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An Anthropology of the Enlightenment
Moral Social Relations Then and Today
by Nigel Rapport & Huon Wardle
<p>How can we rethink the terms of Enlightenment anthropology in a manner and an idiom<br /> appropriate to the contemporary era? The essays collated here argue for anthropology's<br /> use in acknowledging, exploring and interpreting ...
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An Anthropology of the Irish in Belgium
Belonging, Identity and Community in Europe
by Sean O’ Dubhghaill
<p>The first anthropological account of the Irish diaspora in Europe in the 21st century, this book provides a culture-centric examination of the Irish diaspora. Focusing less on an abstract or technical definition of Irish self-identification, ...
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An Ape's View of Human Evolution
by Peter Andrews
<p>Our closest living relatives are the chimpanzee and bonobo. We share many characteristics with them, but our lineages diverged millions of years ago. Who in fact was our last common ancestor? Bringing together ecology, evolution, genetics, ...
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An Archaeological Study of Rural Capitalism and Material Life
The Gibbs Farmstead in Southern Appalachia, 1790-1920
by Mark D. Groover
<p>Historical archaeology has largely focused on the study of early military sites and homes of upper class. Research on lower classes was viewed as a supplement to local histories documenting political, military and financial leaders of the ...
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An Archaeology of Australia Since 1788
by Susan Lawrence & Peter Davies
<p>This volume provides an important new synthesis of archaeological work carried out in Australia on the post-contact period. It draws on dozens of case studies from a wide geographical and temporal span to explore the daily life of Australians
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The Polite World of the Merchant Elite of Colonial Massachusetts
by Lorinda B.R. Goodwin
<p>A glance at the title of this book might well beg the question “What in heaven’s name does archaeology have to do with manners? We cannot dig up manners or mannerly behavior—or can we?” One might also ask “Why is mannerly behavior important?”
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An Economic Inquiry into the Nonlinear Behaviors of Nations
Dynamic Developments and the Origins of Civilizations
by Rongxing Guo
<p>This book applies an economic approach to examine the driving forces behind the dynamic behaviors of developing nations. Taking into account initial conditions and environmental and external factors often oversimplified by historians and ...
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An Essay Concerning Sociocultural Evolution
Theoretical Principles and Mathematical Models
by Jürgen Klüver
<p>Writing about sociocultural evolution is always a complicated enterprise, because the subject is not only difficult in a scientific way but also in a political one. In particular since the events of September 11, 2001 the debates about the ...
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An Essay on Demonology, Ghosts and Apparitions, and Popular Superstitions
by James Thacher
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An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
by Thomas Malthus
<p>Malthus' life's work on human population and its dependency on food production and the environment was highly controversial on publication in 1798. He predicted what is known as the Malthusian catastrophe, in which humans would disregard the ...
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An Ethnography of Football and Masculinities in Jamaica
Letting the Football Talk
by Dr William Tantam
<p>What can football among young men in Jamaica tell us about class, wealth, age, and concepts of masculinity? William Tantam presents an ethnographic study of the impact of football on men's lives in contemporary Jamaica. He illuminates how the
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Politics, Subsistence, and the Unpredictable Grace of the Sun
by Kristin D Phillips
<p>In <em>An Ethnography of Hunger</em> Kristin D. Phillips examines how rural farmers in central Tanzania negotiate the interconnected projects of subsistence, politics, and rural development. Writing against stereotypical Western media images ...
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An ethnography of NGO practice in India
Utopias of development
by Stewart Allen
<p>Through an ethnographic study of the 'Barefoot College', an internationally renowned non- governmental development organisation (NGO) situated in Rajasthan, India, this book investigates the methods and practices by which a development ...
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An Examination of Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT Populations Across the United States
Intersections of Race and Sexuality
by Juan Battle, Antonio (Jay) Pastrana, Jr. & Angelique Harris
<p>This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 500 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Asian and Pacific Islander LGBT communities within the United States. Additionally, the authors document and ...
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An Examination of Black LGBT Populations Across the United States
Intersections of Race and Sexuality
by Juan Battle, Antonio (Jay) Pastrana, Jr. & Angelique Harris
<p>This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 2,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Black LGBT communities within the United States. The authors document and celebrate many of the everyday ...
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An Examination of Latinx LGBT Populations Across the United States
Intersections of Race and Sexuality
by Antonio (Jay) Pastrana, Jr., Juan Battle & Angelique Harris
<p>This book utilizes personal narratives and survey data from over 1,100 respondents to explore the diversity of experiences across Latinx LGBT communities within the United States, including Puerto Rico. The authors document and celebrate many
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German and Hungarian Refugees of Revolution, 1848–1871
by Heléna Tóth
<p>Focusing on émigrés from Baden, Württemberg and Hungary in four host societies (Switzerland, the Ottoman Empire, England and the United States), Heléna Tóth considers exile in the aftermath of the revolutions of 1848–9 as a European ...
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sex, love, and my journey as a surrogate partner
by Cheryl Cohen Greene & Lorna Garano
<p><strong>A riveting memoir from the woman behind the major motion picture <em>The Sessions</em> — and an intimate portrayal of sexuality in the 20th century.</strong></p> <p>For the past 40 years, Cheryl Cohen Greene has worked as a surrogate
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An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl
by Michel Launey & Christopher Mackay
<p>Now available to an English-speaking audience, this book is a comprehensive grammar of classical Nahuatl, the literary language of the Aztecs. It offers students of Nahuatl a complete and clear treatment of the language's structure, grammar ...
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An Introduction to Data Analysis
Quantitative, Qualitative and Mixed Methods
by Tiffany Bergin
<p>Covering the general process of data analysis to finding, collecting, organizing, and presenting data, this book offers a complete* *introduction to the fundamentals of data analysis.</p> <p>Using real-world case studies as illustrations, it
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