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Anthropology of Asia The Tea Ceremony and Women s Empowerment in Modern Japan (Paperback)

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women s Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the... more

Asao Studies in Pacific Anthropology: Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women Wealth and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora (Hardcover)

Tongan women living outside of their island homeland create and use hand-made sometimes hybridized textiles to maintain and rework their cultural traditions in diaspora. Central to these traditions is an ancient concept of homeland or nation-... more

Modern Girls on the Go : Gender Mobility and Labor in Japan (Paperback)

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan—including department store elevator girls tour bus guides airline stewardesses soldiers soccer players beauty queens and educators—who have been intimately involved in the... more

Modern Girls on the Go : Gender Mobility and Labor in Japan (Hardcover)

This collection brings together diverse analyses of women in Japan—including department store elevator girls tour bus guides airline stewardesses soldiers soccer players beauty queens and educators—who have been intimately involved in the... more

Japan Anthropology Workshop Abandoned Japanese in Postwar Manchuria: The Lives of War Orphans and Wives in Two Countries (Paperback)

This book relates the experiences of the zanryu-hojin - the Japanese civilians mostly women and children who were abandoned in Manchuria after the end of the Second World War when Japan s puppet state in Manchuria ended and when most Japanese who... more

Pre-Owned A Bagful of Locusts and the Baboon Woman: Constructions of Gender Change and Continuity in Botswana (Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology) Paperback

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Zora Neale Hurston : An Annotated Bibliography of Works and Criticism (Hardcover)

Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) the most prominent of the Harlem Renaissance women writers was unique because her social and professional connections were not limited to literature but encompassed theatre dance film anthropology folklore music... more

Psychology Revivals: Structuralism (Paperback)

Originally published in English in 1971 structuralism was an increasingly important method of analysis in disciplines as diverse as mathematics physics biology psychology linguistics sociology anthropology and philosophy. Piaget here offers both a... more

Pre-Owned When Women Held the Dragon s Tongue and Other Essays in Historical Anthropology (Hardcover 9781845456207) by Hermann Rebel

9781845456207. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 330. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 330 p. Dislocations 7. Peasants tell tales one prominent cultural historian tells us (Robert Darnton). Scholars must then determine... more

Martha Brae s Two Histories: European Expansion and Caribbean Culture-Building in Jamaica (Paperback)

Based on historical research and more than thirty years of anthropological fieldwork this wide-ranging study underlines the importance of Caribbean cultures for anthropology which has generally marginalized Europe s oldest colonial sphere. Located... more

Cultural Memory in the Present: Being Given : Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (Hardcover)

This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the gift which lie on the frontier of literature anthropology and economics notably in the work of Jacques Derrida and offers a detailed critique... more

Pre-Owned Creating a Nation with Cloth: Women Wealth and Tradition in the Tongan Diaspora: 4 (ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology 4) Paperback

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Why Nothing Works : The Anthropology of Daily Life (Paperback)

This book is about cults crime and shoddy goods and the shrinking dollar. It s about porno parlors and sex shops and men kissing in the streets. It s about daughters shaking up women on the rampage marriages postponed divorces on the rise and no one... more

Anthropology and Development : Understanding Contemporary Social Change (Paperback)

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology s principal area of study. Professor de... more

Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series: Theory in Economic Anthropology (Hardcover)

This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. The authors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Reckoning with Homelessness (Paperback)

It must be some kind of experiment or something to see how long people can live without food without shelter without security. --Homeless woman in Grand Central StationKim Hopper has dedicated his career to trying to address the problem of... more

Sex on the Brain: The Biological Differences Between Men and Women (Paperback)

Go beyond the headlines and the hype to get the newest findings in the burgeoning field of gender studies. Drawing on disciplines that include evolutionary science anthropology animal behavior neuroscience psychology and endocrinology Deborah Blum... more

Pre-Owned Exotics at Home: Anthropologies Others and American Modernity (Paperback 9780226472645) by Micaela Di Leonardo

9780226472645. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 464. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 464 p. Contains: Unspecified. Women in Culture and Society. Attempting to define the exotic this text focuses on the... more

Anthropology and Development : Understanding Contemporary Social Change (Hardcover)

This book re-establishes the relevance of mainstream anthropological (and sociological) approaches to development processes and simultaneously recognizes that contemporary development ought to be anthropology s principal area of study. Professor de... more

Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Next Year I Will Know More: Literacy and Identity Among Young Orthodox Women in Israel (Hardcover)

An investigation into the education of women in the religious Zionist community and its influence on Orthodox Judaism. In traditional Jewish societies of previous centuries literacy education was mostly a male prerogative. Even more recently women... more

Columbia Classics in Anthropology Women of the Forest (Hardcover)

When it originally appeared this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book s importance for contemporary studies on gender... more

To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa (Paperback)

In 1859 at age fourteen Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer was moved... more

Pre-Owned For We are Sold I and My People (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work): Women and Industry in Mexico s Frontier Paperback

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World Anthropology: Women Cross-Culturally: Change and Challenge (Hardcover)

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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... more

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... more

Anthropology of Contemporary Issues: Lady Friends: Organization of Work in the Information Economy (Paperback)

Many indigenous Hawaiians who have moved to the islands cities languish at the bottom of the socioeconomic scale and are thought to have lost their cultural roots. Initially apolitical urban Hawaiians were often skeptical of activists who sought to... more

Cultural Memory in the Present: Being Given : Toward a Phenomenology of Givenness (Paperback)

This ambitious work engages several major philosophical genres. It responds to current discussions of the gift which lie on the frontier of literature anthropology and economics notably in the work of Jacques Derrida and offers a detailed critique... more

New Anthropologies of Europe Empowering Women in Russia: Activism Aid and NGOs (Paperback)

Julie Hemment s engrossing study traces the development encounter through interactions between international foundations and Russian women s groups during a decade of national collapse. Prohibited from organizing independently under state socialism... more

Pre-Owned The Movement for Reproductive Justice: Empowering Women of Color through Social Activism: 5 (Social Transformations in American Anthropology) Paperback

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Destiny of the Dragon: An International Thriller (Paperback)

Brad West is an anthropology student with in-depth knowledge of history but little grasp of today s geopolitical realities. Until he falls in love with a mysterious Chinese woman. He realizes the enormous ramifications for his country when he learns... more

Raphael Patai Jewish Folklore and Anthropology: Aesthetics of Sorrow: The Wailing Culture of Yemenite Jewish Women (Hardcover)

Investigates the socio-cultural psychological and philosophical aspects of the Yemenite Jewish wailing tradition in modern Israel. The term wailing culture includes an array of women s behaviors and beliefs following the death of a member of their... more

Columbia Classics in Anthropology Women of the Forest (Paperback)

When it originally appeared this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book s importance for contemporary studies on gender... more

Medical Anthropology: Forgotten Bodies : Imperialism Chuukese Migration and Stratified Reproduction in Guam (Paperback)

Women from Chuuk Federated States of Micronesia move to Guam U.S. for several reasons including access to better healthcare. Yet they suffer disproportionately poor reproductive health outcomes in Guam. Forgotten Bodies illuminates how benign... more

Studies in Intelligence: Espionage and the Roots of the Cold War: The Conspiratorial Heritage (Hardcover)

From the 1930s to the 1950s a large number of left-wing men and women in the USA Britain Europe Australia and Canada were recruited to the Soviet intelligence services. They were amateurs and the reason for their success is intriguing. Using Soviet... more

Columbia Classics in Anthropology Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology (Paperback)

By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) Margaret Mead offers a deeply insightful portrait of a woman who overcame the barriers of sexism to become one of the most compelling intellectual figures... more

Highly Intelligent Battered Women : Why do so many men become angry when women write prose poetically? What does it bring out in such men? (Paperback)

Leveling is Disheveling and Disordering. This novel presents multi-ethnic fiction as part of a series of novels and plays presenting anthropology and psychology through fiction and drama. Are you being leveled by a friend partner educator workplace... more

Research in Economic Anthropology: Research in Economic Anthropology (Hardcover)

Features 11 papers covering: Women as Artisans from Colombia and the Phillippines; Money and Witchcraft from Niger and Tanzania; Resistance to Economic Development for Canada Mexico and the US; Changing Rural Economies from Guatemala and Kenya and... more