialist ideology translates into everyday experience in one Cuban municipality. Mona Rosendahl draws on eighteen months... more

Readings in Cultural Anthropology and the Contemporary World : Critical Perspectives (Hardcover)

Readings in Cultural Anthropology and the Contemporary World: Critical Perspectives provides students with a carefully curated selection of articles that address the principal issues inclusive in the history of the discipline including globalization... more

Politics and Development of Contemporary Making China Strong: The Role of Nationalism in Chinese Thinking on Democracy and Human Rights (Hardcover)

Robert Weatherley argues that Chinese perceptions of democracy and human rights have been heavily influenced by the pressing issue of how to make China strong in the face of a perceived threat posed by foreign imperialism be it military imperialism... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Caribbean New York: Individualism and Democratic Culture (Paperback)

Since 1965 West Indians have been emigrating to the United States in record numbers and to New York City in particular. Caribbean New York shows how the new immigration is reshaping American race relations and sheds much-needed light on factors that... more

Pre-Owned Looking for Chengdu: A Woman s Adventures in China (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Inside the Revolution: Everyday Life in Socialist Cuba (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Sunbelt Working Mothers (Paperback)

The recession of the 1980s triggered important economic and cultural changes in the United States and working women were at the center of these changes. Sunbelt Working Mothers compares the experiences of Mexican-American and white mothers employed in... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (Paperback)

Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world--a place where diamonds astronomically priced are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: City of Green Benches: Growing Old in a New Downtown (Hardcover)

St. Petersburg Florida has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now however it seeks to rejuvenate its image to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this... more

Pre-Owned Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: City of Green Benches (Paperback)

St. Petersburg Florida has become virtually synonymous with retirement and old age. The city of green benches once courted its elderly population; now however it seeks to rejuvenate its image to attract the young through urban revitalization. In this... more

Pre-Owned Reckoning with Homelessness The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Paperback Kim Hopper

Kim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of homelessness in the United States. In this powerful book he draws upon his dual strengths as anthropologist and advocate to provide a deeper understanding of the roots of... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Strawberry Fields (Hardcover)

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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Getting Paid: Youth Crime and Work in the Inner City (Paperback)

The working class in New York City was remade in the mid-nineteenth century. In the 1820s a substantial majority of city artisans were native-born; by the 1850s three-quarters of the city s laboring men and women were immigrants. How did the influx of... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: The Accommodation Without Assimilation (Paperback)

A new version of the old immigrant success story is circulating in America. It implies that the apparent academic progress of recent arrivals to our schools is the result of simple head work opportunity and a good attitude. Margaret Gibson has given us... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Varieties of Ethnic Experience (Hardcover)

Taking a novel anthropological approach to the issue of white ethnicity in the United States this book challenges the model of uniform ethnic family and community culture and argues for a reconsideration of the meaning of class kinship and gender in... more

Pre-Owned Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Pre-Owned American Odyssey: Haitians in New York City (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Antler on the Sea: The German Tragedy (Hardcover)

Anna M. Kerttula an anthropologist offers a vivid portrayal of life in Sireniki a Siberian village on the Bering Sea. Once a traditional Yup ik community it was by the final years of the Soviet Empire home to three cultural groups: the Yup ik native... more

Pre-Owned Indebted: An Ethnography of Despair and Resilience in Greece s Second City (Issues of Globalization:Case Studies in Contemporary Anthropology) Paperback

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Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Ginseng and Aspirin (Hardcover)

Navigating the maze of modern American health care is rarely easy; those who enter it are confronted with a dizzying array of specialists practitioners and clinics from which to choose and are forced to make decisions regarding drugs and treatments... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Breaking the Silence (Paperback)

This book is a unique interpretation of how wartime internment and the movement for redress affected Japanese Americans. Yasuko I. Takezawa a Japanese national who has lived in the Japanese American community as well as in the larger American society... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Upscaling Downtown (Paperback)

In Upscaling Downtown anthropologist Brett Williams provides an ethnography of a changing urban neighborhood that she calls Elm Valley. Located in Washington D.C. Elm Valley was one of the first neighborhoods to draw middle-class property owners back... more

Pre-Owned Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in a New York City Neighborhood (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Children of Circumstances: Israeli Emigrants in New York (Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback - USED

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Pre-Owned Civilized Women: Gender and Prestige in Southeastern Liberia The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues Paperback Mary Moran

9780801495540. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 210. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 210 p. Contains: Illustrations black & white. Anthropology of Contemporary Issues. Civilized Women is concerned with the... more

Pre-Owned The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Paperback

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Pre-Owned Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street (The Anthropology of Contemporary Issues) Hardcover

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Delving into the Issues of the Chinese Economy and the World by Marxist Economists (Paperback)

The book includes 30 articles divided into 4 parts: basic principles of Marxist economics; contemporary socialist economy in China contemporary capitalist economy and comparative studies on Marxist economics and Western economics. This book under the... more

Routledge Contemporary China The Chinese Communist Party and China s Capitalist Revolution (Paperback)

The Chinese Communist Party and China s Capitalist Revolution examines issues of political change and development in China. In the last 30 years China has experienced a profound political transformation and a degree of political progress but these are... more

China Perspectives: Contemporary Studies on Modern Chinese History I (Hardcover)

The study of modern Chinese history has developed rapidly in recent decades and has seen increased exploration of new topics and innovative approaches. Resulting from a special issue of Modern Chinese History Studies this volume is devoted to... more

Routledge Contemporary China: Public Security and Governance in Contemporary China (Hardcover)

The recent rise in reported public security issues in China is one of the most repeated concerns amongst the Chinese authorities. During the past 30 years of reform in China stability maintenance as a governance strategy has in fact laid a solid... more

Peking University Sociology and Anthropology: Topography of Politics in Rural China: The Story of Xiaocun (Hardcover)

Contemporary Chinese rural life is placed in sharp theoretical and practical focus in this book. State-of-the-art techniques and perspectives are combined to take the reader into Xiaocun a small village on the east bank of the Dianchi Lake in Kunming... more

Asian Anthropologies: Aspirations of Young Adults in Urban Asia: Values Family and Identity (Paperback)

Comparing first-person ethnographic accounts of young people living working and creating relationships in cities across Asia this volume explores their contemporary lives pressures ideals and aspirations. Delving into topical issues such as education... more

Pre-Owned Cultural Anthropology (Hardcover) 1618821199 9781618821195

This introduction to cultural anthropology text uses a global approach to examine basic anthropological concepts within a regional context providing an analysis of contemporary issues throughout. This text utilizes a political ecology perspective which... more

Pre-Owned Chinese Philosophy (Paperback) 1405129506 9781405129503

An Introduction to Chinese Philosophy unlocks the mystery of ancient Chinese philosophy and unravels the complexity of Chinese Buddhism by placing them in the contemporary context of discourse. Elucidates the central issues and debates in Chinese... more

Routledge Studies in Globalisation Chinese Politics and International Relations: Innovation and Invention (Hardcover)

The question of how China will relate to a globalising world is one of the key issues in contemporary international relations and scholarship on China yet the angle of innovation has not been properly addressed within the field. This book explores... more

Routledge Contemporary China Management Training and Development in China: Educating Managers in a Globalized Economy (Paperback)

One of the critical issues facing both the Chinese government and businesses operating in China is the lack of trained managers. This book with contributions by internationally-known scholars from a wide range of countries examines the Chinese response... more