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Cohabitation and Marriage in The Americas; Geo-Historical Legacies and New Tr…
This open access book presents an innovative study of the rise of unmarried cohabitation in the Americas, from Canada to Argentina.
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- 9783319314402
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- 300 EST c
Cocaine; From Coca Fields to the Streets
The contributors to Cocaine analyze the contemporary production, transit, and consumption of cocaine throughout the Americas and the illicit economy's entanglement with local communities.
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- 9781478013723
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- 305.8 DES c
Climate, Society and Elemental Insurance; Capacities and Limitations
In this book, world-leading social scientists come together to provide original insights on the capacities and limitations of insurance in a changing world.
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- 9781003157571
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- 368.122 BOO c
Climate Adaptation Finance and Investment in California
This book serves as a guide for local governments and private enterprises as they navigate the unchartered waters of investing in climate change adaptation and resilience.
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- 9780367026073
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- 333.7
Cleanliness and Culture; Indonesian Histories
Recent years have shown an increase in interest in the study of cleanliness from a historical and sociological perspective.
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- 9789067183758
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- 301
Classic Concepts in Anthropology
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944–98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topics in the history of anthropological theory. Offering masterly discussions of anthropological thought about rit…
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- 9780990505082
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Being and Hearing: Making Intelligible Worlds in Deaf Kathmandu
How do deaf people in different societies perceive and conceive the world around them? Drawing on four years of anthropological fieldwork in Nepali deaf communities, Being and Hearing shows how questions of cultural difference are profoundly shaped by local habits of perception. Beginning with the premise that philosophy and cultural intuition are separated only by genre and pedigree, Peter Gra…
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- 9780999157039
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Moral Economy at Work: Ethnographic Investigations in Eurasia
The idea of a moral economy has been explored and assessed in numerous disciplines. The anthropological studies in this volume provide a new perspective to this idea by showing how the relations of workers, employees and employers, and of firms, families and households are interwoven with local notions of moralities. From concepts of individual autonomy, kinship obligations, to ways of expressi…
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- 9781800732353
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The Anthem Companion to Auguste Comte
For most of the twentieth century, Auguste Comte, a controversial but highly influential nineteenth-century figure, and his vast treatises on positive philosophy, politics and religion were disregarded and largely ignored. More recently, however, Comte’s life and writings have been reexamined together with the project of social reform to which his intellectual labors were devoted, producing a…
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- 9780857281852
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Education, Migration and Development: Critical Perspectives in a Moving World
This open access book looks critically at how education, migration and development intersect and interact to shape people, communities, societies, ideas, values, and action at local, national and international levels. Written by leading scholars and practitioners based in Belgium, China, Columbia, Ethiopia, India, Lebanon, Mongolia, South Africa, the UK and the USA, the book introduces the read…
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- 9781350257559
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- 325 EDU e
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