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Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 36.00This interdisciplinary collection addresses the position of minorities in democratic societies, with a particular focus on minority rights and recognition. For the first time, it brings together leading international authorities on ethnicity, nationalism and minority rights from both social and political theory, with the aim of fostering further interdisciplinary... more...
Materiality and Society
McGraw-Hill Education 2007; US$ 221.00This book examines the relationships between society and material culture: the interaction between people and things. Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to material culture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects, largely overlooking the material impact that objects have on everyday life in late modernity. Dant resists the now well-established... more...
The Racial Politics of Booker T. Washington
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 104.00An interdisciplinary look at an influential American more...
Conocimiento Indigena
International Development Research Centre 1999; US$ 20.00This guidebook zeros in on what indigenous knowledge can contribute to a sustainable development strategy that accounts for the potential of the local environment and the experience and wisdom of the indigenous population. Through an extensive review of field examples as well as current theory and practice, it provides a succinct yet comprehensive... more...
Bodily Integrity and the Politics of Circumcision
Springer 2006; US$ 179.99Circumcision is a cultural phenomenon that affects 15.3 million children and young adults annually. This book explores the problem of male and female circumcision in modern society from religious, psychological, medical, and ethical perspectives. It illuminates the vulnerability of human society to medical, economic, and historical pressures. more...
Indigenous and Cultural Psychology
Springer-Verlag New York Inc 2006; US$ 84.99Surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with focus on Asia. This work clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), and models integrative methods of study. It aims to dispel typical misconceptions about the field and its goals. more...
Reclaiming Culture
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 35.00A look at how and why endangered cultures around the world should be rekindled. more...
Kinship, Law and the Unexpected
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 26.00Examines Euro-American kinship as the kinship of a specifically knowledge-based society. more...
Hunting and Gathering in the Corporate Tribe
Algora Publishing 2007; US$ 29.95A corporate anthropologist draws telling parallels between primitive tribal roles and life in todays corporation, and shows how to interpret and survive in that jungle. more...
New Perspectives in Political Ethnography
Springer 2007; US$ 89.95The use of ethnographic research - social research based on the observation of individuals or institutions where the researcher becomes part of the group or very close to the group to better understand their actions - is becoming more and more of a prevalent methodology within sociology. As ethnography gains prominence within the discipline its focus,... more...









