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The war in the Middle East is marked by a lack of cultural knowledge on the part of the western forces, and this book deals with another, widely ignored element of Islam—the role of dreams in everyday life.
Iain R. Edgar
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9780857452351
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Psychologists have done a great deal of research on the effects of trauma on the individual, revealing the paradox that violent experiences are often secreted away beyond easy accessibility, becoming impossible to verbalize explicitly.
Nicolas Argenti and Katharina Schramm
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9781845456245
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An ethnography of the development and travel of the New Zealand model of neoliberal welfare reform, this study explores the social life of policy, which is one of process, motion, and change.
Catherine Kingfisher
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9781782380054
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Increasingly, consumers in North America and Europe see their purchasing as a way to express to the commercial world their concerns about trade justice, the environment and similar issues. This ethical consumption has attracted growing attention in the press and among academics.
James G. Carrier and Peter G. Luetchford
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Combining ethnographic and historical research conducted in Angola, Portugal, and the United Kingdom, A Prophetic Trajectory tells the story of Simão Toko, the founder and leader of one of the most important contemporary Angolan religious movements.
Ruy Llera Blanes
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9781782382720
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The last century has seen radical social changes in Ireland, which have impacted all aspects of local life but none more so than traditional Irish music, an increasingly important identity marker both in Ireland and abroad.
Adam Kaul
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9781845456238
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Middle classes are by definition ambiguous, raising all sorts of paradoxical questions, perceived and real, about their power and place relative to those above and below them in a class-structured society.
Henry J. Rutz and Erol M. Balkan
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9781845457808
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Within little more than ten years in the early nineteenth century, inhabitants of Tahiti, Hawaii and fifteen other closely related societies destroyed or desecrated all of their temples and most of their god-images.
Jeffrey Sissons
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9781782384137
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Over several generations villagers of Dominica have been shifting from Patwa, an Afro-French creole, to English, the official language.
Amy L. Paugh
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9780857457608
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While in some cases modernity may dominate 'traditional' forms of expression, in others, the modern is embraced as a welcome source of new ideas that can modify 'tradition' while still keeping it within its own bounds.
James Wilkerson and Robert Parkin
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9780857455680
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In Europe, Indian hobbyism, or Indianism, has developed out of a strong fascination with Native American life in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Petra Tjitske Kalshoven
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9780857453440
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Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta.
Jacqueline Knörr
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9781782382683
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Based on long-term fieldwork, six vivid ethnographies from Colombia, India, Poland, Spain and the southern and northern U.S. address the dwindling importance of labor throughout the world.
Sharryn Kasmir and August Carbonella
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9781782383635
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In recent years an increasing number of scholars have incorporated a focus on emotions in their theories of material culture, transnationalism and globalization, and this book aims to contribute to this field of inquiry.
Maruška Svašek
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9780857453235
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Forms of group identity play a prominent role in everyday lives and politics in north-east Africa. These volumes provide an interdisciplinary account of the nature and significance of ethnic, religious, and national identity in north-east Africa.
Günther Schlee and Elizabeth E.
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9781782383314
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The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the scientific and industrial revolutions.
Emil A. Røyrvik
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9781782380658
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The term cosmopolitan is increasingly used within different social, cultural and political settings, including academia, popular media and national politics.
Nina Glick Schiller and Andrew Irving
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9781782384458
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Metaphor, as an act of human fancy, combines ideas in improbable ways to sharpen meanings of life and experience. Theoretically, this arises from an association between a sign—for example, a cattle car—and its referent,the Holocaust.
David Lipset and Richard Handler
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9781782383758
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“Shared” sites, where members of distinct, or factionally opposed, religious communities interact—or fail to interact—is the focus of this volume.
Glenn Bowman
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9780857454867
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Disorder and instability are matters of continuing public concern. Terrorism, as a threat to global order, has been added to preoccupations with political unrest, deviance and crime.
Keebet von Benda-Beckmann and Fernanda Pirie
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9780857451484
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Over the last two decades, anthropological studies have highlighted the problems of ‘development’ as a discursive regime, arguing that such initiatives are paradoxically used to consolidate inequality and perpetuate poverty
Soumhya Venkatesan and Thomas Yarrow
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9781782386742
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Gender has a profound impact on the discourse on migration as well as various aspects of integration, social and political life, public debate, and art.
Haci Akman
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9781782383062
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Focusing on Irish speakers in Catholic West Belfast, this ethnography on Irish language and identity explores the complexities of changing, and contradictory, senses of Irishness.
Olaf Zenker
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9780857459138
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While social scientists, beginning with Weber, envisioned a secularized world, religion today is forthrightly becoming a defining feature of life all around the globe.
Galina Lindquist and Don Handelman
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9780857459046
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Notions of culture, rituals and their meanings, the workings of ideology in everyday life, public representations of tradition and ethnicity.
Brian Donahoe and Joachim Otto Habeck
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9780857452757
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